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We are three bowling alley employees, we will answer anything from work today!
We are 2 guys and a grill,
with a lot of time to kill
working as part time employees...
it's usually pretty chill.
So ask us anything you please.
And answer you we will.
THATS A POEM!
EDIT: The day shift is over so we're going home. BUT!! The super cool nightshift guys are clocked in. And the grill is staying for another 2 hours. They have promised to keep answering questions. So Ask them anything.
EDIT: 2 It seems like the guys on night shift got a lot of customers or something. But since this blew up so much I will answer a little from home instead.
YoMama-Incorporated397 karma
Im having split opinions about all of these pins.... I mean puns..
YoMama-Incorporated1003 karma
I encourage it! I jugde those who needs bumpers and won't admit it!
YoMama-Incorporated588 karma
About two times a month, depending on how much i've bowled. Wipes it before every throw.
Volfie409 karma
Have you ever stood outside your bowling alley with a shotgun to drum up business?
YoMama-Incorporated608 karma
No............. Our boss likes to hire grills for their looks though.
BetterWhenImDrunk296 karma
Have the pins ever been used as sex toys?
Edit: thought it said 2 guys and a girl not grill, but question still stands.
YoMama-Incorporated379 karma
Not that I know of, but Im sure its out there somewhere. We have caught people giving head in the locker room.
YoMama-Incorporated835 karma
Of course. The house-league bowlers change and store their equipment there.
Related story: A couple of years ago one of our male bowlers decided to get a sex-change during summer. He told no one.
Once the season restarted in the fall he waltzed right in to the ladies wardrobe started undressing and acting like nothing was out of the ordinary. Now this guy still looked like a man, only difference was he had tits now.
Everbody freaked out and bolted half naked out in the alley.
YoMama-Incorporated628 karma
We tried once. It was a two man operation. I was going to distract while guy 2 stole one. He had a big hoodie on, so that he could hide it from our manager. 10 yards from the door (and freedom!) he got caught. When asked if he had something under the sweater, he said he was pregnant, it did not work :(
YoMama-Incorporated459 karma
Double bacon cheese burger with chicken nuggets on top... aaaaw yeeah.
YoMama-Incorporated377 karma
We are all 22. Working in a bowling alley can be cool and it can be shit, depending on the amount of people that go there and how things are done. Our bowling alley is super chill but structured.. It's nice to work in a place where people come to have a good time.
We also get to bowl, play air-hockey and reddit a lot so.-.. Yes I reccomend it.
YoMama-Incorporated437 karma
Strike, strike all the time baby...
On a more serious note, there's no kill switch, so you will like be badly injured when the sweep tries to sweep you away and the table tries to pick you up and put you back down.
Whats worse, you would get oil on your clothes...
owloclock110 karma
Haha
Is there a secret area behind the pins like that episode of malcolm in the middle ( im hoping that show was popular in Norway!)
YoMama-Incorporated215 karma
Yes, love that episode!! Hal was so close to 300. We have a secret area behind the pins, but it mostly used to store spare parts and not a hook up zone for customers.
owloclock74 karma
It could have been the perfect game :(
Whats yours and the grills top score
YoMama-Incorporated200 karma
Me: 238 The grills: 245
Edit: Other guy has 235 he wrote this and left himself out in shame.
YoMama-Incorporated374 karma
The Glorious Land Of Fjords and Trolls Norway. Bowling isn't really a big sport here though.
CaptainEnigma140 karma
Have you ever tried to balance bowling balls on top of each other? If so what's your record?
I used to work at a bowling alley and we used to balance a ball on a flat surface on the thumb hole, so it was nice and stable, then see how many more we could balance on top in the same way. Best to do it with 8lb balls or lighter... Squashed my hand quite badly once.
YoMama-Incorporated212 karma
Record is 5, but this is something new to us... We will improve! What is your record? We also like to build towers of them in the lanes and bowl around them.
YoMama-Incorporated439 karma
Well... weird and funny things are just happening constantly here.. so it's hard to pick one out.
But shitfaced batman was here yesterday.
And 15 minutes ago my coworker was challenged to a bowling duel by a kid with downs syndrome. We always accept challenges. Unfortunately when the kid lost he started crying... So my coworker gave him a free slurpee.
Edit: As I was writing this some 3 year old kid started imitating all my movements... Figured I should include that.
HydrateLevel4108 karma
What percentage of challenges do you guys (grill included) usually win?
How badass are you at bowling?
YoMama-Incorporated194 karma
Grill does not bowl as often as us. But she's pretty decent. Us guys are unbeatable to anyone but the active veteran bowlers.
lrhoades1104 karma
How often do you get people that need very different sized shoes (say, size 4 and 7)? I have a club foot and avoid bowling because I don't want to be a pain/feel awkward.
