When I play on Gold Crowns, I usually wear an apron since otherwise the aluminum strip on the rail gives me a wide soil mark on my lead leg pants' thigh area, like Christopher Walken's character had in Pool Hall Junkies.
This is more an old school practice dating to when people wore slacks to play, and most people don't get it. My league opponents kid me if I don't have it on (hey, where's your apron???!!?), and then ask me to take their drink orders when I wear it. At CueMasters at the US Open just passed my waitress asked what I was doing wearing the apron.
It's lonely but someone's got to do it, and my laundry thanks me if no one else.
Last night at my usual Tuesday night game, I looked around and there were four other players wearing aprons, a first. Three basic black (always appropriate!), one khaki/green, and one blue. I kidded the guy in blue about how ridiculous it was to wear an apron, and he was about to be upset until he looked and saw I had one on and the three other guys as well and he cracked up laughing.
Theory: it's making a comeback, or we're all just old guys. (The last is definitely true, as all were my age or older.)
Any apron sightings in your area? Want to come out of the shadows and admit you do it also?
This is more an old school practice dating to when people wore slacks to play, and most people don't get it. My league opponents kid me if I don't have it on (hey, where's your apron???!!?), and then ask me to take their drink orders when I wear it. At CueMasters at the US Open just passed my waitress asked what I was doing wearing the apron.
It's lonely but someone's got to do it, and my laundry thanks me if no one else.
Last night at my usual Tuesday night game, I looked around and there were four other players wearing aprons, a first. Three basic black (always appropriate!), one khaki/green, and one blue. I kidded the guy in blue about how ridiculous it was to wear an apron, and he was about to be upset until he looked and saw I had one on and the three other guys as well and he cracked up laughing.
Theory: it's making a comeback, or we're all just old guys. (The last is definitely true, as all were my age or older.)
Any apron sightings in your area? Want to come out of the shadows and admit you do it also?