Tales of horror: When some MORON grabs your cue.

this didn't happen to me but it happened to a regular at the pool hall i used to go to . there was this chick (a regular) practicing by herself and she puts her cue down to go to the bathroom and this group of people 2 girls 1 guy all natural as can be walk up and picked up her cue and start playing on a different table. they looked so cumfortable doing it i didn't think twice. well when the girl gets back from the bathroom she freaks out and we realize what happened. she walks up to the group and and asks why they took her cue and from where i'm standing i can hear them say "i told you it was somebodys" and she takes her cue back. the rest of her night was shot she couldn't make a shot she was so disturbed by what had happend. and i don't blame her
 
Hail Mary Shot said:
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" ! :D

are you by any chance gay? you seem like to react like you are one. :confused: no offense.
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She's not, but there's at least a couple people here that are and others that have family members who are.
 
Hail Mary Shot said:
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" ! :D

are you by any chance gay? you seem like to react like you are one. :confused: no offense.
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Hail,

The point everyone is trying to make is the terms "queer", "fag", and "faggot" are terms that outside of England and British colonies, are UNIVERSALLY seen as vicious insults directed towards someone of the homosexual persuasion.

Most of the people see you using insults like that, and see it as obtuse, and generally words used by a person of either lower class, or a person who was raised to pass judgement on other people without knowing them.

I personally think we have progressed beyond calling other people names based on sexual preference, race, or religion. Call them stupid if you must, but I think most people on here would prefer you not to use words specifically known to attack racial, sexual, or religious groups.

Whether you realize it or not, people pass judgement on a person for using such inflammatory words. The forum was trying to do you a favor by letting you know that in general, we tend to be more highly educated, or at least cultured, people, and do not like being exposed to such negativity in our "home" environment as it were, these forums...

In case you wanted to know, I am fully hetero. Dudes just ain't my thing, man. But I've hung out with some gays in America, Thailand, and a few other countries. They were all just regular people. One of them shot pretty good snooker in Thailand.

If you have a personal prejudice against gays, I think we'd all rather you just kept it to yourself. No offense. And don't insult us by saying it was not meant to be derogatory towards gays. Unless you are just totally out of touch with society as a whole, you KNOW "faggot" is generally an insult directed towards gay men.

Russ
 
SO last week I set my cue on the table where my team is keeping score and walk over to another team to see if they had some good BS sessions going. LOL

When I walked back in like 3 minutes my cue was gone. So I start looking around and see these guys playing pool and one of them has my cue. (Three young 20 something guys and a girl pretending to be interested while she is really jamming to her I-Pod.) So I walk over to him and say, "So how does that cue play?" After looking at me completely perplexed (now I am wondering how much English they know), I said, "that's my $1500 cue...may I have it back?" The guy suddenly gets it, because he freaks out looking at it in his hands, starts trmbling and almost drops it on sheer nerves. I reached out instincly and catch it and say, "Easy there big fella, don't get hurt." I'm really thinking, please don't hurt it. He is like bowing alot and trying to say he is sorry. I said, "Don't sweat it bro, I acted that way when I bought the damn thing." :D

In all honesty my heart dropped about 10 notches in the second it wasn't on the table, but I was really cool with those guys. I knew he really had no idea.
 
Russ Chewning said:
Hail,

The point everyone is trying to make is the terms "queer", "fag", and "faggot" are terms that outside of England and British colonies, are UNIVERSALLY seen as vicious insults directed towards someone of the homosexual persuasion.

Most of the people see you using insults like that, and see it as obtuse, and generally words used by a person of either lower class, or a person who was raised to pass judgement on other people without knowing them.

I personally think we have progressed beyond calling other people names based on sexual preference, race, or religion. Call them stupid if you must, but I think most people on here would prefer you not to use words specifically known to attack racial, sexual, or religious groups.

Whether you realize it or not, people pass judgement on a person for using such inflammatory words. The forum was trying to do you a favor by letting you know that in general, we tend to be more highly educated, or at least cultured, people, and do not like being exposed to such negativity in our "home" environment as it were, these forums...

