• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    I went to Disneyland in Orlando once … it was in the spring and it was a grey overcast and miserable day so we thought it would be a good time to go there because it wouldn’t be so busy.

    I got to the parking lot, saw the lineup stretching outside the gate with people standing in the rain and I thought … I’m not doing that.

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      You can’t see the gates from the parking lot. You’re saying you paid for parking, took the monorail to the entrance, and then decided not to go in because the front line was long?

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        This was 20 years ago … 1997/98? … holy shit that’s almost 30 years

        I don’t remember where we were or what we had to do. All I remember is that we pulled up in the car to try to figure it all out and all we could see was a long line of people in rain gear and I thought there is no way I’m going to stand in the rain to even start to go inside.

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      I’ll stick with Thomas Amusements in Newfoundland, thank you very much. The worlds most terrifying death traps available this side of the Atlantic. When the planes from 9/11 landed, tons of people were brought into homes all over. Mine included. The couple who stayed with us went with us to Thomas Amusements which is a traveling amusement park and about as safe as you’d imagine. They were horrified. I was thrilled.

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        Travelling amusements parks are the best … I’m in northern Ontario and I’ve been to lots of them over the years growing up. It’s an absolutely beautiful thing when you can see the grease bearings leaking all over the bright colour paint. That feeling of being locked inside spinning metal cages or being thrown around a mechanical apparatus that may or may not have had its safety check that year. And when you were inside one of those spinning metal boxes of death and you felt a bit of moisture, you had to wonder to yourself if it was from the rain the day before or the puke of a neighbouring passenger/victim. No better combination than to eat way too much sugar/fat/salty food with soda sugar water and then spin your body around in unnatural ways in questionable and unsafe machinery assembled by someone who failed high school shop class.

        Always gave me a laugh when I remember the Simpsons had … The Tooth Chipper