No pool, for how long?
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Quit in '92 after Hurricane Andrew for a year for therapy on a bad back/knees and didnt play again until early '95. Quit in '98 to school my Ex-Wife {she had aspirations}, started back in Nov '00. Quit again in mid '03 and started again in early '05. Now I play once every 6-8 weeks like it or not.
Moral of this story...pool is a life sentence, I was only on several paroles.
Quit in '92 after Hurricane Andrew for a year for therapy on a bad back/knees and didnt play again until early '95. Quit in '98 to school my Ex-Wife {she had aspirations}, started back in Nov '00. Quit again in mid '03 and started again in early '05. Now I play once every 6-8 weeks like it or not.
Moral of this story...pool is a life sentence, I was only on several paroles.
Down Time
Played every day until the Army in 1967-69, came home and played every day again until 1978, got married, then kids but still managed to play once a week. Got divorced 10 yrs later and back to the bar again, played a few more years until a good friend got killed drinking and driving coming home from a ball game. I quit drinking right then and started going to the local poolhall, played there for 2 years then worked there for 2 years part time and ended up buying the room in 1993. played off and on for 5 or 6 years and now I can`t stand playing at all, I guess I got burned out from being around it so much, and it is a job now and just not fun anymore.
O.K. im done now, but I still love the game and most of the people.
Played every day until the Army in 1967-69, came home and played every day again until 1978, got married, then kids but still managed to play once a week. Got divorced 10 yrs later and back to the bar again, played a few more years until a good friend got killed drinking and driving coming home from a ball game. I quit drinking right then and started going to the local poolhall, played there for 2 years then worked there for 2 years part time and ended up buying the room in 1993. played off and on for 5 or 6 years and now I can`t stand playing at all, I guess I got burned out from being around it so much, and it is a job now and just not fun anymore.
O.K. im done now, but I still love the game and most of the people.
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twenty-seven years and counting!
I quit playing pool over twenty-seven years ago. I got seriously into horses and didn't have time for pool and then the wife and kids thing. I did have a little fling with pool after marriage, winning a few local tournaments, but that didn't last long. Picked up a stick again about a year ago.
I haven't been able to put much time in and like others in this thread I am fighting eyes, medications, and back problems. A major back surgery shut me down for months and I still am not getting to the hall but once or twice a month. Tough to balance pills that jack with my eyes and pain. Whatever the hell I am doing with a cue stick now, I wouldn't call it playing pool.
Hu
I quit playing pool over twenty-seven years ago. I got seriously into horses and didn't have time for pool and then the wife and kids thing. I did have a little fling with pool after marriage, winning a few local tournaments, but that didn't last long. Picked up a stick again about a year ago.
I haven't been able to put much time in and like others in this thread I am fighting eyes, medications, and back problems. A major back surgery shut me down for months and I still am not getting to the hall but once or twice a month. Tough to balance pills that jack with my eyes and pain. Whatever the hell I am doing with a cue stick now, I wouldn't call it playing pool.
Hu
Been playing for 17 years and the longest period without any pool was a few years ago and lasted probably around 1-2 months during the short but intensive (fun) summer here in Finland... 
Weirdest part was that after that period, when I started playing, I played better than ever for 1-2 years.
Weirdest part was that after that period, when I started playing, I played better than ever for 1-2 years.
2 years
Took up pool when I turned 21 in 1997, had about a 4 month break due to basic training and such from the army. Then I played almost every week up until I had a two year break when my wife and I got into a house that was in a flood zone, and we got into trouble financially. That was about 2003, and we couldn't afford to go play so we had a two year break that I didn't want. We finally got out of that house and rented a place that had enough room for an 8' table. I then got hot and heavy about getting better and better. I wish I didn't have the lay off but I can say it sparked a fire under me and I have taken lessons and gotten better that I used to be.
Took up pool when I turned 21 in 1997, had about a 4 month break due to basic training and such from the army. Then I played almost every week up until I had a two year break when my wife and I got into a house that was in a flood zone, and we got into trouble financially. That was about 2003, and we couldn't afford to go play so we had a two year break that I didn't want. We finally got out of that house and rented a place that had enough room for an 8' table. I then got hot and heavy about getting better and better. I wish I didn't have the lay off but I can say it sparked a fire under me and I have taken lessons and gotten better that I used to be.
i took 2 breaks from pool both about 6-7 months. the first time i wrecked my car (thought i could make it through that yellow light) and the second i took a trip to Iraq courtesy of uncle sam
jgpool said:That's a long time for a layoff from the game. Did you have your own stick back then? What kind? What did it cost? What got you back into the game? The house? Well anyway welcome back to the ballgame!!
I bought a stick when I was 15 but I don't remember the name. The ph had a catalog from out east. I paid $20 which was quite a bit of $$ for a kid to come up with in 1958 (pop was a dime, gas a quarter, Cigs a quarter, $2.00 a hour was a good job, burger at McD's fifteen cents, fries a dime).
I always had a love for the game and played once in a while.. couple times a year average. Wife wanted to move and I didn't. She contacted an agent and he turned out to be an old jr high and high school friend. He'd had a table for years and invited me over to play. The hook was set! Wife found a house she loved w/a 30x17 family room added on the back and told me I could have that room if she could have the house. I gave up a lot of garage space for my hot rod but having a lot of fun w/the Diamond Pro.
Another friend was selling cues and I bought one and joined his league team along w/Brad Simpson the author of the Blue Book. They were lovers of SW cues so I got hooked and had a dozen at one time. Down to 5 now. None for sale right now.
My first stick.
I bought one at about 13 also(1963) it was from a guy named John Abruzzo
in the Villa Park Bowl(Illinois). I paid $20 for it, don't know what kind it was either. It got stollen from the bowling alley, we would leave them in thier back room. One day it was gone. Abruzzo was a pretty good player for many years.
JimS said:
I bought one at about 13 also(1963) it was from a guy named John Abruzzo
in the Villa Park Bowl(Illinois). I paid $20 for it, don't know what kind it was either. It got stollen from the bowling alley, we would leave them in thier back room. One day it was gone. Abruzzo was a pretty good player for many years.