[lily the walrus]

This is to keep busy whilst we await the arrival of tall supports.

Here is one of my favorite moments:
This past April, at SFGA, as my brother and I were waiting to get off the old wooden coaster next to El Toro (can't remember the name of it but the train got stuck a few feet from the platform so we had to sit there for a few minutes), we watched in morbid fascination while this maybe 7 year old kid with thick glasses and a hoodie scrunched up real tight over her head licked the horizontal metal pieces on the queue gate she and her father were standing at waiting to board. I mean, she was licking the entire length of the top railing--baaaack and forth, baaaack and forth, then she started in on the next one down. Her dad was totally oblivious as he chatted with someone else. Every few moments, she would pause and catch the eye of me and my brother, give us this weird maniacal-looking grin, and start licking again....baaaack and forth, baaaack and forth. Thank God the kid's mom wasn't there, she probably would have had a heart attack. Just think of the hands and feet that have been on those railings....or maybe it's best not to. Anyhow, we just about couldn't get out of the train we were laughing so hard. Ick.

[CarolinaCoasterFreak]

^ Mine doesn't beat that for sure, and mine is not exactly funny, more like the stupidity of a kid. Last year on one of the education days, my 7th grade went to Carowinds. After my group rode Afterburn 5 times without getting off (the park had just opened, no line at all), a kid in my group puked right at the bottom of the stairs. But he didn't stop there. After the stench of it nearly made me sick (I felt bad the rest of the day) he proceeded to puke on:

Thunder Road- ( 2 rides, 2 times)
The Cobra- (once)
The Hurler- (ironic)

Anyway, then we had lunch. He had cheese fries. Really. Cheese fries. I'm not making this up. Anyway, since we all know these will make your stomach feel much better, by the end of the day he had he thrown up NINE TIMES. Why didn't he wait it out at the exit on anything? Beats me. If not for the free water he would have collapsed from dehydration. I almost felt sorry for him before he ate the cheese fries. Ugh, the memory even makes me queasy....

[lily the walrus]

^ Mine doesn't beat that for sure, and mine is not exactly funny, more like the stupidity of a kid.

Wow!
1. Actually, that was funny enough to make me laugh out loud. (thought I'd spell all the words out for a little excitement)
2. Stupidity of a kid? Yes, I'd agree. But my question is where was the dang TEACHER amid all that puking?!
3. His dedication to his sport in the face of such great adversity is truly breathtaking.
4. I'm very surprised there wasn't mass hysterical vomiting by other park-goers.

[CarolinaCoasterFreak]

^ Teachers stay at the north entrance so you get them if you get separated from your group or something goes wrong. She forced him to drink a couple bottles of water when she found out what happened. In answer to number 4, most of the umm... stuff... was in secluded places, except for Thunder Road ( Right next to the brake run) and Top Gun at the bottom of the steps, so not many people could smell it or see it, and go into the frenzy you described. I didn't ride the Cobra so I don't know what part that was. Apparently he hadn't ridden a coaster at Carowinds before. None of us knew that though.