Oh man I wish this was a good story but it still really hurts thinking about it. It was the summer between 7th and 8th grade and I was going to Schlitterbahn with my dad and a friend. My dad had been taking me there pretty much every summer since I was a little kid and I had always enjoyed how much fun you could have there as a kid. There had been a new addition to the park called the Master Blaster and my friend and I really wanted to ride as soon as we got to the park so we showed up early to next to the door as soon as it opened. We get to the gate and there is a ton of kids with the same idea as us so we get the game face on. As the park opens up its like a sprawl of children running crazy in all directions. We start our descent up the massive amount of stairs to get all the way up to the ride. We get in line and there are about 20-30 kids ahead of us and the line just keeps growing behind us as kids continue to run up the stairs. We finally get to the top to get on the ride and the lifeguard looks at me and is sort of perplexed. I was a little thrown off but I just walked into the water to get into the inner tube. The lifeguard stops me in my tracks and says “dude you are too big to ride this I can’t let you on”. I was a little shocked but I asked him to just let me ride, and he said he would get in trouble if he let me down so I would have to walk back down…and that is exactly what I did while my buddy got to ride the sweet ride that is Master Blaster. I felt embarrassed that I had to walk back down in front of all those kids waiting in line and it was one of the worst feelings in the world. The looks I got from kids that laughed and snickered as I walked down will stay with me forever. Even though this may seem sad its something that I look at and feel that this story gives me inspiration to never be like that again. I don’t want to have to sit out of life that’s not fair to who I want to be.
I can’t wait to go back to Schlitterbahn and slay some of those water rides. When the time comes I am going to get on every ride I have never been on and enjoy every minute because damnit I DESERVE IT!
5 comments:
awww this story almost made me cry! :( I can't even imagine how bad I would have felt if that happened to me. Good for you for using things like that as motivation.
go on, ricky....go, go, go! you can achieve all your dreams. you will achieve them. i feel it inside (for what that's worth--though my family would tell you from experience, these "feelings" often come to fruition).
i am so proud to know you. i wish i had been there with you, that day. by that time in my life, that age, i had some things happen that changed my whole way of dealing with situations. mainly, it was that i dealt, and did not walk away. i guess mainly what i'm saying about "me," the person i was then, was that you would not have walked that road back down from the ride alone. and woe be to whomever scoffed or laughed.
and here is the connection: you are not walking this road alone, okay? you obviously have lots of people pulling for you, and the more i read your blogs, the more i believe in you. so just go on, ricky. go on and make this happen. God bless you all the way.
I call dips on riding the master blaster with you in about a year when you're a buck 75 of pure muscle
Go fuck that fucking Master Blaster up. Get up in it's ass abf just hang out for a while. Do it.
William, you are in, but you have to be ready to take no prisoners against all children in our way when the gates open because we will be there early.
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