A friend of mine is turning 21 in about a month and we couldn't decide what to do. I came up with the idea of Chuck E. Cheese's after vaguely remembering that they have license to sell alcohol. I guess my question is why haven't I ever heard of grown men and women going to the former Showbiz Pizza for drunken ball pit ridiculousness?? Could this idea be flawed? How strict would they be on enforcing number limits on beer? On ID's for our under-21 guests? Or would Dave & Buster's be better?? PARTY TIME!!
Dave and Busters is going to be way better than Chucky Cheese's...where you might have to elbow out some little kids to play the games. Which suck compared to D&Bs games. DD
I'm still amazed that people in the usa cannot drink alcohol before 21. not that i drink alcohol, but in the Netherlands the people that drink most alcohol are between +/- 16 and 25.
It has a lot to do with our religious right, and the fact that our country is spread out...everyone lives in the suburbs, whereas the Netherlands, and most of Europe you can simply walk to the pub and then walk home or ride a bike.....not so much in the USA outside of the East coast. For some reason people think that you are more able to handle the responsibilities of alcohol at 21, than at 18.......now of course you can join the military and shoot people with a gun at 18...but not drink a beer in public. DD
The leading cause of death among teenagers in the US is drunk driving related deaths and so our drinking age is higher. It was 18 when my mom graduated from high school but on the other hand 3 people in her class died the they graduated. So to keep that from happening now, well at least more often, they've up the drinking age. It helps some but not really seeing as how the first time I got totally wasted I was 17. but alas, thats America for you.
So... astrorockette and DaDarkone, you're saying that the USA doesn't trust its own people and the Netherlands does? Same deal with Mexico, arno_ed... I guess they trust their citizens while Estados Unidos doesn't want someone to "sue" them for not doing anything about it.
and which one of us is the most powerful country on earth again? uhh, i'm guessing that's actually very true. that doesn't mean it should be 21, but that was a stupid argument against it. on the plus side, you were able to use the word "than" instead of "then" for once.
Which one "of us" ??? The same one that gave us Rosie O'Donnell, "freedom of speech" and Britney Spears? Call me when you can invade China successfully, MPCOE. Point being, I really despise the U.S.'s government dictating some age to do something. How do you know that 18-year-old isn't more mature than that 21-year-old? Seriously, though, I wouldn't recommend getting drunkard at Carlitos Queso.
Point well taken , I wanted to add a comment about Americans re-electing Bush as your president, but the dutch re-elected an bad primeminister DD i never thought about that. It is true that in Holland it is easy to walk to a pub.(or ride a bike). I organized a tennis tournament in the netherlands and a group of American teenagers came. They stayed for a week in my town. Those teenagers drank way too much alcohol. Since they were so happy that they could drink. They were really anoying for the families they stayed at(they stayed at dutch families so they coult see the dutch culture and it was cheaper for their organisation).
yeah, my 7 year old should be able to drive himself to school. how did a thread about Chuck E. Cheese turn into a US-bashing thread? there's a lot not to like about the US. but in this context, it's ridiculous.
My best friend actually had his 21st birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's. He said they enforced a strict two beers per person limit on everyone there. Furthermore, I've shown up already drunk (but not ****faced, beligerant, or making a scene at all) to a Chuck E. Cheese and asked for a beer and they told me they were completely out of beer (pretty sure they were lying), so if you want to get tanked...don't plan on it.
Ehh i think that i my fault . I think the problem is that for every person the age in which they are responsible enough to drink differs, so it is difficult to deterime an age when they are allowed to drink. However i think it is good to give teenagers responsibility of their own life(ofcourse with the help of their parents), that is they way to help them growing up in a responsibel adult. That being said i wasn't bashing the USA because of their age limit for drinking, I just find it funny that it is like it is.
[Mr. Herbert]Why don't we settle this like young and sexy teenagers? First one to finish this bottle of Tylenol PM wins.[/Mr. Herbert]
funny since my 21st birthday was on saturday we went to vegas, but one of my best friends couldnt make it so during the week he, two japanese exchange students (both were extremely cute) and I went to chuck e cheese's for my birthday. The two girls and I got pretty hammered before we went there and had a blast. There was one other family in the entire place (we went on a wednesday) so we pretty muched had the place to ourselves. The only thing I can remember from that night was I was standing on top of the skeelball putting the balls in the 50 slot to get the highest score and then dry humping one of the girls in the ball room. my friend, the sober DD told me later the employees could care less at what we did since no one else was there. it was fun, but if its the only 21st celebration you got going i would say do something else
Uh...OK, I'm all for thinking 'outside the box' when it comes to planning a drunkfest-type party, but Chuck E. Cheese's??
