All Pool Players Are Not Scum!

Mark Moore, the cuemaker and I, decided to put pool players to the test.

Mark had a used cue case that he donated for the experiment. We stood the case outside the hotel room door to perform the test. The test was to determine if pool players were really as low down POS as people say they are.

Our first knock came on the door 5 minutes after setting the case outside. We thanked the player and repeated the test a few minutes later. This went on for over an hour, with pool player after pool player letting us know that we left our cue/case standing outside our hotel door. Approximately, 7 pool players let us know that the case was there. We could see the case standing just outside our door through the crack under the door and were hoping to catch a thief in progress. We never did. Finally after much laughter we decide to leave the room to go eat and left the case standing there. As we were walking down the stairway some very young children passed us in a pack and Mark grinned at me and said, "They will get it." When we returned the case was gone. While we don't know what percentage of pool players are scum, we are happy to report that all pool players are not scum.

Mark said he would be soon be going to stay with Vagabond for a few months.

The DCC tournament is great. Meeting lots of new AZ faces and old ones as well. Speaking of old, I did see Williebetmore. (in memory of Breakup only). Williebetmore had the difficult task of hanging out with Jeanette Lee for most of the day and she would come by the AZ Room often and say nice things to Williebetmore to get him to take her to dinner. It was kind of sad, really. I could tell that he had no idea what to do with his new good fortune but being the gentleman that I am, I allowed him to stumble along without my help.