Lots of Bets

[Nushka]

An elderly woman walked into the Bank of Canada one morning with a

purse

full of money. She wanted to open a savings account and insisted on

talking to

the president of the Bank because, she said, she had a lot of money.

After many lengthy discussions (after all, the client is always

right) an employee took the elderly woman to the president's office.

The president of the Bank asked her how much she wanted to deposit.

She

placed her purse on his desk and replied, "$165,000". The president was curious

and asked her how she had been able to save so much money. The

elderly woman replied that she made bets.

The president was surprised and asked, "What kind of bets?" The

elderly

woman replied, "Well, I bet you $25,000 that your testicles are

square."

The president started to laugh and told the woman that it was

impossible to

win a bet like that.

The woman never batted an eye. She just looked at the president and

said,

"Would you like to take my bet?"

"Certainly", replied the president. "I bet you $25,000 that my

testicles are

not square." "Done", the elderly woman answered. "But given the

amount of

money involved, if you don't mind I would like to come back at 10

o'clock

tomorrow morning with my lawyer as a witness." "No problem", said

the president

of the Bank confidently.

That night, the president became very nervous about the bet and

spent

a long

time in front of the mirror examining his testicles, turning them

this way

and that, checking them over again and again until he was positive

that no one

could consider his testicles as square and reassuring himself that there

was no

way he could lose the bet.

The next morning at exactly 10 o'clock the elderly woman

arrived at the president's office with her lawyer and acknowledged the $25,000 bet made the day before that the

president's

testicles were square.

The president confirmed that the bet was the same as the one made

the

day

before. Then the elderly woman asked him to drop his pants etc. so

that she and

her lawyer could see clearly.

The president was happy to oblige. The elderly woman came closer so she

could see better and asked the president if she could touch them.

"Of course",

said the president "Given the amount of money involved, you should be 100% sure." The elderly woman did so with a little smile.

Suddenly the president noticed that the lawyer was banging his head

against the

wall. He asked the elderly woman why he was doing that and she

replied, "Oh, it's

probably because I bet him $100,000 that around 10 o'clock in the

morning I

would be holding the balls of the President of the Bank of Canada!"

[cindi o'h]

clever. good one, Nina.