Are you with him/her/them?

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:43 pm

when they have no idea how many you tell them "I need a number fast!" and act like you're gunn a get fired or something. i think i've already posted this story but it's still my favorite.

so the film room is really slow on getting people to grouper, which happens to be me, so the next group goes up and down the stairs with out stopping. Mind you this is really odd because it's already mid day, people should be flocking. So the first guy come down the stairs and i ask him "How many in you party sir?" He looks at me like i'm and idiot and says

"All of them." and wavees his hand to show me the people on the stairs.

so i ask him, "so how many are there" thinking at this point the forgien guy here has a ginormous party, probly all scandanavian, like this guy, a hard to understand, and unable to count.

"How should i know?"

"well sir is there someone here who can tell me?"

"......"

"wait on the side sir!" he wanders of to where ever the hell he wants

so i look around him to the people behind him and ask, "how many are in your party" in a give me a shred of hope tone of voice. and this nice little old lady answers.
"Well there are two of us" it dawned on me then and there, dumbapples thought i was asking him how many in the line, i hope that he hadn't been pulling this all day, and that he would eventually figure out why everyone was asking him how many in the line when he was all alone. so he was off grouping himself, and i made sure that i filled all the seats exculding him as much as possible. so that he'd be the one wrong when the seats were uneven. i think it worked out tho, sadly.

DLRFantasmic!Dan · Post by **DLRFantasmic!Dan** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 10:50 pm

What makes him think that he is being asked, "how many in a line?"

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:48 pm

trancevicious3 · Post by **trancevicious3** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 3:15 pm

Most if the time I let them (the dumb guest groups) step asside till I get a number out of them. I dont even bother to guess how large there group is. Its fun when they see group after group get to ride and they stand there watching me ignore them! After a few minutes they have the nerve to ask me why they cant ride... I just stay quiet.

Roger Rabbit · Post by **Roger Rabbit** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:10 pm

That's why I hate grouping at Pooh!!

Me: How many in your group?
Guest: Two and two.
Me: So four altogether.
Guest: No. Two and two.
Me: (I just gave up and assigned them a row.)

Me: How many in your group?
Guest: Five and a baby.
Me: So six altogether.
Guest: No five and a baby.
Me: (Gave up again.)

Me: How many in your group?
Guest: Three and a half.
Me: I don't see a half person.
Guest: Well, they're going to sit on my lap.
Me: It doesn't matter.
Guest: Huh?
Me: Take rows one, the half row, and row two.
Guest: Huh?

There are no half people in the world. If a person has a beating heart it's a full person regardless of how old they are. UGH!!

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:32 am

so what if there are only two chambers working that day, then can they be a half person?

(PS i am a trained First Responder/ Hosptial assistant, and am well aware of the fact that all four chambers must be going in order for the body to work.)

aliceindisguse · Post by **aliceindisguse** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:00 pm

Roger Rabbit wrote:That's why I hate grouping at Pooh!!

Me: How many in your group?
Guest: Two and two.
Me: So four altogether.
Guest: No. Two and two.
Me: (I just gave up and assigned them a row.)

Me: How many in your group?
Guest: Five and a baby.
Me: So six altogether.
Guest: No five and a baby.
Me: (Gave up again.)

Me: How many in your group?
Guest: Three and a half.
Me: I don't see a half person.
Guest: Well, they're going to sit on my lap.
Me: It doesn't matter.
Guest: Huh?
Me: Take rows one, the half row, and row two.
Guest: Huh?

There are no half people in the world. If a person has a beating heart it's a full person regardless of how old they are. UGH!!

I always just tell them they still count. If they question that I say "if they breath they count" then dispatch their car. Of couse then there's the jackass who then asks what if I had a dog with me, they still breath and count as a person.... Ugh people just like picking arguments.

wazowski · Post by **wazowski** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:51 pm

On the routes I suppose the foreign guests are programed to tell me how many people are in their party when I stick out my hand and announce 'one moment please'. I just nod as if I cared and allow them to board as they choose, then make them move as required - its not even worth trying to get most people to initially board correctly.

I like it even more when adults ...ohhhh especially when adults push their children and then squeeze themselves between the car at dispatch to get to the car at ready 1. I guess that considering there is hardly a foot between the car and the large wooden or metal pole you are instinctively instructed to squeeze between it especially because you have been watching people board for the last 15 minutes. I like it the most when I hit station stop and begin yelling at them they sit down and lock the lap bar and continue to look forward or nod as I try to get them to get out.
:roll:

Rodger5678 · Post by **Rodger5678** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:38 am

When I'm grouping a Rodger Rabbit and that happens I either split them up, or send empty cars till they actually start using their brain. The empty car bit usually ticks off the guest behind them, and then they turn on the guests. Gets people moving everytime. :D