In the essay, "The Town Hangout?" I found many things interesting and surprising. I found it surprising how much the author remembered about her local bowling alley. She mentions the smells, lights, and busyness of the bowling alley and her reactions when she first walked in. I found these surprises to be interesting because in my hometown we have a bowling alley that seems to have a similar atmosphere.
I like the way the essay was structured and organized however I felt the wording was sometimes informal and incoherent. I found myself thinking to myself, " If I had wrote this I would have re-worded it to say,..."However, the essay flowed together nicely and acted kinda like a timeline, starting from the beginning of her interest in the "bowladrome" to her final conclusions.
