I haven't been in years and I have always wanted to do a real bingo night. You know what I'm talking about... Elk lodge, an older crowd, players surrounded by their good luck charms and multiple colored dotters. Needless to say, St. Augustine would have one of these around for sure (We are a little bit of a retirement town :)).
As I said in a previous post, my two girlfriends from home were in town and said they would go with me so we started to prepare for our Thursday smokeless bingo night. Now how do you prepare for said bingo night, you might ask... Well I will tell you. We went and bought bingo visors, of course!
We went to a shop on downtown St. George street and purchased some of the most ridiculous visors we could find. Mine had hot air balloons, Martha's had different colored alligators and Hol's had flamingos. (See pic below!)
We had our visors and were ready to go! We drove the the Elk Lodge and walked in. We were late. The guy told us that they had different packages, the lowest starting at $18 per person. We quickly accepted the lowest price and he began to hand us a million and one things. A whole stack of bingo sheets, surprise bingo sheets, our receipts and a schedule of the bingo games. We were juggling all of our papers and he told us that he would let us each pick out a "dotter" for our games.
We each grabbed our traditional colors (me- blue, Holly- pink, Martha- purple) and we walked in. Not only were we the youngest people there, we were also the only ones wearing visors... darn it. We thought we had that nailed so we looked like we knew what we were doing.
We walked in, remember-late, and walked around trying to find a seat. We got a few glares from people daring us to sit in front of them, but finally found a seat where we were able to put our stuff down.
I never knew that bingo could be so confusing. They had different colored sheets with different games that were played different ways. We were beyond confused. Thank God we had these two wonderful ladies next to us who walked us through the process!
Here was our bingo schedule which gives you some idea of how intense these people are about Bingo
Once we made it through a few games we had gotten the hang of it and were dotting our bingo cards away. It was fun to get close, but we never did win :( Each round the winner won $50 except for a select few rounds where you could win $250! Martha did have Bingo but didn't realize it until after someone had already called it... but oh well! We had a full 3 hours of Bingo and an experience we can look forward to again... hopefully next time winning!
I can't wait until it is exceptable for me to go to Bingo every Thursday night and not be judged by my friends ;)
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