Your Significant Other
- Thread starter Barbara
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i got into pool to get the hell away from her once in a while, started smoking cigars with the boys to do the same, i always played poker but it took on more significants after a few years with the old bat. did i ever mention that my mother-in-law is uglier than the indian on a buffalo nickel?
Purdman
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Mrs. Purdman
I am a very lucky fellow. My wife shoots pool with me. I also have three days a week off. Friday we usually eat some crabs, drink some beer, and play pool. Saturdays, she does something with her friends and I go play my ten hours of one hole. Sundays we hang around the house, do a few chores and shoot some more pool. Needles to say, our house is somewhat of a mess. I told her to hire a house cleaner and she wants to wait until she has it cleaned up. Ain't gonna happen man. I don't mind a little mess. I help, dishes, laundry, vacume, etc. Not a bunch though. I got the yard and vehicles to attend to. We both also love to cook and garden. So yes, I like having a wife that is a pool player, and yes, I am a lucky guy.
Purdman
I am a very lucky fellow. My wife shoots pool with me. I also have three days a week off. Friday we usually eat some crabs, drink some beer, and play pool. Saturdays, she does something with her friends and I go play my ten hours of one hole. Sundays we hang around the house, do a few chores and shoot some more pool. Needles to say, our house is somewhat of a mess. I told her to hire a house cleaner and she wants to wait until she has it cleaned up. Ain't gonna happen man. I don't mind a little mess. I help, dishes, laundry, vacume, etc. Not a bunch though. I got the yard and vehicles to attend to. We both also love to cook and garden. So yes, I like having a wife that is a pool player, and yes, I am a lucky guy.
Purdman
Wow!! Damn skippy you're lucky!!
And I love the part about tellling the wife to hire a cleaning service. I would, but they wouldn't clean like I do and I'd hate to feel my money wasted.
Barbara
And I love the part about tellling the wife to hire a cleaning service. I would, but they wouldn't clean like I do and I'd hate to feel my money wasted.
Barbara
Donald A. Purdy said:I am a very lucky fellow. My wife shoots pool with me. I also have three days a week off. Friday we usually eat some crabs, drink some beer, and play pool. Saturdays, she does something with her friends and I go play my ten hours of one hole. Sundays we hang around the house, do a few chores and shoot some more pool. Needles to say, our house is somewhat of a mess. I told her to hire a house cleaner and she wants to wait until she has it cleaned up. Ain't gonna happen man. I don't mind a little mess. I help, dishes, laundry, vacume, etc. Not a bunch though. I got the yard and vehicles to attend to. We both also love to cook and garden. So yes, I like having a wife that is a pool player, and yes, I am a lucky guy.
Purdman
Donald A. Purdy said:I am a very lucky fellow. My wife shoots pool with me. I also have three days a week off. Friday we usually eat some crabs, drink some beer, and play pool. Saturdays, she does something with her friends and I go play my ten hours of one hole. Sundays we hang around the house, do a few chores and shoot some more pool. Needles to say, our house is somewhat of a mess. I told her to hire a house cleaner and she wants to wait until she has it cleaned up. Ain't gonna happen man. I don't mind a little mess. I help, dishes, laundry, vacume, etc. Not a bunch though. I got the yard and vehicles to attend to. We both also love to cook and garden. So yes, I like having a wife that is a pool player, and yes, I am a lucky guy.
Purdman
Other than the garden, Don, you could have written my biography with that. 35 years with a saint. We can grow tomatos but that's the extent of the gardening. Yes, my friend, we truly are lucky.
I have learned that you get out of a relationship what you put into it. 
I ain't trying to crack on ya dude. I bet your mother- in-law sure can cook. What does your wife look like????? 
Rude Dog said:
RD,
When someone brings up a non-pool playing SO, it always reminds me of the first lesson I ever took with a player named Trenton Marty. My husband came with me as I was just starting out and a little insecure about meeting someone I had only met once at a pool hall I had never been to.
So Marty's pretty impressed at the size of my husband and makes the remark, "You should be glad you didn't marry a pool player." I ask him why and he just laughs and says that "I'm a pool player, and I wouldn't marry me." But he's been with his current wife for 15-some years now, I think and I haven't seen him at the tournies he should've been playing at. But he was with his wife and kid at the VF Expo and it was good to see them all.
Anyway, it's curious. I also know Steve and Gina Lipsky and they're a pool-playing couple if there ever was one!
I just wonder whether it hurts your game or not. Also, does pool take its toll on your relationship, or not.
Maybe we can all learn something here.
Barbara
My wife used to play pretty sporty. She started playing pool when she was 15 years old. I guess she just lost interest after college . We still play a game or two when she stops by the pool room to soak up some air conditioning. Still good at the long shots too. She has to use a bridge on most shots on account of her big twin holdin' belly. Yeah I wish she still played more but she is a good rail bird and shows an interest in my game so that is the next best thing I guess.
Andy
Andy
Barbara said:
It really doesn't matter too much to me, but as it turns out she has absolutlely no interest in pool or the bars where it is played. That is fine with me as long as she doesn't interfer with my playing. Matter of fact I'm not too interested in the bars where it is played either, it is just that's where it is played.
Barbara said:
I think that it is a question of balance. When a couple only has a certain amount of free time, it is best to spend part of it doing something you each enjoy separately and some of it together.
I don't think pool or not pool is really the issue. If both like to play, then that is something they can do together, but if they are different speeds, one or both of them will want to do some separate pool also while the other one spends their separate time playing pool or whatever they enjoy.
