Years ago I had a really lucky afternoon at Moviepark, Bottrop (former Warner Bros Movie World Germany) on Bandit (former Wild Wild West: http://rcdb.com/id967.htm )
I already had had more than a dozen of rides at the park, when it began raining. Soon it was pouring cats & dogs (no donkeys though...?) and the queue on Bandit faded to about 30 or 40 people. hehe...
At the same time, it was still rather warm, Bandit began to get really "greasy" with keeping speed up to the end way better than usually. So from about 3 pm on I stuck to riding Bandit, most of the time just hopping out of the car, rushing around the station building, just in time to enter the train again after one intermediate ride without me.
Then it got even worse (with the weather, that is) so people fled the rides and what better could have happened. From then onIi could stay seated most of the time or just change car for over 1 1/2 hours.
With that heavy rain hitting your face, hard to keep your eyes open, hands in the air, raindrops stinging like needles into you palms it was definitely no fun any more... it was simply orgyastic!
I must admit that I lost count, but I can estimate about an overal of 65 rides during that day with approx. 40+ on Bandit.
Bandit got so outraged in its performance that floater air turned to ejector, and ejector turned to real pain, but what a lovely pain to experience! This got so far that with flying over the hills the upstop wheels made gunshot noises with the cars lifting from track, with you on the other side of the hill landing hard in an already "hard landed car". (Two kicks in the a** for the price of one, so to say.)
Hours of totaly mindless pure coaster bliss. I'll never forget.
There even was a grand finale to this. After rain had stopped at 5 pm i took a few ride on the park's SLC to "blow my clothes dry", then heading back for Bandit again to get a few more rides for the finish.
PA-Announcement: "Park blah attractions blah closed!!!"
With the announced "last ride" coming back to station, no queue anymore, people slowly getting out of the train, packing their bags...
Ride Op winking: "Come on, ONE MORE for ya"
redunzelizer
P.S. do i have to mention that i could neither walk nor move the other day?