"Canada," the screen flashed when the phone
rang shortly before 10 a.m. Monday, just as I was getting ready to roll out of
bed and mulling what to do after that. The woman on the other end of the line said
that Myrna Mackey needed a partner today at the Bridge Centre of Niagara. Was I
available to play?
On one hand, I could do yard work. Or else I could spend
an afternoon at the tables in St. Catharine's. The choice was clear. Not only
is Myrna quietly sweet, she's also one of the better players at the club. We'd
never partnered up before, but I figured we’d work things out.
What helped, especially in the early rounds, were the
cards. They were awful. With nothing to bid on (in our first three hands, one
or the other of us had high card points in the low single digits), we passed a
lot. What also helped was we were in tune defensively. Our opponents didn't get
any tricks they didn't deserve.
We breezed along until the final round, when we ran up
against Jane Jennings and Donna Fettes and won just six of 24 possible match
points. Did that take the bloom off our afternoon? Not much. 61.34%. Second overall. We begin the new month with 2.48 master points.
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