Some pretence. I really like the game of pool. I've been playing it a fair bit recently after not playing for about 8 years. (I never played well the last time I played was on a caravan holiday when I was 14 or so.) I've been playing every week at my local bar who let me on the team. (Mainly I just help them warm up while I practice my basic mechanics) I really want to get better, and my step dad knows this because I've been taking him to a local pool hall every week so I can have some more practice I pay for his drinks so I have someone to play with because I have a bit of anxiety in new places with new people so it helps to have someone I know along. 

So this is out 4th or 5th time out and I've never beaten him. (In overall games, I win a few but he's always won more) yesterday playing at the bar, one of he team gave me some advice and it drastically improved my game. So I wanted to cement that by practicing more today.

So we get to the pool hall and play a couple of games, I'm doing pretty well as we're winning alternate games. The score is 4 to 4 my chance for the lead. I pot my final ball and have pretty hard position on the black. It is a difficult shot for me. It's may be a 80-85° cut in the side pocket. Now usually I'm pretty good into the side pocket. 

So I line up my shot. I'm confident in going to pot this ball and finally be in at a chance of beating him. Right before I take pull back for the shot he blurts out. 

"Oh did your mom tell you she's pregnant".

I awkwardly burst out laughing. Partly because I didn't know how to react partly because I knew he was putting me off and joking. Anyway I'm still chuckling a minute or too later and so is he making me chuckle more. I get down for the shot again try to concentrate, can't so I just go for it hoping my I just make it. I completely miss it and roll the white straight not the corner pocket. He bursts out laughing. I instantly stop. I know 100% I could have made that shot if he didn't put me off. 

We play 2 more. I win the next game so its 5-5. I'm still pissed of and I'm just hitting them. I put the black in because I was careless and lost. He looks at me at the end with a sort of you know what you did wrong look. And I know I was pissed off and careless. So my response was "yeah I know I was pissed off and just didnt care" he says "why are you pissed off it's not because my fault" so I explained. "Well yeah, you put me off a crucial shot which would have put me ahead."  At this point in packing up the balls to go home. He puts his cue away and leaves the pool hall.I didn't know he had left and started walking home. So I wait 5 minutes outside then presume he's walked home and call the taxi. I tell the taxi to take the roads that he's probably walking on. And when we pass him in the taxi I ask the driver to just pull over and I open the door to let him in. He sticks his middle finger up at me and continues to walk home. So I shut the door and taxi driver walks off.