The girls' school had their "Fall Festival" this evening, which really meant that the parents got to be put in the high pressure situations of working carnival-like booths while practially every kid in the school comes by to give you tickets and play the game at your booth.
Fortunately, the booth the ex and I worked was fairly tame this year. Just a football toss through a target for a prize type of thing. The worst was back in first grade when we worked a hair-coloring booth where we got to color kids hair pink and purple and green, etc. Our hands were those colors for days afterward, and let's not forget the smell.
Speaking of hair coloring, Shelby got hers colored red. I suggested she get it color brown instead, but that didn't work. The girls also won something like five gold fishes between the two of them, which will go into the aquarium at their mother's house.
The surprising turn of events to me was that Shelby was the conservative one with her game tickets. The girls got ten dollars worth of tickets each (which equals 30 tickets; games range from 2-4 tickets), and Darby burned through hers in five or ten minutes, whereas Shelby made hers last the duration of time that we were there. I would have expected that to work the other way around.
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