The Bowling Alley

I don't bowl at a bowling alley, i work at a bowling alley. While the job may appear to be the easiest job in the world... and sometimes it is... there is really alot that goes on.

A normal day start around 10 or 11 as i pick up the trash in the parking lot that the drunk people the night before left lying around (half the attraction of the bowling alley is the bar). Then (on Saturdays like today) the Jr League starts. The Jr. League is a bowling league for children, and it ususally consists of 2-4 kids. I believe it is justifiably the lamest league that has ever existed. Today, the 6th week of the league, my boss called me and told me i had a letter from the USBA (United States Bowling Association). This letter was actually addressed to the Junior League Director, who turned out to be me. So what does being the Junior League Director mean? Basically if something random goes wrong, i get blamed... and nothing else really.

After our two junior bowlers left around 12, we were pretty slow until about 3pm. I wisely used that time to watch college football. Each lane has a nice flat screen, and i am able to watch all the games televised (on BrightHouse anywho) at once. However BrightHouse does not get the BigTen Network, which was airing the Michigan vs. Michigan State game. It is usually a good game, and this year didn't disappoint. But sadly MSU escaped a good Michigan comeback to win in OT 26-20. Props to MSU... even though they were favored to the win the game.

At 3pm, the birthday party arrived, and this is where the difference between simply working at the bowling alley and running the bowling alley shows. Dealing with a party is challenging enough... but balencing it with problems in the kitchen and machinery malfunctioning can be stressful and tiresome to say the least. Today we were short a cook (our only cook), and somehow lane 5's speaker was linked with lane 13's speaker, so both lanes could hear everything the other lane bowlers were saying... which was a wierd problem. But things settled down once the cook arrived and I solved the mysterious speaker problem.

It was a long day, but eventually 5:30 came and i was relieved of my duties after wrapping up the bar shift.

To recap: MSU beat Mich, i had to deal with underage drinkers, and the birthday party went well. Just another day at the bowling alley.

Now I know what you (the reader) are thinking: "That was a pretty boring story." How do I know that? It was my mom's repsonse every day this summer when she would ask what the most interesting part of my day was, and i would tell her something along the lines of the above.

I'm sorry... but it's the only story i have to tell today.

Maybe we'll both get lucky and tomorrow will be funny and exciting.