Fingertip Bingo

Yes, I'm going to make a distinction between this kind of Bingo and "real" Bingo, with a dedicated building, and daubers that get ink up to your elbows somehow, and being surrounded by ladies with a wide variety of religious and superstitious paraphernalia arranged JUST SO to ensure their victory, and playing twelve boards at once. Because they are very different experiences... but both SUPER FUN!

So, to mix things up, and because all of us have been having a pretty stressful time, we decided to skip trivia and just go to dinner. Well, we thought Wasserhund (local brewery that makes not only AMAZING beer, but amazing pizza as well) sounded good, then realized it was their monthly bingo night!!!

So here's a fun story... They give out different prizes for each round, and I won the round where the prize was to choose what game we played next. (Btw, in bingo, "game" is what the goal is... so things like single bingo (one line of five), double bingo (two lines of five), coverall/blackout (get ALL the numbers on your board), and there are a bunch of cute shapes with names too.) So at the outset, Garrison said that Liberty Bell is what he would pick if he won this round. Birk and I gave him a hard time because the Liberty Bell looks more like a Christmas tree than the one they call Christmas tree. So I get close to winning, and Garrison said I'd have to pick Liberty Bell for him... then I did win! Anthony (not only the Bingo guy but also their trivia guy, and he's great at both) asked my name so he could tell everyone that if they didn't like it, he wasn't to blame... I was! (Of course I protest this, because it's Garrison's fault.) But here's the kicker... GARRISON WON THE LIBERTY BELL ROUND.

Conspiracy, right? It gets even better... I won the previous round with O72... Garrison won the Liberty Bell round WITH O72. Here are both our cards (his is on the right, with the Liberty Bell still ticked:

Since all of Birk's/my experience with Bingo is from the type of place I described way up there in the first paragraph, we didn't know that, in more casual environments, there is a tradition... it reminds me of Rocky Horror, actually. Certain numbers have nicknames or phrases that people shout out when the number is called (for example, B11 = "Skinny legs!" and O75 = "Big Daddy" because it's the last number on the board). We got... SUPER into that.