Friggin Tickets

I remember when I was five years old going to arcades checking out the prize areas. Hoping to cash my tickets in for a worthy action figure, I would save my tickets from one visit to the next. Every time I visited the number of tickets required to redeem for a prize kept going up. It was my first lesson in inflation. The only problem is those stupid tickets were worthless anywhere outside of Chuck E. Cheese.

Things haven't changed much. I was at Dave and Busters on Monday. On average, an arcade machine would provide around 8 tickets per token. It was 50 tickets for a piece of candy. What the? That's almost 2 dollars for a piece of candy the size of a jolly rancher. They are suffering some serious prize inflation.

Then I started wondering how I will handle taking my son to an arcade when he is old enough. I wondered if it would be better to steer him away from this money munching stupid ticket games. Nope, I think its an important life lesson...dream big, work hard, spend a lot of money, trade money for worthless tickets, and never reach your goal. Wow, life sucks for kids. You can lump in adults at Dave and Busters too, that place is a ripoff.

On point video: http://funnyvideos.todaysbigthing.com/2009/11/09