Bring in Cue or Not?

I have mentioned that I am helping raise money for local pool player, Dave Faver, who has throat cancer.  The funds have helped him stay in a hotel while he gets treatment.

I talk to him usually once a day to see how he's doing, and sometimes he shares pool stories.

Here is one of them:

He's been playing pool on the road since the 80s.  He said that back then and even 20 years later, he figured out it's just best when you get in a game while on the road, to play pool using the cuestick from the wall.

While he had his own cue stick in the car, obviously if you walk in with a cue, everyone thinks this stranger can play.  If you get a game, and then go outside to get your cue, then you'd be labeled a hustler before you even hit a ball.

It's kinda crazy all the things you had to think about and consider to get games back then (heck, maybe even today in some locations, right?) when you try to gamble in a town no one knows you, huh?