A well known but commonly disliked lady player turned up, unaccompanied, to the club's annual Christmas dinner party. She was a self-confessed man-hater, but her beautiful looks and superb bridge brain persuaded many men to step forward and ask for a game. These requests were quickly brushed aside, and any romantic advances were spurned with a contempt that bordered on the brutal.
Inevitably, rumours swept through the club that she was a lesbian, a woman who was unable to have children, and who was fearful of the male reproductive organ. Nevertheless the chairman did get up to toast the lady for her outstanding successes during the year, but he then foolishly posed the question " What were the qualities that made her such a formidable player ? "
This was the moment her spurned suitors had been waiting for.
" I know...I know ", one said, " it's because..... she's impregnable "
Another voice immediately piped up : " No.....no......the woman's inconceivable...."
Then came a cry: " Nah.... it's because she's unbearable "
At this point the lady in question rose up front her seat with a look that could turn most men to stone.
" You lot are as clueless at recognising character traits as you are at playing bridge......for my success as a player....and as a childless woman.....is simply down to two things.......I AM INSURMOUNTABLE AND INSCRUTABLE "
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