Although my daughter wasn’t much of a bowler, when her friend’s bowling team was down a player, my daughter agreed to fill in.
“So how’d you do?” I asked a few days later.
She rattled off her scores: “One sixty, one sixty-seven, and one fifty-five.”
“Wow! That’s great!”
“No… One game sixty, one game sixty-seven, and one game fifty-five.”
Prior to turning on the TV to watch a recorded soccer match, I said to my wife, “Don’t tell me the score!”
She replied, “ Don't worry, there wasn’t any.”
When I was young I could watch basketball and even soccer, I could follow all the moves.
But I slowed down a bit and switched to American football since there were many seconds between plays.
But that caught up with me so I switched to baseball since there could be several minutes between plays.
But then I started going to sleep between the plays and lost whole innings.
What to do?
I finally settled on solitaire. If I fall asleep between drawing cards, the game is the same when I wake up.
"Last weekend I ran a half marathon!”
"Really?"
"Well no, not really, but it sounds so much better than saying 'I quit halfway through a full marathon.'”