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~
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