I completely forgot about my ferris wheel phobia at the time I wrote that ... no lie, when I look at one my stomach drops, and I have never been on one! I think I could be on one with the enclosed cage like things, but that is about it.
I think this stems from watching a Rescue 911 episode when I was yonger and the girl fell out and was dangling by like one leg upside down way way way way way up high and they had to climb up and get her.