How angry do you get?

billiardthought

billiardthought

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Let me get the setting of this event situated for you.

You are practicing alone on a 9 foot diamond table. A moron is barking at you for several minutes straight letting the whole room know that you are too chicken to gamble because you mentioned you were there to practice. What he isn't telling the whole room is that he wants weight, and to move to the bar box. Eventually you spark up a game you both agree on. You stay on the big table, 9 ball, winner breaks, rack your own, 9 ball spots on the break. $100, You are racing to 9, him to 6.

You now have 7 racks, and he has 1. You haven't necessarily been running racks, but you have kept control well enough to get where you are easily. While you break and run the next two racks to win the set, the moron is critiquing your EVERY shot. After the set is done the guy asks if you are interested in getting lessons to elevate your game.

Now, on a scale of 1 to snapping a meucci, how angry do you get?
 
billiardthought said:
Let me get the setting of this event situated for you.

You are practicing alone on a 9 foot diamond table. A moron is barking at you for several minutes straight letting the whole room know that you are too chicken to gamble because you mentioned you were there to practice. What he isn't telling the whole room is that he wants weight, and to move to the bar box. Eventually you spark up a game you both agree on. You stay on the big table, 9 ball, winner breaks, rack your own, 9 ball spots on the break. $100, You are racing to 9, him to 6.

You now have 7 racks, and he has 1. You haven't necessarily been running racks, but you have kept control well enough to get where you are easily. While you break and run the next two racks to win the set, the moron is critiquing your EVERY shot. After the set is done the guy asks if you are interested in getting lessons to elevate your game.

Now, on a scale of 1 to snapping a meucci, how angry do you get?
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Not mad at all i just take his 100 and ask to play again
 
Angry? Not at all. Simply let him know that you'll take another lesson like he just gave, same race, same amount.
 
billiardthought said:
Let me get the setting of this event situated for you.

You are practicing alone on a 9 foot diamond table. A moron is barking at you for several minutes straight letting the whole room know that you are too chicken to gamble because you mentioned you were there to practice. What he isn't telling the whole room is that he wants weight, and to move to the bar box. Eventually you spark up a game you both agree on. You stay on the big table, 9 ball, winner breaks, rack your own, 9 ball spots on the break. $100, You are racing to 9, him to 6.

You now have 7 racks, and he has 1. You haven't necessarily been running racks, but you have kept control well enough to get where you are easily. While you break and run the next two racks to win the set, the moron is critiquing your EVERY shot. After the set is done the guy asks if you are interested in getting lessons to elevate your game.

Now, on a scale of 1 to snapping a meucci, how angry do you get?
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I'm not angry, I'm HAPPY!

I would tell him I'd like another lesson of the same thing for same time next week.

I love people giving me lessons and paying me to take them.

Aloha.
 
billiardthought said:
Let me get the setting of this event situated for you.

You are practicing alone on a 9 foot diamond table. A moron is barking at you for several minutes straight letting the whole room know that you are too chicken to gamble because you mentioned you were there to practice. What he isn't telling the whole room is that he wants weight, and to move to the bar box. Eventually you spark up a game you both agree on. You stay on the big table, 9 ball, winner breaks, rack your own, 9 ball spots on the break. $100, You are racing to 9, him to 6.

You now have 7 racks, and he has 1. You haven't necessarily been running racks, but you have kept control well enough to get where you are easily. While you break and run the next two racks to win the set, the moron is critiquing your EVERY shot. After the set is done the guy asks if you are interested in getting lessons to elevate your game.

Now, on a scale of 1 to snapping a meucci, how angry do you get?
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Not angry at all, just won $100!
 
survey says....

I'd snap a moochie, upside his jaw.
:-P

Seriously though, I can see where that would be infuriating. Although after his comment, I think I would have looked him up and down, shrugged, and said, "I guess it's true, those that can't do, teach....".
 
I saw that on The Hustlers back in 2021. I think it was episode #73 if my memory serves me right.

BasementDweller
reporting back from the year 2028.
 
If you stay calm, you're the ultimate winner.

My dad once told me "Son, people always want a reaction, if you give it to them, they have won".

You smile, happily take the $100, and tell him to have a great night.
 
I would snap a meucci, bc it's a meucci. But other than that it's just someone trying to get under your skin, which he obviously did for obvious reasons. I think he's a douche, but I would have given him a couple games and patronized him a bit to guarantee another game.
 
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I would buy him a Coke and Hot Dog and try and get more lessons.

