Posted on 02/05/08
Wearing just bowling shoes and a smile
VANCOUVER -- Taking off your clothes in a bowling alley invites some questions about etiquette. Do you use the bathroom to undress? Will there be hangers available? All becomes abundantly clear on a rainy Sunday afternoon in New Westminster when the Skinnydipper Recreation Club takes over the five-pin section of Lucky Strike Bowling Lanes. After some polite small talk, people simply begin to undress in front of each other, deliberately keeping their eyes down and folding their clothes neatly into piles before tidying them away into personal holdalls. Except for their socks. (One hard-core member goes barefoot.) This is bowling, after all, and shoes make life so much easier.
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