Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Shepherd, joined by Lily Padman, and Aaron Michael Weekly. Hello, baby. Hello, baby.
This is a long time coming. Crazy Cedar Point stories. Aaron, do you have a crazy one? A crazy one?
Yeah, I don't have a crazy one. I just have the wet butt cuts. I mean, that story lives on forever. I will never not remember wiping my butt with that brown paper towel.
Yes, that you take out of the big machine. I would make us a piece of it to put it between my butt. Stay in there. Yeah.
Yeah. I never had that any other place. I've been visiting a bunch of times. I've never gotten a wet butt cut.
It turns out it's not a good fix. No, that's rough recycled paper. Just tears up. Yeah.
Well, we don't have any wet butt cut stories, but we do have four crazy Cedar Point stories. Please enjoy. Hello. How's it going?
Good. Now, you have the Mandalorian and Stranger Things posters behind you, but they don't look as viewed by the studio. It's an artist I found on Etsy. And so I have a collection of Stranger Things, Mandalorian, and I have a Ted Lasso one.
My whole office is filled with all kinds of nerdy stuff. I love comic books and super heroes. You can kind of see over here. There's a whole bunch of Marvel and DC stuff.
The Hall of Justice kind of photo there. It seems we got Superman in the mix. Yes. You know like the famous picture of the construction workers on the beam?
Yeah. Yeah. So if you look over it's Marvel and DC guys. And then you can see I got Ninja Turtles and everything over here.
Oh, this is so fun. I like this. Where are you at? I feel like I need to ask you to guess.
I weirdly saw some graphic when you signed on. Oh, yeah. That's a great story. I didn't even know that.
You didn't know that was Michigan? Well, I'm sorry. Actually, we should have been able to guess based on the propped. Well, but that's a three state area, minimally.
And folks from Ontario probably even Canada. All right. Where are you at in Michigan? I work for the city of Wyoming.
Wyoming's just outside of Grand Rapids. I run the Wyoming Senior Center. Oh, for the ones that didn't make it down to Florida. We actually have all of our snowbirds coming back right now.
Everybody's showing up and telling me all their stories about warm weather and no snow. And it makes me envious. OK, so you've got a Cedar Point story. I do have a Cedar Point story.
So being from Michigan growing up here, Cedar Point was a regular. I'm a vacation spot for us. I have a couple stories. I could have told you how I got engaged at Cedar Point.
Oh, wow, wow, wow. I would have liked that. I can tell you the time when we went in high school. And Dax, you from there with the rip cord right there?
No, what's the rip cord? It's kind of like a bungee jumping thing. Oh, we have that at Six Flags. I have a story about how you have to be 18 and older to do that.
And so we're on this family vacation. And my mom and uncle's forbid all of us from going on it. And my dad, who can be a bit of a rascal, signed off on the waiver for all of us to ride it. Oh my God.
We were probably 16 and he got caught and he got the silent treatment the rest of the trip from the family. Oh, okay. But nothing from the brass at Cedar Point. No, nothing from that.
But this story actually is about when I survived three tornadoes at Cedar Point. Okay. Okay. Set the scene.
What year? What month? The year is 1998 and it's summer. This particular trip was with my aunt and uncle, my sister and four cousins.
At the time, my sister was 11. Two of my cousins were 13. Me and another cousin were 14 and my oldest cousin was 17. So the plan for this trip is my aunt and uncle are taking all six kids at Cedar Point.
The first day, they take us to the park. They're not right people. So they're like, Hey, you guys go off. We're going to do the shows.
We're going to eat some food. And don't get into too much trouble. So the second day comes around, my uncle had decided that they don't really want to do Cedar Point for a second day. So they say, Hey, we're just going to drop you guys off of the park for the day.
Are you guys staying at breakers? Where are you staying? We're staying at a campground outside of Cedar Point. We're not even on property.
Okay. Okay. Yeah. So their plan is we're going to drop you off in the morning.
We'll pick you up at night. I mean, it's the 1990s. Parenting was just a little different. However, I have a 10 year old son now and I'm like, there's no scenario where I would just send him to Cedar Point with people a few years older than him with no principal supervision and cell phones.
We did get just dropped off. Yeah, it worked out. Six flags, much safer. We do what boys and girls do at that age.
We split off for like, Hey, the boys, we're going to go get into trouble and the girls are going to go do their thing. So it's about lunchtime and we decide we're going to ride the power tower. Is that the old demon drop? It's kind of like the demon drop on steroids.
