Why do people ride roller coasters?

mannyrs13

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This shyt hitting too close to home right now breh. I am deadly afraid of roller coasters for no reason whatsoever. I love the design and look of them and as a kid used to love the roller coaster tyc00n games. I even had the dream one time of being a coaster designer. But when it comes to riding them, I'm a straight up bytch. :martin:


There's a roller coaster called the incredible hulk that's my damn kryptonite. I've been on less tame ones like the rock n roller coaster at Disney World but not the hulk. We driving to islands of adventure today and I tell my homegirl I'm gonna ride. She was reluctant but was down to ride with me. She has been on it a few times. I already know how the ride looks and goes. I've been to the park enough times. We get there and I look up and I say, "you know what, maybe we should try some other rides first instead" :snoop:

It's one of my biggest pet peeves, my fear of riding. I will go on practically any ride there except for the freefall tower rides like tower of terror. Yet I can't ride this damn coaster. And it's not a fear of heights thing cuz the hulk is about 100 feet tall. I've been parasailing which is like 500 feet up. I went on one ride in Vegas that drops you over the edge of the stratosphere tower at like 800 feet and I've been to the ledge in Chicago which is like 1400 feet. I will gladly go up on an observation deck like that high up with no issues. Going upside down isn't the issue since my favorite ride is the rock n roller coaster and that goes upside down. Big drops aren't the problem since I went on the water rides today, even tho we got soaked. Plus I know the rides are super safe. I just get this anxiety and it prevents me from riding. So I don't know what it is. It's just a hypeness I get and then when I get there and look at it I'm like :hubie:. Maybe one day I'll conquer my fear. Because if the coaster doesn't kill me, kicking myself for not riding it will. :francis:

Sorry for the long post but I had to vent, especially today.
 

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15 people got beheaded on rides in the past several years..

I thought: I done rode some fly roller cossters.. I could retire from that shyt now and be satisfied

Swore off them since that

Low key: at that same stage in my skiing career. I went once. No need to really push it

Scuba diving. Went 2x. That's plenty
 

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I remember last year i went on a 300ft roller coaster with my brothers and pops. At the top everyone was so scared all you could hear was the increasingly fearful mumbles :mjgrin:

Then right before the drop I yelled "LETS GOOOOO" at the top of my lungs :mjlit:

I turned around and them cacs were so goddamn shook :dead: All i see is :merchant: I think my warcry struck some extra fear in em :mjlit:

But all that fear turned into so much joy on the way down :blessed: shyt was like a party for the rest of the ride :dj2:
 

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adrenaline rush....

when i was a teenager....we'd put your knees up so the leg restraints wouldn't go down all the way on the wooden roller coasters...


so we could halfway stand up, put our hands up and duck before the tunnels :mjlit:
and this is you when u stand up and u realize u not gonna make the drop right before u get decapitated = :huhldup:
 

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i like to be scared.....

i ride them from the front with my eyes wide open
The front his dope for views and the back is good for the whip on the big drops. But anyways in Cali it’s all about Six Flags Magic Mountain! Their small coasters are some parks big ones. Goliath and X2 :whew:
 
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