Be careful what you bet!

**Seb** 7/1/2009, 1:56 am

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 !'