Upsy-Dasies

[bednobs]

When I was growing up there was a railway bridge and whenever my dad drove over it my tummy would fly up inside. I font quite know what it's called but the type of feeling uou get on s fairground ride.
As I got older it happened less so snd now not at sll. However my daughter gets it going over bridges.
What has changed? Am I just bigger and therefore more grounded mor affected by gravity ? Do seatbelts make it less likely? Was my dad just a poor driver

[barry1010]

I bet your dad was driving too fast over a hump back bridge causing the car to leave the road for a second, making you weightless and your stomach flip. All your inside bits become lighter - as you said, it's gravity.

[chelle7272]

Yes I remember doing that as a kid. My dad would speed up for the bridge on purpose.
I guess there was less traffic around then it's nose to tail on that road most of the time nowadays..

[mushroom25]

some years ago, it was reported on our local BBC tv news that a car had gone over a particular hump-backed bridge so fast, that it had left tyre tracks on the roof of an oncoming car........

[Hopkirk]

It used to be the sort of thing that Dad's amused themselves with, making the kids squeal over humpback bridges.
Perhaps we are more safety conscious these days. Perhaps the bridges have been adjusted.

[elliemay1]

I remember that feeling too from when I was young, had forgotten all about it!

[Old_Geezer]

But if bednobs' daughter still gets it, those explanations don't fit.

Must be some kind of age thing, I'd guess.

[douglas9401]

"some years ago, it was reported on our local BBC tv news that a car had gone over a particular hump-backed bridge so fast, that it had left tyre tracks on the roof of an oncoming car........ "

Sounds like somebody had been watching too much Dukes Of Hazzard.

[jaydj]

omg Yeah My dad did this to me and my brother when we was kids.... Thanks for the memory

[Maydup]

We have a humpty-back railway bridge near us which we go over every day. I drive it reasonably safely most of the time but if I take it too fast either by accident or to amuse a passenger it still give me the same old feeling.

[jno]

being so much more sensitive than many ABers, I get the same effect with speed bumps.