FUN STORIES!

[♥Comet..Adie♥]

I feel like this place was a little dead so I made a new thread
A thread about just random true stories. It can be anything, as long as it's true. It doesn't have to be serious, just anything.

Ever have an awkward day at the beach?
Trip down a flight of stairs?
Super glued your finger inside your nose?

Anything at all!

I have some nice little stories to begin with...

I was at the amusement park when I went to visit my friend Kimi from this forum, and so her brother and I decided to go on this ride she didn't feel like going on, called the X-treme swing. It was a ride where you get a lap belt over your seat, and like those ship-rides, yet it was individual seats instead of benches.

While waiting, I got extremely nervous and jittery, and when it was our turn, I sat in the seat second to the end, and I put the lap belt on. I noticed there was some wiggle room, so I freaked out a little, but my friend kept reassuring me that everything was ok.

The ride started and I literally had nothing to hold onto except the clasp that buckled you in. We were having a conversation and in the middle when the ride started, I started to FREAK out in the ride and scream. Since the ride is a "big swing", I noticed myself slip a little. I wasn't buckled in tightly, and I felt like I was literally going to fall out. You go 180 degrees out and stare at the floor, and it literally scared me to death.

Meanwhile, my friend is laughing and joking at me for being so scared. Me, trying to insult him on the ride tells him playfully that I hope he gets raped or something when we get off the ride.

When the swing goes up again, he is luckily in the direct spot where the sun was at the moment. So I'm screaming how I hate him, and he shouts" OW, THE SUN RAPED MY EYE!" And I laugh and scream the rest of the ride, still freaked out how I slipped a little.

As soon as we get off the ride the first thing he says to me is:
"You do know you can tighten your seatbelt, right?"

Major facepalm moment.

[GoldenFlither]

*laughs* Oh man, that's hilarious.

I gotta tell you, I hate those swinging rides. We have a couple of them at Canada's Wonderland, but there's this specific one called 'The Jet' or something like that. (They may've changed the name now that Paramount is no longer a sponser.) The pirate ship that only puts you horizontal to the ground is bad enough for me, but this Jet takes you all the way around until you're upside-down.

So one time, this being several years ago, I was finally convinced to give it a shot. Feeling daring, I went for it. We were strapped in pretty darn tightly, and that's what first got me paranoid: They were taking some pretty heavy precautions; how dangerous was it? Well, we got moving, I was already beginning to hate it, but the freakout session really began when we were upside-down. But not just for a second. We must've been upside-down for ten seconds at the least. Holy crap.

When we got off the ride, they turned to me and asked if I was all right. Apparently my face was pale, my hair was tangled and my arms, legs and neck were stiff. I must've been quite the looker. XD

[♥Comet..Adie♥]

i normally love those ship rides, as long as they don't go upside down. the one at my local park(Busch Gardens) doesn't go upside down, so it's really really fun and isn't that scary at all.

[Prettywitchiusaka]

I normally stay away from ship rides, or just anything that goes upside down, even if it's for a few seconds.

I don't really have any theme park stories from this year, with the exception of one; I was on my way to a water ride with my family (it was sorching ho t that day, and we wanted to cool off) when we decided to go on this Wooden Roller Coaster. We had to wait in line for at least ten minutes (they were only operating one cart), but we we had water with us, so we were able to keep ourselves hydrated.

As we got up in the line, my mother kept asking if we didn't liek this ride last year, but we kept saying that maybe it won't be so bad. Eventually, we got up the docking area of the carts. But before we got o go on, they closed the ride down to bring out the second cart. We waited for about five minutes, and then they let us on again. But upon getting off the ride, we decided never to go on that again due to the rickityness.

[♥Comet..Adie♥]

Continuing with the amusement park theme:

My freshman year of high school, my choir went on a trip to sing for this competition. On the way back, we passed an amusement park, and we got to go there.(The next year my school system banned amusement park trips.) My mom was chaperon, and so we we combined ourselves with another group. While like, most of the kids in our group wanted to go on the "big" rollercoaster that is now torn down because it was trying to defy gravity and whatnot, my mm pointed to a smaller coaster and said "that looks calm!" far away, the ride looks calm. So we all went on that ride, and it was anything but calm. My mom's picture on the ride is hilarious, and so are the others.

When we got off the ride, we told people what we rode. Turns out, that is one of the rides NO ONE ever goes on because it makes you feel like you'll fly off the edge.

That explains why the line was empty.