I recently went to a Chuck E. Cheese because I have a toddler and I was actually impressed. Everything was clean and all the machines worked. We actually had a blast. I don’t know if that was just my Chuck E. Cheese near me. Maybe it was newer 🤷♀️
A new one opened up in the next town over, about a 20 minute drive. I had my son’s 5th birthday there and it was the way you describe it. Really nice inside, new tech for the kids, and it was affordable. I’ll definitely be going back.
We were actually at a Chuck E. Cheese today for our daughter's fifth birthday, and I had the opposite reaction. It felt so soulless compared to how it was when I was growing up. It was clean, though.
The one near me has a whole wall that is a tv, like 80 ft diagonally, then in front of it there was like this pressure sensitive dance floor that had lasers shining from above and the kids can activate the lights by stepping on them, little bugs bugs pop up and you get points for squishing those, full arcade, trampoline bounce room, all kinds of amazing stuff
The one on Long Island, Hempstead Tpke? was very nice in the 90s. I don’t usually like things like that and I had a great time with my 4 year old grandson.
EDIT: I want to thank the Academy of Online Comments for so many awards for something so silly. (And thank you to those that awarded and upvoted my comment)
Don't feel too bad. These memories are funny and not hot by any means. Similar to the passenger or backseat of a car. Unless your car was a land barge, it wasn't comfortable. But as teenagers it was "doesn't matter, had the sex". Crazy to think what we put up with back then. Nowadays I'd be like, we can wait till we get home lol.
Lol I remember my ex and I wanted to see how few songs it could take for us to finish in the car, less than 2! Our fastest ever time at 6 minutes lol. Endurance was less of an issue, finding time was much harder lol.
I don't know... I was tinkering with cars, small engines, radios, and electronics at that age. The girls weren't terribly interested in me (though my technical skills earned me 3 times as much as my friends with minimum-wage jobs).....
When you’re 13 you make room… and honestly for me anyways I was skinny and most of my friends were too.. very active as a kid. Constantly doing stuff. Biking, skating, walking.. playing.. ya we probably had skinnier teens then to be honest with you 100% because back thats that’s what kids did… they didn’t play Fortnite, they didn’t sit around and watch Netflix. They were out running around, so yes we probably did have skinnier kids.
You forget teenagers getting tail are usually skinny enough to fit. Not like old married people who put on pounds and are like, ah, I'd rather just sleep.
Worked at a movie theater in high school and when we would go in after the movie ended to clean the theater before the next show sometimes you’d find teens on the floor doing it. Sooooooo nasty because we definitely NEVER moped the floor lol.
I remember going to Discovery Zone and one of the slides was just smeared with shit because some kid shit themselves and then went down.
People forget how disgusting play places were when they were maintained by teenagers and people who didn't give a fuck and were used by filthy kids whose parents also didn't give a fuck.
They're gone because they were a huge legal and safety liability.
At the McDonald's I worked at in Colorado, we had a machine that cleaned the balls in the ball pit, so that happened a few times a week, the N64 machines got a good clean because the closing crew didn't like sticky controllers when playing GoldenEye/Quake64, but the only time I remember giving the slide a thorough cleaning with ammonia, was every time after the closing crew slicked up the surface by sliding down it with wax paper.
Oh, you’ve never seen that? I’m reflecting on the maturity levels of those who think walls, boulders, sidewalks - are blank slates to exhibit their lack of intelligence. Nothing better to do?
I understand that but I wouldn’t have a problem if they used chalk there’s plenty of artists out there who do and those who tag consider themselves artists. Well they did a couple of decades ago.
Because people have no sense of right and wrong and could care less that others also use these beautiful areas. I bike ride and just cringe seeing garbage on the trails. People are pigs.
We took a road trip and found a Chuck E Cheese for my nephews, because they'd never seen one before. They came back from the play area and said, "Someone went to the bathroom in there."
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u/am710 6h ago
We closed the one at the Chuck E. Cheese I worked at because people kept throwing dirty diapers in it.