Bowling

You know how everyone's got that sport which they are naturally good at? Take me, I'm Chinese so I kick ass at table tennis (and I'm also a decent swimmer). Now Torquer (the co-author who never posts - what a dick), is generally considered a laughing stock amongst my friends due to his poor physique and has yet to find his natural sport. (Although to give him credit, he's at times a cat in goal and always beats me in cross-country. My excuse is that muscle weighs more than bone - it must feel like walking on air every time he runs)

But Torquer shocked us last week when we decided to go bowling and unbelievably, he beat us all. OK, so Bowling is arguably not a sport but that doesn't take anything away from the fact that he humiliated us all, and in front of girls. AND I WAS THE WORST.

We watched in disbelief as Torquer transformed from nerd to king-pin, getting strike after strike, oozing in confidence and strutting round like he owned the lanes.

"Another gutter ball Jingo? Tough luck. Try knocking down some pins next time."

It made no sense... How could someone with so little arm strength be so good at bowling?

When it was his turn, he'd saunter up, cool as you like and pick the pink ball. We were foolish enough to laugh at this choice since it was the lightest ball the bowling alley had to offer. Little did we know that the pink ball proved deadly, and Torquer was a sniper. Not only that but the colour matched his thin black jumper and for those brief ball-rolling moments he was a famboyant, iconic, pin-bashing God. I had to admit, the kid had style.

When I stumbled up to bowl, people would take out their camera phones and film me; that's how bad I was. Thankfully, apart from some sporadic gutter balls and a ridiculously low score, I managed not to tranform into a laughing stock. I shan't give you the score incase you think worse of me, but to put it in perspective, you'd have to square my score for it to be anywhere near his.

Unfortunately, his glory was short-lived. Afterwards, as Torquer let the new-found respect of his peers wash over him, the unexpected happened. An actual, real-life girl approached him.

While this was happening I was with some friends shooting zombies on House of the Dead III (he was pulling birds and I was playing video games...). But from what I heard, the girl gave him a paper napkin with the details (name, msn, email et al) of another girl. Torquer then went incredibly red as the girl literally ran off. Aww bless.

My friends had a right old laugh and Torquer lost all the respect he had won. It was obvious to them that the girls did it as a joke to humiliate their friend, but I'm not so sure. I'm still of the opinion that the girls must have been wooed by his sexy bowling ability.

Poor Torquer. What makes it worse is that he kept that paper napkin and has probably framed it or something.