Dining Hall, ca. Spring 1997
[Emma, Sach, Meron, and Jim are seated at a table eating dinner together]
Emma: Does this pizza taste like Chuck E. Cheese’s?
Sach: Yeah.
Meron: What’s that?
Sach: Do you have those in Florida?
Emma: It’s like an amusement park for kids where you go and get like cheese pizza.
Meron: An amusement park where you get pizza?
Sach: It’s like a restaurant with a bunch of like playthings in it.
Jim: Yeah. It’s like McDonald’s Playland, but like to the tenth power.
Emma: You can go there for hours.
Sach: And all these fuzzy characters put on shows.
Meron: You’re kidding.
Sach: No, they’re all on stage.
Jim: It’s just a big place where you have birthday parties.
Emma: Chuck E. is a mouse.
Jim: He really likes cheese.
Sach: His name is Chuck, then his middle initial is E. and his last name is Cheese. Chuck E. Cheese.
Meron: [Looks disbelievingly at Sach]
Sach: I’m serious.
