Stupid Guest Tricks

VICisGOOFY wrote:What does 101 mean?

The attraction is down. E vacs begin & maintence is called to trouble shoot so attraction will be up asap.

What about managment not taking an attraction 101 when it needs to be taken down. I'm not talking about critical safety issues where maintence needs to be called in for a reset. I'm talking about huge show issues. Like on the Great Movie Ride the witch's head falling off in Oz. Or total loss of show lighting.

Hmmmm..... let's see...

*Being asked what time the parade starts...over and over again.

*Being asked what time the parade starts when it's 9:10 PM and guests are sitting in the middle of the street waiting for the fireworks to start. (How would that parade work? Would all the characters line up single-file and walk down the sidewalk?)

*Guests who get upset with me because I tell them there is no wheelchair-access ramp on the Main Street Station. (Do they honestly think I have any control over that?)

*Guests who have about 30 other guests in line in front of them at a train station, and yell at me and point out 3 or 4 empty seats on one car as we leave the station, as if they would have made it on the train had we loaded those 3 or 4 extra seats.

*Guests who run full-speed to a train station as the train is leaving thinking they might make it just in time (especially when there are a lot of other people in line at the station anyway).

*Guests who think they can stop in the middle of the Main Street Station exit ramp to take pictures of or record the parade as it passes by, and then completely ignore me, pretending they don't hear me, when I yell at them to keep moving.

*Guests who see me move people from a shaded area in the WALKWAY, and then quickly fill in that spot like I moved the others just to make room for them.

*Guests who smoke in the park in non-designated smoking areas (especially the ones who become very offended when you tell them they can't smoke there).

*CMs who smoke backstage around CMs who don't smoke.

*Guests who go back to doing what you just told them to stop doing 5 seconds ago because they think you don't see them.

*Guests who complain that they have been waiting in line at a train station for so long that they have seen 3 trains go by. (For those of you who don't know Steam Trains, that means the guest has been waiting for about 15-20 minutes. What do they do about wait times for other attractions if they're complaing about 15 minutes?).

*Guests who walk by me while I am waving them along during a parade and say something like, "Nice job *sarcastically*" or, "Your arms must get tired."

*Guests who ask where the park exit is. ("How did you get in here!?")

*Guests who ask if the train will take them to the parking lot. ("Did you see any railroad tracks while you were in the parking structure?")

*Guests who ask if the train will return to the station at which they are asking the question. ("No, this is a one-way trip. You will never see this train again.")

*Guests with a Special Assistance Pass or guests in wheelchairs who wait at the exit and complain when I don't have enough space for them on my train. ("You don't have to wait in line, you have been here for a shorter amount of time than anyone else, and you still have the nerve to complain that you're going to have to wait for the next train? You're sitting on a wheelchair, not a f***ing throne!")

*Guests who interrupt you while you are answering a question for another guest.

*Guests who insist on walking against traffic after the fireworks despite being yelled at by every CM they have passed along the way to "STAY TO THE RIGHT!"

*Guests who insist that the Disneyland strollers can't be folded up, just because they don't know how.

*Guests who intentionally scream or make loud, obnoxious noises during the National Anthem.

*Guests who rely on CM hand signals for transportation. That is, they stop moving when there is no CM waving their hands at them.

*Guests who think Adventureland is somehow accessible from Town Square.

*All of the gasps and "Ooohhh"s when the fireworks on the sides of Main Street fire off after "Is this haunted room actually stretching?"

And finally...

*Guests who think they can do whatever they please because they "paid the (x) dollars to get into the park."


Can you tell that guests annoy the hell out of me?


Erik
"Viking"

Oh, I almost forgot... it's actually a non-guest pet-peeve:

"Monorail Red is entering the park"
"Monorail Red is approaching Pirates"
"Monorail Red is exiting the park"
"Monorail Red requesting clearance to Tomorrowland Station"
"Delayed call"

They really need their own channel.

McGintoy - While I can relate to many of your peeves, I must play devil's advocate with some of them:

"*Being asked what time the parade starts...over and over again."
That's really a very legitimate question. Even if they got a show schedule when they entered the Park, and even if they read it, there's no guarantee that (a) they remember all the times for all the events going on during the day or (b) they still have it in their possession.


"*Being asked what time the parade starts when it's 9:10 PM and guests are sitting in the middle of the street waiting for the fireworks to start. (How would that parade work? Would all the characters line up single-file and walk down the sidewalk?)"
Maybe they're asking about the next parade? Maybe they don't realize that there's only one parade route?

*Guests who ask where the park exit is. ("How did you get in here!?")
Maybe they think the exit is in a different place than the entrance. Maybe they are turned around and aren't sure where the Main Entrance is any more.

*Guests who ask if the train will return to the station at which they are asking the question. ("No, this is a one-way trip. You will never see this train again.")
How are they supposed to know if they'll be allowed to remain on for the entire trip or if they're going to be asked to exit at a different station? Many attractions have exits in places you can't see from the entrance - Star Tours and Pirates, for example.

