Post by: Speedburner89 on June 26, 2006, 09:46:10 AM
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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Post by: ebolanebowler on June 26, 2006, 05:50:40 PM
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Buying a lane#1 ball is like buying a car friggin' expensive, but friggin' worth it
Edited on 6/26/2006 5:47 PM
Post by: Speedburner89 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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Post by: ebolanebowler on June 26, 2006, 06:05:09 PM
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Buying a lane#1 ball is like buying a car friggin' expensive, but friggin' worth it
Post by: Speedburner89 on June 26, 2006, 06:10:04 PM
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Post by: Crankenstein300 on June 26, 2006, 06:22:12 PM
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
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Post by: bowlingmaniac017 on June 26, 2006, 06:27:57 PM
Post by: Speedburner89 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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Post by: J_Mac on June 26, 2006, 07:36:19 PM
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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Post by: bstone on June 26, 2006, 07:47:24 PM
bstone
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Post by: Speedburner89 on June 26, 2006, 07:47:49 PM
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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Post by: J_Mac 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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Post by: Speedburner89 on June 26, 2006, 08:29:35 PM
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Post by: thehurricane 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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That would be hilarious if he looked on the rack and said "Oh, here it is."
Post by: J_Mac 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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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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Post by: Speedburner89 on June 26, 2006, 08:54:56 PM
lmfao!!
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Post by: astrodanco on June 26, 2006, 09:17:08 PM
> 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!
Happens at at least a few times a day on the weekends. Post a sign or something will ya?
> 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!
Hey, the people who buy their food from the snack bar do the same disgusting thing. Please stop ragging on people who bring in outside food until after you start selling real food at your snack bar!
> i just love when you're all done for the night and the last thing you
> learn is someone yacked on the bathroom floor!
And I hate when you don't bother to clean it up until the next day, despite being asked to do so several times.
Post by: Speedburner89 on June 26, 2006, 09:22:38 PM
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This album just s****, April 19, 2006
Reviewer: joyleaf (CA United States) - See all my reviews
This is probably one of the worst albums I have ever heard. Other than Unwritten, the rest of the songs are a waste of time. The beats may be nice, but the lyrics are ridiculous. They're great for pop songs, but if you like music that actually has lyrics that don't sound like a 12 year old wrote them, then this is definitely not a cd for you
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Post by: 9andaWiggle on June 27, 2006, 06:26:57 PM
Aside from what has already been mentioned, here were my favorites;
We had some old Brunswick's, and I always enoyed it when an 80 year old lady would yell up to us "It won't RESET!" and we find all 21 pins we had in the machine were jammed between the deck chutes and the turret.
Spilled spit cups. If you've never had to clean one of these up, I'll trade you for the barf in the bathroom.
Pool tables and little kids don't mix. Don't know how many Hot Wheels and GI Joe's I've pulled out of 'em.
I like it when you're in the middle of the machine, standing on the pindeck to work and just as a ball skids by inches from your legs you remember the sweep is up.
The guy who comes up to you after you've worked 7 days straight cleaning, sweeping, mopping, doing the lanes, taking customer abuse, and says to you "It must be great working here! If I did, I'd bowl all the time!" Riiiight...
The assumption the general public has that the bowling alley just opens the doors and rakes the cash in!
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Post by: TerryV on June 27, 2006, 06:48:58 PM
Oh and anouther, how people can't throw anything away when a garbage can is no more then 4 steps away from them.
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Post by: JessN16 on June 28, 2006, 01:29:15 AM
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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!
As many times as I've seen it done and it not work, I saw it work once. Brunswick A-2 machines on a Friday night, and I start noticing these kids keep throwing different-colored house balls shot after shot and the rack's empty. About the time I was going to walk up to the desk and warn the house personnel, whatever was jammed in the back let loose and here come about 25 balls onto a rack that holds a big fat 10.
It was like something off the Bozo Show watching these kids trying to corral 15 extra bowling balls that were getting spit out by the return. Everyone in the place, even the old owner who hardly ever cracked a smile, were laughing so hard we were doubled over.
Also, the bowling alley I learned to bowl in STILL has a copy of Chuck Barry's "My Ding-A-Ling, Live from Tokyo" that plays overandoverandoverandoverandover...
Jess