There was a benefit at Sparrow Pond, I don't remember for who, but it was a pretty big one. We only knew a few people there, for the massive amount of people that showed up. Everyone was gathered at tables, and a slideshow of a man and his family played on a humongous white screen, playing from a projector. It was fall and pretty close to Halloween. If you're familiar with this area, then you'd know that Sparrow Pond puts together a haunted hayride for Halloween, and if you didn't now you do. Anyways, people were riding the hayride, and you could hear the screams of people from afar. I'm a big scaredy cat, not even sugar coating it. So, I do admit I usually do not like anything remotely scary, but then I saw little kids getting off of the ride. I thought to myself "Hey, it can't be that bad if little kids are going on it, right?" I decided to go on the hayride.
So I grab one of the only girls I knew at that benefit and tell her we are going on the ride together. We head straight for the door, but then it begins to pour. The rain is super cold, and the wind is blowing really hard. After about 30 seconds of trying to convince ourselves it'll stop, we decide to go sit back down at a table. We sit at the table for what seems like forever, but probably only about 10 minutes. The rain is still gushing from the sky, so we head over to the arcade.
By the arcade a bunch of boys were playing pool. They seemed about our age, but we didn't want to ask. My friend and I started playing the claw machine when one of the boys walked up to us and asked us if we've been on the hayride yet. We said no...he called us chickens, so we marched straight on the ride, in the pouring rain, cold pouring rain.
I grabbed a big umbrella, and my friend and I sit on the hay bales covered in plastic. We sank into the cold plastic like an awkward deep sitting couch. My friend told me we needed to annoying the boys that were sitting next to us, since they were so rude we would return the favor. We decided to scream as loud as possible, even if we weren't really that scared, but let's face it...I'd probably be that scared anyways.
The ride started, and people ran beside the wagon to scare everyone. Now, the people were not allowed to touch the passengers, so the passengers weren't allowed to touch them, which is respectable, until someone gets too close. The rain kept pouring down, and the the wagon took a trail into the woods. We heard a car in the wood turn on, and chainsaws up ahead. I was holding the umbrella with a pretty tight grip because the wind blowing pretty hard. The wagon was driving by huge, jacked guys with chainsaws, and they were waving them around. One of them got too close to my friend's bubble, so I did what any reasonable person would do by reflex of course; I hit him with my big heavy umbrella.
After I did the woman who was operating the ride made to announcement that "Please do not hit the actors. You will be escorted off the ride!" We all couldn't help but laugh, even the boys. I made people laugh in a kind of scary situation. The ride carried on, and my friend and I continued to screamed the loudest because we wanted to. The ride came to an end, and we jumped off the wagon. We were completely soaked from the rain. The rain water had made puddles on the plastic cover on the hay bales, so we were basically sitting in puddles.
As my friend and I got off the ride the group of boys told us we were loud and we just looked at them and said "We know," and walked away. We had so much fun, but we both agreed that next time she'd hold the umbrella to avoid anyone else getting hit. We spent the next 20 minutes trying to dry underneath the bathroom hand dryers. When my friend and I went back to the arcade the boys didn't both us again.
