Beady Thanks and OT (Six Flags)

Lord, save me from that one!

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

Yikes! I don't think you could pay me enough to ride that! Heck I'm not even sure if there enough Swarovskis to get me on it!

I am such a roller coaster junky. There aren't enough upside downs for me. You get that moment of weightlessness if you are going fast enough like you are in space. Did you feel that? So freaking cool. I'll go roller coasting all week long if someone wants to go with me. DH has never ridden one and refuses to ride them.

I think I'm getting old or something. I've started to get dizzy on some rides. I used to love the swings, but thought I was going to pass out, at first, when I got on that one. I thought, great, here I did the Superman, but I was going to faint and they were going to have to stop the ride and pull my limp body out of the swing!

I used to LOVE roller coasters, but I'm wondering if those days may be numbered!

What was funny was when we were in lines for other rides, we'd here these kids (always boys, usually around 12 or so) talking about some of the roller coaster and I'd turn and ask them about that one (there's a bunch at 6 flags) and then I'd ask them if they'd done the Superman or if it was a scary as the Superman, and they'd tell me they hadn't done it and were so impressed that I had. Lol!

And, after doing that thing, we'd look at some of the other rides we'd been afraid of and go, "You know, that really doesn't look so bad.........."

I can't stand rides that go in a circle. Even carousels make me a little wobbly. But I LOVE anything that goes fast and forward! Coasters rock!!!! When they stop being fun, it may be time to make my final bow.

KarenK

I love them I love them I LOVE them. I had to quit them when I injured my back in '87. Dammit! What a groove they are. :-D ~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

Heehee... you reminded me of that time.... I was an idiot and stood at the end of a runway when a plane was landing! I never hit the dirt so fast in my life LOL and vowed and declared I would NEVER do that EVER again! DH thinks it was so cool and cracks up laughing every time he is reminded of it... Says all he can remember is the soles of my feet!

Mavis

Lol! I think that would would have done me in!

Damn near did me in! LOL I seriously put my neck out that night...

It was this lone air field at the back of beyond - no lights or anything. The air ambulance was coming in and we had to go and put out the lanterns to guide it in.. Needless to say, those lanterns don't put out much light and some bright spark thought if we drove to the end of the runway and shone the headlights down the runway then the plane could land easier. However, that posed a slight problem because the tail - lights are red! not green! and red lights indicate that the plane is at the wrong end of the runway.... so guess who volunteered to stand in front of the red tail-lights!

Now, in the black pitch of night, imagine this plane drone and seeing these blinking lights coming towards you.. getting closer.. getting closer.. getting very close.. OMG I'M GONNA DIE TONIGHT!!!!!

Scared the living crap outta me, it did!! I seriously can't think of anything I have ever done to equal it in fear value.

Mavis

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from AmazeR :

]Now, in the black pitch of night, imagine this plane drone and seeing ]these blinking lights coming towards you.. getting closer.. getting ]closer.. getting very close.. OMG I'M GONNA DIE TONIGHT!!!!! ] ]Scared the living crap outta me, it did!!

trust me - i understand completely! when i first moved to Sacramento, a friend went with me the first time i went to get goats milk for my two youngest, so i wouldn't get lost. and on the way home, she had me take a different route that would be shorter.

visualize a very narrow two lane road with 55mph traffic going both ways. and i had NO idea where we were. but i heard a noise and looked to my left DIRECTLY INTO THE HEADLIGHTS of a HUGE incoming plane!

i d*mned near had a heart attack on the spot. as it was, i barely managed to keep the car on the pavement. i swear his wheels just barely missed the top of my car. i know now it was an optical illusion, but that didn't do my heart any good at the time. turns out we were at the end of the landing strip for the AF Base. and she knew exactly where we were, but never thought to clue me in beforehand.

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