Tales of horror: When some MORON grabs your cue.

[ShootingArts]

assumptions

Not that Queer becoz they are really queer. I meant Queer becoz they ran their silly arses off when confronted Mano A Mano after they had made fun of our lonesome friend when we weren't there yet!

That wonderful old stereotyping. Very accurate at times but when I was climbing iron for a living we had a guy working the job that was an admitted homosexual and proud of it. This was on a construction crew in the early seventies, not a remarkably tolerant bunch.

A couple of men ragged him pretty hard and he ignored it for weeks. It finally got a little physical one day and the homo announced, "You have "fouled" up now, the only thing I like better than (sorry edited again) is whipping ass!" He proceeded to prove his point and at six four or five and over two-fifty he had little difficulty making a believer out of the one ragging him. Lesson learned, homosexuals are not necessarily wimps!

Hu

 

[PaulL]

Once, my buddy and I were practicing on separate tables and he left to go to the bathroom. I looked over and noticed him gone and just kinda naturally checked to see if his stuff was alright. Well, his cue was gone, so I start looking around freaking out (this was a $600 custom) and some butthead actually has it laying across the 2 long rails and is JUMPING balls over it. I got to him just as he was about to shoot at it again and shoved him out of the way. While he was getting up off the floor (oops, shoved too hard), I grabbed the cue and said, "See these (pointing at inlays)? Those mean it's NOT YOURS, DUMB***!" Well, he went up to the bar and complained about me roughing him, and they were gonna give me the boot until I told them what he was doing. After they heard that, all was cool and the guy left. My clueless goober buddy comes up to me, still at the bar, and says "hey, grab me something to drink, too." I told him I wasn't getting his dumb butt a drink and the next time he goes to the bathroom, the cue better go with him.

 

[acedotcom]

I'd put a few dings in his freakin' head!

 

[PaulL]

Luckily, the guy was a good jumper. No dings. I forgot that part.

 

[Hail Mary Shot]

That wonderful old stereotyping. Very accurate at times but when I was climbing iron for a living we had a guy working the job that was an admitted homosexual and proud of it. This was on a construction crew in the early seventies, not a remarkably tolerant bunch.

A couple of men ragged him pretty hard and he ignored it for weeks. It finally got a little physical one day and the homo announced, "You have "fouled" up now, the only thing I like better than (sorry edited again) is whipping ass!" He proceeded to prove his point and at six four or five and over two-fifty he had little difficulty making a believer out of the one ragging him. Lesson learned, homosexuals are not necessarily wimps!

Hu

just edited my last post. you mistook it for somethin and it's not stereotypin as what I was tryin to point out. the point is that those guys were acting like a bunch of hotshots bullying our lonesome friend. the queer word was used as a description on how they acted later on when we confronted them. Lesson learned, Don't bully a person just becoz you have some backup. who knows, the one you are roughing up got somebody on his sleeves as well. Again, Queer but not the Queery Queer !

 

[Donovan]

What happened to me recently was more funny. I don't tote a break cue so I grab a cue off the wall to break with. If it has a tip on it and I don't get splinters in my hand when I slide my fingers down the shaft, good enough. I place it in my Porper clamp on cue holder by my table with my cue. I did this recently at a pool hall that has largely been taken over by the traveling construction crews in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans.

Every few minutes I would be interrupted by someone asking if I was using that cue. Over a dozen more on the wall but that one had to be special because I had it. Finally I let someone take it and grabbed another off the wall. Need I tell anyone what happened next? Of course this was now the new magic cue.

It's a nice hall owned by a pro player and the most convenient one to me by about an hour travel time round trip but it is losing it's appeal in a hurry.

Hu

LMAO!!! I love the Magic Cue Theory...JFK conspiritors...eat your hearts out! Man, this is a good thread....When I get back from playing, I can't wait to read more of these....And I'll tell you about mine that happpend just last week. Oh, sorry in advance, to anyone who may have made the JFK joke already as I did not get to read all of these yet!

 

[Hail Mary Shot]

What happened to me recently was more funny. I don't tote a break cue so I grab a cue off the wall to break with. If it has a tip on it and I don't get splinters in my hand when I slide my fingers down the shaft, good enough. I place it in my Porper clamp on cue holder by my table with my cue. I did this recently at a pool hall that has largely been taken over by the traveling construction crews in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans.

Every few minutes I would be interrupted by someone asking if I was using that cue. Over a dozen more on the wall but that one had to be special because I had it. Finally I let someone take it and grabbed another off the wall. Need I tell anyone what happened next? Of course this was now the new magic cue.

It's a nice hall owned by a pro player and the most convenient one to me by about an hour travel time round trip but it is losing it's appeal in a hurry.

Hu

try to put a Predator Logo on a crappy house cue! that would make it a lot more magical !
Observe what the people there got to say after they borrowed your special cue if it improved their stroke or the cue was dead-on !

 

[5ballcharlie]

I was once practicing in this poolroom that had a few ping pong tables. I was sitting by my table, taking a small break when a ping pong ball rolled under my table. Well, the guy walks over and grabs my cue to sweep the ball out. I immediately barked, "HEY, THAT'S A $500 CUE. THE $3 BROOM IS THE **** OVER THERE!"

haha thats funny. I have never had a problem with people just using my cue.

 

[Hail Mary Shot]

A good name for a cue would be a BOOM STICK !!! go figure !

 

[rackmsuckr]

just edited my last post. you mistook it for somethin and it's not stereotypin as what I was tryin to point out. the point is that those guys were acting like a bunch of hotshots bullying our lonesome friend. the queer word was used as a description on how they acted later on when we confronted them. Lesson learned, Don't bully a person just becoz you have some backup. who knows, the one you are roughing up got somebody on his sleeves as well. Again, Queer but not the Queery Queer !

