Whether we have played bridge for a few weeks - or many years.
Bridge is an amazing part of bridge life that fascinates many. (I know all too well!)
With so much going on, it is both delightful to see what is happening.
And sometimes challenging to understand it all.
I shall begin with some of my own experiences.
Many moons ago, (MANY!) - I would drive all the way from the city to where my husband's uncle lived an hour away. And once or twice a week (or two) - we would play some bridge.
I was so brand new, that there was way more than I could possibly learn in many weeks - much less just a "here and there" segment of bridge. I had a fun time. But I imagine that most of you would know that it takes far far more than "a few weeks" to really start to understand The Greatest Game.
All this was so very long ago, that I simply cannot begin to recall it all. Yet I will share with you some the fun, complicated, thrilling - etc., etc. aspects of bridge that that began to intrigue me.
I have an aunt - now in her middle 90's - who is an exceptional player. "Aunt Rosy" thought it would be great fun for me to come to Oklahoma, meet some of her teammates and friends - and
see what I thought about it all.
I fell in love.
My aunt had many friends who were superb bridge players. Each day I played, Rosalie would find excellent choices for me to learn from the friends. And as the days continued, I learned more and more from these fine bridge players.
I was such a newby - I could only begin to understand all that was happening. Yet everyone was so nice, so pleasant - and such fine players - that I was thrilled with the various players and truly began to learn even more. Amazingly, the last day that we played, our team beat one of the top players in the area - Jim Jacoby. And we ended up being THE top players at the event!
Being a newby - I was simply ecstatic. We all hauled into our vehicle, meandered here and there - and had a fabulous time. More than one of the players commented that Aunt Rosy was incredible - and how fortunate I was to have her. (Boy they were correct!!)
It turned out that this was the first - AND the last time - that I managed to go from about 7 masterpoints to THREE TIMES AS MANY POINTS at that time EVER in my life! But I knew I was hooked - so I was determined to keep on learning - both as to how to play bridge - and how to learn from many of the top notch players at the tourney.
My guess is that a great many of us, as the years went bye, learned more and more. While I never again managed to add THREE sets of new bridge tales. I did work hard to learn, question, study - and remain stoic when I went wrong.
Do I have more stories to tell? My goodness; don't know if I could ever count them all!
That being said, I shall stop for now. There is so much to learn, to enjoy, to have fun and now and then have tears - that I shall wait for our next time for more super duper stories! Yay!!!!
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