Lane Courtesy

Lane courtesy, no, I am not talking about bowing or curtsying to the lane or to the people you bowl with. I am not talking about keeping your voice down either after all bowling is exciting. You can scream if someone does something good, as a matter of fact I encourage it. Let the people you play with know what you like, otherwise they won't know what to do next time. What I speak of when I say "Lane courtesy" is manners. That's right, manners. Nothing makes me madder than to step up to the line, find my mark, get focused in and all of the sudden I see some idiot out of the corner of my eye come flying past me flinging his ball all over the place, like he has no clue about what it means to wait your turn. If you get a person on either side of you its like having an unasked for manage a tois. Nobody gets what they expected and you all leave unsatisfied and pissed off. Sometimes you even wake up the next day and tell yourself "I'll never play with my balls again." Well, that's not what we want so here's the rule people. If someone next to you, on either side, steps up to bowl, wait until they finish before you step up to the line. It's just common courtesy, thus lane courtesy. In professional bowling there is a two lane courtesy. That means if I step up to the line, no one on either side of me for two lanes will step up to bowl. So it's like this, Don't pull on Superman's cape, don't spit into the wind, don't pull the mask off the ole lone ranger, and you don't bowl out of turn next to Bob. Till next time, Happy Bowling.