Find another pool hall. It's not your job to get into a fight with all those nut jobs. Tell owner or manager your concerns if you want. I hope those tables were not nice Gold Crowns. I hate to see good equipment abused.
Banging Cues...on purpose...what to do?
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I'll be talking to the owner. We are acquainted.
But I won't be leaving or withdrawing my business over it.
I was just talking to my future son in law about it. He stopped by and played a few racks with us last night. Turns out he talked to one of Sparky's crew. They are local league players.
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Brand new Gold Crowns. Brand new Lucasi house cues. (Really a few months old at this point, but that equipment should last decades, so principally it is brand new.)
I won't be finding another pool hall. Too far. I work a lot of hours. And what little free time I get is mostly donated to a charity. With what's left over I don't have time to be driving that far. So this is it. This is where I will play...until I get a table, which I have been putting off.
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I've been in that situation too. I put all of my cues up but one and kept it in my hand.
I told the kids abusing the equipment that they needed to respect other people's stuff and to quit playing it'll they couldn't do any better than that.
As for the man he's a lost cause, but I would've asked him to play and tried to show him a few things. It probably wouldn't have worked but I would've tried to lead by example anyway.
I told the kids abusing the equipment that they needed to respect other people's stuff and to quit playing it'll they couldn't do any better than that.
As for the man he's a lost cause, but I would've asked him to play and tried to show him a few things. It probably wouldn't have worked but I would've tried to lead by example anyway.
Nice idea. But I really did not want to talk to him. He had this air about him like he should be the one to show me something. I just really didn't want to talk to him.
As far as his technique, his mechanics, stance, stroke, are all off. Holds the cue in one of the strangest ways I have seen too. He's up an down too. Walks around, eyes the shot at different angles. Gets in position...then gets up and does it all again. I kept wondering what he missed the first time he looked it over...or what he was actually looking at.
But who am I to do anything about that? I don't really play anymore. I mean, I play, but I don't really play if you know what I mean. My own game is shot and I am not too concerned. I just enjoy getting to play some and I enjoy the cues.
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Good for you. Something similar happened to me a few weeks ago. A little kid, barely tall enough to see the balls on the table, kept coming over and pulling balls off my table. It made me laugh and was nice to him, but clearly their guardian wasn't paying attention. Poor kids...
Regarding Sparky; good luck with that. Adults are harder to deal with since most of us are a-holes.
Typical reaction??
Go ahead, then. Start a fight. That's what you'll get from crazy people. I've stood up to people like that before. I stopped because I got tired of having my life threatened. They're wacko. Wacko people will always take things the absolute worst way. If you're going to stand up to them, then you'd better be ready for violence.
No, management doesn't have to see, depending on where the table is, how crowded the room is and how loud the music is. That information wasn't provided in the original post.
You sure know how to make a grown man cry.This would be a good entry into my pool room geniuses thread.
LOL!
Dirty bikers....
When they first opened I was worried they were going to have a "No Colors" sign up. I won't cross that line even without my cut on.
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condoning bad behavior
In my 61 years of playing, I've heard many an owner say something like, "They spend a lot of money at the bar. They can do whatever they want."
Amazing.
In my 61 years of playing, I've heard many an owner say something like, "They spend a lot of money at the bar. They can do whatever they want."
I would let him destroy his cues if that's what he wants to do. It's a ****ing pool hall.
I just switched to a different gym with 9 months left on my membership because a rich old woman with a personal trainer told me I was irritating her by making too much noise while lifting. It's a ****ing gym. The library is down the street. Check out a book on exercise and sit quietly and read.
I just switched to a different gym with 9 months left on my membership because a rich old woman with a personal trainer told me I was irritating her by making too much noise while lifting. It's a ****ing gym. The library is down the street. Check out a book on exercise and sit quietly and read.
Screw his cues. I do hate to see people abuse a cue but they are his. I was more concerned about the table. The cloth for one thing when he tossed his bundle of cues on the table, and the rails for another when he banged them.
The abuse of the cloth alone is sacrilege. I play on those tables.
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I had an idiot (should have had league patches) pick up my playing cue while i was down to break. It was leaning on a chair and he was a table behind me with the chairs in between us. Took me about 30 seconds to find out what really happened. Thank god no nicks, but he had already chalked up my ferrule from boring out the chalk. Not even an apology, but a lesson on Where to leave my cue... Yes.. Apparently never lean your cue in your own chair in the nock on the armrest. Someone might mistake it for a house cue.
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Your description sounds like a coked up idiot-egomaniac. If the owner doesn't get it, I'd play somewhere else. Just a matter of time before the business fails if this behavior is allowed.
From my peephole perspective.
From my peephole perspective.
If I worked there? thrown them out
Leave
I've left a place once a particularly annoying couple took a table in my area
Stupid chick starts playing her own music from phone, which is annoying enough, but she was playing hick hop
Luke Bryan something like oh Ya girl and so on
I know that's about how half of his songs go but you get the picture
Old guy who runs the tournament is also annoyed and is making very noticeable dirty long looks in their direction
They just do get it
So I left and didn't go back for months
I don't like people who use Bluetooth headsets in public,
People making phone calls on car stereos where I'm forced to listen to their conversation
Kids who simply must use their phones without earplugs
Leave me alone, I can be just as obnoxious and play much more loud, more uncomfortable music than you
Music than I can guarantee no one in the joint will enjoy but myself
I've left a place once a particularly annoying couple took a table in my area
Stupid chick starts playing her own music from phone, which is annoying enough, but she was playing hick hop
Luke Bryan something like oh Ya girl and so on
I know that's about how half of his songs go but you get the picture
Old guy who runs the tournament is also annoyed and is making very noticeable dirty long looks in their direction
They just do get it
So I left and didn't go back for months
I don't like people who use Bluetooth headsets in public,
People making phone calls on car stereos where I'm forced to listen to their conversation
Kids who simply must use their phones without earplugs
Leave me alone, I can be just as obnoxious and play much more loud, more uncomfortable music than you
Music than I can guarantee no one in the joint will enjoy but myself
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Right, well then here's what you should do. The next time you are in a pool hall you should get physical with everybody who isn't behaving according to your pool hall code of ethics.
That's helpful.
My code of pool hall ethics?
Right. :thumbup:
It's likely perfectly acceptable to most of the rest of people to damage other people's property. I am a real outcast and revel on this matter as I pretty much don't like vandalism
Are you a vandal? Maybe that's it. Perhaps you can fill us in on the more mainstream ethics you folks espouse.
Personally, I am not very fussy about behavior in pool halls. Smoking? Fine. Drinking? Fine. Eating? Fine. Fighting? Take it outside.
I guess my not wishing to see the equipment I pay money to play on abused by other people is very novel to you. Please hold forth your dissertation on the ethical matter at hand. I really want you to.
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