Different Leads

For this post I will be trying out different leads for my memoir.

My original lead is:

"I was scared out of my mind. I wanted to turn around...

No. You can't turn back now, I thought to myself as I waited in the hot, boring, never-ending line."

There are 5 different leads.

1. Posing a question
2. Astonishing fact
3. Spoken words
   
4. Setting the mood
5. Arresting sentence

A. How many roller coasters have you ever been on? I'm scared of going on roller coasters, so I've been on only about two.

B. The tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world is Kingda Ka (which is in Six Flags). I didn't quite ride on that roller coaster, but I rode the biggest one I had ever been on only about a year ago.

C. "I'm scared! Let me go back!" I said to my mom as I waited in the long, hot, never-ending line.

D. The line was hot. Oh so hot. It seemed like the wait would never end...Until it was my turn. "Next!" The line manager called out. It seemed as if suddenly everybody had turned to face me. Now's the time, I quietly muttered to myself as I boarded the car.

E. I didn't know what to do. Turn back and be safe? But then that would give my sisters license to mock me forever. I had to do it.