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

[mechurchlady]

IndyandMarion have a cookie from me and a double double animal style with animal style fries and a diet regular chocolate shake.

Hugs IndyandMarion and welcome back to the living. Missed you and I am trying to be a good guest, really I am.

I think you deserve a vacation out in DLR to see how things are run.

I am too tired to find cookie smileys but you can imagine cookies fresh from the bag.

Yes another thread turned into a food thread. Where is the bacon?

[Lasolimu]

Where is the bacon?

Sorry, we didn't have a bacon spill to go along with the hamburgers and beer.

[Teddykeiko86]

While ride ops at Disney, Knotts and Universal care about the riders, CMs a other parks don't. I was at a park in Pennsylvania this summer and I was in line behind this young gal and two boys ( probably her brothers ). She pushes the kid up against the height messurement sign. His head clearly slides under it, by about 4 inches. Did they get out of line? Nope. At the station did the ride ops notice or seem to care? No, one measured him, or even noticed the kid ended up on the ride.

I saw many employees not paying attention to the ride they were working. One employee at the corckscrew attraction ( like KBF's boomerang) was READING A MAGAZINE at the control booth, while the ride was going.!!!!!

What if some kid was climbing on the gates and fell on the track, or some SG came back into the station and aproched the tracks??? OMG.

[Teddykeiko86]

About the sign and needing to be 7 years old, the signs used to say 7 years old. Now it just says young children need to be accompained by an adult. Except on Splash mnt. where it says children under age of 8 must be accompained by a responsible adult 16 years old and over.

[felinefan]

Knott's ride ops caring about ride rules???? WHERE????? Not when I worked there! The situation really deteriorated the last month or so I was there. New ride ops apparently knew almost nothing about rules, were letting kids on rides without measuring, etc.. And if I tried to tell them otherwise, these little punk kid newbies got on my case about it! I should've slapped some sense into them. But I doubt it would've helped any.

[jlima]

He's right. A child has to be at least 7 to ride alone.

Grrrrrrrr . . . he WAS 7; the SCM said he had to be 8 to ride alone. Glad those days are behind me!

[Teddykeiko86]

I have seen parents trying to sneak their sleeping kids in on the attractions. Allot of the cast members will still tell parents that they have to measure their kids. The parents said we were able to do it last time.

I was in line for roger rabit once when the cm came on the loud speaker and said in a very PO's voice "ALL CHILDREN MUST BE AWAKE TO RIDE, AND THE MUST BE FULLY CLOTHED!" Hmm I wonder what the SG's were doing?

[Teddykeiko86]

Knott's ride ops caring about ride rules???? WHERE????? Not when I worked there! The situation really deteriorated the last month or so I was there. New ride ops apparently knew almost nothing about rules, were letting kids on rides without measuring, etc.. And if I tried to tell them otherwise, these little punk kid newbies got on my case about it! I should've slapped some sense into them. But I doubt it would've helped any.

Come to think about it, yeah, Knott's is kinda bad. But not as bad as Magic or as Hershy in PA.

[Mayonnaise]

I think some SGs deliberatly take advantage of the "too young to ride alone" thing. When I was in the single rider line for Test Track, there was an SG dad in front of me with a boy... probably 8-10 years old. I pointed out to him that they were in the single rider line, and there was a possibility of being separated from his child in that line, and he replied that the load CMs always let him ride together with his kid out of the single rider line, and then reminded his son to tell the load people he was scared to go without his dad.

*Mutters.*

8^S

[5th Dimension]

One time at load, this kid looked a bit too short, so I told his father that he had to be measured. Three things set off an alarm in my head:

1. The soles of his flip flops were about one inch.
2. He was standing on his tippy toes as much as he possibly could.
3. His dad said "he's been on every 40 inch ride" (Why would he mention that exact number? It's kind of unusual.)

Of course he was just a bit short, and I told him over and over again I couldn't let him go on the ride. I'm guessing he planned on doing this before hand. His wife and daughter went on the ride, and probably gave me dirty looks as his plan was thwarted.