Vanishing Ball
On a busy Saturday in January 2007, one of our League bowlers brought his son in to bowl. They bowled a couple of games, but when it was time to go he discovered one of his personal bowling balls that he brought with him was missing. He came up to the front desk and informed Liz about his missing ball. Liz went down back to the bowling machines and looked everywhere. She checked in the pit of the machine, in the small spaces where a ball usually gets stuck, she checked the places where balls don't usually get stuck too. Then she checked up top where the pins are waiting to be set up. She checked the ball ramp where all of the balls have to roll down in order to return to the ball rack. No ball anywhere. She decided to check the other machines, figuring maybe someone had picked up his ball by accident and began bowling with it on another lane when it got stuck. No ball there either. Liz went back up to talk to the customer, to tell him she hadn't found his ball and that if it turned up later she'd give him a call. That's when Scott overheard what was going on, he decided to look too just in case Liz had missed anything. He searched everywhere that Liz searched, and found nothing. When Scott emerged from undernieth the machines the customer down the other end of the lanes yelled to him, "Thank you!" Scott walked up to him and said, "thank you for what?" and the man told him that just as he was crawling out of the machine, his ball came rolling up the ball return. Scott said, "that's strange, I didn't find anything down there, and as I came out of the machine, I was right next to the ball return and I didn't see or hear a ball go by me at all!"
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