Bingo

Saturday Night 6 November 2010

We went to Byblos for Pauline's last night, feeling good that the shower-shed base had been shifted into position, and, another miracle: Middlesbrough won a game of football, breaking the longest run of losses of any league club this season (apparently).  Clearly this called for an impromptu game of Bingo.  Or, at least, it did to Rob.  Pauline was thrilled (well, initially dubious, having never played Bingo before) but within minutes she was analysing the numbers, spotting anomalies, and predicting future trends - demonstrating that management consultancy never leaves you, however long ago that job at Arthur Anderson was.

For some reason the luck was with us.  I won the first line: seven euros - whee!  Then Pauline got Full House: fourteen euros - hurrah!  We couldn't resist a second game, so we reinvested (three euros a ticket) and Dave won a line: ten euros (prize money had gone up, more people were playing) - yippee!

I had a profit of one euro; Pauline had been buying two tickets (despite the risk of going cross-eyed), so her profit was two euros; which left Dave the clear financial wizard of the group with four euros on the bottom line.  Flushed with our riches we headed to George's to celebrate.