One side of it will shoot you up really fast and then drop you down and keep shooting you up and dropping you down. The other side takes you up slowly and then drops you really fast like the demon drop. Okay. Wonderful.
So we're getting ready to get on that ride. We had rode the side that shoots you up really fast the day before, but today we're like, we need to get on the other side. I do remember it kind of be an overcast. We're getting strapped into the ride the whole time in your line.
You're trying to figure out when they drop. So you're counting your like, 1000 one, 1000 two, did they drop on four, did they drop on five? Yeah. We're talking about this whole time.
So we get launched up on the ride. We're starting to counting. We're looking at each other and also we all look over at Lake Erie and we just see three tornadoes coming off the water. Oh, wow.
We're like at the highest spot in the park at this point. So we're like, this is probably the worst place to be for this. They're technically called water spouses because they're tornadoes that form over water. They're not far off.
So we're at the top. And then it drops us. Oh, so we can't see anymore. And then it shoots us back up and we see them again.
They keep getting closer. This goes out like three or four times. So everyone else is cheering because of the ride and my cousins and I, we're going to get hit by tornadoes. We've seen Twister.
We know how this goes. And then what do you do? Because everyone's screaming. This is like a comedy sketch.
Everyone's crying wolf. Yeah. I imagine those rides could take a pretty good tornado. It might be interesting to be up at the top strapped in because you can't get sucked into it.
You're strapped in. And if the ride's not coming loose, it's going to be the one way to experience the eye of a tornado safely. The wind would kill you. It was cool to see.
Yeah. Sure. Sure. We get to the bottom and we're just like, we need to get out of these harnesses.
The guy on Hooks us and we run over to the ride operator and we're like, Hey, there's tornadoes coming off the water. You need to alert people now. And the guy's like, keep the line moving. Sure.
Good. There's the commitment you get on Cedar Point. You got to keep those lines moving. We know what's coming.
So we just take off running. And by the time we get just outside the ride, all of a sudden all the sirens go off. They come over the intercom and they're like, seek immediate shelter, inclement weather. Take cover.
Where at Cedar Point are you going to take cover? Bathrooms. Bathrooms. That's all you have.
I mean, when's are picking up? It starts raining crazy hard. You're meeting our scene, garbage cans. They're getting tipped over umbrellas from picnic tables are flying around, picnic tables are lifted up.
Oh wow wow wow. It gets really intense and really fast. We end up in the bathroom. Everybody's kind of panicking and we're a bunch of boys.
This is awesome. We're safe. Oh, I already forgot you were separated from the girls. Yeah.
Yeah who knows they're being blown all about the area. And no cell phones. So we're like hoping they're okay. So things calm down.
We come out of the bathroom. We come out of the men's side and then just about the same time, my sister and cousin come out of the girls side. Oh my God. huge.
I cannot put too fine to point on how big it is. Okay, wow, that worked out. So my younger sister, she was very upset, obviously. So I was working to calm her down through this whole scenario.
The whole park is now shut down. It's flooded like crazy. The drainage system can't keep up with how much rain hit, and it just didn't stop raining. We're walking around in like ankle deep water all day, and I had these green, Nike skateboard shoes on, and they dyed my feet green.
Oh, sure. Sure. I had like incredible whole feet. I didn't wear sandals for the rest of that summer, because my feet were just bright green.
But yeah, so we spent the rest of the day walking around, and we couldn't call anybody, we couldn't leave the park. You just had to go to the assigned pickup time that evening. Right, so we had some money in our pocket, and we saw the one thing that was open, and there was a guy drawing caricatures. My cousins and I all got caricatures drawn with tornadoes in the background, so I actually sent that picture to Emma, so I think you guys have a look.
Oh, let's take a look. Oh, yes. You were such a sweet young man, it seems from this character. Braces.
I have braces and a pretty epic bull cut. Yeah, and they went profile. My parents loved that so much that they actually framed it and hung it in my childhood bedroom. That's nice.
Yeah, there's some debriss flying through the air. They really took their time on this. We were the only people at the park that was on the side. Was the food still open?
Very select food still open, so we were kind of scrounging for the rest of the day just to get by. And then the day went on and night hit, and all of a sudden things dried up, so all the rides opened back up. Oh, what a blessing. You just have to wait it out.
