The_TXT_Dumpster- baby-day-out - Baby's Day Out

author:Justin "RFS" Bardin

 

         It was about 9 years ago, maybe more. It had to be a while back though, because my mom hadn't finished all of her college classes. My dad was working all day for that particular week. I don't exactly know why my grandparents couldn't watch me. Maybe Nanny was sick, I don't remember. However I do remember I spent a week in day care after school for about 2 hours every day while mom was at school.

         That was some kinda hell. The day care center has long been dead since those days, good riddance. A skatepark now occupies a room where I saw a kid try to skateboard on a firetuck toy only to eat tile instead. Someone probably is rollerblading on the same place where I hid under the wooden deck playing with remote controlled cars.

         However the thing I will most remember Kids Castle Daycare Center for is the time we all crowded into two blue Chevrolet vans to go see Oliver & Company at the local (also now dead) cinema. Cinema 35 it was called, and it had one screen. They hauled us to the movies and its one screen glory to see that animated movie whose advertising song was that damn "Walking On Sunshine" if I remember right.

         Out of the 20 someodd kids that were taken there, I only knew one of them. He wasn't a close friend of mine, just someone I knew. His name was Waylann Haskell, I haven't seen him in forever either. Now that I think of it, he was a pretty swell guy. The ride over was hell, the movie theater was about 5 miles from the daycare, and there were 10 kids in either Chevy van. It was like the Holocaust, just instead of taking us to the gas chamber they took us to Oliver & Company... which is pretty much the same thing so I'll just run with Holocaust.

         I don't even remember the movie, I just remember using the dollar my mom gave me to buy some candy and dicking around with Waylann the whole time. We had a special "VIP" section, which was really just the middle 3 rows of seats sectioned off with masking tape. Still, being able to go into an area marked "RESERVED" is cool nonetheless. It's like sitting down and announcing to everyone "Yeah, this is my spot".

         The movie ended, and we all stood up to leave. Well, Waylann had to use the bathroom, so I stuck around and waited on him. We went out into the lobby to catch up with the group of kids, and what do you know, a group of 18 kids and 2 fat women is nowhere to be seen! Waylann didn't seem to notice, he was reading the "Coming Soon" poster for the movie "Baby's Day Out" and seemed over-fucking-joyed about it.

         I was about six years old, alone with Waylann who didn't know they left without doing a head count. I told him and he almost shit his pants (good thing he was just in the bathroom). We got the bright idea to see if they really did leave, because you know, maybe they are all in the bathroom right now and we just missed them on the way out. The two blue vans are missing, they fucking left without us.

         I don't remember the time, I just remember telling the manager the stupid daycare left us behind, so the manager said we could go watch the next showing of Oliver & Company while he called the daycare to tell them two kids were fucking left behind. It took them the duration of half the goddamn movie to get their asses back to Cinema 35.

         This one is for you Kids Castle. Fuck you.

- Justin "RFS" Bardin