For those of you who don't know it sprinkled/drizzled quite a bit today at the DLR. Unfortunately because of the timing we weren't really able to put plastic covers over the ECVs this morning, so they all got wet. So this guest rents an ECV from me and insists that someone bring a towel to dry off his ECV. So I tell my friend and hand him a towel. A minute later the guest comes back and asks to speak with my supervisor because apparently after my friend wiped off his ECV he sat down on it and the water in the foam padding came up and soaked his butt. I guess he didn't really grasp the concept that when it rains, things tend to get wet. Basically he was asking for either a completely dry ECV from inside or a free poncho. So I called my lead over, she basically wanted him to go away so she pulled a dry one out from inside.
After he left one of my co-workers said that the ECV guest he was helping even said to this guy, "it's raining, what do you expect?!" I love when other guests say the things that we want to say to stupid guests but can't.
3 hours later he returned his ECV. After all that the bastard didn't even use it the whole day. :bang:
Rain tends to get things wet....
Rain tends to get things wet....
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Max Fischer
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The Nerve....
What a tool! First, how dare he say there is something wrong with having a wet, soggy ass- Oh wait, wrong forum..
What a dipshit! I mean, DLR is amazing, but mother nature still trumps Mickey... It is dumb because either way he will be wet, the difference is does he want to be wet right away, or dip his big toe in the 'wet pool' and just get rained on..
Stay Strong CMs!!
What a dipshit! I mean, DLR is amazing, but mother nature still trumps Mickey... It is dumb because either way he will be wet, the difference is does he want to be wet right away, or dip his big toe in the 'wet pool' and just get rained on..
Stay Strong CMs!!
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Filmdirector17
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Totally agree, many times i am working Auto when it's raining and people will complain that their seats are wet and that I need to dry it off for them. Um was it some sort of mystery that the cars have no roofs, in fact it must have been an even bigger mystery to find out that gasp the ride is outside. Some people make me wonder.
Excuse me what time is the four o' clock parade?
As they say in Mexico - "fregado pendehos..."
What do they expect? Let's play "me too..." and say the same thing used to happen at Book. Used to drive me nuts that they'd shut down half of Fanstasyland for "safety reasons" when it would rain, yet poor old low tech StoryBook Land would have to remain open, despite having a concrete dock with no non-skid surface in the loading or unloading areas and especially despite the boats having a propensity to float up off the guide rails if it rained really hard! I can't even begin to count the number of both guests and cast members I've seen take a sliding skid on that dock during a rain storm. No fun whatsoever.
I think I've mentioned it before - there was one little girl who was a petulant brat about the water on the cushions at Book. We'd turned them over more than once, and face it kid, it was raining hard for several hours, there was water collecting in the bottom of the boat - a lot of guest were in those hideous yellow Mickey ponchos, all the c.m.'s were in our super-heated rain gear with bedraggled stringy hair and nothing was about to change. This kid held up the line of guests trying to board our little launch staring at the seats loudly proclaiming "IT'S WET!!!" then her mother proceeds to shove her in saying "it's raining - everything's wet..."
Yeah, MOM! 8)
What do they expect? Let's play "me too..." and say the same thing used to happen at Book. Used to drive me nuts that they'd shut down half of Fanstasyland for "safety reasons" when it would rain, yet poor old low tech StoryBook Land would have to remain open, despite having a concrete dock with no non-skid surface in the loading or unloading areas and especially despite the boats having a propensity to float up off the guide rails if it rained really hard! I can't even begin to count the number of both guests and cast members I've seen take a sliding skid on that dock during a rain storm. No fun whatsoever.
I think I've mentioned it before - there was one little girl who was a petulant brat about the water on the cushions at Book. We'd turned them over more than once, and face it kid, it was raining hard for several hours, there was water collecting in the bottom of the boat - a lot of guest were in those hideous yellow Mickey ponchos, all the c.m.'s were in our super-heated rain gear with bedraggled stringy hair and nothing was about to change. This kid held up the line of guests trying to board our little launch staring at the seats loudly proclaiming "IT'S WET!!!" then her mother proceeds to shove her in saying "it's raining - everything's wet..."
Yeah, MOM! 8)
Oh the rain.. the lovely.. lovely rain.
It was raining rather hard once.. and I was standing on the back of a tram (ew). Now everyone is soaking wet.. and trying to get to their cars to go home.
We are sitting in the parkside loading area... and this guy comes shoving his way through the other guests.. walks up to me.. and demands that I tell him the exact location of the courtesy van (disabled assistance van.) I told him I was not exactly sure where it was, probably on the way back to the structure with another guest, and he didn't like that answer... so he walked right by me into the tram route area and asked another CM the very same question. When they told him that the van was dropping off other guests and would be back as soon as it was done.. he threw a hissyfit, demanding that there is no excuse for him to have to wait at all.. because it's raining and he is getting wet.
