High Stakes Bingo

A while back I did a pageant for a scholarship and my younger brother was telling me how I was selling myself and all that mumbo jumbo, he also said High Stakes Bingo was next.  Well guess what?! Turns out it was.

We get to the bingo game about 15 minutes late, which was perfect timing, and expected to just come a rollin' in like we own the place.  Nope.  Not even a little.  We were tossed out, technically we didn't really even make it in, but still, it hurt.  We were told to get in the line to wait for the next session which was about an hour and a half away at that point.  But anyway, we waited with some awkward people, some butters, a guy who didn't fake dead nearly as well as I do, and my future husband that may or may not be in a relationship with someone else already.  Finally, we made it into the ballroom for the moment we had all been waiting for.  We got our cards and crayons and settled right in.

The prizes started out small and gradually got bigger and better, but as they got better they also got harder to win.  For example:  you get bingo and go on stage to wait for two more winners.  Then the three of you compete for the prize.  Now, you're probably wondering, "why is this chica even writing about bingo in the first place?!  It's for old people, and the occasional sporty aunt." Well here's where this story get tricky!  Because the next prize was an iPod Nano, $25 iTunes gift card, and a watch/holder for the iPod.  WABAMM!

Of course I was thinking, "I have got to win."  Well, that time rolled around and I did get a bingo.  But me, being a lazy bones, decided "nah, I don't want to go all the way up there to compete for the iPod" so I just freaked out and told someone else to take it.  No one was taking it though... except the stranger man from the other side of the table.  He grabbed it and busted onto the stage.  You can probably guess what happened next.  Yeah, he won a dance competition and the prizes.  My roommates were SOO mad!  Haha!  Abby and Sara (that's right, I mentioned you) couldn't believe that I just gave it away like that.  So they told the guy that he owed me huge, like take me out to dinner huge.  So he asked if I wanted to go to dinner.  Of course I wanted to go to dinner!  But we left early and never got his name.  So I didn't get dinner out of it.  I do occasionally see the yahoo around our apartments (not being a creeper or anything, he lives there too....I think...).  I even said hi to him the other day!  And he made awkward eye contact!

That is all, young padawon(s).