On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:44:23 -0500, "Mike Marlow"
Both of our recollections are the defination of how we see things, but for
me - I never saw any smoothness,. It may have been there, but my other
fears may have masked it...

To this day, I can distinctly remember thinking the damned car was
going to fly apart. Sure, I was scared too on the metal coasters, but
it wasn't the same fear of them falling to pieces on me.