To Yell or Not To Yell Bingo!

[00:00:01] Hello and welcome to The Broke Bingo Addict.

[00:00:12] This is a podcast that ventures through the wild and crazy world of bingo.

[00:00:17] This is much more than your grandmother's bingo.

[00:00:20] My name is Shari and welcome to this week's episode, which as always is for entertainment

[00:00:26] purposes only.

[00:00:28] And welcome to this week's episode of The Broke Bingo Addict.

[00:00:31] You know a couple days ago I was out playing bingo at the bingo club, which is one of the

[00:00:36] places I love to play at.

[00:00:37] It's fast, it's furious, it's a fun place and it usually has quite a few people in

[00:00:41] it.

[00:00:42] So I was there with a friend and at one point there was a person who was sitting not too

[00:00:45] far from me and she won bingo and when she won she yelled.

[00:00:52] I mean she went bingo!

[00:00:57] The whole place jumped and you can see people going what?

[00:01:00] I mean she really did yell it pretty loud and she got up and she said hey they said to yell

[00:01:07] loud and it's not like anybody can argue the point because they absolutely did say

[00:01:11] to yell loud.

[00:01:12] And I think at the bingo club in particular you really have to do that because like

[00:01:17] I said if you know you know which is that the bingo club is a fast paced bingo.

[00:01:23] If you don't say it fast enough and they don't recognize you saying it then they can go on

[00:01:28] to the next number and you've lost your bingo, which by the way is what I kind of feel for

[00:01:33] all the locations.

[00:01:34] There are people who don't hear sometimes we have all seen it.

[00:01:38] We have all been some place where the person has said bingo and the people around them

[00:01:44] have all heard that person say bingo but the caller didn't hear them say bingo and they've

[00:01:49] called the next number.

[00:01:52] And when you're in those situations it's always this big argument back and forth but we heard

[00:01:56] as she said bingo or he said bingo, we heard it, they did it, they did it in time and

[00:02:00] you just went ahead and then the managers have got to come out and they go through

[00:02:03] all this stuff which for me personally I'm on the side of the location because there's

[00:02:08] not a bingo hall out there that if this rule applies they don't tell you.

[00:02:15] If they've got it written on the back, if the caller tells you and again most times the

[00:02:22] caller is going to tell you, the caller's going to say if you've got bingo please yell

[00:02:27] it loud because I don't want anybody to miss their bingo.

[00:02:32] And I don't think people understand that up by the caller's booth those balls, if

[00:02:38] you're doing the live balls, the balls are really really loud so sometimes they can't

[00:02:42] hear it particularly if you're in a large room certainly like Bosco Tech which is in

[00:02:47] a large place and also they've got people at Bosco Tech, they've got people playing

[00:02:51] in their car so you know you've got to honk that horn really loud because they may not

[00:02:55] hear you because of it.

[00:02:57] So I honestly think that people need to really keep that in mind when they're yelling

[00:03:02] bingo so I don't have any hate to anybody who's going to yell their bingo really

[00:03:07] really loud.

[00:03:08] In fact, I'm a big fan of it and first came into this or first noticed this with obviously

[00:03:14] big vent when I first met him he was playing out at Bosco Tech and like this young lady

[00:03:19] at the bingo club when he yelled bingo the first time it was like, I mean he yelled

[00:03:26] so loud it shook everything in my body and you're looking you're like who the hell

[00:03:32] did that you know and you're kind of taking it back the first time you hear it but

[00:03:36] for those of us who've been around big vent we know that's how he yells and it's actually

[00:03:42] in my opinion one I've gotten used to him but it seems like other people have picked

[00:03:46] up on this trait because not only did this lady at the bingo club do it I was playing

[00:03:51] at another location I think it was Harbor but I'm not sure anyway I was playing someplace

[00:03:55] else and I also noticed yet again people yelling bingo really really loud and I so

[00:04:00] fine with that you know I don't want to miss my bingo and I totally understand

[00:04:05] other people not wanting to miss their bingo I played bingo in Las Vegas a lot of times

[00:04:10] when I'm back they're visiting my family and I get so freaked out because for those of you

[00:04:16] who may have played in like the casinos I don't know about the Samoan bingo but in the casinos

[00:04:21] particularly I play at Sunset Station that when I'm playing there it just drives me crazy

