06/04/2026
Well tonight was Terry's first night playing in tournament 8 Ball.🎱
It was a very interesting night. First off I picked up my friend Stan twice. I showed up at his house a half hour early. We proceeded to the Moose and found a chair to watch Terry play his first game. Poor Terry got beat by a girl in his first ever tournament pool match. He got beat because the girl was good. He played four more matches and then ended up with a two win three loss record. But right before he played his last opponent, somebody caused a little bit of a commotion.
As I sat between Stan and Terry waiting for the next match, George, Terry's teammate had a little scuffle with a jealous man because he asked his wife to dance. George tried to apologize and said he didn't know it was his wife, but the jealous husband would not have it. He kept at George until it escalated too far. Not that it wasn't too far already. Someone managed to step in and separate the two and I escorted the aggressor back toward the pool playing area. I turned around for a second and someone had George by the throat.
This big dude that was involved in this argument snuck up behind George and grabbed him by the neck. Both Terry and I were watching him and keeping an eye on him because we heard him threatening George. Terry broke his choke hold pulling arm off George's throat along with an old army veteran. Who got scratched a couple times and was bleeding. I was on my way back to assist when a big dude in a blue shirt stepped in front of me and took control of the situation, thank goodness. The big blue man stepped in and said "we're all Brothers here put your fists down". After a few more words everything was very quiet again. Poor Terry had to play the aggressor in the fight in his next game. The aggressor played angry and made most every shot while Terry only got to shoot once or twice and lost. The best part of the night was Terry kept his cool and survived without sharking.
