Things to Never Do with Any Cue

1. Leave the stick in your 150 degree car trunk, and all the glue joints fall apart and the inlays pop out.

2. Leave the stick in your car trunk, which suddenly develops a leak, and you don't notice it until after that big rain, and your waterlogged stick looks like a dog's hind leg.

3. Leave the stick in your -20 degree car trunk, and the plastic joint collar cracks when you put it together and break with it.

4. Lean the cue against a table (or chair), someone bumps the table, your stick makes that sickening ‘SLAP’ sound as it hits the concrete floor, your ferrule shatters, and your tip rolls across the floor.

5. You don't know what to do with your stick while you rack, so you lean it against the pool table, and there's that ‘SLAP’ sound again.

6. Raise up your stick after a shot, giving the low-hanging light a good whack, shattering glass all over the table, and putting a good sized nick in the shaft.

7. Some drunk says he knows how to remove that nick, so he spits on your shaft and holds a cigarette lighter next to it, and sure 'nuff, the nick disappears and turns into charcoal. He then says, "Sorry, it worked the last time I tried it."

8. You allow yourself to be interrupted when you are screwing your stick together, and you don't get it tight, you hit a shot with it, and you strip out the threads in the joint.

9. Let your tip wear down too far and your ferrule cracks.

10. Try to put on your first tip and cut the ferrule with your razor and scratch the ferrule with your sandpaper while trimming the edges down.

11. Another player tells you to use green 3M pads or sandpaper on your shaft, and after six months you are playing with a toothpick. Then the same thing happens with steel wool, only this time it takes a year.