Bunco
is the greatest game ever! When I lived in Arkansas and worked at Hallmark, a wonderful (but a bit older) lady I worked with played Bunco. She was always picking out Bunco prizes at the store. She told me it was a game that she and her friends played once a month, and since she was a very fun lady, I figured the game must be a lot of fun, too. Fun, but something for older ladies. Sort of like bridge, I guess. I never thought much more about Bunco and then I moved away and started gally-vanting all over this great wide country. Then I forgot about Bunco completely.
Until . . .
We had not lived in Texas, oh, a couple of months maybe, when a friend from church called and asked if I wanted to play Bunco with her group the next week. They were in need of a sub. I didn't know anything about the game, except that it was a game, but I desperately wanted a social outlet. I was thrilled to be asked and excited to meet with this group of ladies to play. I was immediately hooked and soon became a regular member, not just a sub!
What is Bunco, anyway? Well, it is a mindless dice game, if you want to know the truth. I'm sure it was invented by a caveman. If you can roll three dice at once and count to at least six, then you're in. It is really an excuse for a bunch of women (twelve to be exact) to get together, laugh, talk, and eat great food. It takes place once a month and each of the twelve ladies takes turns hosting in her home and providing food and prizes. Twelve players, twelve months of the year - you get it. Each lady puts in five dollars and that covers the food and prizes. I have included a link above where you can read about the rules of Bunco.
In my opinion, the most important (though unspoken) rule is, always have chocolate!
I love Bunco, ya'll! I highly encourage of any of you who are not involved in a Bunco group to form one! This is easy to do with your play group or Sunday School class or a group of co-workers. It is helpful to have a group of subs handy, in case someone has to go out of town or their kids get sick, whatever. It also helps to have supportive hubbies! I'm so thankful for mine! He was so great tonight to keep the kids while I went to Bunco. Know why? Because tonight I was a sub for another Bunco group - my regular Bunco group already met this month, last Monday! I know, I played Bunco twice in a seven-day time span! Could my life get any better???? And to top it off, I won prizes both times!!!! Last week, because I had the highest score. Tonight, I had the most Buncos! Crazy.
Seriously, ya'll, it is such a great time of fellowship time with some great ladies. We laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed tonight! And there was some seriously outstanding chocolate.
No joking: I Brake for Bunco!
3 comments:
I really don't know much about Bunco, but I have a game. My MIL got it for me. My favorite part is that it's Barbie Bunco, so it came with pink dice and in a cute purse-like box. :) I'll have to start a bunco group. It sounds fun.
I will be praying for you Tisu, 'cause the Lord has revealed to me that "Bunco" is nothing more than the devil's way to get Baptist women to . . . GAMBLE. That's right. Innocent women, pure as the wind-driven snow, who would NEVER think of darkening the doors of one of those dens of iniquity, a gambling parlor, will excitedly abandon their cave (and cave-dwellers) to go revel in the debauchery that is normally only tolerated in Nevada!
I am honored that God has given me this vision of damnation that I could share with you about Bunco. I just hope to spare you and other innocent women of being fleeced by none other than the father of all lies and inventor of the SIX-sided dice, Beelzebub himself. If God had anything to do with Bunco, there would be seven-sided dice.
(Now, if it was a football game and some adult beverages were served, that's a whole other story and worthy of leaving cave and cave-dwellers for a little while.)
Hey, Sonnet - it IS so fun and you SHOULD start a group! It is my sacred one night a month. No one messes with BUNCO NIGHT!!!!
Hey, D/S McNary - I am glad that you are concerned with my eternal soul and that God has sent you this message for me, to which I say - WHATEVER! Oh, and I do know of some dice that are beyond six-sided, but they're used to play Dungeons and Dragons. Is that a more wholesome and God-fearing game??? And as for the foos-ball - well, they do cancel church for the Superbowl, after all, right???
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