. A young girl from Donegal left home to find work in the bright lights of London. She came home 6 months later and stepped out of a taxi wearing a full-length mink coat.
"Begorrah, Colleen," said her mother, "Tis a lovely soft coat yer wearin' an' it looks so expensive. Where did ye get that?"
Colleen replied, "Sure now, I won it at the bingo. Don't they have wonderful prizes in London."
When the weekend was over, Colleen returned to the bright lights, but she came back to visit her mum a few months later. This time, when she stepped out of the taxi, she was wearing a beautiful gold wristwatch and a large diamond ring.
With the usual exchange with mum............"Won it at bingo!"
Then Colleen returned to the bright lights again. A few months later, she was back again. And this time she was sporting a beautiful emerald diamond necklace with matching bracelet and earrings.
She handed her mother £1,000 and explained that she won it all in bingo.
Then she asked mum to run her a bath as she needed to freshen up.
Her mum ran the bath while Colleen got undressed but when she got to the bathroom, there was only a quarter of an inch of hot water in the bath.
Colleen, a wee bit peeved at her mum being so mean with the hot water after being handed £1,000, called downstairs,
"Mum! Sure now didn't I ask you to run me a bath? There's only a quarter of an inch of water in here!"
"Indeed there is, me darlin" replied her mum, "But we don't want ye gettin' yer bingo card soggy now, do we?"
