The 2011 Funfair

Lets talk about the fair!

Ok in order to really understand the fair you’ll  have to be told the entire story  about the fair that was around last year.

Last year (2011) a funfair came to town. Anybody that knows me will know how easily excitable I can become, especially when I see something as amazing as a fun-fair coming to town. To add to this general fun-fair excitement there were signs stating that if you paid a fiver you got to go on UNLIMITED rides. Now anyone who has been to a funfair will have probably  (unless somehow very lucky) have experienced the horrendous prices per ride. So as you can imagine being offered to pay only five pounds at the start for unlimited access to all the rides in the fair was exceptionally enticing. So I got to this fair. Thought to myself “what a cracking bargain this will be!”

Got inside the fair, only to discover that the joke was actually on me.

At the fair there was pretty much nothing. There were food stands, expensive side show games, a hideous jungle gym style thing, that horrible ride that goes sideways and makes you feel like death, a huge slide, a “ghost” train and the Ferris wheel.

Most of these rides were actually monotonously dull or just rides I didn’t like in general. If memory serves I remember the Ferris wheel being ok, but getting off the Ferris wheel once it had been round took ages. Plus it was cold. REALLY cold. 

The only semi decent thing was probably the horrible sideways ride. Only I really don’t like that as a ride. Especially when my best friend Sozzy Glo had suffered grievous hand injuries from that sort of ride at a previous fair. 

So really all we were left with was the Ghost Train. Now because there weren’t any other decent rides the queue for the ghost train was quite large. I may have been a 22 year old woman, but I had never actually been on a ghost train at a funfair in my life before and I wasn’t sure what to expect. While we were in the queue we heard two different reviews of the train. One girl came off screaming and adamant that this was the most scary thing she had ever been on, while another girl came off and said “that was shit, there was nothing”. Unsure of who to believe I approached the train with caution and got on alongside my friend Jade. When the train set off I became nervous. What if things were waiting to jump out at me like a jack in the box? I then began screaming in anticipation. Jade however was not screaming. She was just laughing. At me.

I kept screaming the whole way round, because I was convinced that SOMETHING was going to happen.  Around 30 seconds later the Ghost Train came to an end. Nothing had happened. I had just screamed around the whole thing for NOTHING. Literally NOTHING was in there. Oh god I am such a fool.