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Island Drive

Island Drive

Otto/Dads College Roommate/Cleveland Browns
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This has happened twice now. TX 2 yrs ago, another this yr in CO.
These two moments were with male opponents, VERY nicely dressed (Friday night stuff) and likely in their mid thirties.
Both were good looking, in their moment.
Me.... I'm old.
I make a few early on mistakes, opponent Knows they got the best of it and the score shows they do.
Matters settle down on your end Only.
I come back and win.
Then, the other 2-legged male animal has a complete character change.
THis has only Happened with men dressed to the 10's, cue and case included on a weekend pool event night. :)
 
Zar.... NO one will come up to you and ask you to gamble.... and work out a game.
 
Thought the Floydster might be taking a shot at Tournament Director when I first opened this. Color me disappointed.
 
Island Drive said:
This has happened twice now. TX 2 yrs ago, another this yr in CO.
These two moments were with male opponents, VERY nicely dressed (Friday night stuff) and likely in their mid thirties.
Both were good looking, in their moment.
Me.... I'm old.
I make a few early on mistakes, opponent Knows they got the best of it and the score shows they do.
Matters settle down on your end Only.
I come back and win.
Then, the other 2-legged male animal has a complete character change.
THis has only Happened with men dressed to the 10's, cue and case included on a weekend pool event night. :)
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Comes with being big and bent and gray and old I have found, especially if I am a little slow out the gate. Nice guys when they think they have a walkover, not so nice when they are scrabbling to survive, and definitely not nice when they find that their "walkover" just gave them an asswhipping! To make matters worse their buddies are asking what the hell happened. Generally they figure the old geezer got lucky. Might be true. What matters though is the W.

Laugh when your recent opponent is a bit of a jerk. That just means you have won twice!

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Comes with being big and bent and gray and old I have found, especially if I am a little slow out the gate. Nice guys when they think they have a walkover, not so nice when they are scrabbling to survive, and definitely not nice when they find that their "walkover" just gave them an asswhipping! To make matters worse their buddies are asking what the hell happened. Generally they figure the old geezer got lucky. Might be true. What matters though is the W.

Laugh when your recent opponent is a bit of a jerk. That just means you have won twice!

Hu
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Island Drive said:
This has happened twice now. TX 2 yrs ago, another this yr in CO.
These two moments were with male opponents, VERY nicely dressed (Friday night stuff) and likely in their mid thirties.
Both were good looking, in their moment.
Me.... I'm old.
I make a few early on mistakes, opponent Knows they got the best of it and the score shows they do.
Matters settle down on your end Only.
I come back and win.
Then, the other 2-legged male animal has a complete character change.
THis has only Happened with men dressed to the 10's, cue and case included on a weekend pool event night. :)
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Seems like a good time to tell this story…

Lots of years ago in Colorado Springs I was friends with a guy who worked at the Air Force Academy and loved to play pool. And he was pretty decent. Based on Fargo I would say his top speed when he was younger approached 700 and at this time as a working man in his early 30s could still string racks. Maybe 625-650 Fargo.

Islanddrive would wander in from time to time and I introduced them. He noticed the deference everybody gave him and figured he was a good player. I confirmed this.

A few weeks later I ran into him and he related this story.

“I played that guy IslandDrive the other day. “

“How’d it go?”

“Well, I started out pretty strong. Won the first two games and then I ran a rack from the break on him. That must have pissed him off because he shot me a glare and I knew I was in trouble. Then he reached down into the bowels of hell and brought forth a game like I’ve never seen. I never saw another shot. Every time I got to the table I was on the rail, blocked, frozen to a ball. It was terrible. I never won another game!”

“Yep, that’s Island Drive all right. I told you he could play.”

lol.
 
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