Where a kid can be a kid and the parent can go clinically insane.

Oct 11, 2007 Author: Anna | Filed under: Anna, Cassidy, Rant

Next time I mention in my blog that I’m taking Cassidy to Chuck E Cheese, I expect all of you to virtually back hand me. Repeatedly. With a hammer. I love my daughter, dearly. And that’s the only reason I can come up with for voluntarily putting up with 500 screaming, misbehaving, sugared up kids and cheese covered cardboard passed off as “pizza”.

Usually at some point I try and break away from hosting duty (because I paid $20 a kid for SOMEBODY ELSE TO DO THAT) and go throw some balls. Skeeball. Sometimes I think about throwing the balls at the kids but I’ve always managed to control myself. Mostly. When the two year old wearing nothing but a diaper started running across all the lanes, I came pretty close to throwing a ball directly at the parent’s head. Except there WERE NO PARENTS. WHERE WERE THE PARENTS?!

I just threw up my hands and headed back to the table to continue playing hostess since the 16 year old in charge of running the party only actually showed up about three times and one of them was to hand me the bill. I think the rest of the time she was hunched over the toilet puking up whatever it was that kept her out till 5AM and at work looking like DEATH.

The only redeeming value of the trip is that Cassidy and her schoolmates had a blast eating cardboard, drinking liquid uppers and using tickets to buy crappy toys that will get stuck in the vacuum in a week. An absolute blast.

Seriously, hammer to the head. It would be a welcome alternative. Repeatedly.

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8 Responses for "Where a kid can be a kid and the parent can go clinically insane."

Traci October 12th, 2007 at 9:10 pm 1

HAHA, You think only a couple hours is bad? My BF used to manage a chuck e cheese for 10 years! He finally got out of it about a year before i met him. he said he hated the kids playing there cause they drove him nuts. but he hated the employees more cause they wouldnt do there job
Anna October 13th, 2007 at 5:51 pm 2

You’d have to be a very strong person, mentally, to MANAGE a place like that!
Traci October 13th, 2007 at 10:56 pm 3

I thank god, he is strong mentally, and physically. the stories he tells about that place are hillarious though. and he said word to the wise, dont let your kid go in the ball pits um EWWW.
Jenn October 14th, 2007 at 6:48 am 4

I’m glad that Cassidy had a good time. Your a strong person for having a party there. My boyfriends nephew, his sister, and I went there once. It was one of the most nerve-wracking things I’ve ever done
Crys October 15th, 2007 at 9:24 am 5

I remember going there when I was little. Even then I didn’t like the running screaming kids that would not shut up.

Oh and at least the two year old had a diaper on. Things could have been much worse.
Tree October 19th, 2007 at 6:54 pm 6

If you get a chance look up the song “Chuck E Cheese hell” by Tim Wilson. It does a good job of rapping that place up.
Anna October 19th, 2007 at 8:35 pm 7

I’ll have to look it up.. Then the next time Cassidy wants to go I can play it for her!
Amanda November 25th, 2007 at 6:53 pm 8

Holy cow… I do not envy you whatsoever. At least she had a good time though.

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