I went to a small local tournament last night to be an official. The tournament is for D players and down. There were guys and in the tournament. A young man played his heart out to get to the finals out of the losers bracket. He had to play an older guy in the finals. The young man( his name is Eric) played great and won the first set. That's when the trouble started.
This 30+ year old guy he was playing starts talking mean and nasty to a 14 year old kid. We come over and tell him to stop and he seems like he is calming down. Anyway after a close set and Eric having to listen to this douche bag berate him he won the second set. His first tournament win and I have never seen a kid so happy.
But then this happened:
This douche comes over and grabs the boys cue and snaps it in half right in front of him. Told him he was lucky and couldn't be him if we hadn't of made him stop talking. The look on his face was like you had just killed his dog. Here this boys plays his ass off only to have this happen. I feel awful. The boy doesn't have the money to buy another cue and is really upset. With Christmas time here money is tight around my house as well. So I was seeing if anyone here had a really cheap cue laying around for this kid to play with.
I was going to put this in the wanted for sale section but with all the people wanting 50 dollar cues I was afraid of the backlash. Any help would be appreciated. However I know money is right and if no help is available then maybe just some words of encouragement would help him.
This 30+ year old guy he was playing starts talking mean and nasty to a 14 year old kid. We come over and tell him to stop and he seems like he is calming down. Anyway after a close set and Eric having to listen to this douche bag berate him he won the second set. His first tournament win and I have never seen a kid so happy.
But then this happened:
This douche comes over and grabs the boys cue and snaps it in half right in front of him. Told him he was lucky and couldn't be him if we hadn't of made him stop talking. The look on his face was like you had just killed his dog. Here this boys plays his ass off only to have this happen. I feel awful. The boy doesn't have the money to buy another cue and is really upset. With Christmas time here money is tight around my house as well. So I was seeing if anyone here had a really cheap cue laying around for this kid to play with.
I was going to put this in the wanted for sale section but with all the people wanting 50 dollar cues I was afraid of the backlash. Any help would be appreciated. However I know money is right and if no help is available then maybe just some words of encouragement would help him.