What's your pet peeve?

The upside down chalk thread reminded me of this thread. A big pet peeve I have recently noticed is when people walk up to an empty table at a tournament just to hit a few balls. Instead of using the cueball which IS on the table, they start firing balls in using an object ball as the cueball! Now when I play my match, I try NOT to focus on the giant chalk mark on the 9-ball.
 
I live in an area that is mostly Hispanic and will have railbirds start giving advice to the guy I'm playing in spanish not realizing (or caring) that I habla (speak) spanish. Have some respect!
 
When your opponent misses than runs around the table frantically trying to get a look at whether you have a particular shot or not. You missed bud, it's no longer you turn anymore.

Hands down the most obnoxiously annoying thing I have ever seen is when your opponent takes EXCESSIVELY long practice strokes before shooting. I played this guy in a league in Colorado and my whole team could not help but count his practice strokes. He hit 27 one time and averaged between 17-22 strokes per shot. He was actually a pretty good shooter so imagine how painstaking it was to play him. Barbox 8 ball. Ouch was it hard to watch
 
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I like to think I have very few bad habits at the table, but I do have one, that is, at least in part, attributable to a combination of absent-mindedness, laziness and the fact that I don't walk as well as I did when I was young.

The tables I play on have a bridge underneath on each side. When I am finished using the bridge, I usually replace it on whichever side of the table I happen to be standing on, which may result in having both bridges on the same side of the table, a potentially minor inconvenience to the next player requiring it.

It really upsets me when my opponent complains, in anything but a gentle diplomatic manner, about this practice. Even one student that I was teaching for free used to give me crap about it.

I can accept that my opponents may have an annoying habit or two:

1) Some catch the cue ball as it's going into the pocket for a scrach, but I see no point in commenting on it (if I feel the player doesn't know that it's outside the rules, I might mention it when the game has finished).

2) Some, after making the nine ball, touch the cue ball before it has stopped, as it is clearly not headed in the general direction of a pocket.

3) Some throw the rack under the table after racking the balls instead of placing it on the metal rack holding device.

4) Some, when playing straight pool, seem to take ball in hand an eighth of an inch in front of the headstring.

I simply don't kick up a fuss over any of this. A player who plays with integrity and sportsmanship is, in my books, permitted a few very minor bad habits. Most that I shoot with are the same in their philosophy, but those few that make a federal case over something as inconsequential as which side of the table I leave the bridge on after using it make me nuts.
 
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numerous cell phone calls while playing

slapping the stick against the table after chalking

a stranger(anyone for that matter) asking to use my stick

playing partners

an opponent who wants to talk and tell stories while we're playing

players who hold their cue buy the shaft with their sweaty, chalky hands(well, ok, it's their stick)

a not so good pool player who takes a lot of time with shot selection and cue ball position as if it's a chess match, but is lucky to make the shot, much less put the cue ball withing two feet of where he wants

an opponent having a cig dangling from the mouth, dropping ashes onto the table - then attempting to wipe them under the rail but really just mashing the ashes into the cloth
 
People "texting" after they miss, after 'every' miss...for HOURS...if they want to be in their own world that much, stay home and text.:boring2: :boring2: :boring2:
 
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chalk upside down on the rails

opponent using your personal chalk (which I don't mind) then holding onto it after they missed and get annoyed when you ask for it back (which I do mind)

someone that gets a lucky roll and acts like they planned the four rail combination carom off off three balls

persons playing on other tables waking up to your table in your line while you're down and standing there

anyone standing behind me (closely), or grabbing my cue as I stroke:angry: in an attempt to give me the game/set Just say that's good or knock the ob in.
 
What really bugs me is all the poolhalls that have closed down in the past year. I love this game and it's a shame a room has such a hard time making ends meet.
 
I dislike when people hang the triangle from the lights. I also do not like it when players that are less skilled than me tell me what i should be doing " you should have shot that ball or put the cue ball there" ... that is why I am at the table and you are sitting down over there....
 
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
 
When kids go in and play for a game on the bar box and when its over they stand there and bang the last few balls around the table. Even worse is when one of them stands on either side of the table and shoot the cue ball back and forth to each other trying to hit it while it is moving. I wait for the day that one miscues and the cueball hits the other in the head.
 
Melissa Herndon said:
Peeve #1 - An opponent who doesn't help collect the balls on a non-ball-return table.

Peeve #2 - Guys who woof/bark/argue...but no one ever sees them play. They are wasting my time, the person-they-are-woofing-at's time, the pool room owner's time (because the person-they-are-woofing-at could be playing someone else), and pretty much anyone-within-earhot's time.

Peeve #3 - People who ask me for ridiculous weight because they know I'm not going to give it to them and then they don't have to play. (There was a guy recently...and I asked him what he wanted to do. He should be playing me even...so what I was asking was how much he wanted to bet). He looks me dead in the eye and asks for the seven-ball. I called him a little b***h...and told him that he if didn't want to play me, then he could just say that. ( i know it sounds harsh...but he is one of those guys who is always mouthing off to everyone) The next week, I was told that he was telling everyone he was just kidding about asking me for the 7-ball and was saying that he would play me anytime. I walked into the pool room a couple hours later....he saw me come in and disappeared. Didn't even say good-bye to anyone. Guys/girls like this are worthless.

