Why is it that...

[victorl]

...whenever a large group of thug-wannabe-bangers come in, they always pick the table that's right next to mine, even when the entire hall is empty?

...when I'm playing shape for a hanger 9-ball, the cue ball ends up exactly in the only friggin' place on the table where I can't shoot the 9?

...one of my leaguemates has BO that's so bad, you can tell where he's been in the room because it still smells like stank 10 minutes later?
(He like to pump himself up for games by waving his arms around really fast. We made him stop doing that.)

...last week on the rare and lucky occasion that a group of young ladies on the next table asked me to teach them how to play, the wife suddenly showed up at the hall to give me the "You're done, mister" look?
(How did she now?)

Just a few things that have been driving me crazy that I needed to get off my chest.
I'd like to hear yours as well!

Cheers,
Vic

 

[DallasHopps]

I just want to know how people can live in a BO cloud constantly and not realize or care. I'm still laughing at the image I got of somebody doing Stank Windmills and clearing the room!

 

[Careyp74]

...whenever a large group of thug-wannabe-bangers come in, they always pick the table that's right next to mine, even when the entire hall is empty?

...when I'm playing shape for a hanger 9-ball, the cue ball ends up exactly in the only friggin' place on the table where I can't shoot the 9?

...one of my leaguemates has BO that's so bad, you can tell where he's been in the room because it still smells like stank 10 minutes later?
(He like to pump himself up for games by waving his arms around really fast. We made him stop doing that.)

...last week on the rare and lucky occasion that a group of young ladies on the next table asked me to teach them how to play, the wife suddenly showed up at the hall to give me the "You're done, mister" look?
(How did she now?)

Just a few things that have been driving me crazy that I needed to get off my chest.
I'd like to hear yours as well!

Cheers,
Vic

1 and 4 are easy, the Room Operator has it in for you (and he obviously has your wife's number in case of 'emergencies')

 

[dchan320]

... it's your break on a hill-hill match, you tell yourself just don't scratch yet you do it anyways?

 

[victorl]

1 and 4 are easy, the Room Operator has it in for you (and he obviously has your wife's number in case of 'emergencies')

Oh my god you're right! He's probably pissed because I keep asking when he's going to redo the crappy beer-stained cloth.

 

[victorl]

... it's your break on a hill-hill match, you tell yourself just don't scratch yet you do it anyways?

Good one! Story of my life.

 

[fastone371]

How about -why do I always hook myself playing the 8 on a would be break and run during league, ALWAYS!!

 

[Donny Lutz]

Table choice?

...whenever a large group of thug-wannabe-bangers come in, they always pick the table that's right next to mine, even when the entire hall is empty?

...when I'm playing shape for a hanger 9-ball, the cue ball ends up exactly in the only friggin' place on the table where I can't shoot the 9?

...one of my leaguemates has BO that's so bad, you can tell where he's been in the room because it still smells like stank 10 minutes later?
(He like to pump himself up for games by waving his arms around really fast. We made him stop doing that.)

...last week on the rare and lucky occasion that a group of young ladies on the next table asked me to teach them how to play, the wife suddenly showed up at the hall to give me the "You're done, mister" look?
(How did she now?)

Just a few things that have been driving me crazy that I needed to get off my chest.
I'd like to hear yours as well!

Cheers,
Vic

What is a "thug-wannabe-banger"? Please describe in detail, so I can watch out for them.

In my almost sixty years on the tables, I always thought players generally take whatever table they are given. I know that employees like to put players on adjacent tables because it makes it easier to serve them and clean up if they are close together.

 

[Ken_4fun]

Why is it that I get to a table, and look at it, after some banger "played" on it and it looks like someone has fuxked the Pillsberry Doughboy on it?

Ken

 

[miscrewed89]

How about, I know this ball is in the "happy spot." I know this bank double kisses! Then shoot it anyway, double kissing and selling out the game.
#1 happens to me all the time. They look around deciding on a table then choose the one right next to me with 18 other tables to choose from! Then they wanna lean on mine when it's not their shot... "oh, ma bad, scruse me."

 

[shinobi]

...whenever a large group of thug-wannabe-bangers come in, they always pick the table that's right next to mine, even when the entire hall is empty?

I call this "Lonely Table Syndrome".

It's like when there is a virtually empty parking lot and you park 3 miles away from the store to avoid getting dinged, and then someone pulls in beside you and dings you anyway, haha. Lonely Parking Syndrome.

 

[Skratch]

Lol. You pissed someone of and they voodoo you.

 

[Banks]

That's about as bad as when some schmuck walks in the bar with an ego and wants to gamble with whoever is there or somebody challenges me for a cheap game. The first thing the bartender usually says is something to the effect of, "Oh, you don't want to play that guy for money." It's taking longer to train them than I thought.. isn't it bad enough that I never get a cash game there already? :slap: :banghead:

 

[AngryTurtle]

...when I'm playing shape for a hanger 9-ball, the cue ball ends up exactly in the only friggin' place on the table where I can't shoot the 9?

This is as special case of...

... when on any shot, you think " I have miles of room for position, all I have to do is not get behind the only ball anywhere in the vicinity", and you are doomed!

 

[Pushout]

What is a "thug-wannabe-banger"? Please describe in detail, so I can watch out for them.

In my almost sixty years on the tables, I always thought players generally take whatever table they are given. I know that employees like to put players on adjacent tables because it makes it easier to serve them and clean up if they are close together.

Where I played for almost 25 years, they were asked where they wanted to play and then were given that table regardless of who was on adjoining tables or what was going on. Only time for years that this didn't happen was during tournaments when most of the tables were used for the tournament.

 

[kiddcutty]

Sounds like good ol Murphys law to me!

 

[victorl]

I'd wager that Murphy was a poolplayer.

How about when you play a great safety and the cue ball finds the only possible window between the blockers for a perfect shot at the object ball, and your opponent smiles and says, "Nice try."

 

[justadub]

I'd wager that Murphy was a poolplayer.

How about when you play a great safety and the cue ball finds the only possible window between the blockers for a perfect shot at the object ball, and your opponent smiles and says, "Nice try."

I manage to accomplish this one, a lot.

Along with most of the others examples mentioned, too.

Plus some that no one has ever seen before...

 

[Ty-Tanic]

Thank you for bringing this up because I experience stuff like this all the time and it drives me crazy (minus the bad BO.....Well sometimes the BO... Some people are just gross). When I play at my two regular bar spots there is almost also a ton of wanna-be-gang-bangers, as you would like to call them. I have almost gotten into a couple of fights this way because they kept blocking our table space and I would keep telling them to move and they didn't want to move out of the way. Or they just like to scream every time your trying to shoot.

 

[playdoubles]

Yep...

1 and 4 are easy, the Room Operator has it in for you (and he obviously has your wife's number in case of 'emergencies')

That's what I was thinking!


Well, why is that:

In the last few months it's almost every time, that I can't get a first opening shot...

For instance after the 10-ball break. The cueball is pretty much every time between the middle and the headstring, with the 1-ball sitting in front of the pocket. After laying away my breaker and getting my playing cue I'm turning around, :yikes: and what happens...
... the last ball rolling just slows down between those two and is hooking me!
It's like the balls are saying "no, no :nono: don't put us in those holes again that fast - we want to stay out in fresh air for awhile!"

If I haven't got a ball down with the break, same situation with whitey and the 1 for my opponent.
BUT: the last ball rolling doesn't matter at all! Easy 1, clear path to the next balls, just rolling in for position acquired! And the balls are saying " :welcome: here we are, is it okay that we're staying in front of the pockets"?