Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

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Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

Post by CycloneMan » Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:58 pm

Allright, so here at the Staten Island Zoo, we opened a new exhibet called "Dinasour Encounter". You walk in and there are different animatronic dinosaurs. As Jr Docents/Staff, we are supposed to stand in there and just tell people to not touch the dinosaurs, we teach them all about the dinosaurs, give tours, and pretty mush supervise. On Friday (opening day), I was in there by myself from 12-4. The Jurrasic Park music (very loud) was getting to me, but all the guests were nice and respectfull.

Today, we had 4 of us in there. And it got so crowded. After a while, I got fed up of telling people to stop touching the dinosaurs, that every time the music went down, I'd yell, "Please refraim from touching the Dinosaurs! If I catch you doing this after I tell you not to, you are out!" I was seriously fed up. So, then of course, my friends (co workers) eventually told me to calm down, and my boss (I'm actually really close with him) even told me I had to cool it. He agreed where I was coming from, but he didn't want me to get in trouble with Managment. So, we keep saying we need signs. And managment is telling us to do our jobs, so we won't need signs! Um....if we can only have one person in most of the time, and with that crowd, it's almost impossible. When I was by myself, I had some one walk in the exit, but I didn't see them do it, so I couldn't tell them anything.

And of course, it's my fault that the guests have to pay for the exhibet! I was so pissed. This upper class, East Village bitch kept complaining to me and my buddy Eduardo, and said she was going to go to the burough councel men, and what not. We kept telling her, this is an outside company, the Zoo has nothing to do with it. And then we went up to a woman and asked to see her tickets (because she was coming from the direction of the exit), and she of course pulled the race card on me. Because apperantly, if I ask a black women if she can show me here ticket, I'M of course rasict! Jeeze, sorry, I was doing my job!

To give you some idea of that this place is, here are some pictures:
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Now imagine this with more than 60 people. Not fun!

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Re: Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

Post by Big Wallaby » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:28 pm

No signs, one employee for how big an area? Sounds like your management should be singing the Scarecrow's theme...


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Re: Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

Post by Princess Susi » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:16 pm

Cool Dinosaurs! Can I touch em? Bwahahahahaha....J/K They look really neat. I thought they might be dinosaur bones until you said animatronic. That would be a bitch, with that many people in there wanting to touch them. Why are they so accessible? You would think the set-up would be somewhat like a zoo where they would be behind a barrier of some sort. That makes too much sense though, right?
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Re: Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

Post by CycloneMan » Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:50 pm

There's a chain, but the kids can easily reach over it, and knock it down!

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Re: Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

Post by Floridian » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:26 pm

That exhibit looks kinda scary lol. Anyways I bet as soon as stuff starts getting broken I sign goes up...although ya'll will probably get unrightfully blamed first.



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Re: Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

Post by CycloneMan » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:21 pm

^Like always...sigh :oweye:

The best part though, is that managment will blame us, but our boss and instructors will totally be on our sides! HAHA!

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Re: Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

Post by felinefan » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:18 pm

The only problem with signs is that people don't read them, or fail to take them seriously. Somewhere in the back of my brain is a fragment of a memory....I think I heard somewhere that a black guy was trying to pull the race card on a sign, despite the lack of any overt racial content on the sign. It's like Oprah pulling the race card at Harrod's because they were closed for the day.

What would be cool is if the dinos were rigged to bite people who reached in to touch them. Then you could say, "Well, we told you not to touch them, now aren't you sorry you didn't listen?" :twisted: Face it, people today have no respect for rules anymore. They're all a bunch of overgrown spoiled brats.


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Re: Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

Post by JugglingFreak » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:30 am

People feel your pain. There was a SpongeBob episode (Yes, I have a sad life) where they go to the jellyfishing convention and all of the exhibits have signs saying "don't touch":

SpongeBob SquarePants: Cool state of the art jellyfish nets!
Patrick: [touches] Touch.
Security Guard: Don't touch.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Wow! The harpoon from Jellyfish: The Movie!
Patrick: [touches] Touch.
Security Guard: Don't touch!
SpongeBob SquarePants: Look! Dr. Manowar! The guy who got stung by Big Lenny and lived!
Dr. Manowar: ...And now it only hurts when you touch it.
[Patrick touches, doctor screams]
Patrick: Touch.
Security Guard: Do I have to follow you all day?

Why does everything remind me of TV or movies? :confused:



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Re: Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

Post by Big Wallaby » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:34 am

JugglingFreak wrote:Why does everything remind me of TV or movies? :confused:
Because you watch too much. I say that as someone for whom the TV rarely comes on. The other night, I turned it on and found the commercials to be unbelieveably bad, because I hadn't seen commercials in a long time.

That was just watching the news. And what was up with all the male news anchors wearing pink ties? Talk about standing out on screen... Geez, the weather guy looked like he was being abducted by aliens, complete with the light shining down on him!


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Re: Please do not touch the Dinosaurs!

Post by JugglingFreak » Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:08 pm

Big Wallaby wrote:Because you watch too much.
But the warm glow of the TV is so peaceful and loving..



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