General discussion - Mom and Dad Esq.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Gattigap
If I have to attend one more birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, I may lose it.

The combination of mediocre food, crowded conditions, 200-odd screaming kids, blaring music, depressing TV programming, dispirited employees, asinine videogames played for cheap "prizes", all offered as part of an elaborate homage to an oversized rat, inspires the same soul-crushing sadness as children's beauty pageants and the presence of near-beer at a baseball stadium. Its closed system, casino-style form of entertainment precludes even a basic update on NCAA tournament games, damn them.

If subjected to its pain once more, I may well follow through on my plan (hatched earlier today) to take Mr. Cheese hostage during his floor show, hold the employees at bay with a wielded pitcher of super-saturated lemonade and as punishment force them to eat the food they've prepared. Then I shall set fire to the several broken arcade games, watch the franchise burn to the ground, and make my escape in the resulting confusion.

Caught and captured for criminality? Hardly. I suspect that my fellow inmates will be encouraged by my show of defiance, and perhaps even assist in our efforts to escape.

Carry on.

look around you next time. See the dull-witted overweight parents eating bad pizza- but with a big ass pitcher of beer? see how their kids are running around, and someone else's problem while they swill the beer? You can't fight that. Your kid will be invited back- again and again- unless you get proactive and kep your kids away from parents that seem the type.