Smoking a joint on the cable cars did not make you cool. There aren't as many cool people in the world as there have been who got high on a cable car going over an amusement park.
However.....Smoking a joint, then dropping the roach (not the kind in the waffle cone bin) >100ft to the ground and then picking it up after you get off the cable car made you cool.
Other things that were cool (or felt cool at the time) at AW:
-Riding Greezed Lightnin' repeatedly on slow days. To hell with staying on the ride. We got out, ran through the line every time and got right back on. 44 times in a row the last day I went in 1999.
-The back seat of the Texas Cyclone before it became an old, slow shell of itself.
-Watching my idiot friends pretend to sing at the karaoke-music video thing that was by the Wagon Wheel
-Flipping the bird at the camera that captured you going down the loop on Batman: The Escape
-Going alone, most everywhere and every time I went. I traveled with people but I was the cat who raised his hand every time they called out *is anyone up here riding alone?*
-Staying in line for two hours for the hot new ride that turns out to be lame *coughcough*MayanMindbender*coughcough*
-Getting stuck on the Excalibur/Dexter Freebish E.R.R. because some moron up front decided to climb out of his seat
-Almost coming out of the seat myself on the drop when riding the rear seat for the first time (I was like 8 or something)
Plenty more....those are the memories that stick out.