Kids love it.
My kid liked his first experience a couple months back and kept asking, night after night, "I need to go to Chuck E Cheese an' ride the red doggy" as I would lay him down to sleep. We had a bunch of tokens left over from the first time, but we weren't going to go back to that one. See, we were very alarmed by the state of the place and what appeared to be a thriving, umm, non-taxable goods exchange in the parking lot. I say "appeared" because I'm only 98% sure.
"Why did you keep the tokens, then, if you weren't going back?", you ask. I don't know. Just cuz, I guess. Plus we knew there was another one in the area. Maybe it was better.
Was it? No. Well, the parking lot was nicer. And the pizza was "as good or better" than at the other one.
We stayed about an hour and a half. After buckling the boy into the car seat and driving off I was silently wondering what to do with the leftover tokens, knowing for sure that we will never, ever come back. Ever. But, like something out of a Lifetime made-for-TV movie the not-yet-two-year-old pipes up with this completely unsolicited comment: "Daddy thank you for taking me to Chuck E Cheese."
Damn it.
As negative and snarky as I am toward the place, the fact remains that he absolutely loves it. Whereas I was at DEFCON 3 for the duration, he legitimately had a pure and good time. I temporarily lost track of the fact that the world looks a lot different when your eyeballs are only two years old and only 32 inches off the ground.
So it looks like we are going to be holding on to the tokens a little while longer. :)
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Don't forget his other awesome perception... "daddy, chucky cheese has got mickeys ears". I love that little boy.
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