Why do I feel like Paul Kix today? “Look, I read the New York Times this morning!” Only in my case, it’s the Wall Street Journal. Check out this story about how common it is for parents to come to blows in Chuck E. Cheese’s (owned by Irving-based CEC Entertainment, as I’m sure you know). This is why I’ve for years had a “No Chuck E. Cheese’s” policy. When kids have birthday parties there and invite my spawn, I explain to both invitee and inviter that Daddy don’t do Chuck E. Cheese’s. The noise, the lights, the games, the general amped-up atmosphere — it’s not good for kids. It frazzles their little brains. And now we know it has the same effect on parents, too.
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Does Dave & Buster’s have similar problems? Maybe we can blame video games!
Really? Creepy animatronic bears with crazy eyes playing scary music to children who have just been allowed to drink a pitcher full of soda and run around an arcade full of blaring video games could, in some way, not be good for said kids? No way! Commie!
speaking of which…
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I quit going to Chuck E. Cheese when they quit serving beer. Mostly because my dad wouldn’t take me after they quit serving beer.
@Bethany
Chuck E. Cheese still serves beer. At least the one in Plano does. They have to get the manager to pour the beer, and it’s doled out one per ID. And it’s domestic. But it’s better than no beer.
They should really dole out Valium.
On a recent cold, rainy day, I wanted to ask the wife if she had any interest in taking our son to Chuck E. Cheese, but I didn’t want him to get his hopes up in case the answer was no. So I asked if she was interested in visiting “Charles E. Fromage.” (And after all that trouble, she wasn’t.)
There’s nothing that says you can’t keep a flask in the car. I mean, other than prudence. But if you’re at Chuck E Cheese, prudence is a stranger anyway.
Bethany, where does your dad take you to drink now?
Church?
Catholic, eh?
Even better- a Charles E. Fromage’s that serves absinthe.
I recently went to a Chuck E. Cheese’s somewhere in the Garland Richardson North Lake Highlands Light Industrial No Man’s Land — the area peppered with bad Chinese buffets and drab head shops amid the machine shops and “equipment rental” concerns; not sure where as I wasn’t driving — and I drank several beers. I needed each one.
Each ever-loving one.
Tim, If you can’t handle the heat, stay out of the Cheese.
Daniel, you went to a Chuck E’s voluntarily with no kid to pressure you?
Why?
Where else are you gonna grab a drink after work? Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
People go to Chuck E. Cheese?
No Way!
Steve,
Who said I have no kid? It was his birthday. But his aunt was driving.
Which one serves the Absinthe? I know they all have little fairies!