Wit and Honesty can Make the Day!

       In a set of tennis Sunday morning, after we lost 6-0 to the mixed doubles team on the other side of the net whom I'd congratulated by saying "Well, you two came to play!" because they'd been awfully good and consistent, my partner Jeanette followed up with a wonderful finish line, "But in our defense, we sucked !" which was right as rain, true as truth, and made me smile and laugh and feel good despite it all.  Didn't appear the other team thought it was funny, but I didn't care.  Thank you, Jeanette!

       I was giving maybe too much credit, but Jeanette was telling the other half of the story.  I don't know what kind of "defense" it was, but.. ...that line made great sense to me!