I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...

[Zazu]

My favorite line, overheard at a height check: "Sir, if you are having trouble understanding the meaning of the word, 'No,' I'll be happy to call a security officer to explain it to you."

[joanna71985]

My favorite line, overheard at a height check: "Sir, if you are having trouble understanding the meaning of the word, 'No,' I'll be happy to call a security officer to explain it to you."

Right on!!

[hobie16]

My favorite line, overheard at a height check: "Sir, if you are having trouble understanding the meaning of the word, 'No,' I'll be happy to call a security officer to explain it to you."

That's kinda like a letter I wrote for a friend who was having trouble getting her ex to pay aliminy and child support. I closed with, "If you are unable to meet your legal and moral obligations I would be happy to have a lawyer explain them to you at your expense."

The weasel still wouldn't pay so the local Family Services people contacted their counterparts in Florida. The Florida people apparently sent a couple of knee breakers out to have a heart to heart conversation with the ex. It was flat amazing how fast he caught up with the payments and how consistent he was with paying after that.

[Main_Street_Merch]

Oh, this is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. While I was still at Safaris, I was on light duty for about a month (safari wrist anyone?) and got stuck in Dinoland for the duration. Props to anyone who works in Dinoland, because I wanted to kill myself every day that I was there. Anyway... moving on. I got stuck checking heights for Primeval Hurl for the duration. 8 hours a day, nothing but checking heights. Here are some of the better comments I heard from parents:

1. You're just abusing what little power you have.
2. What are you, some kind of corporate mouthpiece?
3. But she rode Everest, and she cant ride this tiny little thing?
4. This place is supposed to be for children!
5. You should be ashamed of yourself.
6. Cry honey, she'll let you on if you start crying.
7. I'm not leaving until you let her on the ride!
8. This is discrimination!
9. I'm going to sue you!
10. Kiss your job goodbye!
11. It's ok, we'll just come back later when there's someone here who isn't rude.
12. You can't tell me how to raise my child!
13. You just ruined our whole vacation!
14. You'd let him on if he was white!
15. I'll give you $50 to let him on!

[Teddykeiko86]

Oh, I love the " I just mesured him this morning" excuse.
Like you have a doctor's scale in your house, even if you did I don't care. This sign says he's to short.

One guy demanded that maintance come and measure the sign to make sure it was actually 48". We brought the measuring tape and measured. It wasn't 48"! It was 46"... HA, so his son was REALLY short, more like 44" than 47".

I also love when they sneak their children on the ride. Or leave their 3 and 5 y.o. on a bench eating ice cream for 3 hours. ALONE.

[turkeyham]

I remember seeing a few years back possibly 10 years ago, that one of the Disney parks had a measuring system and had different color wrist bands?
I remember seeing it, but I was not sure what park had it. Does anyone know?

[cavaliers60]

A theme park I use to work at, we had the measuring wrist bands.... Didn't matter to much since parents would take them off the children that were tall enough and put them on the ones who were not.... I was the height measuring nazi. I didn't cave in to anyone.


I never really got mad at anyone, because I can understand their frustration. They pay good money to come to the park and ride the rides together. What really gets me angry is when OTHER people who have nothing to do with the kid stand there and say things like, "Oh come on, let him ride!" "It's touching his hair!"

Had that a few times, and it always made me mad. I would then turn and ask the guest to be quiet. One time, I had to get more stern with a guest as he would not shut up. I told him to be quiet or find another ride to go on.

[Yeti Chaser]

Oh, I love the " I just mesured him this morning" excuse.
Like you have a doctor's scale in your house, even if you did I don't care. This sign says he's to short.

One guy demanded that maintance come and measure the sign to make sure it was actually 48". We brought the measuring tape and measured. It wasn't 48"! It was 46"... HA, so his son was REALLY short, more like 44" than 47".

During my time at Everest, we would measure the permenently planted height bars every morning with a laser. They never changed. Best two I saw when there was a guest putting an ice cream bar in his kids shoes. Even better a guest when told their child was too short announced to his party that he would just take his child into the men's room and stuff paper towels in his kid's shoes. Of course, he said this with me standing there. He did not get too far with that one............

[Teddykeiko86]

Yeah. Disneyland had the wristband thing. They got rid of it though. I can totally see why it didn't work. Incorrect measuring, swapping wristbands, swiping bands when the CM wasn't looking. Plus I can only imagine the SG comments " But she has the blue wrist band, that means she can ride space mountain, they already measured her? Why are you measuring her again?!
God, what a nightmare.

[jlima]

Yeah. Disneyland had the wristband thing. They got rid of it though. I can totally see why it didn't work. Incorrect measuring, swapping wristbands, swiping bands when the CM wasn't looking. Plus I can only imagine the SG comments " But she has the blue wrist band, that means she can ride space mountain, they already measured her? Why are you measuring her again?!
God, what a nightmare.

That is EXACTLY what happened. Not every CM was aware that the system was in place and most had no idea what the wristband was for or what the colors were supposed to mean. This was maybe 6 years ago? There was a cart at the Hub in DL; and you got measured there and got the wristband. It was some kind of an electronic system; there was this red paddle thing that was held over your head; and the person's height displayed on a screen and the CM put on the wristband. Our younger one was 3 and was past 42 inches. It didn't matter that he had the wristband; he would still get measured everywhere.