It's only a ride

[beldarzfixon]

It’s only a ride, and soon it will stop

Comments

[baxaphobia]

This was a fun read! I love the Scrambler and other rides like it! that feeling of spinning almost uncontrollably!

[beldarzfixon]

Alas my body is too sensitive to movement to ride those again. But it was fun back in the day!

[myrna_bird]

I did not expect the ending paragraph but I Loved all your descriptions.
I still go on all those rides. I'm a little crazy!

[beldarzfixon]

Thanks. Wish I could still ride them. I'm still a demon in the bumper cars, though!

[beldarzfixon]

Just thinking through and remembering the sensation as I was writing this started to make me fell a little motion sick -- how bad is that? As a kid I did just fine with these kinds of rides, though.

I had the contrast with the last graph in mind as I was composing this, adding a time when you *do* want the ride to stop.

[audreybuttercup]

The tilt-a-whirl was the first carnival ride I was brave enough to go on. I've loved it ever since.

I would not love to be the person in the last paragraph though!

[beldarzfixon]

Don't know what this says about me, but my mind had gone first to the dark place, and everything was constructed with the last major paragraph in mind. I've been in car accidents and a couple of harmless whoops-slipped-off-the-road spinouts in which the surreal time-alter only-a-ride feeling kicks in, but nothing as severe as what I wrote, based on incidents I've known of in which the powerless rider in the back seat is the only survivor.

As for the rest, I tapped into my memories of many county fairs, amusement parks and minor theme parks where those truly were my favorite rides -- bumper cars being third. (The with-a-girl strategies were also my own, based on my own, um, experiments in the field)

[tatdatcm]

I liked the unexpected twist at the end.

[beldarzfixon]

Thanks!