Just because I promised some Photos of Carnies
I don’t back down on promises. Even if it involves shabbily dressed people who don’t have very many teeth, and don’t shower apparently.
No, I’m not talking about the town’s new Super-Duper-Scrumdidlyumptious WalMart. Nor am I talking about the Jerry Springer show. I’m talking about Frontier Days & The Carnival (where the Jerry Springer people go for vacation, I swear).
Yes, the Carnival. Home of Expensive, greasy, and probably vermin infested food.
I was tempted.
The $8.00 Dipping Dots were may favorites, since it costs that much to ship them to the Carnival. From the Moon I’d guess.
I got to see some drunk non-cowboys, and a carnie ride that for some reason, was in the park, but not set up (I’m thinking it’s haunted).
Since I promised carnies, the two dudes in blue are carnies. I found that they would run away from the camera if I got any closer.
Makes one wonder..
Oh, and the other photos are of rides that I fondly call “The Puke-o-tron 1, and the Puke-o-tron 2”.
Someday this will be all over and the town will return to…
hmmmmm..
Oh I love the Puke-o-tron 1! However, I hit my head once in the Puke-o-tron 2 because despite the straps you’re still kind of flailing around especially if your pod-mate is a guy who thinks it’s hilarious to spin the pod EVEN MORE than it’s already spinning. Not anxious to experience that again.
No, seriously, Dipping Dots ARE from the moon. Or possibly Saturn. I love the way they stick to your tongue. Or rather, my tongue, as I have never seen the Dots stick to your tongue. Also, it’s really fun to say Dots like Napoleon says “tots”. Try it.
mmmm…love me some carnival funnel cake…
Just read this hilarious book by Harmon Leon where he goes out and tries to live the American Dream by walking in many different groups shoes.
In one chapter he went undercover and lived as a carnie in rural Indiana for a month, sleeping in a trailer behind the Tilt-a-Whirl. All the carnies thought he was an undercover cop.
Check it out on Amazon, Really funny and insightful stuff.