If you didn't laugh...

Every year a friend of mine works on Dreamflight. The idea is that they send seriously ill kids on the "holiday of a lifetime", she does some magic, looks after them, and they generally make the world a cool place. Not only is it a great experience for the kids, it changes them and makes a lasting difference. So on the holiday this year is a 12 year old kid with cancer, so sick he is stuck in a wheelchair. He's in Disneyland, but because of the chair, unbelievably, the only ride he can go on is 'It's a Small World'. If you're not familiar with this ride, it's basically a boat trip through a scaled down version of the world, as the song of the same name plays over and over again. Clever huh? Disney categorise it as 'Whimsical Fun'. Interesting. I'd categorise it as hell on earth without the free heating. So anyway, he gets on and halfway round the ride breaks down. And we are talking complete and total meltdown. Stand Still City. This ride is over, finished, kaputt. Except... for one small part. One tiny little mechanism of this attraction soldiers on. Oh yes... the song is still playing; on and on it goes, looping over and over, 'it's a small world after all...' If you don't know this wonderful composition, here's a clip. It's the tune that inspired "I know a song that will get on your nerves". Agh, Pass me the pins, my eyes need sticking! So the poor guy is stuck there, stationary, unmoving, immobile for over two hours! Yes TWO WHOLE HOURS!! With nothing but this song for companionship. Finally they rescue him, and his helper says to him 'So, would you like to go round again?' And the kid, a comic hero in my now moist eyes, says 'Go round again? I'd rather have Chemotherapy!' What a Legend.