You know you're obsessed with pool when...

[Fatboy]

I'm guilty of a lot of the ones listed in this thread.

Sleeping at the pool hall
Eating 3 meals at the pool hall
Spending holidays at the pool hall
Taking a first date to a pool hall.........I'm married to her now.
Driving ridiculous distances to shoot pool
Ripping phone book pages out in unknown cities.

The day I landed in Japan back in 1991 I got in real late, like around 11:00pm. Of course I was dead tired but I was jet lagged and couldn't sleep. I was at a pool hall before midnight. Now how sick is that? I moved to a different country and was at a pool hall before I even unpacked my damn suitcase.

Just last night I was woken up at around quarter to midnight by a phone call from the pool room that my SouthWest was back from being repaired. I got up, got dressed and went over and shot some balls around with it, came home, went back to bed and was up at 4am to get ready for work.
MULLY

Thinking back over the years, I have done 99% of whats in this thread, first dates(lieing to them saying "I rarely come here"), sleeping in the pool room, arriving in a new country and looking for a box before I unpack, sitting in a pool room so long that when the clock says 7 and discussing weather its AM or PM with the guys on the rail-and not knowing(real bad degeneracy on this one), Losing relationships and not caring, never going to the movies for years and not caring, all this for what??? I dont know or care, i like it when I live like that and when I dont I stop, i'm becomming like that again and I'm happy.


I just re-read this whole thread and I have done it all except the tatoo of a green stain on my hand. There is some humor to it but there is a very serious side too read on. Why i'm like this I dont know-I have been for years.

My all time low was in 89 I was living in Sac going to college LOL, I was driving back to see my parents for a couple days and also wanted to let things cool off in Sac I was running out of spots and was playing real good so I could came back home and rob a few guys I hadnt seen in a few months-it worked. When I was driving back I somehow ended up with a USA Today in my car, I looked over at it and when I saw the guy on the front page he looked familiar, but I didnt know who it was. When I got to a light I picked up the paper to read who it was, he looked familiar perhaps I knew him......It was Bush-the President at the time, I knew then I was in trouble, I was a college student and couldnt recognize the persident???? Gods honest truth, I'm not proud of that, thinking back how the hell detached was I??? and for how long, i'm not jokeing thats pretty serious. Pool can be very destructive, sure I made $$$ and am not considered a loser in life, but what did I lose being like that??? I'm headed that direction again I can feel it.

 

[Colin Colenso]

When I see people in a group I start looking for combinations.

Colin

 

[Milo]

In battle on the A side at BCA Nationals

My husband and I were married in Vegas during the BCA Nationals. (1998)
Since then I have forgotten our anniversary TWICE!!!!!
Both times I have been in battle on the A side in the tournament. Just lost track of the days. My hubby understood, I think

 

[Holly]

Love this thread

You guys are great! I have loved reading your stories, exploits, and thoughts.

I would add that I didn't take any vacation or sick leave time that was not pool related for over a decade...and really didn't miss those "normal" vacations at all. For years when I worked for Anderson Consulting now called Accenture out of the Reston / DC area office, there were soooo many Monday mornings when I was coming back in from playing somewhere between GA and MD. I would contact my manager or partner on whatever project I was working on to let them know I was on the road, stuck in traffic and would be in the office somewhere between 9-9:30 am...which I was. Although technically I was suppose to be there by 8:30 am and sometimes I was on time too...but still coming straight off a weekend road call They were always cool with it. I would take proper work clothes with me so then when I got back in town I could take a shower at our office's gym / women's locker room, then head upstairs to go to straight to work.

I once was in Holland. Didn't even know where I was planning to stay, but only had one medium wheeled bag and well...I saw a poolroom, and ended up there for about 12 hours before I began to look for a hotel to stay at.

Once years ago when I was in property management (before Accenture), I had a regional manager come up to me and in a completely serious face said to me "Holly, you know seedy people?". Well after I quietly gathered my head and internally stopped myself from saying *^#(#@^$# are you talking about? I just calmly asked, "what did you say"....so he repeated himself. When I asked why he would ask he said because I played pool. so I responded, "Rob, I know all kinds of people because I play pool and I do not consider any of my friends seedy."

 

[BigCat]

When you name your all black dog "8 Ball", your calico cat "13 ball", and your goldfish "5 ball".

Ray

 

[Njhustler1]

when you quit wednesday night apa league so you can concentrate on monday night 14.1 league and thursday night bca league.

 

[enzo]

your accustat dvd selection exceeds your porn selection.

 

[Tiddler]

You know you're obsessed with pool when you go to a tattoo parlor and get a green stain tattooed on the palm of your hand.
MULLY

You know you're obsessed with pool when you don't need to get the stain tattoed on your palm because it just no longer washes off....

 

[JimS]

Thinking back over the years, I have done 99% of whats in this thread, first dates(lieing to them saying "I rarely come here"), sleeping in the pool room, arriving in a new country and looking for a box before I unpack, sitting in a pool room so long that when the clock says 7 and discussing weather its AM or PM with the guys on the rail-and not knowing(real bad degeneracy on this one), Losing relationships and not caring, never going to the movies for years and not caring, all this for what??? I dont know or care, i like it when I live like that and when I dont I stop, i'm becomming like that again and I'm happy.


