This weekend all the disappointments of childhood visits to Chuck E. Cheese Pizza (does anybody remember when it was called Showbiz Pizza?) came to an end.
You know what I mean. There's never enough tokens for you to have fun. You never get enough tickets to win anything good. And the adults you're with are always in a rush, so you can't play as long as you want to, or you can only go where the adults can see you which is never fun because the adults always want to sit, so that limits your options.
This Saturday was a different story my friends cuz I don't know if you know this, I'm 26. I had free reign of the floor and 100 tokens (sugar mama). It was all over after that.
I played that game where you roll the ball into holes, apparently it's called Skeet Ball, and I got a 10,000! That little hole in the corner that is impossible to get into. I scored one. Never duplicated it, but that doesn't matter.
The most awesome thing that happened was I got a whole bundle of free tickets. Like 500 tickets and I spent no money on them, and I didn't even steal them from a little kid.
There is this dumb game that shocks your hands, the longer you hold on to the metal rods, the more tickets you get. However, after that terrible pain, no tickets came out. So I went to find the referee-shirted guys (who let me just say, their job must suck, because the stuff there malfunctions so often that they probably get tired of hearing, "Can you....") to refill the tickets.
So there were two of these ref-mechanics who were talking at a machine that one was refilling with tickets.
Ref 1 had a bundle of tickets sticking out of his pockets.
Ref 2 walked by and snatched them out.
Ref 1 jumped up and Ref 2 handed them back to him, whilst laughing.
I'm sure Ref 2 said, "What would you have done if that was a customer?"
Then I'm pretty convinced that Ref 1 said, "I'd just elbow them like this."
...but as he was demonstrating, I was walking up for assistance, and he elbowed me in the wrist. Ref 2 laughed at him, I asked for help, and he felt bad, so he said, "Here you want these?" and gave me a bundle of tickets. I felt like a rockstar.
You know what I mean. There's never enough tokens for you to have fun. You never get enough tickets to win anything good. And the adults you're with are always in a rush, so you can't play as long as you want to, or you can only go where the adults can see you which is never fun because the adults always want to sit, so that limits your options.
This Saturday was a different story my friends cuz I don't know if you know this, I'm 26. I had free reign of the floor and 100 tokens (sugar mama). It was all over after that.
I played that game where you roll the ball into holes, apparently it's called Skeet Ball, and I got a 10,000! That little hole in the corner that is impossible to get into. I scored one. Never duplicated it, but that doesn't matter.
The most awesome thing that happened was I got a whole bundle of free tickets. Like 500 tickets and I spent no money on them, and I didn't even steal them from a little kid.
There is this dumb game that shocks your hands, the longer you hold on to the metal rods, the more tickets you get. However, after that terrible pain, no tickets came out. So I went to find the referee-shirted guys (who let me just say, their job must suck, because the stuff there malfunctions so often that they probably get tired of hearing, "Can you....") to refill the tickets.
So there were two of these ref-mechanics who were talking at a machine that one was refilling with tickets.
Ref 1 had a bundle of tickets sticking out of his pockets.
Ref 2 walked by and snatched them out.
Ref 1 jumped up and Ref 2 handed them back to him, whilst laughing.
I'm sure Ref 2 said, "What would you have done if that was a customer?"
Then I'm pretty convinced that Ref 1 said, "I'd just elbow them like this."
...but as he was demonstrating, I was walking up for assistance, and he elbowed me in the wrist. Ref 2 laughed at him, I asked for help, and he felt bad, so he said, "Here you want these?" and gave me a bundle of tickets. I felt like a rockstar.
But even 500 tickets barely gets you a stick of gum at Chuck E. Cheese. So I gave them to Lynette's brother Charles because he was going to get something for Aryahnna whose birthday it was.
So yep pretty good day at Chuck E. Cheese. Plus when you're older you can dominate the games.
p.s.- Chuck E. Cheese pizza is gross pizza. Even Guru wouldn't like it.
So yep pretty good day at Chuck E. Cheese. Plus when you're older you can dominate the games.
p.s.- Chuck E. Cheese pizza is gross pizza. Even Guru wouldn't like it.
1 comment:
Good post, tone. It's so true. Showbiz was always a let down. I'm glad you had a good experience.
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