this is a great forgotten story that has never been put in blog form
it's a good one
and it's all true
Ok so it's October 2007
Paul had mentioned that in Port Lavaca there is a fall carnival
for some reason I was all about it
I was stupid about going to this fall fun fare
but as usual I had double booked myself the sat that it came to town
I was supposed to co-host the Three Man Ego Trip's Dark Side of the Rainbow Halloween Party at the Den's backyard
but I didn't want to cancel the carnival
So during the Day I set up the back yard and in the early evening I called Raul and The Madness and invited them
So we drive to Port Lavaca and meet Paulie at the carnival
Erik mentions to me that he's been to theme parks but never to a carnival
I couldn't believe it
What a treat!!
ha ha just kidding
so when we get there me and Madness buy some tickets for the rides
I notice Raul and Paulie didn't buy any
so I called them on it
they said they don't ride rides
so Madness and I proceed to ride the rides
the first one was a hang gliding type ride
to ride it you had to lie on your stomach with you ass exposed in the air
Erik said, "I don't like this."
it held three people and after a while a little kid joined us
while waiting I joked that a doctor walks up behind us with a chart and asks, "Which one of you is Vincent?"
then I said, "What you can't tell?"
Erik laughed and reminded me there was a little boy next to me
after that one we get on a ride that swings like a pendulum until you're completely upside down
you know, this one:
as you can see me and Madness sit right up front
behind us is a mother and her little boy
after the ride starts and we start to build up speed and are almost upside down the little boy says, "I'm scared, I don't like this!"
then he says the four words you do not want to hear on a carnival ride
"I'm gonna throw up!"
I can just imagine how awful it would be to have vomit added to the craziness of this ride
it wasn't gonna happen on my shift
so I started to yell at the little boy
I said, "Bullshit you're not gonna throw up!"
I continued, "this is a carnival, it's supposed to be fun!"
and I continued to yell at him until the ride came to stop
and he did not throw up
when we got off the ride and I looked at the kid and told him good job
after that I talk Paulie into coming into the fun house with us
he agreed
then I talked him into going on that really big slide that looks like a wavy line going up and down
you use an old sack to slide down it
you have to climb a lot of stairs and I underestimated how high the slide was
and I forgot that Paulie is afraid of heights
so now Madness and myself are positioned to slide down
Paulie is at his spot but he won't sit down
he's afraid he's gonna slip
so for some reason he takes off his shoes and now is in his socks
Erik calls him out on that logic
in the video you can see me shaking my head because I'm thinking that Paulie is thinking," I don't like this."
but Paulie does rise to the occasion and sits down and goes down the slide
ok so times ticking and we have plenty of tickets so Erik and I decided to ride one more ride
it's a parasol ride
you know a little seat with an umbrella thing on top
so everything is going fine
the ride is going on in a circular path
Erik and I are cracking jokes
all of a sudden the ride comes to a halt
then it starts to reverse the direction
from clockwise to counter clockwise
this completely fouls up Erik's equilibrium
he says, "I don't like this."
those are his last words
he looks like he's gonna puke
so I start yelling at him
"This is supposed to be fun."
ha ha ha no I didn't say that
I was telling him if he was gonna puke then puke over the side
and I gave him a little nudge
he said I was not helping
and was close to spilling his cookies
then he looked down and saw Raul with the camera ready just waiting to capture the moment
Erik said he thought to himself, "Oh, hell no, Raul is not gonna get me puking."
this is as close as he got:
he fought it and we got through that one
well with all this fun it was time to go
on the way out I yelled at Raul and Paulie
"Thank god Erik was here, if not I would have rode all those rides by myself."
Paulie said, "Hey I got on two rides."
then I yelled, "The fun house is not a ride!"
good times
