ihavebeenfloated

Yesterday Tiffany decided it was a good idea to come up and take us to Knott’s Berry Farm. Although we were only there for about five hours, we managed to do just about everything in the park worth doing. We even went on twice, the first time was when we first got into the park and I hadn’t even all day yet. Long story short, about half way through the ride my vision started to white out and blur and I was two seconds away from passing out or puking all over myself. For being the first roller coaster I’ve been on in a year or two, it was sure one helluva way to start. We jumped on Montezuma’s Revenge after, a classic, and then onward to Xcellerator (which hits its top speed of 82 miles per hour in 2.3 seconds), which kicks so much ass I cannot even describe.

Only thing that sucked about the whole day at Knott’s was that we were both sweating non-stop, something that neither of us are used to and we both (me, formally) lived our lives at night and generally slept through the baking hot hours of the day. Sunlight, bad!

Later, I went over to Greg’s house where he was planning on having some friends over. By midnight, only one other guy had shown up, carrying a Ouija board in tow. We sat it down and started fiddling with it, and as I am a die hard skeptic I thought it was a little stupid. It took a while, but eventually we supposedly got a Billy Castro, and I asked most of the questions. He died in 1974 in a car accident, I asked if it was a drunk driver, he said yes. I asked if his wive was still alive, another Yes. Asked what his wife’s first name was, he said no. Asked if he has any kids, said No. Asked why, another no. Greg asked why he wouldn’t talk about it, and he said No.

The only moment that was cool was that I jokingly asked him to do something cool with the cheesy candles we had lit, and as the pointer moved over to yes, the flame on the left most candle doubled in size while the others stayed the same. Coincidence? Probably, as we asked him to do it again and he said no, and then later he said yes but nothing happened. After the second yes and the failure of candle, he circled over to the moon shape on the board and then went to Good Bye.

Other funny moments with Billy Castro: I asked him if he had any relation to Fidel, he said no. Greg asked if he thought that was funny, he said no. I said, “Come on, it was a little funny,” and he started to go over to yes, but then right back to no. When I asked him how he died, he spelled out “C A R R E C K” and I said something to the effect of, “Do you know wreck is spelled with a w or are you just stupid?” and the board went to “F” and “U”, which is slightly comical.

Also, I asked him if he lived in Whittier, he said no. Asked him what state, “C A”. Asked him what county, “L A”. Asked him what city, “Y A L”. Asked him if the city of Yal still exists, said no. Asked him what happened to it, “D O N T K,” I interrupted, “You don’t know, OK,” received a yes.

I couldn’t, for the life of me, find a city that matched up with the letters Y A L that ever existed in Los Angeles county in California, so I don’t know what that was all about.

I figured Greg was moving the pointer, as I didn’t figure the other guy was awake or smart enough to do it, but at one point Greg got up to get a beer and the pointer kept moving around for us two, which was weird, though we didn’t ask anything. At another point, Greg and I were just trying it and the pointer was moving and Greg just let his hands slide off, which made it look like I was moving it, but I wasn’t, so whatever that means.

I noticed that generally the pointer wouldn’t start moving until my arms got so tired from being held up that I couldn’t feel them nor really had any control over them. Who is to say that I wasn’t moving the pointer the whole time? I’m going to just come to the conclusion that Ouija boards operate off the subconscious of the using party, which is why we got probably the most boring “spirit” in the history of Ouija.

We did try a second time and got something different. I asked it for its name it would go to “Z” and then “X” and then “Q”, and then over to no, which is baffling. I asked it if it was an english speaking spirit, and it went over to yes. Asked it for its name again, and yet again it went over to the “Z” and we three got fed up with it and left the board alone.