Take away, take way, this house of mirrors
A week go we drove to the parking lot of a megachurch in a former Farmer Jack's supermarket that I, and many people on the neighborhood Facebook group, would have sworn was the former K-Mart. No; the former K-Mart is a couple blocks up the road and is now a self-storage place. We were there less for the chance to be near a megachurch than to go to the carnival. There was a small fair in its tenth day or so, and who brings a fair around this time of year? Especially for that long a visit? But we didn't want to miss it, both for the fun and because 
bunny_hugger found the company sometimes brought somewhat rare rides.
The fair was very small, filling maybe a third of the parking lot, with two rows of rides and one of midway games. They didn't even have an ice cream vendor, defensible given how cool the month has been. It also charged $2 just to enter the grounds, plus a buck a ticket, with most rides being three or four tickets. They had only the one kiddie roller coaster, not exciting enough for us to think seriously about riding. They did have a kiddie ride with a cartoony dog head figure that we recognized from the kiddie coaster at Fantasy Island, from back in our 2019 visit, so I guess those fiberglass dogs really get around.
And they had a Ferris wheel, a small thing we were allowed to ride the chariot on. What we couldn't do was figure out the manufacturer. It's a tiny one, a bit larger than the kiddie carousel at (say) Conneaut Lake Park. We never did find a maker's mark we could read, although I took a picture of the thing that looked most like a nameplate. It's still sitting on my camera, not yet loaded onto the computer. Soon, I promise. You're going to see all my pictures of this.
The most unusual ride and the one that confirmed we'd spend time there was a Break Dance. This is a platform ride, four cars rotating around an axle that's itself on an axle, much like a Calypso or even a Scrambler. But the cars spin freely on the ends of their arms, and will tip forward so you get that little extra axis of disorientation. bunny_hugger remembers riding one at Coney Island (New York) to the point of nausea and has been looking for another experience slightly less intense than that. Would this be the one?
No, it would not. It started out promising and disturbing enough, accelerating backwards in a way we could not have taken had it gone on indefinitely. But the reverse acceleration didn't last too long, and while the cars spun quite well, they never reached the out-of-control continued spinning that would be too much. And while the ride went on a good long while, it stopped at just the right point to not be too much for us; another minute or so and we might have started regretting the ride. As it was, this was a good ride and part of a nice little evening excursion.
Besides that we had a small sampling of what's good about fairs, which is to say a heap of fresh-made fries. Also a couple people complimented bunny_hugger's Pac-Man earrings, for good reason. The compliments encouraged her to wear them to our activity for Sunday, a big thing I intend to tell you about shortly.
Trivia: The design certification review for the 'parasol', a replacement heat shield for the Skylab station, was held the 23rd and 24th of May, 1973, and the certificate of flight worthiness for the new hardware granted. Source: Skylab: A Chronology, Roland W Newkirk, Ivan D Ertel, Courtney G Brooks. NASA SP-4011.
Currently Reading: When Giants Ruled The Sky: The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship, John J Geoghegan.