It was Saturday night. My wife’s friends planned to take her out for dinner and bowling to celebrate her birthday. It was decided Lucky Strikes at the Block of Orange was going to be our destination.
We arrived at 7pm as a party of 8. There was another party that had arrived 30 minutes before us. They gave us the option of taking a lane, but there was a 2 hour limit. We decided to wait and eat first as we had planned to play 2 or 3 games.
9:30pm they told us it was going to be another 20 minutes. 20 minutes later, still nothing. They said it was our fault for choosing to wait and eat before bowling. 10:30pm we spoke to the Manager and he said we could have a lane and eat there without a time limit. We ordered food and began to settle in, finally. I went to get bowling shoes. With cash in hand I gave them my shoe size and they gave me the the shoes. They asked which lane I was on. I said I wasn’t sure and tried to look, I said it might be 5 and 6. The guy said that’s ok don’t worry about it. I figured being a large party they let it slide and they didn’t ask me to pay either. Cool, or so I thought.
It turned out our lanes weren’t 5 & 6, but actually 7 & 8. Halfway through the game they froze the lane for having an additional player, me. We went to speak to the person at the desk, and they said for us to hold on while he gets the Manager. The Manager came and reinstated the lane that the regular employee’s had shutdown. Unfortuntaley the scoreboard no longer functioned properly and gave the wrong scores for the remainder of the game. We didn’t bother complaining.
In conclusion, after waiting 3 and a half hours they said it was our fault we had to wait and finally gave us a lane and allowed us to have dinner there without a time limit. Halfway through they shut our lane down. All on my wife’s birthday while spending close to $200. We didn’t bother playing more than 1 game.