The Incident At The Fair

Or Why my daughter got to ride $20 worth of rides for free.

I love county fairs, the food (corn dogs and mini-donuts, YUM!) the games, lights and rides, I just have to go, I have always loved them. The first of many fairs I like to visit began this last weekend and we were there at 10am Saturday to get Chad a pork sandwich and put Katrein on a couple rides. We had plans to return in the evening for the demolition derby and night rides which are lit up so they are way cooler.

It was an extremely windy day, with the news even saying strong wind gusts to be expected, so as I stood at one of the small metal ticket booths the awning (really just a big metal door that folds down to cover windows) is making a heck of a noise with the wind hitting it, and all of a sudden WHAM…. it comes down and smacks me in the head.

The ticket seller comes running out asking if I’m okay, and I tell him I think so (still rather stunned) he tells me not to move, then the owner and him are in front of me asking if I’m okay, (Chad had returned and asked if I wanted to just fall down at this point) I didn’t feel more then a small bump forming on my head at this point so I continued to tell them I thought I was fine, suddenly the owner is stuffing a sheet of tickets into my hand and telling me “This won’t make the bump on your head feel better but maybe she can forget about it and have some fun.” meaning my daughter, like she wouldn’t have, she didn’t get hit, although she was eyeing the booth like it might attack at any moment.

So that was my adventure this weekend, makes you wonder what I would have got if I really got hurt? Maybe free rides for life, a years worth of corn dogs? MMMM maybe life time mini donuts? *licking lips* Okay now I’m just hungry.