Step Right Up
For a moment, Barrett Feller might have been the happiest 3-year-old in Texas as he ran ahead of his dad, Ronnie, to catch up to his mom, Renae.
“Go on now,” Ronnie prompted, “tell her what you did.”
“I rode that!” Barrett announced, pointing behind him at Pharaoh’s Fury, a colorful metal contraption festooned with lightbulbs. You’d recognize it instantly: a traditional carnival ride designed to induce centrifugal terror in amusement park fanatics. Willing participants get strapped into an open-air canister meant to resemble a royal Egyptian riverboat before the machine conspires with gravity to swing in semicircles both exciting and terrifying. Pharaoh’s Fury had inspired a newfound sense of bravery in Barrett, who shined like the sun with pride.
“What are you going to do next?” his parents inquired.
