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A Little
Old Lady in the Bank
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A little old
lady goes into the Chase Manhattan Bank, and says she wants to open a savings
account.
The accounts
person asks her how much she would like to deposit to open the account
and the little old lady
says, "Three
million dollars."
The accounts
person is startled, and says, "In what form?" and the little old lady says,
"Cash. I've got it here in
this bag..."
and the accounts person looks and, sure enough, the lady has a big grocery
bag just chock full of
green stuff
with big denominations.
This is a highly
unusual event, and the accounts person excuses herself to get the president
of the bank to
handle this
one. He arrives, and escorts the little old lady to his office to handle
it personally.
Once in his
office, he asks the little old lady where she got so much money.
She says, "Gambling."
" Gambling?",
he says. "What sort of gambling?"
" Oh, I make
bets with people on all sorts of things, and I usually win. For example,
I've got $100,000 right here
that says that
by noon tomorrow your balls will be square, and I'll even give you 4:1
odds. You got $25,000 you'd
be willing
to wager on that?"
The bank president
is shocked at this sort of thing coming from a sweet little old lady, but
he didn't get to be the
president of
the Chase Manhattan Bank without knowing something about money. "I suppose
I could come up with
enough to cover
that sort of wager, but I wouldn't feel right taking it from you...there's
no way you can win a bet
like that!"
The little
old lady just shook the bag, and said, "I know what I'm doing...and I can
afford to lose, though I'm not
going to. Is
it a bet?"
" Ok, have
it your way", said the president, and they shook hands on it.
" See you at
11:55 tomorrow morning", said the little old lady, and with that she left.
Next morning
at 11:55 the little old lady arrives with a younger man in a three-piece
suit, and is escorted to the
bank president's
office. The president is a nervous wreck, though a happy one. He'd gotten
almost no sleep the
night before,
waking every few minutes to feel his balls to check for impending squareness,
but nothing happened
all night.
He had checked hundreds of times that morning, but still nothing; perfectly
normal.
When the little
old lady arrived he started to relax, knowing he had won.
" Come in,
please have a seat! Who might this gentleman be?" said the president.
" He's my lawyer.
For a bet of this size I want to have a witness. Any objections?"
" No, perfectly
understandable", said the president. "Well, it's now noon, and I'm still
unchanged, so I guess I win!"
he said happily.
" Not so fast!"
said the little old lady. "For a hundred grand I want to verify things
personally! Please drop your
pants."
The bank president
is a bit flustered, but agrees that in her position he'd want proof as
well, so he drops his
pants. The
little old lady goes over to him and reaches out to feel the organs in
question.
" Ok, you win,
here's your $100,000," says the little old lady, handing over a bag of
bills. As she does so, her
lawyer starts
banging his head against the wall and moaning.
" What's wrong
with him?" asks the bank president.
" Oh, he's
just upset. Poor loser if you ask me. You see, I had a bet for $1,000,000
with him that I would have the
President of
the Chase Manhattan Bank by the balls by noon today."
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