Really wierd thing happened during 9-ball... Rules?

[Clark_the_Shark]

So last night I'm playing this guy some 9-ball sets. The next table over is a "pool friend" of mine which I was chatting with a little. During a time when I was looking in my friend's direction, my opponent was shooting at the 2-ball and missed. I looked up, came to the table and shot the 2-ball in. Then as I was looking around the table at the rest of the layout, I notice the 1-ball still on the table. I look at him in disbelief and say "whoa, that's funny" and he gives me the exact same look. We didn't know what to do, but I thought to myself "well, I'm the last one to shoot and it's my fault I didn't look at the table, so it's definately a foul on my part. And I didn't call his foul so it must be he is in the clear." So I just moved the ball over to him and gave him ball-in-hand.

Oh well. Been playing for 12 years, never seen that before.

 

[MilwShooter]

You were right. If you didn't call foul and then shot...it's all you. Two weeks ago my opponent shot at the wrong ball and I was nice enough (dumb enough)to say something. Last week it happened again, only this time I waited until after he shot to mention the ball he forgot about. Oddly...both times were ball in hand opportunities for my opponent.

 

[mooseman]

Yeah...I've had it happen several times. Usually my opponent calls me on it because at least they are paying attention.......

I call it my Gray Hair disease or at least bad eyesight........