(with apologies to Lerner and Lowe)
So the other day I'm practicing and a younger fellow comes up to me and asks, "Are you a single?"
?
Am I a single?
So I query, "Huh?'
And he says, "Are you playing alone?"
And I says, "Yes."
Then he says, "Do you want to mess around?"
Do I want to mess around?
As you can imagine, by now, I've heard all the pool hall questions and know when someone is asking me to play for funnsies and just knock them around (which I always decline out of principle) or to play for money (which I generally accept if I don't recognize the fellow posing the question from a DVD, stream, or the last few brackets of a tournament chart). But this is new uncharted territory and I was momentarily flummox but eventually decide he's just a banger looking for another banger to play for fun and I say, "No."
But then afterwards... I was thinking to myself: maybe that's the new, "Play some?"
Has the parade passed me by?
(with apologies to Jerry Herman)
Lou Figueroa
So the other day I'm practicing and a younger fellow comes up to me and asks, "Are you a single?"
?
Am I a single?
So I query, "Huh?'
And he says, "Are you playing alone?"
And I says, "Yes."
Then he says, "Do you want to mess around?"
Do I want to mess around?
As you can imagine, by now, I've heard all the pool hall questions and know when someone is asking me to play for funnsies and just knock them around (which I always decline out of principle) or to play for money (which I generally accept if I don't recognize the fellow posing the question from a DVD, stream, or the last few brackets of a tournament chart). But this is new uncharted territory and I was momentarily flummox but eventually decide he's just a banger looking for another banger to play for fun and I say, "No."
But then afterwards... I was thinking to myself: maybe that's the new, "Play some?"
Has the parade passed me by?
(with apologies to Jerry Herman)
Lou Figueroa