Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

This Tall to Ride

Avatar for Irene Liu Irene Liu
October 22, 2025
0
53

This Tall to Ride

A little girl tries to get on a roller coaster that she is far too short for. A poorly paid ride operator is all that stands in her way.

Avatar for Irene Liu

Irene Liu

October 22, 2025
Tweet

More Decks by Irene Liu

See All by Irene Liu
Unboxed Scene 9
Avatar for Irene Liu grasslions
0
59
Smile!
Avatar for Irene Liu grasslions
0
5.2k
Pizza Cutter
Avatar for Irene Liu grasslions
0
5.4k
Deadline Soon
Avatar for Irene Liu grasslions
0
6.4k
Pizza Cutter (SBRF)
Avatar for Irene Liu grasslions
0
31
That boy needs some milk
Avatar for Irene Liu grasslions
0
550
Down in Chesapeake
Avatar for Irene Liu grasslions
1
780
No Crying in Baseball
Avatar for Irene Liu grasslions
0
170
Mooncake
Avatar for Irene Liu grasslions
0
1.5k

Featured

See All Featured
Typedesign – Prime Four
Avatar for Hannes Fritz hannesfritz
42
2.8k
ピンチをチャンスに：未来をつくるプロダクトロードマップ #pmconf2020
Avatar for Aki / @LoveIdahoBurger aki_iinuma
127
54k
The Psychology of Web Performance [Beyond Tellerrand 2023]
Avatar for Tammy Everts tammyeverts
49
3.1k
Visualizing Your Data: Incorporating Mongo into Loggly Infrastructure
Avatar for mongodb mongodb
48
9.7k
RailsConf 2023
Avatar for Aaron Patterson tenderlove
30
1.3k
Rebuilding a faster, lazier Slack
Avatar for samanthasiow samanthasiow
84
9.2k
Distributed Sagas: A Protocol for Coordinating Microservices
Avatar for Caitie McCaffrey caitiem20
333
22k
The MySQL Ecosystem @ GitHub 2015
Avatar for Sam Lambert samlambert
251
13k
Thoughts on Productivity
Avatar for Jon Yablonski jonyablonski
70
4.9k
Put a Button on it: Removing Barriers to Going Fast.
Avatar for kastner kastner
60
4k
Intergalactic Javascript Robots from Outer Space
Avatar for Vicent Martí tanoku
273
27k
Done Done
Avatar for chrislema chrislema
185
16k

Transcript

  1. None
  2. None
  3. None
  4. None
  5. None

  6. Dialog JO (off screen): Please wait until the vehicle comes

    to a complete halt before entering the-

  7. Dialog JO (off screen): Please wait until the vehicle comes

    to a complete halt before entering the-

  8. Dialog JO (off screen): Please wait until the vehicle comes

    to a complete halt before entering the-

  9. Dialog JO (off screen): Please wait until the vehicle comes

    to a complete halt before entering the-

  10. Dialog JO: Please wait until the vehicle comes to a

    complete halt before entering the-

  11. Dialog JO: Please wait until the vehicle comes to a

    complete halt before entering the-
  12. None

  13. Dialog JO: Hold on a sec

  14. None

  15. Dialog JO: Hey Kid!

  16. Dialog JO: Hey Kid!

  17. None

  18. Dialog KID: Blehh

  19. None
  20. None

  21. Dialog JO: ugh.

  22. None
  23. None
  24. None
  25. None
  26. None

  27. Dialog JO: Yeah...

  28. Dialog JO: Yeah...

  29. Dialog JO: You are nowhere near tall enough to be

    getting on this ride

  30. Dialog JO: You are nowhere near tall enough to be

    getting on this ride

  31. Dialog JO: You are nowhere near tall enough to be

    getting on this ride

  32. Dialog JO: How'd you even make it past the gate?

  33. None
  34. None
  35. None
  36. None
  37. None
  38. None
  39. None
  40. None
  41. None
  42. None
  43. None

  44. Action Notes [thwap]

  45. None
  46. None

  47. Dialog JO: Ryan..

  48. None
  49. None
  50. None

  51. Dialog Jo: Yeah, that doesn't count

  52. Dialog JO: Come on

  53. Dialog KID: How come he gets to go?

  54. Dialog JO: He's got a grown up with him

  55. Dialog KID: But that's not fair!

  56. Dialog KID: Can't you just let me go? I promise

    I'll be really good!

  57. Dialog JO: Ricky will fire me if I let you

    break the rules.

  58. Dialog JO: Just come back with your parents, ok?

  59. Dialog KID: Hmph!

  60. None

  61. Action Notes [SLAM]

  62. Dialog KID: What?!

  63. None
  64. None

  65. Dialog JO (off screen): Sorry about that folks

  66. Dialog JO: Please keep all arms, legs, and-

  67. Dialog JO: Please keep all arms, legs, and-

  68. Dialog JO: Please keep all arms, legs, and-

  69. None
  70. None
  71. None
  72. None

  73. Dialog JO: Kid.

  74. Dialog KID: (in a fake deep voice) I'm not Kid

  75. Dialog KID: I'm Tamantha!

  76. Dialog TAMANTHA(?): And I demand to be let on this

    ride!
  77. None

  78. Dialog JO: Right.

  79. Dialog JO: And you're not three kids stacked in a

    trench coat?

