Saturday, February 7, 2009

Playing Pool in a Crowded Bar

Honestly, pool is fine with me. I often enjoy losing at pool.
What is not fine with me is when frat-y guys, or disaffected guys, or bankers trying to forget that next week they will be unemployed insist on playing pool in the middle of a crowded, crazy bar. If the bar has plenty of room, if there is room to walk to the bathroom, or to stand and talk to one's friends, then by all means: play pool. But don't ask me to move for "just a sec" every three minutes so that you can get that perfectly angled bank shot. Christ on a bike!
Don't think that this is only on the people who insist on playing pool in crowded areas; the bars are also at fault. Don't put a pool table in a small space, don't surround the pool table with bar stools, don't put the pool table near points of entrance or bathrooms. Terrible.

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