bunco

Bunco Nights

What is bunco?  I’m not really sure.  Is it important enough to be capitalized?  I guess not.  The only thing I do know is that bunco has been coming around the second Thursday of every month for the past ten years.  You see it all started when we moved to the suburbs….

 Bunco is basically a dice game that requires no skill.  You start out trying to roll for ones and are given a time limit.  At the end of the time limit, which is the banging of some Chinese gong,  the two women with the most ones stay at the table and the two other losers have to move to a different table.(Sounds like a strip joint I’ve been to.)  Now, you’re onto rolling twos.  You go all the way through all the numbers and somehow count points.  People also roll wipeouts and bunco’s, whatever those are.

 Bunco is really an excuse to socialize.  It’s a great way for the powers that be in the neighborhood get together for a few laughs about their husbands, children, work or whatever.  It’s all good spirited with good snacks and lots of wineJ  My wife really enjoys bunco night and catching up with all the ladies.

 It’s usually only once a year that bunco affects me and that’s when it’s at our house.  The cleaning lady is scheduled for today.  The kids need there rooms all cleaned up.  There’s lots of good food in the house that I don’t get to eat.  It’s usually so loud during bunco that the kids and I leave the house for an outing.  Two years ago, we went fishing and the girls weren’t into it.  I spend the entire time either pulling the hook out of the rocks or putting a new hook on the line. 

 Last year, I took the kids bowling with another bunco dad.  Jacqueline could barely pick up the bowling ball.  I’ve never seen a bowling ball roll so slowly in my life.  Just to be funny, I ran down the lane and attempted to kick the ball like it was a soccer ball.  I didn’t realize how slippery those lanes are and ended up flat on my back in a split second.  Stewart and Jennifer said I laid there in the middle of the lane for like thirty seconds.  I must have been unconscious.  I had a huge lump on my head.  Stewart asked if he could by a double cheeseburger and I said yes.  Kind of weird, since we had just eaten dinner thirty minutes ago.

 I need to find something safe to do tonight.  Maybe the new Star Trek movie?

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