This place is conveniently located for my family to go bowling, but yesterday was a weird and rude night to go. Started off like any other bowling joint; music playing and pins dropping. Didn't look like a league night, so we asked for a lane. I'll admit, we don't bowl often so our scores are terrible lol
We begin our game, enjoying ourselves and trying not to get a gutter ball. Halfway through our game, my man who finished his 2rd strike. These two men, whom I guess they are regulars. One man with a head full of grey hair, who might be the owner(??) Grey haired man and bald guy just walks up, literally to our lane and bowled using OUR lane! They didn't say anything on what they were doing or why. The grey haired man pressed buttons, cleared the frame, and walked away. We thought they were done and caught something we didn't catch was going wrong or whatever with our lane. My man bowled another strike and again, this time a slim woman walked up and bowled into our lane with the man clearing her frame and walked away once more....Okayyyyy, it was feeling weird. My man gets to his 10th frame and bowled a 4th strike. Can you guess who AGAIN for the third time just walked up? JUST RUDE!! Now a bald guy bowled, had his frame cleared and walked off. Not saying nothing. Like wtf. We didn't say or asked anything cause the obvious is there, It was time for us to go. We weren't even drinking or doing anything to cause a scene, except maybe laughing like a family does!
There was also over 5 other lanes the "regulars" could have played on. Idk, we are from this town too, so idk why they gave us this type of treatment. I came home from Texas to visit my family for the holiday and this experience truly causes me to anger. RUDE! Folks, go to Stardust in Merrillville. More lanes, regulars will not play in your alley, and just more incline to treat new comers the same as regulars. All ages are welcomed at Stardust too. Ray's Lane, from all my life living in Lake Station, it's always folks in their 40s-50s. Not saying anything wrong with those ages, I'm just saying, there has to be a reason why I never see kids or young adults at Ray's Lanes...
Next time I'm in town, I'll recommend my family to bowl at Stardust. read more