In case you wanted to know, I am fully hetero. Dudes just ain't my thing, man. But I've hung out with some gays in America, Thailand, and a few other countries. They were all just regular people. One of them shot pretty good snooker in Thailand.

If you have a personal prejudice against gays, I think we'd all rather you just kept it to yourself. No offense. And don't insult us by saying it was not meant to be derogatory towards gays. Unless you are just totally out of touch with society as a whole, you KNOW "faggot" is generally an insult directed towards gay men.

Russ
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Russ, I won't force you to believe on what you are trying to implicate me of saying such. If you think what I said was a complete insult to your intelligence, so be it. I clarified my point already , yet you tend on believing otherwise. I already said that I was willing to change "it" to "ROASTERS" (a.k.a, chicken < I believe this word has nothing with religion,race, nor sexuality) if it were uncomfortable to some people here.
don't worry, I'm absolutely not a TIM HARDAWAY. :D
 
RiverCity said:
If the cue was damaged..... the guy would be paying for it before he left. Cash or teeth...... his choice. :D
Chuck
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NO question about that ..
 
Donovan said:
SO last week I set my cue on the table where my team is keeping score and walk over to another team to see if they had some good BS sessions going. LOL

When I walked back in like 3 minutes my cue was gone. So I start looking around and see these guys playing pool and one of them has my cue. (Three young 20 something guys and a girl pretending to be interested while she is really jamming to her I-Pod.) So I walk over to him and say, "So how does that cue play?" After looking at me completely perplexed (now I am wondering how much English they know), I said, "that's my $1500 cue...may I have it back?" The guy suddenly gets it, because he freaks out looking at it in his hands, starts trmbling and almost drops it on sheer nerves. I reached out instincly and catch it and say, "Easy there big fella, don't get hurt." I'm really thinking, please don't hurt it. He is like bowing alot and trying to say he is sorry. I said, "Don't sweat it bro, I acted that way when I bought the damn thing." :D

In all honesty my heart dropped about 10 notches in the second it wasn't on the table, but I was really cool with those guys. I knew he really had no idea.
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One of the guys later was overheard saying that they recognized you from the fight saturday in Ft.Worth..let's face it your hard to disguise being the size of Hulk Hogan ! :eek:
 
Hail,
Please change it so we don't have to have this flame war.
Why doesn't everyone else delete quotes from him too.
Let's talk about something else...I'll give you a topic...
Pool and billiards!
 
i've always kept my cues in sight or had one of my friends keep them in sight. that being said though sometimes idiots (i'm calling them idiots for thinking a 2 piece predator 5k3 with z-2 shaft is a standard house cue) still pick up my cue right in front of me and want to start using it. like what the hell are u guys seriously that dumb? obviously i stop them before they move 2 feet with my cue but its still annoying.

one time when i was breaking this tool grabs my cue and starts screwing it together right in front of me. i was like "yo buddy what the hell are u doing". and he's like "i'm gonna use this". i'm thinking in my head that i should punch him in the face for being stupid but that might end up damaging my cue so i calmly say to him "thats my cue u cant use it". normally people would understand and apologize but this fool looks at me and asks "can i use it for now". at this point i was actually about to punch him in the face. as i started getting up from the table (i had bent down to take my break shot) my friend realized i was actually mad and quickly ran in and told the guy that the cue actually belonged to me. it turns out that idiot thought i meant it was mine as in it was a house cue i grabbed off the wall and am currently using. this just made me even more mad, to think someone can be so stupid. u see the poolhall filled with 1 piece bar cues that are brown in colour and u pick up my 2 piece black gabon ebony predator with z-2 shaft thinking it's also a house cue? and then still think it's a house cue after i tell u it's mine. like wtf, what do u say to that.
 
Hail Mary,

This is a warning.

Please read our rules so you avoid further confrontation, as the next warning will get you time off the board.


