When our complex manager proudly showed me the shuffleboard courts in the commons at my new digs, I grimaced and said "Hell will freeze over before I play shuffleboard."
Ah, but I changed my mind. The people here are really nice, but also persistent, and their argument of "How do you know you don't like it if you never tried it?" won me over. I went to watch a match and got hooked. So now I'm shopping for one of those stick thingees. Ah, yes, a CUE. That and an appropriate pair of shoes. Any excuse to go shopping! Surprisingly, they didn't have any shuffleboard cue sticks for sale on eBay, nor do they seem to be available in any of the local stores, but there are several online stores that sell supplies and equipment for the game. Shuffleboard has been played in the US since colonial times, and by some estimates around 5 million people play in the US today.
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