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Re: I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:13 pm
by TalkingHands
What I think would be hard is having to tell a teen or adult guest they are too short to ride. While I'm tall enough to ride at 56 inches my aunt was less than 48 inches and couldn't ride some rides because of her height. Right now we have a 14yo freshman girl who is extremely short because of dwarfism. She will never be tall enough to ride some rides. Hopefully really short adults have enough sense to just skip the rides with height requirements.
Re: I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:49 pm
by Mayonnaise
I had an idiopathic growth hormone deficiency which was diagnosed quite late, so there was a period of time where that happened to me quite regularly. It probably would have been worse if I wasn't deathly afraid of roller-coasters... to this day.
I do distinctly remember going to Go-Karts with "Teen Camp" summer day camp, and the councilors discovering when we got there that I was too short to drive a cart alone, even tho I was one of the older kids there. It was fairly humiliating, but at least in that case the councilors took turns riding a two man cart with me, so I wasn't completely left out.
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Re: I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:41 am
by kenkid
Hight ........, wouldn't it be great if they had a weight limit for adults!!! Right next to the hight bar would be a scale. If you looked to be overweight you'd have to step on the scale...UGH!!! Good luck with that one!
Re: I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:59 am
by brwneldr
we just retured from a trip and sadly ds is short...way short. we measured him at kali and he was a smidge under...no biggie. the cm was so applogetic, me on the other hand could of cared less about going on a water ride when it was freezing that day!!!! brrr!!! only my kid! lol
anyways, after dd did soarin with dad, i stopped by the front of the que to ask about a future rider card for ds when he is tall enough. the cm at the line had to go over to the desk for soarin and as im waiting there with both kids-hyped up and running around, it is disney! - this older guest in a scooter stops about ten feet away from us, and plonks a small child on her lap...whizzes by me and yells at me shes 40 inches, shes tall enough!!! i did have on a blue hoodie, but it's no where near the color of the cm's uniform, and hello i was squatting down talking to my kids. the fp cm said she'll get stopped and measured further on. i could only hope. there was no way that kid- if she was even 2 was tall enough. i mean come on it's soarin, you're going to be in the air dangling....hardly the ride you want your kid to go on if too short. i would of loved to have seen her get the boot!
Re: I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:18 pm
by joanna71985
kenkid wrote:Hight ........, wouldn't it be great if they had a weight limit for adults!!! Right next to the hight bar would be a scale. If you looked to be overweight you'd have to step on the scale...UGH!!! Good luck with that one!
No...not really
Re: I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:27 pm
by Goofyernmost
kenkid wrote:Hight ........, wouldn't it be great if they had a weight limit for adults!!! Right next to the hight bar would be a scale. If you looked to be overweight you'd have to step on the scale...UGH!!! Good luck with that one!
My, my what a warm and fuzzy, almost illiterate, first post. I'd like to say welcome...but I'm having trouble getting it to come out.
Re: I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:27 pm
by Rosie
kenkid wrote:Hight ........, wouldn't it be great if they had a weight limit for adults!!! Right next to the hight bar would be a scale. If you looked to be overweight you'd have to step on the scale...UGH!!! Good luck with that one!
May I ask your reasoning for this? Since I am Pooh sized perhaps you could enlighten me on which rides I should not be allowed to ride?
Rosie
Re: I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:11 pm
by Goofyernmost
Rosie wrote:May I ask your reasoning for this? Since I am Pooh sized perhaps you could enlighten me on which rides I should not be allowed to ride?
Rosie
Don't bother with attempting to get an explanation. In the words of Ron White..."you can't fix stupid".
Re: I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:25 pm
by Main Streeter
Goofyernmost wrote:Don't bother with attempting to get an explanation. In the words of Ron White..."you can't fix stupid".
Or, in the words of my new friend Chuck,"Were you born Stupid?" :D: :D:
Re: I'm sorry, sir, but your kid is too short to ride...
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:26 am
by Big Wallaby
Folks, don't feed the troll.
Lasolimu, would you do your thing here, without the safety spiel.
Love, Fatty.