Je Vais Prendre Soin de Vous

Remember that one time this past Monday when I had to spend three hours at McDonald’s for work and it was as entertaining as when you get a Highlights for Children® magazines in a waiting room and it’s already all highlighted by children of yore? Yeah, me too.

I had to do the same thing today. Except this time it was at Culver’s. Which, apparently, is a whole different freaking world. We’re talking opposite ends of the spectrum here:

Mick Duh’s: Three slow, quiet, awkward, sad hours consisting of marinating in the smell of Quarter Pounders, and sitting there with your sorry looking President’s Day coloring pages, raking in a whopping seven children in said three hour span.

Culvizzle’s: Three nonstop, ever-moving, loud, rambunctious party hours consisting of a hula hoop contest, doing The Twist, face painting, a snarky and weird and borderline rude clown making balloon animals, the owner MC-ing the entire event, and upwards of 50+ children stopping at my table making hats out of paper plates, and paper cutouts of stars and hearts.

Freaking frick it was nuts.

BUT. It was really freaking fun! I really enjoyed it! I got a little weary during the last hour though and zoned out a few times, but it was still overall really cool!

The highlight though, was that, okay, so my station or whatever was meant to be for making the paper hats, right? Well, I personally got a little bored of those, so I wanted to broaden my horizons. So I found biggish sheets of paper in the box of stuff I had with me, so I laid those out for the kiddies to color and draw and glue the hearts/stars or whatever.

So, when I had a quick minute and wasn’t helping anybody, I took a piece of paper and a crayon and drew Mickey Mouse, naturally.

Soon, BAM!

“CAN YOU DRAW ME A MICKEY?!” “I WANT A MICKEY!” “CAN DRAW MICKEY ME FOR PLEASE!” “MICKEY!” “ASDFHKALSDJFL!”

So, next thing you know, I’m a freaking Disney artist drawing Mickey Mice for a bunch of lined up children!

Then, I opened a new flood gate when this little girl asked me to draw Minnie for her. I drew Mickey with eyelashes and a bow, and then BAM ROUND TWO with the Minnies!

I even stepped it up and asked their names, wrote them next to the drawing, then signed them in Mickey or Minnie’s signatures!

Your Pal,

Mickey Mouse

or

Love,

Minnie Mouse

xoxo

HA HA! I know right?! I’m so freaking awesome! Look at me! Making Magical moments for the kiddies. Not ONE of them didn’t know who Mickey or Minnie were, or didn’t like Disney! I also got to have a short conversation with a little girl who had a Disneyland shirt on.

OH! And this one girl was like “Can you draw me Goofy or Pluto or Daisy or Donald?!” And it was at that moment when I thought to myself…….I need to learn to draw Goofy and Pluto and Daisy and Donald.

It was just a really fun time. And I thought it was cool to spread a little Disney Magic tonight.