OCD things you do when you play pool
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When lagging for the break in 8 ball I always use the opposite ball as my opponent and then use those two balls as the corner balls when I rack.
I also have specific places for joint protectors, keys, chalk in my case. Not sure if that's as much OCD as it is being a creature of habit to make sure I don't lose anything.
I also have specific places for joint protectors, keys, chalk in my case. Not sure if that's as much OCD as it is being a creature of habit to make sure I don't lose anything.
I do this too. Will not shoot with chalk facing down. And if the clown does it again, I take that piece off the table... and if he does it again, I take the last piece off the table....
and make him hunt for chalk... I don't care, I use my own anyways.....
Too many to mention. Hahaha.
Aren't you wiping dust onto the shaft RayJ?
I wipe mine upward, off the ferrule and sides of the tip. Then, I wipe it off my hand onto my pant leg.
I use a magnetic chalk holder but still, when I walk around the table, I put rail chalk right side up.
Damn Muecci with a Black Dot. Dot always has to be right side up. I know it doesn't make one bit of difference but I can't shoot unless the Dot is facing up.
I drive my wife absolutely wild some nights. She is convinced that I do all this stuff to Shark her.
I don't, its just me.
Thats just a couple. It gets worse.
Oh, one more. When we are playing a set and use coins to marks games. I always have to use the coin to the left and move left.
If I lose the first game and my opponent uses the left coin, it doesn't affect my game, it just bothers me.
Some nights I drive my wife absolutely nuts. She is convinced that I go thru all this OCD stuff just to Shark her. Not really, its just me.
Aren't you wiping dust onto the shaft RayJ?
I wipe mine upward, off the ferrule and sides of the tip. Then, I wipe it off my hand onto my pant leg.
I use a magnetic chalk holder but still, when I walk around the table, I put rail chalk right side up.
Damn Muecci with a Black Dot. Dot always has to be right side up. I know it doesn't make one bit of difference but I can't shoot unless the Dot is facing up.
I drive my wife absolutely wild some nights. She is convinced that I do all this stuff to Shark her.
I don't, its just me.
Thats just a couple. It gets worse.
Oh, one more. When we are playing a set and use coins to marks games. I always have to use the coin to the left and move left.
If I lose the first game and my opponent uses the left coin, it doesn't affect my game, it just bothers me.
Some nights I drive my wife absolutely nuts. She is convinced that I go thru all this OCD stuff just to Shark her. Not really, its just me.
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Same here, but my coin always goes to the right if I can help it. If my opponent wins the first game and moves to the left, it's like he just gave me a spot.
I totally forgot my Meucci Black Dot shaft days. I used to mark the ferrule with a sharpie so I could align it without seeing the joint.
Man you guys crack me up. The pushing up the glasses thing is something I did before and for some time after my Lasik as well haha. We have a guy in town who can imitate everyone's routine perfectly. I didn't know I did some things before someone told me he couod imitate and I asked to see "me". Crap I could tell it was me. I guess I always pull up my pant let on my front leg when I drop down into my stance. Don't know if I still do that or not. I don't care which direction I'm going but given a choice I move the coin most visible to people watching. I prefer all chalk near me to be to my left (my chalking hand side) and definitely not in my sight line.
Anytime I start to notice that the two pieces of chalk keep ending up side-by-side I try and make a point of picking one up and leaving it as far from the other piece as I can
Lou Figueroa
can't help maself
Maybe some of you have had this happen,and this is how I deal with it.
Long ago,I was in a tournament match where my opponent missed a makeable 9 to win,with score hill-hill. He left me a totally makeable shot under normal conditions,but I had to bridge off the rubber pocket liner.
I missed the shot because during my stroke,my normally slick shaft was slowed down as the rubber from the pocket liner was rubbing itself into my shaft,and it cut my stroke short.
I have overcome this since by keeping a special rag in my case,and just lay it over the pocket liner. I haven't missed a ball because of this or metal sticking up since. Tommy D.
Long ago,I was in a tournament match where my opponent missed a makeable 9 to win,with score hill-hill. He left me a totally makeable shot under normal conditions,but I had to bridge off the rubber pocket liner.
I missed the shot because during my stroke,my normally slick shaft was slowed down as the rubber from the pocket liner was rubbing itself into my shaft,and it cut my stroke short.
I have overcome this since by keeping a special rag in my case,and just lay it over the pocket liner. I haven't missed a ball because of this or metal sticking up since. Tommy D.
Some of these responses have reminded me of some of my own. I always move the coin to the left when gambling. I'm left handed, so I guess that's where that comes from. I can't tell you the last time I had to go right. If my opponent wins the first game and moves it left, I ask him if he minds going the other way, and that I lose track if I go right. Nobody's told me no yet...
Anytime I start to notice that the two pieces of chalk keep ending up side-by-side I try and make a point of picking one up and leaving it as far from the other piece as I can
Lou Figueroa
can't help maself
I do this too. I feel the need to fight the Law of Congregating Chalk.
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Shoebat
You reminded me, and I know exactly where this OCD thing comes from- I had a really really bad experience long ago about marking games. So now, when it's the coin, I always go to the right. When it's beads, I always choose the NON-white beads.
If I don't win the first game and they choose my preference, it irritates me so much on a personal level that I remember which ones we are, all match.
It gets worse- I will usually remember when we play next, even months later- "This is the guy who wants the orange beads. I'm going to win the first game, dammit." It's like he stole something I own, and I don't forget.
thats hapened to me many times, that rubber shit is more than i can fade, im not sure why but it gets me every time. for years it was a issue, now its no problem i just adjust my bridge hand so the rubber is out of play. for some reason that took me way to long to fix
That made me laugh.:grin:
I chalk with my bridge hand...only my bridge hand touches the shaft.
Only my right touches the butt.
Is there an echo in here...here...here....here...????
That's funny, we have black and white beads. Of course, everyone wanted the black ones because black is just better. I started taking the white side on purpose and now I find more and more people fighting over them instead. It's like a herd of OCD bead addicts.