It took me a few minutes to realize what he had done. We were standing in the kitchen talking, when I went to put my purse on the dining room table. I didn’t notice that it was a billiards table because he had put a tablecloth over it. Perhaps he did this to protect it, but I’m not really sure. In any case, when I set my purse down on the billiards table it flopped sideways. It momentarily startled me, as I was pretty sure I was setting my purse on a flat surface. As it turned out, I had set it along the rail of the billiards table, and that caused it to fall over.

Once I realized what had happened, I asked my dad where he had gotten the billiards table. He and my cousin like to play games on the computer together, and I know his basement has been turned into a game room. Perhaps this is why I was not expecting to find a billiards table in his dining room. He told me that they had run out of room in the basement, and that he had to find a place to put it. Since he lived on his own, his dining room table was not really essential.

I think that it is wonderful that my dad keeps busy and has so much to do. If he must have a billiards table in his dining room then I am all for it. When we went this year for Christmas, he simply put a piece of wood over the top of the billiards table, and then covered it with a tablecloth. You would have never known it was not a regular table had he not told you. Perhaps he is onto something here. Though I can’t imagine I will have a billiards table in my dining room any time soon, perhaps someday when my daughter is older, this may be a fun thing to do.