Probably 90% of the people had left the park at that point, so we just ran ride driving down every single ride that evening, and finally, at the end of the night, my uncle came to pick us up, and they were like, why is the parking lot so empty? Where the fuck were they when the tornado hit? How could they have not been aware that the tornado had hit? The campground was probably like 20, 30 minutes away, not really by the lake at that point.
They said, yeah, we noticed some rain. I mean, they weren't watching the news at the campground. No, definitely not. I think they were rolling around in that tent a little bit.
Well, we don't. What else are you going to do all day long in a tent? Right? Wow, Chad, well, I'm pretty jealous of that.
I certainly feel like I wish I would have seen a tornado at Cedar Point. You're combining two of the most exciting things in a young child's life, all at once. Natural disasters and roller coasters. If someone's top had been ripped off in the middle, I'm sure it was.
That would have been like triple whammy. I'm expecting nudity and a tornado. And poop pants. You think people poop their pants?
Yeah, you love that. Oh, I would love that. Yes, yes, yes. Not me pooping my pants now.
Well, Chad, thank you for that. It makes me want to really watch the Double Radar and plan a trip when I think there's a high probability of a tornado. That's probably a good strategy. But can I give a couple of shout outs?
Yes, please. Shout out to all my family that were involved. So my sister Sierra, my cousin Todd, Brian, and Katie. And then also my cousin Joe.
So unfortunately, he just recently passed away from cancer. Oh, yikes. That's too young. Young age, he had colon cancer.
He was a storyteller and a jokester. He would love to know that so many people are here in this story because whenever we got together, we always talked about our Cedar Point stories. Yeah, of course. That's neat.
I'm the senior center here in Wyoming. So my co-worker and my wife are guarding the door. And they wanted to pop in to say how I go with it. Yes, of course.
I like that the door needed to be guarded. Hi. So nice to meet you guys. I'm Kelly and this is Josh.
Hi, Kelly. Hi, Josh. I'm a therapist. And I just love what you have done for so many of my clients.
You guys mean so open, transparent, and creating just an awesome avenue for people to just be more open and share their story and struggle. So I love that. Oh, well, thank you. Thanks for listening.
Big fans. My wife is actually a bigger fan. So she's going to be super jealous today. Good.
That's always the goal. Lorn it over. Yeah. You guys appreciate it.
That guy looked like Will Hunting a little bit. Oh, sure. The other guy, the friend. You thought he looked like Matt Damon?
No, Will Hunting. Specifically, not the actor. Yeah, the vibe was kind of Will Hunting. Sure.
You got a genius vibe. Secret genius. OK, listen. I had a thought during that.
Yeah. Obviously, I checked out because this was a Cedar Point. Yeah, sure. You're not going to be with us for most of this.
Do you think that people were more religious, pre-cell phone? Because you had to just pray instead of checking in on your sisters. Calling for help. Calling for help.
Calling for help. You're like, Jesus, take a wheel, you know. That's a great theory. But I will say I've just read.
There's a bunch of articles came out in the last few weeks about belief in Christianity. Having plateaued off and increased even a little bit. We had been in this really steady decline for a long time. OK.
And weirdly now, it's kind of back there. OK, but for a while it had decreased since phones. Yeah, so probably right. Wow.
I mean, it had been decreasing long before phones, of course, but also yes, because of phones. And then a steep, deep, deep. Yeah, fell off a cliff. Hockey, stick, curve.
I'm a secret genius. You are. I'm a willy. You're Jill Hunting.
I'm a willy. Willy me the hunting. Here's Julie. Rob, that's you.
Do you think in the future our faces will look like that? A purple square? Yeah, with a letter in it. I sure hope not.
I think in 100 years, that's what faces look like. When the robots and the humans start having sex. Oh, OK, like Tower Bobble. Seven Sex with Angels.
Oh, wow. Yeah. Hello. Can you hear us, Julie?
I can hear you. Can you hear me? Yes, wonderfully. Look at you, sure.
Oh, cute. Oh, it looks so cute. It really does. I just got it yesterday.
It was very sim. I came back from an international trip, and it was waiting for me at my door. Oh, wow. Oh, welcome home present.
Are you in Michigan? I am in Ohio. OK, just as good. Where in Ohio?
Northeast, Ohio. I'm going to be a little bit vague. Sure. Sure.
Oh, good. Good. And did you grow up in that area that you're currently in? I did not.
I grew up in the Baltimore area. So I'm a transplant, but I've been here the last three years. Oh, so this Cedar Point story took place in the last three years? It did.
Oh, exciting. How about the presses? Please tell us. Let's hear it.
