(FAQ) You are addicted to pool if…

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How do you know when your passion for pool as taken over your life? Here are a few indicators:

The wife said, “Pool or me.” You miss her once in a while.
There are only two times a week when you think about pool. Weekdays and weekends.
You tear down the garage and build a bigger one to hold the pool table.
At work, you spend more than an hour a day looking at forums and drooling over equipment.
You have a pool table at home, and get upset because your wife wants to use it to fold clothes.
When traveling, you pick hotels/motels nearest to a pool hall.
You arrange your get-togethers with relatives only when there are tournaments in the area.
You schedule family nights out with the kids when you don’t have league nights.
If your wife makes you baby sit, you pack the kids up and take them to a pool hall.
When you started playing pool, your wife made you promise you will play only one night a week. You solemnly promised (with fingers crossed).
You convince the wife that a second floor is needed on the house for a pool room so that you won’t interfere with her TV watching schedule.
The only time you don’t play five nights a week is when you are sicker than a dog, and your friends won’t let you into the pool hall.
You make friends with the only three people in town with home tables, so that you can go play with them two times a week – each.
You play all night, three times a week.
Your life can be summed up as – All pool, all the time.
You deny being addicted to pool.
Your only friends play pool.
You are relieved that the medical field does not believe that pool is addictive – which you bring up constantly to prove you aren’t addicted.