Oh, for heaven's sake.

[apocalypsos]

Mika and Canaan were at the top of the water slide for forty-five minutes.

I'm going to pretend at least a third of those minutes were spent with Canaan blowing up Mika's cute wee pink swimmies so that I can focus on something other than the fact that the other thirty minutes probably involved an angry man physically intimidating a terrified woman and threatening to push her down a six-story-high incline. Because I'm apparently weird for finding that creepy rather than hilaaaaarious.

Comments

[neonhummingbird.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with all of this except objecting to the swimmies. Weirdly, I kind of respect the swimmies. She knows she's scared of water, so she brings a security blanket. The swimmies made her look like an idiot (which I'm sure she knew) but didn't hurt anything, and in a different situation, like just having to swim in a pool like the sisters last Race, might have actually helped her out a little mentally. Sadly, they were completely useless here even for that, but I give her little props for at least trying to think ahead about her issues, and being willing to look like a moron when facing them. (Too bad she looked like way more of a moron than she'd planned.)

Coming on the Race afraid of heights and water isn't great, but she'd successfully addressed both of those fears to some extent already. She went out on the water and up in the really high building. I think it's unfortunate that she ran into a task that so horribly combined both of those phobias, which was not predictable. On the other hand, I also don't think she could have bungeed unless it was a tandem, so... Yeah. Some props, but not a lot.

Everything else? Oh, totally. She was totally hoping someone would say she didn't have to do it if she cried enough. :P Ugh! "Whiny sack of pink sparkles," indeed!