FIND YOUR CARNIVAL RIDE

Carnivals, fairs, and amusement parks are some of the more interesting and enigmatic curiosities devised by the human brain.

I mean, think about this for a minute.

What do we do? We go through the grueling process of loading up young kids with all their various accouterments for the 30 to 40-minute trip to the fairgrounds on a steamy August day. Then, we brave excruciating lines, crazy cutbacks, stomach-churning dips and valleys, wade through the pickpockets and hawkers, and navigate a crushing, sweating, sea of humanity with its nauseating array of organic odors.

And that’s just in the parking lot.