Irish Bingo

[Fenlander]

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 mom a few
months later.

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

Same exchange with
Mom.

Same answer, '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 one thousand
pounds, and explains that she won it all
in bingo.

Then she asks Mom 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
Mom being so cheap with the hot water after being handed one thousand
pounds, calls downstairs, 'Mom! su re now , didn't I ask you to run me
a bath?











There's
only a quarter inch of water in the tub!'

'Indede there is, me darlin,'
replies her Mom.

'But we don't want ye gettin' yer
bingo card wet now, do we?'

You can never fool
Mom.