My Nemesis

My Nemesis is in the Market Square. I spotted it last night on my way home, and then this morning as the tram glided to a hault, there it was, orange, red, spiralled and tall, standing straight and mocking me.
I met my first Helter Skelter as a child, my Grandfather had taken us to Maidenhead for the day, and it stood so proudly in the middle of the funfair that me and my sisters thought 'hey why not' so we climbed the stairs while my Grandfather found a bench to perch on and await us shooting out the bottom one by one, like unwanted food spat out by a child. I didn't actually realise I had a problem with heights until this moment (much as I didn't realise I had a problem with small spaces until as a girl guide, I found myself half way through a concrete tunnel on an adventure playground, unable to go either forward or back)! But back to the Helter Skelter. I got to the top and my sisters were ahead of me, as you can probably imagine there was quite a queue of excited children behind us, the lady handed us a sack and the children infront climbed in and started disappearing down this hole, I remember peering over my sisters shoulder unable to see where this hole was going to, it seemed to be going nowhere but down. And then it happened, I panicked, I couldn't breath and I really really wanted to sit down and stop the world from spinning, but I couldn't, partly because there wasn't much room to sit and partly because I was afraid if I sat down I would be mistaken for being eager to go down that tunnel of death! So I cried, the lady took my sack from me and waved at my Grandfather from the top, he instinctively stood up, worried and as my sisters disappeared down the tunnel I made my way past the excited children and down the stairs to my Grandfather's arms at the bottom. No judgement, even my sisters didn't say anything, they just ran off to find something else to go on, we never really talked about it again, but everytime we went to a fairground from then on I would always steer clear of the Helter Skelter and it's tunnel of death!