Put a PARACHUTE ON THAT BALL!!!

[MICHAEL]

I bowl on a league where a guy, (that I will call Fred Flinstone) , throws his ball so high into the air that I actually think it could use a Parachute! And now.. NOW he has a woman friend learning his skilled low scoring method!! It sound like a cannon balls being dropped from 5 feet!! I swear, its drives me crazy, but how do you bust the bubble of a guy that thinks he is one heck of a bowler!! He is not a good bowler, it might be stretching it to say his ball is almost as loud as his constant boasting, about his (once in a blue moon strike)! If he is not a used car salesman, then he is missing his vocation!! Any way like a virus, he is spreading his method of ( bowling alley demo) to others. I would have thought the mgrs, would have said something to him! Dear Abby what should I do???

I call him Fred Flinstone, becaue he looks like him, and his ball sounds like a stone bowling ball when it hits.. yaba,,,daba (what to do)!?

[JaMau24]

Hahahaha.. too funny..

I bowled with a guy on Thursday nights that did this too. It was the furthest I have ever seen a ball tossed. I mean, this guy threw the ball AT LEAST 3-4 feet past the arrows and I'm not exaggerating at all. He wasn't that bad, but he can never be that good either. I think he averaged in the low 190's. So many things come into effect that prevent you from ever being real good. The most important thing is, when you're throwing it that far and high, it has to be nearly impossible for you to repeat that.

[MICHAEL]

Jason I am not talking down the alley,,,, I am talking UP in the Air!! It lands behind the arrows!!! I mean they could use this guy to demo a highrise building!! Just give him a steel ball with some holes in it!!! It drives me crazy!! I know it can't be good on the lanes!! How do you tell a guy, that thinks he is one stud bowler... YOUR not only destroying the alley, you are blowing out many many eardrums!! I am talking bombs dropped from 40,000 feet, thats what it sounds like! I have NEVER seen anything like it! And NOW, HE is Coaching a Lady on how to deliver a ball!! geeeeee.... she is getting real good, and Not quit as high as Fred's, but maybe Willma's!! Yaba Daba do bowl somewhere else!!! its driving us crazy!!!!! (:/

[JaMau24]

Jason I am not talking down the alley,,,, I am talking UP in the Air!! It lands behind the arrows!!! I mean they could use this guy to demo a highrise building!! Just give him a steel ball with some holes in it!!! It drives me crazy!! I know it can't be good on the lanes!! How do you tell a guy, that thinks he is one stud bowler... YOU not only destroying the alley, you are blowing out many many eardrums!! I am talking bombs dropped from 40,000 feet, thats what it sounds like! I have NEVER seen anything like it! And NOW, HE is Coaching a Lady on how to deliver a ball!! geeeeee.... she is getting real good, and Not quit as high as Fred's, but maybe Willma's!! Daa baaa daaaba do bowl somewhere else!!! its driving us crazy!!!!! (:/

I just laughed till I cried reading that! hahahah... Partly because I can imagine your face when he does it lol..

[MICHAEL]

Jason, its like a parent spanking their child in a grocery store... ((( I can't take the sound!!), of a ball colliding with the alley, it sounds like a person swing a Jack hammer on to the surface of the alley. ((I was just wondering HOW do you tell a bowler that his Fred Flinstone Style is Neanderthal!!! VERY dated...lol (:? I am so easy going, but ,,, I can only handle sooooo much abuse!! (

[GeorgiaStroker]

Lean up against the front counter while he is bowling and ask the manager if that guy replaces his own divots or does he have a caddy. Maybe the manager will take the hint and have a talk with the guy.

[billf]

What's sad is with the economy the way it is so manager managers are afraid to say anything and see another customer leave.

[GeorgiaStroker]

True, but it's cheaper than having to repair a lane. I realize that the modern synthetic lanes are pretty durable but a ball dropped from a great height, especially on the same spot over and over cant be good. I used to work in a center years ago and I learned that it's better to ask one person to cool it or leave to keep others from calling it a night because they are tired of his behavior. I will admit it's harder to deal with a guy who doesn't think he's doing anything wrong, but you have to weigh your options.

[MICHAEL]

georgiaStroker, and Bill, and anyone else I might have left out! It is sad, that he is oblivious to the fact that its not only destroying the alley, its like running your fingers down a Black Board to me!! If it was used in a POW camp,,, vs water boarding,,,, I would spill the beans!!!!! Anything, but the sound of a bowling ball crashing into the surface!!! And you are right Bill,,, I think a lot of people, because of many reasons, wages going down, high cost of energy, and gas! They don't have the play money we all had back in the old days!! I might have to talk to mgr's!!

[MICHAEL]

georgiaStroker,,, I like that!! lol Might give that a try!!! (