Ballerina Marries a Bricklayer

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it's like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words, Butch doesn’t know what to say but he knows Sharon has always liked to go bowling; in fact, that’s how this odd couple met. So he tries an analogy although he doesn’t know it’s an analogy. From age 12 on, Butch tells her, he always felt like he had a bowling ball in his pants; that was a problem. He couldn’t find pants to fit. When he became a man he joined bowling leagues, three or four, and went bowling as often as he could. Then Butch tells Sharon he met her and knew he had to quit bowling having found a lane of his own. Donal Mahoney