The dumbest thing you have ever seen a guest do!

[daddytomjm]

I am starting to believe that many guests must check their brain's when they come through the turnstiles.

I'm doing the Indy Speedway with my 4yo daughter on 6/25, there are signs everywhere telling you to keep a car length between you and the car in front and not to bump other cars and to remain seated in your car during the ride. I spent most of the ride watching people running into each other and I even saw a guy get his his sunglasses knocked off by one of the jolts about mid ride, he stopped the car and got out on to the track to get his glasses and ignored the CM running toward him waving her arms and telling him to get back into his car. I just shook my head and was glad I hadn't checked my brain at the gate.
:p:

[PirateJohn]

I'll just give you a list and let you decide which is the dumbest...

-- Parents letting their kid pee off of the Pirates unload dock.
-- People jumping out of the boat at Pirates
-- People who think they can ignore me when I tell them they're standing in a walkway
-- Just today, a little brat who thought it would be funny to pretend to push me overboard on the Columbia -- lucky I didn't take a header

[hhsrat]

• People who stand up while on Safari
• People who stand up as we're crossing the crocodile bridge
• People who dangle thier kids over the edge of the vehicle
• people who dangle their kids over the edge of the vehicle as we're crossing the crocodile bridge
• people who stand up no more than 20 seconds after I remind everyone to sit down
• Parties of 8 who tell me "4" when I'm grouping, and think that they're making my job easier by breaking themselves up, then get cranky when I put them on separate vehicles
• People who get upset at having to wait when they return too early for their fastpass time.

[Main_Street_Merch]

~People who duck in front of parade floats.
~People who yell at me for not letting them into a shop that I have just closed (An hour and a half after close none the less). Serisouly, are 18 hours of the shop being open not enough time for you to buy your stupid snowglobe?
~People who get mad at me for "Letting it Rain."
~People who get mad that they have to pay for Umbrellas and ponchos. (I know they are expensive, but every June is hurricane season in FL... plan ahead.)
~People who unnessesarily scream at their children. Here's a clue: You make your kid take a nap and go to bed at a reasonable hour at home. When you take them to WDW, wake them up at 5 am and keep them up till 2am, they are going be a might CRANKY!

~Any kid on a leash... but most of all: Kid on a leash, in a stroller, holding a parents hand. For gosh sakes people, they aren't going anywhere. They are probably safer in the Magic Kingdom than they are in your backyard.

[tigger536]

A teenage boy in goth clothes once got into my "doombuggy" at HM right as the lap bar was closing. He seemed like he was trying to flirt or something (I am in my 20s) because he said "Merry Christmas to you!" I said, "I don't think so!" and got out right at the last minute. The CM yelled at me for getting out as the bar was closing, but once I explained why she was OK with it. She had thought that we knew each other. Since I did get out of the car at the last minute, I guess I was stupid too, but the goth guy started it, LOL!

[daddytomjm]

I am going to try and get this thread back on the subject I started, here is a story I got from a conductor at the Main Street station at MK on 6/25 that had me laughing so hard I had trouble getting on the train:

He said a few weeks ago there was an Italian tourist that got off the train and said he had been riding for 2 and 1/2 hours and could not find the stop for the parking lot he was looking at on the map. He showed the conductor the map and it was a map of Epcot in Portaguese.

I don't know about anybody else, but I would have noticed I was on the wrong transportation the second time I went past the indian village.

[RCLessigJr]

This is my first post on SGT.com and I have been meaning to do this for awhile but just never done it yet. This happened to me when I worked as a Park Greeter at the Magic Kingdom.

It was back in 2002, and I just finshed my training for Park Greeter like a couple of weeks earlier. I was standing at my turnstiles and watching the guests file though as normal with the usual problems which I could fix quickly and send them on their way.

When all of a sudden a man about in his late thirties came though the turnstile. The instant he stepped in he stopped dead in front of me and begin to freak out looking around and saying "I lost my kid, I can't find my kid, help me" I looked at him dumbfounded and asked him what the child looked like and where he last saw him. He proceeded to describe the child in detail and at this time I asked how many children he had with him and he said one.

I then reliezed how to help him out, I told the man, "Sir calm down, take a deep breath, and look up." He then remembered he had the child on his shoulders and was quite embarressed and walked away not saying anything else to me.

I don't think I will ever forget this day. To this day I couldn't to the life of me figure out how he lost his child on his on shoulders. You think the weight of the child and the legs hanging your neck would help you remember. Well I hope you guys got a good laugh out of this, I know I did.

:) Also everyone keep up the good work and remember you make the Magic that is in the Kingdom. See ya in Toontown sometime, I'm the funny looking guy with a camera around my neck talking to Pooh Bear. ;)

[kimpossible33]

My god, RC, that just cracked me up! :p:

[dktc0821]

was at DAK once on my day off (going to see a firned I used be in entertainment with who now does Festival). Killing time before the next show so I was wandering through Dinoland. Saw this incident happen at Primeval Whirl. Guest ignored the CMs at load and wore his hat on the ride. Well his hat came off during the ride (of course) and landed on the ground just under the tracks. He told the CM working and she told him to go to lost and found and fill out a report. someone would be able to get the hat back after the attraction shut down for the night because of where it landed. This guys walks out the exit and then jumps over the fence into the ride track area. Runs up to get his hat while the ride is in motion crossing the track very cose to a moving ride vehicle. He got spotted and the ride was e-stopped. He then grabs his hat, runs back and jumps the fence again and takes off. Security same him and chased him. When they caught him, he couldn't understand the big deal about what he'd done.

[GMC]

[quote="RCLessigJr"]This is my first post on SGT.com and I have been meaning to do this for awhile but just never done it yet. This happened to me when I worked as a Park Greeter at the Magic Kingdom.

It was back in 2002, and I just finshed my training for Park Greeter like a couple of weeks earlier. I was standing at my turnstiles and watching the guests file though as normal with the usual problems which I could fix quickly and send them on their way.

When all of a sudden a man about in his late thirties came though the turnstile. The instant he stepped in he stopped dead in front of me and begin to freak out looking around and saying "I lost my kid, I can't find my kid, help me" I looked at him dumbfounded and asked him what the child looked like and where he last saw him. He proceeded to describe the child in detail and at this time I asked how many children he had with him and he said one.

I then reliezed how to help him out, I told the man, "Sir calm down, take a deep breath, and look up." He then remembered he had the child on his shoulders and was quite embarressed and walked away not saying anything else to me.

I don't think I will ever forget this day. To this day I couldn't to the life of me figure out how he lost his child on his on shoulders. You think the weight of the child and the legs hanging your neck would help you remember. Well I hope you guys got a good laugh out of this, I know I did.

:) Also everyone keep up the good work and remember you make the Magic that is in the Kingdom. See ya in Toontown sometime, I'm the funny looking guy with a camera around my neck talking to Pooh Bear. ]

I swear i almost peed when i read that. I needed that, thank you.