What would you do?

My son and my hubby bowl with me on a just for fun Monday night league. It was set up by a local radio station, and is really just a beer/beginner league.
There are two sessions this year - both 12 weeks long.
We bowled the first 12 weeks, and really enjoyed all the folks - EXCEPT for one specific team.

This team has two women on it who really know how to put away the beer. They are loud, foul-mouthed, with no bowling etiquette except poor etiquette. They are constantly yelling and making noise (no, not just when their teammates are bowling, but ALL the time), walking up on others, walking back from a shot in front of others on other lanes, etc, etc, etc.

One of these "ladies" even was drunk enough one night to get into her car, start it up, and back out of a parking place while her daughter was still getting in - she ran over her daughter's foot and broke it, and BRAGGED about it the following week.

Any way - to make a longer story at least a reasonable length
this league uses a screwy schedule, where all the odd numbered teams move right each week, and the even numbered teams move left each week. Last night was the second week, so they just published the schedule for three weeks. Yep. You guessed it. Our team has been stuck in the position of being next to the obnoxious team every week. I spoke to the league coordinator about it, and asked if there was anything she could do about it - I had spoken to her last session about trying to get these ladies under control, but I guess she did nothing. Anyway - I was told last night that it was too bad, nothing she would do about it.

My hubby bowls in severe pain every week, but usually has a good enough time to warrant staying in the league. However, last night he was walked up on several times, and the process of stopping in the middle of his approach is excruciating.

We've decided to pull the team from the league. Shouldn't be too much of a hardship - they've already got an uneven number of teams. Yes, I know I'm technically breaking a committment, but with the combination of the unacceptable, unsafe behavior and the house's attitude, I feel that they already broke a committment. I don't like doing it, but in this case, I certainly don't want to spend money for this, and my family has said that they don't either.

I'd probably do the same thing.  it appears with the way they are scheduling, you would almost never be away from them.  Besided you can always say you decided that in the interest of keeping things even you withdraw  You're just being nice and accomodating the league
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I think Mumzie was just asking for a different rotation format so that NO team would have to bowl next to this group every week.  Share the pain... sounded fair.  Does anyone here bowl next to the same team every week?  I don't in any of my leagues.  Pulling out is unfortunate, but if the PTB don't want to do anything to help, little choice is left.  Unless, you can get other teams to join you in a formal complain.  Power in numbers.

Slip some sedatives in there beers that way they will calm down and be more tolerable.

Since you already left the league, maybe if you would have stayed you could have started a petition and get everyone else in the league to sign it and then take that to someone higher and get them thrown out of the league.

One more thing - we haven't actually left the league. My family left that to me to call the center manager today. I haven't done it yet...

But I agree with serice. A different schedule, that would mix it up a bunch, would help a lot. That way everyone can share the pain.

Oh - I forgot to mention - one of the "ladies" works at a local concert/basketball venue. She often gets free tickets for the radio station that puts on the league to give away. Therefore, I'm sure they would not allow the rest of the league to ask them to leave... Sigh.

If they so drunk that they have no regards for others(running over her daughter's foot), imagine what she is like on the roads. One way to knock some sense into her is to notify the police of her car as she leaves the center. Just get the tag number and call her in. Maybe after couple of dui's they will sober up. Or if not, they will lose their license and not be able to drive to the lanes anyway. win/win situation.
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