Ok, so here's ours from this last week at
Disneyland Paris. Of course there were the usual marital meltdowns involving miscommunication and lack of listening skills, but this is the one that completely cracks me up.
DH in his mid 40's has always been afraid of doing coasters and drops. He loves speed, but is terrified of drops. He hates the feeling in his stomach. Over the last few trips to WDW we have slowly worked on this. He loves BTMRR, and 7DMT. And he worked up the courage to do Splash at the end of the trip which is the biggest drop he's ever done. He didn't like it, but he decided that he enjoyed the ride so much he could 'stomach' that one drop. I had also loaded him up on meclezine for the whole trip which helped.
So on our recent trip to DLP he researched and decided he was going to get brave. Reviews for RNRC were that it was speed more than drops. I've been telling him upside down loops don't give you the same feeling, just speed force which he can cope with. And he considered ToT. To prepare him for everything we thought doing the much tamer Toy Story Parachute Drop would be a good start.
He watched it, psyched himself up to do it. Knew how he should breathe to cope. He was shaking a bit, but he was ok. It pulled us up to the top and all of a sudden this 46 year old man is a 5 year old terrified child. He grabs me and says (having the worst panic attack I've seen) 'This wa a mistake, this was a big mistake. OMG this was a mistake'. I thought if he could he would have literally crawled out and off the ride. I honestly believed he'd scream down for them to stop it.
So we drop, and I tell him to breathe out. He says that works but wants to try holding his breath because that's what everyone tells you to do (honestly breathing out works better as you're not fighting with your diaphragm), so he does and says 'darn, your way works better'. Third drop, then final drop (which pauses extra long). I'm seriously worried for him. I think this is our whole trip ruined.
We get to the bottom and he turns and says 'That was awesome, I want to do it again!!'
He did that once more and he also did up doing RNRC 3 times (he still shakes before each time), but couldn't get him to try ToT.
But after that meltdown at the top of Parachute drop I'm so impressed he rode anything else LOL