After school today, we went to Sparkles. That is the skating rink $1.00 on Mondays. Maysen and Stockton usually have a great time skating around, but today, they were more interested in finding tokens under the various arcade games. Then you couldn't pull them away from the ticket prize booth. What's up with that? Stockton found a couple of tickets on the floor and he went and asked what he should do with them. The lady told him he could keep them. Stockton then noticed that there was a huge twisted mass of tickets....probably 600 in the garbage can. He pulled them out of the trash and went running towards the ticket counter machine. As he passed the prize redemption booth he shouted, "I found all these tickets in the trash!" He proceeded to untangle the tickets and feed them into the ticket counter machine. When the count was around 80, the manager walked up and asked them where they got the tickets. Stockton told him that he found them in the trash. The manager told him they pulled the tickets out of a broken machine and politely asked for them back. Luckily Stockton was okay with that.
Preston was funny. In order to go into the playland, he had to have a wrist band on. He kept his hand clenched into a fist almost the entire time he was there. I don't know if he thought the band would fall off if he opened his hand. It was quite funny to see him crawling up in the playland using only one hand.
Several lessons to be learned in this. Not the least of which is this one: when trying to be sneaky about getting a prize, don't yell "I found these in the trash" as you pass the prize counter.
ReplyDeleteActually, he wasn't really trying to be sneaky...he was just excited to have found the tickets.
Other lesson to be learned: If you run a ticket arcade, hide your discarded tickets somewhere else other than the big garbage can up front.