Parasailing nightmare

Date: 1/16/2019

I was at Disneyland, about to go parasailing, which was an attraction there. I got in line to enter a small motorboat and be pulled behind the boat, eventually going aloft by way of a parachute. It was a bit scary because I saw a kid do it and nearly slam into a tree, but I decided to do it anyway. I got to try out the parasail and almost ended up underneath the boat, but that was just a preview and everyone had to pay for a full ride. Everyone started getting on the boat. The boat’s driver asked me to pay up front, just me, and that the price would be $40. That’s a lot, but I had already committed, so I took out my wallet and started looking through. All my money was pound notes but I decided that was OK and that I was actually in England. I tried to hand the driver a £50 note. I dropped the note and he went to pick it up, and somehow a giant clump of my hair ended up on the ground as well (the type I have to pick out of the shower after brushing). He picked up the hair and note. I thought he’d be disgusted, but his face was blank. I took the hair from him and told him nervously that I would just throw it away. I then asked him for change for the note. He sneered at me and said that I didn’t have to pay yet, he just wanted to make sure I had enough cash and handed it back to me. Suddenly the boat morphed into a car and I would have to go last even though I had been the first in line. I think there was an assistant on the boat/car. He looked like Norman Bates, very polite and well-dressed in a 60s sort of way. I started talking to him, and he teleported us to a small room with a projector. He started to tell me about his life using the projector. He had slides. The slides showed his life story. He started with pics of a younger version of himself, who looked like Young Sheldon. He explained that he had autism and had to work hard to learn social norms, like learning how to smile without looking creepy. When he wasn’t working as an assistant in the parasailing company, he volunteered in the neonatal ICU, where he spent time with the babies to give them care and human connection when their parents couldn’t be around.