I can safely say this was the worst day of my life.
It was the summer of the year before I was going to 8th grade. My dad and I had gone to an amusement park on a Saturday, the day it was most packed. We were waiting in line for the park's biggest coaster for about an hour now. I was so excited to get to the front of the line. Well, I was until I found out that someone had gotten sick all over the ride. Once everyone found out, they were angry, but tried to forget about the now 20-minute longer wait by making "ralph" jokes and such. And the guys who operated the ride, and had to clean up the mess, were literally throwing the vomit at eachother. That was rather...disturbing to me. I felt like I was the only one who was afraid and disturbed by the person getting sick. Right then, I decided I'd justlet my dad to enjoy the ride by himself and wait for him at the exit. Once that was all cleaned, I told him I'd wait for him at the exit, so I started to walk past the carts and out to the other side. He stopped me and told me to ride. I refused, but he forced me to anyway. I guess he didn't know that I was shooken up from this and felt sick myself. He probably thought I was just afraid to ride it. I'm surprised I survived the ride without getting sick myself. Once the ride was almost over, I was so relieved, until I heard some horrible wretching noise coming from behind me. My dad and I laughed it off, thinking it was someone making another joke about the person who got sick before us. I decided to turn around and show the person their joke was rather funny, but when I turned around, I discovered that the person directly behind me was getting sick all over themselves. And to make it worse, they stopped the ride just before the point where you could get off, and made us wait another 20 minutes there, so I hadquite adrop under me. I was literally shaking with fear in my seat. After the ride was finally over, I forced my dad to take me directly home. After that, I've never ridden a roller coaster, let alone any amusement park ride ever again.
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