Category: Business is Business
IRISH BINGO
A young
girl from Donegal left home to find work in the bright lights of London. She came home six
months later and stepped out of a taxi wearing a full-length mink coat.
"Begorrah,
Colleen," - said her mother.
"Tis a lovely soft coat yer wearin' an' it looks so expensive. Where did
ye get that?"
Colleen replied:
"Sure
now, I won it at the bingo. Don't they have wonderful prizes in London?"
When
the weekend was over, Colleen returned
to the bright lights, but she was back to visit her mom a few months later.
This time, when she stepped out of the taxi, she was wearing a beautiful gold
wristwatch and a large diamond ring.
Same
exchange with Mom............same "Won it at bingo!"
Then
Colleen returned to the bright lights
again. A few months later, she was back again. And this time she was sporting a
beautiful emerald diamond necklace with matching bracelet and earrings. She
handed her mother 1,000
pounds and explained that she won it all in bingo. Then
she asked Mom to run her a bath, as she needed to freshen up.
Her
Mom drew the bath while Colleen got
undressed in her bedroom, but when she got to the washroom, there was only a
quarter inch of hot water in the bathtub. Colleen,
a wee bit peeved at her Mom being so cheap with the hot water after being
handed 1,000 pounds,
called downstairs:
"Mom!
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" - replied her
Mom - "but we don't want ye gettin' yer bingo card wet now, do we?"