I am not allowed to ride coasters this year!

Joey Stewart said:
"I can't believe the females haven't jumped in on this topic yet."

Like I said... this is far too much of a sausage party.

Steph doesn't have the riding stamina (or perhaps the interest) that I do, but she doesn't have my testicles jarred and shelved either. We do stuff without the other all of the time. With me it's often amusement related, with her it's often biology related. Especially in these unemployed days, we'd kill each other without a little "alone time."

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coaster chaser said:
My wife says that we are not going to any amusement parks this year.She says that she is burned out(can you beleive that)Plus it is hard to take a 1 year old to an amusement park anyway.Would all my fellow Buzzers do me a favor and ride one extra time for me.I will be there in 2003-Bank on it!
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You will never forget the name........GOLDUST

Let me ask you this? Dose she have to stop doing something she loves to do?
Everyone needs a break now and then to keep form pulling each other hair out or getting on each others last nerve. I see nothing wrong with a park visit once a month or something.
Chuck, who understands the little one and hopes to see you around :)

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Charles Nungester
167 coasters and hopes to be over 200 by the end of 2002 :)

Fiance loves coaster but not quite as much as I do (I am a freak like the rest of ya! hehehe) so I take a road trip with a girlfriend at least once a year. Last year I dragged her to BGW, PKD, & SFA in the spring and Niagara Falls (SFDL & Martin's Fantasy Island) in the summer. This year we are planning a trip to Toronto--so this means Paramont's Canada's Wonderland for me! woo-hoo!

You want a female response? For one, if my husband wants to do something I don't want to do, I let him do it. And the same is true in reverse. I LOVE coasters, my husband will ride, but can live without them, especially if it means standing in a line more than 20 minutes. We have an agreement, tho. If I attend his drag racing events with him, and there is a coaster nearby, we hit the coaster. That's how I got to ride Shivering Timbers last year, and will likely get to PKI and some PA and east coast parks this year.

As for very young kids, it depends on the child. Mine would have been bored stiff before he could ride the coasters, not to mention one of us would have to keep him happy while the other was standing in line. So we opted not to take him until he was tall enough to ride the coasters.

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I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead

If you can't go to a park this year at least go to your local fair. That way you can get your fix and she can do something else. Good luck.

My wife does not ride roller coasters for the most part unless they are really tame and have no big drops like Iron Dragon at CP. Anyways, it is all about comprimise. My wife and I were just out in Florida last week doing what I like best, going to the theme parks. Did I ride the coasters the entire week? No. Did I ride any coasters while I was there? Heck yeah! Some of you single folk out there (or those that have a spouse or significant other that also loves coasters) can take 100s of laps on certain coasters. I had maybe 20-25 total laps the entire week we were there. With the rest of the time for her we went to shows, we spent a day out at the coast (although I will say you can get some amazing air in a cigar boat doing 60 mph on the Gulf of Mexico), and spent some time with some friends she knows out there. We split our time together evenly and everyone is happy. During the regular season I will sometimes go to Great America on my own too and that way I get alot of the coaster jones gone and then she doesnt have to suffer through as much coaster time when both of us go to Six Flags.

It sounds to me that your wife doesnt want to comprimise and that you two need to talk this one out.

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Bob Hansen

New Top 5:
5-MF; 4-X-Flight; 3-Hulk; 2-Kraken; 1-Raging Bull

coaster chaser said:
My wife says that we are not going to any amusement parks this year.

Tell her that she must go without buying shoes all year, too!

As for all the "I will never let a women tell me what to do" comments .. You're all very nieve!! :)

Cam.

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Cameron Silver

As for all the "I will never let a women tell me what to do" comments .. You're all very nieve!!
Cam.

Not nieve, been thru 2 marriages that sucked because I did what they wanted me to do and got burned both times. I am much smarter for the wear ;) My current fiance is cool as hell in the respect that he have for each other which by the way is very much.

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Someone said I'm a pathetic loser because I copy CD's! I copy them for myself. Yup i'm a loser.

