coasters

Modern roller coasters are evil. Sue and Ron rode the one in Dollywood (actual picture above), and Sue threw her back out so badly that she's been in agony ever since. She's been to doctors and a chiropractor. Finally she went to a neurologist who gave her steroids - prednisone - and she says it is finally feeling a bit better. And not long after that happened, a veteran with no legs rode the same type roller coaster and fell out and died! So don't ride roller coasters!

Roller coasters used to be gentler. They didn't flip the rider upside-down. Examples were the "Rebel Yell" at King's Dominion, the coaster at Lakeside amusement park in Roanoke, and the little coaster on the beach in Virginia Beach. Those coasters were fun, not deadly.

When I was just ages 3 to 6, we lived at Virginia Beach ans went to that amusement park all the time. I, of course, didn't ride anything but kid rides, but I remember they had a row of glass boxes windows across the top of the arcade. In one of them was an animatedd doll of a great big fat lady who rocked back and forth and laughed and laughed endlessly. I loved her!