Pizza with a side of life
The girls are off school today. I am off work today. So what can we find to do with our day of leisure? Peter Piper Pizza. I hate that place. Almost as much as the girls love that place. And really, where else can you get cardboard pizza and wilted lettuce, all you can eat, for $4 a person? Better yet, it comes with a side of life.
Phil once observed that there are life lessons around every video game crammed corner at these places, so here are some we learned today:
The size of your return is usually tied directly to the size of your investment.
Sometimes, you are just in the right place at the right time, and you should grin and be glad about it.
Games of chance are addicting.
Hope sometimes makes people act irrationally. Especially with their money.
The thing you really want is usually more than you can afford, and there is always a little sorrow that goes along with picking something that will do just fine.
Sometimes, having too many choices is a bad thing.
Good help is hard to find.
Sometimes you don't get something, even when you earned it.
In summary, Andra spent a fair amount of her own money to keep getting tickets, and have a chance at the big jackpot. Some of the machines were broken and so even when we won no tickets came out. There wasn't anyone to replenish the tickets, or fix the ticket eater, or get us our prizes. When it was time to pick prizes and we hunted one beleaugered employee down, we had lots of indecision, and the thing we really wanted wasn't available so I stopped being the indulgent supportive parent and started making empty threats in the interest of time. And none the less, when we emerged, wiped out and with a bag of inferior prizes, the girls started thinking about the next time we can go back and have more fun. Maybe life isn't just a board game, but its also a pizza place with video games.
Phil once observed that there are life lessons around every video game crammed corner at these places, so here are some we learned today:
The size of your return is usually tied directly to the size of your investment.
Sometimes, you are just in the right place at the right time, and you should grin and be glad about it.
Games of chance are addicting.
Hope sometimes makes people act irrationally. Especially with their money.
The thing you really want is usually more than you can afford, and there is always a little sorrow that goes along with picking something that will do just fine.
Sometimes, having too many choices is a bad thing.
Good help is hard to find.
Sometimes you don't get something, even when you earned it.
In summary, Andra spent a fair amount of her own money to keep getting tickets, and have a chance at the big jackpot. Some of the machines were broken and so even when we won no tickets came out. There wasn't anyone to replenish the tickets, or fix the ticket eater, or get us our prizes. When it was time to pick prizes and we hunted one beleaugered employee down, we had lots of indecision, and the thing we really wanted wasn't available so I stopped being the indulgent supportive parent and started making empty threats in the interest of time. And none the less, when we emerged, wiped out and with a bag of inferior prizes, the girls started thinking about the next time we can go back and have more fun. Maybe life isn't just a board game, but its also a pizza place with video games.
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