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."
