Pete was always one of Geroge Balabushka's favorites.
Pete liked to tell the story of how George made him a cue in the early 1970s that he didn't even order, intending to make a gift of it. As Pete told it, George called up Pete on the phone well after midnight and said "Pete, you've got to come over right away." It wasn't far from Staten Island, where Pete lived, to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where George lived, but Pete asked if it could wait until tomorrow. George said no and Pete drove over to George's house in the middle of the night to get his cue.
