As some of you may have read about (from previous posts of mine), over the past month and a half, my local house has been putting out what only could be described as a "desert shot." Since the latest manager, the house had always been on the dry side...but it was manageable with mild pearl equipment. However, recently it has been so dry that anyone with any sort of revs was throwing plastic or pearl urethane to begin with.. and after a game or two would give up and just throw straight. During this time period there had been a constant stream of complaints... and they even had a few league bowlers just plain quite.
Finally the reasoning for the excessively dry conditions? This is not my explanation, but directly from the head mechanic... A line containing the stripper fluid in the lane machine had been leaking and was mixing with the lane oil prior to being applied to the lanes. Its a dinosaur of a lane machine..the old wick and pad type... but is this even possible?
Anyway..supposedly the problem is fixed...but now I think the manager is trying to drive all of the bowlers away... Because there had been so many complaints about the shot being excessively dry for the past months, he has supposedly now pulled a 180 (I have not actually thrown on it...but from what I have heard) and decided to replace the house shot with a long and flat flooded pattern with an OB anywhere outside of second arrow. And supposedly the managers exact words were, "if anyone complains about the shot now, I am going to tell them to leave."
Whatever happened to the customer is always right? Personally, I don't care either way because I am not bowling leagues this year (only subbing here and there), but my feeling is that if league bowlers are going to show up every week and pay to bowl every week (and you want them back the following week or following season), you had better put out a reasonable shot. It doesn't have to be the easiest in the world...but along the same lines, it should be ridiculous either. My feeling is that there should be some type of shot for most any style of bowler. When you start shutting out certain types of bowlers (previously with the stupid dry conditions or currently with the flooded conditions), I think you are heading down the wrong road.
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