My local house is on a cost-cutting parade so they decided a few weeks ago NOT to oil the lanes for the weekends. However, a bunch of us have gotten together on Sunday mornings for years, to roll a few games, just for fun and to pick on each other.

Now, with some of the lanes not having any oil applied since before leagues Friday night (some lanes at the high end of the house get oiled on Saturday, but we cannot always get assigned to those lanes) we are faced with almost ZERO oil on Sunday mornings.

Therefore, any amount of rotation applied to almost any ball causes it to start up at about the arrows! I am too old to throw it hard enough to keep it right of the head pin and so are most of my friends. I could throw my spare ball (Storm Ice, the old blue one) but that does not seem to be the answer.

Perhaps something else?

Your thoughts?

Synthetic lanes, by the way.