What's your pet peeve?

I know somebody already said it but smacking the one ball to try to keep it from rolling while they are racking. It is just uncalled for and not to mention the damage it does.
 
Another pet peeve of mine is people who avoid table time by practicing, sometimes at considerable length, on a table on which the lights are turned off. I wish them well, but when I'm on the adjacent table, if I bump into them while shooting or ever have to wait for them to shoot so I can shoot (when I'm paying table time and they are not) it bothers me quite a bit.
 
I hate it when I'm playing a game of 8-ball for drinks and two drunken, enraged Italian guys (not involved in the game) flip the table over and start swinging the cues around destroying the bar and trying to kill the bargirls/waitresses, which in turn causes about twenty Thai locals to show up and (deservedly) beat the living snot out of them.

Granted, this only happened once, but I was pretty peeved.:rolleyes:
 
Something that has always gotten under my skin usually has to do with the table next to me. It's when the person not shooting is standing next to the table while the other person shoots. It aggravates me to all hell because they'll typically be in my way.

Another is anyone who shoots with a cigarette hanging out of their mouth, sets the cigarette on the rail while they shoot or sets their beer on the rail while they shoot.
 
gobrian77 said:
I hate it when I'm playing a game of 8-ball for drinks and two drunken, enraged Italian guys (not involved in the game) flip the table over and start swinging the cues around destroying the bar and trying to kill the bargirls/waitresses, which in turn causes about twenty Thai locals to show up and (deservedly) beat the living snot out of them.

Granted, this only happened once, but I was pretty peeved.:rolleyes:
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LoL

I recall one bar brawl at a pool hall where people were snatching balls off the tables and throwing em along with house cues being used as weapons. Thankfully I was not there. I walked in there the next afternoon and it looked like all hell had broken out. Windows were shattered and they had nice brass rails surrounding the playing area which all were uprooted. Needless to say I haven't been there in years.
 
Someone who after they shoot points to the spot with their stick where the cue ball was supposed to land.
 
poolplayer2093 said:
people that bump into me while i'm down on a shot.

no wait it'speople who insist on taking their shot first and looking at me like i'm an ass for wanting to shoot my shot first because i'm already ready to shoot. then they aim in for 3 minutes and miss the ball because they play pool about as much as they play horseshoes

No wait! this it what really get to me. if i'm matched up (it's always cheap but still my cash) and me and the other guy are the only table in the house occupied and some group of kids come in and decide they have to shoot on the table right next to us. then they look at us like as$holes because we're in their way when they want to shoot or ask them to move for their shot
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I agree with all these things. I am actually guilty of the first one, but it's only happened once. I bumped into a guy while he was down, but in my defense I was down first and didn't know he was there. I was still extremely apologetic for it and felt bad because I had just done one of the things that drives me nuts.

The last one I experience on a weekly basis, but I'm just practicing. The place I shoot at has 16 tables. I can be the only one playing and it is guaranteed that the next occupied table will be right next to me.

I'm actually glad to see so many people have the same peeves as me.
 
Oooh I got two others that are the be all end all for me, but only happen when I let someone use my cue.

- When they stand there with my cue holding it with their dirty chalky hands wrapped around the shaft.

- When they chalk it by sticking it in the deep chalk hole and spinning it like they're trying to start a fire.....getting chalk all over the ferrule.

Barbarians I tell ya
 
people who challenge me to a game and then spend the whole time TEXTING and don't pay any attention to the game.
 
gobrian77 said:
I hate it when I'm playing a game of 8-ball for drinks and two drunken, enraged Italian guys (not involved in the game) flip the table over and start swinging the cues around destroying the bar and trying to kill the bargirls/waitresses, which in turn causes about twenty Thai locals to show up and (deservedly) beat the living snot out of them.

Granted, this only happened once, but I was pretty peeved.:rolleyes:
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Yeah, I hate when that happens!
 
I hate people that beat me, which is unfortunately a long list :D

Main peeve is bad sports......whether you win or lose, you can still be a gentleman....
 
Stones said:
About a week ago, I decided to go down to the pool room and hit some balls since I hadn't been able to for four days. I was coming down with a summer cold but was still restless from not playing.

I got a table and one of the youngsters who has been really working on his game, came over and asked me to play cheap $20, race to 5, sets if I give him the 8. I know the kid doesn't have much money and really just wants the pressure of playing someone better than himself.

I said OK even though I wasn't feeling well and could tell I wasn't playing well before we started.

We split the first 4 sets and he won the last set. I finally quit because every time I bent over, my head would pound and I was pi$$ed off.

What was I pi$$ed out about? The one thing that drives me absolutely bonkers is playing someone who runs into balls with the cue ball constantly and gets perfect shape. I call it "bumpshape". I was brought up that you never touched another ball unless you had to break balls out or absolutely had to use an object ball to hold shape for your next shot.

This kid was doing it through the whole session and as many as two or three times in one game. It was so bad, I just kept looking at the floor while he was shooting.

(Last night, I went into the pool room and a couple of players came up and told me this kid has been telling everyone in the room that he finally hosed me. He just forgot to tell them that I was giving him weight and just had a bad night. All I told them was that he played well and ended up one set up. I can't wait until I get him back to the table!)

Like I said, this drives me looney tunes.

So, what drives you nuts?

Stones
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Stones, I play with a guy every week who is constantly running in to other balls. Over time, it all works out. I hate it when a lesser player beats me and then makes a big deal out of it. I hate it even more when I let it get to me, Jim.
 
Pet Peeves:

1. People who rave about a cue, and how great it plays, etc....(and do this frequently) and I'm not sure they can even run an open rack of 8 ball...or beat the 3 ball ghost. This one drives me nuts. As a guy in my pool room says quite frequently, "You're not qualified."

2. People who sit beer on the pool table.

3. People who continually ask me to gamble at bad games, and think I'm a stone sucker.....even though I tell them "no" repeatedly it doesn't stop them.

4. That when I have time to devote.....and I get back in stroke and play at the level I think I'm supposed to...but then real life kicks in and I play once a week and my game becomes decrepid again. It is a wonder I don't quit this game......but I just love it too much I guess. I'm happy to have a good career as well (and thankful to the man upstairs).

5. People who get irate and argumentative over $30 a game one pocket...LOL...or even $10 a game, LOL. I played a guy for $10 a game one pocket one time and beat him many in a row and he told me I hustled him. I was like, "I hustled you for $10 a game....really??".

6. People brimming with natural talent who never practice and just play jam up. That utterly disgusts me and makes me want to vomit (in jealousy).
 
pet peeves

-pool players who use so much powder...get it ALL over
the rails & table.

-Those who must obviously shark you...visual/verbal
They will do anything to win.

-The ones that NEVER miss...table roll off... bad rails..
...dirty balls...bad cloth... Allways some excuse!

-so called experts...all ways telling you what shot to take.

-The a-holes that CAN NOT stand to loose! Think they
should win EVERY game! Even if you break & run out!

- HACKERS....they hack the cue on the side of the table.
all most every time they miss


later,
sax
 
People who call billiard tables snooker tables!!!!. Also when I'm practicing 3-Cushion, I always have to be the ambassador to the billiard world by explaining to countless drunks what a table with no pockets is doing in a pool hall & what's the point? Just leave me alone & let me practice. At least I don't have to do it at Cue & Cushion. :)
 
1) Jump cues

2) the emphasis on super-smash breaking, necessitating break cues

The game was better when players only carried one cue to the room.

Perhaps I am showing my age.
 
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