Every year there is a carnival type thing in my area. Its massive. Everyone goes and everyone thinks its the best thing to arrive on this universe. Its not. A few rides, some show bag, some stalls and 100000’s of people. Thats about it.
I was sooo not going to go this yr, considering that i have nooo money and there is a $10 entry fee and an expectation to go on alllll the super scary, vomit renching, head spinning, killing machine rides. Instead i was FORCED to go. I literally had no say in the matter. My mum practically chucked me in the car and dropped me off in front of the gates, leaving with a “have fun” and a $50 note. Oh well at least i had money. I was not happy though.
The first thing i saw upon walking into the gates was a massive ride thing. It towered 100000000000 of meters above the ground. Ok it was more like 50 metres, but thats still very tall. It was the most scariest ride that i have ever seen in my life! It involved going upside down and spining and twisting and all this other crap. My first thought was “ahhhhh” second though was “the is no way in the universe that i am going on that”. It was then forgotten
I eventually found my friends and we walked around for a bit, ate some chips, and went on some scary little spinny ride. We were just walking around when the next thing i knew we were standing in front of THE RIDE, the SCARIEST ride in the UNIVERSE. I was like huhhh????
They were going on! It was at that point i had come to the conclusion that my friends had a serve mental problem which stopped them from thinking properly. I tried to talk them out of it, but they ignored my naisaly voice, paid their $15 and lined up. That exact moment some thing in my mind clicked. I had a sudden rush of adreniline and i ran over to pay. I WAS GOING ON!
The man gave me a encouraging little smile as i handed over my $50. My head was spinning, my heart was pounding a 100000 beats a second. Thats proberly why i didnt hear the grumpy old man giving me my $50 back. It was apparently ripped so he therefore could not accept it. My rush of adrenaline was gone.
I walked over to stand by myself in the corner and watched as my friends were about to hand them selves over to death. I was day dreaming about all the scary things that could happen, you know just fall through the bars, the ride breaking of and flinging into space, stuff like that, when my friend ran over 2 tickets in her hand. she had bought a ticket for me! I was too scared to appreciate how nice that was and instead planted my feet in the dirt as she tried to pull me to the ride. I no longer wanted to go on, but for the second time that day i was being forced to do something that i didnt want to. I finally gave in when all the eyes in the proximity of the ride were on me. It was rather embarrassing, so a shakily made my way up the stairs to to the platform, where my other friends were about to get on the ride.
Eventually it was our turn, and i literally felt like crying. I sat down on the cold, hard chair and waited as the metal bars pressed down upon my chest, stopping me from escaping. all my friends were laughing “this is going to be fun” they said. HOW THE HELL CAN THAT BE FUN? HOW?
The ride eventually started moving, which is when i started screaming, and i dont think i stopped the entire time. Im pretty sure it went upside down 1000 times. I just flipped and flipped and flipped. Most of the time i felt like falling out of my seat and dying, but thank God that did not happen. Eventually the ride ended, and i was the first to run off. My body felt like jelly, my knuckles were sore from holding on so tight and i had no voice from screaming so much. My friends were talking about how fun that was and i felt like punching them in the face as it was anything but fun.
The rest of the night I walked around, tricked a young ice cream girl into accepting my $50, and reminisced about the time that i almost died.
