This is a drunk post.
Well I have been playing bar pool long enough that I have experienced most all of the "bar rules" designed to give the non shooter another chance. If I really care, I just ask before shooting.
Some of the rules do have a historical basis. So I do not get upset when a rule new to me comes up. It might get them one game but that only serves to "set the hook".
I joined an inhouse Straight Eight league in Sacramento that was quite unusual. Every week each player anteed up $5. At the end of the season there was a winner take all single game, single elimination,
individual tournament on a 9' table.
(Oh throw me into that briar patch) The entire season was played on 8' bar tables. When the league started, I was told the eight ball must go clean. I said "Wow that is a really old and good

rule. You know another old and good rule is if your oponent scratches and all of your balls are in the kitchen you can spot the one closest to the head string." Sure enough I had played it just right and that was incorporated into the rules as well. I also pointed out the sillyness of trying to call short rails or how many times a ball might wobble the pocket. So kisses and caroms still needed to be called but not short rails or wobbles.
A team of three brothers that had invented this league and were sure they had a lock on the money. There was around $250 in the pot and I played one of the brothers in the final game but I did take it down!
Once upon a time in a Sacramento bar table tournament. The rules were bar rules with no penalty for a table scratch or foul. I was playing a fellow that had been described to me as the best bar table player in Sacramento. The game got to the point that we each had one ball left. I left him a makable but hard shot that would have been do or die. He just rolled the cue ball to the other end of the table leaving me no shot. I rolled the cue ball back to where it had been. Now we have the whole room's attention and someone ran to get the tournament director. So the tournament director interveens and says "You guys are not playing right! We will rerack the game and the first one of you that does not try to hit your ball loses." The balls were reracked and I broke in the eight. The next week the rules were changed to "ball in hand".