Weather: pouring rain
Outlook on life: bleak
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Yesterday, I took my children to a mall arcade with the vision that $10 worth of video game tokens would consume an entire afternoon.
In the time that it took me to tie my shoelaces, my boys had used up all of their tokens. They fed every single one into a machine with a motorized claw and a bin of high quality stuffed animals.
The bad news: the planned afternoon entertainment ended 3 hours and 58 minutes early.
The good news: we brought home a creepy teddy bear and an enormous lizard.
Every mother's dream.
You're so lucky, it's a LeBron James bear!!
ReplyDeleteThat's funny! I am always shocked not only by how fast the money goes, but by how many tokens each game needs! Remember when we were kids and a game was a quarter...maybe fifty cents? Now it seems like most of the games are fifty cents or a dollar.
ReplyDeleteHoping the weather clears up for you :) I'm a new reader, and love your blog!
ug, it goes way too fast, doesn't it. Good luck with the strike, what's up with that? Well, it'll make for some great blog reading on my end, I can tell!
ReplyDeleteDeb from MA
what are they even striking about?
ReplyDeleteThat's all any mother needs: more stuffed animals in the house!
ReplyDeleteThat game is huge! I've never seen anything like it! Well done, boys, well done.
ReplyDeletenever underestimate how fast kids can blow your money!
ReplyDeleteLol! Yes you are so lucky
ReplyDeleteAt leaast they both got something....with my girls it would have been one happy with a large stuffed critter and one in tears without.
ReplyDeleteSo think of it like this: the teachers have to make up for the days they were on strike, meaning, they're prolonging the last day of school!
ReplyDeleteI hate that when things don't last aas long as you think they should. I hope the strike is settled before you run out of ideas. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteSome Sam's Club locations have claw machines in the exit lobby. .25 per game. Now there's a bargain.
ReplyDeleteAaaaa! What is it about those machines? Do they have special magnets, hypnotic powers, or is that grimy joystick laced with crack?
ReplyDeleteOver-sized lizards are the best.
ReplyDeleteI am impressed that they got the claw to work. That is the makings of a mechanical engineer or 2. (My brother-in-law is one and he is the only person I know who can make those things work right.)
ReplyDeleteHey! Your kid is wearing an Angels hat! Glad to see you're teaching them right :) GO ANGELS
ReplyDeleteah..so this is what I have to look forward to ahha
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