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Speedburner89

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anyone who works at a bowling alley will get a kick out of this...
« 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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Speedburner89

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Re: anyone who works at a bowling alley will get a kick out of this...
« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2006, 08:54:56 PM »
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009XFIZA/ref=pd_rvi_gw_1/002-5280538-1333647?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174

lmfao!!
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astrodanco

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Re: anyone who works at a bowling alley will get a kick out of this...
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2006, 09:17:08 PM »
Hello, I'm Mr. Contrarian here and I can't resist commenting.

> 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.
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Speedburner89

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Re: anyone who works at a bowling alley will get a kick out of this...
« Reply #18 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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9andaWiggle

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Re: anyone who works at a bowling alley will get a kick out of this...
« Reply #19 on: June 27, 2006, 06:26:57 PM »
Back when I worked at the lanes, the song was "Mary Jane's Last Dance" by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers...

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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TerryV

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Re: anyone who works at a bowling alley will get a kick out of this...
« Reply #20 on: June 27, 2006, 06:48:58 PM »
to go along with one of those... I love how three open bowlers need to fill the ball return rack FULL of house balls, when I know that lane was completly empty of bowling balls, and even clean before they get there.

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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JessN16

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Re: anyone who works at a bowling alley will get a kick out of this...
« Reply #21 on: June 28, 2006, 01:29:15 AM »
Some of these are already so funny they hurt, but I had to comment on this one in particular:

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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
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