I keep getting asked about the carnival and in my last blog I talked a little bit about what it is like living in the fish bowl that is a carnival lot. But the pictures I put up were stock pictures from the internet. Since then I have had some pictures of my own developed and thought you guys might like to see where I live and work.

This is what we commonly refer to as The Ghetto’s, it is where the bunkhouses are lined up for the guys that work for the show.  It is not the best place in the world to live but I have actually lived in worse spots.  It can actually be a lot of fun when we are not working.  We all hang out (when I am feeling sociable that is) and will cook, grill out or just have a couple of drinks.

On the other hand this is my bedroom there is not a whole lot of space and quite often I am sharing it with someone else.  Each door into our bunkhouse actually opens up into two rooms, so for one door there can be 4 people living there.  In the picture you can see my cooler and the stand where I put my laptop when I am not at work.  All the things I need to survive for 6 months I put underneath my bed.  Not much room that is for sure.

This is where I eat if I do not feel like cooking or if there is no where local for me to go and grab some food.  The food is not bad but it is also not the healthest way to eat.  Al who own’s the cookhouse also does breakfast for us most weekdays.

Setup and teardowns can be difficult.  You have to level the rides and put them together piece by piece.  This is a pain staking process, but carnival rides are inspected by the state each and every setup, plus the ride guys do inspections on them every day, so in truth they are some of the safest rides you can go on.  In contrast, theme parks are only state inspected ONCE a year.  Which would you rather ride?

Every day I hear people complain about our ticket prices, yet they will go to the state fair and spend anywhere from $3 to $8 a ride, in contrast our rides are affordable.  A kiddie ride is only roughly $2 and a major ride is roughly $3 a ride/per person.  And come on people can you not read signs?  Most people ask me the same question over and over is “how many is a single coupon?”  Uhhhh duhhhhhhhh if you are single how many are there of you?  Dude’s a single coupon is 1 coupon.  The signs we have tell you how much tickets are and how many tickets it takes per ride.

Last but not least, a very old picture of my ugly ass.

So next time you go to the carnival or state fair, remember to read the signs and that the person in the box has answered your question about 800 times already today and honestly they are not trying to be rude, they are probably just tired.

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