What if it's banditos shooting at us? What if we get kidnapped? What if we end up in a factory making Bart Simpson pinatas for the rest of our lives? !
So, we'll go in, we'll find Eddie and his friends, pick up a cake, go to pinata town, then we'll all go home, and I'll make everybody birthday noodles.
Because you are flashing back to every family event that ended with Dad whisper-screaming at Mom, " Would you calm down? " while she would swing her pocketbook around until it burst open like a pill-packed pinata.