Funny Things Said to You at the Pool Room

[gregcantrall]

One Saturday early, I was getting my morning practice and the youngster wanted to challenge my table as all the rest were empty. I tried to be gentle and explain that, "I am a money player." He puffed right up and replied, "I Am a Money player too!" Oh and as he racked for 9 ball Freebird came on the jukebox. "He looks up and says, "I never lose to Freebird." .....His allowance was gone before the tune was over. Shrug . At the pay and surrender, I said "I never lose to Freebird either. " true story.

 

[HawaiianEye]

I was home on leave getting ready to be stationed in Taipei, Taiwan and I was in the old pool hall where I worked as a kid when an old guy who fixed the tables saw me playing pool.

He came up and asked me if I was still in the Army and I said, "Bruce, I ain't in the Army, I am in the Air Force."

Bruce had drank about a dozen or more beers by this time and he just smiled and asked, "where you going to be stationed now?" and I said, "Taiwan."

He laughed and said, "Taiwan! I'm gonna tie one on right now."

Bruce was good for "tying one on" pretty much every day. He would come in the first thing in the morning and sip Budwiesers with a shaker of salt all day until he was buzzed really good and then he would call a cab and go home.