Sunday, August 06, 2006

But, I Got a Bingo...


Sadly, many of my family's traditions have gone the way of the dodo in the last few years. The most prominent of these was our traditional Christmas Eve Bingo game. Everyone brought a five dollar gift to the party. When you got a bingo, you could choose a gift or swipe one from someone else. Sometimes the game went on for quite awhile, as it didn't end until everyone got to yell, "BINGO!"

6 comments:

S.T. Lewis said...

So now it's down to "solo bingo," huh? Sounds like a load of fun, and a lovely, one-man tradition. The tradition's not very lovely, but the one man is. Nice expression you've given yourself here, Adrian.

Ken Chandler said...

Good one Adrian! Fun tradtion and terrific illustration. Your (his) expression makes me laugh.

Joe Fowler said...

Love the five o'clock shadow!

Seth Hippen said...

I don't think you really got a bingo. Your thumb is conspicuously covering the top "B" square; so we are to assume you really got a bingo!?! Just grab the almond roca and run. Your fancy words don't fool me.

Adrian Ropp said...

Shane - Solo bingo has it's advantages. The best part is that you don't have to get stuck with Almond Rocca.

Ken and Joe- Thank you, sirs.

Peter - I wish we had that tradition. If losers got an extra gift, I'd probably like Christmas more!

Seth - You can't prove anything! It's obvious you've never met me in real life, as you suggest I "run". Run. That's a good one.

Anonymous said...

Since I started to play free bingo online I have really started to get a feel for the game of bingo, so I decided to go down to my local hall. I hated it because people looked at me really peculiarly because I was a new comer, it felt quite hostile so I decided to give that a miss from now on and just play at home using online bingo, cash prizes are the same and I don’t get any agro!