Ted's Polish-Mexican Page

So, Todd posted a bit yesterday about my victory for the Surly Wench pool team against one of the two O'Malley's squads. Yes, Todd, I was going to mention it eventually, I just had to post pictures of the River Roses. Actually, I haven't posted those yet.


There are two teams at O'Malleys, one seems to be entirely white, the other mostly hispanic. Our fixture was against the hispanic side, Los Lonely Boys (like the way I slip in the eurosnob fútbol lingo?)

I played against a player named Dan Martin. I asked him before the match if his name was Martin or Martín. He said "Martin." The only white guy on the team and their lowest ranked player. Could be affirmative action?

I really sucked in the first game, two scratches then I sunk the eight ball. Then, I beat the guy twice. That gave us three sets and assured us a victory. We won one more set after I was done that night.

What was nice about it was that they were the best team in the league, and we spanked them pretty handily. Oddly enough, the only person to lose was our best player. He claimed that the lack of music messed up the game. I think it was just bad O'Malley's mojo.


After me was a woman named Samphi. I don't know her last name, but she is Laotian ("The Ocean?" "NO..La-Otian you stupid redneck!"), so I'm sure that it's long. Anyhow, she used my cue, which is a fourty year old cue that my mom used to own when she was a pool shark in college. There is a lot about my mom's college years that I need to know about.

Somehow, she broke the ferrule off and it went flying. It landed on the floor near where some other folks were playing. Samphi felt really bad so I went over to tell her that everything was okay. Then, I went over to retrieve the ferrule.

I looked around and didn't see it. Then, a guy (who I think worked there) asks me what I was looking for. He said "Oh, I threw it away, it was garbage."

Bear in mind that a total of about a minute passed between the thing landing and my going over there. If only they cleaned the bathrooms that quickly.

Then he said "It was no good, it was all mushroomed." Mushroomed?

Then he said he'd look for it in the trash. He leaned the trash can over and spit tobacco in it. Then said, "I can't find it, I'll go in the back to where there is more light..."

He came back with the ferrule, which didn't look like a mushroom or anything else of kingdom fungi. Then he said, "See, its all mushroomed. Your stick was junk anyway."

Yeah, classy guy. Typical O'Malley's patron. People wonder why I don't frequent the place.


By the way, I took the stick in to get repaired. I was told by the repair man (an expert!) that it is a very good stick and may be worth $400. Take that, classy O'Malleys guy.


Hasta la proxima. Do zobaczenia.