[00:04:28] because people will get bingo and they go bingo like really softly you know and they raise their hand

[00:04:37] and and generally the people who are running around the floor absolutely see them and I don't recall

[00:04:42] anybody really having missed too many bingos but it just drives me crazy if you're there

[00:04:47] you get the opportunity to finally say bingo you know which we don't always get to do

[00:04:52] and you sit there and you go bingo I don't know if you can tell that absolutely drives me crazy so

[00:05:02] if I'm gonna lean one way or the other I certainly would be much happier with people yelling bingo

[00:05:08] very loud shake the room as opposed to somebody who's just gonna barely get it out of their mouth

[00:05:14] because if they did miss the bingo then I like have no sympathy for you whatsoever you know

[00:05:18] I've also been at other places when people have done it not because they were trying to be soft but

[00:05:22] because they had soft voices and people are like yeah yeah yeah you got to say it and stuff so

[00:05:27] anyway I just think that that is something that's really important but I also in that same vein

[00:05:32] of thinking about big van or other people yelling bingo really really loud I was also thinking

[00:05:38] about some of the other things that happen when you play bingo some of the other kind of

[00:05:44] noise making things if you were that happen when you're playing bingo in particular there are

[00:05:49] certain numbers that for whatever reason have come to be that people make different kind of noises

[00:05:56] with okay so the first one I'm gonna go what I'll go in numerical order the first one be 22

[00:06:02] and I think you get like a duck call and I know there's a lady that where we play that that

[00:06:07] rings a bell so whenever the number 22 comes up you know then somebody makes a noise to

[00:06:14] signify that that's the number that has come up there's another one that used to be really popular

[00:06:19] was 40 and I don't know I think 40 has fallen out of fashion I used to play at Buckingham bingo

[00:06:25] and whenever the number 40 would come out you would hear the whole bunch of people go 40

[00:06:31] and I was one of them in fact to this day under my breath whenever 40 comes out I'm like 40

[00:06:39] I just don't say it loud anymore and I don't know why that's fallen out of fashion and some

[00:06:43] other ones are still you know pretty prevalent but I do know that Buckingham at one point made

[00:06:50] it like a thing they they it had gotten so bad at Buckingham that they actually said you are

[00:06:56] no longer allowed to yell 40 so I know that's why it got killed at that particular location but

[00:07:04] I don't know why it's no longer popular I do remember that at one point I had done one of my

[00:07:09] podcast and there was an article in the bingo bugle where this guy was telling the story

[00:07:16] about how the number 40 uh and people yelling when it came out how that originated but I

[00:07:22] hate to say it for the life of me I can't remember how that got started but anyway

[00:07:28] the point is it's no longer as popular as it was but it used to be a very popular number so

[00:07:33] after 40 the other number that is still popular at least where I'm playing is 69 okay

[00:07:41] okay no jokes there 69 always get some kind of response I don't care where I've played at

[00:07:47] whether it was at the biggest traffic on so where I'm the whether I'm at Buckingham or

[00:07:51] whatever 69 you usually get somebody if not several people who make some kind of a noise

[00:07:57] and that's the other thing too it's like what is the noise um I know we had uh bingo bling glamour

[00:08:03] she had a rooster one of those little plastic roosters it was a rooster or a chicken maybe

[00:08:07] it was a chicken but anyways it was one of those little plastic things and whenever they would

[00:08:11] say 69 she would you know squeak it and it would make noise so she had that and it was

[00:08:17] really popular over when she did that at uh uh Bosco's what was it was the um summer shake-up

[00:08:23] I think she had that there and then I know that she had it with her when we were playing at the

[00:08:27] extrava ganza in Las Vegas and stuff and so there's multiple people who do this okay so

[00:08:33] it's not just one person who's necessarily doing that usually somebody else is always

[00:08:38] adjoining in on that noise and I personally think it's fun some people again you see

[00:08:43] people who get kind of annoyed by this stuff I I don't understand it I feel like bingo was a place

[00:08:48] when you want to go and you want to have a good time and I get it you want to win some money

[00:08:53] I want to win some money but bingo is supposed to be a place where you're going and you're

[00:08:58] having a good time and you're enjoying a certain amount of camaraderie which is why again

[00:09:03] I'm always talking about bingo being such a great community of people and you know just

[00:09:10] enjoying life and that's in my opinion what bingo is supposed to be but I did follow up upon

