Hola Ladies!

Miss Bingo Betty here, signing on. I'm starting my first blog and let me tell you it's so exciting! Some of the "ladies", and I use the term loosely, of the VHW Hall where I call Basura Blanca Bingo every Friday night ---that's the VFW No. 61966 on F.M. 1422 at Bald Oak Drive (if you pass the Gale Force Trailer Park, you've gone too far)---insist on me publishing the names of last week's winners. I'm sure it's mostly Kiki Goldstein's idea since she seems to bingo 4 or 5 games a month and I suspect she just wants to gloat (LOL Kiki!). I thought about listing the winners on the One And Only Savior Baptist Church's website until my grandson Jerermy told me about blogging. At first I thought he might be referring to some new kind of over-the-counter drug abuse that some many young people seem to be into today (re: Skittling). Jeremy and I have a very close relationship and I cherish the fact that he can tell me anything...and often does. Many "older people", and I use the term loosely, have resistance to gadgets and technology or anything with a computer chip inside it, but not me. My dear friend Ruth Cohn was dragged kicking and screaming, figuratively speaking, into the modern age when her daughter Leza bought her a cell phone...Christmas of '05, if you can believe that! Welcome to the 90's, Ruth! Poor Ruthie had that thing in her purse for durn near two weeks and never even turned it on. Last Friday I finally got my hands on it and took it off "silence all". She had 36 voicemails and had been texted 22 times. The TMs were mostly from her grandkids, of course, but the voicemails from her daughter were increasingly panicked. The girls and I had quite a chuckle listening to poor Leza going through the stages of concern, fear, anger, and finally acceptance of the fact that her mother is simply, and will always be, a luddite.

So here are the names of the winners from last Friday's Basura Blanca Bingo. Now ladies, we'll tolerate no high falooting attitudes at the next game just because your name is on the World Wide Web, so check your egos at the door.

$5 prizes go to: Lacy O'Conner, Louise Day, Alma Rodriguez
$10 prizes go to: Kitty Chesnutt, Mimi Owens
$20 prizes go to: Dawn Juarez, Ethel Burns
And the $25 grand prize goes to, who else, Kiki Goldstein

Til next time "ladies", eyes down.

"Bingo" Betty Sanchez