*Guests who think Adventureland is somehow accessible from Town Square.
When looking at a map of the Park, it isn't always obvious how to get there from here. That's what CMs are for.

*All of the gasps and "Ooohhh"s when the fireworks on the sides of Main Street fire off after "Is this haunted room actually stretching?"
Don't you think the gasps and "Ooohhs" are what the creators of the fireworks were HOPING they'd hear?

TGSal wrote:*All of the gasps and "Ooohhh"s when the fireworks on the sides of Main Street fire off after "Is this haunted room actually stretching?"
Don't you think the gasps and "Ooohhs" are what the creators of the fireworks were HOPING they'd hear?

Gonna have to agree with TGSal on this one.

I am gonna have to say...chill. Most guests don't read its not our fault. I don't mind answering when the parade is, I don't mind explaining the firework stuff. Pet peeves are the guests who after the 30th time don't fold the stroller or move it to the back. The guests who stand in my walkway when I have told them 5 or more times they couldn't be there. Yes I know its the only shade. But other then that I love parades.

Time to play Devil's Advocate to the Devil's Advocate, lol.

TGSal wrote:McGintoy - While I can relate to many of your peeves, I must play devil's advocate with some of them:

*Being asked what time the parade starts...over and over again.

That's really a very legitimate question. Even if they got a show schedule when they entered the Park, and even if they read it, there's no guarantee that (a) they remember all the times for all the events going on during the day or (b) they still have it in their possession.

I totally understand. It is a legitimate question, but it gets old answering that same question again and again. I actually start to hope the next guest will ask me something different, lol.

TGSal wrote:

*Being asked what time the parade starts when it's 9:10 PM and guests are sitting in the middle of the street waiting for the fireworks to start. (How would that parade work? Would all the characters line up single-file and walk down the sidewalk?)

Maybe they're asking about the next parade? Maybe they don't realize that there's only one parade route?

Here, I'm talking about the ones who clearly think that the people are waiting in the middle of the street for the parade. They ask "What time is this parade?" I'm talking about the ones who honestly think there's a parade coming up Main Street.

TGSal wrote:

*Guests who ask where the park exit is. ("How did you get in here!?")

Maybe they think the exit is in a different place than the entrance. Maybe they are turned around and aren't sure where the Main Entrance is any more.

When you come in through the main entrance, you can see people also exiting the park. There is also a sign over the exit that reads "EXIT". It should be fairly obvious that this is the spot to exit the park. I don't think these guests are turned around or lost because they're almost at the exit by the time they reach me to ask me the question. Also, if they're not sure where they're going, that's what the map is for.

TGSal wrote:

*Guests who ask if the train will return to the station at which they are asking the question. ("No, this is a one-way trip. You will never see this train again.")

How are they supposed to know if they'll be allowed to remain on for the entire trip or if they're going to be asked to exit at a different station? Many attractions have exits in places you can't see from the entrance - Star Tours and Pirates, for example.

They don't ask if they can stay on for the entire trip, they ask if the train comes back to the station. Trains run on tracks, so common sense would tell you that the trains are running on a circuit. Therefore, they will eventually come back to the station. Also, the map clearly shows the train going in a circle around the park.

TGSal wrote:

*Guests who think Adventureland is somehow accessible from Town Square.

When looking at a map of the Park, it isn't always obvious how to get there from here. That's what CMs are for.

True, but if you look on the map, you would have to cross through a forest, swim across a river, and possibly conquer the Temple of Doom to reach Adventureland from Town Square, lol.

TGSal wrote:

*All of the gasps and "Ooohhh"s when the fireworks on the sides of Main Street fire off after "Is this haunted room actually stretching?"

Don't you think the gasps and "Ooohhs" are what the creators of the fireworks were HOPING they'd hear?

Yeah, this one really doesn't annoy me. It's a great effect. The thing that annoys me is that everyone in the walkways stops for a few seconds and traffic doesn't move, and sometimes it's hard to get them to start moving again.

Stduck wrote:I am gonna have to say... chill.

I'm calm. I'm just listing things that annoy me. I'm not always pissed off or some extremely unhappy person like you probably think I am from reading this, I just think some of these things are annoying when you hear them almost every day.

Stduck wrote:Most guests don't read its not our fault.

Haha, EXACTLY. Most guests don't read (that's the problem). And it's not our fault (yet we still have to deal with them). If guests would just read over the map and show times guide before they got going, we would have a lot fewer of these repetitive questions.

There are a lot of dumb guests, but then there are those great guests who make it all worthwhile. What would we do without them? :D:

McGintoy wrote:Time to play Devil's Advocate to the Devil's Advocate, lol.

...but then there are those great guests who make it all worthwhile. What would we do without them? :D:

Yes, but do you remember them, and what they did to make it worthwhile? ;)