London Bingo

[kevjohn]

A young girl from Donegal leaves home to find work in the bright lights of London.

She comes home six months later and steps out of a taxi wearing a full-length mink coat.

"Begorrah, Colleen,' says her mother. 'Tis a lovely soft coat yer wearin' an' it looks so expensive . Where did ye get that?"

Colleen replies, "Sure now, I won it at the bingo. Don't they have wonderful prizes in London ?"

When the weekend's over, Colleen returns to the bright lights; but she's back to visit her Mum a few months later.

This time, when she steps out of the taxi, she's wearing a beautiful gold wristwatch and a large diamond ring .

Same exchange with Mum...same ,"won it at bingo !"

Colleen returns to the bright lights again. A few months later, she's back.

This time she's sporting a beautiful emerald and diamond necklace with matching bracelet and earrings.

She hands her mother a thousand pounds and explains that she won it all in bingo.

Then she asks Mum to run her a bath as she needs to freshen up.

When Colleen gets to the washroom, there's only a quarter inch of hot water in the bathtub.

Colleen, a wee bit peeved at her Mum being so cheap with the hot water after being handed so much money, calls downstairs,

"Mum! Sure now, didn't I ask you to run me a bath? There's only a quarter inch of water in the tub!'"

"Indade there is, me darlin," replies her Mum. "But we don't want ye getting yer bingo card wet now, do we?"