526 AZ Junkie
It was terrible, a real
nightmare I'm tellin' you! After an hour or two, I totally started Jonesin'. Before you knew it, I was on the street corner saying, "Pssssst, hey buddy, you got any AZ?" I had dropped to a new low. That guy gave me what I thought was some AZ. I tried to take it and BAM...I felt like crap. I realized he had givin' me some bad CTE crap. I've heard too much of it will kill you...or at least paralyze your game.
Still needing my AZ fix, I went searching again. I dropped by the local pool hall only to find it had gone out of business. It had a sign hanging on the door that said, "
CLOSED. Thank you Bob, Larry, the hooker and that lock artist guy who sat in the corner all day, every day and bought one Coke last month!"
Not deterred, I had to find some AZ and quick. I walked behind the pool hall and into the alley. What I saw was very sad in retrospect, but at that point it looked like everything I needed. Broken pool cues littered the alley. The smell of cigarettes, booze, half eaten hotdogs and day old donuts. I knew I could find some AZ here.
Desperate, I asked the first group of people I saw. I told them I was looking for a little AZ. With a little smirk on his face, the guy looked to his buddy and said, "PocketPoint, you got what he's looking for?" He slowly looked up with a sheepish grin and said, "Yep." This is the fewest word ever spoken by him because at that point I just realized who these guys were. It was PocketPoint, C. Carl McDonnell, Fast Larry, sc5. They were notorious
Thread Troll Gang. I knew I was in trouble, but I needed it bad. I took whatever they had. I asked them what they needed for it. They said all of it...give it all to us. I needed it so bad, I just gave it to them...all the green rep I had left. I was so broke, an alert message flashed before my eyes saying, "I must spread some rep around first."
Relieved to get out of there with my sanity and a small package of AZ, I quickly headed to the first pub I saw. I walked in. I looked around and to my horror, I only saw dart boards and Karaoke. I bolted out of there as faster that Earl in stroke on an 8 footer.
Down the street and saw a tavern with neon beer signs. I knew this was the place. I walked in through the back door. This place was quiet as a church. Every person at the bar slowly turned and looked at me as if I was a hustler or something. With confidence I walked up to the bar, ordered a Bud Light and a shot of Jager. I bought the fellas at the bar a beer and asked if anyone wanted to try some AZ with me.
One fella said, "Sure. How much you got?" I said I got all the AZ you want. We walked over to the Valley coin op. I took out what I had just gotten from the
Thread Troll Gang. I emptied it on to the worn out, stained, nappy cloth. I started to spread it out. My fingers waved through the stuff. First slowly and then building to a frantic pace. My heart was racing faster than ever before. I looked up in to the billiard light with both hands on my head, "NOOoooo, not again!" I yelled. They had given me an assortment of little round object with different labels like, APA, NIT, ACS, BIH, and one I had never seen before ABP.
I staggered out the tavern and looked up in the sky toward the pool Gods with blood shot eyes like I had been playing an all night set. I cryingly said, "Why? Why? Why me Willie?"
That was it. I had to find some AZ, somewhere, somehow. I had hit my all-time low. That's when I saw Fatboy2 drive by in the Bentley. I wondered what the hell he was doing in this bad neighborhood. Soon after that, I saw other AZers wondering the street too. There was JoeyA, T (aka The Poet), Satman (sometimes known as crash), Blue Hog Rdr, Black-Balled, Luxury, Jay Helfert, Kickin' Chicken, akaTrigger, justadub...everywhere I looked I saw AZers. It looked like a scene from the living dead. A gaze on all of there faces just like they drew Efren in round one of the Derby City.
Everything was moving in slow motion, almost everything. I heard this tap, tap, tap sound. Thats when I saw the StarBucks cafe and JAM. She too had a blank stare on her face and only typing 72 words per minute. But then I saw a little sparkle in her eye. I looked around expecting to see the Hurricane, but he was nowhere to be seen. I looked back at JAM, her typing quickened. 74 wpm, 86 wpm, 112 wpm. Faster and faster she typed. 160, 195, 228, 526 wpm! It was a magic number, the same magic number of the late, great Mr. Mosconi.
I couldn't believe it. Everywhere I looked now I saw the number 526. Fire engine 526 drove by. 526 was the address of the pool hall. Even Faboys license plate was 526. I knew at that point everything was going to be all right. I hurried back to my apartment at 526 Breakout Drive. I quickly turned on my computer. Without hesitation, I hit the AZ bookmark.
Then to my delight, I had an additional 526 new green reps! More rep points than I could ever imagine! Once again proving
AZers will always triumph over the
Thread Trolls.
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