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[ShootingArts]

same as always

You can tell much about a persons honesty when playing pool and golf. I was never so surprised by the cheating in golf when i took that game up. After many years i found very few people who was honest enough to call a stroke penalty on themselfs. I found many many more cheaters in golf than i ever have in pool. It might be because its much harder for others to see the penaltys in golf,but this is no excuse,its just very telling of the person. I believe that it will always come back on you, more that once! If i foul and they're looking i just touch the cueball with my stick,and say ball in hand.If they're not looking i hand it to them. Another example is, what will you do when someone gives you back to much change?

Same as always. I bought a lot of parts from a Ford dealership many years ago. There was a grouch ol' basset in the parts department and it seemed that he was the one that always waited on me. I had long hair and a beard and we didn't gee-haw well at all. One day I got the part I needed and grabbed the handful of bills and silver back from the hundred dollar bill I paid with and went back to the truck. When I counted the change before putting it in my pocket it was wrong. I went back in and told the old varmint he had given me the wrong change. He immediately started raising hell saying he hadn't.

"OK, you count it!" I handed him the ticket and the change.

"I gave you too much!"

"That's why I came back in." We got along a lot better after that.

Hu

 

[Oklahoma Kid]

[bad beat story alert]I was playing in a hill-hill game in a hill-hill playoff match just last week. It came down to really soft safeties on the 8, a situation I'm uncomfortable with because I really don't practice safeties as often as I should. After exchanging several of these, I double-kissed on the cue and called it on myself. Game over, match over, season over.[/bad beat story alert]

It was a heartbreaking way to finish a season, but I didn't have a problem fessing up to the double-kiss. Even in a place like NYC, the pool community is pretty small, and I don't want to be known as THAT GUY. Also, when you have your integrity, people are more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt when you see something that they don't, like a very slight touch on a ball when you're just shooting for a prayer touch.

Concerning picking up the cue ball, it's not just bad manners, it's bad practice. I've seen even experienced players brain freeze and pick up the cue ball after a good hit, giving the opponent bih. Asking about the hit is not just good manners, it's good policy.