So
what exactly is it about Chuck E. Cheese, um, entertainment centers
that inspires violence and crime? Perhaps it's the infernal noise of
fifty video games beeping wildly. Maybe it's the fact that there's a
giant mouse walking around and everyone pretends that's normal, just
like they do at Disneyland--and someday I'll tell you about the time
the guy in the mouse costume actually groped me. It could be the
animotronic creatures that line the walls, punctuating the din with
even noisier singing and clacking (though to be honest, I don't even
know if they have those animals anymore, this is a childhood memory we
are mining here.) Could be the wretched pizza, the sticky floors, the
crying and the ultimate frustraton that is skeeball.
What the hell am I talking about? Well...
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