Parenting at its finest

[kimpossible33]

Not really about parenting, but while we're on the topic of teens acting like... typical teens....

I was in the singles line for Splash and I got put in the back, behind a group of other teens. They were SO obnoxious throughout the whole ride (of course, it's a private log and I was the only one they didn't know, a fellow teen and on my own, anyway) and after the last drop before we got back inside the mountain, they started splashing each other. So at first I was completely disgusted, considering all the barf, crap, spit, algae, and probably some little fishies that had been in that water, ew, and I was getting splashed too a bit so I felt like telling them something (and was glad for the moment that I was not "verbally restricted" as CMs are). Fortunately, before I could, a CM said over a P.A. or whatever the heck is on that ride to stop splashing and they stopped. (So thank you, mystery CM.)

It's one thing to get splashed by that water (and duh, it was SPLASH Mountain), but it's another thing to stick your hands in it and throw it on yourself. Also, people don't NORMALLY drink out of the Rivers of America, something I'd like to tell this one disgusting kid I saw.

Teenagers... you give 'em an inch, and dey swim all over you.

[aliceindisguse]

Also, people don't NORMALLY drink out of the Rivers of America, something I'd like to tell this one disgusting kid I saw.

Actually the sick part is that people do drink Disney dark water quite often. It's disgusting and it makes me want to yack everytime I see it.

Edited by Polar33: Fixed error in BBCode

[screnwriter]

It's one thing to get splashed by that water (and duh, it was SPLASH Mountain), but it's another thing to stick your hands in it and throw it on yourself. Also, people don't NORMALLY drink out of the Rivers of America, something I'd like to tell this one disgusting kid I saw.

Teenagers... you give 'em an inch, and dey swim all over you.

Okay, I gotta cop to this. Sorry folks, but as a Cast Member (at the time of this story) I guess I shoulda known better...

I was in the park one FREAKIN' HOT DAY in August of '96, I guess. My best buddy Marty and his cute teenage niece and I and we went on Splash Mountain. I reached down into the water and threw some up on Marty. He turned and said (in a very harsh voice) "Patrick, STOP THAT!!!" then procedeed to SCOOP a huge wave of water over me. That water also splashed the couple behind us in the log (hmm, Freudian imagery? The water in Splash Mountain is as filthy as a toilet and we ride in 'logs'...). Luckily, this other couple got in the spirit, and we all splashed the hell out of each other. By the time we got off the ride, all three of us (and probably the other couple) were SOAKED to the skin. I mean, we couldn't have been wetter if we'd fallen in. A CM took us aside and told us - in no uncertain terms - that we'd be escorted out of the park if we did something like that again.

Luckily for us all - no thyphus, salmonella, venereal disease, and I never ended up voting Republican - so I guess no harm done.

[Zazu]

... and I never ended up voting Republican - so I guess no harm done.

Oh come now. The DL dark water system is disgustingly filthy, but it's not *that* bad!

[GMC]

yeah tween girl today at indy while i was at rotunda, comes up with her party of alot and a wheelchair, i don't care about large wheelchair parties, but this girl starts blabbing about. "this is dumb, i've already seen the safety film!" and then to prove it she starts quoting it, but of course she's nowhere close, and since i really have no liking for girls of her age, because 90% are too ditzy to function, and the other 10 are usually depressed, and bathe... when they feel like it (I can say this because i was friends with alot of them.) So i looks at her a says, "That's actually not the safety film"
"Oh"(embarassed) "well if i flash you will you let me skip it?" (trying to hide embarassment by trying to embarass me)
"I can have Security escort you out of the park if you flash me."
"haha, i was just kidding" (now rather quite embarassedand trying to one up me agian, i go in for the kill)
"and state law requires that EVERY person sees it EVERY time before riding the ride."
And from behind her comes a voice "She knows already"
"Oh hi (fellow Conductor/archeologists name)" so yeah i wound up embarassed, but i didn't quite recognize him at first, mostly because he was dressed normal. And i was too busy to stay embarassed. ( I didn't know that rotunda could ever be quite so hectic!)

[wazowski]

Howdy all, I'm new here but I already have lots to share.

Yesterday I came in around 12:30 and started at Pinocchio's Daring Journey unload. I was giving my usual spiel 'Welcome back from your journey folks, please exit out to your left, watching your step. Enjoy the rest of your day and have a wonderful holiday" and as normal people were just completely ignoring me. No harm done.

Finally I had a group of non-english speaking guests with an english speaking child who really really wanted to ride again. She was pulling away from her mother...my station was beginning to back up...suddenly she gets away from her mom, runs under my unload 1 chain...I hit station stop and grab onto her clothing but she rips away...she runs down the entire station... ...gets to dispatch...finally the mother screams and begins to chase after her child...then, we e-stopped from station backup/guest out of bounds.

As if this couldn't get any better, I begin unloading guests from the track switch back and when I get to the car in the last hold zone the man asks me 'Was that my daughter that caused the ride to stop?' and I just didn't know how to respond in disnified language and just said 'Why yes sir.' and made him get out.

yay my first real breakdown and evac.

[Main Streeter]

Spring Break brings such low IQs. Never seem to get over this fact. Sat. I had a mother pushing a stroller with a cute little girl come over & say; "Watch her while I try on hats." No please, no do you have time, no thank you :twisted: She strolls off & leaves me with the child. This was just after the little FL's girl's kidnapper confessed

[PirateJohn]

I know what you mean like the saying guest leave there brains at the Gate. :)

We have thimbles there to store them.

[PirateJohn]

I think we've long established that people don't read anything that's right there in front of them.

When Pirates had stopped issuing Fastpass but still had the machines, we had a BIG sign right at the entrance that said "Fastpass Closed."

I would be standing right next to the sign and people would ask, "do you have Fastpass here?"

I got into an interesting exchange with one guest who was waiting for his family. We were trading creative ways of standing next to the sign when answering the question. Among the most interesting ideas were draping a leg over the sign and holding the sign like a 50's pop singer would have held a microphone.

[kimpossible33]

My sister works at a local park, Playland, better known as the PNE - Pacific National Exhibition. There's an area set aside full of kiddie rides - several of which have hight restrictions with a minimum height of 3 feet and a maximum height of 5 feet.

On this one ride, a helicopter ride - kind of Dumbo/Astro Orbitor-style, there is no height restriction, but a 3-foot minimum. My sister was working here and checking all the doors of the helicopters to make sure they were latched shut, when she came across one with a baby inside it - and no one else.

The little kid was just kind of sitting there - probably less than a year old. And she had to take him out of the helicopter, so she freaked out, holding the baby, calling out, "Uh... did somebody lose their baby?!"

She didn't know what to do for about a minute while no one answered, so she just stood there holding this strange kid, calling out to people. Finally a woman showed up, TOTALLY wasted, and said, "Uh... oh, yeah, it's mine." My sis told her she had to accompany him on the ride or he could not go, and the woman kept arguing, "No, he'll be fine, just let him go," and she refused to take her baby back. She eventually did and left in a huff, apparently getting lost on her way to the ride exit (there is a fence surrounding the ride with two bright yellow swinging doors on opposite sides of the fence, that say "Exit") and coming back, asking for help.