| I don't know if this belongs on this thread, but this was sort of interesting.
My (furture) grandson was having his 12th Birthday party at a place called Incredible John's. This is sort of a Chucky Cheese kind of place geared toward older children. There are video games, all you can eat buffet, and party rooms for the kids Birthday's. It really is a pretty expensive place for a party. The charges were $13.00 per child for the room, party and some tokens for games. My son's fiance paid for about 10 kids and 4 adults. I showed up later to the party. When I went in the front door for the parties, I was met by a lady that said I had to pay $11.20 to get in. I told her I didn't want to eat, I was only there to help with the party. I had to pay. Many of the parents just dropped off their kids and let them go in the party room and didn't go in because they didn't want to pay $11.20 for a buffet they didn't want. So poor Lisa had all of these kids and no help. Once the room time was up the kids just scattered out into the video game section and she had a hard time keeping track of the kids. I raised holy...... well I was unhappy with the owners and wrote one heck of a letter to them.
Long story short, I told them they should have wristbands for "parent supervisors" and they were in line for a lawsuit if a child ended up missing because one parent couldn't keep track of all the kids.
Many of the parents spent approximately $25.00 on a gift for Noah, spent $4.00 a gallon on gas to get to the party and then were charged to supervise their child in a pizza place.
Needless to say, I doubt there will be a party there again anytime soon. | 
