I need to understand

For months I'd been hearinga handful ofmy friends going on about online bingo and how great it was. I'd always just listened and took their stories in of how they 'only spent this, but won that' how 'they have a moderator for each room, so it's very real and everyone has a great chance' how 'you don't win loads but enough little bits and you can't make that kind of money surfing job site after job site can you'. Quite frankly I was sick of hearing about how great it apparently was and if I chose to be surfing job site after job site instead of wasting my good earned cash on some silly bingo site then that's up to me.

Although admittedly I was slightly sick of surfing the hundreds of job sites too, they all seemed to cover the same useless adverts in between the odd home business scam and at this point pulling my own finger nails off this evening sounded more fun then the usual tedious on-line search for jobs that I spent doing most evenings. I'd been desperately trying to find another job since the web development company I worked for got taken over last year. I'd slowly begun to hate a job I once loved as things like pay cuts, redundancies, heavier workloads and people taking you for granted started to trickle in where they hadn't evenbeen thought ofbefore.

Anyway, eventually, after spending the afternoon with one of my 'bingo addict' friends, hearing again about her recent luck and how she was now so into it that the site had made her a moderator for one of the rooms I decided to give in. That eveningrather than conducting my usual on-line search for jobs I decided to do an on-line search for bingo instead. I was amazed at the amount of them out there, I thought there were far too many job sites, but bingo ones seemed to have taken over the world.

I finally found the one that my friends were always waffling on about and went through the sign up process half heartedly. I knew there had to be negatives to this, but at the moment, I was so sick of hearing about everyone elses winnings that I couldn't not waste my time showing them I won't win.

I got quite into it within the first couple of hours and won a couple of pound here and there, it actually gave me quite a buzz and I could see why my friends enjoyed it.There was a nice friendly bunch chatting down the side of the screen, which I myself decided not to participate in, I couldn't really be bothered. But I'd also recognised the moderator as my friends user name and as she didn't know I was here and my user name of 'bongogirl' was hardly going to give it away,I was avoiding talking to her in case she realised who I wasandI gaveher the pleasure of knowing I'd given in to it!

I continued to play for most of the evening and decided to join in with the last 'big jackpot' game before I left for bed, apparently you could win £5000 in this room. Now I was happy to agree with my friends that you could win a few bits on it, and even that it was good fun really, but £5000? Please, this part was obviously rigged and only used as an end of the day game to reel people and their pockets in. Still I bought a ticket and watched it. Imagine both my horror and surprise when five minutes later my card flashed up bingo and huge colourful letters sprang on the screen saying 'congratulations bongogirl you have won the £5000 jackpot'.

Smiling and shaking inside I quietly thanked the room and withdrew the money into my bank account, turned off the computer and started getting ready for bed, deciding to myself that maybe I won't tell my friends that I gave into the bingojust yet........