I don't get it. If you didn't mean Queery Queer, then why did you use the term fag or faggot 5 or 6 times after the word queer, like it was the worst insult you can throw? FWIW, I think the term 'idiot' might have been more applicable.

 

[Dead Money]

At a tourney the other night one of the waitresses put my special house cue that I break with and my cherrished wood to wood sneaky pete back on the rack as she was going around cleaning the place up.....twice. Once while I was in the bathroom and once when I was just a few feet away. Except for her nice big bOObs I have no use for her at all!!

 

[PoolBum]

I was playing with my Schon in a sports-bar type place one time. I had my cue on the table after a game and turned away for a few moments. When I looked back my cue was gone!

I frantically started looking around, and I spied a waitress putting my Schon in a wall rack of house cues. I hurried over and grabbed my cue, and she said, 'Oh, is that yours? I thought it was a house cue." This cue had ebony points and about 64 pieces of ivory in it.

Not too long ago I was playing a set in a regular pool hall here in Santa Monica, and I had my Predator break cue on the table next to the one I was playing on. Sure enough, I finish a game and look up and my cue is gone. So I look around and two tables over some guy is shooting with my cue. So I went over and told him it was my cue, and he looked at it and said "This is a house cue." I was already pissed, and that made me madder, so I grabbed the cue out of his hands and unscrewed it and said, "Does this look like the other house cues you see here!" He just said, "Sorry, how was I supposed to know?"

Unfortunately, it wasn't until later that day that I noticed the gash in the butt end of the cue.

 

[Stones]

I was at a tourney earlier this week when one of the tourney players who I didn't know picks up my sneaky pete and starts to walk off with it.

He says it's his and we exchange words with him bowing up and wanting to fight. A friend of his calmly walked up, took the cue from him and handed it back to me. He looked at his friend and said, "Idiot, your cue is over there!", pointing at the next table over from mine.

No apology. The really nice thing was I caught him in the second round and drilled him without him winning a game. He wouldn't shake my hand and even mouthed off about playing for something after the tourney.

When about 10 guys jumped up and asked if they could get a side bet against him, he finally got the message and shut up.

One of the worst things about playing with a sneaky pete is someone is always trying to walk off with it. At least a dozen times over the years a waitress has picked mine up and put in the wall rack.

The really fun part is when someone has walked off with my cue and I start walking from table to table looking for it. People look at me like I'm some kind of perv when I approach their table until I mumble something about looking for my cue. LOL

Stones

 

[breakup]

I was playing in a bar once and had a sneaky pete with a brand new tip nicely shaped. I had it leaning against the wall. I was talking to a friend a few feet away.

Some guy walks up and picks up my cue, before I have a chance to say anything he looks at the tip puts mine back and grabs a ratty house cue next to mine with a mushroomed tip looks at it and nods like he just found the perfect cue and walks away.

I was astonished.

 

[Hail Mary Shot]

I don't get it. If you didn't mean Queery Queer, then why did you use the term fag or faggot 5 or 6 times after the word queer, like it was the worst insult you can throw? FWIW, I think the term 'idiot' might have been more applicable.

Well, what would you call a pack of individuals who pick on a lonesome person? brave?

Actually, I tried to apply the word Idiot to those people, but it doesn't seem fit their personality on how they run away after seeing their match. however in any case, if you felt offended by the word fag, I would gladly change it "Roasters" !

are you by any chance gay? you seem like to react like you are one. no offense.

 

[Hail Mary Shot]

I was at a tourney earlier this week when one of the tourney players who I didn't know picks up my sneaky pete and starts to walk off with it.

He says it's his and we exchange words with him bowing up and wanting to fight. A friend of his calmly walked up, took the cue from him and handed it back to me. He looked at his friend and said, "Idiot, your cue is over there!", pointing at the next table over from mine.

No apology. The really nice thing was I caught him in the second round and drilled him without him winning a game. He wouldn't shake my hand and even mouthed off about playing for something after the tourney.

When about 10 guys jumped up and asked if they could get a side bet against him, he finally got the message and shut up.

One of the worst things about playing with a sneaky pete is someone is always trying to walk off with it. At least a dozen times over the years a waitress has picked mine up and put in the wall rack.

The really fun part is when someone has walked off with my cue and I start walking from table to table looking for it. People look at me like I'm some kind of perv when I approach their table until I mumble something about looking for my cue. LOL

Stones

your cue must have a lot of sex appeal to catch that kind of attention.

 

[Hail Mary Shot]

I was playing in a bar once and had a sneaky pete with a brand new tip nicely shaped. I had it leaning against the wall. I was talking to a friend a few feet away.

Some guy walks up and picks up my cue, before I have a chance to say anything he looks at the tip puts mine back and grabs a ratty house cue next to mine with a mushroomed tip looks at it and nods like he just found the perfect cue and walks away.

I was astonished.

did you put your name on the tip?

 

[arsenius]

your cue must have a lot of sex appeal to catch that kind of attention.

Dude, don't talk to Stones. I heard he's a perv.;-)

Great stories guys, keep 'em coming. I haven't heard anything worse than what happened to my friend the other night yet! Who doesn't love schadenfreude!

 

[cigardave]

rackmsuckr... are you by any chance gay? you seem like to react like you are one. no offense.

I can't wait for Linda's response to this one.

 

[Pushout]

Oh shit!!... I can't wait for Linda's response to this one.

Yup, should be a hoot!!