I can’t believe this minor infraction is causing this heated debate.
All pool players beware, the etiquette police are watching
All pool players beware, the etiquette police are watching
Disappointing gesture from Shane
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I am just curious, if the room owner came and wiped his house tips on your guy's cases, nobody would mind right?
Well I personally think it’s been an awesome thread. A little contention without much mud slinging, finding out about people’s ways and all. Most who disagree with the wiping method have said it’s not a big deal just a little off. I don’t like it but it’s whatever. I also put my hand back under the Auto paper towel dispensers in the gym and public bathrooms before I walk away, just to leave another towel in easy reach for the next person. Never seen anyone else do it, even though I know the smug bastids ( 
)have seen me do it and quite possibly benefited themselves from it but again it’s just a thing.
Maybe I’m not as subtle as I once thought...
)have seen me do it and quite possibly benefited themselves from it but again it’s just a thing.Maybe I’m not as subtle as I once thought...
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Or they want a towel that is fresh from inside and not already out with who knows what on it. For all they know you wiped your tip with it and left it hanging there.Well I personally think it’s been an awesome thread. A little contention without much mud slinging, finding out about people’s ways and all. Most who disagree with the wiping method have said it’s not a big deal just a little off. I don’t like it but it’s whatever. I also put my hand back under the Auto paper towel dispensers in the gym and public bathrooms before I walk away, just to leave another towel in easy reach for the next person. Never seen anyone else do it, even though I know the smug bastids (
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Yep, Its disrespectful to another's property and to the room owner. It wouldn't be tolerated in our local rooms. Saying it can easily be cleaned up with a vacuum tells me your mom always cleaned up after you too...lol Just because many young pros are doing it doesn't justify it...lol It only shows me they are just mimicking the bad habits of others.
It should tell you that I have ran a vacuum cleaner in a pool hall more than once. But judgemental assumption and/or lack of creativity on your part tried to use it as an insult.
Swing and a miss.
Quoting something I said after the post you put it in? No, that's not exactly subtle. I guess I thought my tip swipe reference was enough to indicate it was just an attempt at humor.
I've seen more heated debates in Sunday School, nobody's heated over this. Start a thread about how sloppy pool players dress if you want to see heat..
Lol, so was my after-quote. As if admitting my actual reasoning for leaving the paper towel hanging was to trick someone into taking an already dirtied disposable hand drying device.
Explaining humor never works out well though, the internet sucks for some things.
Really I don't recall that ever being the case , I don't know you or maybe I do where do you play , what do you play , you got a table ? did you know my friend Richard Keef ?
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Not directed at anyone in particular... It was mentioned several times. Sorry if it hit a nerve with you. My point was its not ok to make a mess and justify it by saying someone will clean it up anyway so its ok. My mom didn't raise me that way.
Well I'm assuming that now you and the other molly manner police knowing that your unintentional leaving chalk dust on the floor you will now chalk over a trash can , other wise from this point forward your no different than they are
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I used to feel it was disrespectful for my working customers who come in here regularly for lunch to bring in their dirt/mud to track on our carpet, even though we keep commercial boot brushes and a high pressure hose for them outside at the entrance to clean off their boots/shoes. Over the years I've just come to accept it's part of the business and that I can't afford to risk speaking to them about it and possibly losing a customer that might take it the wrong way. Bottom line - if it weren't for these customers coming in here regularly to eat, I couldn't afford to keep our poolroom / grill open.
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It's a "Monkey See, Monkey Do" type scenario...
One of my friends carries a small rag, to wipe his cues after play, so that his case doesn't get dirty.
My case is about 8 years old, I never wipe my Cues & my case has never caused me to miss a shot.
One of my friends carries a small rag, to wipe his cues after play, so that his case doesn't get dirty.
My case is about 8 years old, I never wipe my Cues & my case has never caused me to miss a shot.
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Another irrational response....
Yes, I will...I will also remove my shoes upon entering the room and clean the urinal after I pee. :banghead::shrug::thud:
Well I haven’t been chasing you around the forum calling you out, just quoting you and saying let’s play whenever I think about it.
I play at bankshots, revolution/fast eddies in Springfield, triple 9. Mostly I bounce around those 3. I’ve got a big 8’ but the slate seams came loose so now there’s a rubble field under the cloth in a line across both ends lol. Old pos.
I played a few months in the APA league at the legion on 260, Monday nights. I’m like 30, shaved head, Jeff, not sure if you’re one of the people I met there or not. I play all games but I’ve been trying to focus on 1 pocket lately.
Exactly, its like complaining about sunflower seeds on the ground at a baseball game. You're probably not a ball player.
What the... ?
Your tip probably is wayyy dirtier after you drag it over the carpet.
But well, I'm just a lowly pool peasant from behaviour nazi Germany where we value other people's property
And just like that, Nazi's get mentioned at the etiquette party.