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Strangest thing you've seen at a prize counter
Kangum:
people probrobly wont believe me but im pretty sure i saw a toaster in the arcade in salisbury once.
ticket places make me think of my x girlfriend and her kids. her daughter got all the tickets. so her mom is like let your brother pick something from the prize counter. you already got tons of candy and junk. so her daughter finally says fine. so he picks out a back scratcher. what do you think happened after we left. she beat him with the back scratcher the whole way home. what is that called. choose your weapon of demise?
bluevolume:
That's hilarious.
You know, I think the whole "prize counter" thing is just a big cause of stress and anxiety for kids. Think about it. Parents wait till its time to leave before they drag their kids up there, and now they have 30 seconds to pick something "nice" out of this mountain of worthless crap. They've spent the last hour collecting these tickets as if they were planning on trading them in for a new bike or something. Then they get to the counter, certain that the 400 tickets they are carrying around would get them carte blanche, only to see that the bratty kid next to them has 2000 of them. Then comes the inevitable letdown as the choices are boiled down to a pack of gum or a Bicentennial Pencil (see Steve Martin in The Jerk for reference).
And we wonder why our kids end up in therapy...
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: bluevolume on September 12, 2007, 02:16:25 pm ---Then they get to the counter, certain that the 400 tickets they are carrying around would get them carte blanche, only to see that the bratty kid next to them has 2000 of them.
--- End quote ---
That's not the suck part, the suck part is saving up those 400 tickets to get 2,000 tickets only to find the ---smurfing--- tickets have an expiration date and in order to extend the expiration date, you have to buy these ticket books which have an extended expiration date (but still expire) at roughly a 5% loss on the ticket count. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
This was a few years ago when I used to have to travel across state lines to get to anything remotely resembling an arcade and before the anti-expiration law was passed in my state (which probably don't apply to tickets anyways).
javeryh:
I always give away my tickets from skee-ball and other games when I'm at the arcade. The look on some other kid's face is always priceless.
ChadTower:
I was at a Chuck E Cheese with my kids last year and two 8 year olds had pried the front off the skeeball ticket dispenser and were taking out all of the tickets. They later actually cashed them in, even though the counter girl saw them do it, and they left with armfuls of prizes and no punishment.
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