Ross Kaplan had spent years designing high-performance polymers for aerospace, medical devices, and, occasionally, really expensive raincoats. But lately, his mind had been occupied with something far more complex—bowling. Specifically, why his ball always seemed to have a personal vendetta against the gutter.
After months of practice, Ross finally started seeing improvement. Then, disaster struck. One unfortunate night, after an impressively awful shot that somehow collided with both the lane and the ball return system, his beloved bowling ball, The PolyBeast, developed a chip the size of a crater.
Cradling his wounded companion, Ross marched into Kurt’s Pro Shop, where he was greeted by Kurt himself—a man who looked like he had drilled more holes than a Swiss cheese factory.
“Yikes,” Kurt muttered, inspecting the ball. “What’d you hit, a landmine?”
Ross sighed. “Something like that. Can you fix it?”
“Of course. Leave it with me. I’ll have it ready in two days.”
“Two days?” Ross was stunned. “Is this surgery?”
Kurt chuckled. “Might as well be. These deep repairs take time—filling, curing, sanding, polishing. No shortcuts, my friend.”
Ross nodded solemnly and left, but something nagged at him. Two days? For a polymer-based repair? He spent his entire career creating materials that cured faster, bonded stronger, and defied the laws of chemistry. Why was bowling ball repair stuck in the Stone Age?
Back in his lab, Ross got to work. He experimented with new polymer blends, tweaking molecular structures, optimizing adhesion, and most importantly—finding a way to cut the repair time from hours to minutes.
A week later, he burst back into Kurt’s shop with an excited grin and a small, sleek kit in hand.
“Kurt, my friend, prepare to have your mind blown.”
Skeptical, Kurt crossed his arms. “Oh yeah?”
Ross grabbed a random scuffed ball from Kurt’s workbench, applied the polymer, hit it with a UV light, and within two minutes, the ball was perfectly smooth.
Kurt blinked. “That’s... that’s impossible.”
“Not anymore,” Ross grinned.
After a few more tests (and a lot of excited shouting), Kurt was sold. “You gotta mass-produce this.”
And so he did. The Strike Repair Bowling Ball Repair Kit hit the market, changing pro shops forever. Bowlers rejoiced. Repair times plummeted. Today, everyone has the same opportunity to fix damage to their bowling balls, keeping them in the game quickly and easily.