Rent Party: Is Chuck E. Cheese the most ghetto restaurant in the history of food? I've never been in one that wasn't occupied by an army of three year old homies and their 17 year old parents.

Amen to that. Last time I was there with my 5 year old daughter, we were standing side by side playing skee ball. I was helping her out trying to win some tickets, when some fine, young, distinguished successful African-American child about the same age walked right up, ripped the tickets coming out of the machine we were playing, and just strolled away, as if they were his.

Yeah, I know the first mistake was taking the kid there. She wanted to go, however. I wish I could imbue her sense of taste with somthing less ghetto. I was about to take after that kid, but I figured I make more money in a week than his mom does in a month year, so let him have six stupid tickets. Still....

/God damn rat hole can suck it....

Phantoms5000: Rent Party: Is Chuck E. Cheese the most ghetto restaurant in the history of food? I've never been in one that wasn't occupied by an army of three year old homies and their 17 year old parents.

Amen to that. Last time I was there with my 5 year old daughter, we were standing side by side playing skee ball. I was helping her out trying to win some tickets, when some fine, young, distinguished successful African-American child about the same age walked right up, ripped the tickets coming out of the machine we were playing, and just strolled away, as if they were his.

Yeah, I know the first mistake was taking the kid there. She wanted to go, however. I wish I could imbue her sense of taste with somthing less ghetto. I was about to take after that kid, but I figured I make more money in a week than his mom does in a month year, so let him have six stupid tickets. Still....

/God damn rat hole can suck it....

I'd have got them back. I hate thieves, and I don't care how old they are.

Phantoms5000: Rent Party: Is Chuck E. Cheese the most ghetto restaurant in the history of food? I've never been in one that wasn't occupied by an army of three year old homies and their 17 year old parents.

Amen to that. Last time I was there with my 5 year old daughter, we were standing side by side playing skee ball. I was helping her out trying to win some tickets, when some fine, young, distinguished successful African-American child about the same age walked right up, ripped the tickets coming out of the machine we were playing, and just strolled away, as if they were his.

Yeah, I know the first mistake was taking the kid there. She wanted to go, however. I wish I could imbue her sense of taste with somthing less ghetto. I was about to take after that kid, but I figured I make more money in a week than his mom does in a month year, so let him have six stupid tickets. Still....

/God damn rat hole can suck it....

Working as an arcade tech back in the day for one of CEC's competitors, I saw all sorts of parents that would cheat at ticket games for their kids. I had a couple cool managers who backed me up every time I walked up an confiscated their tickets. It was awesome.

/ticket games are rip-offs
//there's still chains with ticket games that aren't ghetto
///not usually in the hood or the white bread, tranquil suburbs, though

We just went to CEC for my son's fourth. He loved it; cried when it was time to go so I almost *did* leave him there.

Hahaha this happened to me as a kid actually. I was like 5 and my dad took me to a Toys'R'Us in Singapore. I wandered around and then realized I couldn't find my dad, no matter how many times I looked around. I then went to an employee and told them I was lost. Eventually after an hour or so, my dad came back and picked me up. My mom told me years later that my dad had actually gotten home and she asked him "Where's Leonel?" He then proceeded to yell out profanity and race back to the Toys'R'Us!

Phantoms5000: Rent Party: Is Chuck E. Cheese the most ghetto restaurant in the history of food? I've never been in one that wasn't occupied by an army of three year old homies and their 17 year old parents.

Amen to that. Last time I was there with my 5 year old daughter, we were standing side by side playing skee ball. I was helping her out trying to win some tickets, when some fine, young, distinguished successful African-American child about the same age walked right up, ripped the tickets coming out of the machine we were playing, and just strolled away, as if they were his.

Yeah, I know the first mistake was taking the kid there. She wanted to go, however. I wish I could imbue her sense of taste with somthing less ghetto. I was about to take after that kid, but I figured I make more money in a week than his mom does in a month year, so let him have six stupid tickets. Still....

/God damn rat hole can suck it....

