yeah i realize not everyone got to go to mcdonald's

I kinda wonder if I should be mad at my parents that I never got to experience chucky cheese.

Maybe it was coordinated so people didn't bring diapers to the shower. I don't know.

The one party I've been to, I don't think anyone needed an excuse. I'm single and a decent amount of people at this party were too. It was more of just having an actual coordinated plan since the majority of people were driving 4 hours to spend a weekend in town. Just like any other party a good amount of people at the party weren't my friends. This wasn't just like 6 bros wanting to hang out with each other.

dbz,

I never got to experience it either, I'm not mad at my parents, but there is a tiny hole in my soul because of it. Part of my probation is i'm not allowed near one, so I'll probably never get to fulfill that dream.

i definitely attended parties at showbiz pizza (then a competitor to chuck e. cheese). not sure if i had one of my own. but def very cool for 8-year olds.

Well, let's be honest, there's a certain age at which you shouldn't hide in the ball cage and you exceeded that by about 20 years

This is what men used to do in the olden days, before fathers got dragged into the delivery room.

idk delivery room never bothered me at all, esp since on 1-10 scale my wife needed me there at 9.5 and my annoyance at it was at maybe 2? seemed like a no-brainer

FYS - fixed your spoiler

That is so incredibly mysterious. You are not allowed near a chucky cheese as a part of your probation. After that I had to look-up what is this chucky cheese. And it got only more mysterious. Have you ate to many pizzas? Got to excited playing some games there?

I mean you probably are not allowed to answer, but that is sooo mysterious.

I can remember at least two other ones here.

But why? It is not good. I mean there are a bunch of women a part of which is single. You will be as a guy there in a minority. You can totally try to be charming and cool and make a few contacts that could develop into something more. General rule of a thumb is that if you want some kind of relationship with other sex go places where there is a high concentration of other sex. You should strive as single guy to get invited to such parties.

Pretty sure you would be considered extremely creepy and/or weird to go there as a single male, so no shot with the ladies. Not that anyone would invite you (as a single man) anyway, and inviting yourself to baby showers seems pretty meh.

Single guys invited to a lot of baby showers are exactly the kind of guy all women publicly say they would want but really don't. Except as friends. No benefits.

a baby shower is for a woman who is having a baby to invite other women to. sometimes these invited women bring their partner.

there is no room in the math for a single dude to be there. inviting yourself is impossible to pull off without being very very weird

A gay guy could get away with it.

I think I just said that.

but dkgo didn't

since it's completely irrelevant in the context of discussing "using baby showers to pick up women"

true

I think I had my birthday party at the local bowling alley for 6 or 7 consecutive years as a kid

my go-to spot was LASER TAG

Was never brought to Chuck E. Cheese / Showbiz Pizza as a child. Resented it a great deal. Have had to go to several children's birthday parties there in the last 10-ish years. My parents were right. That place is an inner circle of hell.

Standard Chuck E. Cheese clientele / behavior:

counterpoint: showbiz had the usa vs. ussr hockey game

Had some star wars action figures as a kid, but stuff like tie fighters, AT/AT (oh how young chopstick longed for one of those), slave 1, etc were mostly out of the question. Did get the M Falcoln one year which almost resulted in a brain aneurysm I was so happy. Anyway my solution to no vehicles was to punch a hole in the top of the McD's styro containers and use those as space ships. Watch out, Luke! Two incoming fish o' filet fighters dead ahead!

On the plus side, there were some spectacular crashes and explosions that way.

Did eventually pick up both slave 1 and an AT/AT many years later as an adult at garage sales. And the rancor pit monster, my GOAT star wars toy. Still have the rancor.

Couples who have coed baby showers are the same couples who have joint Facebook accounts, right?