OK. So...Last night Sparky (probably not his real name) comes in and takes the table next to the one I am playing on with my buddy. He opens his cue case (with league stickers on it) and commences to DUMPING his butts and shafts out onto the table, clanging and rattling together. Banging together fairly violently. Two sneaky petes. He actually turned the case upside down and shook it to get his cues out.
He then makes a very dramatic event out of putting on a pool glove. Now I think I understand something. The glove helps prevent splinters. If you are bored at this point or find yourself more interested in the glove, please click here: LINK
He then began circling the table while banging his poor cue on the rails as if it were a war club. At first I thought it was some kind of violent ritual. With great effort I determined that he was actually practicing pool.
He is joined by a woman and young man. Possibly his wife and son. The three begin to play. Seemed normal enough except Sparky kept banging his cues on any hard surface within sight. Is this some kind of dominance thing? The woman and young man seemed relatively normal. They did not seem similarly violent.
This is where it got interesting.
There were three women and two young boys at the table on the other side of our table. The three women were actively engaged in child neglect while the two boys commenced sword fighting with house cues.
I now have Sparky on one side of me ritualistically destroying his own cue while abusing the pool table, and two young children on the other side of me violently banging their cues together in what is becoming more and more a sincere sword fight and less play acting with every passing moment.
Oh, and this is a recently opened pool hall. Brand new equipment. And I have three of my better cues with me. I was concerned that at any moment my cues might become "collateral damage".
What would you do?
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He then makes a very dramatic event out of putting on a pool glove. Now I think I understand something. The glove helps prevent splinters. If you are bored at this point or find yourself more interested in the glove, please click here: LINK
He then began circling the table while banging his poor cue on the rails as if it were a war club. At first I thought it was some kind of violent ritual. With great effort I determined that he was actually practicing pool.
He is joined by a woman and young man. Possibly his wife and son. The three begin to play. Seemed normal enough except Sparky kept banging his cues on any hard surface within sight. Is this some kind of dominance thing? The woman and young man seemed relatively normal. They did not seem similarly violent.
This is where it got interesting.
There were three women and two young boys at the table on the other side of our table. The three women were actively engaged in child neglect while the two boys commenced sword fighting with house cues.
I now have Sparky on one side of me ritualistically destroying his own cue while abusing the pool table, and two young children on the other side of me violently banging their cues together in what is becoming more and more a sincere sword fight and less play acting with every passing moment.
Oh, and this is a recently opened pool hall. Brand new equipment. And I have three of my better cues with me. I was concerned that at any moment my cues might become "collateral damage".
What would you do?
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I can only think the OP is exaggerating. I don't know of any houseman/owner would stand for that kind of behavior. I know of some housemen that would have shot the guy where he stood if he treated the equipment like that. This is a put on. right?
