When I was younger, I would play for hours on a fuzzy-clothed 3.5 x 7 valley.
These times I spent in the local gamerooms and pool halls were the memories that brought me back years later to start playing again. I spend a great deal of money now to play on Gold Crowns and Diamonds with Simonis cloth and Aramith balls. My regular hangouts always have good chalk and a brushed table.
Well, last night I went to a Christmas get-together at a local sports bar which I have been to only once before. They have four coin-op bar tables, and some of my co-workers challenged me to step up and play nine ball.
I went to the truck for my cues because the house cues were...........uugh.......let's just not speak of the house cues. I broke a $5 at the bar for quarters and headed back over to the tables to find it was my turn to play. I shot 2 games and quit. The balls sucked, the rails sucked, the cloth sucked, and the competition sucked.
Have I become some kind of elitist?
I find I can't just enjoy bangin 'em around with my non pool playing friends anymore.
I absolutely can't take a date to play pool.
I can't enjoy playing, unless the equipment and adversaries score a passing grade.
I AM NOT like this with anything else.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Does it pass?
These times I spent in the local gamerooms and pool halls were the memories that brought me back years later to start playing again. I spend a great deal of money now to play on Gold Crowns and Diamonds with Simonis cloth and Aramith balls. My regular hangouts always have good chalk and a brushed table.
Well, last night I went to a Christmas get-together at a local sports bar which I have been to only once before. They have four coin-op bar tables, and some of my co-workers challenged me to step up and play nine ball.
I went to the truck for my cues because the house cues were...........uugh.......let's just not speak of the house cues. I broke a $5 at the bar for quarters and headed back over to the tables to find it was my turn to play. I shot 2 games and quit. The balls sucked, the rails sucked, the cloth sucked, and the competition sucked.
Have I become some kind of elitist?
I find I can't just enjoy bangin 'em around with my non pool playing friends anymore.
I absolutely can't take a date to play pool.
I can't enjoy playing, unless the equipment and adversaries score a passing grade.
I AM NOT like this with anything else.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Does it pass?