How a Pool Table Exposed the Hidden Frustrations of Marriage
A pool table went viral on TikTok after a woman named Jessy highlighted how difficult marriage is. The pool table in question was the center of a story Jessy relayed about how finicky and non-communicative people can be in relationships, and how frustrating it can be for the other person to deal with this behavior. She shared her tale in a viral TikTok in response to a query from another user on the platform.
The Beginning of a Derailed Shopping Trip
Jessy responded to Liver’s video with a “perfect example” of this statement, going on to say: “We just went out and bought a new pool table the other day. So I decided, you know what, let me ask my husband to see if he wants to come with me, we can pick the pool table together. We get there and my husband’s been complaining that I don’t give him enough of a say in anything,” she says in the clip.
The Color Dilemma: Red or Green?
She continues: “So I say to him, we get into the show room and I say to him, ‘Which table do you want?'” — a statement she punctuates with hand gestures, pantomiming that he had a wide variety of different pool tables to choose from and that the end result would be up to him. “He says, ‘Well I want either red or green.’ I said, ‘Well I don’t want red, I hate red felt pool tables.’ He said, ‘OK, we’ll do green.'”
Choosing the Perfect Shade of Green
With that settled, next it was time to pick the shade of green. “So, they have five different colors of green, we lay ’em out. He said, ‘Which green do you like?'” She then pointed out the shade of green that appealed to her the most. “According to Jessy, the hue that her husband liked just so happened to be the same hue she selected.”
The Unexpected Revelation in the Car
But as it turns out, everything was not fine, “We get in the car, and I look at him and I pat him on his shoulder and I say, ‘See? You do get a say in things. Are you so happy now that you got the pool table the way you wanted it?’ And he looks at me and he goes, ‘It’s not what I woulda picked,'” intimating that he had an attitude while saying it.
The Unresolved Disagreement and Public Opinion
Again, she was confused by this situation, “I go, ‘But you picked green. You said red or green. And then we picked green.’ ‘Yeah but I would’ve picked red.’ Literally, five more seconds down the road he says to me, ‘What color did you like?’ I said, ‘Well I was gonna go with either the navy blue or the gray.'”
Community Reactions and Advice
Several other folks on the app stated that they, too, were also frustrated by the responses her husband gave during the pool table shopping experience. There were folks who responded to her video who offered up advice to Jessy on how she could best handle the issue with her husband.
Final Thoughts on Relationships and Marriage
And while Jessy seemed to handle this disagreement with her husband in stride, it seemed like there were other people who didn’t find his behavior all that endearing. In fact, one person said that it was because of repeated squabbles like this in their previous relationship that they ended up calling it quits: “I got divorced over a lot of these little things — they add up over time.”