Friday night, I took my little out for her first experience of bubble tea. I think I finally put together why she scowls a lot and invades the personal bubbles of complete strangers. The kid has glasses and doesn’t ever wear them! She can’t see so the scowling is her really squinting. Poor child. I took her to Coco’s and there is a poster on the sidewall with pictures of some of their popular drinks and the girl marched right up to the wall where there was a family sitting to look at that poster. Luckily, they have a smaller version of the sign on the counter you order at.
She first picked the coffee drinks which I vetoed since it was 8:30 in the evening. She then pointed to the honeydew flavored drink. I asked her if she knew what honeydew was. Little had no idea. I made sure she didn’t want to try something safer, like chocolate or vanilla. She stuck to her guns. Brave girl! Happily, she loved it. She sucked up the first tapioca ball and spat it out, examined it, and then popped it back in her mouth. She said she can’t wait to try the other flavors. New cultural experience was a success.
We chatted in my car as we sipped on our drinks. I tried to explain to her how credit cards work. Little fell asleep on me just when I got to interest rates.
Saturday night, Boyfriend, his roomie, and I went to our first Bingo hall. I don’t remember the name of the hall but there’s a night club right next to it with a funny name.
So we were all a bit overwhelmed by Bingo. We thought there was going to be a lot of elderly people but we were pretty wrong about that. Alan got me 9 card sheets which was just enough for a newb. He and Sae were wooed by the best buy which is 36 card sheets for 15 dollars. Umm keeping up with 36 cards at a time is impossible for first timers. There was this middle aged man who helped us out a lot and told us 36 was way too much for first timers. The boys even complained about dizziness and nausea. If there’s a next time they should split a 36 card set.
There are signs to help you keep up, including numbers that have been called and what kind of formations they’re playing. The one in the photo is called a “crazy L.”
We didn’t win our first time. I had a lot of fun but the poor boys didn’t. Playing 36 cards was a bit too stressful and fast for them. I took a hint from my supervisor who recently went for her first time and saved a few Bingo sheets to gift wrap presents. We like being green.
