Pool Related Pet Peeves...

Detectives...People that feel the need to get involved with whatever action that might be taking place without having anything at stake. People that will knock another persons action by offering their "advice" when it's not asked for. A poolroom needs action IMO. If I walk into a poolroom and someone is playing Jose Parica even 9-ball, sorry about their luck. I'm gonna sit back and watch the game. If you don't have money invested, Don't get involved in my games, and I won't get involved in yours.
 
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How about blackberries, you’re there to shot pool if you need to keep up to date On some other sporting event maybe you should be at home watching it.
I also like team mates that pay attention when they aren’t shooting that seems to me to be part of being on a team.
 
Room and Bar owner who allow armadas of sale people seling everything from flowers, to foodball card, neckless, and unrelated to pool crap etc. In their room/bars.
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
Room and Bar owner who allow armadas of sale people seling everything from flowers, to foodball card, neckless, and unrelated to pool crap etc. In their room/bars.
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This is a good one cowboy. The other day all the tables were being used and this lady proceeds to walk through while we are shooting to ask if we want to buy a rose. If you want to sell crap at a bar, candy bars for boy scouts, flowers etc., leave it behind the bar with a sign and a jar for donations. Why the he'll do bar managers allow this!
 
notnilc20 said:
When you're playing for money or in a tournament and your opponents friends want to sweat him and they sit in the barstools that are really for the players. I was playing a guy and he had a buddy with him that was sitting there watching him play and talking to him while I was shooting....fine...but then his girlfriend joins in and sits in my barstool as I'm shooting and doesn't move her ass when it's my turn to sit down. :angry:
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You need to come on to her then or sit in her lap:grin-square:
 
pooladdiction said:
This is a good one cowboy. The other day all the tables were being used and this lady proceeds to walk through while we are shooting to ask if we want to buy a rose. If you want to sell crap at a bar, candy bars for boy scouts, flowers etc., leave it behind the bar with a sign and a jar for donations. Why the he'll do bar managers allow this!
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they're getting a piece of the sales action.

definitely should not be allowed.

Best,
Brian kc
 
Bar Table Beefs

People who ask about whose quarters are whose right in the middle of your shot! :angry:
For that matter people who put there quarters down while someone is shooting.:mad:
Sheesh!!:wink: Wait till there is a break in the action. :scratchhead:
I hate the a$$ in the face also. Unless it belongs to a Hottie. :grin-square:
 
After last night I can add a new one:

When a group of ladies sits down right next to your table and begin cackling so loudly you can hear them from outside. And of course, they continually tell little jokes to keep their ear-splitting laughter going for 4 hours. I wanted to say something, but pool halls need the business.

And an oldie:

People who are in such a rush they don't even wait until you hang the rack before they're breaking the pack with your face 4 inches from it. Laying your cue across the path doesn't seem to help with it either. If I hadn't been raised better I'd be tempted to pick up the cue ball and throw it at their head just to return the favor.
 
People who have to sing along with the jukebox.

The guy who's played pool for a year loudly instructing his neophyte girlfriend how to use english, how to draw, and how to play safeties!?

Children under 14.

Children under 21 practicing Masse shots.
 
I think my biggest pet peeve is people who "splash" the pool balls on the table instead of treating the equipment as though it were their own- it downright infuriates me. TOTALLY disrespectful.

Cell phones rank right up there, too.

Pool rooms without a decent piece of chalk, i.e., ones that seemingly only have chalk cubes with an abyssmoid hole worn in the center.
 
As with anyone who gets involved with something for an extended period of time with so many others there becomes an excepted normalcy. Certain things become more generally excepted and some things do not, even though some people still do these particular things. Chalk upside down on the table, getting in the way, not helping retrieve balls from drop pockets, and many others I have read just seem like something that normal considerate people would not do, without even thinking about it.

There is one thing that is particularly bothersome that I haven't seen mentioned just yet. Some folks seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that if you leave your sticks screwed together, in your case, while it is slung over your shoulder as you wander through the sea of people ducking and swerving to avoid your aroused case's path. Please, I implore you, if they are not in play put the sticks away.

Steve H.
 
My biggest pet peeve is when someone breaks and runs a rack on me. I mean come on! I am clearly the better player and better looking to boot! Where do they get off showing me this amount of disrepect? Clearly I would run the rack on them and them use my stunningly good looks to take their woman, but seriously, WTF are they thinking. They should obviously know their place...
 
