Author Topic: Cell phone!!! (Read 5235 times)

serice · « **on:** January 28, 2007, 03:41:01 AM »

Oatman's up for the firsth throw of the match game and some person's cell phone goes off. He tried to shake it off, but you could see Billy's eyes look left just before he started his movement. The result -- nasty split.

I think if you make a violation like a cell phone ringing during a televised broadcast, you need to get escorted out of the center and banned from the next intown tournament. It's rude and completely avoidable!!

Edited on 1/28/2007 2:46 PM

shipper50 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 30, 2007, 07:13:05 AM »

I just came up with a brain storm here on the cell phone problem. Have the person calling you page you on the bowling alley house phone. I know for a fact it works because I had someone page me all the way back in 2005. Gee, then know one has to hear your cell go off, or hear your conversation.

Shipper

korkey299 · « **Reply #32 on:** January 30, 2007, 07:30:53 AM »

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What about all the bowlers who have cell phones on during league because they are so IMPORTANT they cant miss a call? I bowled a tournament last Sunday and this guy next to my pair phone goes off 2 times. I am a big guy, he is a big guy, nothing was said and I guess he turned it down. Didn't hear it again.

Shipper

does it really bother you when a phone goes off? you're not bowling in a tournament, bowling in a big bowling ally with a bunch of lanes going at once i'm surprised that one cell phone bothers you with the rest of the noise. plus you're not bowling in a place that supposed to be quiet when the bowlers are bowling. if cell phones were a real problem for most people they would have rules about those things, settle down its just league you're not in the big times, bowling has gotten to serious in some of the leagues, it should be a place to have fun and it is for some people but it isn't for just as many people. i go to leagues to have fun and when i work i try to joke around with the guys there and they enjoy themselves. you get too many guys that take it seriously that its like they're going for the world series or the tournament of champions. there was this one time where a lane broke down to where it wouldn't pick up any pins and they had one game left, so we had no other choice but to move them and the guy freaked out and was being a *** towards me and i was just about to swear at him it wasn't that the lane broke down he was mad about, it was about he had to be moved. i'm rambling sorry i just wish people would have more fun with bowling instead of taking it so seriously, maybe going for a 300 i'd be mad.
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shipper50 · « **Reply #33 on:** January 30, 2007, 08:16:20 AM »

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What about all the bowlers who have cell phones on during league because they are so IMPORTANT they cant miss a call? I bowled a tournament last Sunday and this guy next to my pair phone goes off 2 times. I am a big guy, he is a big guy, nothing was said and I guess he turned it down. Didn't hear it again.

Shipper

does it really bother you when a phone goes off? you're not bowling in a tournament, bowling in a big bowling ally with a bunch of lanes going at once i'm surprised that one cell phone bothers you with the rest of the noise. plus you're not bowling in a place that supposed to be quiet when the bowlers are bowling. if cell phones were a real problem for most people they would have rules about those things, settle down its just league you're not in the big times, bowling has gotten to serious in some of the leagues, it should be a place to have fun and it is for some people but it isn't for just as many people. i go to leagues to have fun and when i work i try to joke around with the guys there and they enjoy themselves. you get too many guys that take it seriously that its like they're going for the world series or the tournament of champions. there was this one time where a lane broke down to where it wouldn't pick up any pins and they had one game left, so we had no other choice but to move them and the guy freaked out and was being a *** towards me and i was just about to swear at him it wasn't that the lane broke down he was mad about, it was about he had to be moved. i'm rambling sorry i just wish people would have more fun with bowling instead of taking it so seriously, maybe going for a 300 i'd be mad.
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Age: 17
Average: 198
High Score: 299 ringing 10
High Series: 723 (223, 299, 201<-shaking to death)
Current arsenal:
The One: heavy oil
Animal Untamed: medium-heavy oil
Equation: medium oil
Intense Inferno(polished): dry lanes

Yes it bothers me when a cell phone goes off when I am bowling. Its an invasion of my privacy. I take bowling very seriously, its the only thing I do for recreation and I pay to have the 2.5-3 hours to do something I enjoy.

As for the noise in a bowling alley, if it was so loud you couldn't hear the phones go off, I would bowl with ear plugs. If you want to bowl and have fun so be it, but someday when you get older you just might bowl with someone who knows how to bowl and knows the etiquette of bowling and that doesn't include listening to someone talk on their cell or have them go off when they are on the lanes.

