I can't believe it's been so long since I blogged last! I'm so terrible! Anyway, here goes.

So last Saturday before the Birthday Extravaganza ( or during maybe, I'm not sure of the official start time) I went to Chuck E. Cheese with my friends. Very fun. There, we were exposed to something interesting. They now have it where you put your money/tokens on a sort of credit card that you swipe through the machine. I have feelings both ways on this. So here are my opposing viewpoints.

For it

- Yes, this was convienent as now you don't have this pocketful of jingling heavy tokens swingin' around in your pants.
- You have to swipe it through the machine each time you play, which seems like an annoyance, but then this prevents you from leaving your card in the machine, and walking away thus letting it be used by someone other than you.

Against it
- It's very easily lost, as it just a light thing piece of plastic ( about the size of a creditcard, actually, yes, it is the size of a credit card, but is a hell of a lot lighter and thinner) so you can just drop it, and not realize it.
- When you play the fun games where you actually use the tokens for various things, you have to go to a different machine to get your tokens, which is an annoyance.
- This is imprinting on children the fun and ease of a credit card! It's getting them ready for a cashless, or at least less cash ( odd how with cash first it means something, and with cash last it means something else) society. I mean HELLO, the token machine if basically an ATM. So yu're teaching little children " Here, take this little plastic card and you can have lots of fun with it!" However, you can't go over your tokens, and then have to claim bankruptcy because you can't pay them back, and then not allowed back into Chuck E. Cheese, because your credit is bad. Or at least if you are, you have to go to the Ghetto part until you can build up your credit.

So yes, that is my rant on Chuck E. Cheese. Oh, also, it made me realize how much of a crochety old woman I've become. All I could think of while walking around was " Where are these kids parents?!?!?!" I saw some little girl get beaned in the head by a thrown Skee ball game because some other little boys were not playing the game right. I wanted to go to her, and hold her, and rub her head, but then didn't as I didn't want someone to think I was a weird pedophile. If I was a girl I would've done it, as people in general are less likely to think that women are pedophiles than men ( which is unfair, but true).

p.s. I forgot that I had Mike Rowe as my wallpaper on my laptop and when I turned it on I got all giggly when I saw it. I was all " Oh Mike, I forgot you were then. he he he Hey there cutie" and yes, I did touch the screen! I am a giggly, dorky, teenage girl.

Well....I suppose.......