[00:09:15] a tiktok video um I was watching this young lady who's pretty popular on tiktok she's got a couple

[00:09:23] of things that she does in in addition to being a basic tiktok influencer she also has

[00:09:29] jewelry that she sells and some other things so pretty popular so I was really surprised that

[00:09:34] I came upon one of her videos which she was really upset she was just crying and you know trying to

[00:09:42] hide it a bit but clearly obviously crying and I was you know it made me stop it made me want to

[00:09:47] see the video and see what was going on so I was listening to it and what had happened was I guess

[00:09:53] she's playing at a bingo hall and she is a tiktoker and just first of all let me say this when

[00:09:58] you are doing that if you do tiktok and you do live videos I can guarantee you that most

[00:10:03] people are doing their best to be as quiet as is humanly possible so they're not disturbing other

[00:10:10] people everybody gets that everybody gets that everybody's out there having fun and they don't

[00:10:15] necessarily one want to be on video and two don't want to be disrupted by the the noise

[00:10:22] that you're making while you're talking to people who are interacting with you on your tiktok so

[00:10:25] you know I think most people go out of their way to sit in the back of the room to be as

[00:10:29] quiet as possible so other people can enjoy the evening but this lady it seemed like was getting

[00:10:34] completely harassed by some people and it just made me so mad because she wasn't doing anything

[00:10:42] that was really disruptive anything that they had a right to comment on and I guess in one of the

[00:10:47] videos she was yawning and I saw the video she I saw it at the time that it was happening

[00:10:51] because she was recording this and she literally was yawning okay and these people and I heard

[00:10:58] the voice I didn't see the person so I don't know if it was a man or a woman but this person said

[00:11:01] could you please stop doing that are you kidding me could you please stop doing what and which is

[00:11:11] basically what she said she's like what are you talking about and the lady's like stop you know

[00:11:15] you're just making so much noise you're just doing all this and you keep doing that she's like

[00:11:18] I yawned it's like you're making too much noise and stop doing that and I guess this is a person

[00:11:23] who has bullied her before I don't want to assume that but she did say that's like oh this is

[00:11:27] happening again and so she just got upset and she was crying and I was so mad I don't understand what

[00:11:35] gives people the feeling that they have the right to tell other people how to behave okay bingo

[00:11:43] is for everybody she wasn't being overtly loud she wasn't purposely you know doing things

[00:11:50] to interrupt anybody else but she had as much right as anybody else to sit there and be playing

[00:11:56] bingo and it just really kind of hurt my heart because again I like to sit there and say how wonderful

[00:12:01] the bingo community is and to see this young lady get so upset because some rude person

[00:12:08] is having the gall to sit there and comment on her when she wasn't doing anything out of the

[00:12:13] normal and in all honesty I feel like it's probably just some jealousy because she is a tiktoker

[00:12:17] and I know that people do get upset sometime which again you don't have the right to do

[00:12:22] tiktokers have just as much right and actually I think many times are much more polite than other

[00:12:27] people to do that so I'm sorry I don't want to get too crazy but that really really ticked me off

[00:12:36] anyway my basic point is that people should go out have a good time if somebody's gonna

[00:12:41] ring a bell or quack a duck or yell really really loud let's just try to enjoy having a good time

[00:12:48] we're all trying to win a little bit of money hang out with our friends and just enjoy the

[00:12:54] environment which is an incredible bingo community okay yes there always have got to be a few people

[00:12:59] who try to record for others but for the most part I think that it's genuinely a great place to go

[00:13:05] and have a really good time and make a little noise okay I can't wait for the next time I

[00:13:11] get a bingo and so I can yell bingo super loud and shake the room or I'm gonna segue here

[00:13:17] just a little bit because I keep meaning to bring this up speaking of the bingo club I learned

[00:13:22] something else so not only are there different little traditions and stuff about numbers and

[00:13:27] things that people do to try to make bingo more fun I also realized something the other day at

[00:13:32] the bingo hall and I want to point this out to people when you are going someplace to play

[00:13:37] bingo you really need to find out what the rules are okay I had been playing at the bingo

[00:13:46] club for a long time and just found out something that I didn't know which could have cost me a bingo

[00:13:52] all right it could have cost me some money people have certain rules about ways you can do things

