CaptainJR - Where are you?
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I quit league pool this year. There were several reasons. The main one was putting up with BS. Certain bars have a reputation for this kind of S. Smart mouthed young punks that seem to love causing trouble. When I was younger I handled this kind of situation a little differently. It seems to bother me even more now, but I now have to let some younger person in the place take care of it.
This sound familiar to anyone? Your sitting there having a drink and across the other side of the bar by the pool table some young immature kid starts mouthing off. What ever the little thing was that got him started doesn't matter because he is going to find a reason before the evening is over regardless. You try to ignore it then you realize that your eventually going to have to go through that area to get to the bathroom. 20 minutes later things quieted down a little then he starts in on someone else. Just smart mouthing, cussing loudly, insulting and trying to start a fight.
I think there are a few others in this forum like me that just have to leave the bar because if you stay much longer your going to end up in the hospital or jail. Probably jail because I'm to old to be sparing around, I'm going to hurt him right away. You just get to the point where you've got to leave or shut him up. So at my age I leave.
There is a situation where leaving isn't an option. Say there is a girl that has maybe drank a little to much (or not) and making a little bit of a fool of herself across the other side of the bar. Not hurting anyone but herself, but being a little bit of a pest. Now this smart mouthed young punk starts in on her. First he just insults her then just for kicks he gives her a little slap across the face. What do you do then? I think I know what most of you would do then. The same as me!
bar = public place
forum = public place
This sound familiar to anyone? Your sitting there having a drink and across the other side of the bar by the pool table some young immature kid starts mouthing off. What ever the little thing was that got him started doesn't matter because he is going to find a reason before the evening is over regardless. You try to ignore it then you realize that your eventually going to have to go through that area to get to the bathroom. 20 minutes later things quieted down a little then he starts in on someone else. Just smart mouthing, cussing loudly, insulting and trying to start a fight.
I think there are a few others in this forum like me that just have to leave the bar because if you stay much longer your going to end up in the hospital or jail. Probably jail because I'm to old to be sparing around, I'm going to hurt him right away. You just get to the point where you've got to leave or shut him up. So at my age I leave.
There is a situation where leaving isn't an option. Say there is a girl that has maybe drank a little to much (or not) and making a little bit of a fool of herself across the other side of the bar. Not hurting anyone but herself, but being a little bit of a pest. Now this smart mouthed young punk starts in on her. First he just insults her then just for kicks he gives her a little slap across the face. What do you do then? I think I know what most of you would do then. The same as me!
bar = public place
forum = public place
Aye, aye captain...I know what you mean oh too well...
I quit drinking about a year ago...not touched a drop since. My ex-best friend invites me to a party Saturday night. He said there would be family there and kids and such...just a small gathering...costumes encouraged but not required. He never mentions a word about drinking...but I sort of had a hint.
My wife and I show up a little late with our kids, and turns out it was just a couple of his beer club people with a couple of kids and everyone was sloshed by this time.
He knows I don't drink now and I am not comfortable in this environment. We slipped out the door without saying goodbye or anything...I didn't want to cause a scene.
What's scary is my daughter was more uncomfortable than anyone, and she is 16. She was very concerned over the parents driving home drunk...I explained that this common occurance among those people...really no talking to them about driving drunk or killing someone until after the fact or a DUI.
Needless to say, I don't miss drinking...AT ALL. I enjoy my family and my pool time way too much to let drinking interfere. Abstinence has been my best cure.
And I recently quit playing league as well...but I had a team that had a pool problem more than a drinking problem. Just too far to drive and get home at 1 am to be up for work at 5 am.
Probably a good move abandoning the league Capt'n,
Shorty
I quit drinking about a year ago...not touched a drop since. My ex-best friend invites me to a party Saturday night. He said there would be family there and kids and such...just a small gathering...costumes encouraged but not required. He never mentions a word about drinking...but I sort of had a hint.
My wife and I show up a little late with our kids, and turns out it was just a couple of his beer club people with a couple of kids and everyone was sloshed by this time.
He knows I don't drink now and I am not comfortable in this environment. We slipped out the door without saying goodbye or anything...I didn't want to cause a scene.
What's scary is my daughter was more uncomfortable than anyone, and she is 16. She was very concerned over the parents driving home drunk...I explained that this common occurance among those people...really no talking to them about driving drunk or killing someone until after the fact or a DUI.
Needless to say, I don't miss drinking...AT ALL. I enjoy my family and my pool time way too much to let drinking interfere. Abstinence has been my best cure.
And I recently quit playing league as well...but I had a team that had a pool problem more than a drinking problem. Just too far to drive and get home at 1 am to be up for work at 5 am.
Probably a good move abandoning the league Capt'n,
Shorty
wisdom
"God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference...."
I try to let this prayer guide me in my life; for me, being in a bar whether it's pool or some other activity is like being in a danger zone...sooner or later you might get hit with something just because you're in the wrong place at the wrong time....someone once mentioned to me about the company we keep and the places we frequent are like the orbits we revolve in....my orbits do not include bars or bad neighborhoods that have drive-by shootings, or war zones or shady pool halls that I used to go to when I was younger...
"God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference...."
I try to let this prayer guide me in my life; for me, being in a bar whether it's pool or some other activity is like being in a danger zone...sooner or later you might get hit with something just because you're in the wrong place at the wrong time....someone once mentioned to me about the company we keep and the places we frequent are like the orbits we revolve in....my orbits do not include bars or bad neighborhoods that have drive-by shootings, or war zones or shady pool halls that I used to go to when I was younger...
wahcheck said:
Or as my father used to put it: "You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas."
CaptainJR said:
It's a lesson on pack behavior. Kind of disappointing how many people will side with the young punk when they smell blood in the water.
You know, psychologists have done studies where they've had a person lying injured on a busy sidewalk. They found that his fate is determined by the first three people who walk by. If one of them stops, he'll soon have a crowd of people helping him, if none of the first three do, then people will walk by and ignore him all day long, leaving him essentially to die.
You see the same phenomena in bars and other public venues.
Cheers,
Regas
as some on here know we had a shooting down here in the grand old town of Loogootee, Indiana last winter. a guy shot his ex-wife, her new boyfriend, THEIR two little kids (5 & 3 i believe), and then when the police tracked him down he shot himself. it was all over the papers, and on CNN.
rumor has it he was in the local bar playing pool the previous night. people ask me why i dont play in the local ring games to get some competition, but this ring game is at the tavern where all of this happened. i try and stay away from places like this. for much of the same reason that Capt JR mentioned in his initial post.
i'd rather be at my place, in the privacy of my own room, practicing on my Gold Crown IV than at a tavern where the Lord only knows what will happen...........
DCP
rumor has it he was in the local bar playing pool the previous night. people ask me why i dont play in the local ring games to get some competition, but this ring game is at the tavern where all of this happened. i try and stay away from places like this. for much of the same reason that Capt JR mentioned in his initial post.
i'd rather be at my place, in the privacy of my own room, practicing on my Gold Crown IV than at a tavern where the Lord only knows what will happen...........
DCP