Friday, July 6, 2012

Another Go-Kart Story

We (about 15 people) went to the go-carts today at the Bonshaw 500.

It is owned and operated by a very nice Korean man.

He is a pretty serious operator.

We all got into our go-karts and are ready, waiting for him to start each one. Everyone had a helmet, some motorcycle, some bicycle - all pretty funny looking. Some of the karts had a little sign on the back.

NO BUMPING

I say, "no bumping!!"
Adam says, "BRIAN, I'm gonna t-bone you" (or something similar)
Operator says immediately - "NO BUM-PING!! if you bum-ping, I take you OFF TWACK!!"

Landon and Jonah - getting ready

Nate TOTALLY into it! Lean Nate, LEAN!

he makes a good superman - he had glasses too.

Maura and Gordie
Operator - "She cwae-zzy"

After multiple T-Bones (myself included - dandy one on Brian) hitting tires, broken brake pedals (Andrew came into the parking area holding the brake pedal in his hand) and many laughs, we got out of our cars and put our helmets away.

There was a family waiting to come on after us. They were, as the operator said, Asian.

It was pretty normal until the end, when one of the kids came in to park - he pushed the brake but also kept the gas pedal to the bar, and quite panicked, flew into the parking area, dodged some cars, ran out of room and smash-o, right into the chain link fence that seperates the go-kart track from the vehicle parking area and the highway beyond.

When he hit the fence, his hands flew off the wheel and the back of the car came about 12 inches off the ground. Operator tells me - "he has sore stomach. when he hit fence, he hurt stomach, yeah." he also tells me, "Asians. this always happen with Asians. hitting fence, bum-ping, cwashing, always happen with Asians. They not good drivers, not used to pedals. They play video games, not used to real cars..."

Really??

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