Dave
 
Danktrees said:
i've always kept my cues in sight or had one of my friends keep them in sight. that being said though sometimes idiots (i'm calling them idiots for thinking a 2 piece predator 5k3 with z-2 shaft is a standard house cue) still pick up my cue right in front of me and want to start using it. like what the hell are u guys seriously that dumb? obviously i stop them before they move 2 feet with my cue but its still annoying.

one time when i was breaking this tool grabs my cue and starts screwing it together right in front of me. i was like "yo buddy what the hell are u doing". and he's like "i'm gonna use this". i'm thinking in my head that i should punch him in the face for being stupid but that might end up damaging my cue so i calmly say to him "thats my cue u cant use it". normally people would understand and apologize but this fool looks at me and asks "can i use it for now". at this point i was actually about to punch him in the face. as i started getting up from the table (i had bent down to take my break shot) my friend realized i was actually mad and quickly ran in and told the guy that the cue actually belonged to me. it turns out that idiot thought i meant it was mine as in it was a house cue i grabbed off the wall and am currently using. this just made me even more mad, to think someone can be so stupid. u see the poolhall filled with 1 piece bar cues that are brown in colour and u pick up my 2 piece black gabon ebony predator with z-2 shaft thinking it's also a house cue? and then still think it's a house cue after i tell u it's mine. like wtf, what do u say to that.
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I saw the exact same thing happen once. The idiot (accurate word, imho) continued to argue that he should be able to use this cue that obviously belonged to someone else. This idiot just couldn't get it through his stupid skull that the cue was someone's private property. He thought he could still use it even though the owner said repeatedly that it was his private property. He complained and tried again to use it after being told 3 times that it wasn't his or the bars, but was private property. 3 times!!!:confused: Just how stupid can somone be after all that?...pretty stupid, that's how. He finally went away complaining (about US!) under his breath. :rolleyes:

I swear this guy must have never before had the concept of private property explained to him. He looked like he was on Mars.--stunned by the situation. Literally stunned! Bewildered and confused. I could almost hear his brain trying to figure it out, but it couldn't--the concept was so far beyond him. He had been so worked over by someone in his life that his brain had the emergency break on, unable to move forward an inch without mucho petrol.

I was glad that pool may have helped him grow a little...just a little...maybe.

Jeff Livingston
 
I have a good story to add to this thread...

Around 1988 or so I was playing in a collegiate tournament in Austin, TX. About 2 weeks before the tournament I had bought a McDermott D-16 that was my pride and joy. I was so protective of that cue.

Well, about 10 players had their case lying on one of the unused tables where the TD was set up with the bracket. I asked the TD if he would watch my cue and I went to mingle with some players I knew.

About 10 minutes later a guy (who I don't even know) comes up to me and says, "Some girl took your cue out of your case, screwed it together and it practicing with it on one of the back tables!" I thought I was going to die.

I went over to the girl and asked what she was doing with my cue. She replied, "I wanted to hit a few balls with it before I buy it." I told her how prudent that was, but that there was no way on earth she was going to buy that cue. I roughly took it away from her and walked off.

Where on earth she got the notion I was selling that cue I have no idea. In retrospect, though, you have to admire her pluck in just opening up someone's case and giving their cue a try. Not even a screwed together cue lying on a table, but one she had to pull out and assemble.

Well, it turns out that this girl was Sue Bazy (formerly associated with our own Grady Mathews).

She then spent the remainder of the tournament telling people what a jerk I was for not letting her hit balls with my cue before she bought it.

Strange girl to say the least!
 
My last cue was a custom woodworth. I made the mistake of allowing my brother to shoot with it on my table at home. He grounds the cue on an angle and bap, chips the the ivory in the butt. I was so pissed. I have since traded the cue in and got a judd. I wont make the same mistake twice..
 
thrasher789 said:
I've never had a complete stranger pick up my cue but sometimes when my friends come over they'll unknowinly grab my cue off the wall instead of one of my house cues and start to use it, usually I don't mind but it can be stressful if they are sporadic and don't seem to care much about taking care of it.
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That's why my cue goes in the case at home if I'm expecting company. Seeing me remove it from the case and carefully assemble it gives a subtle hint that it's "special". I have four decent Players cues on the wall so it's not like I'm making guests play with a banana.

But non-players simply don't understand. I even had to educate my wife, shortly after we got our table about a year ago. I travel a lot and was on the way to the airport and realized that I had left my cue on the table. I knew that some family were coming over while I was gone so I called my wife and asked her to put it away. I could "hear" her rolling her eyes over the phone and she reluctantly agreed to do it, while telling me how anal I was being.

