**EDIT: Hope to see you this afternoon at 5pm! We will have an large A3 sized orange sign, that has /r/Auckland on it, as well as the Reddit logo. If you can't find the sign, feel uncomfortable approaching randoms or have any issues, please don't hesitate to send me a message :)**
Hi!
Back in February we did a meetup at Paradise Indian Buffet, but a lot of people couldn't make it, because it was in the middle of the week. This time, we're going to try something on a weekend.
We'll be meeting at Newmarket Tenpin Bowling at 5pm on Saturday. It's the cheapest one that's closest to the city, and it's also surrounded by bars and restaurants if people are keen to get dinner / a drink afterwards.
One game is $14 (or $13 if you have a student ID), additional games are $8. We'd probably play 2 games, but it really depends on how many people there are and what people want to do.
Some standard meetup FAQs:
I think I'm a social potato. Should I come to this meetup?
Yes! If you're not comfortable talking to people, you can sit there on your phone, watch the other people bowl when it's not your turn, or just listen into the general conversation, it's all good, not everyone's going to be a social butterfly
What is the age range of people at this meetup?
Generally 20's to 30's, but sometimes 18 year olds show up, sometimes people in their 40s. If you're all good with the majority being 20's/30's, then come along
I'm not good at Tenpin bowling, should I still come?
I don't think anyone is actually good at Tenpin bowling. You either fluke out and get a great score, or get 10 gutterballs. It's just luck of the draw.
The thought of walking up to randoms in a public space seems scarier than being victim in a shark attack - are there any solutions?
Absolutely. Chuck me a PM. Myself, or someone else will come and find you and you can walk in with us. It's a lot less scary if you don't have to ask people if they're the anonymous people from the internet. I'll also aim to make myself pretty identifiable on the day
Can I bring my boyfriend/girlfriend/non-binary friend/mum/dog/other animal?
Yes! Bring whoever you want, unless it's an animal. As much as I'd love to have a meetup comprised mostly of dogs, I feel like the Tenpin bowling alley would not appreciate this so much.
I'm not available on this date, will you be doing another meetup like this?
Possibly, but also maybe not. I said I wasn't going to do this again s
... keep reading on reddit ➡My first time playing on a string-reset system like the arcade bowling. Although I appreciate the quicker turnaround time between frames, it just felt inauthentic but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
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I'm surprised the string doesn't get tangled like the arcade version.
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Does the string get in the way and knock over the other pins?
What’s the weirdest thing to happen to you? What’s the most annoying things that happen to you? What do most people not realise about your job?
In most professional sports, the appeal is to see how various players and teams play against each other. In other 'solo' sports like golf, there are different courses and unpredictable conditions and such to keep it interesting. Bowling, however, has no competitive play and is designed to be exactly the same every round. It's fun at an amateur level because it is novel and is fun to play with friends, but what keeps it interesting at a professional level, either to watch or to play?
Are there any competitive alley's in auckland? From what iv'e seen they're all run down as fuck.
Tenpin at Fountain Park has been really crap the 3 or 4 times that I've been in the past couple of years. The game always messes up whether it be due to the pins not being picked up, pins getting stuck in the side or the scoring software not properly recording the game (software which I'm fairly certain is more archaic than when I went bowling out at Fort Kinniard 15 years ago as a kid). The alleys are more squished than seats on a budget flight, there's never enough staff at the front desk (which is a pain when you are mid game and have a problem) and the beer is overpriced. Anyway, rant over.
Google says there's two more places, both in the west of the city. One at the Corn Exchange and a small looking one at Murrayfield. Are these decent at all, and are there any more in Edinburgh?
Ta!
Dumbledore's Chocolate Frog Card in the first book mentions that he "enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling". But… this never comes up. Not in canon, and, which I finder stranger, never in fanfiction that I recall. He loves sweets, and that's what fanfics use and overuse (especially sherbet lemons/lemon drops), but these two things just never seem to catch people's eye. Am I wrong? Do you know of any fics that mention these hobbies? Even in passing! (Copies of the Chocolate Frog Card's text do not qualify.)
