A letter from a dear deceased friend -- Walter "Whip" Sutton. This is for you--I miss you man!
Walter "Whip" Sutton said:Hey Bob, you do know about what billiards addiction symptoms are right?
1. You wear two retractable chalk holders one for your chalk and one for its back-up.
2. Your front lawn has a rectangular putting green with 4 corner holes and 2 in the sides.
3. Your dinner table has Simonis cloth place mats.
4. Your eyesight won't let you read the numbers on the balls, but you refuse to wear eyeglasses because you have trouble with the rims.
5. Your pencil erasers have either a nickel or dime radius.
6. Your ping-pong serve has a pre-shot routine.
7. You get up two hours early to shoot a few racks of pool to get motivated for the day.
8. You have 8-ball caps for your tire's valve stems 9. When the expression "Nice Rack" makes you think of billiards before females.
10. You cannot sleep cause you are thinking to much about missing a shot
11. Your cue costs more then your car.
12. You go to the races and bet on 9 every time.
13. You think of wood in terms of how "sweet" they hit.
14. You never take a trip anywhere without finding out where the pool halls are located first.
15. When you go out to dinner you always carry a piece of chalk just in case.
16. You just played 2 hours ago but it feels like eons since you last picked up your cue.
17. You've watched every pool movie ever made multiple times, even the crappy ones.
18. You give away your old pool cues to friends as an excuse to buy a more expensive cue.
19. Your cue case holds multiple cues and it is completely full.
20. You carry your cues everywhere, to work, anywhere as long as you don't have to leave it in your car.
And last but not least, and certainly the most important:
21. Get to work on time tomorrow or I'll can your ass.
Whip