Author Topic: anyone who works at a bowling alley will get a kick out of this... (Read 3170 times)

Speedburner89 · « **on:** June 26, 2006, 09:46:10 AM »

i just love when i hear beverly hills by weezer come on the radio for the 78 time that day!

i just love when i get a 180 on lane 1 and a ball return on lane fourty!

i just love when a group brings in outside fast food, spills soda all over the concourse, and try to get away with bowling in their street shoes!

i just love when you get 50 ball return calls for the same d@mn viz a ball on lane 22 throughout the night!

i just love when you're all done for the night and the last thing you learn is someone yacked on the bathroom floor!

i just love when open play throws 50 balls into the back thinking that each new ball will magically solve the initial ball return problem!

i just love when a non bowler will walk out directly on to the lane to get a ball halfway down the gutter, completely oblivious to the fact that there is lane oil and a thing called a gutter cap!

i just love cleaning the party room after a wild party hit like a tornado and left cake all over the carpet!

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ebolanebowler · « **Reply #1 on:** June 26, 2006, 05:50:40 PM »

Oh man...ive worked at a bowling for less than a month and all that has happened to me....Except the song that comes on a million times a day is "Unwritten" by natasha bedingfield (I think)
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Speedburner89 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 26, 2006, 06:03:02 PM »

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Except the song that comes on a million times a day is "Unwritten" by natasha bedingfield (I think)

lol
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ebolanebowler · « **Reply #3 on:** June 26, 2006, 06:05:09 PM »

Probably the song I most hate in the world today
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Speedburner89 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 26, 2006, 06:10:04 PM »

if you work a saturday or friday night while it's cosmic i'm sure you're very familiar with the garbage from the black eyed peas, kelly clarkson, ashlee simpson etc...
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Crankenstein300 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 26, 2006, 06:22:12 PM »

>>i just love when i get a 180 on lane 1 and a ball return on lane fourty!<<

Been there done that. Although I must say I got my exercise doing 30 lane sprints from machine to machine when that happened

>>i just love when a group brings in outside fast food, spills soda all over the concourse, and try to get away with bowling in their street shoes!<<

Yep, and then usually mouths off at you when you tell them they can't have the food there or have to be wearing bowling shoes because they've been drinking earlier that night

>>i just love when you get 50 ball return calls for the same d@mn viz a ball on lane 22 throughout the night!<<

This was a big one for me. Usually with the ancient house balls we had. Luckily being a house ball, I could get away with giving it a quick scotch brite sanding and then send it back to the bowler. They did get a weird expression on their face though when the ball came back sanded lol. But there were a few times that I wanted to buy someone a new ball so they would stop using the POS diamond shined ball that would not return no matter what lane they were on.

>>i just love when you're all done for the night and the last thing you learn is someone yacked on the bathroom floor!<<

Oh yeah. Loads of fun. Had had to deal with worse too, but I'll spare the details here.

>>i just love when open play throws 50 balls into the back thinking that each new ball will magically solve the initial ball return problem!<<

I'm assuming you are dealing with Brunswick A2s? If so, whats the record for the amount of balls you've had stuck in the machine? I know I've gone back and seen where a pin jammed at the Y gate and there were balls jammed back the rails to the lift rods, all down the lift rods and about 5 more in the pit to go with it.

>>i just love when a non bowler will walk out directly on to the lane to get a ball halfway down the gutter, completely oblivious to the fact that there is lane oil and a thing called a gutter cap!<<

Usually when they fall on their butt they figure it out, but I cringed everytime I saw that as I was just waiting for them to try and sue the center for a bruised tailbone or something

>>i just love cleaning the party room after a wild party hit like a tornado and left cake all over the carpet!<<

How about claening up after a league whos main goal was to drink as much beer as humanly possible? A few times I thought I was working at a brewery with all the beer bottles around me

Edited on 6/26/2006 6:18 PM

bowlingmaniac017 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 26, 2006, 06:27:57 PM »

Are yall forgetting about the Final Countdown by Europe?? I HATE that freaking song!! I would have to listen to that God only know's how many times every night I worked. Some nights I just wanted to break the Juke Box!!

