Bowling, a Creative Date Idea
Put on your Bowling Shoes for a Trip to your Bowling Alley
Bowling is a great date idea. Visit your local bowling alley or center, pick up a bowling ball, lace up your bowling shoes, and have a fun night of bowling excitement.
At first thought, a night out bowling might not be considered the most creative date idea. Creative, no, but fun, absolutely! Get to a bowling alley, lace up your bowling shoes, grab a bowling ball, and turn your next date into a fun night of bowling. Here’s how:
The Idea: Take your date to your local bowling alley for a fun night of bowling.
The Steps:
- Find a local bowling alley. (if you don’t have any idea where your local bowling alley is, you can always look in the phone book, call information, or do a Google search for local bowling alleys or bowling centers)
- Rent some bowling shoes (if you don’t own a pair of bowling shoes)
- Have the person behind the counter assign you a bowling lane.
- Pick a bowling ball to bowl with (unless you own your own bowling ball)
- Bowl to your hearts content, the cows come home, or you arm falls off. (whichever comes first)
What to bring with you to the bowling alley:
- Cash (for bowling shoes, the bowling lane, food, drink, etc.)
- Camera (you never know when you will have a Kodak moment while bowling)
- Bowling Ball (if you own one)
- Bowling Shoes (if own a pair)
- Socks (because you don’t want to stick your bare foot into someone else’s toe jam)
- Your date (we wouldn’t want him or her to miss you looking like a fool in those shoes!)
The Pros of going Bowling on a date:
- You get your exercise while bowling. (not really, but you can call it a sport and show off your athletic prowess)
- Bowling alleys are great places for conversations. (think about it, how are you going to get to know your date, especially a first date, at the movie theater?)
- You can let your hair down. Bowling alleys let a grown-up be a kid.
- You can flirt in public at the Bowling alley. Imagine your date, takes the ball, bends over showing off his or her assets in tight jeans, before rolling a ball at some pins. Odds are you can come up with a corny, off-color joke in there somewhere. Light Public Displays of Affection (PDA) encouraged!
- Beer and Nachos. Nothing says bowling alley like a pitcher of Bud Light and some chips and cheese-whiz.
- Bowling allows for fun and friendly competition. Make a bet with your date such as: winner gets to choose the place for the next date.
- Bowling alleys have electronic scoring. No more pencil and paper; let the computer do it for you!
- Bowling alleys are practically in every town.
The Cons of going Bowling on a date:
- Rented Bowling Shoes. Anyone have a can of Lysol?
- Bowling Alleys can get noisy! This is probably not the place to have a serious life-chat with your date.
- No privacy at the bowling alley. That gutterball you just threw? Yeah, they all saw it!
- Place still smells like the bottom of an ashtray, even though they went no-smoking 10 years ago.
- Not the most romantic of date locals. (unless you call disco/laser night romantic)
The Verdict about Bowling on a date:
- Romance: Not very romantic of a place for a date, but flirting here is encouraged.
- Cost: Inexpensive, unless you start drinking the expensive drinks instead of cheap swill.
- Excitement: 1 ball, 10 pins, a greasy bowling lane, and a couple… now that is the recipe for fun!
- Creativity: Not as exciting as whale watching, but bowling can be much more interactive.
- Overall: Bowling might be something different for the “dinner and a movie” crowd. 7/10
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The Bowling Alley was a cool date idea. Dating, but still stumped on creative date ideas? Try these on for size: salsa dancing, whale watching, karaoke night,
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