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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 10/21/2009 09:45 PM
Updated by: thepinetree on 10/22/2009 08:24 AM
Expires: 01/01/2014 12:00 AM
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Welcome to the Country....So you’ve decided to move to the country where country type bingo may just involve the use of various local farm animals~by Charity Maness
So you’ve decided to move to the country where country type bingo may just involve the use of various local farm animals....When first moving with my Wyatt and multiple mini Wyatt’s to Tombstone in the foothills, otherwise known as Copper, I quickly discovered the lure of Bingo. You may laugh but in these here parts Bingo seemed to be the only action packed excitement to be had for miles around. I would love to say that the tables were crowded with freshly coifed gray heads, but that would be a fib. These Bingo events were attended by all members of the community, my son in diapers and toting a baby blanket included. He would watch the balls pop up in the ball tumbler staring at amazement as Dick’s melodious voice called out numbers gently lulling him to sleep. .......
With me winning a Bingo every so often, I found I was hooked like the proverbial fish. Me and about 50 other folks. Being hooked as I was I was looking for the next Bingo fix, but you can imagine my surprise, and reservations, when I am invited to Cow Chip Bingo. Eeewww. From reading my previous country stories I’m sure you all know what a cow chip is. I know I do! And I certainly do not want to play bingo with those disgusting, goopy things. No thanks. How the heck could they be used as a dobber? But I was assured that I would never have to touch a chip, never. How’s that? I ask.
Well here’s how it works.
There is a big, and I mean BIG, grid laid out in a field with numbers nicely labeled in each square. If you want to play the game you simply buy a number. Now what? You ask. How do you win? You ask.
Well it seems that a freshly fed bovine beauty is allowed to wander into the pasture with the numbered grid and permitted, even persuaded, to meander about. When the grass she ate some two minutes ago decides to make an appearance from the other end, it announces the winner. Yup, you guessed it. The number with the “cow chip” on it is the winning number. Next up a bbq! I really didn’t want to eat after that, my appetite went missing somewhere between “cow and chip.”
As if a cow was not adventurous enough, the local school thought they could get in on the farm animal bingo too. Being as how they don’t have a lot of space, and the kids most likely would not want to play soccer on the field the following day after cow chip bingo, they came up with a foul solution. I mean a fowl solution. Enter a cute little duckie. Said sweet duckie is placed ever so gently in a cage with the flooring a grid of numbers. In case you haven’t already figured it out, the winning number is the one covered in duck doodoo.
Next up dinner.
Why these groups serve dinner AFTER the farm life bingo is beyond me. Maybe people tend to eat less…who knows.
So the next time a friend from the country invites you to an evening of fun and frivolity at the local bingo game….you may want to ask if it involves farm animals.
Until next time…welcome to the country.
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