Talking To Strangers
So I'm in the queue at the supermarket checkout last night and a woman starts telling me about her addiction to online bingo.
"I don't smoke or drink, " she says, "so I'm allowed my wee bit of fun."
I don't like to ask how much she spends on this wee bit of fun so, instead, I ask how much it costs her in time. She makes a face.
"Well I started playing at eleven o'clock last night and when I looked at the clock it was half past three in the morning."
She goes on to tell me how her husband had banned her from using the main home computer because he uses that for his work and he's afraid that the online bingo site will be riddled with viruses. So now she uses a laptop, or tries to, but that wont work because all registration details are linked to the big PC so she sneaks down at night to use that.
"You can win about £300, " she tells me, "but I've never won that much. I've not lost that much either so it all works out."
This is the kind of stuff you find out if you ignore everything your parents ever told you and start talking to strangers.
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