And so the truth comes out
Today Gary’s mom and I made a stop to Ultimate Software, where Gary worked. He LOVED working there. I went to drop off this beautiful plaque that I had made with our family photo that The Yap’s took of us on Mother’s Day last year. I wanted something to say thank you for everything they’ve done for us this past year, I figured a card wasn’t good enough.
Well we were ending our tour of the building and one of Gary’s coworkers, Amanda, was telling us about how they all still talk about Gary riding The Hulk (at Islands of Adventure) 7 times in a row. Long story short, back in September of 2008, just a month after Gary started working at Ultimate, they had a company shindig at Universal Studios in Orlando, and he was not only invited but so were Mikey and I. So we went. We started off the day at Universal Studios, ended that park with going on the Mummy ride, which is a slight roller coaster ride and when Gary got off of it he felt a little queasy, but no one knew this but me.
We continued onto Islands of Adventure. I LOVE roller coasters so I was excited about going there. Every roller coaster we hit Gary would back off. He’d tell me that he’d stay behind “knitting” like an old lady. 
But that was our little inside joke, NO one knew this. I want to say while we were at the park we ran into some of his coworkers and he told someone that he had ridden the Hulk 7 times in a row and then started to feel a little queasy. He told me to not say anything on facebook about it because he wanted to be all macho with his new coworkers.
So it was rather funny when Amanda brought that up today. It’s almost like Gary wanted me to set the story straight once and for all. I gave Amanda this look like, ummmm yeah that’s not quite what happened. I asked her if she wanted to know the truth, and she said of course. So I told her the truth about how Gary didn’t go on a damn roller coaster ride that entire day except for the mummy ride which I hardly consider a roller coaster. She started laughing and laughing. And so the truth comes out. It’s almost like I was meant to tell her, it would never have come out had she not even mention the Hulk story. 
Sorry Ulti-peeps, Gary meant well with his lavish Hulk-riding stories. He truly used to be a roller-coaster junkie but as he got older, as he’d say “he started to grow a vag”.
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A recent widow and single mom doing my best to survive on my own.
Last year I told Gary that I'd raise $1k at the 2010 walk, please help me reach my goal. This year Gary is one of the Honored Heroes for the walk so its even extra special to me. :) Just click on the Sponsor Me image to be taken to my fundraising page. Thank you!!!
Help me get to my 1st Half Marathon in Walt Disney World where I will run in memory of Gary :)
Started to grow a vag… lol! For real, I could just punch him right now for taking me for a fool! That’s what I loved about him though, he was always talking shit but having fun. I miss him at the office
Love you and Mikey, Sam. If it wasn’t for G, I wouldn’t have met you guys. You and I will have to ride the Hulk together in memory of Gary. 
This is hilarious! Thanks for sharing…
Amanda, I’m totally in for a ride on the Hulk in memory of Gary. You think you can do 7x in a row???