The Turtles enjoy a game of table tennis (ping pong) every so often and every cruise ship as a table or two to test your skills. Tony and Myrtle had a table tennis table when they lived in South Africa and, upon arriving back home after work, they would first play a game – loser cooks dinner. This led to fierce competition and true colours appeared… Unfortunately (for Tony) they were already married – Tony was not aware that Myrtle was such a bad loser and Myrtle was not aware that Tony could be so ruthless when it came to competitive games.
They played a couple of matches on the ship – only if Tiny could be distracted by other kids for a period long enough to allow the older Turtles to fight it out for the Table Tennis Cruise Crown. When the official table tennis tournament was held on the ship the Turtles were too late to enter the competition but stood around watching the other passengers fight it out.
Two semi-finalists really stood out: an old lady who returned every single smash and serve from men much younger than her. Without cracking a smile. Not even once. The other was an elderly gentleman with a white beard rolled to form two long “tails”. Old Lady No Smile continued to beat her opponents and one bad loser, who was asked whether Old Lady No Smile beat him, answered: “Yeah, the old lady beat me but she cheats!!” So there are worse losers than Myrtle…
Old Lady No Smile turned out to be the undefeated champ and the Turtles were told, by the runner up, that she was married to Long Beard. She is 85 years old (!), he is 65 years old (you go, girl!) and they were on a world cruise. But get this – she is the WORLD champion in her age group! It would have been much cooler to have met Lee Westwood, but you take what you get, right?
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