"Ladies, Gentlemen and Numbers - Please be seated and please be calm. This is a small announcement, not so important, but an announcement nevertheless. We the card-makers association of the world, have decided, that from the coming batch of playing cards, plastic and paper both, there will be a slight change in the order in which, the cards will be packed. From the next batch onwards, the order of packing will be Jack - King - Queen instead of Jack - Queen - King."
"Preposterous", the first one to reply was the Queen of Spades, the Black Maria. "You say that this is a small thing. I have been sleeping between the Jack and the Queen. Now, I the Queen of Spades, has to sleep next to the Ass of the Clubs. This is ridiculous."
"Well, Her Majesty, it is actually the Ace of Clubs, not Ass."
"Ass-arse-ace, does that really make a difference? There has been one or two occasions of faulty packs where I had to sleep with the Arse of the Clubs. Where is sleeping between the Jack and the King and where is sleeping with an Arse, that too of a different class?"
"And who will be sleeping next to me?", that was the Queen of Diamonds, the last in the order.
"Depending on the region, HM, it could be the Card of Guarantee, or the Joker, or The Blank Card."
"In your dreams, the Joker? How dare? Or the card of guarantee? The Blank? How dare you?"
The numbers were getting uneasy and bored. And after all they were not affected at all by the change. The lucky ones were the Aces, they were getting to sleep next to (or with, depends on how you look) with the Queens of the neighboring realm, except the Ace of Spades of course. There were issues popping up here and there, but it was a done deal.
"Let's get these pansies off the hall, there is another important announcement the chess makers have to make regarding the length of the cross on the King's head."
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