Hey All,
For a class I am taking I had to write something about being stuck on a run away roller coaster car. Feel free to let me know what you think.

Runaway Roller Coaster Car

It was a warm day, all though it usually is in mid-august without a cloud in the sky. Somehow they convinced me to ride with them on the roller coaster today; I guess I just got sick of saying no. It was one of those roller coasters that has you suspended from the rail in something like a car seat with roll bars, rather than sitting in a car all buckled in.

It started with a jerk, and then off we went on this death trap of amusement. Everyone around me looked on with tight lips and wide eyes, ready for all the twists and turns of this ride, while all I could see were the triple loops and turns at unnatural angles. We were almost to the top of the first incline, I couldn’t see much but the glow of the noontime sun ahead of me so I gripped the handles as tight as I could and then all I felt was the warm air whipping past me at speeds reminiscent of the old drives down the highway in my dad’s sports car on school vacations from years long since past. Something didn’t seem right, near the end of the hill there was a loud crash, I craned my neck and saw that we were no longer attached to the rest of the chairs, there was just the cluster of myself and my 3 friends detached from everyone else. My friends started screaming, we were coming up to the loops and we didn’t know what would happen. I sat there silent, holding on with all my strength as we hit the first loop. We hit the loop slowed down as we approached the peak, it seemed like we were there for an eternity, upside down, no longer in control of our own fate, at the mercy of the ride. The decline from the loop seemed to launch us faster and faster, faces down below us were whipping by in nothing more than a blur, we hit the next loop’s incline with such speed it compressed my entire body. All I could see was a blur of blue, and black as the ground and sky flew by as we left this loop, went through the next, and up a short incline. How much longer was the track? Have they figured out a way to stop us? If I remembered right after the loops it was a decline back to the station. I saw the station approaching but we were moving too fast, there was a line of park personnel all along the station with tools, and medical supplies. We blew by the station and began heading for the incline of the drop that started this runaway journey. I gripped tighter as I stared at the mountain of track that lay before us, smelling the hot summer air. We hit the incline with a lot of speed, and began slowing down. Every inch of track seemed to slow us down more and more, until about half way up this incline, we stopped. We began sliding backwards, at this point I closed my eyes and just hoped we weren’t going to hit anything. We went past the station again, and hit the hill behind the station, went up a bit of it and began sliding forwards again, a lot slower than before. Soon enough we had stopped at the station.

The attendants unlatched all of us. We were okay, shaking a bit, quiet, but ok. The other car was still out on the track, stopped at the bottom of the hill waiting for their rescue. I walked away from that ride feeling awake, and alive. On our way to the park offices, I looked at my friends, and pointed to another roller coaster on the way and said, “Who wants to go for a ride?”

-S.P.O. Spartan-104