Carnivals, fairs, and amusement parks are some of the more interesting and enigmatic curiosities devised by the human brain. What do we do? We go through the grueling process of loading up young kids with all their various accouterments for the 30 to 40-minute trip to the fairgrounds on a steamy August day. Then, we brave excruciating lines, crazy cutbacks, stomach-churning dips and valleys, wade through the pickpockets and hawkers, and navigate a crushing, sweating, sea of humanity with its nauseating array of organic odors.

And that’s just in the parking lot.