Bar One - back open, as mediocre as ever

This post is completely ignoring the "pool 10p per game, 4-11 January (read: when nobody's there to read the advertising or abuse the offer) posters I saw today...

Yeah, Bar One's open again. It was open yesterday, but my plan to head there and revise (I find revising in largely empty bars is useful, mainly because it has comfy chairs which my flat and the [full] library doesn't) then failed... mainly due to my failure to get out of bed before 1... anyway I head in for just after 12 (later than anticipated due to shaving taking forever - note to self - if you wait over a month between shaves, it takes longer than usual) to watch the cricket. All is well, they have most of the usual offers on, One to Go's chips still taste crap. The annoying thing comes when I go to have a few practice racks of pool after they call stumps. After a couple of games some security jobsworth comes in and turns all the lights off in the pool room, barring those physically over the tables. Needless to say you could see fuck all. I clear the table (only had two/three balls left on the credit I had) and leave, happening to catch the same jobsworth while heading out. I point out to him:
"You can't see a damn thing in there".
"That's what they want".
"Who's they?"
"The management".
Well, the management's just cost themselves at least a fiver (cost of another pint for me plus four-five more games), and would have cost his wages had I had a group of people coming down to play some pool who would have been diverted to Rileys where you can walk two feet without risk of walking into something. How hard would it have been to ask the people playing in there if they mind if they turn off the main lights?

This is, of course, completely ignoring the fact that 3 of the 4 games I played were worthless due to not having the correct number of balls on the table (adjacent tables had 8 red and 6 yellow, and vice versa) and the first table I played was tilting like the Titanic when it sank. Needless to say I'll be revising in the Fox and Duck tomorrow.