Speedburner89 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 26, 2006, 07:24:52 PM »

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If so, whats the record for the amount of balls you've had stuck in the machine? I know I've gone back and seen where a pin jammed at the Y gate and there were balls jammed back the rails to the lift rods, all down the lift rods and about 5 more in the pit to go with it.

i've had times when a pin was jammed past the y switch causing a massive jam sending balls off the top of the lift rods onto the floor in the back.

you also gotta love when a pin has been grinding away in the turn pan for about an hour and you can hardly decipher its a pin by the time you get to it

and belive me, plenty of balls have met the scotch brite pad in the back.

oh, and who hasn't seen the roll of toilet paper in the toilet?

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J_Mac · « **Reply #8 on:** June 26, 2006, 07:36:19 PM »

What would you rather clean up?

A. Half a roll of toilet paper shoved in a used urinal...

B. Vomit on carpet

C. A used prophylactic in the dressing room outside of the ladies restroom. (Dressing room isn't a good description since it doesn't have a door. Just a mirror, vanity (no sinks) and 60 bowling lockers.)

I used to work nights as a pinchaser for almost 5 years, including weekends. Bad thing is we were the bowling establishment the closest to MSU, which I think its a little bit of a party school. LOL

Brunswick A-2's and Brunswick 14, 15, and 16lb. house balls don't mix... I've pulled out between 15-20 balls from these machines before.

The worst is a pin traveling up the subway and having an empty enough house where the bowlers (bless their heart) decide not to bother telling anyone they are having a problem with balls coming back and precede to throw 40+ balls behind the one that decided it wanted to show that pin a good time in the subway.

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bstone · « **Reply #9 on:** June 26, 2006, 07:47:24 PM »

then theres the showoffs who want to hook it like pdw with the plastic house ball. it just slides and never moves so they slow it WAY down move WAY left and try lofting the gutter & capping just to crack the 1 board when it lands.

bstone
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Speedburner89 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 26, 2006, 07:47:49 PM »

i'll go with c because it sounds the juiciest

nothing beats resurfacing a pink 12lb plastic ball after the customer complains about the minor scratch.

i always get a kick out of people being too stupid to decipher the number of balls the return rack can hold, and you get to watch that final ball come out of the hood only to knock a ball off the back of the return subsequently crushing ones foot

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J_Mac · « **Reply #11 on:** June 26, 2006, 07:48:16 PM »

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I would say A because I can just go and get rubber gloves from the snack bar and quickly get it out of there.
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LMAO... That's EXACTLY what I ended up doing...
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Speedburner89 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 26, 2006, 08:29:35 PM »

oh, and nothing beats the idiot who claims his ball is stuck in the back, so you go in back don't see the ball anywhere, come back up, see people bowling on the adjoining lane and notice their balls are coming back, so you explain to him that it is physically impossible for his ball not to have come back, he still stands by his guns only to find his ball in his bag 20 min later
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thehurricane · « **Reply #13 on:** June 26, 2006, 08:47:19 PM »

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oh, and nothing beats the idiot who claims his ball is stuck in the back, so you go in back don't see the ball anywhere, come back up, see people bowling on the adjoining lane and notice their balls are coming back, so you explain to him that it is physically impossible for his ball not to have come back, he still stands by his guns only to find his ball in his bag 20 min later
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"if you're so special why aren't you dead?" - the Breeders

That would be hilarious if he looked on the rack and said "Oh, here it is."

J_Mac · « **Reply #14 on:** June 26, 2006, 08:54:41 PM »

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oh, and nothing beats the idiot who claims his ball is stuck in the back, so you go in back don't see the ball anywhere, come back up, see people bowling on the adjoining lane and notice their balls are coming back, so you explain to him that it is physically impossible for his ball not to have come back, he still stands by his guns only to find his ball in his bag 20 min later
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"if you're so special why aren't you dead?" - the Breeders

The one I really hate is similar to this... but the ball ends up on another set of lanes because some douchebag thought it was a house ball.
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