The Fair Doesn't Happen for Me Anymore
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I was in the elevator at work speaking with a colleague from the legal department and she voiced one of my primary preventives:
They stopped selling beer.
Couple this with the even longer gone absence of "Hoochie Coochie" shows and I pretty much don't feel the need to ever return.
Now I'm not much of a drinker, nor a carouser ... and those indulgences were something I saved for the fair and my rowdy friends who accompanied me there. Things were that way for a good many years until everything came to a screeching halt in the mid to late 90s.
The fair people chalk this up to some family orientation they perceive to be "wholesome" and I simply counter with the fact that paying customers should be considered as well.
Anyway, it's all a moot point at this late juncture. I recall my last visit being somewhat less than satisfying because the concessions were mostly broken, the people running them rude, unbathed, and unkempt. All in all I'd just as soon pass anyway.
I suppose the fair is for a subset of the populace these days. Those hoity toity denominational christian separatists running that particular show.
The guy running the thing has been entrenched for as long as I can remember. Perhaps a new person in charge, a fresh perspective, and an orientation that the fair is for everyone might be in the offing someday.