  80. Dialog TAMANTHA: Right!

  81. Dialog TAMANTHA: Whoa!

  82. Dialog TAMANTHA: Right.

  83. Dialog TAMANTHA: [humming]

  84. Dialog TAMANTHA: [humming]

  85. Dialog TAMANTHA: [humming]

  86. Dialog TAMANTHA: [humming]

  87. Dialog TAMANTHA: [humming]

  88. Dialog TAMANTHA: Wha?!

  89. Dialog TAMANTHA: Wha?!

  90. None
  91. None
  92. None
  93. None
  94. None
  95. None
  96. None

  97. Action Notes [raccoons growl]

  98. Dialog JO: Kid, what the f-

  99. Dialog JO: OH MY GOD.

  100. Action Notes [screaming]

  101. Action Notes [screaming]

  102. Action Notes [screaming]

  103. Action Notes [screaming]

  104. Action Notes [screaming]

  105. Action Notes [screaming]

  106. Action Notes [screaming]

  107. Action Notes [screaming]

  108. Action Notes [screaming]

  109. Action Notes [screaming]

  110. Action Notes [screaming]

  111. Action Notes [screaming]

  112. Action Notes [screaming]

  113. Action Notes [screaming]

  114. Action Notes [clack]

  115. Action Notes [baby wailing]

  116. Action Notes [baby wailing]

  117. Action Notes [screaming]

  118. Action Notes [screaming]

  119. Action Notes [screaming]

  120. Action Notes [crash]

  121. Action Notes [crash]

  122. None
  123. None
  124. None
  125. None
  126. None
  127. None

  128. Action Notes [thud]

  129. None
  130. None
  131. None
  132. None
  133. None
  134. None
  135. None

  136. Dialog JO: Kid!

  137. None
  138. None

  139. Dialog TAMANTHA: Oof!

  140. None

  141. Dialog JO: I'm gonna give you two options

  142. Dialog JO: I'm gonna give you two options

  143. Dialog JO: I'm gonna give you two options

  144. Dialog JO: I'm gonna give you two options

  145. None

  146. Dialog JO: You either take your phone

  147. Dialog JO: You either take your phone

  148. Dialog JO: and call your parents

  149. Dialog TAMANTHA: But!

  150. Dialog JO: or I will call them for you!

  151. None
  152. None

  153. Dialog TAMANTHA: I don't have any parents

  154. Dialog TAMANTHA: I don't have any parents

  155. Dialog JO: Oh.

  156. Dialog JO: I'm sorry

  157. None
  158. None
  159. None

  160. Dialog JO: Look kid

  161. Dialog JO: Normally this is called bioterrorism

  162. Dialog JO: Normally this is called bioterrorism

  163. Dialog JO: And you definitely should not be doing that

  164. Dialog JO: And you definitely should not be doing that

  165. Dialog JO: But if you promise to never do it

    again

  166. Dialog JO: But if you promise to never do it

    again

  167. Dialog JO: I'll take you on the ride once my

    shift's over

  168. Dialog TAMANTHA: Really?

  169. Dialog TAMANTHA: Okay! Action Notes [phone buzz]

  170. None
  171. None
  172. None
  173. None

  174. Action Notes [phone buzz]

  175. Dialog JO: Y-

  176. Dialog JO: You!

  177. None
  178. None

  179. Dialog JO: [sigh]

  180. Dialog TAMANTHA: Wa-

  181. Dialog TAMANTHA: Wait!

  182. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  183. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  184. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  185. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  186. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  187. Dialog TAMANTHA: But you promised!

  188. Dialog JO: Yeah, before I knew you lied!

  189. None

  190. Dialog TAMANTHA: If you won't go on the ride with

    me

  191. Dialog TAMANTHA: then...!

  192. None

  193. Dialog TAMANTHA: Then I'm gonna tell Mommy

  194. Dialog TAMANTHA: you took off my clothes!

  195. Dialog JO: You can't just say things like that

  196. Dialog JO: You can't just say things like that

  197. Dialog JO: You can't just say things like that

  198. None

  199. Dialog JO: Wait wait wait! It's not what it

  200. Dialog JO: sounds like..

  201. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  202. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  203. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  204. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  205. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  206. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  207. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  208. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  209. Action Notes [crowd murmuring]

  210. Action Notes [knuckles crack]

  211. None
  212. None

  213. Dialog DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RICKY RAT: I pay your insurance!

  214. Dialog DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RICKY RAT: Huh-ha!

  215. Dialog RICKY RAT: Huh-ha!

  216. Dialog RICKY RAT: Huh-ha!

  217. Dialog RICKY RAT: Huh-ha!

  218. Dialog RICKY RAT: Huh-ha!

  219. None
  220. None
  221. None

  222. Dialog TAMANTHA: Heh.

  223. Dialog RYAN (off screen): Alrighty all you rat-ical rodents!

  224. Dialog RYAN (off screen): Alrighty all you rat-ical rodents!

  225. Dialog TAMANTHA: Yay!

  226. Dialog RYAN: Please remain seated

  227. Dialog RYAN: with all hands, arms, and legs inside the

    vehicle at all times

  228. Dialog RYAN: with all hands, arms, and legs inside the

    vehicle at all times

  229. Dialog RYAN: And enjoy the ride!

  230. Dialog RYAN: And enjoy the ride!

  231. Dialog RYAN: And enjoy the ride!

  232. None
  233. None
  234. None