Has pool ever got you laid?
Probably a half dozen times
Here be the first one:
(insert flashback music)
The guy running the student union pool hall at the University of San Francisco was named Bob and, for some odd, unknown reason, he frequently adopted an Italian accent, though the closest he got to Italian was an occasional pizza and cheap Chianti.
His usual greeting to me, though I'm not Italian either, was, "Hey! A Luigi, whatza goin' on?" So that's how I got my first nom de pool. Others heard this and actually thought that that was my name -- Luigi -- so for my entire college pool playing career that was my name.
So I'm practicing one day at the student union on the front table and this tall, thin, good looking Chinese girl (Kathy, who went on to become a really good player on the West Coast), asks me to play some 9ball. She was pretty good but I beat her easily. So about then Bob walks in and does his usual, "Hey! A Luigi, whatza goin' on?" Now apparently Kathy had heard through the student union pool hall grapevine that "Luigi" was the local star. And being the young, innocent, impressionable pool fanatic that she was, her eyes got quite large and she almost whispered, "Are you Luigi?"
Well, she might as well have been asking if I was actually Robert Redford. I was in, like Flynn.
Ah, the 70's...
Lou Figueroa
