Rampant Illiteracy at WDW

[Main Streeter]

Quite honestly, most Mensa people frighten me...I just joined 'cause it's funny to see the freaked-out expressions on people's faces when I tell 'em I'm a member :p: .

A girlfriend insisted I join a few yrs. ago. Those people are stodgy, stiff, boring, & hardly know what reality is. Hail Mary if a Mensa member makes a mistake during the meeting. The group simply has no means of coping nor recovery. Don't think I ever laughed while at a Mensa meeting, except at myself. Four meetings taught me I did NOT belong! This world has too much to offer outside Mensa!! Syndrome, I also joined Mensa to see all the freaked out looks & hear the jaws drop. :D:

[Brayon]

A girlfriend insisted I join a few yrs. ago. Those people are stodgy, stiff, boring, & hardly know what reality is. Hail Mary if a Mensa member makes a mistake during the meeting. The group simply has no means of coping nor recovery. Don't think I ever laughed while at a Mensa meeting, except at myself. Four meetings taught me I did NOT belong! This world has too much to offer outside Mensa!! Syndrome, I also joined Mensa to see all the freaked out looks & hear the jaws drop. :D:

Can someone show me the way to recruiment? Its been a while since my last IQ test, but I wouldn't mind trying.

[dizneeluvr]

The ones that really get to me are the ones that come down for the Mensa Convention. You would think, that these "Shining Examples of Knowledge and Understanding," could read the Flyer and call the right Tele#.

my proposal to you would be to learn just enough of what they need and then pretend that you are who they are calling and take their reservations. i had a friend who used to get misdirected calls for a pizza place, and she just took their food orders. i know it's a little mean. :twisted:

[Syndrome]

If you already tested out at the required level, you don't have to be tested again. Just contact the school, prison, or mental health facility where you were previously tested for a copy of your score (I got in using a high school test). The website is http://www.mensa.org

Believe me, membership is worth it just to freak out your friends and neighbors!! :p:

[Syndrome]

my proposal to you would be to learn just enough of what they need and then pretend that you are who they are calling and take their reservations. i had a friend who used to get misdirected calls for a pizza place, and she just took their food orders. i know it's a little mean. :twisted:

My phone number in my first apartment ended in 0003, while the local pizza joint's ended in 0033. Normally I would correct the poor, misguided souls calling in search of a pizza fix. But if it was really late or I was in the middle of something, I'd say, "Sorry, but we're closed 'case we burned down (got hit by a tornado, got destroyed by an earthquake, or whatever else I thought of)."

My favorite was the moron who left a pizza order on my answering machine!! At least he didn't call back later wanting to know where his food was.

[leftcoaster]

My phone number in my first apartment ended in 0003, while the local pizza joint's ended in 0033. Normally I would correct the poor, misguided souls calling in search of a pizza fix. But if it was really late or I was in the middle of something, I'd say, "Sorry, but we're closed 'case we burned down (got hit by a tornado, got destroyed by an earthquake, or whatever else I thought of)."

My favorite was the moron who left a pizza order on my answering machine!! At least he didn't call back later wanting to know where his food was.

When I had an apartment, my last 4 digits were 9280. The local Bradlees store (similar to Target), was 9380. I used to get calls all the time. On Christmas morning, my phone rang. I thought it might be my gf, so I ran to answer it. "Hello?" "Yea, are you guys open today?"

"Sure! Come on down!" :twisted:

I would have loved to have been an invisible and inside that car when he pulled into the parking lot. :twisted:

[SWTexasBelle]

My first cell phone number had the same phone number as the county tax office - but a different area code (This was in Houston, which has 3 different area codes which are not long distance). Because it was the tax office, I got messages from little old ladies disputing taxes. I called them back, but got the number changed quickly - one time I turned on the phone and had 200+ messages! (I didn't call all of them back!)

[SWTexasBelle]

I find that people are more freaked out by the fact I was on Jeopardy! and Win Ben Stein's Money than my I.Q. - although maybe I should join Mensa just to REALLY freak them out!!!

[CycloneMan]

You're lucky that park was more responsive than Six Flags in Gurnee, IL. One Fright Fest season (when they press just about every breathing employee, plus all the bums and hoods they can kidnap off the street, into service as ride operators, since their usual college workers are gone), a group cut in front of us in one of the roller coaster lines. I am a very assertive person, but the jackasses blew me off. I alerted the ride operator when we reached the loading platform, and everyone behind me backed me up. The r/o rolled his eyes at me and said, "If you don't like it, learn to cut the lines too." My husband and I almost fainted in shock!!!

There are some employees like that at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ. But there was an incident, where a line cutter at El Toro, cut the whole line and sat in the front row! Everyone was screaming and booing. So they locked the train. He was in laughing and what not, when all of a suddon the ops say, "Hold train". The next thing you know, there was security in the station going to the guy who cut!

-Dainan "One of the most clever things done at SFGAv" Rafferty

[leftcoaster]

There are some employees like that at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ. But there was an incident, where a line cutter at El Toro, cut the whole line and sat in the front row! Everyone was screaming and booing. So they locked the train. He was in laughing and what not, when all of a suddon the ops say, "Hold train". The next thing you know, there was security in the station going to the guy who cut!

I haven't been there since 1987. I know the management has changed, and things are better than they were in the 80's, but nothing keeps you away from a theme park like a stabbing on Easter Sunday.