Avoid the Enchant Christmas event at T-Mobile Park

So the idea behind this event, for those who are not familiar, is that you take your whole family to this Christmas wonderland in order to experience the magic of the holidays and save Christmas together.

So you go into the Christmas maze together and you find the Christmas stars in a little bingo card. And once you find them all, you write three wishes on the back of the card and then you immediately leave with your whole family bickering and frustrated, while you passively aggressively demand everyone shut up because you wasted hundreds of dollars for this completely banal & shallow experience.

At Enchant Christmas, there are only three things for your family to do:

1) Stand in line for underwhelming experiences. 2) Stand in line to buy alcohol. 3) Take selfies & drink alcohol.

For what was advertised as a family event, it sure had hella alcohol all over the place and absolutely nothing to make it comfortable or fun for the kids-- and that is coming from someone who is and will always be child-free, so I am not even being a Karen about the event not being to my motherly standard; in fact, I was completely stoned the whole time which is the only reason I survived the experience.

My partner and I noted all the couples around us were bickering-- everyone was uncomfortable, underwhelmed, and feeling disappointed with the whole fiasco.

We saw piles and piles of discarded bingo cards, abandoned not even half-completed. It was as if everyone saw through the charade but was too embarrassed to get angry about what a disgusting cash grab that event was.

That event struggled to be mediocre, and the longer the time I spent there, the more and more convinced I was that we were somehow stuck in purgatory and we would only be able to escape if we completed the bingo card.

It didn't help that the bingo card for this disgusting cash grab was a scratch card like a lottery ticket, and as you scratched each section with these big ugly gold plastic coins thetered to flimsy tiny tables, some sort of big gold coin image would be slowly revealed that would help the participant 'save Christmas'-- I told my partner that Santa must have had signed his name to the grift and decided to drop his own cryptocurrency scam: the Santacoin.

I consider myself lucky to have such a beautiful partner that believes in holiday magic and still has a child-like sense of wonderment, and I absolutely will not stand anyone exploting him or anyone like him.

Do not ripped off by this event, and please tell everyone you know to avoid it like the plague.

It's not worth the lost time and money when everything is already so fucking expensive and we're so tired of working all the fucking time.