Am I getting old, or is to too much to expect to be able to talk to people when I go bowling?
We went on Saturday. Brunswick Zone was pumping in music like their lives depended on it. We waited 10 minutes for a lane, despite there being many open lanes. I had called in advance and was told that lanes couldn't be reserved.
It was about 15 minutes after 1 pm when Brunswick inexplicably decided that it was time for Cosmic Bowling. Their website says Cosmic Bowling is at 10 pm. The music and the flashing lights were a recipe for a headache.
It was worse than the time we went to a restaurant to discover that it was Clown Night. (Which for some reason meant patrons could allow their children to run around unattended and screaming, like a hoard of short mental patients.) But I can't blame the children for the beating our eardrums took yesterday, because I couldn't hear them over the music.
Our lane broke down twice. The staff was fairly responsive and did put back the lost minutes, but it was proverbial cherry on the cake of our Brunswick Zone experience.
The beer was cold. The pizza was okay. The place was clean. The waitress was attentive. Call ahead to make sure it isn't Clown Night.