This story is copied and pasted from a Messenger conversation between Frosty and myself. The original formatting has been left intact. -Michael

Frosty says:

By the way, did I tell you about my last "date" with the dance chick?

Michael says:

No, tell me.

Frosty says:

We were supposed to have the day just us, painting and such.

Frosty says:

But late Saturday. I got a call and she said her friends wanted to meet me.

Frosty says:

So I agreed and we ended up going to King’s Dominion.

Frosty says:

I have a secret to share with you. I have an unreal fear of roller coasters - The higher the coaster, the bigger the fear.

Frosty says:

So off we went. The day started pretty well even though in the back of my mind I was thinking things were wrong, as she spent the entire weekend with her friends, then blew our plans to spend more time with them.

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We shared a funnel cake. Then we waited in line for the Hypersonic.

Frosty says:

That thing goes from 0 to 80 in 6 seconds. Then shoots you straight up into the air, about 100 feet, then you come straight back down.

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Then through some turns.

Michael says:

Think I saw that on National Geographic last night.

The Hypersonic XLC.

Frosty says:

I tried to stay distracted as we waited in line for an hour and a half to ride this thing.

Frosty says:

There were people shaking their heads on the ride saying "Please Lord, please Lord", then, SHoooom. Off they went.

Frosty says:

So my pulse was racing, I started to panic at first, but then when I strapped myself in, and I was waiting for the Drag Strip lights to go from red to green, I shut my eyes (there was no frickin’ way I was looking that high up in the air, I knew how it looked from the ground and that was bad enough). Then Shooom - 80 MPH straight up and on to the straight down part.

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My body felt like it was turning upside down. When we were done, I was psyched.

Frosty says:

Susan would have been pissed. I went on the ride with a hot chick, and I never would have ridden the ride with Susan.

Frosty says:

I hope she was there and saw.

Frosty says:

The picture the machine took of me was hideous. You could see I was terrified. I had my eyes shut and you could see my uvula from the ground.

Michael says:

Uvula's that dangly thing in the throat, right?

Frosty says:

Right. Then we went on and through certain parts of the day the dance chick was seeming pretty distant, but other times she seemed fine.

Frosty says:

So we had lunch and on to the water park.

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First we hit the Lazy River where you just tube around. Then we hit the water slides. I was a novice at the body ones, so they let me take the slow one, and everyone else took the faster ones. The one I took was so slow I got stuck.

Frosty says:

Damn that sucked.

Frosty says:

Then we went straight to the big mofo. I nearly got woozy just from the 20 minute stair ride, not to mention the height. Then saw the dance chick’s friend’s girlfriend was panicking so they sent her. We heard an audible "Aahaahhhhhhhhahhahhhaaah, then silence and as her boyfriend leaned into the tube, “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh". Then they made me go. It was dark. Water was splashing over my

Frosty says:

face so I couldn't breathe, and was actually choking. Then I got to going so fast I was going up the sides of the tube on the turns, and my heel was burning from the friction in the tube.

Michael says:

That's cause you're hardcore.

Frosty says:

Water was getting in my ears. When I hit the bottom I thought I was going back up the tube more, cause you would go down, then go up a ways then down even faster.

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Then when I hit the bottom, I tried to breathe. When most people hit the bottom, they sit up. I still thought I was in the tube, so I breathed in a lung full of water. Then I hit the end of the tube.

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I tried to open my eyes, but I couldn't see, and I tried to stand up but fell down. The EMT’s rushed over, the lifeguard got me an ice water and they held up the rest of the people in the slide.

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Once they had checked me out, then they let the dance chick come down. I had gotten a bruise on my shin, from the Hypersonic XLC earlier, and now this.

Michael says:

And the last coaster severed my spine...

Frosty says:

 Then we went to get ice cream, and then we rode the Ricochet, as I went to get the bags, they rode the Drop Zone.

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We were there until 9:10.

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Then she drove like a bat out of Hell, and cranked the radio (more of the strange behavior). Then I thought we would have some "us" time. But I could tell when she asked me if I know how to get home from here, that she was calling it a night. Then she kissed me like it was goodbye forever. Then I went home. I was stupid. She sent me an email that said the nice guy stuff yada yada.

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And there I am. I faced my darkest fear, and that is what I got for it.