rageous

i have been lurking for a long time here. it all started when i went to ki for my birthday last year. i live on nky so it isn't a far travel, i just don't go often. last summer was the first time i had gone in at least five years. myself, i had never rode the ride. i am twenty, and in SOB's prime time, i was much too "young" to ride that ride, as my mom would tell me. what brought me to this website: the sun was setting and my friends had gone off to ride top gun/flight deck. i was watching the other rides when i heard someone talking about that "eye sore." an outsider, of course, whom had no idea of what it was or the amount of people for/against its lively hood. until that moment, i never paid attention to the fact that it was sbno. i saw it sitting there, with the sun going down, and it just looked miserable. the lady, the outsider was right, in my opinion. it was an eye sore. for me, it isn't about the ride so much. when i was a kid, my family and i would go to Kings Island weekly, i'd say. the SoB being shut down for me is another piece of my childhood slipping away. i remember wanting to ride all the "adult" rides my brother got to ride. i always said i would ride SoB when i was older. do i want to? not now, no. I am just one of those people who refuse to call the new names by anything other than pki names, and really, wouldn't recall their new names if it weren't for this site! those names are what i know and love. change--such a dreadful thing. it looks sad, basically my two cents. which i know has been said over and over. although it costs them nothing, i hope for 2013 or even 2014 they focus on that area. that giant, lonely track just sitting there, yes causes so many questions (& because of those questions, people like me ene up lurkers here) but again, my opinion, it kind of takes that fun and excitement away for just a second. it also made me doubt the ability of ki's safety... but only for a minute until i decided to ride something else. anything ki could do to it, i could accept with open arms. i, like many, just want to see SOMETHING! Even a restaurant would do... at least it'd be operating