Stupid Guest Tricks

so far grouping has come very naturally to me, maybe it's my love of tetris-type games, but i very much enjoy indy grouping. When i was a kid i always thought that i'd be at splash mountian, by age 16, well now it's 18 and after two months in the park i've picked up a second attraction, at this rate, i'll have a new attraction every month, except that i won't learn vehicles, so by october or november (depending on the status of thunder) i'm liable to know all but one of the attractions in my operating unit.

I'm also very good at tetris as well, but in tetris the blocks don't suddenly move for no apparent reason. Just like many of the guests do when you are grouping them. My other favorate is when you have a guest that thinks you are always talking to them. You also have the infamous "deer caught in headlights look" and this is from english speeking guests. I, too, thought that I was going to have it very easy in grouping. After all when I was a guest I did what the grouper said to do, and i though all the other guests did too. Then again I also know that the ROs know what they are doing, and I don't question somebody that is doing something that I have no idea what it is that they are doing.

I love it when your looking for a party of 2 clearly stating, party of 2 and some idiot raises his hand and yells out were a party of 2. So you bring them up, get them on and then after theyre on 10 more people fallow because theyre with them. They then wounder why they arent riding with thier party.

today i did that thing where you ask for a party of two, and then you send a car with empty seats and then you put the party og bagillion on the car, and the next party which was right there has, low and behold, 2 people.

Tour groups were the best! It was my first summer, I had only been there a few weeks, and I was working Pirates. A group of 52 Taiwainese came through, and only one (yes, 1), spoke English. :shock: Fortunately, he was the tour guide, so they all paid attention to what he said. If not for him, I would have run screaming!

IndyBob wrote:when i first started working at the resort, I was fortunate enough to get Indy. But the first couple of weeks or so, I would go home and have dreams, more like nightmares, where all I was doing the entire time I was asleep was grouping. It was FABULOUS :( No, but seriously I thought I was going to go crazy.

On another note, you've never really grouped, and I don't care what attraction you work, till you've sinlge grouped at 10 rockets or double grouped at 11 and 12 rockets at Space. Thats real grouping at its finest. Its a real art form.

Yeah! I'll agree especially with the brazilian tour groups with the girls that are pasted to each other and can't stand to be apart for two and a half minutes

Them: "Friend! Friend!"
Me: "Yeah yeah, you're friends now and guess what, you'll STILL be friends 3 minutes from now when the ride's over now GET IN!!!"

Trying to convince groups of 2 that seats 3 and 4 are really truly the same train was also always a joy! :barf:

Oh god...dont get me started about the hassles of 3 and 4 at space! I was finally fed up with it at grad night and only grouped a single row, 6 at a time, if the complained i showed them where the exit was.... :twisted:

goofster26 wrote:Oh god...dont get me started about the hassles of 3 and 4 at space! I was finally fed up with it at grad night and only grouped a single row, 6 at a time, if the complained i showed them where the exit was.... :twisted:

Nice one! We used to have a little mantra of sorts when I was there....

"Three and Four or out the door!"

Like it? :)

J

Jennly wrote:Yeah! I'll agree especially with the brazilian tour groups with the girls that are pasted to each other and can't stand to be apart for two and a half minutes


Them: "Friend! Friend!"
Me: "Yeah yeah, you're friends now and guess what, you'll STILL be friends 3 minutes from now when the ride's over now GET IN!!!"

Trying to convince groups of 2 that seats 3 and 4 are really truly the same train was also always a joy! :barf:

I've read that the Brazilian tour groups are nearly as prevalent now as they used to be. All the times I've been down there, and we go in the Fall BTW, we've never seen any. Do you still get a lot of them?

AngelEyes wrote:I've read that the Brazilian tour groups are nearly as prevalent now as they used to be. All the times I've been down there, and we go in the Fall BTW, we've never seen any. Do you still get a lot of them?

Haven't worked in a park in about 6 years now but they used to be thick as gnats in June and July