> > > Why, I've often wondered, do people hold their hands over their head when riding a roller coaster?
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> > If you don't hold them over your head, you're most likely instinctively using them to brace yourself; roller coaster purists believe bracing yourself lessens the fun. famous tried to get us to do that when we visited New Hampshire's local teeny weeny roller coasters at Canobie Lake Park. I'm undecided about whether it made a difference or not, but the wind felt good, so I kept doing it anyway.
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> Good morning, Sam. You hit the nail on the head. The few times that I've made the mistake of riding one of those things, my hands were very busy holding on or covering my eyes. They should put barf bags on those things like they do on airplanes.
> Howard

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Me, I love all those thrill rides, and I never can get enough of 'em. But I have an uncle with an amazingly weak stomach... you know those kiddie swing rides, the ones where they have this carousel-type-rig, except a little faster, and rather than plastic animals, they've got swings with extremely long chains? Well, he tossed his cookies (and I mean -tossed-) on one of those, just at the worst possible moment. From an arial view, it probably looked like a pretty little spiral spreading outwards; but from the perspective of the many onlookers, it probably looked like a dark line that slowly grew, grew, grew, and then slammed into them at high velocities.

Just some food for thought.

-Enig"quite the appropriate subject line, eh?"ma