Bingo at the Senior Center

Last night a friend and I went to Bingo at the local senior center. I'd never been before but seen an ad saying it would cost $12 for a lasagna dinner and evening of Bingo so thought it would be fun.

Leona and I are old Bingo pals from the Florida park so we headed there with Bingo bag and dabbers only to find that they still use the old cardboard cards and Bingo chips...not nearly as efficient but okay since we were able to borrow some from the front desk.

The senior center is fairly new and absolutely a beautiful facility. I've had craft classes there before and occasionally have lunch there, too. The room used for Bingo was huge but still filled to capacity for this event and the staff were well organized. I think they actually have Bingo games every Friday but this was a special event because of the dinner being included.

As we walked in we each picked up 12 cards to play with and took them to our table. Leaving our bags and cards there, we wandered over to get ourselves a drink and, when we returned, found someone had stolen our cards! Understand that everyone gets these cards with their admittance but, at the moment, there was a shortage until the staff could find some more so someone must have gotten worried they wouldn't have any and selfishly took ours. Isn't that creepy? Don't ever believe that all sweet little old ladies are honest because some of them aren't. The staff had already found plenty of new cards so we were able to get more but it really disgusted me that someone could be low enough to do something like that.

The dinner of lasagna, choice of tossed or caesar salad, roll, drinks, and dessert was pretty good. Bingo began at 6 P.M. and the games were similar to what we play in Florida so we were able to follow it okay.

I won the jackpot in the Early Bird (Bingo players know that is the warm-up games which precede the actual set games) and pocketed $25. Unfortunately, Leona, who almost always wins at Bingo, didn't win anything last night but we had fun anyway. Leona said I won because the creepy old bat stole our original cards.

After the games, we came back to my house for coffee and talk. Even though Bingo here at home isn't nearly as much fun as it is in our Florida trailer park, it had been a nice evening and I'm glad we went.