What's your pet peeve?

I was thinking about this guy I used to hang out with a lot.

Basically, if you took every pet peeve mentioned on here and rolled them all into one person, you would have this guy.

He was constantly talking to me or standing next to me while I would shoot. He would steal the damn chalk of the table and sit it god only knows where. He would run off leaving me waiting for him to return for his chance to shoot.
But yeah, we don't hang out anymore...

My personal pet peeve, also started by this guy, is people that will ONLY play 8 ball. How ****ing boring is that?

And, as someone mentioned earlier, I can't handle people that don't understand the beauty of a safety.
 
I don't like people who are unfriendly without a reason to be.

I remember playing some one pocket at a table next to a lady I had never seen before. We were bunting and banking...etc. Anyhoo, I notice that she's trying the same natural position shot over and over but hitting it all wrong. She's doing A but trying to get the cueball to follow the B path. She's not drawing whitey close to the corner on the first rail and she's hitting it too hard.

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So after watching her get frustrated for 10 minutes with this shot, I walk over and ask if I can show her how I'd play the shot. She is for some reason strongly offended by this. She starts to yell at me and tell me how she doesn't give a f*** what I think. She says that she doesn't "come out here" to have people talk to her. She's cursing at me and waving her arms around like a rabid primate.

I let her yell at me for 2 or 3 minutes, hoping she would calm down...then calmly blasted her with a critique of her poor social skills while my buddy cackled in the backround.
 
oncepkt said:
Several years ago I heard of a road player who Bumped balls so much it looked like he got lucky shapes on just about every shot. I don't recall the name. It was in the south east.
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I heard of that guy, in the Mid-west he was called Bumper!!!!!:D
 
I knew a guy who was unfriendly and I asked him about it, he said well its part of the game. I guess he was interested in gaining any advantages he thought he found.
 
gman_tx said:
People that have a lit cigarette dangling from their mugs while shooting. The smoke in most places is bad enough but you could at least respect the tables.
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I was wondering when this one would come up. I hate to see this! I'm a smoker but I do know how to use an ashtray!:mad:
 
PKM said:
Although I shouldn't let it bother me, I hate when your opponent cheers for your mistake instead of for their own play.
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Ditto. A couple weeks ago, while playing in pool league, I grazed one of my opponents balls while shooting the 8-ball into the corner. Since rules say you have to make the 8 clean, I lost. The other team gave their guy, who hadn't pocketed a ball, a whooping standing ovation and couldn't understand it when I called them a bunch of f'in pussies.
 
1) Folks who sign up on a list to play on a coin op table and then when they're up after a half hour of waiting, have to go get change.

2) Folks who take the chaulk with them after their turn is over.

3) Folks who get grease all over the cue ball from eating without at least wiping their hands before they shoot.

I think we should be discussing penalties as well! :D
 
My area is so bad, people actually go sing karoake during the f--ng game. I am actually stunned how rude people can be. I don't mind slow play if the player is actually good, but can't stand people who can't make a ball to begin with ,taking their time on every little shot. Unfortunately, there is no pool hall in my town. Just bars. Which reminds me, I hate people who insult people who play on 7 footers because, quite frankly, all we have around my area are 7 footers. I can personally guarantee that given some time on a 9 footer, the people who insult bar box players wouldn't have to like playing me :-). There is so much I could vent about my pool frustrations, but I don't have the time or finger strength to type it all lol.
 
Pet Peeve

jay helfert said:
People who MUST place the chalk upside down on the rails. It's messy and gets all over your hands and clothes. What's that all about anyway?
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Plus 1! Drives me nuts.
 
Hmmmmmmm . . . .

After reading this thread I'm going to have to brush up on my chalk etiquette.

Let's see, always place the chalk upside down with a nice thump on the rail. Always chalk after a miss, taking a minute or more while standing where I just shot from and staring at the balls like I expect something to change. After chalking with the best piece of chalk on the table, preferably placed there by the other person, haul it off with me.

This is a great tips thread we have going here! :D :D :D

Hu
 
People telling the shooter which shot to take. Or those who use the cone chalk and get it all over the table.
 
Slow play. I'd rather have a trash-talking foul-smelling fast opponent than the guy who looks at a 3-ball out for 60 seconds or more.

-Andrew
 
People who talk when they should be shooting. Drives me nuts. I'm all for conversation, but wait until between games or shoot first, talk later. Grammar and spelling errors are annoying to me, also. My current pet peeve in that regard is the rampant use of 's when pluralizing and no 's when contracting or showing possession as in "the pro's use layered tips" or "shes hot and has great leg's". Oh yeah, and spelling monkeys, "monkies".
 
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Where do you start?

Both men AND women who are 3X or 4X size and still are buying Large or XL size clothes.

Also people working a cash register that cannot do 4th grade level math.
Something soooo very wrong with that. You know what I mean, add a penny and they have to call a manager out.

In the pool room; People that have to come to the counter 4 or 5 seperate times just to change a $5 and get the change they need. They will say they want ONLY $1 bills. Then need quarters for the video game. Then need more quarters to get a gumball, then need more quarters for the video game again. Then they want quarters for the bar box table. When I tell them it doesnt take quarters and is hourly they get the quarters anyway. Then they come back and tell me it doesnt take quarters and they want a paper dollar again. Then they come back for more quarters for the Foosball game.

People that put a standard rack of balls on the 3 Cushion billiard table, complain that there is no triangle. So I get them a triangle. Start playing pool and then ask me if I am going to put pockets on the table. I tell them the pockets are being repaired and to use another table.

People that will pass up 16 tables with the lights on and no one playing and pick the ONLY table in my room with the lights off and want to play pool on that one.
 
jay helfert said:
People who MUST place the chalk upside down on the rails. It's messy and gets all over your hands and clothes. What's that all about anyway?
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1. Agree on the upside-down chalk comment.
2. People who don't know how to play who insist on giving advice.
3. People who whine that you got all the rolls and they didn't get any after you beat them.
 
cueandcushion said:
People that put a standard rack of balls on the 3 Cushion billiard table, complain that there is no triangle. So I get them a triangle. Start playing pool and then ask me if I am going to put pockets on the table. I tell them the pockets are being repaired and to use another table.
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LMAO, priceless :D
 
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