Some times I wish I were psychic

trojantuba · Post by **trojantuba** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 12:20 pm

This was so bad at Jungle we actually had a queue spiel for it..."ladies and gentleman may I have your attention please, when you reach the front of the line the appropriate respnse when asked how many in your party is the actual number of people in your party...not 'to that guy, I don't know this many or all the way up to Uncle Fred'..we don't have an uncle Fred and therefore don't know who Uncle Fred is...thank you.

Other Favorites of mine included at Indy:
Me: how many?

Guest: Front please

Me: how many in your group?

Guest: We'd like the front row please

Me: I know, I need the number of people in your group

Guest: Can we drive?

tabacco · Post by **tabacco** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 12:26 pm

Heh... I've actually done that, but only at Splash, and only with the old logs. The grouper had a tendency to seat my friend and I (we're both 6'+ guys) in the SAME section of the log, making for an extremely sardinelike experience. I also found that if I said 'two' the grouper would tell us a row before I could even get out '...and if it's possible we'd like to be in seperate sections,' and then get this really annoyed look if I asked after they gave us a row number, so we ended up just saying 'one' and taking what we got :)

coldfire409 · Post by **coldfire409** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:50 pm

This is the funniest one I have from grouping at an attraction. I was loading the Movie Ride and I get two people. After asking them if they were only a party of two, and they answered yes, I dispatched the tram and sent it on their way. A minute later after the tram was dispatched the rest of their party came into the loading area and they expected to sit togher on the tram as it was leaving the dock. After telling them that I cannot let anybody enter a moving ride the people, that told me that they were two, wanted to get off. I told them that they cannot and for the next 22 mins the entire party was separated. It was almost closing time. . . did they not know how many were in their party for the entire day.

IndyBob · Post by **IndyBob** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 6:25 pm

The asian tour group with like 50 peolpe are the best because the dont speak english and when you ask how many in there group they all look at each other then look at you again. Sometimes you get the hand symbols of an X or a T, what the hell does that mean. But they are so much fun to group and there are 2 excellent ways to do it.
1. just lead them to the row and spot and stop when there are 4 in the first row (Indy) then push person #5 to row 2 and when that row is full push person # 9 to row three and do that till they are all gone. (On a side note, I was working Indy one day and this huge group of Asian tourists came into the ride. So I grouped them all and there was one guy who didn't fit with all his friends, so I pounded on the back of the jeep and hoped on and pointed to him jokingly and hopped off and started to go back to grouping when I hear the other CMs laughing their heads off. This guy had acctually hoped on the back of the jeep to go with his friends like I had done. I was rolling. Tought me a lesson though)
2. When your having a bad day just go sit on the rope that leads to belts and watch them group themselves. It will cheer you up really fast!

And they never ask for the front or if they can drive, but sometimes they dont stay in their assinged rows when they are getting into the jeep and take 5 minutes to get in , especially the older ones (no Space for them)!

Dante101 · Post by **Dante101** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 10:13 pm

IndyBob wrote:Sometimes you get the hand symbols of an X or a T, what the hell does that mean.

I think the "X" means "stop" - like he's asking you, "Do you want me to stop?" I've also used it when trying to explain to a non-English-speaking Asian group that the ride is down (give the X sign while shaking your head and saying "broken.").

I can't remember what the "T" means. Maybe it means "time out," like "wait a moment."

Next time throw both your arms straight up, and see if they do an NFL touchdown dance or something...

VonSeegs · Post by **VonSeegs** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:40 pm

RMCW1982 wrote:sometimes they just ride into a random buggy with people they don't even know

My all time favorite are the one's that like to ride in between the buggies on the safety plates. As soon as I'm done freaking (because one of these days someone's gonna fall through) I have to laugh my knee socks off because it's the funniest thing EVER!

I also liked the one asain lady who sat on the floor of the buggy and then her daughter caught my arm in the bar of the clam shell. I had a flashlight in my free hand and was being dragged up the hill. My stupid ride stop wouldn't work so I threw it hard on the ground hoping that that would make the ride stop. It did. Not to mention the ride stop broke. Oops.

tabacco · Post by **tabacco** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:55 pm

RMCW1982 wrote:Also, sometimes they just ride into a random buggy with people they don't even know.

I had that happen to me once. Some random guy just climbed in next to me. I think it was one of the more awkward rides I've ever had on the mansion :)

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Some times I wish I were psychic

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