old school bingo

Today was a great day. I took life by the horns and road it until the bull gave up and decided to sleep it off under a shade tree. Ok...maybe it wasn't that brave...but I think it was pretty brave. Luckily, Sue was there to show me the ropes! At lunchtime, we went to Winner's Bingo World and played Bingo. It was crazy. They call out those numbers and letters really fast and they don't play with simple lines. They want you to get things like a Mini-photoframe, a small diamond, equal signs, 3 straight lines, the entire card filled and stuff like that. It was a lot more complicated than I was expecting. How do the dumb people keep up?

Another great part was that you have to have a big marker thing that puts a colored dot over the ones that have been called out. They don't use the mini-poker chips or beans or anything like that. So now I have this really neat purple dot making marker and it works really well. Plus it was only $1.50. Some people at the other tables had these totes with little pockets all the way around it. And they had a different colored marker in each pocket. You could tell they were hard core.

So Sue and I gotten our instructions and settled in and then decided we had more questions. I am totally serious when I say that it was not as simple as I thought it would be. In the end, we didn't win anything but it was a lot of fun. I kind of want to have a fund raiser for something and do bingo.