sdfilmcritic
08-17-2004, 02:52 AM
Warning: If this isn't even a chuckler of a story, don't blame me. It was one of those "you had to be there" stories.
Last weekend I went to DL with three friends of mine. Upon arriving at the front of the line for Indiana Jones one of the three friends asked to sit in the drive seat. There were only two seats available in the front row, so the CM had to split us up. The one friend and his girlfriend sat in the front so he could get the driver seat. I sat in the back row with my third friend. Once inside and another CM was checking our seatbelts I thought of being a joker by yelling to the front: "Driver! You suck!" (Kind of like at a hockey game when the crowd behind the goalie's net taunts him.) A couple of the other passengers in the car chuckled a little.
Once in the ride our car "temporarily stalled" at the end of the poisonous darts hallway for a good thirty seconds. (We stopped because there was a vehicle still in the next zone ahead of us and hadn't exited yet. Refer to "ride zones" or "cascading".) Whenever an Indy car sits idling in a situation like this the car does one of many things which includes the idle engine noises as the car lightly vibrates like a deisel engine or even the engine "dies" on you and has to be "restarted" like it did in our case. When the engine turned off and then had trouble restarting I was too tempted. I couldn't help but yelling out a second time "Driver! You SUCK!" This cause a good laugh among everbody in the vehicle.
One of the other people sitting in the front asked if my driver friend even had his license yet. His girlfriend replied "Just barely!" Oh, the pleasure of teasing, taunting, and sarcasm among friends and backseat drivers.
Last weekend I went to DL with three friends of mine. Upon arriving at the front of the line for Indiana Jones one of the three friends asked to sit in the drive seat. There were only two seats available in the front row, so the CM had to split us up. The one friend and his girlfriend sat in the front so he could get the driver seat. I sat in the back row with my third friend. Once inside and another CM was checking our seatbelts I thought of being a joker by yelling to the front: "Driver! You suck!" (Kind of like at a hockey game when the crowd behind the goalie's net taunts him.) A couple of the other passengers in the car chuckled a little.
Once in the ride our car "temporarily stalled" at the end of the poisonous darts hallway for a good thirty seconds. (We stopped because there was a vehicle still in the next zone ahead of us and hadn't exited yet. Refer to "ride zones" or "cascading".) Whenever an Indy car sits idling in a situation like this the car does one of many things which includes the idle engine noises as the car lightly vibrates like a deisel engine or even the engine "dies" on you and has to be "restarted" like it did in our case. When the engine turned off and then had trouble restarting I was too tempted. I couldn't help but yelling out a second time "Driver! You SUCK!" This cause a good laugh among everbody in the vehicle.
One of the other people sitting in the front asked if my driver friend even had his license yet. His girlfriend replied "Just barely!" Oh, the pleasure of teasing, taunting, and sarcasm among friends and backseat drivers.