I guess the CEC I take my kids to is an anomaly. White kids are just as obnoxious as black kids, because they're kids, and when you get a lot of kids running around in the same place they're going to behave obnoxiously.

Though I also have had that happen once, and kindly asked his mother about it because it upset my (at the time) 3 year old, and she was mortified that her kid did something selfish at a developmentally appropriate age. I assured her it was fine, and then we tried the claw machine that may as well shout fark you as soon as you put in a coin. After that I had to pry my older son away from the Mario Kart 2 machine because there was a line waiting for him to lose, and he was still on his first couple tokens. I had no idea they took off that flat time limit for the arcade games anymore until then.

I guess the place feels alien to me because I remember arcades where the games had ash trays bolted to them, you didn't want to look at what was on the floor or even worse trip and put out a hand to stop yourself, and people squinted into the light if they left the place before it got dark. The kids running around, bright lighting and walls of windows clash with that ingrained atmosphere.

As for the trashy single moms, they must all do yoga around here or something. In fact, it only now occurs to me that I have not yet seen massively obese parents wandering around this CEC. Maybe they're all on their WalMart scooters.

Yes, yes, CSB.

StaleCoffee:
I guess the CEC I take my kids to is an anomaly. White kids are just as obnoxious as black kids, because they're kids, and when you get a lot of kids running around in the same place they're going to behave obnoxiously.


I'm not talking about black kids, per se, just kids dressed up with their pants down below their diapers (seriously) and sideways hats and bling, dressed up just like dad. Mom is usually putting on the makeup with the eyebrow sharpie and trying not to poke out an eye with her fake nails. It's the same no matter what their skin tone is.

Ghetto is as ghetto does, I guess, and I think that's equal opportunity.

Rent Party: StaleCoffee:
I guess the CEC I take my kids to is an anomaly. White kids are just as obnoxious as black kids, because they're kids, and when you get a lot of kids running around in the same place they're going to behave obnoxiously.


I'm not talking about black kids, per se, just kids dressed up with their pants down below their diapers (seriously) and sideways hats and bling, dressed up just like dad. Mom is usually putting on the makeup with the eyebrow sharpie and trying not to poke out an eye with her fake nails. It's the same no matter what their skin tone is.

Ghetto is as ghetto does, I guess, and I think that's equal opportunity.

Understood, I appreciate the clarification.

Seems like even putting pants on is an unnecessary extra step at that point, just let them run around in the diaper.

Just can't stomach Chuck E Cheese. Smells like vomit in there. Seriously.

Subby never had children.

leonel: Hahaha this happened to me as a kid actually. I was like 5 and my dad took me to a Toys'R'Us in Singapore. I wandered around and then realized I couldn't find my dad, no matter how many times I looked around. I then went to an employee and told them I was lost. Eventually after an hour or so, my dad came back and picked me up. My mom told me years later that my dad had actually gotten home and she asked him "Where's Leonel?" He then proceeded to yell out profanity and race back to the Toys'R'Us!

Something kinda like that happened to me, but I was sixteen. it was an art class field drip to Manhattan, and our last stop was FAO Schwarz. i got separated from the group and ended up going down an escalator, into the most disgusting, gaudy bright pink grotto I've never imagined...the Barbie Store. I raced desperately back up the steps that were intent on dragging me down, but once back to the relative normalcy of the main store I couldn't find my class anywhere. After making a few circuits of the store I stopped and sat near the door to wait for them...half an hour later no one had shown up. I remembered where the bus was supposed to be to get us, so I ran down the street (it was like eight in the evening at this point) and found the bus. Some of the jokers in the class asked how my hooker was, but the rest were just pissed because we were supposed to stop for dinner on the way home and I killed that plan.

/nscsb

More detail from the local news blog:

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Sorry. Messed up the link.

http://www.daggerpress.com/2012/03/04/police-seek-parents-or-guardian s -of-3-year-old-girl-found-alone-at-chuck-e-cheeses-in-abingdon/

Mary did it with Jesus. Whether that says that its understandable, or proves Christianity is stupid is up to you.