I'm a big Fair guy. Love them. Sights, sounds, smells, food, atmosphere. Cute farm animals that always make me contemplate giving up meat until I get home and am reminded I have 20 lbs. of meat in the freezer and I'll "give it up once I finish all this meat off...".
Yeah, that never happens.
The Fairs in New Hampshire are a tad tame. Some of them are crazy old like this weekend's Deerfield Fair. To get in you pay something like $10 and you can touch all the animals you want and browse the art and 4H club stuff you want. The food is overpriced but it's fair food, right? How often can you get a cowboy hat full of cheese fries or deep fried Oreos and Twinkies? Not very often.
The rides are priced out in the form of tickets, only there are no rides really worth the tickets unless you are a teenie-bopper and feel like puking after.
Side Note: I used to be the king of crazy rides. The faster it spun, the higher it went, the more insane it looked, I was on it, over and over and over again. Until one day. It's like I "got old" all of a sudden and my insides hated me after. I've never puked on a ride before but that day I thought I was going to lose it. The same thing happened to the Niff. Since that fateful day, we've tried various rides at parks and fairs and the end result is close to the same. Sadness.
Again, New Hampshire fairs are a bit tame, but if they had this ride I would so do it. If I had a partner that I trusted. Ok, so I guess I wouldn't do it because when a bull is running at you full bore, how many people can you really trust?
Let me go through my inner circle:
Steve - I think he'd be too afraid of the bull to try it. Maybe though, he has an adventurous streak. Knowing bodily harm is so close I think he would opt to just watch people get effed up.
Flack - he would definitely do it, but I wouldn't put it past him to drop me on purpose.
The Niff - I would trust her, but wouldn't want her to do it in case I fell off. She'd freak out.
Jessie - I would trust her to not drop me on purpose but I can see an Oops moment on her part, which would result in the crushing of my head.
Mark - I would trust Mark. For sure. But. Mark would probably be laughing so hard as we both get so close to getting fucked up that he would probably fall off inadvertently, sending me to the ground and then both of us getting fucked up.
James - James wouldn't drop me on purpose. We've taken part in enough sports together over the years I find it hard to believe either of us would get messed up.
Kraig - there is no way he would even think about trying this. Ever.
I know I would be trustworthy. In the event I fell off/got knocked off I would need my partner to be able to run super fast. I'd feel bad if they got slammed and pounded as a result of me.
Damn, two days, two posts about taking on wild animals. Can anyone guess how I'll probably die?