parents beware!
My friends and I took in the latest and greatest of the Jason Bourne trilogy on Friday. We bought tickets to the 9:00 at the Carmike Cinema in Cool Springs. After securing our spots at the theater, we had dinner at the muoy delish Ghengis Grill nearby. If you haven’t been there yet, stop what you are doing right now and fix that. It is the Mongolian barbecue concept, and they have everything you could possibly want to throw on a grill with rice. Chicken, steak, shrimp, lobster, vegetables, fruit, seasonings, sauces, you name it. You won’t be disappointed.
After dinner, we had about an hour or so to kill before movie. We decided to walk around outdoors in attempt to settle the copious amounts of food we had just ingested. And not too long after we started walking, the inevitable happened. We needed to find a restroom.
Someone had the big idea that Chuck E. Cheese would suffice. I wasn’t too sure. I thought we had to buy admission just to get past the faux velvet ropes. So we sent in the lackey (the only boy in our trio) to get the sitch. As we peered through the windows like stalkers without restraining orders, we saw him gain access to the facility with little-to-no quandary. So we did what any good friends would do. We followed suit.
Sure enough, we too were admitted without so much as a puzzled expression. The door-master did, however, roll her eyes at us in exasperation when we tried without success to convince her that our “special adult friend” needed retrieving from the skee-ball stand, and that we were very sorry for letting him out of his car seat unattended.
So here we are, three adults wandering the child-packed Cool Springs Chuck E. Cheese on a Friday night, with no other business there but to…well, do our business. And had the entire restaraunt not smelled like stinky feet (I think that was the pizza), we might have stayed for a round of Caveman Crashers.
All I’m sayin’ is…parents beware. Not of us, of course - we’re harmless. But not all unsupervised adults aimlessly pacing a children’s facility are quite as safe as we are.
If you know what I mean.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:13 am
If you bring a child in both your hand and the child’s hand are stamped with blacklight visible numbered stamps to match one another. When you try to leave the bouncer puts both hands in the little blacklight box to make sure you’re leaving with the same kid you brought.
August 6th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Well, that is comforting to know. Thanks for the info Rae.
I also love that Chuck E. Cheese has ‘bouncers’.