Better Check Your Pool Cues.........
I had to return two of my cues after I received them.
Despite trying my best, the cues missed sometimes.
So I verified the specs with both cue-makers & Voila!
They apologized because the cues were left handed.
And I was very clear I only wanted right handed cues.
Ergo, they switched out the cue butts & fixed the problem.
Once I had a authentic right handed cue, everything is OK.
Sure I still miss but I know it’s all me and not my pool cues.
Back in 1979 I worked at a Cue-Nique Billiards in Madison, WI. I also shot a lot of pool at a community center pool room a few blocks away. One day a young guy who had been coming into the community center for a couple months came with a brand new 3-point Viking cue he had just bought from Cue-Nique. He was really proud of it, showing it off and saying he thought his game had finally gotten to a point that justified a "real" cue.
However, when he started playing with it he was missing far more shots than he normally did. After a few games he said he just didn't understand why he was doing so badly. Rather than telling him it was probably because he was thinking more about the cue than his shots I asked to see the cue. When he handed it over I looked at it closely and said, "Did you tell them when you bought this that you were left handed?" He said he hadn't, so I told him that they must have assumed he was a right-handed player and sold him a cue with a right-handed balance bolt. I said that house cues, being meant for any player, didn't have that bolt, but better cues did. That was one of the main reasons for a person to buy their own cue.
I told him to go back to Cue-Nique and have them change out the bolt to a left-handed one and that should fix the problem. As soon as he left I called the counter guy at Cue-Nique and told him the story. All the regulars got a good laugh at the young guy's expense when he showed up to get the bolt changed, and then we at the community center all got a good laugh when he came back to tell me I was full of sh*t. He was a good natured kid who saw the humor in it, too, so all worked out well.
