You can request anything you want, it was up to the league and the house to approve and grant the request. Tell the president to take it up with whoever approved the request and not you.

Why would the house ONLY oil the league lanes?  Why not an extra pair or two, in the event teams need to be moved?  Kind of short-sighted in my opinion.

After all, the machine is out, the mechanic is out, the cost of oiling an extra pair is nearly nothing.  However, if the machine is put away and the mechanic has to be pulled off another job, such as repairing pinsetters, then labor costs are increased a little.

Our house always has a breakdown pair which is freshly oiled.  Moving to a fresh shot isn't always necessarily a good thing either as most of the time you have to get re-lined up on the new pair.  People just want something to complain about is what it amounts to. 

Well and that's one of those situations too where if anybody else in the league would have been forced to bowl on a destroyed shot, they'd have been screaming too. 

Would have told him to f*ck off that you have every right to request the new pair be oiled with the same pattern as the rest of the league. House should always have a breakdown pair ready to go and oiled with the rest of the league pairs. Someone with a little power and a little d*ck had to get involved it sounds like.

Why would the house ONLY oil the league lanes?  Why not an extra pair or two, in the event teams need to be moved?  Kind of short-sighted in my opinion.

After all, the machine is out, the mechanic is out, the cost of oiling an extra pair is nearly nothing.  However, if the machine is put away and the mechanic has to be pulled off another job, such as repairing pinsetters, then labor costs are increased a little.

You say this as if 95% of the minimum wage hacks who work at a bowling alley give a shit enough to use their head. 

Thanks for all of your replies. I really did not feel I was out of line making that request.

League president could of solved this complaint without getting you involved by just telling the complainant lane had to be oiled to be certified.

The lanes didn't have to be oiled to be certified, being a certified house they already are certified for league play.

While the the L.Pres. could have just told the complainant that to placate them, it could cause problems later on.

Because if teams have to move or had had to move in the past and the lanes aren't oiled or had not been oiled in the past.

People could complain that those games don't count because they were on uncertified lanes, because the L.Pres. said the lanes had to be oiled to be certified.

In the OP's situation nothing was particularly done wrong.

The OP's team and their opponent made a request and it was granted. If the L.Pres. had a problem with it, he should take it up with whoever granted the request.

As for the person that complained, while they might not like it. It has no bearing on the conditions that they (the complainer) are playing.

Because as long as the two teams (playing head to head) are bowling on the same pair, it doesn't matter if they are used or not or what the conditions on the other lanes are it's considered fair competition.

Look at this way, if the lanes hadn't been oiled and they proceeded to shoot 300's or 800's someone would probably complain about how they should have been oiled like the league lanes were..