Tongue-in-cheek health report
helps save local bowling alley
Klein, who posted a dramatic account of the potential demise of his “baby” due to COVID-19 on Facebook recently, was overwhelmed by the attention and support his creative announcement prompted.
Klein posted the tongue-in-cheek account of the dire effects of the virus on Dec. 6 and one of the regular bowlers at the Westland facility began a GoFundMe account to help save the establishment.
“She is barely conscious. She is dying slowly. She is watching her loyal staff and caretakers go find other sources of income because she can't provide for her family any longer,” he wrote. “Her customers are finding other places to bowl. The people she loves are being forced to bowl in another State just to do what they love doing with her at her house. But, she is not conscious. She is not available to them. She is dying. Something is killing her and she is being told that she needs to be sacrificed,” Klein posted.
“Her death will save lives. She sees the mailbox continue to fill up with bills. Bills that have never stopped coming. The bills are as unrelenting as a shark that smells blood in the water. The end is near. There isn't anything her Daddy can do to save her. He is helpless. It's killing him. So when you see her Daddy, and he doesn't have that same sparkle in his eyes or same love in his heart understand he is watching his baby die, right in front of his eyes,” he continued in his Facebook narrative.
His creative narrative also caught the attention of both local TV and out-of-state media.
The GoFundMe account had generated $8,000 to help the lanes continue to roll along through the pandemic by last week.
Klein said he was hoping for the ban on bowling to be lifted for the love of the sport. Vision Lanes is also still open at the Ford Road location for carry-out only from All-star Grille and Music Bar and for bowling with capacity limited to 100 people.
