Overcoming Roller Coasters
Everyone has an experience in their lifetime where they had certain expectations going into something, based on someone else’s thoughts or opinions that happened to be completely wrong. Sometimes it makes the experience better, sometimes worse. I personally had an event be completely different than my mind set, but in my case it was truly for the better. When I was in elementary school, my mother went on about the horrors of roller coasters, mainly ranting about news articles she stumbled across while online. She warned me to always be careful if I ever decided to, “get on one of those killing machines,” and to always keep my mouth closed in case someone ever threw up. My mother scared me stiff. When my family took me to amusement parks, I usually stuck to riding the, Planet Snoopy, bumper cars. Freshman year came around the corner, which prompted the start of my physical science class. Two weeks into the class, I …show more content…
I was praying no one would ask me to ride with them. Of course with my luck, my best friend, Mike, asked me to sit with him on one of the most terrifying rides in the park, because he was scared. My first instinct was to call him a baby and make fun of him for being fearful, but that would’ve made me a hypocrite, so instead, I reluctantly agreed out of guilt. I forced Mike to sit in the front row thus; I would have zero chance of puke being flung up my nose. As the ride began I was a nervous wreck. We inched our way to the top of the first incline, when I heard someone say they felt sick. I thought I was going to lose it, I strongly considered jumping off of the thirty-one story ride. We finally reached peak height, and were about to descend the hill when my life flashed before my eyes. I grabbed Mike’s hand and squeezed my eyes shut as if my life depended on it. Within forty seconds the ride was over. I was so thrilled, I begged Mike to ride
Everyone has an experience in their lifetime where they had certain expectations going into something, based on someone else’s thoughts or opinions that happened to be completely wrong. Sometimes it makes the experience better, sometimes worse. I personally had an event be completely different than my mind set, but in my case it was truly for the better. When I was in elementary school, my mother went on about the horrors of roller coasters, mainly ranting about news articles she stumbled across while online. She warned me to always be careful if I ever decided to, “get on one of those killing machines,” and to always keep my mouth closed in case someone ever threw up. My mother scared me stiff. When my family took me to amusement parks, I usually stuck to riding the, Planet Snoopy, bumper cars. Freshman year came around the corner, which prompted the start of my physical science class. Two weeks into the class, I …show more content…
I was praying no one would ask me to ride with them. Of course with my luck, my best friend, Mike, asked me to sit with him on one of the most terrifying rides in the park, because he was scared. My first instinct was to call him a baby and make fun of him for being fearful, but that would’ve made me a hypocrite, so instead, I reluctantly agreed out of guilt. I forced Mike to sit in the front row thus; I would have zero chance of puke being flung up my nose. As the ride began I was a nervous wreck. We inched our way to the top of the first incline, when I heard someone say they felt sick. I thought I was going to lose it, I strongly considered jumping off of the thirty-one story ride. We finally reached peak height, and were about to descend the hill when my life flashed before my eyes. I grabbed Mike’s hand and squeezed my eyes shut as if my life depended on it. Within forty seconds the ride was over. I was so thrilled, I begged Mike to ride