Do you sit on pool tables?

rhncue said:
Pool tables are heavy and built very stoutly and they probably could handle the extra weight without totally foundering but this is not the problem. The rubber rails are glued to the rails and are very easily torn loose making a dead hit at this spot. When informing people to get off of and stay off of the tables I always explain this and then the offenders understand the problem and don't get an attitude. If you just yell at someone to get off without explaining the reason why people just think your are just picky and wanting to show your authority.

Dick
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THANK YOU!

I cannot tell you how many times people demand an explanation of why they have to sit in a chair instead of on a pool table. I just tell them it costs me about $80 to tear apart a pool table, reglue the rubber on a rail and reattach it. How many rails would you like to sit on? Because you are being charged for each one. The general public is pretty uneducated sometimes.

What really bugs me is when regular players do it...then complain later about "soft spots" on a table. DUH!
 
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Russ Chewning said:
Jeremy,

No offense, but I have been in Wally's from time to time, and considering that most of the crowd is young, drunk, and not interested in bettering their pool game, I am doubting these rules are much enforced.

I've personally seen a bunch of people leaning/sitting on pool tables there.. Is there new management or something? I mean, I have been away for a while, so maybe things have changed..

Russ
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i throw people out over it if they do it after the first warning!
Jeremy
 
Don't do it

The shop where I bought my home table supplied a list of dos and don'ts and one of them was -- don't sit on the table, because you damage the rail.

It seems the majority of posters to my original thread agree on this. That leaves open the question: Why in the world would the Olhausen brothers agree to be photographed like this? And why would Loree Jon Jones?

Surely those people know better.
 
Absolutely not. The worst though is seeing an a**hole put his beer ON the cloth leaving rings on it. WTF? No leaning on it either, thats what the wall and chairs r for
 
instroke75 said:
i throw people out over it if they do it after the first warning!
Jeremy
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Jus curious.... If their group spends $150-$200 a night regularly... Do you still enforce this rule so stringently???

:D :D :D

I mean, don't get me wrong.. I get just as pizzed as anyone when I see people doing it... But I just don't see throwing people out for doing it a second time as good business. If you REALLY apply this standard across the board, then I'm pretty sure you've thrown out people that think nothing of spending $100.00 between them and their girlfriend for the night.. They get kicked out, and they tell 10 people nothing more than "management at so-and-so are d!cks".... And so on.. And so on...

Sorry man.. I just get the feeling you are only really hard core with the people that are troublemakers and don't spend any money anyways..... :D :D :D

Russ
 
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I will answer the question with a question. Does a baboon use toilet paper to wipe its big red arse? As a rule I do not masse either.
 
I sit on my own tables but am very careful NOT to sit on the rails. I don't sit on other people's tables unless I know them very well and they are cool with it.
 
Sleep under one? Of course. Sit on one? Never. That's what they make pool chairs for.
 
9BallPaul said:
Thumbing through the Olhausen catalogue this morning and was surprised to see brothers Butch and Don pictured while perched on one of their tables.

Then I turned the page to see another picture of Loree Jon Jones -- with her butt parked on the table.

Call me old school, but I never sit on a pool table and saw guys who tried it run out of rooms. Maybe these were old-school pool rooms?
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Leaning on a table is a no no,EXCEPT for someone like Loree Jon Jones.:D ..
 
guess I haven't seen this around here. I make it a practice (not just at poolhalls) to sit in chairs. I wouldn't really care if someone sat on my table at home (sorry, not "sacred ground" to me, just a pool table), but don't even think of sitting on the hood of my truck....that's what the tailgate is for. :) Now that I think if it, I have heard the bartender at my poolhall yell out, "Hey, no leaning on the tables", but I still don't think I've ever seen someone sitting on one...
 
I prefer to sit on my ass, i can't find levi's that fit my 9 ft connelly. Considering the pics you saw were either ads or posed shots, well , enough said. Yes, it is a cardinal sin.
 
rhncue said:
Pool tables are heavy and built very stoutly and they probably could handle the extra weight without totally foundering but this is not the problem. The rubber rails are glued to the rails and are very easily torn loose making a dead hit at this spot. When informing people to get off of and stay off of the tables I always explain this and then the offenders understand the problem and don't get an attitude. If you just yell at someone to get off without explaining the reason why people just think your are just picky and wanting to show your authority.

Dick
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TapTapTap. Well said.. and it needed to be said. Always explain in a civil respectfull tone.
 
From a billiard tech, you mention that cushion can come unglued but also the cloth can come loose or if a home table and you sit on the leather pockets you can have major problem such as the rail wood cracking. As for Butch and Donny, I think they can replace the table if they cause any damage. Funny story, I replace some cloth at a pool hall and was called back because the cloth had come loose out of the one of the rails. I told the room owner to make sure people arent' sitting on the tables, they said never happens. So, I'm working on the table and I noticed that some guy was perched on the rail cap on these murrey 6400. Yes, perched, he was standing on the rail, three feet off the ground, in a crouched position.

SD
 
Do I sit on a pool table? NO! HE!! NO!!!

Sitting on a pool table is like leaning up against a show car while wearing Levi's with rivets.

A pool table is way to cool to be treated disrespectfully. It's wrong.
 
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