Should accuracy lines be drawn on pool tables?

Pretty unfathomable there would be any offense derived from being prohibited from drawing a line on a pool table when there are people out there who don't come to complete stops at stop signs and it is near impossible to buy a single unbruised and ripe banana at the grocery store.
Hey Coco...is that you???
 
I own some rental properties and have someone looking after them. Their job is to look after the buildings and tenants so I don't have to. I have no interest being day to day hands on with the buildings, which I expect the vast majority of owners feel the same way. A hard set rule for me is I will not deal with the tenants unless absolutely unavoidable (not even a handful over the years. My responsibility is to have the resources to keep the buildings in tip top shape. If tenants tried bothering me with nonsense like marking pool tables that are free to use I would be pissed off.

Poster had already asked to mark tables and response was no. Why risk having a bad relationship with the property manager if it is avoidable. Possibly getting on someone's bad side for a trivial matter does not make sense to me.
 
I live in a complex where we have 9' tables. The manager has absolutely said NO Lines can be drawn. I think that al least the line on the back of the foot spot so the rack can be set up accurately.... but NO. Thoughts?
I don't have any lines on my table and I somehow have managed to survive.
 
I don't have any lines on my table and I somehow have managed to survive.
Me too. Here, the local gimmick is that the 1b must go in one side pocket and the 15b must go in the other (it's a tico thing and there's even more to it) so most tables you see have "1" scrawled in white chalk on one side and "15" scrawled on the other.
 
I live in a complex where we have 9' tables. The manager has absolutely said NO Lines can be drawn. I think that al least the line on the back of the foot spot so the rack can be set up accurately.... but NO. Thoughts?
I guess you don't get any lines then

Buy your own table and draw all over it
 
Sometimes forgiveness is easier than permission. Do you really think some manager cares about alignment lines? He wants to avoid conflicts and that makes "no" easy.
It’s fair to say the tables are part of the community. Residents are not entitled to make their own rules/changes. It’s not their property. The manager is doing his job.
As for Forgiveness/Permission… that applies to marriage.
 
You don't need lines. It's not that hard to ascertain if a rack is proper, or if a cue ball is on, above, or behind the line. I've played for 77 years without lines.
I thought I was old , you and I been playing sense the late forties, I started in summer of 47 on snooker table, my dad... Guy
 
You don't need lines. It's not that hard to ascertain if a rack is proper, or if a cue ball is on, above, or behind the line. I've played for 77 years without lines.
I just don't understand why us on the forum have a right to say over his authority what he should do marking a table that doesn't belong to him...
Matt, I agree, I have nothing on my table but a sharpie dot.
Guy, I wonder why we are talking about something as trivial at all...
 
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