Bowled over by Cooper

This Saturday night my partner and I decided to go bowling. We were set up on a lane next to a portly elder man and two young ones.  They addressed him by his name on the screen, so we assumed he might be an uncle or other relative. The girl was preteen and the boy was about 10. He was a friendly kid openly making general conversation to us. Beginning with declaring his apparent duty of keeping the Bowling balls properly sorted for each squad. He commented,
"We've got to get these balls sorted." As he busied himself with rolling them to the appropriate sides of the metal rack.

He had a gleaming broad smile, brown hair and eyes, and typical to this age jittery feet and hands.

We noticed his name was Cooper and liked to stay near the ball return area to monitor the Ball arrangement and remind whose turn was next on his team. He had a glowing affect by his light blue shorts which under the black-lighting, appeared white. They were a bit loose but part filled with the typical 10-er plump bum, and quite short.

His Bowling style was more of an attack approach; running up to the line then side arming the ball on a collision course with bumpers, yielding a completely random result each time. I got lucky enough to achieve a strike which my partner noticed Cooper was keen to comment a congratulation to me,
"Hey, you're good!"

I thanked him and relished the kind smile he bestowed. A couple of frames later I asked what was his high Score. He was bewildered by the question, so I went on to explain, what was his highest score ever bowled. He straightened his neck with swelled pride and said,
"Well, I once bowled about 120. But I've bowled about 20 games, so it the highest score ever for me."

I said it was very good and he should keep practicing and he will improve even more.

His confidence grew as we spotted him several times doing a little dance after a good pin knockdown, and even continued to dance to the Pop music from the overhead speakers.

It was an amusing bit of evening fun accented by this friendly kid, which later brought us a few smiles as we chose favored quotes and events of the time shared nearby the jovial boy Cooper.  

MG & EG