Have you ever lost your cue?
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I've decided not to answer.
Why tempt fate?!
Why tempt fate?!
My sister had her cue stolen. (They took it from her case and substituted a junk butt while she was in the ladies room.) She cried for 3 days. She called her ex-brother-in-law, who happens to be an enforcer for the Outlaws motorcycle gang. "Mad Dog" made one phone call to the bartender and told him "Don't make me drive down there from Illinois." The bartender produced the cue like magic from a David Copperfield show.
No got beaten out of it. Other than that never. Forgot at bar a couple times they kept it for me.
Put my "sneaky pete" in the house cue rack on the wall while I was playing league on a Monday night and forgot it was there. Went to grab it when someone asked me to play a game at home the next Friday and noticed it wasn't in my case. Called the bar, and it was still there. 
This was back when I was riding bikes every day and playing pool about once a week. Normally, I'd notice a lot sooner.
This was back when I was riding bikes every day and playing pool about once a week. Normally, I'd notice a lot sooner.
Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
Met a girl in a bar one Saturday night -- lots of bar boxes and crazy action. At some point it developed that she and I shared mutual interests and determined to go to my place. While I was opening the car door for her, we became involved in a serious embrace which demanded my full attention, so I put my cue case on the roof of my car. It was several weeks, and a very sad day, when I began to wonder where I had put my Palmer.
Never put another thing on top my car without putting my keys next to it.
Never put another thing on top my car without putting my keys next to it.
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I have an air tag in all my cases, suitcases, bicycles.
Once, in a pool story from not that long ago, I got to the location for our APA Tri Cup early, and when the place opened we got a table for some practice. We had about a half hour or so before they started calling matches, and as the rest of our team got there, we all rotated in to play a bit on that table. I leaned my case and my cue in a corner, since it turned out that we had our first match on that same table. I didn't play in that match, and when we moved all our stuff to where the next match would be, I picked up my case and brought it over. My habit was to always break down my cue and put it back in the case when I wasn't playing, so I never moved the cue, and it stood there in the corner. I'll blame a bit of that on all the BS and drama that happened in the first match, and as team captain I kept trying to get everyone to move past it and just play pool, but you know how that goes. When I went to play in the second match, I opened my case and saw two empty slots where the butt and shaft should have been. I was half pissed and half panicked, wondering where it was. I took out a backup cue and played my match, and played quite well actually, but we lost. We were eliminated after that, so on the way home I stopped at our local bar where we played last asking if my cue was there, and it wasn't. I was still mentally trying to figure out if it was lost or if someone took it, since I'm pretty OCD about putting the cue back in the case and not leaving it out where people could knock it over or whatever. Then, the next day, my girlfriend showed me a post on FB that the league operator posted, about there being a cue left behind at the Tri Cup location. When I got in touch with him, he asked me to describe it, which I did, and I even sent him pics. I bought the cue from the AZB Wanted/For Sale board, and the pics were still there. So I took the ride back up that day to reclaim my cue, and I'm much more careful about putting it back in the case whenever I'm not playing.
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I've never lost one but finding one gained me some new friends. I found a Meucci sneaky pete in the rack at a bar I played league at. A mutual friend saw it the next weekend and said he knew who it belonged to so I gave it back. The owner and I have been friends for nearly 20 years now.
no but im not an idiot
I didn't lose it, but almost lost all my gear out of my stupidity....
I went skateboarding at the local park. Had my cue case (with $1500+ gear in it) and my skateboard gear in the trunk of my convertible.
I took out my stuff and leaned my case against the side of my car/trunk.
Went skating for 2 hours or so and came back to my car, on a busy downtown street, and my case was right where I left it, leaning on the car.
Only thing that I think saved me is it was on the traffic side of the car, not the sidewalk. Got lucky that day!
I went skateboarding at the local park. Had my cue case (with $1500+ gear in it) and my skateboard gear in the trunk of my convertible.
I took out my stuff and leaned my case against the side of my car/trunk.
Went skating for 2 hours or so and came back to my car, on a busy downtown street, and my case was right where I left it, leaning on the car.
Only thing that I think saved me is it was on the traffic side of the car, not the sidewalk. Got lucky that day!
A friend had his case stolen at the Riviera, 15 or so year ago.
You used to be able to sit out at the pool late at night and he was loaded and passed out on a lawn chair.
Someone came along and took his case while he was sleeping!
You used to be able to sit out at the pool late at night and he was loaded and passed out on a lawn chair.
Someone came along and took his case while he was sleeping!
sudocrushms
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Never, but I have woken up in the middle of the night and checked to make sure I brought them in.
Anxiety is fun...
Anxiety is fun...
Same. Bikes, cue case, backpack (laptop, etc). Small enough i forget they're there until i get battery alerts.
Lost a McDermott D-22 back in the late 90s when a bungee broke and it fell off the back of my motorcycle without me noticing. When I got to where I was going and realized what had happened I retraced my 35 mile route 4 times but never found it. That didn't cure me from strapping my cue to the back of my bike, as it was my chief means of transport during the summer months, but it did break me from ever using an old bungee cord again.
Temporarily, twice. Once, after a hard league night, I left it leaning against the door of my apartment (outside). It was still there in the morning at 9AM. Once, I was about to go out the door of the PH and someone said, "Is that your cue?" pointing over to the wall. It was a Balabushka both times.
Oh, and the time I had borrowed a cue long term from a high school friend who never played. I rented a locker at the Rec Center. Someone stole many of the cues out of the lockers. My friend was unperturbed and since that was a really high-deflection cue, it was probably better for me to have it stolen.
Oh, and the time I had borrowed a cue long term from a high school friend who never played. I rented a locker at the Rec Center. Someone stole many of the cues out of the lockers. My friend was unperturbed and since that was a really high-deflection cue, it was probably better for me to have it stolen.