Have the CMs noticed kids being dragged around by crazy parents?

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

You know that is good punishment for those SG who don't want to list to CM's warnings on Pirates and the Caribbean. ;)

not a bad idea...

and include the "surprise" candygram!

[Teresa Kay]

I've not worked at any theme park, but I have visited tons of them with my kids. I've seen lots of parents drag their children away from a ride the kid liked.
I don't do that. Never did. My hubby and I have always let the kids ride whatever they want for as long as they want. If we need to move on, we've always assured the kids that we'll return to that ride later (and we always do).

I can see if parents think that this may be the one and only time they'll have to share the park with their child. Of course, their child will never enjoy a theme park again, but at least they took him to one!

[felinefan]

When we were kids, and went to Disneyland (the resort part didn't come until much later), we rode the rides and had fun, got the ears once, and one time we got those huge lollipops. But our favorite thing to get when we went, and we would get these everytime, were the little cube-shaped plastic boxes of multi-colored rock candy. I think we got them in the candy shop on Main Street. Do they still sell them, by the way? I think back then they were 75 cents a box; they obviously cost more now. Yeah, can you imagine kids going to a theme park for the candy? :D: Don't worry, we liked the rides, too. As well as the topiary animals, and the general look of the park.

Hopefully by the end of this month, I can get the netbook I want, and then I can check in here more often than once a week. Darn library time limits....
If there would be one improvement to this site I'd like to see, it would be getting an email notification whenever a new reply was posted to a topic one has replied on. Another site I visit has that feature, and it's quite helpful.

[turkeyham]

I do believe the Candy shop on Main Street still sells rock candy in the see through boxes. I know they are about $5.

When I was young, my parents bought the ticket books and sent us in line. The left over ticket books, they kept and brought it home.

I have seen kids freaking out that they don't want to go on the Columbia Ship. I told a family that the ship was my favorite. I told the kids that the ship has a museum down stairs. Down stairs shows how everyone lived below and what jobs they had. After the guests came off the ship, they came back and told me it was cool. :)

I also told them, if you go on the Mark Twain they can sometimes go to the top of the boat. If you get the CM's attention, they will let you ring the bells and whistle. They were happy with that. :)

[CujoSR]

If there would be one improvement to this site I'd like to see, it would be getting an email notification whenever a new reply was posted to a topic one has replied on. Another site I visit has that feature, and it's quite helpful.

Way ahead of you there... if you click the thread tools link towards the top of the page you will see an option to subscribe to the thread. It will then alert you when there are new replies to a thread you like. It may not be automatic but then again the PHPbb software we used to use did that and my email was all clogged up with replies. It's not something you want. Trust me.

[Shorty82]

Way ahead of you there... if you click the thread tools link towards the top of the page you will see an option to subscribe to the thread. It will then alert you when there are new replies to a thread you like. It may not be automatic but then again the PHPbb software we used to use did that and my email was all clogged up with replies. It's not something you want. Trust me.

In your settings you can set the what subscription option you get when you reply to a thread. I personally like getting an email telling me there's been a reply to a thread I've posted in so I have it set to automatically subscribe to threads I've posted in.

[CujoSR]

In your settings you can set the what subscription option you get when you reply to a thread. I personally like getting an email telling me there's been a reply to a thread I've posted in so I have it set to automatically subscribe to threads I've posted in.

See? Even I didn't know that.

[Cheshire Figment]

"You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway."

-Walt Disney

"All Mensans are gifted children. It is just that some have aged chronologically"

The late Dr. L.L. Ware,one of the three founders of Mensa, at the 1982 American Mensa Annual Gathering in New Jersey.

[turkeyham]

I have this neighbor up stairs above me. My parents and I call her "Elephant!" She can wake up the dead like she did this morning. She did go out and got plastered on booze. She was searching the longest time in her bathroom for something. I came out to my living room and yelled at her after re-arranging the living room at 1:45 am. She dropped the chair and made a huge noise like a dead body.

I hope my place stays quiet so I can get some sleep. I have bids with my morning tugger crew that she gets tied onto the mule and is dragged back stage until she understands the concept to shut up at night. :twisted:

[DisneyMom]

;)

I have this neighbor up stairs above me. My parents and I call her "Elephant!" She can wake up the dead like she did this morning. She did go out and got plastered on booze. She was searching the longest time in her bathroom for something. I came out to my living room and yelled at her after re-arranging the living room at 1:45 am. She dropped the chair and made a huge noise like a dead body.

I hope my place stays quiet so I can get some sleep. I have bids with my morning tugger crew that she gets tied onto the mule and is dragged back stage until she understands the concept to shut up at night. :twisted:

Friends don't let Friends Drink and Feng Shui....... ;)
Sorry you're not getting sleep :(