Yeah, I know there’s quite a difference
between exceeding the speed limit
and putting chips on numbers on bingo cards.

But for me the restraints of a 55 miles
an hour speed limit is comparable to the
restraints of sitting at a table and putting
dinky chips on those cards.

Truth be known, I’d rather be driving
faster than 55 on an open highway
than sitting in a boxed in room mindlessly
putting chips on freakin’ bingo cards.

But if I get hard up and get so de lu lu
that I feel the need for one of those
so called “age appropriate” (hate
that expression) women in my
reclusive life, or if I became brain dead
enough, maybe I’d go play bingo for amore
or for something mentally challenging
to do.

Bob Boyd

But, kidding aside, I can see how for many people bingo provides a source of socialization. For seniors who are alone, it can add some time with people in their lives and probably be beneficial to their mental and physical wellbeing. I write that as someone who worked with the elderly for decades, and when I walked through the senior center of the nonprofit I worked at, I saw many old people having fun playing bingo.