gnewton34 Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 I live in a very small, rural community in Kentucky. The population of the county I live in is 13,237, the town I live in has a population of about 1,500. Yes, it's that small. Every year, in September the county holds it's annual fair. Every year, I try to avoid it like the plague. I see people I graduated with and that's never a fun experience for me. This fair is the most ghetto of the ghetto fairs. All the white trash, hillbillies and rednecks come out in full force. It's mullet and 80's hair overload. This year, though, they apparently got a new company to come in with the rides and everything. I heard through the grapevine that it was actually a little less ghetto. This being the case, I had to check it out. Me and some of my friends made a trek to the fair the last day it was set up and the night of the DEMOLITION DERBY!!!! My friends had a visitor in from Germany, named Nina. She came to our town about 10 years ago as a foreign exchange student for a year and came back to visit. She rocks. We all had a lot of fun with her. I didn't get to ride anything at the fair but it was fun just looking around and making fun of people. My favorite was the woman with the Nelson twins hair. I serenaded her with "After the Rain". Anyway onto the photos... "God's Gift. Shamaria, Xamaria, Tamaria" I don't even know what to say, so I'll end the trip report here. Hope you enjoyed. There was some sort of weird booth where they did t-shirts and stuff. This is the and stuff. "Hot Mama" Yeah. I took this picture for Casey. It's a spinning beer barrel ride that says "Casey's Barrel of Fun Rides". Swings. Yeah, I can't think of anything witty to say here. Nina with her prize, a teddy bear. Lisa, my other friend and Stacy's wife, joined the group in this picture. More pool. He won Nina a going away prize. This is Nina and my friend Stacy. He likes pool and they actually had a pool game. Go figure. Octopus and another cloud of smoke, mostly from the cool and hip teenagers who sneak off into the woods together after lighting up. Kiddie ride. You see random little kids wandering around the fair. I guess this is where they wind up. Requisite Scrambler. Bobsled ride. Wish I could've rode it. Some sort of hangglider ride, nobody was riding this thing at all. Mmmmmmm...blurry ferris wheel. This ride looked like a lot of fun, it was called the Hurricane. I don't think I've ever seen a fair ride move that fast. Ooooohhhhhh...pretty. Thanks but no thanks. I wouldn't even ride one of these on the midwest trip, let alone at the white trash fair. This is more of what you see when you walk in. Around every other corner, you find a long lost cousin. Joy. On to the fair... There is no real midway, it's just a big circle with rides and games spread throughout. And by the way, I love walking through a huge cloud of cigarette smoke. Another wrecked car, another FABOLOUS paint job. I love what they've done with the spray paint. A wrecked car. The paint jobs on the cars are FABOLOUS! Oooooohhhhhh, demolished cars. Fun. I think I just heard a redneck go "WOOOOOOO!" while holding up a beer. I think everyone in the whole county was at the Demolition Derby. Notice the mass amounts of camouflage and big trucks.
bobafett Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 Ha-Ha! I love ghetto fairs. Great report. I hope that the license plate with God's Gift on it belonged to someone and they were waiting to pick it up at the end of the night because if they were just randomly selling that, oh boy ! And maybe she is a hot mama to someone. Ha-Ha!
terrancew_hod Posted September 16, 2007 Posted September 16, 2007 Shamaria, Xamaria, Tamaria. Some mom needs her butt kicked. Anyway, there's not much that I would have rode either, being a person that can't ride anything that spins... but then I would have to find my fun in other ways; that is after finding a beer! Terry
gnewton34 Posted September 16, 2007 Author Posted September 16, 2007 Shamaria, Xamaria, Tamaria. Some mom needs her butt kicked. Anyway, there's not much that I would have rode either, being a person that can't ride anything that spins... but then I would have to find my fun in other ways; that is after finding a beer! Terry No beers here. I live in a dry county. Selling alcohol is illegal.
grinch1313 Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 Haha! Great ghetto fair trip report, Gary! I don't think I would have gotten on many of those rides. Some of them looked a little scary. Ok, more than a little scary...
gnewton34 Posted September 18, 2007 Author Posted September 18, 2007 Yeah, I love all the electric cords we get to walk over. Wish I'd gone earlier though, I would've tried some of the games and a couple of the rides. We literally went 2 hours before it closed down.
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