The 1st 15 feet of the wood lanes Aslan bowled on was a junkyard from 8 to 8.
More boards were patched than original, and it didn't appear they were ever sanded flush to each other.
When I threw the ball there, I could feel the ball bump each board as it crossed to the right by the vibrations under my foot.
Aslan learned to loft 15 feet because that is what those conditions required.
There was still a heavy wall of oil on the lanes, but my plastic ball would hook in the oil because of the friction with the edge of each board.
Once I got the ball outside of the junkyard, I found the dry area of the lane, and the plastic ball hooked even more.
At that point it became clear to me that we weren't bowling, we were playing lawn darts.
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