Yeah- like everybody else, I used to bowl a lot. I remember my first born being in a car carrier some of the times we went.
I bought a ball from Dicks and had the finger holes drilled because none of the balls at the alley had enough room in the thumb hole- damn near tore my thumb off one night and said enough was enough. And the Brunswick ball from Dicks was about $45 at the time. Got a pair of slip on Dexter shoes from eBay for like $20 and saved on shoe rentals (besides that, I didn't like wearing other people's shoes.
Bowled a lot for a couple years, then kid #2 came along and there was no more time.
And I'm all the way down here in Macon, so making it to a bowling thing out of town is almost impossible.