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Here are a few people I spoke with in my little stroll:

There's the guy who ran Break the Bottle.-- you know, throw baseballs at upside-down beer bottles and win a prize. This guy looked as callous as a guy cleaning broken glass all the time should look, but I got to talking with him and he's alright. I see he keeps a tarp on the ground and I ask him if that helps him clean each night, and he's like oh yeah. Good idea. I was going to play to try to win a Squirtle plush -- miedium-'ish in size, eighteen inches tall or something -- but that counts as a large prize and I know I ain't getting it. I ask about these little plush flowers nearby if they count as the small prizes, and he says nope -- large. I ask him what the small prizes are, and he points to a blue tub full of book covers -- BOOK COVERS. Plain, green, wordless, humorless book covers wrapped up like they're Pop Tarts. I was already done at this point, but then two kids came up and one of them paid for one throw. The kid hit a bottle pretty good, enough to spin the bottle around and lift it up from its holder for a split second...but it didn't break. The kids walked away and so did I.

There's the guy who promises kids 99 years old and younger are guaranteed to get a prize...already forgot what the prize was, but I didn't want it and I didn't want to pop enough balloons with darts to win the Sonic toy either. He was telling me he used to work the Big E, which is supposed to be one of the biggest fairs in the nation. By my memory of his description, basically it hosts 2,500,000 people when it's around since it's basically an epicenter for a lot of the northeast states at once. Sounds pretty rad!

There's the guy and woman running that air-rifle-shoots-out-the-red-star game. The woman compliments my Mega Man religion shirt but she's working harder so I'm mainly talking with the guy. He's new to the game and has been running it three weeks. I ask him if anybody won so far today and he says a kid won earlier today. I ask him how many people have won in the three weeks he's run it and he acts like he's counting in his head before saying twelve winners. I watched that video about carnival game scams -- I don't trust this guy for a second. I ask him if these pellets hurt and he tells me yes. I ask him if they could kill me and he shrugs. "Maybe, if it hits you in the Adam's apple." I tell him I ain't getting involved then since I have a big Adam's apple . We laugh and I walk away.

There's the guy who has you throw balls at three blocks standing up on each other. He offers me a free throw and then he takes about a minute to explain his suggestion of the best spot to throw -- between the bottom and middle block -- and how I shouldn't throw too hard to keep my toss manageable. I throw once -- drilled the top block. He gives me another throw and I knock those bottom two off. He's emphasizing how easy this is, but during this time he's also adjusting the blocks in a way that I don't think was very natural of the blocks. It's hard to describe...but okay, I get if you rotate the bottom block that the above blocks will rotate too, but something about the way they rotated, wobbled, and returns to their same place in a slightly-weird way made me not trust it. He tells me it's $5 to play and I say I'm good. His face drops to a skeptical scowl and goes "Oh, of course." Boo this man, boooooooooooo.
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