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September 28, 2003

Chuck E. Cheese

On one hand it's a mind-numbingly maddening cacophony of light, sound, and smell. On the other hand, if you hit the Bonus Spot, you can win 256 tickets. It's almost enough for one of those erasers that's so plastic and hard that it doesn't actually erase.

Today we went to our second Chuck E. Cheese birthday party in two weeks and I have to say, they turn out rather well. The staff keeps the party moving, you don't have to clean your house before or after thirteen five-year-olds trash it, and it's relatively inexpensive. For around a hundred bucks you get tokens, play time, cake, and pizza for 8 kids. A kids indoor playground nearby wanted $25.00 per child for two hours of play time with no lunch.

Trevor is finally old enough to understand the concept of saving his tickets for bigger prizes. He doesn't absolutely have to get a tiny piece of crap just to spend the tickets that day. Which is good, because the bigger crap we can win, the better, right?

One other thing about Chuck E. Cheese. When kids go on that ride where they sit in the car and get their picture taken with Chuck E., they often leave the photo behind — they just want the ride. I collect the abandoned photos and write very short stories about their theoretical adult lives based on their expressions.

Like at the end of movies when they do that little paragraph:

Erin Brockovich went on to save the whales and the rainforests and the plankton and the Ocarina of Time and the planet and blah blah blah...

My own little found object art project. It's weird, I know. But it's also very funny.

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