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Double against neilkaz
Posted By: Marty Storer In Response To: Double against neilkaz (Chuck Bower)
Date: Wednesday, 3 September 2008, at 7:00 p.m.
Hee, reminds me of the good old days. Married couples yelling at each other about bridge hands, can be funny, but also sad. I saw one spouse call another a "hopeless moron" or similar, with sad results.
Also, here's a story that the now-deceased tale teller assured me he saw happen, but maybe with some details previously changed here and there during its travels. It involves a young bridge hotshot, a real person whom I think I saw at some club once. By now he must be middle-aged or at least pushing his luck.
Hotshot and partner are sitting against two sweet "little old ladies" (LOLs, as Matthew Granovetter would say), one of whom picks up something like ten hearts to the AKQ, singleton ace, doubleton ace, void. She tremulously bids "Four hearts," which is passed out. As the cards are played, and her hand progressively reveals itself, the young hotshot occasionally emits a snicker. After thirteen tricks go to the LOLs, declarer LOL asks partner, "Why didn't you bid hearts?" Partner replies, "YOU had them all!"
Now the kid goes bananas: "Mildewed!! Why didn't you bid HEARTS?? YOOOUUUUUU had them all!! Bwahahahah!" LOLs summon the director who delivers a stern admonishment, perhaps through his-or-her own stifled guffaws.
When I first heard that story, 1983, I rolled on the floor, helplessly laughing, gasping for breath. I may be a hopeless moron of a bridge player, but I can't imagine such a scene. Hoo! Hoo hoo! *gasp*
Can we imagine Stick in the role of the young hotshot?
*falls on floor beating limbs against the carpet*
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