So this bowling alley has $8 for 3 hours after 6 on Thursdays that my friends and I have been going to.  Tonight we got there around 6:20 and got our lane and started bowling as the normal.  5 frames in this 1 eyed bozo, wife, douche looking teenager, and 2 other middle aged no lifes show up and get the lane next to us.  My friends and i don't really take notice and just run up when it's our shot.

This guys wife is up at the same time as me and is just standing there focusing, I grab my ball not giving a shit, and as she does some retarded prance, I swoop in an cannonball my ball down the lane.  She gutter balls it and walks back saying "wow that startled me".

I'm sitting there when I hear someone say "Hey, Dan".  I turn around and Cyclops is giving me the stink eye with his face scruntched.

 "You rolled while my wife was up"

"So?" I asked. 

"That's not proper bowling etiquette". 

"Show me the rule book then"

"It is bowling etiquette you little smartass"

"That doesn't explain why I should care, I think you should just adapt"

"Do it when I roll, asshole!  I FUCKING DARE YOU, SEE WHAT HAPPENS!"

"Okay I will"

At that point he leaned in (we were on opposite sides of the chairs) and his wife said to calm down and his friend stepped between us.  They had 2 lanes and put him and his wife on the other lane farthest away.  His friend came over and introduced himself and repeated the same bs about bowling etiquette, but in a much calmer manner.  I at least respected that and only showed courtesy because the guy was being so nice.

1 Eye was about to start in again and my friend called him out saying he takes bowling too serious and that it's just a game.

Throughout the next 2 hours (he left early) I heard him whining saying things like "wah wah he started it" yada yada, needless to say, i got him butthurt.

Now my question, is bowling etiquette an enforcible rule?  Could I get kicked out for not following it?  Cause the people who have ever mentioned it are try hards with multiple hundred dollar balls, wrist guards, and wipe their balls off every other frame, etc.  If it's not I'll do it again just because he's a tight wad who ain't gonna do shit or he'll swing first.

inb4RomanBelic

My now-ex-girlfriend plays in a league and she never mentioned anything about there being a "bowling etiquette."

My now-ex-girlfriend plays in a league and she never mentioned anything about there being a "bowling etiquette."

Excellent.  I didn't have my phone this time so next time I'll make a fool outta him and  I'll record him threatening me and just get him kicked out.

Quote from: Jocephalopod on May 14, 2015, 11:06:19 PM

come on in, the water's fine

I need an adult

I am an adult

I once had someone's ball go flying over into my lane when it was my turn and it gutter balled

i dont know how you miss so hard that you miss your own lane

I'm not sure I'm getting this right. Someone was about to bowl on a lane and you just barged in there and threw your own ball instead?

I'm not sure I'm getting this right. Someone was about to bowl on a lane and you just barged in there and threw your own ball instead?

He was in the lane next to theirs and rolled his own ball when that woman was rolling hers. He surprised her and she guttered it, and her husband blamed him for it.

It's not your fault that someone has shitty focus. If they can't stand other people bowling next to them, they shouldn't go bowling at a place with several lanes.