I Know What Hell Looks Like.....

It looks like a huge rat!

So, check this out....I work all day, pick up my sister at 5:00pm and boot-scoot 1 1/2 hours to our great-niece's 2nd Birthday Party. Not only were we driving toward the West where a huge severe thunderstorm with a 'strong potential for funnel clouds' is making its way East... but it actually starts to rain by the time we arrive at Chucky Cheeses hell! Yep, Friday night, birthday parties everywhere, kids high on tokens and blinky lights, parents already looking haggard and worn out as they wait for pizza to arrive while chasing the kids around.

The "band" was just getting ready to start their gig (still freaky looking after all these years)....when all of the sudden.....THE FLIPPING LIGHTS GO OUT!!!!! Yep. Out. Dark. Kids start screaming, parents are running around yelling for their kids, with cellphone drawn to illuminate them towards the epi-center of fun!  It turns into complete pandemonium!

We wait... we wait...hey~ look... they brought our pizza (lucky for us our food was at the end of the oven and ready to serve ~ Bonus). Like the insensitive folks we are, we eat in the dark by pen light and cell phone while everyone else is bitching and moaning at the Manager ... "We're hungry, when can we get our food"? "When will the lights come back on"? .. "What are you doing about it?"  The Manager was a pro at handling the situation; very calm. I'm sure she wanted to scream "Well, the ovens don't work because there's no effing electricity, so you won't get your pizza! I have no effing idea WHY the electricity if off and I'm sitting on my ass not doing anything, just for the hell of it". She was very professional but I'm sure that's what she was thinking!

So, after an hour...the sun was going down fast and before long we would be plunged in total darkness inside Chucky Cheeses with still screaming kids and parents., Rhonda and I did the whole kiss and hug and got the heck out of dodge. It was the LONNNGGEEST hour and a half drive home!

Now as my nerves are calming I think I will pour a nice size tumbler of Cabernet to ward off any nightmares that may come.

Love, Peace & "Say No To Chucky Cheeses on a Friday Night When There's a Storm Brewing"!