"Visit to Cedar Point much like purgatory"

http://www.thetimesherald.com/news/stories/20040706/localnews/788226.html

Just a really strange, short article.

(BONUS: Lets see who catches the mistake!)

Found it "Consider the line for Millennium Force, the second tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. My husband and I waited more two hours to ride the MF. Is that insane, or what?"

She's wrong because its not insane to wait that long for MF, infact, that's a GOOD day during most of my summer trips to Cedar Point.

John

Actually, it's not the second tallest and fastest in the world. It is third behind TTD and Steel Dragon 2000. In 2000, I only waited 2 hours for MF and thought that was good. Each time I exited, there was a four hour wait. I guess this writer has been asleep since the 70's, becuase they should have heard of a coaster called the Beast and the 4-5 hour wait times it had

the lines dont really bother me, sure id rather have walk-ons but on most days where its not frying up its really enjoyable

She shouldn't be complaining at all anyways. if she expects walk-ons then she needs to go in September. There really is no need to complain anyways, she is the one who CHOSE to get into that line after it said "2 hour wait" on it. jeeze!

Considering that the entire article made only one paragraph's worth of point, let's just say there's a reason she's writing for a paper with a circulation of 30K instead of the New York Times.

Plus, a 2-hour midsummer MF line is closer to hell, not purgatory. It's only advantage over hell is that it is not interminable.

No, THey are not the same at all. that was just odd. o well who knows

Whoever complains about waiting in lines at CP shouldn't be there. I have never waited in line for more than 1 hour to ride MF and that is because I rode it in the early morning or very late night.

IT not the wait in line it just there not the same at all

Lol. People are complainers, so people will complain. You just have to know when to get in line is all. And there is too plenty of room to dance in line!

That articles reads like someone is trying to make a name for themselves.

Still as the saying goes, "A busy day at Cedar Point is better than any day at work."

It didn't strike me that the author was so much complaining about the wait as she was just trying to put an artsy-fartsy spin on it, hoping to impress people with her "deep thoughts".

I don't think too many of us actually ENJOY waiting in line, but we do it for the end result, a great coaster. The first year MF opened, I waited over 4 hrs. for a ride. Only got 3 rides then the park closed. Pretty expensive, but worth every penny. As a coaster enthusiast, I can't help but wonder exactly how much of my life I've spent shuffling around in cue lines for the past 25+ years. I'm guessing it's added up to a honkin' big chunk of time (I'm not as artsy-fartsy).

don't ya just hate people like that? "Oh wahhhhh!!!! I waited 2 hours in a line that I decided to enter." God, that idiotic woman should go to purgatory. If it's one of the best in the world than you better expect being in a big line then. Why didn't the idiot get a fastpass? no offense to all the blondes out there but this one (if she's a blonde) is a DUMB BLONDE.

Spoiled brats, is what I've got to say to that woman, her friends, and her husband.

Once that happened, my husband and friends knew they were about to be transported to a higher level of persecution as I, with dazed and far-off looking eyes, opened my mouth to ask, "Doesn't this remind you of Dante's Purgatorio?" <---Now that deserves a "Dumb Thing To Say" award.

Oh yes it's just like purgatory in line for those idiots, but I bet they don't think about it as being "purgatory" while they're riding it.

I bet people right next to those complainers thought they were in "purgatory" after listening to those people complain and whine all the time.

She went to the world's biggest amusement park in July. What exactly was she was expecting?

I worked in low-wage media too, but I knew that if I went to an amusement park (or movie, ball park, whatever) that I wasn't going to get any deals on soda. If you can't deal with that, you shouldn't go.

That's the most rediculous article I've ever read! Better articles can be found in high school newspapers.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but not many queues for rides have bathrooms, cheap drinks, and big open spaces for dancing.

-Eagle-

Heck, this woman probably just loves to complain. I waited for TTD for 3.5 hours only to find out that I was too big to ride it. I wasn't angry at Cedar Point. I wouldn't consider it purgatory since I was so close yet so far, nor would I complain to a newspaper about my "tragedy". I'm tempted to write to this woman and say "Suck it up lady. Some of us wait longer than 2 hours in sweltering heat for less." I waited in line for the Beast one time for 4 hours. I had a friend and we talked the whole way and despite the heat, it was totally worth it to ride.

I find it horribly tragic that she couldn't make conversation for 2 hours with her husband and friends. Social skills anyone?

This could be torn apart forever... I loved this part:

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We couldn't really relax, because once we got comfortable, the line moved. Our peace constantly was broken by the roar of the coaster above us and the screams of the tormented who were riding it.

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1) So she complains about the 2 hour line, but then complains again on how the line does move?
2) If you go to Cedar Point for a peaceful time, you won't find it in line for Millennium Force. Other side of the peninsula, lady.

I'd like to find the Cedar Point she was expecting - with cheap drinks, short lines, and peaceful times.

It's almost like half of the article is dark sarcasm and the other half is just flat-out bitching.

I can't tell which half is which.