I just re-read this whole thread and I have done it all except the tatoo of a green stain on my hand. There is some humor to it but there is a very serious side too read on. Why i'm like this I dont know-I have been for years.

My all time low was in 89 I was living in Sac going to college LOL, I was driving back to see my parents for a couple days and also wanted to let things cool off in Sac I was running out of spots and was playing real good so I could came back home and rob a few guys I hadnt seen in a few months-it worked. When I was driving back I somehow ended up with a USA Today in my car, I looked over at it and when I saw the guy on the front page he looked familiar, but I didnt know who it was. When I got to a light I picked up the paper to read who it was, he looked familiar perhaps I knew him......It was Bush-the President at the time, I knew then I was in trouble, I was a college student and couldnt recognize the persident???? Gods honest truth, I'm not proud of that, thinking back how the hell detached was I??? and for how long, i'm not jokeing thats pretty serious. Pool can be very destructive, sure I made $$$ and am not considered a loser in life, but what did I lose being like that??? I'm headed that direction again I can feel it.

It took all of that and more... every experience you've ever had, to make you exactly the person you are today and to create the life situation in which you find yourself. Had anything been changed everything would have been changed. Never regret any of it. You had to experience it. But that doesn't mean you should do it again. :groucho:

 

[mullyman]

I used to think of New Years Eve as my personal "Pool Groundhogs Day." Up until about 5 years ago I would literally plan out my New Years Eve so I was at the pool hall. I would get to the pool hall at around 8pm and start playing. No matter where I was in a set when the last minute of the year rolled around I would stop and re-rack the balls............yes, I had an alarm clock with me set to go off at 11:59. Anyway, I'd stop what I was doing and re-rack the balls. When midnight hit I would break a fresh rack for the new year. My idea was that if I broke and ran out at midnight it would be a good year and if I didn't there was another 12 months of busting my ass again, hence my personal Pool Groundhogs Day.
MULLY
In all the years I did that I never even once got the break run out on that first rack. I had BRO's on the second a few times but never on that first rack.

 

[mullyman]

You know you're obsessed with pool when you don't need to get the stain tattoed on your palm because it just no longer washes off....

Touche'.
MULLY

 

[mullyman]

Thinking back over the years, I have done 99% of whats in this thread, first dates(lieing to them saying "I rarely come here"), sleeping in the pool room, arriving in a new country and looking for a box before I unpack, sitting in a pool room so long that when the clock says 7 and discussing weather its AM or PM with the guys on the rail-and not knowing(real bad degeneracy on this one), Losing relationships and not caring, never going to the movies for years and not caring, all this for what??? I dont know or care, i like it when I live like that and when I dont I stop, i'm becomming like that again and I'm happy.


I just re-read this whole thread and I have done it all except the tatoo of a green stain on my hand. There is some humor to it but there is a very serious side too read on. Why i'm like this I dont know-I have been for years.

My all time low was in 89 I was living in Sac going to college LOL, I was driving back to see my parents for a couple days and also wanted to let things cool off in Sac I was running out of spots and was playing real good so I could came back home and rob a few guys I hadnt seen in a few months-it worked. When I was driving back I somehow ended up with a USA Today in my car, I looked over at it and when I saw the guy on the front page he looked familiar, but I didnt know who it was. When I got to a light I picked up the paper to read who it was, he looked familiar perhaps I knew him......It was Bush-the President at the time, I knew then I was in trouble, I was a college student and couldnt recognize the persident???? Gods honest truth, I'm not proud of that, thinking back how the hell detached was I??? and for how long, i'm not jokeing thats pretty serious. Pool can be very destructive, sure I made $$$ and am not considered a loser in life, but what did I lose being like that??? I'm headed that direction again I can feel it.

I don't regret a minute of it. I look around at my friends and realize that my non-pool playing friends are not going to have much to do when they get old. I'll at least have pool to keep me active and keep my mind working.
MULLY

 

[Colin Colenso]

I'm obsessed coz...

When I see things or people I start doing this....

 

[JimS]

When I see things or people I start doing this....

You are one sick puppy.

Did you ever get the camera you wanted?

 

[jasonlaus]

Yeah, I know i'm obsessed I drive 51.1 miles to get to the only decent "real" pool hall down here. O and I keep playing all the best players and getting my ass whipped yet I go back for more, just cause I seem to now be obsessed with losing money now everyday. lol two months going in this room and nothing ever goes in my wallet when i'm leaving. I think I'm going to get a nickname of either "pool hall dummy" or "the pidgeon" lol they can't beat me forever.. I'm obsessed and one day their eyes are going to go out on them. :grin:

Start gambling with me like you do the other guys and you've got a place to live alot closer

 

[cigjonser]

When you accidentally smack your girlfriend in the face because you had your arm draped over her and you were dreaming about breaking.

(Luckily she understood.)