It took place almost two years ago, in the summer of 2023. My husband and I have two girls girls. They are now six and seven, so they were four and five then. We had decided to take them to Cedar Point for the first time.
He had never been to Cedar Point. I had been once. I remember going on lots of fun roller coasters. And we got there.
Did the check-in. My five-year-old is very tall for her age, so she met the height criteria for some of the bigger roller coasters. Oh, wow. That's lucky at five.
It's about four feet. So she just met the height requirement. So we were like, OK, yes. Let's go to roller coaster.
She'd never been on one before. She said, yeah, I'll go. And I said, well, why don't you go on Millennium Force? I remember going on that one.
I think I was there in 2011. It's really fun. You're going to love it. So she's like, OK.
I would have started on the Blue Street or Gemini, Millennium Force is the 10th tallest roller coaster in the world. Oh, OK. Now we're talking. Yeah.
Looks like you're basically in the clouds when you're up there. They didn't rename the Magnum to that? I have no idea. OK.
I won't get bogged on them. I do know that I wrote it when I was there in 2011. I don't think it has any upside downs, but it has the big drop. It goes straight up.
Yeah. And then it drops. That's what I like. I don't need loopy loops, but I like a nice tall drop.
In six legs, they have both. In one right, they both. Anyway, go on. So she was waiting in line.
I think she got out of line once or twice. She kind of got freaked out, got scared, and we convinced her. I was like, no, you'll be fine. Just go on.
It'll be great. So she went on with her dad. I stayed behind with my four-year-old, because obviously the four-year-old wasn't going to go on. So we just kept watching for them.
I kept looking at all the rides, seeing if I could spot when she was wearing. Never saw her. It's kind of taken a long time. What's going on?
Finally, we see them coming around the band, and she just looks ghastly white. Oh, no. And I asked her, did you like it? Was it fun?
She was like, it was scary. That's kind of all she said. And just looked kind of dazed. And her dad just said, she passed out four or five times on the ride.
No. Four or five times. Oh my god, in this minute ride. Yeah.
So he said, I kept looking over, and she was just slumped over, like eyes closed. This is scary. Wow. I was kind of freaked out, because I was like, does she need medical attention?
But she was fine. She perked up. Gave her some juice. She's on a stick.
Went to look at the photos. They take the photos that you get to look at after. You can see him. He's there.
And then there's nothing next to him. Oh my god. I see her little body at all. She's just kind of slumped.
Oh no. This is horrifying. Maybe they need not only a height limit, but maybe a weight minimum. So I think what happened was the G-forces just kind of overtook her body.
Oh my god. I think it was every time she went on the up. Her blood pressure probably dropped, and all the blood drained from her head. Yeah.
This is what happens when you're in the back seat of an F16. You get a ride with the Blue Angels. Everyone in back passes out, because the pilots have developed their leg muscles so that they force the blood up into their upper body. She needed a G-suit is what she needed.
We got to get her back. She doesn't need to go back. Does she get lightheaded when she stands up? Doesn't seem to.
I asked her yesterday in preparation. I said, what do you remember about it? I just remember that I passed out a couple of times, but I remember being scared. So I think it's a combination of the adrenaline that he forces, and I said, would you go on it again?
She said, yeah, I want to go. Let's go. Wow. She's a trooper.
It might be a few years before we go back. No, I think it's time I was summer. No, she used to be bulked up a little bit. I also love that your husband is looking happy, and the picture's knowing that the daughter is like passed out.
He wasn't scared. No, he wasn't. Who knows to him for maintaining his school and remaining cold throughout the ride, because I would have been freaked out. So that trip was our last to Cedar Point so far, but we will go back.
The younger one needs now to get on that. We need to get her passing out on the show. Yeah, yeah, right of passage. Later that day, we kept going through the park, and then at some point it just started pouring down rain, and then the power went out.
We went into the store. We had promised the girls we would buy them stuffies on the way out, and so none of the cash registers were working. We didn't have any cash, so they might have walked away with the stuffy actual. It was where I was shoplifting prom.
As they did, we didn't know about it. Wow, the power went out? Yeah, the power was out in the whole park. Did she hit any other coasters?
That was it. That was it for the day. That's smart. We did the Gemini if you go back.
That's a great ride. The G's are very manageable. I think we're going to try that. So we have not gone back to Cedar Point, but we did go to Disney World.
She did, I think it's like the barnstormer or something, one of those smaller roller coasters, and that was fine. She stayed conscious throughout that. Oh, congratulations. She's ready.
