And now we're all deaf...

[kerbear135]

Hello all! I am new here. I am not a CM, just a frequent WDW visitor with a SG story to tell. We visited WDW about a month ago, and spent a day at DAK. When we arrived, KS was down due to "technical issues"- but despite the CMs standing in front of the entrance, we save SEVERAL people walk up and try to get on the ride. Imagine their surprise when the CM wasn't just standing there in front of the entrance for the heck of it. The real kicker ...the CMs standing there weren't fortune tellers and had no idea how long it would take to fix whatever was wrong...as you can imagine, this caused several SG much distress, as I'm sure most of you CMs have experienced before.
Fast foward, the ride finally came back on line again and we got a chance to ride. We board the ride vehicle, and lucky us there is a whole role of giggly 10 yr old girls behind us. The ride begins and we hit the road...and every-single-time we see an animal, the row behind us starts SCREAMING We're not talking "Mommy, look at that", we're talking just plain screaming (and no, they weren't scared or anything). The SG parents must have been deaf, however, because they seemed oblivous to the noise their unruly children were making, as well as requests from other guests to turn their children down a notch. They must have been blind too, because the dirty looks from all the guests in the rows in front of them (and they were towards the back) went unnoticed too :mad: . I mean, I'm all for children being excited at WDW..they probably saw animals they've never seen before...but when you're making the whole ride vehicle deaf, and being loud enough to scare animals away, it's time to dial down the enthuasim just a tad...The poor driver just went on with his job, regardless of the fact that none of the rest of us could hear a thing he said. Needless to say, we were more than happy to high-tail it outta there...

[BRWombat]

Hello all! I am new here. I am not a CM, just a frequent WDW visitor with a SG story to tell. We visited WDW about a month ago, and spent a day at DAK. When we arrived, KS was down due to "technical issues"- but despite the CMs standing in front of the entrance, we save SEVERAL people walk up and try to get on the ride. Imagine their surprise when the CM wasn't just standing there in front of the entrance for the heck of it. The real kicker ...the CMs standing there weren't fortune tellers and had no idea how long it would take to fix whatever was wrong...as you can imagine, this caused several SG much distress, as I'm sure most of you CMs have experienced before.
Fast foward, the ride finally came back on line again and we got a chance to ride. We board the ride vehicle, and lucky us there is a whole role of giggly 10 yr old girls behind us. The ride begins and we hit the road...and every-single-time we see an animal, the row behind us starts SCREAMING We're not talking "Mommy, look at that", we're talking just plain screaming (and no, they weren't scared or anything). The SG parents must have been deaf, however, because they seemed oblivous to the noise their unruly children were making, as well as requests from other guests to turn their children down a notch. They must have been blind too, because the dirty looks from all the guests in the rows in front of them (and they were towards the back) went unnoticed too :mad: . I mean, I'm all for children being excited at WDW..they probably saw animals they've never seen before...but when you're making the whole ride vehicle deaf, and being loud enough to scare animals away, it's time to dial down the enthuasim just a tad...The poor driver just went on with his job, regardless of the fact that none of the rest of us could hear a thing he said. Needless to say, we were more than happy to high-tail it outta there...

Yikes! That is torture right there. Hope your hearing has returned to normal!

kerbear135,
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Please stand by for further greetings...

[Lasolimu]

Greetings kerbear135, I am the resident dragon and would like to offer you a very warm* welcome to that slice of the internet we call SGT. This website contains threads with quick twists and turns and I would like to advise you to not try too hard to keep up with them. Please keep your hands, arms, and legs safely inside the website at all times and enjoy your stay.

*this instance of warm is actually hot**... very hot

**this instance of hot means that you are now literally on fire, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for any inconvenience

[delsdad]

Welcome kerbear135, on behalf of the BDOSGT. After Lasolimus' welcome, you may well be in need of one of these, so enjoy the beverage of your choice: :rumncoke: :pepsi: :coke: Serving size is not exactly as illustrated.

[knitster]

We had a similar experience on a bus to Downtown Disney one night. Only it was the adult, not the kids, that was being loud and obnoxious.

We had the good fortune of being on a bus with a driver who had clearly been with the company for a long time and was very knowledgeable about Disney World. As we were driving from the Contemporary to DTD, he was telling us all about the history of the parks, land marks that we were passing, etc. But we didn't hear a word of it because the guy behind us was talking loudly and incessantly about baseball. I can only assume that he was talking to his family, but it was difficult to tell because they were all staring blankly out the windows. That didn't deter him, however, from blathering on and on and on. :mad: He did not stop talking from the time he entered the bus until the time he exited.

[Big Wallaby]

The poor driver just went on with his job, regardless of the fact that none of the rest of us could hear a thing he said. Needless to say, we were more than happy to high-tail it outta there...

I used to oblige those who felt the need to talk (or scream) by slowing down away from animals, speeding past them in an attempt to keep them from running away from the noise (rarely worked), and I would finally stop giving the tour.

kurtisnelson actually came along when I did that. Then there was the time the guy was talking loudly on his cell phone directly behind me. I think that story's floating around here somewhere. No need to dredge it up.

If a driver can keep talking like that, it means one of two things: 1) he is a more skilled speaker than I ever was (not hard to do) or 2) he just didn't care about the guest experience. I, for one, found it impossible to speak over people who were talking on my safari. If it was more important to you to have your conversation on my safari, loudly enough that I couldn't do my job, then I would respect your wishes. I would also make sure your safari was convenient and quick instead of a couple minutes longer and special.

Often, though, I could get the rest of the truck a re-ride for that.

[darph nader]

I remember Wallaby's tale of the same thing. "OMG,OMG". Hows about STFU! :D:
(thanks delsdad for the cover)

[5th Dimension]

So the driver is allowed to tell the guests to calm down, right? Screaming like that is ridiculous, why would someone go on that ride just to make noise?

About screaming, yes, people do it on purpose. I remember when I was younger, and I went on Star Tours. These 2 guys behind me kept screaming. Eventually I yelled "SHUT UP!" in the middle of the ride. They were probably pissed at me, but they indeed shut up!

Then there was a more recent time. It wasn't closing time, but it was the end of the night for me. I had a slight head ache, and in some stupid idea I had, I wanted to get in as many rides that day as possible. I chose BTM. What a mistake, the girls behind me screamed the entire time. By the end, I had a massive headache, and a brand new hatred for those who scream for the entire ride on purpose.

[felinefan]

When I was in grade school, we had this one bus driver who would get so annoyed at everybody talking, etc. on the school bus that he once stopped. He told us to pay attention and be quiet, then he told us a story about a bus that had so many noisy kids on it, that the driver became distracted, resulting in a horrible accident. Then he walked down the aisle, stopped at the middle, and said that the bus was crumpled up to that point. Three kids were dead. Then he told us that if we wanted to keep being noisy and we didn't believe him, we could just wait until it happened to us, and when they got through carrying out the dead bodies we would see how right he was. That really got us. And at least once before, he'd yell "SHUT UP!!!!" at us. We'd quiet down, but sooner or later the noise level would gradually rise. I was never a talker on the bus. He was a grumpy old guy who probably only took the job to supplement his retirement income.

[hobie16]

Did he look like this?