Move to Houston a couple months ago and had been super busy with the new job.  I just made it out (finally) this evening to the local lanes to throw a couple games (had been since June last time I touched a ball).  Local AMF house...  old and run down, but relatively clean.  Afte tax, it ran $6.05 per game!  Top that off with an $18 bucket of beer (4) adn I pretty much had my fill for the evening.  I understand the place has to make money in order to keep the doors open, but wow...  thought it was a little overpriced, even for the notoriously high-priced AMF houses.  The best part was that the old wood lanes had absolutely no head oil from 10 to 10.  

Hope everyone is doing well...

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“You can be with the guy and in his ear 24 hours a day, but at the end of the day you can’t be there the whole time.”
- Another Gem from Emmitt Smith 5-6-08

MOVE BACK I NEED A COMPETENT DRILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol.

good luck with all.
started season with 226 ave. and hurt my finger bowling, so bad that I had to switch to lefty. Bought that hrg that was at the shop (clark drilled) and I cannot get out of that thing right at all. drilled lefty. Averaging 145 lefty after only 6 weeks.

NEED A DRILLER!
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FAILURE IS FEEDBACK. AND FEEDBACK IS THE BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS THAT GOT DIGESTED!

Ten pin??? Where?? I throw a BUZZSAW there is NUTTIN left on the deck...

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Member of the FOS, if there happens to be a 9 pin standing just toss a saw and cut it down~~!

I always wonder how much AMF has to do with it.  Do they just not pay attention to what other houses are doing, or are some local managers crazy?  In Mobile, we had two AMF houses.  Both were clean and in good shape.  Games were about $2.50 for open bowling and $1.50 for league bowlers.  Here in the Greensboro area, most houses are $2.50-3 per game and $1.50 or so for league bowlers.  There is an AMF house in town (well, they have AMF on the sign, but don't know how active they are in the running of the place).  It's an older wood house.  The lanes look kind of beat up, but supposedly were just resurfaced a few months ago maybe they're in better shape now.  I didn't look at food/drink prices, but open bowling was $5 per game.  Nothing like being twice the price of everyone else...
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