1. At the room I normally go to, there is this guy who I guess is a new part-owner of the room. He always has his little kids there, and they are always running around and getting in everyone's way. I can't stand it. Let them play outside.

2. I can't stand when I'm playing someone and they keep walking away from the table to talk to other people, so whenever it is their shot, I have to wait for them to get through with their conversation.

3. People who constantly get up and down like 30 times and take 1000 practice strokes on each shot.

4. When there are a lot of tables open and this group of 5+ people come in and jump on the table right next to yours. And instead of trying to stay out of the way when they are not playing, they put up chairs close enough to where you have to keep asking/ telling them to move... or hitting them in the face with your cue.
 
I agree with many of those already listed here.

However, I just get annoyed when people bring their own balls and Delta 13 racks to the pool hall and proceed to slam the balls on the edge of the rack as loudly as possible.

Happens once a week in one local pool hall. I guess the guy just doesn't like to loose.

Still he could place the balls in more gently.
 
Ghosst said:
After last night I can add a new one:


And an oldie:

People who are in such a rush they don't even wait until you hang the rack before they're breaking the pack with your face 4 inches from it. Laying your cue across the path doesn't seem to help with it either. If I hadn't been raised better I'd be tempted to pick up the cue ball and throw it at their head just to return the favor.
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THIS so much :angry:
dont you put the cue across the pack and the cueball ??
 
how about....

crappy equipment. that crappy chalk from wall mart or anyother sporting company..that light blue crap....and worst of all...those anoying chalk holders hanging from a string on the table......a pole inthe way...a wall in the way...and even worse...a
people who sit or stand right next to your tabel...then u ask them to move for a shot and what do they do//? oh the lean back.....the pool player has jurisdiction! its my area...the odds are...if u in my way now...your probably gonna be in my way again in about five minutes....use your shead!
 
and..

that dork that has a jump cue and doesnt no how to use it...but for some reasons needs to go and get it out once or twice a game
oh then put it back in his case....i only like that guy ...when i have an important jump shot...because i make mine
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speaking of flying balls

jcpoolgod said:
that dork that has a jump cue and doesnt no how to use it...but for some reasons needs to go and get it out once or twice a game
oh then put it back in his case....i only like that guy ...when i have an important jump shot...because i make mine
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When the same person sends the cue ball flying across the room a dozen times or so you would think they would finally get the hint. It is really difficult to keep tossing it back to them instead of breaking out my Nolan Ryan fast ball. When they do it enough times on the break I have been known to step behind the foot of the table with a house cue and take a batter's stance waiting on their foul cue ball. Anybody really think that is sharking?

Hu
 
most of 'em are already listed but here are a few that irritates me the most.

1- When I have finished the session and I'm having a chat with my sparring partner and the waitress comes and put our cues on the wall rack (they are not sneaky petes) CAN'T YOU FUC**** TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HOUSE CUE AND A 2 PIECE-CUE WITH DESIGNS ON IT?!?!?!

2- When in the middle of a tournament, the waitress comes and tap on my shoulder in the middle of my shot asking me to pay for my orange juice....WAIT 10 MORE SECONDS!!! its not like they don't know there is a tournament going on...

3- People who don't apologize or wave their hand when they fluke a ball or fluke-safety.

4- People who light up their smoke inside while on their way out.

5- Pool rooms who won't let me play in the quiet section in the back on certain week nights because there are no waitresses working in that section.....I don't care, if I want something I'll go ask myself



Feels better hahaha
 
Pool Related Pet peeves

I have no problem with someone asking me if I want to play for money, once I say no thanks, I wish they would go ask someone else instead of saying things like , are you afraid , oh come on we can play cheap blah blah blah. I have found over the years that usually the people who are the most obnoxious don't have any money and normally stiff people if they lose anyway, at best they have a couple of barrels plus an air barrel or 2 if you allow it and when you beat them out of their 20 dollars you are a no good hustler or their pregnant wife comes in with another kid or 2 and goes nuts when she finds out they just blew the diaper money. I always had a heart and if I am going to have to give the money back after I win why should I gamble to begin with. If people want to gamble it's none of my business, enjoy yourselves. But if you keep bugging someone , maybe one day you will get this speech in person.
 
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