Well, Julie. Yeah, thanks for telling us this story. You've got to go back to X and try the Millennium Force. It is really fun.
I was just at Disneyland with my recently turned 12 year old. There's a Guardians of the Galaxy ride, and it's like the demon drop, but it bounces up and down. It goes up, you step for a second, then it drops. That I did one time.
She talked me into a second time. I said, don't think it's a good idea. I went a second time and made my turn. I was like, no, this was a big tactical blunder.
Yeah. And then about 40 minutes to shake that off. I just didn't feel right. You know, I can't do it anymore.
I have trouble. I did a scapole I mean patch. Have you ever used those? No, is that like drama?
Kind of. It's just a patch that you put behind your ear, but it's anti-nauseal anti-nauseal anti-nauseal sickness effect. Okay, I will do that before my trip. I did it before Disney, and I was able to go on the Avatar ride without a problem.
Without it, I know I wouldn't have made it. Okay, wow. That's a great idea. I even talked about taking drama.
But I didn't. Lovely meeting you. You too. Thank you so much.
I hope you have a wonderful summer with your chilies. You too. Hopefully no more passing out on rides. Yeah.
All right. Bye. Thanks. What is that?
I don't want to tell you this. Go ahead. Wouldn't rollercoasters are out? No.
Monica, you're out of your depth. No, I'm not. No. You're not.
No. Let me talk. Okay. Okay.
Yeah. We have one rollercoasters in the Six Flags. It's part of it. You got to ride them.
It's nostalgic. But it's not the one you tell people to go ride. But there's an nostalgia. That's a nostalgia.
There's a feel to those wooden rollercoasters. That is very specific. Yeah. I maintain it's probably the best wooden rollercoaster ever made.
Oh my God. Yeah. It's not painted like the Six Flags ones. It's a nice natural wood.
You'd like it. Here is Catherine. Could be Catherine Hahn. Oh, I own native.
Hello. Can you guys hear me? Beautifully. Is this Catherine?
Yes. What's fate are you in? I'm actually in Santa Monica. Oh my goodness.
My old stomping grounds. You guys always make jokes about the West Side. I don't agree. Yeah.
Tell us. Go ahead. I'm going to go to the closeness to the beach. And the bike path is nice.
Obviously, it's not a great time to go to Malibu right now, but I like the closeness to that area. The congestion of the East Side really stresses me out. Yeah, she's more for me. That's all.
I got it. I got it. Do you ever eat a Frito Mizzo? It's Italian.
That's the only place I crave when I go back to Santa Monica. Yeah. I've been like one time. That's good.
Oh, get the pink pasta. Add some goat cheese and pine nuts. I love goat cheese. Oh, it's incredible.
And the Gargans all sala. Don't miss that. So how did you end up at Cedar Point? You must not be from Santa Monica.
Well, I do see a ton of church groups there when we go. So we basically were going to Cleveland and we were helping a church plant and we were doing city beautification, like picking up trash, planting trees, and I was in high school at the time. And so our reward day, our off day was we're going to take all these high school kids to see your point. Yes.
And I was not looking forward to it because I am terrified of rollercoaster. Oh, okay. I hate heights. So it wasn't for me.
And I just remember my friends were like, Oh, come on, Catherine, don't be scared. You go to face your fears. Just go on some rides and I really, really didn't want to, but I'm also a teenager and was easily peer pressured into everything. We get there and I go on my first ride.
I remember it. It was green. It was called the Raptor. Oh, okay.
Do you know it? No, I think most of these that we're gonna hear about were built after my tenure. You know about the Gemini. I don't know about that.
It's wooden. That's probably why. Okay. But I go on this ride called the Raptor and it's intense.
It goes upside down and I'm not feeling so hot after the first ride. Oh, no. Of course not. And I'm like, okay, this is not great.
I just got to get through the day. Well, then I got peer pressured again to get on a standup roller coaster. Oh, I love those. It's called the Mantis and I don't even know if they still had it.
I don't know if it's safe. So I go on that ride and after that ride, I am feeling very, very, very bad. I was like, this is not good. You need to like, stand up for yourself and say no.
Yeah. We take a break. We're hungry because I'm an idiot and 17. I order a burger, fries and a milkshake.
Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm starving. Like I'll eat. It'll be great.
When we're at Cedar Point, it is the debt of summer. It is 93 degrees, not a cloud in the sky. Sweaty, gross, not a fun time. So after lunch, I'm like, okay, mentally, I'm done.
