Billy Jackets
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Anybody that has spent much time around this game has probably been in the wrong place, at the wrong time, at least once and if you are hard headed , many more.
One of my better ones was about winter 1972, I had gone in this bar I had never been in about 2 pm in the afternoon and there were a bunch of trades workers in there laid off for the winter
there was a 5 dollar ring game going on and I got in .
I was not a good player by any means , but I got really lucky, by being behind someone that dogged the 9 ball every time he had a shot at it.
I'm stuffing 5 dollar bills in my front pockets all afternoon and clear up until about 9 o clock , everyone including me was pretty drunk and they all leave within a half hour or so of each other.
I'm feeling pretty cocky and stick around a while to bask in my glory and didn't notice 3 guys had come in and they are eyeballing my pockets.
I always had the gift of freaky hearing and I pick up enough of their conversation to know that these 3 guys just got out of jail and are about broke and now they are trying to figure out how to get me in the lot by myself.
by now it's me these 3 guys and an old man bartending that looks like he's really out of it.
I made a real nonchalant move toward the door and then turned it into just moving my coat to my chair back.
It told me what I already knew though , cause the biggest guy had already started to come after me.
I didn't want him to think I knew what they were up to so I played it off like he was coming over to play a game.
I racked the balls and asked him if he wanted to play some .
He says no, I was just checking out the table and I said yeah it's pretty nice.
Then I remembered what an old scuff I had met several years before had told me he used to get out of a joint once.
I put 2 5's on the table and said , I have to go to the bathroom, will you get me a Miller High Life and you guys get a beer each, I had a lucky day today.
When I get back I'll show you some trick shots I can do.
I peeked with my peripheral vision as I started into the back of the place and these guys were all over the 5s so I got out the back door , because I had heard an old story.
Thanks Marvin
One of my better ones was about winter 1972, I had gone in this bar I had never been in about 2 pm in the afternoon and there were a bunch of trades workers in there laid off for the winter
there was a 5 dollar ring game going on and I got in .
I was not a good player by any means , but I got really lucky, by being behind someone that dogged the 9 ball every time he had a shot at it.
I'm stuffing 5 dollar bills in my front pockets all afternoon and clear up until about 9 o clock , everyone including me was pretty drunk and they all leave within a half hour or so of each other.
I'm feeling pretty cocky and stick around a while to bask in my glory and didn't notice 3 guys had come in and they are eyeballing my pockets.
I always had the gift of freaky hearing and I pick up enough of their conversation to know that these 3 guys just got out of jail and are about broke and now they are trying to figure out how to get me in the lot by myself.
by now it's me these 3 guys and an old man bartending that looks like he's really out of it.
I made a real nonchalant move toward the door and then turned it into just moving my coat to my chair back.
It told me what I already knew though , cause the biggest guy had already started to come after me.
I didn't want him to think I knew what they were up to so I played it off like he was coming over to play a game.
I racked the balls and asked him if he wanted to play some .
He says no, I was just checking out the table and I said yeah it's pretty nice.
Then I remembered what an old scuff I had met several years before had told me he used to get out of a joint once.
I put 2 5's on the table and said , I have to go to the bathroom, will you get me a Miller High Life and you guys get a beer each, I had a lucky day today.
When I get back I'll show you some trick shots I can do.
I peeked with my peripheral vision as I started into the back of the place and these guys were all over the 5s so I got out the back door , because I had heard an old story.
Thanks Marvin