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The Stranger Side Of Darts

This morning I decided to get my hair cut and was telling the barber about the darts match last night when Pauline Ramsall won the match for us and he immediately thought it must be a mixed league. I explained that there are quite a few ladies playing for mens teams to make the numbers up to keep the teams going, but it is really a mens league and there is a separate ladies league which the men are not allowed to play in. He started making comments that the ladies want equality in all things and also special treatment for them. To misquote George Orwell and Animal farm “Everybody is equal, but some are more equal than others.”

After putting the world to rights I recalled an incident that I was told about at a pub in Stone on a ladies match night. On any darts match night the teams understandably expect to have the dartboard to themselves all night for practice, both, before and after the match. One night the ladies were playing after the match and a man walked in asking for a game. The ladies captain said it was ladies night, but he could play if he put on a skirt and high heeled shoes. They had a giggle and the man disappeared out to his van in the car park. When he came back a few minutes later he was wearing a skirt and high heeled shoes. The ladies jaws dropped, but they let him play a few games before he went home. Later the ladies captain pointed out that the skirt and shoes might have been left in the van by a girlfriend, but it seemed unlikely that both her skirt and shoes would fit him, so what was he doing with ladies clothing that fitted him ready to wear in his van?

You certainly see life at darts matches.