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You're not going on it alone, and I'm not inclined

to go with you."
Ken suggested instead they try their hand at
throwing the balls at the pins in one booth. David

was disappointed, but he agreed to that. A little
while later, with twenty dollars less and a toy a
person could buy for a dime, they gave up on that

activity.
"Hey, look, Grandpa," David said. "How

about the octopus ride? That one doesn't go too
high."
Ken asked the ride operator, and the ride
operator assured him that none of the chairs went

more than ten feet off the ground. Ken decided
that was a ride they could take.

Ken paid the money, and he and David got
themselves buckled into one of the chairs. But
what Ken quickly learned when the ride started

was that it didn't just go in a circle like a merry-
go-round. Each chair also spun around. By the
time the ride finally came to a stop, Ken was not

only feeling nauseous, but he desperately needed
to find a bathroom.
They hurried around the fairgrounds to the

bathroom building and found a line snaking back
and forth among chains for about fifty yards. Ken

considered the situation and then knew what to do.
They had been at the fair for a long time, and it

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