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[quote=Anonymous]Well, initially I thought it would be easier than describing the ride, but with all the explanation, it didn't turn out that way.

It's a car ride on tracks, where you drive the car by pushing on a pedal.  It is supposed to stop when you stop pushing on the pedal, but the pedals are old and they stick, so sometimes you need to use your hand to pull the pedal up a little (which is very easy for an adult to do).  There are signs all over that say "No Bumping!" because the cars aren't designed for that--the ride operators allow a very big distance between each car so that there is minimal chance of collision.  The cars have no cushioning and only a very loose lap belt, so if someone runs into you, you really jerk forward and back and hit the hard plastic seat really hard (and the seat doesn't have any head support, so your neck whiplashes a little).  We were stopped on the tracks because the person 2 cars in front of me was having difficulty with her car.  You could see the backup from almost the beginning of the track, so the woman had PLENTY of time to stop her car before ramming into us.  As I said, I've been on the ride probably at least 100 times before and I've only been hit twice.  The other time it was by a 10 year old boy who rammed into us at the end of the ride.  (I said something to him too -- just nicely "No bumping!  Be sure to stop!")  That time, it really twerked my back and I had to take a lot of Motrin.  This time, I wasn't really hurt very badly because I could totally see that the woman was going to run into us, so I held my child and braced both of us for the impact.

We've been going to that amusement park for almost a decade, and whenever I have one of those experiences, I'm like "We have to stop coming here."  And then I have to remind myself that there are people like that everywhere, and you can't let them get you down.   [/quote]

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