I know, I know, I know... make 'em post.
I own a pool room here in Greensboro, NC. And I should know better than to play for any sort of "real" money w/o making my opponent post up. But here's what happened...
This past Tuesday, another local restaurant/bar had this girl-on-girl kissing contest. The idea was apparently sparked by that "I Kissed a Girl" song by Katy Perry. Being the sexual deviants we are, myself, one of my bartenders, a few friends, and a few of my customers all pile into a couple of cars and drive across town to watch chicks make out.
I figure it's "market research" since I'm in the bar business too, so I'm treating everyone to a good time. In a 2 hour time span we run up almost a $400 tab. I'm not exactly sure, but I think I drank 8 shots of Crown and 5 Budweisers.
So after we watch chicks kissing we get in our cars and drive back to my pool room (we had 2 DD's!). Needless to say, we're all wasted, myself included, so I have another shot and another beer.
This kid says "Hey Eric, wanna gamble?". To which I reply with a slur, "Sure! I'll take the 8, race to 7 for $100". It's about 12:30am.
By 4:45am I've beaten this kid out of $500 playing for $100/set. We played 6 sets and he only won one somewhere in the middle. I let him know that I'm not really interested in staying much later and that we need to wrap it up. We agree on one final set, double or nothing race to 9.
I win 9-3 and now I'm up $1k. What a great night! Got to watch chicks making out, got hammered, and won a thousand dollars. Right?
Of course, he doesn't have the money. I let him know that when he pays off I'll return his pool sticks (worth about $150 retail).
Here it is Sunday afternoon, the kid still hasn't paid off and he's not returning any of the numerous voice mails I've left him over the past few days. The word around town is that I have zero chance of ever getting paid.
My question to all you folks is this: What should I do with his sticks?
I've considered snapping the shafts and returning them, sans the case (it's a nice case!), to the room in which he hangs out.
Someone suggested I sell the sticks for a dollar and give the money to the kid -- he needs it, apparently.
Someone else suggested I start a "wall of shame" here in my room: hang up the sticks along w/ a picture of the kid.
I'm also considering making flyers and sending them to all the pool rooms in NC:
DO NOT PLAY <name here>
[his photo]
DOES NOT PAY OFF
Anyone have better suggestions?
eric
