Something that really gets me at smaller domestic poker nights, as opposed to online poker, is people and their damn technology. All the time I see this now and I’ve stopped playing if I see anyone do it, and that’s using their cell phone to text while they play poker. This happens way too much, but is it them cheating or are they all just texting their friends? I have no way of knowing and I don’t appreciate being put into the position of thinking about it while I’m trying to concentrate on the game. Another annoying thing about it is while these unsocial troglodytes are typedy typing away at each other they giggle, ohhhhh that pisses me off. Here you are at a table with five or six other guys and you choose that they aren’t worth talking too so you need to chat away with someone who isn’t even there, teeeheeeheeeing at each other from miles away.
Are we seriously at that point now? Maybe I’m just old but it’s annoying as crap! I used to go to the mall with my friends when I was a kid and we would all run around and talk to each other. Now anytime I get dragged to that god awful place kicking and screaming, I notice that it’s just one massive group of A holes walking around not talking on their phones looking in non sensible directions that sometimes happen to be right at my face! Now the thing that gets me is when someone looks me in the eye and sais hello I can only assume that THEY’RE TALKING TO ME!!!!! But no, they have a sexy little hands free device crammed in their ear, and when I say hello and they don’t answer and then I start screaming HELLO at them, they look at me like I’m nuts. Like I’m the one walking around looking like I’m talking to invisible people, goofy sons a guns I hate em all. I miss the days when we were forced to talk to people we don’t know, that way you got to meet new people. Remember a stranger is just a friend you haven’t met yet, or some crap like that.