If one person spends all of their free time playing pool, and little time with their so, that is selfish imo. There may be exceptions, such as when a person is getting ready for a tournament but I mean in general. The same thing could be said for hunting, fishing,watching every single football game, a woman who spends all of that potentially free time shopping with friends, on the computer, the telephone or anything else.
Now both my husband and I play pool but he is much better and this is how we do it. He comes home and subtracting eating, feeding dogs and so forth, that leaves about 3 hours of time together. So, there has to be a balance for everyone to be happy. Some of this, he will play pool, some of it we do something together. A couple of nights a week for just pool is ok, but if I had a spouse who did this every night, I would be an unhappy camper. The weekends are longer so there is time for more hours of pool and tournaments without detracting from the relationship.
I enjoy pool and do practice, but playing pool is the one thing that helps mine to relax and I would not want to take that away from him and would still feel that way, even if I did not play.
I like a balance.
Laura
I'm a lucky one also. Yea, I think I'll write a little story.
16 years ago I use to brag at work about my live in girl friend and how great she was. I got my first cup of coffee in bed and my second cup was on the sink when I got out of the shower. Dinner was ready when I got home from work. And so on. People at work keep saying it would change once we got married. Well, this past August 5th was are 15th anniversary, and I still get my first cup of coffee in bed and so forth.
When you get all the love and attention that I get, I think I'd be pushing it by complaining that she doesn't play pool. At all. Every now and then I'll say, 'Why don't you come along sometime and watch'. She says maybe, but it never happens.
As a matter of fact this type of thing is maybe what intrigued me back when I meet her. Years ago I use to impress the gals into submission. I did play better pool than most back then and occasionally I'd meet a girl while playing pool, but not often. Most times I'd meet a gal on the dance floor. I was the dance directory at Arthur Murray's, so I'd be out at a dance club when I met a gal. I'd take her out on the dance floor and without drawing attention to my self, make her feel like she was the best dancer in the place (the 'without drawing attention to myself' part was very important). Girls liked this a lot. Then I'd ask them to go to this slightly fancy piano bar (expensive, they like that too). When the guy that played there saw me come in, he knew that he was going to get a brake. I'd take over, play some ragtime, then have her come up and sit beside me and play a couple love songs. Believe me, it was all over except the unmentionables.
So what was it that intrigued me? None of this had any effect on Debbie. She had no interest in that kind of dancing. If I'd play the piano somewhere it was almost like she, I don't know, it was OK with her but was I impressing her? No, not at all. I had found a women that loved me for me and not what I could do.
My pool playing doesn't impress her either. I mean she knows I play well, but it just doesn't interest her. She is rather thrifty with a dollar though. My pool playing might impress her a little more if I'd come home with the money a little more often, LOL.
Don't know what I'd do without her.
16 years ago I use to brag at work about my live in girl friend and how great she was. I got my first cup of coffee in bed and my second cup was on the sink when I got out of the shower. Dinner was ready when I got home from work. And so on. People at work keep saying it would change once we got married. Well, this past August 5th was are 15th anniversary, and I still get my first cup of coffee in bed and so forth.
When you get all the love and attention that I get, I think I'd be pushing it by complaining that she doesn't play pool. At all. Every now and then I'll say, 'Why don't you come along sometime and watch'. She says maybe, but it never happens.
As a matter of fact this type of thing is maybe what intrigued me back when I meet her. Years ago I use to impress the gals into submission. I did play better pool than most back then and occasionally I'd meet a girl while playing pool, but not often. Most times I'd meet a gal on the dance floor. I was the dance directory at Arthur Murray's, so I'd be out at a dance club when I met a gal. I'd take her out on the dance floor and without drawing attention to my self, make her feel like she was the best dancer in the place (the 'without drawing attention to myself' part was very important). Girls liked this a lot. Then I'd ask them to go to this slightly fancy piano bar (expensive, they like that too). When the guy that played there saw me come in, he knew that he was going to get a brake. I'd take over, play some ragtime, then have her come up and sit beside me and play a couple love songs. Believe me, it was all over except the unmentionables.
So what was it that intrigued me? None of this had any effect on Debbie. She had no interest in that kind of dancing. If I'd play the piano somewhere it was almost like she, I don't know, it was OK with her but was I impressing her? No, not at all. I had found a women that loved me for me and not what I could do.
My pool playing doesn't impress her either. I mean she knows I play well, but it just doesn't interest her. She is rather thrifty with a dollar though. My pool playing might impress her a little more if I'd come home with the money a little more often, LOL.
Don't know what I'd do without her.
larrynj1 said:
Larry,
Karen Corr is the defending champion, so I'm hoping she'll show up to defend her title with Julie Kelly. Allen Hopkins is out of town, but he may get back in time to cut Dawn loose to come up and play.
I don't know about Val Finnie and Kelly Fisher. They've both already won Q's for the WPBA Open so they don't need to be there except for the cash. But if we get the usual players, it's still great competition!
See you there!
Barbara
My wife is not into pool at all. We will be celebrating our 30th anniversary in March. My wife loves HGTV, she sings professionally and she's the best thing that ever happened to me. I can't hardly get her to go into a poolroom though. The last time I took her, she sat out in the car and read her Home and Garden magazines while I played 1h for a couple of hours. She'd rather be in the car than go into the poolhall. It all works out for us though because when we are together you couldn't get a slip of paper between us!
U.S. PATROITISM
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hi mrs. bush,Barbara said:
nice to meet you here.
my significant other is a cat and i dont plan to making him "the ninth wonder of pool" despite the smashing outfits i have to put on him.