Fun at the Fair

July 24th, 2007 · No Comments

The other day I took advantage of the nice weather and went to the fair. I took a stroll around the grounds and checked out all of the wondrous sights. The vast selection of deep-fried, fatty, cholesterol and carbohydrate laden foods was astounding. My arteries hardened just from the smell alone. Then I went to see all of the games.

Of course there were the usual suspects; the ring toss, basket toss, baseball toss, beaver toss, shoot the star and pop the balloon. First I tried popping the balloons, but the darts weren’t sharp enough. Then (since it was right behind me) I tried shooting out the star, but I ran out of ammo while I still had one point showing. All of a sudden inspiration struck me. I paid for a refill of ammo but instead of shooting the star I turned around and shot the balloons. This worked out really well for me. The carny gave me the biggest stuffed animal they had and then told me I also won a free ride on a very special attraction; the "Police Car". It was great, they put the cuffs on me and put me in the back seat and then took me "downtown" and put me in a jail cell. It was incredibly realistic.

After I "made bail", I went back to the fair to see if there were any other rides I wanted to go on. After the Police Car ride, though, nothing really appealed to me. I was thinking about setting fire to one of the tents so that I might get to go on the Fire Truck ride, but something else caught my eye.

There was a reptile show going on. They had a 20′ long python, a large turtle, an assortment of alligators and one crocodile. They were really cool. There was a sign saying you could have your picture taken with a reptile for $10. I offered them $25 to let me put my head in the crocodile’s mouth, but they wouldn’t let me.

As I was leaving I saw a guy wearing a rather strange outfit. I went in for a closer look and it turned out he was a one man band. He had a guitar, harmonica, snare drum, bass drum, cymbal and a cowbell. He was pretty amazing and best of all he performed the "Spiderman" theme song. I was going to buy him a drink at the beer gardens, but they didn’t serve Blue Beaver Beer, so I had to go home.