Into an already packed to capacity barn….
Came this:
A pool table that our soon to be ex friends couldn’t wait to get rid of.
Have you ever tried to lift a pool table?
If not, I don’t recommend it.
F*cker be heavy.
Our friends were so eager to see the back side of this thing they also gave us 2 little wheeled platforms to assist in it’s departure.
Which were great, until the table had to be picked up off of them.
So there it sits.
Now….and for the foreseeable future. ( Which should be read as forever, or until I can find some other unsuspecting friend to pass it off on )
It will sit there, a constant reminder of the fact that my husband can not pass up anything that is free.
Ever.
No matter how big and how useless.
But look….
It also came with a free stand, free cue sticks, ( Miller Lite? That abomination has got to go! ) free bags of balls and numerous free tacky game room signs.
What’s not love?
It took four guys to get my brother’s pool table into his basement and one of those four guys was exceptionally strong…
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4 people loaded it in the truck, 2 took it out.
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Um………..that should be set UP not on its side. Or it will be garbage soon. At least that’s what I was always told. Because it’s so heavy it will mis-align it’self. (go wonky and be uneven)
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I’m not saying a word. I mean, how terrible would it be if we had to get rid if it…?
😈
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!!!!
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… ooooh! A FREE pool table!
WANT!
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Come get it! Under cover of darkness while the husband is asleep…..
I’ll tell him the squirrels took it.
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… I got this problem ….
Snookums probably isn’t going to like losing the dining room to a pool table …
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Throw a piece of plywood on the top when you’re not playing.
Instant dining room table!
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If billiards was a “play nice” game, they would not stick so many tables in bars, in close proximity to booze.
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Excellent point.
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How many bar room fights include a pool cue? Hint: all of them.
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You have to admit, it is an excellent weapon for cracking over someone’s head..
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Admit it? I encourage it!
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Um, I’m going to go with “good luck” and move along.
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A wise move.
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Well, it will bring out the pool hustlers and you will figure out quickly who likes to win the game and who is a good sport. At least, you are not playing pool on the video game as that would take away from it. I will have to ask theearthspins about getting one or maybe just going out more often when COVID leaves the states.
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You want a pool table?
Have I got a deal for you!
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Ummm…..and who took it off their hands? I’m assuming YOU had no idea that this thing was coming over if your in total dismay…..right?
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I didn’t know until it was a done deal and arrived the next day.
🥺
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theearthspins and cupcakecache are married, and who is the better pool hustler, hmm, I won’t wager a bet until…
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Really? A blogging couple… how fun.
Although it’s probably a good thing mine doesn’t.
😉
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I’m an occasional pool player and great fan of billiards–especially billiards history. After all Minnesota Fats lived in the Hermitage Hotel in downtown Nashville for several years, and the university I went to had a great pool room in its basement run by a funny old gnome named Tom.
He always set aside one particular antique table for me. Most pool tables have a base of a quarter inch of solid slate which is part of why they’re so heavy. The one Tom reserved for me had slate a full inch thick.
Fortunately it was never offered to your husband. I can’t imagine moving it.
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My husband is a once a year player as well, which is why I know that table will probably be covered in plywood and used to stack things on.
🤨
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Look at it this way–he could have just driven the truck in and parked it there!!
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There’s no room!
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I tried to talk Tara into letting us buy a pool table to stick in the basement after we closed on our house. She said no.
I’m kinda glad, after seeing this…
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Be glad.
Be very glad..
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Is there someone in your family you really detest? If so, leave the contents of the barn and baby barn to them in your will!
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Good idea. But hopefully too long to wait!
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I think Corona is bringing out Great Depression tendencies in us of “Waste not, want not”. You, unfortunately, are the “Want not” 😀
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I have buildings full of want not.
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Haha, you’re one lucky lady!
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I disagree.
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Your hubby would agree with me 😏
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That’s not at all helpful.
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Those suckers ARE heavy. My mom couldn’t believe it when my dad insisted the pool table be moved to their new (retirement) home – he never played it!!! I think there are even companies you can hire to move them – kinda like piano movers.
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I don’t play pool, and have no desire to learn. My husband plays well but infrequently. (read – once a year if that) This table will just be another piece of junk to pile junk on.
Sigh.
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I love this post . . . it makes me feel so good about our LACK of a barn filled to the rafters with STUFF. 😀
Although we had a pool table in our last house and LOVED it. Especially at parties. Your barn would be perfect with a Ping Pong table, that Pool table, and a BAR!
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The bar is already being planned.
🍸
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