Community Activity:Carnival Stories

My guess is that all of us have been at a Carnival/Amusement Park/Fair. What happened there?

Nate Clone - That Time I Almost (Foop)ing Died
My middle school has a tradition of taking the students to an amusement park at the end of the year. It's pretty cool. There's food, a ferris wheel, and some roller coasters.

So anyway, last year my friends wanted me to go on a roller coaster. This coaster went incredibly fast, had about 17 loops, and was, in my friends words ¨The Ride That Turns Boys Into Men¨.

But since past Eddie is a complete moron, he accepted this death wish.

On the ride, like most rides, there was a slow rise before the drop. I got in my seat and, normally, there's these people who lock yourself in so you don't fly off your seat, but they weren't there for some reason. No problem, I'll just lock it myself and-.

It didn't lock.

I kept pushing the bar into the sockets but there's no click. And to make things worse, the ride BEGINS TO MOVE.

At this point I'm (foop)ing terrified, so I kept pushing.

And then, when the ride was about halfway up the hill, it stops and goes back to starting position. Apparently, people saw me struggling and stopped the ride. So then I was safe.

But then I realized after they locked the seat that I was still on the fastest ride at the park after eating fried dough.

So...what did I learn that day? Vomiting is much less painful than death.

Neptune- The swings
This story takes place at an actual carnival, so it has to be a good one.

Anyway, one day we were at the fall carnival because my families cousins invited us.

Keep in mind that at this point I have never been to an amusement park before, mainly because I was like 6 or 7 at this point.. (I went to my first the year after.) One of my cousins told me to ride the swings, which were their favorite.

Now what went wrong first was when my cousin was too short to ride. But, I was tall enough. I got in what looked like the safest seat.

Keep in mind that I had no clue what the swings did.

The ride operator latched me and everyone else on the ride to the seats. Then, shortly after, the ride started.

Now these particular swings didn't go extremely high up, or tilt, but they went decently high, and they went really far out while swinging. I knew none of this yet, so I thought it would be a nice easy ride.

Oh, was I ever wrong...

The ride went high up, the spun faster than I had ever been spun. That however, is not even close to the end. The swings went so far out that I passed the gate that kept everyone in place. The bars above me were creaking, and my cart started to wobble.

I looked below and saw the many people taking pictures. This is one of the only rides I have ever felt like I was going to die on.

I held my breath, closed my eyes, and waited for the ride to be over.

It lasted for what felt to me like a long time.

When I finally got off the ride, I ran back to my family. The ride operator did a safety check on the ride, then continued to run it.

I have been afraid of any kind of swings ever since.

Even though I have ridden roller coasters that go really high up so you can see the nearby lake, and rides that go upside down, I haven't ridden any kind of swings since!

Moothu - The horrifying ride
So I was at six flags new england, and my dad, my older sister, and I were going on this superman ride. The first thing that made me nervous was the lap bars. The workers put them on TIGHT. Then, there is the lift hill. A big lift hill. I could see the river next to the park. It then starts going down, and this is it. The drop goes 90 degrees straight down! I knew the ride had that, but it was not like I could ever imagine! I was screaming at the top of my freaking lungs! The drop was over, but the ride was not over yet. It went quickly 90 degrees up, and a few times over. Like a caterpillar. And I was done after that. No more roller coasters for the day. I did 2 tamer rides after, then my family went to the water park they had there, which was awesome. So the moral is: there isn't a moral.

Henry Hudson - :(
I had my mom go on an intense roller coaster with me when I was around 3-4 years old. But it turned out my mom was pregnant at the time, and........

Yeah, I don't feel like expanding much on this story.

P-dog - D:
When I was 10 I got a lot of cotton candy, and I ended up barfing a few hours later from eating too much

yoda
basically i spent all my money on the legos they sold at the stores and had no money for the rides

just nate
i go on rides

Happy
Basically I waited almost 1 hour on a ride that ended in less than three minutes.

Swasimcool
I spent a lot of money on carnival games and didnt win anything because its all RIGGED

TheYounglings
I dont like roller coasters so I just eat lmao

Ak
Basically what nate does lol.

Awq
Just The Norm. PIZZA

Garf
the worst of all. nothing bad has ever happened to me :O

CreeperBoy101
I went to a pier once, not because of rides and stuff, but to “sightsee”. Anyways, my parents let me have just one ride, but it’s better than nothing. There was a ride right next to the water, it had chairs and flung you around. I dont know WHAT made me want to go on the ride, but i just did. It started to spin, and spin and spin and spin, the chairs going up. There were a couple of girls there, one of them called the other a b*ch, who were screaming their heads off, but I put my head down, and started to silently swear, and, strangely, my last thought was of Big Nate- then the chairs detached and I went flying off with my brother who was on the ride with me and I died. Just kidding. I lived to tell the tale. Moral of the story? Don’t go on scary rides right next to sea.

-The End-

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One time I was eating cotton candy and this absolutely massive dust-storm (it was windy) just made the cotton completely inedible :(

Chase
Some guy dressed up like pennywise told me to go into a sewer.

Aee23
So once when I was like 6, I was going to the ferris wheel and I hated it and my mom was like right next to the guy who was running it and my mom was like, "STOP THE WHEEL!!!" and the guy didn't. Ouch.

Big Rafy
One time we went to a carnival i forgot where but it was sooooo fun but what I remember most fondly was when my sister saw a toy she really liked and I was able to win it for her I felt so proud that day.

MartSays
When I was visiting Japan, it was a season of this festival where there is a small carnival with food and dancing in the middle. We went to one literally every week.

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This girl threw up on me at a carnival. What a waste of cotton candy :(

Maple
I saved up all my tokens and did not go on any rides. Then, I played a game when you pick up a duck and I won so, I got a penguin. Don’t ask.

Obi
I used to work at an amusement park it was a nightmare. Screaming kids and parents all day long. Always this one time at work one of our stand leaders got stung by a bee and she was very allergic. She stumbled into to our stand crying because she didn't have an epi pen and then we were trying to help her and call security and medical then a customer yelled at us for not bringing them their pizza smh. She ended up being fine though.

Choowe
I once won a stuffed penguin years ago.

Cant
There was a rollercoaster I went to a couple years back. The kid in front of me vomited.