Text Box: Bowling Addiction Once upon a time, about five years or so ago, there were a couple of people who were very much in love. Jim fell in love with Beverly in the second grade and had been in love ever since. They went together all through High School. They were the couple that you saw kissing in the hallway just before they went into class> They were hopelessly, totally, terribly in love. So right After graduation and despite the objections of their parents they were married. Then Jim went to college and Beverly worked to put him through. He graduated , with honors, \with a degree in accounting. They moved back to the hometown an went to live in Jim’s grandmother’s old house. Beverly brought the place to life. She was a great cook and a creative housekeeper. Jim se t up an office in the house and began doing accounting for local businesses and tax work in season. As time went on they had two children. They made great parents. Jim was there to help with all the little things like diaper changes. They poured out their love on the children. It was like paradise. But then it happened. A friend invited Beverly to go bowling. Jim said go ahead you need a night out. She did and discovered she loved bowling. She joined a local league and that took her out of the house one night a week. But that was ok . It gave Jim time to be alone with the kids. But then she joined another league and was gone two night a week. Soon she was bowling every night and on the weekends. But Jim thought this will pass. But then she started going to tournaments out of town. It was now obvious she was bowling addicted. Bowling was more important than her husband or her children. She just had to bowl. So Jim became Mother and Father to the children. He became the housekeeper, the cook, and the one who made the money she needed to bowl. One day in the middle of winter he used his snow blower to clean out his driveway and because he was a good man he did his neighbor’s driveway as well. He knew the poor old lady who lived there couldn’t do it herself and really didn’t have the money to hire somebody. When he had finished and was coming back into his garage he suddenly noticed a short man in a green suit with curly shoes standing next to him.“I’m