Shipper

kalannar · « **Reply #34 on:** January 30, 2007, 09:45:07 AM »

I leave my cell phone on when I am at league so I can talk to my daughter before she goes to bed since I don't get to see her at all on the days I bowl. But our bowling alley is so loud that I can not here it ring on full volume sitting on the table in front of me. It is easier to see it vibrating on the table than here it ring.

As for paging from the front desk, again our house is very loud and the intercom is even louder. If you are having a conversation, you have to pause in mid sentence until they are done with the announcement because you can't hear the other person. To me the intercomm is more annoying than cell phones, except when they are on the persons ear when they should be bowling. I hate having to wait on people because they are on the phone. I always call back or answer right after my turn and end the call promptly before my turn.
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JessN16 · « **Reply #35 on:** January 30, 2007, 09:47:55 AM »

Shipper,

You have no expectation of privacy in the public areas of a bowling alley, thus a cell phone going off is no invasion of your privacy or anyone else's.

Yes, I've been paged on the bowling alley house phone. In my center, the speakers for the bowling center's paging system are about 100 times louder than a cell phone and they're directly over the lanes. It's much more of a distraction to hear that thing go off than any cell phone. It's bad enough hearing "LANE 22, YOUR ORDER IS READY" without having to hear people getting paged to the phone right and left.

When you first voiced your complaint, I could sympathize with you because there are people who are too cavalier with their phone usage, but now you're just being unreasonable. If you want to pursue a life without cell phones, you're free to do so in your own home. Once you step out into public, you can't control that environment anymore.

Jess

shipper50 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 30, 2007, 12:33:48 PM »

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Throwing your last balls for a 300 games, bowling in a league, bowling in a tournament, etc... who really gives a damn if a phone goes off? I don't see how people get so distracted during any of those situations? Bowling centers are very noisy places with lots of people. When I get up to bowl I hear absolutely nothing. I had a 300 game Monday and I can tell you that I heard NOTHING when I got up there to throw my last ball and people were still chatting and bowling around me. Someone could have yelled my name and I wouldn't have heard it. People just need something to b!tch about I guess...

Yeah I guess I need something to bit-h about. I guess your so good you don't hear anything anywhere anytime when your bowling. How about this? How about the kid who hit my truck about 2 weeks ago when we were passing each other on a country road. He was driving to fast down a curve and when he smacked my mirror and caused $194.06 in damage, guess what he said when I asked him why he was on my side of the road? HIS CELL WENT OFF AND DISTRACTED HIM.

So I am done posting on this subject. I can see if and when you all have posted that cells are just the way it is, just hope you don't get hit head on someday by someone who just happens to be talking on their cell.

Shipper

korkey299 · « **Reply #37 on:** January 30, 2007, 01:00:24 PM »

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Yeah I guess I need something to bit-h about. I guess your so good you don't hear anything anywhere anytime when your bowling. How about this? How about the kid who hit my truck about 2 weeks ago when we were passing each other on a country road. He was driving to fast down a curve and when he smacked my mirror and caused $194.06 in damage, guess what he said when I asked him why he was on my side of the road? HIS CELL WENT OFF AND DISTRACTED HIM.

Shipper

ya but this is bowling, there's no life at stake here. bowling is supposed to be fun, if you're so serious about bowling and if things like that happen in tournaments THEN i understand but during a league? sure you pay to bowl and you pay to have fun. if this issue happens to soo many bowlers in league why isn't a rule, the fact is most people don't care or it doesn't bother them. i know people that have gotten more mad at me for running down the lane to get a pin out of the gutter 5 lanes away than for cell phones. here's what i think and agree or disagree cell phones in league who cares, its their choice, cell phones in pro bowling BAD!! or tournaments
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Age: 17
Average: 198
High Score: 299 ringing 10
High Series: 723 (223, 299, 201<-shaking to death)
Current arsenal:
The One: heavy oil
Animal Untamed: medium-heavy oil
Equation: medium oil
Intense Inferno(polished): dry lanes

Gunny · « **Reply #38 on:** January 30, 2007, 01:01:37 PM »

its not the cell phone fault...like i said its the common sense! people always want to blame something other than the person that did it. it was the kids fault not the cell phone. he was to dumb & stupid and no common sense to realize that talking on a phone and driving is too much to handle. hell my wife was rear ended last year and the person driving was an old guy who said he has problem with judging distance. whats that mean? well it doesnt mean all old people cant drive, it just means that him knowing he couldnt judge distance and him still doing it proves he has no common sense.

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