It was an emotional roller coaster
I was just along for the rides.
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I'm still in absolute awe over this. For years, I was in the upper 300s. I went on a trip to San Diego my junior year of college and was mortified when I had to ask for a seatbelt extender on every leg of the flight. I had gotten used to not even trying to ride rides at amusement parks and disguising it as fear.
After college, I started my weight-loss journey. I got VSG in 2016 and am down about 110-120 overall, depending on the month.
Last week, I went to the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Colorado. I hopped on every single ride without issue and had room to spare. I was soaring out over the canyon, secure in my seat. No one gave me the side-eye "will she fit, wont she fit?" stare I had become accustomed to. No one pointed me towards a "larger seat." And no one crushed my internal organs trying to get the restraints to fasten. My heart is still so full.
I just had to share.
Basically, it would be cool if there was a rip of either the Amusement Park theme from Tomodachi Life in the style of the Gold Saucer theme from ffvii, or vice versa.
Currently in Vorarlberg, Austria for a semester abroad (I’m from Philadelphia, PA). I was wondering what amusement parks are worth a trip to? I know of Europa Park and Gardaland but that’s about it. Are there any other amusement parks that are smaller or more of a hidden gem?
Might go to a few parks in the Spring and Summer.
Mobile, you get the idea.
Recently, my family, my uncle, and one of my cousins went to an amusement park called Kentucky Kingdom and Hurricane bay after a family vacation. It’s located in the Kentuciana area or between Kentucky and Indiana.
Here’s the cast:
EM: you know it Me: Goose_Monkey95 W: amusement park ride worker EK: take another guess
During the day my cousin and my older brother were just walking around the park looking for something to do. We decided to go on a ride called cyclos. The ride spins you around while swinging you like a pendulum in full 360• circles.
As my brother, cousin, and I step up on the ride EM sits next to me. We lock ourselves in and W comes around to check us.
Now EM wears glasses, just a heads up.
W: EM, can i take your glasses from you and your child, we don’t want them to fall off and possibly hurt someone.
EM: They ain’t never fall off, I’ve been on this ride before.
EK: Yea
W: For the safety-
EM: I DONT CARE!
At this point i was fed up and gave an eyeroll unfortunately this caught EM’s Eye.
EM: Dont give me that boy!
Me: what?
Em: i need my glasses! i can’t see with out them!
Me: you don’t need them on this ride
EM: YOU dont Need to be on this ride!
As you would expect I was confused.
EM: (turns to W) get him off the ride he is abusing me!
W: ( turns to EM) get out please.
Em: FiNe ILl LeAvE!
After she left we went through the ride, a while later i saw her arguing with another worker, this time though she slapped him and got thrown out of the park.
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People make it seem like child abuse if you refuse to take your kids there. Like oh yeah, theyll be soooooo deprived because they couldn't make me go to some shit "amusement" park (which is actually just an overpriced outdoor mall). Basically child abuse. I dont know how any kid survived being brought up before Disney existed.
Sure I'll take them to real amusement parks, just not places that socially engineer your kids to want to go there and then shaft you on prices and underdeliver and make other people try to guilt you into doing it.
Disney was literally the biggest disappointment of my childhood. I thought it was going to be awesome based on how people described it. I thought there were going to be real cartoon characters and tons of rides. What I got were costumed actors that hated their job, the small world ride, a mediocre haunted house, and a moving bench with a voice over of Ellen degeneres talking about dinosaurs. And no, the monorail doesn't count as a ride.
So this want too big of a deal but I was pretty shocked that it happened at all. Yesterday we went to a major amusement park in Orlando. We went with my husband’s cousin, her husband and 3 year and then my husband, 1 year old and 3 year old. The 3 year olds want to go on a train ride that they had so my husband offered to take them and wait in line with them so they could get on. The rest of us waited outside the gate. So once it was their turn they went up to the front of the train to get on with another little boy about their age. The front of the train can fit 4 kids. Out comes entitled mom. “No No, he can’t ride with anyone else! We’ve been waiting and I want him to ride by himself!” My husband grabs our son and his cousin and takes them back off the train to find another seat but by this point the ride is full. So he takes them back in line. He asks the ride operator what that was all about and if the boy has a disability or something. The entitled mom snaps at my husband that her son is not disabled or special needs or anything but that he just doesn’t like to be around other kids (you’re at a theme park lady!?!). My husband isn’t wanting to fight with this lady and instead turns to our kids to tell them they can go next. They were obviously pretty upset. The rest of us are watching this from outside the ride and just assumed that maybe he was special needs. The whole time the ride is going this entitled mom is rushing around the outside of the ride taking pictures of her son, pushing people out of the way who were trying to take pictures of their own kids. When the ride stopped, rather than thanking my husband for allowing her son to ride by himself she grabs her kids and walks off. My son and his cousin got to ride next and sat with 2 other kids on the ride as well. My husband came out and told us the full story. I was pretty shocked that someone would act like that. And seriously, if your kid doesn’t like other kids, don’t go to the theme park and hang out in the little kid areas. But don’t ruin everyone else’s good time.
So I went to an amusement park a while back with some friends. It’s a huge one that’s based on an Irish crisp. So I’ll call my friends M and A for short. I’m me and you know who EM is.
Me, M and A went and got in the line for the roller coaster. It’s the best! As we’re standing there, we notice a woman with a kid who literally was way below the mark for tall enough. Apparently EM wasn’t fond of 3 teens on the ride with her and turned to us.
EM: aren’t you a bit old for this ride? You shouldn’t be here
A: we can ride if we want
M: yeah. Mind your business and we will kind ours thank you
Me: besides. Aren’t youuuu a bit old for this ride?
EM begins flipping out while we stand there smiling. She and the kid get kicked out of the queue because the kid was measured and was too little for it. You gots to be like 1.2M or some shit. So EM began yelling at the attendant who looked about 19, not much older than me (17 at the time)
EM: this is a rip off! I demand a refund. My baby wanted to go on the roller coaster. You’re just some dumb bitch unable to go to college.
Me: kids grow. Come back another time. And another thing, there’s no college during summer
Edit: forgot to change something. Thanks to the person who mentioned it
So, I’m pretty tall. 6’5” to be exact. Im certainly not the tallest alive but still a good bit taller than most people I think.
Because of that, people (mostly complete strangers) constantly ask me how tall I am or if I play basketball. If/when they find out I swam it’s “you probably take 2 strokes and are across the pool!”
Well that gets old pretty quick so instead of responding with “I’m six foot five,” I decided to have some fun and I started to give indirect answers. The questioning usually goes something like:
Stranger- “Wow! How tall are you?”
Me- “tall enough to ride all the rides at Disney world”
Stranger- “well duh, so am I!”
Me- “haha cool”
And I rarely actually answer them anymore. So, AITA?
