I got a Brunswick Gold Crown IV last month, the Wife asks about the old one. Quick thinking like I am, I told her that the old one, like the other 3, was never quite right.
I went on to explain that I heard a rumor that a Wife is supposed to roll the first ball across the table to Christen the table, she says, like a ship? Yes honey, like a ship but we don’t want a bottle of bubbly to break on the table so that is why it’s done this way.
The set up in now in place. I proceed to remove the first year Gold Crown that I have enjoyed and begin to set the new one up, she’s all excited for that first roll, she knows she can roll a ball just right, once she does I can never get another table, this is it for the next 30+ years.
This table has a built in 22 point leveling system plus the four leg levelers. Within no time, the ball rolls across the bare slates with perfection, good thing she’s not there to see that. I proceed to put the felt and rails on and clean up. At dinner, she is all excited, she knows for sure she will win this one.
Upon viewing the table, she says it looks pretty, she wants a ball and she wants it now, biggest smile on her face.
I hand her a ball, she rolls it and boy did it roll funny, when it slowed down it literally rolled into a circle.
Yes, I won this battle, the tears almost rolled out of her eyes, she said I got a junk table.
I am sure many know the rest of the story.
Thanks for reading, good day.
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I went on to explain that I heard a rumor that a Wife is supposed to roll the first ball across the table to Christen the table, she says, like a ship? Yes honey, like a ship but we don’t want a bottle of bubbly to break on the table so that is why it’s done this way.
The set up in now in place. I proceed to remove the first year Gold Crown that I have enjoyed and begin to set the new one up, she’s all excited for that first roll, she knows she can roll a ball just right, once she does I can never get another table, this is it for the next 30+ years.
This table has a built in 22 point leveling system plus the four leg levelers. Within no time, the ball rolls across the bare slates with perfection, good thing she’s not there to see that. I proceed to put the felt and rails on and clean up. At dinner, she is all excited, she knows for sure she will win this one.
Upon viewing the table, she says it looks pretty, she wants a ball and she wants it now, biggest smile on her face.
I hand her a ball, she rolls it and boy did it roll funny, when it slowed down it literally rolled into a circle.
Yes, I won this battle, the tears almost rolled out of her eyes, she said I got a junk table.
I am sure many know the rest of the story.
Thanks for reading, good day.
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