[00:13:57] and what I'm talking about is the use of pens pencils or dobbers okay a lot of places when

[00:14:04] you play will give you right off the old bat where you have to mark your paper with a

[00:14:09] dober okay so if you're playing a basic paper game which is usually what either a four on

[00:14:13] or a six on a lot of places are like yeah you can't use a pen you can't use a pencil you have to use

[00:14:18] a dober okay but there are other places that are fine with you doing that you need to find out what

[00:14:25] the rules are for marking your paper and marking your pool tabs or your strips okay now I say

[00:14:33] this because in some places I know that if you play your pool tabs you can only mark it with

[00:14:39] a dober and I've seen people mark their pool tabs with a pen okay and sometimes you can win the pool

[00:14:49] tab but then when you turn it in it's been marked with a pen and they don't accept it all right now

[00:14:55] I remember I was playing at the bingo club and this person was playing a bingo game and she

[00:15:03] had marked her bingo paper with a pen and I heard them say that she didn't win and I don't know I was

[00:15:09] in my own little world I really wasn't paying attention to it I really didn't get it I didn't

[00:15:13] understand it I don't understand why you can't use a pen on paper not 100% sure why you can't use

[00:15:19] it on a on a pool tab but I for sure wasn't aware you couldn't use it on paper so anyway

[00:15:24] they said she didn't get it and I thought oh something else might have must have happened

[00:15:28] whatever it was it didn't register to me that she didn't win because she had marked her paper

[00:15:35] with a pen now this circles back the bingo club has a game that's a large letter x and I'll try to

[00:15:45] make this as clear as possible at the bingo club you get a four pack okay you don't get a six pack

[00:15:51] at the bingo club you get a four pack which means you have four separate squares okay on one page

[00:15:56] four separate squares two on the top two on the bottom and they have a game like I said that's the

[00:16:02] large letter x that letter x has to go all the way across those four squares I don't know how to make

[00:16:10] that clear so hopefully you're getting what I'm saying but the x has to go all the way across

[00:16:14] and it confuses me to the point where I had started with my pen drawing a line across

[00:16:21] the the square so I could see where the x was and I wouldn't have to try to guess

[00:16:25] is that in my x is it not in my x which way is my x going what's going because I would get really

[00:16:30] really confused so I kept drawing that line with a pen to know to let me know where the x actually

[00:16:36] was and what numbers I needed which I thought was great it made it really really good and I had a

[00:16:40] good time I never won it I got close a couple times I mean I get down to one number but I had

[00:16:45] never won it and one day I was playing with a friend and she was like you can't do that and I was like

[00:16:54] what she's like no if you win and you've marked it with a pen it will be null and void I was like

[00:17:01] say what she said yeah they don't accept it and again she gave me the explanation as to why

[00:17:07] you're not allowed to write with a pen but I swear that is going way over my head I don't

[00:17:12] understand why I can't mark the x with a pen but I could use my dober I could use a dober to kind of

[00:17:18] like make a line across there so I know which numbers you know I use like a different color so

[00:17:22] I don't get confused but I could indicate it with a dober and it'd be fine but if you do it with

[00:17:27] a pen it's not fine so again still don't understand what the logic behind there that is I'm sure

[00:17:34] it's something I just don't know what but I'm here to tell you when you go to these places

[00:17:38] you need to make sure that you understand what way is considered acceptable when it comes to marking

[00:17:45] your strips, your pool tabs and your paper because interestingly enough at the bingo club

[00:17:53] even though I couldn't use the pen on the paper to signify the x they let you use your pen for

[00:17:58] your pool tabs you can do whatever you want for your pool tabs you just can't do it on the

[00:18:02] paper so I don't understand the logic behind that but it is important you don't want to sit

[00:18:07] there and finally win something and sometimes it can be you know hundreds and hundreds of dollars if

[00:18:12] not thousands of dollars do you want to make sure you're doing it correctly so make sure you check

[00:18:19] that information out wherever you play because I've been in Texas I've been in Vegas I've been an

[00:18:23] Upper California Southern California and people do it differently so you need to make sure that

[00:18:29] you ask somebody that information before you get to go in because you do not want to find out

[00:18:34] when it's too late okay anyway that's it for this week's episode of the broke bingo addict I hope you

[00:18:42] enjoyed it I thank you for listening and I hope you'll come back and listen again thanks so much bye