I had an issue recently where we could only get 1 lane instead of a pair like we normally get . The people on the right lane of the pair were lofting the house balls way out past the arrows and getting them to hook. Well when they seen how our reactive balls reacted in the back end they started eyeing them. we never left the ball return un watched from that point on. What really annoyed me the most when they would grab a ball off the lane next to them and throw it on there lane filling our ball return to over flowing! Some people can be just rude!
For the leagues I've done, the rule is only one ball per person can be on the top of the rack at any given time to prevent over flow. I'd probably have just started putting balls on the bottom of the rack if there was a bottom rack or just taken my ball and waited a few minutes and then continued.Originally Posted by Jessiewoodard57
WORST...HANDS DOWN...WORST bowlers in regards to overflowing ball racks....are old people. No offense...but in ym Wednesday league...there are numerous older folks that will literally "count" the balls on the rack each time they go up there and if there are 11...they will stand around for 3-4 minutes asking everyone who has an extra ball on the rack. Like...OMG...someone forgot to take their strike ball off the rack after throwing at a spare...call the National Guard and Reader's Digest already. The older folks are very irritable on weeknights around 7PM because they know they're missing Wheel of Fortune and it's less than an hour before their usual bedtime.
QUALITY bowling alleys have a bottom rack AND a top rack. Unfortunately...I don't bowl in places like that so I gotta deal with everyone's balls getting stuck all the time....mainly because my 16lb balls don't roll around the caraseal as easy and everyone else is using 9-15# equipment...especially the ladies with their 11lb nonsense. Not to mention the circular caraseal is so old at the AMF house that it's tilting forward so occasionally a ball just rolls off onto the floor.
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How about the reverse?
About two weeks ago in our Tues evening league, we were bowling a team I didn't know very well. Brunswick has the long extended ball racks and some are not level and the balls tend to roll back toward the pin side and clog the opening for letting another ball come through, as well as allowing the balls to jump off the rack. Since it was my turn to bowl, after I picked my ball up, I reached up about three balls from mine to scoot the balls back toward the settee area, when one of the guys jumped up and informed me "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AM I TO TOUCH HIS BALL".
My reply was something to the fact that he needed to sit at the front seat all night and do ball management because I was not going to allow the balls to back up so that they would fall off the ball rack.
Needless to say, he didn't and I did. After I touched it the second time, (I didn't hear what he said exactly) but after I bowled I saw my husband and one of our teammates talking to him and another guy in the back behind the seats. He never said anything more to me, and I only got the "short" version of the story on the way home - but it boiled down to the guy being a germaphobic?!?!?!?
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Germaphobic? Does he realize the lanes and the ball returns are probably more toxic than anything your hand has
A true germaphobe would have at least 20 balls set up so one ball gets tossed only once
only a few times during league i have had one ball picked up a few times. only because it was the same color ball as someone else. different finger inserts.
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Okay….that dude is weird.
I mean…I'm pretty chill…maybe not in terms of my dedication to improvement and my bowling goals…but in terms of letting stuff like that bother me…I'm about as chill as they come.
I've only noticed myself getting "un-chill" over one picky item…and thats my Tuesday League's front desk annoucing THREE TIMES a NIGHT…ALWAYS WHEN I'M ON THE APPROACH….what the Mega Millions Jackpot is. If it's not that….it's announcing food orders or birthdays or which lane the 50/50 is at….I mean, it's gotten so friggin bad…that my team will be bent over laughing when I'm on the approach and just as I take a step you'll hear at about 94dB "Attention League Bowlers…"
And it's never anthing that TRULY needs my attention MORE than making a good shot. It's never anything like, "Attention League Bowlers…we have a fire….and need to evacuate." or "Attention League Bowlers….A large Dinasaur was spotted on Central Avenue and is headed this way, we may want to take cover." Nope…it's a 2nd reminder to buy a lottery ticket or it's the front desk announcing that Martha is turning 39! AGAIN!! HA HA HA HA…endlessly while I pray for her to be slightly elctrocuted by the microphone…not to kill her because shes a nice lady….but just enough for her to lose her voice for 3 minutes.
Maybe I'm not "chill". I DID almost get in a fight at the golf course Friday…but golf is different…it's hot and the vast majority of golfers act like total ****holes 85% of the time. But still…NOT very chill of me…especially when it was my fault to begin with. I mean, I walked up on the green of a short par 3 while they were teeing off….but it was an accident because I didn't know the course and didn't know thats where the tee box was. I mean, if I had KNOWN the course…I may not have landed my 2nd shot on the green of another hole…but I did…and it's not the end of the world…and people don't need to shout negative comments at you.
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Any guy who would say that to a woman is a real d***. Being a germophobe IN A BOWLING ALLEY makes absolutely no sense. Probably one of the worst places a person like that could go. You should introduce him to MWhite. Now THAT would be an interesting conversation!
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Aslan , I wish that where the case at our AMF but just like you we deal with just 1 rack ( thank God it's not the round one)...that family I was referring to was only using house balls and each time one did not feel "right" on a throw they would get another without taking the first one back. I pointed out that the rack was so full that the returning balls could not roll out of the ball return to which I just got a shrug. Finally we just put our balls back in the bag and went home. etiquette just is not in some people's character so best to leave and defuse a possible problem.QUALITY bowling alleys have a bottom rack AND a top rack. Unfortunately...I don't bowl in places like that so I gotta deal with everyone's balls getting stuck all the time....mainly because my 16lb balls don't roll around the caraseal as easy and everyone else is using 9-15# equipment...especially the ladies with their 11lb nonsense. Not to mention the circular caraseal is so old at the AMF house that it's tilting forward so occasionally a ball just rolls off onto the floor.
Last edited by Jessiewoodard57; 06-24-2015 at 08:52 AM.
That would chill me a bit too ...could you imagine them doing that to Pete Webber oh my the words that would follow
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