YoMama-Incorporated162 karma
I would not really know, as people just go and find their own shoes for free here.
YoMama-Incorporated213 karma
We don't care if somebody else is playing really. We just play when we feel like it and keep an eye out for customers who need help.
Snake_in_a_tree84 karma
I work in a bowling alley! It sounds less interesting than yours though... and less cool to work at... but I work with some pretty girls! No grill though. Man my bowling alley sucks.
YoMama-Incorporated235 karma
Aproximately once a month. But it's usually the same guy though. He always wins everything....
StevO_3275 karma
How many drunks were there having a rowdy time tonyte? And as well, have y'all seen any fights break out over losing?
Badass poem by the way, thumbs up man :)
YoMama-Incorporated159 karma
We are unable get a liquor license for some reason. So there is little fighting. Some of the mentally challenged people can rage out pretty hard some times though.
Thank you for your praise ... It means a lot.
HylianSamurai70 karma
Do you ever get bored of bowling? What's your favorite activity outside of bowling?
YoMama-Incorporated107 karma
Some of the employees are bored of it. But we manage to keep it interesting somehow. But of course there are periods when there is never anything to do when we get a little tired of it.
Mine is playing keyboard. Grills is handball and the other guy is a soccer enthusiast.
adedward66 karma
I love bowling, but I'm not particularly good. Were you good at it before you started working there, or did your skills come as a byproduct of being there a lot?
YoMama-Incorporated82 karma
The latter. Getting consistently high scores takes a lot of practice,
HockeyCannon51 karma
Have you made a bong out of those water bottles on the right? They look like they could make a makeshift ghetto zong bong!
She_Likes_Cloth49 karma
Have you ever banned someone from the bowling Alley? What did they do?
YoMama-Incorporated68 karma
There are a few people with agression issues who have flipped out over little things and have been told not to come back. But for most things we are pretty forgiving.
YoMama-Incorporated124 karma
Local celebrities sometimes. International celebs would only be the Ylvisåker brothers from The Fox by Ylvis
Chiver31628 karma
how gross are the holes in the bowling balls... are they ever "cleaned"?
YoMama-Incorporated46 karma
hmmm. never thought about that... guess they are kinda gross...
meech760728 karma
I rather dislike bowling. It's one of those things that I end up doing much more than I would like to as it's something relatively cheap and something easy for a group of people to do together..
Do you, the other guy, and the grill every hang out, outside of work? What kind of activities do you partake in?
YoMama-Incorporated44 karma
Yes we do. Drinking, gaming, movies all the normal stuff i guess.
YoMama-Incorporated28 karma
Good eye! Its "machine errors". Malfunction log for the technician when he comes around.
jspike9110 karma
Have you ever caught customers doing sexual things in the alley anywhere before?
YoMama-Incorporated18 karma
Yes, I wrote about this earlier. What I did not say was that one girl who we caught giving head in the wardrobe, will turn around in the door if the people who caught her are on the job...
YoMama-Incorporated16 karma
We have two special made mops, and we just hold one in each hand as we walk up and down the lanes.
lightninhopkins2 karma
Wait, is this real bowling or bowling with wimpy baby sized balls(aka Canadian bowling).
YoMama-Incorporated15 karma
Bowling sure does cost a lot.
Some people bowl for all they've got.
But with a pal working at the alley.
You can bowl for free and buy a galley.
Sailing across the ocean blue
And dream of free strikes for me and you,.
noargumenthere4 karma
How do you find the time to come up with clever rhymes?
I removed my comment when I read you're in Norway. (I'm not.)
Why do you suppose bowling isn't popular there? What is popular for young and old to do on a date or just a night out with friends or family?
One thing I think makes bowling popular is being able to drink beer while you work off some calories. It's too bad your alley doesn't have a liquor license. I don't supposed people can bring their own bottle or six pack? Now, that would cut down on the cost.
Do you have candlestick bowling there? That's popular in New England (USA). The balls are smaller, no holes, and its harder to knock the pins down. I don't like candlestick. I've only played it a couple of times.
Is curling popular? Just kidding.
YoMama-Incorporated3 karma
Bowlings popularity in Norway depends on the weather. During the summer the alley is empty.
Alchohol is not allowed in this alley at all...unfortunatly. It's more fun to bowl tipsy than sober.
We have just regular bowling, candlestick bowling sounds awesome, variations are fun!
Curling is popular and fun!
rogerammjet1073 karma
Are you disappointed with the salary? Have you considered a strike?
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