Went bowling again the next day with a different friend. Better experience in general, despite the physical pain of trying to do that two days in a row after so many years. I don’t know if that counts as “in the company of strangers” or not. I guess it does, since half of my fear is simply going out in public to begin with. Especially since there were quite a lot of people there, but most of them were just hanging out. My friend and I were the only ones actually bowling… so people were watching us. It was freaky. :P