joyfully exclaimed Jane. Mike received this news without any enthusiasm. Even in his childhood he hadn't been a fan of carnival rides, especially those that fling their passengers upside down, back and forth, and in other bone-rattling directions. Once, when his classmates dared him to go for a spin on a roller coaster, he very painfully hit his tailbone in the bottom point of the trajectory. There were, of course, calmer rides but Mike found them just boring; actually, usually only little kids rode them. Even an early age he preferred playing board games or assembling model cars or airplanes to visiting an amusement park. All the more he didn't see any sense in visiting a carnival now, at his respectable age of twenty-two. His girlfriend, alas, had the opposite point of view. And therefore, having indifferently muttered in reply, "So what?" Mike already knew perfectly well what was coming next. "Let's go there Saturday!" Jane met his expectations.
