What would you do?

[TheThaiger]

I saw enough...I did not like what I saw

Wallowing in self-pity enough to find offense in anything pertaining to race is like, y'know, sooo 1986.

Still, always good to see the putrefied corpse of political correctness dug up for old times sake. It's cathartic, innit?

 

[pt109]

I play the owner of my pool hall every week. He wins I pay double for the table time. I win I get the table time and drinks free. Its nothing serious just friends playing for some bragging rights. So that was the situation I was in.

We were about 5 games in and a group of around 6 guys came and played on the table directly next to us. No big deal. Then they all take their shoes off and they HAD NO SOCKS ON...wtf? Right, they were all Chinese...maybe that's how they roll in China idk...but the smell of feet was off putting to say the least. They were playing some kind of combination between a card game and pool and were having a great time but they were being really loud. They could of all been slightly deaf...idk. No big deal. But everyone, around 30 or so people in the pool hall were getting pissed. They all stood around the table so shooting a shot on the side closest to their table became impossible so everytime (like 15 times, after the 2nd you'd realize) I had to ask them if I could just squeeze in and shoot my shot. No big deal.

The combination of smelly feet, shouting and having no common decency started to piss me off. Then as I'm down to take a shot one of the guys (I'd say twice my age and in his 50s) bumps into me pushing me off balance and making me miscue like a MF. I stand up, he looks at me I look at him waiting for the appology and he turns around and acts like nothing happend. So I confront him and get a tonne of abuse in Chinese so I offer to wrap his cue around his face. Now no violence happened and the owner told them to pay and leave, which they did.

I was thinking after if I could have handled the situation better. And regretted the way I conducted my self. I lost my cool and that wasn't cool.

What would you guys have done?

I'm putting this situation on the owner...he should learn how to run his
room.
People play pool for different reasons...fun players shouldn't be around
serious players....assign the tables accordingly.

 

[Pidge]

really, you offered to beat him with your cue cause he accidently bumped into you and he did not say sorry?

Yeah, you gotta way bent out of shape over nothing. A good dirty look and then reset the balls and continue shooting.... and then ask your buddy to throw the dumb arses out.....

I mean, to start a fight over a bump is pretty childish, and usually done by young guys who drink too much while in bars ( and pool halls I guess)

But threatening someone with a pool cue is a crime in itself, it's called assault. He bumped you, and you stepped it up to a felony..... do you kinda see now that you over reacted just a shade

Certainly nothing worth breaking a guys skull open, going to jail, and/or being sued........

You wanted an honest answer, so I gave it. Don't be hatin'

Yeah fair play.

Probably did lose my shit too quick.

A lesson was learnt. Next time I'd think twice.