Our "working agreement" is that I mostly only drive you guys nuts about coasters (LOL, like you all aren't ALREADY nuts, at least about coasters). We take our vacations, and plan at least *some* time away from "amusement" parks. We'll go to state and national parks, museums, historical places of interest (which we BOTH enjoy), and the like, and it keeps her from getting *too* coastered out. Actually, I have to agree with her on this point...it's NOT the coasters, it's ALL the people (the "hated GP", lol) and the lines...

Feeling sorry for you, cc...

If you are taking vacations only for coasters, you are missing a lot.

My wife and I always schedule certain things when we vacation. One is one full day at an amusement park for me. Another is a day of shopping for her. Lately, I've been trying to see a baseball game every time. And we always plan to relax in the hotel swimming pool, because that's what she likes.

Here's my vacation for 2002: We are driving to Hershey, but on the way there we're stopping to see the Frank Lloyd Wright house, Fallingwater. When in Hershey, we're visiting HP, of course, but also the chocolate factory and the nice restaurants, shopping, etc. We are also spending one day in Lancaster and one day in Gettysburg. And on the way back, we're spending the night in Pittsburgh and catching the Reds vs. the Pirates.

Would I like to forget about Gettysburg and go to Knoebels for a day? Yes. But in the interest of compromise and broadening my horizons (and keeping my wife and I both happy), I don't.

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You can't spell "dishonorable" without "honorable."

That sucks you can't ride coaster this year.

Hey Den, my 1st 2 wives were not anything like that..lol. Everytime we went on vacation,it all had to be where they wanted to go and do. I got lucky this time, as my new wife loves parks and coasters. I told her we can go and do anything she wants to do too, so now i'm in the same boat as you, which I think is very cool that i have FINALLY met the woman of my dreams, a real winner.

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Beer, my soon to be wife, coasters, and the FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Is this a great country or what!!

Den, I had a teacher in high school (let's just say a while ago, OK ;) and he was BIG into architecture. Falling Water is a place I must see on one of these trips up North...always been my "dream home". Gotta wonder what Wright, or Pei for that matter, would have done for a nice wooden coaster design...can't say as to the RIDE, but it sure would LOOK beautiful...and would fit in with the "terrain"...

My wife is a "coaster-liker" she'll ride them but she can't do the coaster marathons that I like to do. But, thankfully, she is open to let me go on short trips by myself so I can feed my addiction to coasters.

Last fall, I went to SFMM for three days...but she also went with me to CP for two days and SFGAm twice.

This year, (so far) ;) I have convinced her to go to SRM (I "bribed" her and agreed to a trip to a Bonsai farm on the way down) and possibly IB for opening weekend. She's letting me on my weekend of coasters (reluctantly) the weekend of CMania where I'll hit CP-Kennywood-PKI-SFWoA in four days.

She doesn't understand my "need" for these rides, but she has a hard time saying no to me to ride them as they have been the catalyst to me losing close to 50# since last June...now as to how things will change once we have a kid or two...I have a strong feeling that her "openness" will diminish - but that's not set in stone either because I probably will stay home with the little ones and might need to get away once in a while...

Isn't Falling Water falling into the water?

Yes, I heard a fatal flaw was found in Wright's work, and that many of his masterpieces are falling down, including Fallingwater, which is closed until May. Good thing my vacation is in July.
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You can't spell "dishonorable" without "honorable."

coaster chaser said:
My wife says that we are not going to any amusement parks this year.She says that she is burned out(can you beleive that)Plus it is hard to take a 1 year old to an amusement park anyway.Would all my fellow Buzzers do me a favor and ride one extra time for me.I will be there in 2003-Bank on it!
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You will never forget the name........GOLDUST

*sounds of a whip*

All the younger buzzers(including me) all learned our lesson today... "Don't Get Married"
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As a female with a boyfriend who like others only "likes" coasters where I "love" them, I totally agree that comprimise is the way to go. When we go to our home park SFWoA we spend 1/2 day on the ride side and 1/2 day on the animal side. This way we are BOTH happy.

Another question...kinda off topic....how many of you take trips to parks by yourself? I have a chance to go to Disney for a week, but I would have to go by myself. If you were me would you go?

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There is NoLimit when it comes to Roller Coasters

DIVORSE!

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Cedar Point gets "twisted for 2002"