The Old Codger was not watching where the cars were going and did not forsee that what goes up must come down. The cars reached the top of the hill and the Old Codger suddenly noticed that there was no track in front of him, only a big space, filled with sky.

The cars kept going forwards then started to go down and the Old Codger thought they were going to plummet to the earth. The woman beside him thought so too and let out a monster scream that could be heard on the moon and deafened the Old Codger for days. But worse was to follow. In the moment she stopped screaming to take breath her hand reached over and clasped his. It was a fiercely strong grip that crushed his bones together. He was too scared of women, especially this one, to make a scene and all he managed to say though teeth clenched shut by pain and fear was “unhand me madam”.

The woman was not interested in unhanding him and he struggled vainly to pull his hand free as the cars hurtled down, round a corner, which rattled the teeth in his head and shook his bones from their joints. Up they went again then down with the woman screaming in his ear and clutching his hand so tight it cut the blood off.

This time when they started to go up they did not stop. The cars went steeper and steeper leaning over backwards until they were upside down. Even the Old Codger let out a shriek. At that moment the woman surprisingly let go of his hand, however it was only a momentary relief because she let out another monster scream and threw her arms around him pulling his head so hard it banged against hers.

He briefly lost control of his senses and let go of his bag which he had been clutching close to his chest. The contents of the bag spilled out into the car and out of his pocket, and into space, fell his pet beetle Boris. The Taylor twins travelling in the car behind saw the beetle fall to the ground under the track.