Yup, Keith, Oakwood will raise your average 30+ pins; so, it's not surprising that people there have no respect for anyone. I bowl 2x a week at STrike and Spare, a place you say you practice at sometimes.
Let me tell you: that place will make you tear your hair out. When Josh, the new manager is watching, the place runs great. When he is gone, the place falls down around its ears. He/SnS got a brand new oil machine. 2 Sundays ago, whoever was runnign it forgot to check the left tank; it stripped and put down ZERO oil on the left side. If the Somerset/Hunterdon Masters weren't bowling next and the USBC rep didn't run the tape machine, the tourney would have bowled on the same "pattern"!
Any league night you can go from using a mild pearl resin playing the 4th arrow or a solid particle going up the 1st arrow.
As a reference, a friend averages 30+ pins higher at Oakwood than he does at Strike and SPare. I won't give his name or he'll shoot me.
Why I keep bowling here at Strike and Spare, (have since 1995), I'll never know.
BTW if you want some oil, you'll have to travel a little further: Carolier in North Brunswick on RT 1 and Howell Lanes way down on RT 9 in Monmouth County usually have "some" oil, both on top of Brunswick AnvilLanes. I'm sure you know Carolier; not sure about Howell. I know it because my driller is there and I used to live there. I used to enjoy bowling in Monmouth county more than anywhere else. Now it's just too long of a trip, except to get my stuff drilled.
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