When I got home, I got my cue out and politely asked her to examine it, especially the pristine dingless shaft. Then I explained that the cue was fifteen years old and that I'd played hundreds of games with it without a ding. She already knew how dinged up our new house cues got after just one party so she understood completely.

It's the same way with any nice equipment. I water ski competitively and my ski is worth about $1200 and it's very precisely tuned. Guests are often disappointed when I won't let them use it. Never mind that I have last year's model available to them which is set up for guests. Go figure...

Tom
 
I would get your money for it, the B2K looks nothing like a house cue, and plus its like 350$!! If there was that many dents in the shaft then you should have made him pay for it, a new shaft at least. Your friend might have been so calm because he didn't know what to do, because its so outragous. I would prob. take down the guy it he even touched my cue. Man, that would piss me off so bad. :mad: I'm sorry to hear that.
 
Dead Money said:
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!!
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An employee at Bud's in Milton took 3 of our sticks that had inlays and put them on the house rack to clean up.

Also to any waitstaff across America do not take my drink or food without asking me if I'm done with it. 50 percent of the time when they "clean up" I am not finished and I will ask to be reimbursed.
 
Luxury said:
An employee at Bud's in Milton took 3 of our sticks that had inlays and put them on the house rack to clean up.

Also to any waitstaff across America do not take my drink or food without asking me if I'm done with it. 50 percent of the time when they "clean up" I am not finished and I will ask to be reimbursed.
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I know exactly what you mean with the food and drink. I hate when there is a little bit of soda left, and you are going to drink it in a little while. Then you turn your back, and its gone! You don't even have any ice to suck on anymore!
 
arsenius said:
Last night some ir-regular at the pool hall grabbed my friend's Predator BK2. Before he noticed it, this guy was beating the cue against the table to get the excess chalk off! There's this big cloud of dust in the air...and like 15 dents in my friend's shaft. All the way from the joint to about 8 inches above it.

My friend was remarkably calm afterwards. Unfortunately it was hard for me to get details since he only speaks Korean. I was pissed off though. I get angry when someone just touches my cue (unless I know them of course. Or if I see them do it). I don't mind if someone grabs my sneaky pete by accident, but if they grab my playing cue... I mean, come on! They look nothing like a house cue!

So, tell me your tales of horror. What's the worst that has ever happened to you. What would you do if someone beat the crap out of your stick. Should they pay for it, or is it your fault?
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Not my cue, but the guy I was playing...

At this one pool hall, the bathroom is right next to the 1pocket table. I was playing a guy named Brett, who had just gotten a very nice new SP. I think it may have been a Buss or Joss. Anywhos, we finish a game and Brett lays his cue down on the table to go to the bathroom. Only the cue ball and one other ball near a corner pocket are on the table. I'm sitting in a chair along with a bunch of rail birds sweating the match.

Hobbling along comes The Professor (not Grady) Bill Hendricks, the very nice gentleman who wrote "The History of Pool." He's up in age and moves pretty slowly and is making his way to the bathroom, when he sees the cue and balls and gets inspired. Suddenly, he picks up Brett's brand new shiny SP -- probably thinking it was a house cue -- and turns to those of us on the rail and says, "Have you guys ever seen this shot?"

Before anyone realizes what he's about to do, or explain it's not a house cue, or stop him, he grabs the butt of the cue with both hands and does the: running the cue ball down the long rail, using the shaft of the cue to send the cue ball around the table five rails, to make a ball in the jaws shot. (If you've seen this shot you know you basically have to use enough pressure to bend the shaft pretty good to rake the cue ball down the rail and put enough spin on the cue ball to get enough rails to make the shot.

He makes the shot, puts the cue down, and in blissful ignorance continues his slow march to the bathroom.

We all looked at each other for a second, sort of just in shock at what we had just seen happen to a $300 SP, then burst out laughing and enjoyed telling Brett over and over again -- in excruciating detail -- what had just happen to his brand new cue :-)

Lou Figueroa
 
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