Man... often, when I think back on fonder times... I remember when I worked at the Funplex and dated a hot piece of ass named Angela. Fuck, I still remember that... my first and it was perfect, like fucking textbook.
Ahem... anyhow, so I have this circle of friends, who shall remain nameless unless they choose to identify themselves. We all used to work at the Funplex, which sat at the base of the Magnolia bridge (also known as the Garfield Street Bridge), and used to be right between a tool rental business and a sewage transfer station. Fuck, we had some hot summers down there too... out back was the train tracks, and a bit further off some "beach front" in the crudest sense of the term and some docks which kept the salt water nice and stagnant.
Needless to say, the odor was strong.
We liked to pass the time by.... well... by playing pranks on and being generally mean to the customers without them knowing it. One of our favorites was the spray silicone.
I vaguely remember a time when the Funplex had this big blow up bounce toy with a step on the front. The idea was that the kids would bounce around in this toy, and upon wishing to exit the monstrosity, they would hop down to this step and then stand up on the floor.
Unfortunately someone decided to spray the step with silicone. The kids hopping down would just slide right off and land on the cement. When I think back, I imagine more than a couple of those kids breaking their tailbone all for the humor of whomever was running that ride.
I guess that's the appeal of being a carnie??
Anyhow... the spray silicone was actually for this large tube structure with slides. Like those big ugly things you see at McDonald's... we were "supposed" to spray the slides down "lightly" to reduce the friction for the kids sliding down them. Well, since someone decided to use it on the "Jungle Bouncer," the person running the Fun Zone decided to place duct tape sticky side up about 3/4 down the slide. I can think back and imagine some poor kid in shorts or a girl in a skirt hitting that tape. HAHAHAHAHA!!! Can you believe they paid for this shit??
The other item the spray silicone was for is the Bumper Cars... wow, what a fucking whoop Deedee whoop.... fucking pieces of shit. They had big red inter tubes around them, so we were supposed to spray those down to reduce the friction from the kids bumping around.
I have a bit of a twist here... the maintenance guy had a kid who used to work summers there. I used to have about one day a week off... and on my one day off, this kid managed to fuck things up.
These bumper cars ran on twin 24 volt deep cycle marine batteries. This kid managed to plug a clearly marked battery into itself. Needless to say it exploded... almost in his face. A piece of white hot battery cable flew off and disintegrated into the industrial carpet. This kid had some burns on his arms and side of his face.
Amazing... the guy who is the most careful, the most intelligent when it comes to fixing and maintaining things, has a son completely the opposite.
Just something to think about I suppose... don't worry, more to come. This is the light stuff
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