I'm not doing this. Well, can I ask a quick question? Did any of the boys on the trip complain of a wet butt cut? Did you hear any murmurmourings of that?
A lot of people were complaining about their size rubbing together in just general back sweatiness. Yeah, the wet butt and the preceding wet butt cut is pretty common for the young. I don't know about the church group talking about wet butt cuts. Well, you never know.
Yeah. I guess it's good you asked. I just knew that was in the stew here, Monica. It's trying to paint a full picture.
But they're dealing with it with the heat, the nausea. Very hot, not feeling great. So after lunch, we're walking around and I get in a group of people and my crush and he's like, let's all go ride Millennium Force. Oh, we just heard about Millennium Force.
I'm like, okay, I have to do this because I can't embarrass myself in front of my crush. I have to go ride Millennium Force. Oh, the pressure. I'm sitting there.
My entire youth group is in the line behind me. I'm one of the first groups to go. My friend, Regan, is sitting to my right. My friend, Emily, is sitting in front of me.
My friend, Natalie, is in line. As soon as the ride takes off, I'm like, oh, no, this is where's the crush. He's in line. How behind you, luckily?
No, he's not on the ride. Okay. Goodness. So I don't even scream during the ride because I'm just so terrified.
And usually, I'm like a big stream runner on the roller coasters because I'm scared of them and don't like them. I'm afraid to open my mouth. Oh, I make it through the ride and I pull into where they load the people on and off. And as soon as we click into place, I lean over and just puke everywhere.
All over the platform. On the ride itself. Like I lean over my legs and puke everywhere. Oh, you filled the floor of the millennial.
Okay. Yes, I did. The whole youth group is in the line and sees this happen. My friend, Regan is trying to comfort me.
My friend, Emily, is like, what's going on? Because she heard it, but didn't see me because she's in front of me. Oh, she's in here, the retching. Yeah.
So then I asked Natalie, I was like, what happened? What did you see? She was like, well, I just remember you being scared and being really proud of you. Like, oh, she made it.
Like she did a good job. And then she sees me throw up and I start like hysterically crying because I'm just so embarrassed. I'm like, you guys made me do this. I didn't want to get on these rides.
Like, I hate you guys. I was guilty of them. Okay. You did not want to take it.
So a puke, a balling and then a lot of acues. This guy must have wanted your number so bad. You think the story ends there. It doesn't.
Oh, I get off the ride and I'm like having to be comforted. And meanwhile, in the corner of my eye, I see the summer high school worker coming with like the broom and a sweet pan. That's not going to do it. I'm not going to cut it.
He needs a mop. He doesn't get paid enough to do that. I'm getting off the ride. I'm so embarrassed.
I'm still crying. And our adult leader, her name is Kelly. She came over to comfort me. I'm just trying to get out of there.
I make it to the front of the ride and reminding you guys, it's a 93 degree day and I had just thrown up all of my fluids, all of my food I ingested that day. I collapsed right outside the front of the ride. Oh, this is a really bad day. That's going.
It's probably something that's ever happened to me. I pass out. Okay. Millennial force.
Yeah, you got to be a bad motherfucker to ride a millennial force. There was another passing out situation. Yeah, it's common because it's a crazy ride. So I pass out in front of the ride.
I don't remember a lot of this part. I like asked my friends, but can you fill in the gaps? They call like an emergency cart and I was out for most of this, but I just remember waking up and I'm on this cart and I'm very confused and I look out the back and I just see my friend Emily running behind the cart to keep up with me and I'm just like, that's a friend. She's not letting me go through this alone.
And this Kelly is in the front of the cart being like, I'm here for you. You're gonna be okay. She thought maybe you were gonna pass. Yeah.
Well, it was bad. Yeah. I get taken to the rollercoaster hospital at Cedar Point and I'm in this hospital makeshift bed. They're feeding me Gatorade and Salty and Grackers with water and they let me call my mom and my mom's like, Catherine, what is it?
Why are you calling me? I'm like, well, I passed out and I threw up on a rollercoaster. I'm so embarrassed. I had to take an hour to recover because I was super dehydrated.
So they had to like give me fluids. Any person in my situation at that point would have been like, I want to go. It's been a bad day. But again, because I'm with a youth group and there's a hundred of us, I have to wait for the bus to take us all home.
Sure. Sure. So I'm just stuck there. My friends had to take shifts to be with me.