If life is just a bowl of cherries, then bowling is a life of launching 12-pound cherry-flavored boulders. Experience life's sweetest pastime with today's Groupon: for $5, you get two games of bowling for one person (up to a $7.90 value) including shoe rental (a $3 value) at S&S Western Bowl, located on Glenway Avenue (up to a $10.90 total value). This Groupon is only valid for open play and is not valid toward cosmic bowling.

A bright red neon sign welcomes strikers into S&S Western Bowl's spacious interior, where an affable staff and classic look accentuate a welcoming, family-friendly alley experience. Sixty-eight lanes populate the premises, including 20 bumper lanes for kids and anyone who's curious about what an anamorphic game of Pong would look like on a standard TV screen. Once you've laced up your freshly sanitized sleek sneakers, you'll be ready to challenge a group of embroidered short-sleevers to up to two games.

Spend a good chunk of your day or night at S&S Western Bowl taunting your friends and taking out frustrations on a group of hapless pinheads. Unlike other competitive sports, such as dogsled racing and rap battles, bowling has zero barriers to entry and a shallow learning curve, so bring along buddies of any age or skill level and gift them with their own Groupons to S&S Western Bowl.

S&S Wester Bowl's rates fluctuate throughout the week.