I just got back from the fresh hell that is Chuck E Cheese

[KitchenWitch]

I consumed a food like substance. I tripped over thousands of little brats.

I have a splitting headache.

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. They have killer coupons, though

I can be fed (sort of) and have an extremely happy 5yo for under 30 bucks.

Honest to goodness, though, they need a full-liquor bar and better pizza.

[enigmatic]

2. I'd rather watch Yakov Smirnoff do a marathon set then step into a Chuck E. Cheese

Seriously, my sympathies :hug:

[flvegan]

3. Can I ask why you made such a trip?

Some sort of penance?

[KitchenWitch]

4. PTA fundraiser night.

And since I am on the executive board...I was kind of expected to be there.

[sarge43]

41. PTA fundraiser night alone are words to make you clinch

Add Chuck E. Cheese and

[krispos42]

5. Did the cops show up?

Town cops usually spend more time responding to fights at Chuck E. Cheeses than at the local bars.

[KitchenWitch]

6. Somehow that does not surprise me at all.

No cops tonight.

[krispos42]

7. Well, the precious snowflakes can't sort things out by their lonesome, can they?

Helicopter parents need to... with their fists. :eyes:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. One thing makes it all worthwhile...

Skeeball.

[KitchenWitch]

9. Only 3 of the skeeball lanes were working

:nuke:

We have thousands of tokens, so we really need to go back and play skeeball.

[WildEyedLiberal]

23. I'm just waiting for the drunk parents to start throwing the skeeballs at each other

That's about the only ridiculous thing that hasn't yet happened at a Chuck E. Cheese.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. I really don't understand why they sell beer there...

Seems like a dumb idea.

[KitchenWitch]

31. I think it is to entice the parents to bring their children

If you can't get the parents in, there is no Chuck E Cheese.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

40. Still, it sends a pretty pathetic message...

That parents can only enjoy time with their kids if they can booze it up.

[jmowreader]

42. They're just admitting a fact of life...

that it takes a rare adult to survive Chuck E Cheese without being three sheets to the wind.

For myself, I really don't understand why they don't sell bourbon there. It would work SO much quicker.

[Arugula Latte]

53. We need SOMETHING to help us get through a Chuck E. Cheese event

A little glass of white wine helps.

[Arugula Latte]

52. Skeeball RULES!

:bounce:

[Zavulon]

10. I know your pain.

I've never been to a Chuck E Cheese, but today the Canadiens were eliminated and the Twins got slaughtered twice by the second-most annoying team in all of baseball.

[KitchenWitch]

11. Freaking depressing - the Twins...

So far they are showing flashes of brilliance in long stretches of suckitude.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

50. It was a good day in Beantown.

:hi:

My sympathies, though. After years of suffering with losers, this abundance of great sports teams is almost embarrassing.

[MajorChode]

12. We cater to a snot-nose clientele at Chuck E Cheese hell....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TwQAksE5T4

[Mugu]

13. This is just a reinforcement of the fact that you're a better person

than I.

But, we already knew that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. My sympathies, my dear KW!

I just got back from my Dem Club meeting, as as long-winded as it was, I'm sure you had the worse end of it...

I only have one more meeting to be Secretary, and then I'm through!

:hug:

[ashling]

15. When my kids were that age we always

distracted or misdirected their attention when we passed one.

I have wasted altogether too much of my life in Dante's Cheese.

[LeftyMom]

16. My kid asked to go to one once.

I told him they didn't have anything vegan. He never asked again.

Veganism FTW.

[bluesbassman]

17. But you got to see all of the latest Spandex fasions!

:)

[Drunken Irishman]

18. I think we're going for my cousin's birthday and I can't wait!

I haven't been to Chuck E Cheese since it was Showbiz Pizza.

[Richard Steele]

19. "And I alone survived to tell thee"

I'ts OK, KW...it's all over now.
You got through it, and it's all over now.
It's gonna be OK:hug:

[baldguy]

20. There's nothing at Chuck E Cheese that can be described as "fresh".

[mwooldri]

24. Well the salads seem "fresh" enough to me.

Though it might just be our CeC place.

And yes I do have to go there periodically.

Later on when they get a little older there's Celebration Station... same kind of madness only costs more and aimed at a higher age kid.

[surrealAmerican]

21. I went into one of those once when my kids were little.

Thankfully, they hated it (too noisy, other kids pushing them, etc.). I'm surprised at the number of parents who seem to tolerate these sort of places.

[KitchenWitch]

22. The one by us serves beer

I think that is how parents tolerate it... they get stank-ass drunk.

[mwooldri]

25. The parents tolerate it because their children tell them they like it.

Plus this parent knows when NOT to go, so if mwooldrijr needs a CeC fix and I have the money then I take him when the place is quieter.

[Orsino]

26. There's a business that needs delivery, if ever there was one. n/t

[old mark]

28. KW, you REALLY know how to have a good time....nt

[KitchenWitch]

29. I have to keep telling myself that getting stankass drunk would not have made it better!

[old mark]

35. Always helps me to think about the three day hangovers...

Works every time.



:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :puke: :hurts: :puke: :(



mark

[KitchenWitch]

37. I thought it through to its terrible conclusion as well.

:hi:

[old mark]

45. Those of us who have had terrible conclusions have a real advantage

over those who are still at the party.

Odd to think of it that way, but it's true.

Congratulations on using your bad experience to produce good judgement.
Many people never get that.

mark

[tekisui]

30. They still serve beer, right?

That is the only way I made it through.

[KitchenWitch]

32. They do, but I do not drink.

[tekisui]

34. Then, I agree, it is pure hell.

[graywarrior]

33. Hahahahaha!

I can just picture it.

[KitchenWitch]

38. I am a misanthrope on a good day

Chuck E Cheese makes me downright stabby.

[graywarrior]

39. Interesting word...stabby

[Hanse]

36. Chuck E. Cheese was second only to Disneyland when I was a kid.

I still remember their arcade with every classic arcade game represented.

Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Dig Dug, vector graphics Star Wars, Centipede, etc.

[tigereye]

43. I am so glad my son is a teen and I will likely never have to go there again

I hate that place!

[mykpart]

44. Just wait 'til you have grandchildren!

[tigereye]

49. maybe we can go to the museum instead!

plus my son says he's never going to have kids - we'll see.... :D

[annonymous]

46. I endured a few kiddie birthday parties there.

The food is mediocre at best and the noise level from screaming children is headache inducing. After enduring a few parties I took to dropping my kids off and picking them up when the party was over. The CEC birthday party seems to be a rite of passage in my area.

[miss_american_pie]

47. I feel your pain.

My four year old loves that place.

And from anywhere we go in the car, he can give you directions to it.

[Ellen Forradalom]

48. You are a braver soul than I am

I flat out refuse to set foot in one of those places. If I want an experience like that, I'll smoke angel dust.

[Debi]

51. OMG! You are a goddess

:hug: So sorry you had to brave that awful awful place!

[undeterred]

54. A guy I work with told me he and his wife

moved to our city for her job: an assistant manager at chuckee cheese. I thought he might be joking but he wasn't.