My First Bingo Charity Event
Childhood Bingo
In my last blog entry, I described my very earliest first bingo experiences. The first bingo charity event in which I ever participated was also a memorable one from my youth. It was part of a fund raiser for the religious community. Of course, I was too young to play. I was merely an onlooker and I got to mark my parent's cards as the game progressed. It was a charity event where all the prizes were actually donations and every single cent was accumulated as profit that would go directly to charity (in other words - an event which is all charity). My parents actually won something - an incense holder. I was disappointed though. I was too small to appreciate such a prize at the time and so I was hoping that we would win one of the smaller prizes like one of my friends won later in the evening - a fancy box of chocolates (his parents and mine would have been willing to trade; his because of the value of the incense holder and mine, for my sake, but my friend wouldn't hear of it!).
Bingo Awakens
Nonetheless, this event brought me to the realization that bingo was not just a board at home with dice. Bingo games could be played by grownups and people could actually win things at such games. Further expansion of my bingo understanding was facilitated by the fact that I got as a birthday present a real bingo set. This bingo game had a real bingo tumbler and numbers which could be thus selected. It also came with a large amount of bingo cards. That set me well on my way to playing bingo games with my friends and siblings. I have enjoyed bingo ever since and I guess that when the time comes I will introduce my own children to bingo and continue the bingo tradition.
