Why and how are bowling alleys/lanes slippery?

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I just saw a person on TikTok that slipped when he stepped on the Bowling lane. I just wanna know why and how are they slipper?

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Some of you might appreciate this story, I used to work at a pretty nice bowling ally back in the very early 2000s. We had a very VERY old oil machine that could not be flashed with new oil paterns because it was all mechanical and had no computer bits to lay its pattern. Well one day boss starts making deals with a pro league ( think it was pba not sure ) and to get the deal he had to purchase new machines with modern oil patterns. He buys them, 270k later, the leage comes to finalize the deal and another part of their stipulation was the bar had to be removed. Boss wouldn’t do it even tho the bar got like 10 customers a day tops. the leauge backed out of the deal, boss couldn’t return the oilers and closed down less then 2 years later.

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