Harper Lake

Harper Lake

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Old Maid Face

I reckon y'all have heard the term poker-face. We have a nice friendly bunch that play poker together. We don't play for real money but have collected the play money from old Monopoly sets and use that. Some of us are better at hiding our emotions and do put forth a real poker-face. One of the members, Jaymont McFew, has a real problem with this issue. We say he has an "old maid face." We get this from back when we were kids and played the card game named Old Maid. The one that gets stuck with the old maid card at the end of the game is the loser. Jaymont, when he was a little boy, would reveal to us the fact that he had been dealt the card. His eyes would get big and he would start fidgeting in his seat and the sweat would pour from his grands. Today, he still acts the same except now he does it when he gets a good hand. In fact, the better the hand the more he reacts to it. I guess somebody ought to sit him down and explain this to him but I reckon we all get too big a kick out of watching him squirm.

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