I just dont understand it is there any respect left in pool or am I just that much of an ass
It just seems to me that respect for other players and the game of pool have gone way down in the last couple of years. It seems like 30 percent of the people I play are just down right rude, disrespectful and have no morals or understanding of what even the word respect means.
In the last, 8 times, I have played in either a tournament or league or for money; I would say I have run into 4 or 5 situations, which just blow my mind. I am not a nice person in my own right I can be rather loud when I get upset and start to argue or what ever but it is not until after something like the following happens. I mean how rude and just down right disrespectful does someone have to be or is it just me being touchy and just an ass????
League night playing my match a gentle on the next table practicing for his match literally sits on the pocket I am shoot. I dont say anything just continue to play my match I dont know the person but I know the person he is playing. So I am down shooting another match the guy he is playing walks by the table right in front of my shot saying Hey so and so how you doing to a member of the team I am play. I go over to the guy I know and nicely say hey do you mind telling your friend not to sit on the table we are shooting at and by the way do you mind not walking in front of my shot thank you. He says no problem I will talk to him and sorry about walking in front of your shot. I am down on the very next shot and what happens he walks right in front of it. I miss the shot and I say hey didn?t I just ask you nicely no to do that and he in turn yells across the table and calls me a F%^ D^%K head. Now things get out of hand and we start yelling back in and forth and what not but is this my fault or what??? I know I know just blow it off and play your game etc etc etc. Nevertheless, it keeps happening
Another time I am playing in a tourney I am on the hill the other guy needs two. He misses the nine ball miscues. I get down to shoot the nine and the guy starts tapping his tip right behind me I am talking like a foot away. I stand up I wait do all that stuff get down and hang the nine. I dont say anything I rack and he breaks and runs out. Now the match is over and I say hey do you mind the next time I am shooting the nine ball for you not to be tapping and fixing your tip in my ear please. He now say oh you lost and now are *****ing and making excuses. I said no just asking you not to and he says he wasn?t and once again a argument and yelling. I walk away go have a smoke and two people walk up to me and say hey Dave your right he was doing right in your ear and so on. I say why not say something then, there response wasn?t our place. WTF lol ok I guess just me being and ass again
Last one playing in a 50 dollar ten ball tourney I am up 5-1 in a race to seven guy I am playing is pissed and talking allot he lucks the ten ball in so I rack while I am down racking I dont move my hand on purpose always do this so nobody will break the balls in my face. What?s he do BREAKS and hits my hand I say WTF was that. He doesn?t apologize he just says get over it, it?s just your hand I said what? He says I was just pissed he lucked the ball in and that it didn?t hurt that much and to get over it. So now he wins that rack and this time I put my stick across the table while I rack and he responds by saying be careful my stick might break and that I should just sell it to him. I ignore all this but he keeps talking and saying shit and I lose my fault but is this just me or something or has respect just gone out the window with some people.
I just really, dont understand it at all. I am not saying I am a nice guy or anything but when I am playing I normally just sit down and shut my mouth and play. I am loud when I argue and everything I have a big bark but that?s it. I just dont understand how time after time this stuff happens. Like I said is it me????? or is respect in the game gone?????
It just seems to me that respect for other players and the game of pool have gone way down in the last couple of years. It seems like 30 percent of the people I play are just down right rude, disrespectful and have no morals or understanding of what even the word respect means.
In the last, 8 times, I have played in either a tournament or league or for money; I would say I have run into 4 or 5 situations, which just blow my mind. I am not a nice person in my own right I can be rather loud when I get upset and start to argue or what ever but it is not until after something like the following happens. I mean how rude and just down right disrespectful does someone have to be or is it just me being touchy and just an ass????
League night playing my match a gentle on the next table practicing for his match literally sits on the pocket I am shoot. I dont say anything just continue to play my match I dont know the person but I know the person he is playing. So I am down shooting another match the guy he is playing walks by the table right in front of my shot saying Hey so and so how you doing to a member of the team I am play. I go over to the guy I know and nicely say hey do you mind telling your friend not to sit on the table we are shooting at and by the way do you mind not walking in front of my shot thank you. He says no problem I will talk to him and sorry about walking in front of your shot. I am down on the very next shot and what happens he walks right in front of it. I miss the shot and I say hey didn?t I just ask you nicely no to do that and he in turn yells across the table and calls me a F%^ D^%K head. Now things get out of hand and we start yelling back in and forth and what not but is this my fault or what??? I know I know just blow it off and play your game etc etc etc. Nevertheless, it keeps happening
Another time I am playing in a tourney I am on the hill the other guy needs two. He misses the nine ball miscues. I get down to shoot the nine and the guy starts tapping his tip right behind me I am talking like a foot away. I stand up I wait do all that stuff get down and hang the nine. I dont say anything I rack and he breaks and runs out. Now the match is over and I say hey do you mind the next time I am shooting the nine ball for you not to be tapping and fixing your tip in my ear please. He now say oh you lost and now are *****ing and making excuses. I said no just asking you not to and he says he wasn?t and once again a argument and yelling. I walk away go have a smoke and two people walk up to me and say hey Dave your right he was doing right in your ear and so on. I say why not say something then, there response wasn?t our place. WTF lol ok I guess just me being and ass again
Last one playing in a 50 dollar ten ball tourney I am up 5-1 in a race to seven guy I am playing is pissed and talking allot he lucks the ten ball in so I rack while I am down racking I dont move my hand on purpose always do this so nobody will break the balls in my face. What?s he do BREAKS and hits my hand I say WTF was that. He doesn?t apologize he just says get over it, it?s just your hand I said what? He says I was just pissed he lucked the ball in and that it didn?t hurt that much and to get over it. So now he wins that rack and this time I put my stick across the table while I rack and he responds by saying be careful my stick might break and that I should just sell it to him. I ignore all this but he keeps talking and saying shit and I lose my fault but is this just me or something or has respect just gone out the window with some people.
I just really, dont understand it at all. I am not saying I am a nice guy or anything but when I am playing I normally just sit down and shut my mouth and play. I am loud when I argue and everything I have a big bark but that?s it. I just dont understand how time after time this stuff happens. Like I said is it me????? or is respect in the game gone?????