We start practice the same as most houses. They turn the lanes on and we get 10 minutes of practice. With 5 person teams you are lucky if you get in 6 shots.

They put up on the monitors that practice has ended and a few seconds later they announce that practice has ended as well. Many who are getting up on the approach at this time go ahead and throw one last shot anyway. I don’t have a problem with this.

But we have one guy who waits for everyone to leave the approach and then goes ahead and throws another shot or two. Almost invariably he ends up getting a ball or two scored and they have to erase the score from the lead off bowler. It is just a sneaky way to get in another practice shot or two.

Now since he is bowling out of turn they simply consider it a dead ball and doesn’t count and there is no league rule on it but it really hacks me off.

This last week he did it to us and I made comments about it loud enough that everyone for 4 lanes around could hear. My statement was that he shouldn’t get away with doing this every week and that he should follow the procedure and quit practicing. But from the reaction I have feeling it will happen again to someone next week.

What would/should be done?

I hate to have to institute a rule penalizing someone for a rare offense. I tempted next time to simply get in his face on the approach and stop him from doing it and try for a little public humiliation.