This year I revived my annual gift of paying the day's entry fees for fellow players at bridge clubs for the first time since the pandemic. And since I took the entire week off from work, I was free to treat the players to a free game at St. Catharines on Wednesday, July 16, which ordinarily would be a work day, and the folks at Niagara-on-the-Lake on my actual birthday, Friday, July 18.
On Wednesday, there were 9 1/2 tables and the director presented me with a slip that said $342. For Friday's 7 1/2-table game, where due to a late start from home and an unexpectedly long line into Canada at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, I arrived a minute before play was supposed to start, the tariff was just $140. That's Canadian bucks.
So in St. Catharines, that was about $250 US, less than I anted up for some of those birthday games in Buffalo before the pandemic. At NOTL, it was $102. To my mind, not a bad price for a pair of happy afternoons.
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