00:03I feel like a terrible person.
00:07Oh, jeez.
00:08Jeff, we're here for you.
00:10What happened?
00:12I had the ultimate dad fail.
00:15Listen, I've only been doing this for three years, okay?
00:18You're new.
00:19You're new, and you need to give yourself grace because mistakes will be made.
00:23You know, they say in, like, job applications, sometimes you need, like,
00:27five to seven years of experience in the industry, and I'm not even close to that.
00:33Imagine that.
00:34You're in charge of a human with zero experience.
00:36They just let us leave the hospital.
00:39I was like, I don't know what I'm doing.
00:41It's insane.
00:42And that was three years ago, and then now we have another one at home.
00:46And no one prepares you for that.
00:47Oh, my gosh.
00:48You could say that again.
00:51So, ultimately, our daughter McKinley just turned three.
00:55She's in swim class.
00:57And she's been struggling, but she's been every single week pounding the pavement,
01:02working hard, trying to get better, and trying to get over, you know,
01:05doing the back float where the water is in your ears, and she hates that feeling,
01:08and we're working on it.
01:09It's not a good feeling.
01:10No.
01:10Yeah, right, right.
01:12Being that my wife is a former teacher, she always has creative ways of, you know,
01:17encouragement.
01:17So, we started a starboard.
01:20Every time she does good at swim class, or is a good listener, or does something that
01:25we ask of her more than just, you know, clean up your toys, she might get a star.
01:29Nice.
01:29Well, it all timed out that the final two stars, if she did two back floats perfectly
01:37without crying at swim class, she would get two more stars, which would put her over the
01:42limit of the star jar, which would then allow her a full day at Sesame Place.
01:48Wow.
01:50And guys, it's been like, it's taken us like six weeks to fill the star jar, and she has
01:55been so ready for this.
01:56She loves Elmo, and Abby Cadabby, and Big Bird, and Oscar, and all of the friends at Sesame
02:02Place.
02:03So, finally, she fills the star jar.
02:06She starts school next week, so we're like, we gotta get this done.
02:09Yes.
02:10So, we get in our car, all four of us.
02:13Oh, no.
02:14We pack for the day.
02:16Strollers.
02:17Sunscreens.
02:17We drive out to Langhorne, about 50 minutes from our house, and when we pull up, I notice
02:25that it's not very busy.
02:27It's a little overcast.
02:28Oh, no.
02:29I realize the preferred parking lot is open, not the general admission.
02:33I said, I don't have to pay a little more for that.
02:34And I turn around, and there's two cars in the biggest parking lot you've ever seen, and
02:39then there's us, the third car.
02:41Oh.
02:42And starting on September 1st, Sesame Place goes to weekends only.
02:47Oh, no.
02:48And we arrived at Sesame Place on September the 1st, a Tuesday.
02:54Oh, no.
02:56Dude.
02:58I, guys, six weeks.
03:00I'm so sorry.
03:01Six weeks of, when you fill your star jar, Sesame Place, Sesame Place this, Sesame Place
03:06that.
03:08Emily immediately opens her phone.
03:10It's like, oh, my gosh.
03:10Oh, my gosh.
03:11There's no way.
03:11There's no way.
03:11There's no way.
03:12And she figures out the news.
03:14We're pulling up.
03:15We have no idea what we're going to say to her.
03:17She's all excited.
03:18We're going to Sesame Place.
03:19We're going.
03:19Let's get out of the car.
03:21Oh, gosh.
03:23And Emily burst into tears.
03:25Oh, no.
03:26Immediately.
03:27Yeah.
03:27She's like, baby, I'm so sorry.
03:30Like, mommy and daddy made a mistake.
03:32Like, we didn't know that they would be closed today.
03:35Wow.
03:36She owned it.
03:37See, I would have said there was an emergency.
03:39There is an emergency.
03:41They had to close.
03:43This is no one's fault, babe.
03:45This is no one's fault.
03:46Well, you are still going to have a great day today.
03:48We're going to find something else to do, and we will come back to Sesame Street.
03:52I would never have accepted.
03:54Oh.
03:55Oh, God bless you guys.
03:56Yeah, 100%.
03:58I think you lie there.
03:59We were devastated.
04:01And Emily was like, she took the lead on it, and I just had to follow.
04:06There were some floral Elmo's and Big Bird and Snuffy, and so we took pictures with them.
04:14We got to hold Elmo's flower hand.
04:17Oh, my gosh.
04:18It was very cute.
04:19So you got out of the car and walked around just the exterior.
04:23Well, Emily had to feed the baby, and so now we're in an empty parking lot with another dad who's
04:29like, yeah?
04:29And I'm like, yeah.
04:30Oh, no.
04:31It's been bad.
04:32Yeah.
04:32So we're just here relating to these other parents who clearly made the mistake that we made.
04:38Oh, gosh.
04:39Oh, no.
04:39It was devastating.
04:40Oh, man.
04:41That's devastating.
04:43Hilarious.
04:43I mean, awful.
04:44I'll be able to laugh about it in like 10 to 12 business years, maybe.
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