My grandmother,may she rest in peace, was a serial mahjong player. Prone to coming domestic late after an afternoon of playing with “the girls, or ” she would show up with ruddy cheeks from too much drink and with pockets jingling with quarters. I was never fooled by the sweet grandmotherly facade of that tile game,so it came as no surprise to me when a weekly game of mahjong played by four elderly ladies in Altamonte Springs, Florida, and was shut down by local police after word got out that the mahjong miscreants,ages 87 to 95, were (gasp!) gambling.
Mahjong player and grandmother, and Zelda King,87, told the Heritage Florida Jewish News that the snitch who ratted them out to the local police was “a troublemaker and lives in building 11” of the condominium clubhouse where they regularly meet. Outraged by the turn of events–the condo’s management banned mahjong from being played in the clubhouse until further notice, and forcing them to play at each other’s homes–King complained,“It is an international game and we are being crucified!” Police continued to check-up on the ladies at the clubhouse during the following days to make certain no tile-betting was happening.
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