That would be great to be paid $100 to take lessons!:thumbup:
 
You don't have the right mindset for gambling. Just play to enjoy pool.

If something like that has you posting to your blog and starting a thread about how angry you get, you'd never make it at say a DCC or anywhere where there are railbirds.



billiardthought said:
Let me get the setting of this event situated for you.

You are practicing alone on a 9 foot diamond table. A moron is barking at you for several minutes straight letting the whole room know that you are too chicken to gamble because you mentioned you were there to practice. What he isn't telling the whole room is that he wants weight, and to move to the bar box. Eventually you spark up a game you both agree on. You stay on the big table, 9 ball, winner breaks, rack your own, 9 ball spots on the break. $100, You are racing to 9, him to 6.

You now have 7 racks, and he has 1. You haven't necessarily been running racks, but you have kept control well enough to get where you are easily. While you break and run the next two racks to win the set, the moron is critiquing your EVERY shot. After the set is done the guy asks if you are interested in getting lessons to elevate your game.

Now, on a scale of 1 to snapping a meucci, how angry do you get?
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u12armresl said:
You don't have the right mindset for gambling. Just play to enjoy pool.

If something like that has you posting to your blog and starting a thread about how angry you get, you'd never make it at say a DCC or anywhere where there are railbirds.
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I agree with this. Gamblers need to have thick skin if people are stupid enough to donate their money then you might as well take it.

Pool can be a sensitive subject for some players, for those players it can be an ego booster or their ego can get hurt if they get beat. Usually when a guy is yelling and barking that means they want other people to know that they are good enough to challenge you and you are scared of it or they want you to pump you up and force you to bet on a stupid game so they can 'hustle' you even before you hit your first shot.
 
billiardthought said:
Let me get the setting of this event situated for you.

You are practicing alone on a 9 foot diamond table. A moron is barking at you for several minutes straight letting the whole room know that you are too chicken to gamble because you mentioned you were there to practice. What he isn't telling the whole room is that he wants weight, and to move to the bar box. Eventually you spark up a game you both agree on. You stay on the big table, 9 ball, winner breaks, rack your own, 9 ball spots on the break. $100, You are racing to 9, him to 6.

You now have 7 racks, and he has 1. You haven't necessarily been running racks, but you have kept control well enough to get where you are easily. While you break and run the next two racks to win the set, the moron is critiquing your EVERY shot. After the set is done the guy asks if you are interested in getting lessons to elevate your game.

Now, on a scale of 1 to snapping a meucci, how angry do you get?
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After I got paid for the set I would laugh at him. Not get angry! He is as clueless as the day is long. After you proved it you got paid to boot:D
 
billiardthought said:
Let me get the setting of this event situated for you.

You are practicing alone on a 9 foot diamond table. A moron is barking at you for several minutes straight letting the whole room know that you are too chicken to gamble because you mentioned you were there to practice. What he isn't telling the whole room is that he wants weight, and to move to the bar box. Eventually you spark up a game you both agree on. You stay on the big table, 9 ball, winner breaks, rack your own, 9 ball spots on the break. $100, You are racing to 9, him to 6.

You now have 7 racks, and he has 1. You haven't necessarily been running racks, but you have kept control well enough to get where you are easily. While you break and run the next two racks to win the set, the moron is critiquing your EVERY shot. After the set is done the guy asks if you are interested in getting lessons to elevate your game.

Now, on a scale of 1 to snapping a meucci, how angry do you get?
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I don't. I laugh and make it obvious that he isn't rattling me so he gets even more angry. Basically, on a scale of 1 to snapping a Meucci... he'd end up snapping his Meucci.
 
billiardthought said:
Let me get the setting of this event situated for you.

You are practicing alone on a 9 foot diamond table. A moron is barking at you for several minutes straight letting the whole room know that you are too chicken to gamble because you mentioned you were there to practice. What he isn't telling the whole room is that he wants weight, and to move to the bar box. Eventually you spark up a game you both agree on. You stay on the big table, 9 ball, winner breaks, rack your own, 9 ball spots on the break. $100, You are racing to 9, him to 6.

You now have 7 racks, and he has 1. You haven't necessarily been running racks, but you have kept control well enough to get where you are easily. While you break and run the next two racks to win the set, the moron is critiquing your EVERY shot. After the set is done the guy asks if you are interested in getting lessons to elevate your game.

Now, on a scale of 1 to snapping a meucci, how angry do you get?
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I'm on 1...... I got his hundred and I'm offering up some more $100 lessons
 
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