Night out in the town....of Buffalo

I always like a change of pace now and then. That was the case heading out to Dave and Busters for a birthday celebration. I always see the Dave and Busters ads on TV and it seems like it would be a great place to go and hang out for an evening. The advertisements also seem to stress it's a good place to spend the evening with your adult friends. However, upon getting there around 7, there were a bunch of kids running around and I even think I saw a kids birthday party going on?!? Commercials are deceiving...We left shortly after 11 after having some good food and wandering around the vast number of games they have there. At 11, the kid population did not die down any bit. The crowd there seemed even younger when we left than when we showed up. I guess it is hard to find a babysitter in these tough economic times...

To add to our new experience, Ashley and I spent most of the night people watching since we weren't interested in spending the rip off money for credits. We saw many different characters there and one that we couldn't figure out...A leather jacket, short hair, slight make-up on and very soft facial features. I was thinking, are you trying to confuse people? Ash and I concluded we didn't know after several pass-by's throughout the night.

Ash and I were strolling through the arcade when we came upon one game that our friend was playing. It was a pull the lever and when the wheel stops turning, you get however many tickets your arrow lands on. Jackpot level 500 tickets! Our friend pulled the lever and away spins the wheel. A whole group of us were standing behind him as the wheel starts to slow down...slower and slower...jackpot is coming up! We all cheer it up when it lands on the 500 tickets! A little voice comes out from next to the game condescendingly saying "You got 4 tickets."  We all look at this young kid and look at the game. We all failed to realize there was only a little strip the arrow could land on and all around this small strip it says 4 tickets. It took an 8 year old to tell us all that we are quite dumb and cheering over 4 tickets.

As the night winded down, we all headed to the prize shop.  Knowing a little bit about prizes and tickets as I have been to Adventure Landing before, I was surprised to see that they have a system of weighing the tickets to find out how many you have acquired. Accurate reading system? I think not! Even after seeing behind the counter, they don't even wait for the weighing system to stop before they put a total into the computer and slide your card through to redeem the points. To top it all off, there are some good prizes that are worth 50,000 tickets and then the crappy prizes worth 200 tickets. I think people need to stop saving their tickets for a prize and just buy it themselves. I am sure you can buy the prizes for a lot less than spending money to play games and build up your stash of tickets.

To end the night our friend couldn't find his keys. Very frustrating and scary, I've been there. I lose my keys around the house all the time. Luckily he found them, in the car. The car was still there along with everything in it with the keys sitting on the seat. Whew! Triple A was called and a time of 45 minutes was given. They showed up in about 15 minutes which was great as we had piled into another car to keep warm. Well anyway, you all know in order to get the keys out you have to unlock the door from the inside, therefore having to stick something in the door to get to the lock. As we watch the process my lovely wife says aloud "He has to put that long stick in there??" Yes darling, that's where the long stick goes....

The Triple A guy got the door unlocked and started tugging at one of the pieces that he used that was still lodged in the door. He painfully pulled to try to get it out of the closed door. Hmm...the door was unlocked, so the car owner smoothly reached out and pulled the handle of the door to open it. Problem solved!

~Adding humor to humanity~

Night at The Beale

The other night, my parents, Ashley and I redeemed a Groupon for The Beale on South ave. It was a wonderful time and pretty good food. I would recommend going there if you are looking for a bbq tasty treat some night.

Depending on which night you go, you may have the luxury of listening to an enjoyable instrumental musician while you casually dine. I hope for your sake you have an enjoyable one. The night we went was rather interesting. He played good low key sounds throughout the night. Some songs were too slow and would have put me to sleep but thanks to his random one liners every now and again, I was able to stay awake. I think he felt he needed to sing every once and awhile as he had a microphone in front of him. Little did he know it was for us to be able to hear the guitar. So throughout the night he would peacefully be playing his guitar then out of nowhere "Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be,Whisper words of wisdom, let it be," then back to the quiet guitar playing. Ten minutes later, same thing different lyrics to a different song. I sat there thinking hes been playing the same tune the whole time, does he just stick random lyrics in when he wants??

Anyway, conversation goes as normal with the Leathesich's...Ashley and my dad found out they are alike in their daily routines. Ashley blows her nose every morning, my dad, every night. That was pretty much the end to their daily routine similarities.

Other things that came up that night were the flaws in my mother's eyes or head. We aren't sure yet which one it is. We had a nice long discussion on showing and soap. I know it sounds weird, but my mother always gets shampoo in her eyes when she showers. No matter what she does and how tight she closes her eyes, it never fails that she ends up with stingy eyes with shampoo in them. The funny part is that she assumed that this just happens to everyone and it was a natural thing. Conversation goes on about none of us having this issue and she may be the only one on the planet. She claims her head is shaped funny, I think there's more to it than that...

~Adding humor to humanity~