Peeve #4 - When I meet new people outside of pool (for example, at work) and tell them that I am a professional pool player...and then they say "Wow! That is awesome. You must be really good....but I think I can still beat you." They are always men, and not one of them could run 2 balls if their life depended on it. They are just thinking that they are good because they have played once or twice, on a barbox, at the local tavern, drunk off their arses, and they managed to beat their even-more-drunk-best-friend after 45 minutes. I can't stand these monkeys...and I will always offer to play...paycheck against paycheck. So far, no one has taken me up on it :)
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is it me or do people that woof usually not spend any cash at all at the pool hall? drink only water and sometimes ask for soda or coffee for free
 
I hate it when someone is done shooting and then stands between the tables waiting on their next turn.
I also don't like it when peope move chairs or tables where they will have to get up everytime you happen to leave the cue ball at that end of the table.
The worst thing is when the bar or pool room tries to fit too many tables for the space they have available.
 
lodini said:
Chalking after they miss is the absolute worst for me... My opponents tend to do that all the time. And then they stand there with the chalk in their hand and I'm like "Can I have that?" People are so rude.
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Yep, I know what you mean!


I usually say " I am pretty sure that you won't miscue while I am shooting!"


Jw
 
1) Waitresses with hairy armpits.

2) Bread in a basket that's covered but not warmed.

3) Asking a direct question and getting an answer that does not answer the question.

For example, Question: "What time does our flight leave?" Answer: "We need to leave the house by 9 o'clock."
 
Tom In Cincy said:
the players that always say "I lost because their opponent got all the rolls"

Just once I would like to hear a player that lost a match say "the other guy just played better than me". What is so difficult about that?
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Yep, I know what you mean.


I have not been playing much lately at all. A little while ago I found myself out at a bar with a pool table ,and couldn't help jumping in. I started playing a guy who was one of those know it all bar players. I was playing terrible, and won the first game anyway. He could not believe how bad his luck was:rolleyes: Well he comes back to play me again and this time it goes back and forth toward the end of the game. I could ( should) have won it easily, but did not play the obvious safe because I did not feel like discussing how a safety is a real shot and should be respected, etc, etc.

Anyway he wins the 2nd game. Then proceeds to tell me how he got lucky at the end to win it. I simply said that luck had nothing to do with it. I was not lucky to win the first game, he did not get lucky to win the second game.

I know I am a much better player than him, but he did not get lucky. I gave him too many unnecessary chances to win. I am the one who gave him the chance to beat me. I had the opportunity and handed it back by poor execution or poor decisions. Again nothing lucky about it.

If you want to take credit for your best games you have to take responsibility for your worst!!

I love when someone blames the table ( or whatever else is handy) for a loss. I always say to them " what gets credit for the last game that you did win?" If you want to blame everyone and everything else for the losses you better thank all of those things when you win!

When I am playing the whining player and they win a game after blaming everything they can think of for why they were losing, I always say " wow, the table must have played better that last game!, Way to go table!:thumbup: "

They usually do not get the humor.:D What are ya gonna do?



Jw
 
my pet peeves 1st telling a play to slow my Answer to that is WHEN I MISS YOU CAN SHOOT TO QUOTE FAST EDDIE FElSON 2ND a crowd standing 2 ft from the table not wanting to move and be respectful while you are playing your opponet. 3rd your opponet standing right in front of your line of aim 4th your opponet putting there hands on the table while your pocketing balls
 
#1 NON POOL pet peeve has to be when I'm in the left lane at a light, and the douche bag in front of me decides the instant the light changes green, that THAT's the time he's gonna wait to turn his left turn signal on and wait for a chance to go. GET A BOMB AND BLOW THESE RETARDS UP!!!!

#1 POOL peeve has to be when people think i'm deaf and decide to plop down next to the table, and comment to someone else sitting down on every shot i make or miss and position i might get, and how THEY would have done it. This is not limited to just retard bangers, as i have had it happen with high level players who think that because of the fact they play good, that it somehow gives them immunity in annoying the crap out of me. SHUT THE F@#C UP!!!
If you're willing to pay my time for renting the table, talk all you want, but if it's my dollar that's getting spent, stick a cork in it or move.

#2 POOL peeve, has to be when some guy who stinks has to analyze every shot they miss with a 5 minute dissertation on why they missed, and the position they were trying to get that is just not physically possible.
OR, when they have no idea about how i ran out, but choose to criticize on the way i ran out, and then get all the spins, draws, and Englishes completely wrong, OR, when they tell me nice shot on a straight in duck.
I remember when i was young, and first learning the game, but i was NEVER this annoying or this retarded.

#3 POOL peeve has to be when a girl who is overweight, does not think she is overweight, and squeezes herself into some pants that are hanging on for dear life to stay buttoned, and in the process, she gives herself the 360 degree supersized muffin top.

#4 POOL peeve, is stupid people. Just save it and don't open your mouth cause as soon as you do, i am going to make fun of you.

#5 POOL peeve has to be the circle jerk pool cue guys who come into the room, and have some old cue or nice cue, and the sole reason they come in to play is to eventually thrust the cue in someones face till someone asks "what type of cue is that" so that they can regurgitate this boatload of horsecrap that i don't want to hear, but that the cue groupies EAT UP, and i watch as they all flock to the table and are oooohing and aaaahing like they are getting a friggin massage.
It's a piece of F-ing wood. GET OVER IT!
Oh, and a word to some of these boneheads. If it SAYS balabushka on it and came from a catalog, IT'S NOT A FRIGGIN BALABUSHKA YOU IDIOT!
If you love it that much, go get yourself a bottle of lube and STUFF IT, just please, PLEASE PLEASE shut up about it already.
 
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