If life is just a bowl of cherries, then bowling is a life of launching 12-pound cherry-flavored gum balls. Experience life's sweetest pastime with today's Groupon: for $10, you get six games of bowling and two shoe rentals at Oak Lanes in Westland (a $22 value).

The fun, friendly, family-owned Oak Lanes extends a clean environment for pin punishers of all ages and abilities. Bring a friend, significant other, or an out-of-work pitching machine to get in some ball-tossing practice on one of the alley's lanes, on which league-level pros and idle hobbyists trade tips on follow-throughs and limericks about Walter Ray Williams Jr. An expansive lounge and two service bars allow for detailed strategy meetings before and after play, with six TVs to keep eyes entertained while tootsies unwind and bowling balls resume their day jobs fashioning serving wear for soup. Open bowling is available every day. Call ahead for lane schedules.