Who cares that everyone else has a 2-3 tram wait in the rain to get the their cars.. or that some other guests who needed assistance back to the structure had gotten there 5 minutes earlier and were well on their way.. we better get the van back there RIGHT then because I guess this guy is special.
Almost as bad as the guy who picked up and threatened one of our leads with an a-frame (those easy-moveable plastic signs we use all over) because the lead wouldn't call out someone for him because his kid was cold and mommy was inside downtown shopping with the car keys. It was funny, so I hear, because it was one of our more smart-*** leads who just retaliated with his own quips.
It was raining rather hard once.. and I was standing on the back of a tram (ew). Now everyone is soaking wet.. and trying to get to their cars to go home.
We are sitting in the parkside loading area... and this guy comes shoving his way through the other guests.. walks up to me.. and demands that I tell him the exact location of the courtesy van (disabled assistance van.) I told him I was not exactly sure where it was, probably on the way back to the structure with another guest, and he didn't like that answer... so he walked right by me into the tram route area and asked another CM the very same question. When they told him that the van was dropping off other guests and would be back as soon as it was done.. he threw a hissyfit, demanding that there is no excuse for him to have to wait at all.. because it's raining and he is getting wet.
Who cares that everyone else has a 2-3 tram wait in the rain to get the their cars.. or that some other guests who needed assistance back to the structure had gotten there 5 minutes earlier and were well on their way.. we better get the van back there RIGHT then because I guess this guy is special.
Almost as bad as the guy who picked up and threatened one of our leads with an a-frame (those easy-moveable plastic signs we use all over) because the lead wouldn't call out someone for him because his kid was cold and mommy was inside downtown shopping with the car keys. It was funny, so I hear, because it was one of our more smart-*** leads who just retaliated with his own quips.
I am so wishing that I could remember B's* it's raining line speil at Jungle.
*name removed because well, if you know him you know him and if you don't you're not lucky.
*name removed because well, if you know him you know him and if you don't you're not lucky.
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Latasian731
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Re: Rain tends to get things wet....
ERR!!! I absolutely hate this!! Life does suck at the Main Gate when it rains...between people complaining that its wet and stupid guests on ECV's I dont know where to start. Well...to begin I had to work through the monsoon we had on Christmas Day. I have never heard so much complaining and demands from guest before. I actually had one lady complain about getting a wet stroller and she wanted a dry one. I looked her in the eye and told her to look around...everything is wet including me. I was soaked through my jacket! Then, we would have stupid guest who demanded dried off ECVs. Me taking a towel to wipe them off wasn't good enough. I would simply tell the guest if I was them I wouldn't even drive them...I dunno theres something about ELECTRIC Convenience Vehicles and rain storms that dont add up...hmmm! Oh well...that is what I did on my Christmas Day...spreading some good Christmas cheer!! I always love doing that!SRT_GB wrote:For those of you who don't know it sprinkled/drizzled quite a bit today at the DLR. Unfortunately because of the timing we weren't really able to put plastic covers over the ECVs this morning, so they all got wet. So this guest rents an ECV from me and insists that someone bring a towel to dry off his ECV. So I tell my friend and hand him a towel. A minute later the guest comes back and asks to speak with my supervisor because apparently after my friend wiped off his ECV he sat down on it and the water in the foam padding came up and soaked his butt. I guess he didn't really grasp the concept that when it rains, things tend to get wet. Basically he was asking for either a completely dry ECV from inside or a free poncho. So I called my lead over, she basically wanted him to go away so she pulled a dry one out from inside.
After he left one of my co-workers said that the ECV guest he was helping even said to this guy, "it's raining, what do you expect?!" I love when other guests say the things that we want to say to stupid guests but can't.
3 hours later he returned his ECV. After all that the bastard didn't even use it the whole day. :bang:
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PZB
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Heh....pixiedust, same people that don't want to sit down on a moving tram because the seats are wet. (regardless of the rest of them being wet.)
We have people quite often who get it in their heads that in the rain is a great time to get a portrait done, but complain when they look like drowned rats in the drawings.
We have people quite often who get it in their heads that in the rain is a great time to get a portrait done, but complain when they look like drowned rats in the drawings.
Haha. And it's hilarious, because I tell people NOT to sit in the back row, yet they are in too much of a hurry to get home. The problem is, the roof drains through a couple of the metal tubes in the back of the tram, and those drains LOVE clogging up. Every slight corner the tram goes around, all the water sloshes out and soaks the impatient guests. Can't say I didn't warn them. :) People laugh at me because I timed it perfectly, and each corner I would move to one side of the platform and the water would spill out to the other side.PZB wrote:Heh....pixiedust, same people that don't want to sit down on a moving tram because the seats are wet. (regardless of the rest of them being wet.)