Stupid Guest Tricks

Being on the college program back in the early 90's, I had several "last days" when I went back to school after the summer. The two most memorable were when I was on Rafts and Keel Boats. On Keel Boats we took a dead head back to the far side of the island to park by Uncle Jed's cabin. I d...

Just tell them "Oh, gosh! I'm really sorry! See, your pass is one of the new ones that is on Central Standard Time so your 2:18pm pass won't be usable until 4:18pm. Sorry!" I know it's actually the other way around, but what guest has brains enough to figure that out?

Good God! I think that's a movie my wife saw on the Lifetime Network. It made her

This has been a running joke with me, my family, and my friends since I worked in the park 10 years ago. I can't count the number of people who came up to me after going on Pirates and asked, "Why did they change it?" It got to a point where it was easier to say, "Disney likes to do t...

I worked plenty of Grad Nights in my 4 summers, most of them on Pirates. My first one was on Mansion, though, not long after I started and was first trained. My first trip down in the ER I gave the spiel and everyone just lit into me with hoots and hollers and misc. badgering. The phone rang on the ...

One summer (1991ish) we had canoe races first thing in the morning and then I had a raft shift scheduled for later that morning. I had little sleep the night before so I went to the mansion to find a place to catch some zzzz's before my shift. I curled up comfortable in a balcony behind the ballroom...

Working on rafts could get pretty boring just going back and forth. We would make up fake signals to confuse the other raft (things like: After... Twain...crushes...canoes...come over). To the guests it looked like we had a really intense set of hand signals but we knew better. We also had raft race...

This subject has always cracked me up. I think I have discovered something about your average guest by watching my own kids at Disneyland. I have a 7 and 4 year old that constantly think that they have to go under ropes or squeeze between garbage cans to get to the entrance of an attraction. I guess...