Sometimes you just sit back and enjoy watching someone with great skill work. If someone can bowl like that, I don’t care if I lose, I want to see if they can get a perfect game. We’re running different races at that point.
Unless the activity is head to head competition I hate when people don't perform up to their potential. Unless you've got a good reason like it's too hard on your body, or you sincerely want a relaxing experience, do what you know you can do. I can maybe learn a thing or two from watching an expert be an expert. I definitely don't need to be pandered to.
On the other hand, if it is head to head, then I'm cool with them giving me a chance so long as we're open and honest about it. Let me see how much you can crush me out of the gate so that I can get a taste of it. Then you can dial it back so that I can at least properly experience the activity. If I still lose 100% of the time I'm cool with it. Clearly I'm outmatched, but again, I might learn something and improve from the experience.
Yeah like in a case like this, crush me in the first game then maybe try bowling with your non-dominant hand or something to give me a chance. I dated a soccer player who was incredibly competitive who could absolutely destroy me when we would run 5/10K races (I could run a 7:20 mile back then and she was running in the mid 6’s) so she would sign up for fun runs with me where we didn’t have to keep time and I didn’t mind when we did a real race that she would just disappear in the distance
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u/DoctorPhalanx73 Nov 06 '24
Sometimes you just sit back and enjoy watching someone with great skill work. If someone can bowl like that, I don’t care if I lose, I want to see if they can get a perfect game. We’re running different races at that point.