In Kindergarten, ALL the kids get invited. Also, this mini relevation: the place has a built-in safety feature to ensure parents don't get drunk. Decent sized beers are $4, and of course it's crap beer.

Better deal than at the ballpark, I guess.

Was I supposed to be doing something here?

Hold on, we're about to leave. But I still have $2 worth of beer to drink.

Maybe you can go to a grownup bar afterwards to relax.

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Who's driving?

I remember when my kids were invited to parties at The Rat.

Bad pizza, bad cake, bad games.

Shudder

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Embarassing myself on the Internet since 1978.

we do "girl only" parties now (5 & 7) so that cuts the brood in half. =)

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*ahem*

EAR PLUGS !!!

Seriously. I always brought them and wore them for those events. Met a co-worker who was there for his kid's friends party.. he looked at me, noted the plugs, and said "Damn. Wish I'd thought of that !". So I gave him my spares.

He said it was the most relaxed he's ever been at that place.

I remember dropping off my son for a CC party and leaving to kill an hour and a half roaming the aisles of Home Depot or something. Felt a little guilty, but with twin infants at home, this was LIVING LARGE.

Of course, what comes around goes around. When I returned to collect, we couldn't find the shoes he had taken off to board the indoor playground equipment. After at least 30 minutes of furious searching (which felt like 6-7 hours), some lady fessed up to grabbing the wrong pair of shoes for her grandson.

Not one of the best days of my life, but looking back now, it feels good to know I'll never have to go through that again.

My son is about to turn 4, and we're about to go through that. Been to a few of his classmates' parties. Some weren't too bad. Only saving grace is that his birthday is in summer, so less kids are likely to show up.

Hop in the time machine and go back to changing diaper days.

Chucky Cheese Hell
by Tim Wilson

I got combat training from overseas
Now I'm the bouncer at the Chucky Cheese
I think I'd rather do a year in jail
Than another afternoon
In Chucky Cheese Hell

Chucky Cheese Hell
I'm in Chucky CHEEEEEEESE HELL!
We cater to a snot nose clientele
In Chucky Cheese Hell

Mama drives Chipper to the Chucky Mall
Watches him waller in some plastic balls
The band sucks and the pizza's cold
And you eat it with a slobberin' four year old
In Chucky Cheese Hell

Puke with pepperoni still smells the same
You waste a paycheck on a video game
Lined up out the door like The Stones are in town
There ain't enough Chucky ass whippin's
To go round

In Chucky Cheese Hell
I'm in Chucky CHEEEEEEEESE HELL!
Squallin' youngins and a skee ball bell
In Chucky Cheese Hell

I did two tours of duty in Vietnam
Fightin' jungle rot and braving napalm
But they couldn't torture me half as well
As them little birthday $@*#*@*$!
In Chucky Cheese Hell

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Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity

Last time I was there, I found a lonely Ms Pac Man and got the high score on my 2nd Quarter!

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"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt (1918)