Maaaan, pro shop life gets irritating sometimes.  Guy just walked in, looked like Radar from Mash (and sounded just like him too!), but scruffier and illiterate.  First words out of his mouth were "So lighter balls are better, right?"  Oooooh boy.  I tried to explain that heavier balls, if they could be comfortably handled, were better for the reason that the pins are fairly heavy themselves and that a heavier ball would hit them harder.  I received vacant blinks.  He then asked what weight I preferred.  I said I use 15's, and he asks if that's all we carry then.  Um, no.  Then he asked if he could trade his ball in towards the price of a new ball.  I asked how heavy it was, 10 was the answer.  I told him we only take trade-ins between 14 and 16 pounds, no more than 2 years old, and in good condition.  "Ok, my ball's only a year old, how much would you give me for it?"  Um, no.  He failed to consider the other criteria, obviously.  "I'm just trying to decide if I should buy a ball so I don't have to rent one."  Rent one?  Can you say unobservant?  Obviously he's bowled before, if he has his own ball, and it's fairly easy to notice the RACKS and RACKS of bowling balls that are EVERYWHERE.  I almost feel sorry for people like that, but yow it's hard to get things across to them.
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The weekly signature series, by Hamster.

The local grocery store has an aisle for which the overhead display of the items it contains reads:

Baby Food
Baby Care
Beer

Makes sense to me . .