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Do we play pool in the wrong place???
Yesterday, Cindy & I decided to get out for a while. So, a limited selection of bar box places in this small town. We like a small bar, only 2 tables, the place usually fairly clean, but a working class bar. Probably millions of places like this across the country.
What concerned us a wee bit? The three people playing on the other table, two males, one female, were discussing the personalities of the area parole officers. Hmmmm.
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06-20-2008, 10:28 AM
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Hoot! Well, we were playing on the table closest to the door...
 (edit) One of the snippets of conversation we heard...a guy saying he'd have to be more careful and run faster "next time"...
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06-20-2008, 10:36 AM
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So, were they discussing the doctors at the methadone clinic, too?
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06-20-2008, 10:52 AM
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I got you beat,
I go to the absolute worst pizza place in the town. The bathrooms would embarrass a Tijuana whore house owner. It is on the low rent side of town and next to a laundromat (see above bathroom statement.) A third of the music on the jukebox is in Spanish (not that there is anything wrong with that) It is run by an Asian guy who is really nice to me because I am a regular customer, the food is OK but what I really like is the beer, he has Dos Equis amber, Tecate, Widmer, and a couple of domestics on tap. So I am slumming it with my low rent friends and what appears to be a homeless lady comes in and it turns out they know her from riding the bus. They say hi and she sits down at our table with her tall boy in a brown paper bag. The owner is giving her the evil eye (understandably) but my friends waive him off and tell him she is OK. She then regals us with stories of UFOs, the economy, and her previous jobs as the secretary to the mayor and a makeup artist for the movie stars. You can't make this stuff up!
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I didn't know tab's mom was down in San Pedro these days...
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06-20-2008, 12:00 PM
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Your pool place sounds awful. I'll bet they don't even have organic green teas. Better play up in Portland.
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06-20-2008, 12:21 PM
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For the real action, check out "classics east"...122nd & Powell. On the East side of the river. Kind of shady, no food other than snacks, bottled beer or cheap wine only. But it is the hangout for the money players of the area, including Glenn Atwell, who many would say is the best player in the Northwest. Yeah John, I've played pool in Portland. The place down here in Lebanon? Definitely no green tea! Bar box tables, 50 cents per game. Clientele here definitely NOT PDX downtown yuppie office workers. But...it has an ambiance of it's own, and we've never been hassled there...well, not much.
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06-20-2008, 12:38 PM
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Could have been worse, they could have been talking politics
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06-20-2008, 12:44 PM
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Parole officers?
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06-20-2008, 12:58 PM
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The only P.O. I know was our daughter's "buddy" back in high school. I kind of wish she (The P.O.) had been with us...it would have been interesting to see if the place cleared out when she walked in. Dunno if it's the law now, but used to be that parolees had to stay out of Oregon bars. Decades ago, I had teamed up with another car club member for an after meeting rally. Afterwards, we stopped off for a beer. One guy in the bar came over to us, was explaining to this guy that he was there to meet a friend, that he wasn't drinking, etc. The guy then explained that he was a P.O. This was back in the late 60's...
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Look on the bright side... at least they got out on parole -- better than escapees.
or... all those stmts. could have been made by deputy sheriffs - the ones I know yak about parole officers a lot. |
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06-20-2008, 03:36 PM
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06-21-2008, 03:52 AM
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yup - they probably wouldn't have made the "run faster" comment tho - but a sheriff could have.
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06-21-2008, 11:57 AM
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yup - they probably wouldn't have made the "run faster" comment tho - but a sheriff could have.
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06-21-2008, 11:57 AM
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Trust me on this one...they weren't "officers" of any kind...other comments were
made...one guy talked of serving 6 years, and I don't think he meant the military. 
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