Stupid Guest Tricks

Okay, maybe I've just been lucky and never experienced this before and it happens all the time, but I've worked at the park for almost 5 years and have never seen this happen.

So I'm working at Pinnochio unload and a wheelchair guest comes up, so I load them. The next group to get off the ride (and I mean like literally the next vehicle) gets out and a woman from the group gets into the wheelchair. Now at this point, it's the end of my shift and I haven't slept well for a few days so I'm very tired and I sit there very confused and trying to remember if the group I just loaded had a wheelchair or if they just had a GAC card. I remember that yes they did have a wheelchair, so this is their wheelchair and not this woman's so I tell her, 'that's not your wheelchair' she continues to get comfortable and a guy with her gets ready to wheel her off. I continue saying, 'that's not your wheelchair' and desperately thinking, should I grab hold of the wheelchair and physically not let them leave? At about that time (cause this really all took place in just a few seconds) the rest of their group is getting off from the next car and someone getting off of that car says something in Spanish (I think it could be some Spanish related language, I don't really know) presumably telling the woman it's not her wheelchair. So, you would think, okay she didn't understand what I was saying and she got confused, but the guy with her proceeds to look at the tag on the wheelchair and says something along the lines of 'oh, it's not' in English, so he understood me the whole time and was just ignoring me or something.

Anyway, the only thing I could think after it happend was WTF? I was very confused, I mean if you left your wheelchair parked in front of the ride, why would you expect it to be at the exit when you get off. Their vehicle was actually in the line of sight of where I loaded the wheelchair group, so they could, if they had paid attention, presumably have seen the lady get out of her wheelchair and into the ride vehicle. And finally, if someone who works there and presumably knows who got out of the wheelchair right in front of you is repeatedly saying that's not your wheelchair why would you just ignore them?

So that was a bit longer than I intended, but I had to share the story and all my thoughts for literally the rest of the day since I walked within a half hour after that.

I also had a WTF moment. I was at Astro Orbitor. There was a left umbrella in our tower console that had been there for hours. As a guest gets off, they told me that it was their umbrella. I was confused at that point, didn't know what to say. They probably left it there hours ago. It couldn't been theirs if they just left it when it was there for hours!! I was confused, but shaked it off.

Aw come on lady ulrike.That was damn nice of you to have 'her' wheelchair,waiting for 'her',even though it wasn't 'her' chair.

DLRFantasmic!Dan wrote:I also had a WTF moment. I was at Astro Orbitor. There was a left umbrella in our tower console that had been there for hours. As a guest gets off, they told me that it was their umbrella. I was confused at that point, didn't know what to say. They probably left it there hours ago. It couldn't been theirs if they just left it when it was there for hours!! I was confused, but shaked it off.

That's why they say to put L&F stuff under the counter in there.

Happy B-Day Dan.

Natural Selection Fan wrote:That's why they say to put L&F stuff under the counter in there.

Happy B-Day Dan.

The BIG, HUGE, GIGANTIC, ENORMOUS umbrella is not able to fit in a tiny tiny lil space!! :D

Thanks! But, it was on Monday!! :D

DLRFantasmic!Dan wrote:The BIG, HUGE, GIGANTIC, ENORMOUS umbrella is not able to fit in a tiny tiny lil space!! :D

Thanks! But, it was on Monday!! :D

That's when you ask the SG to prove it is theirs, and then you look for a name. No name on it, it isn't theirs. Problem solved. :twisted:

This doesn't just happen at DL. I have a friend with a severely disabled teenage son (he is blind and has little muscle control, so he can only walk short distances). She purchased a special wheelchair for him that is very obviously someone's private chair vs. the ones provided by the airlines. They flew to Orlando a couple of years back, seated in the bulkhead with the wheelchair gate-checked so they could easily get him to it within a few steps. They land, the other passengers leave the plane, she steps onto the jetway to see if the chair is there...and it is, but with some old guy sitting in it! And the guy would NOT get out!! She thought maybe he didn't speak English because he just stared at her. I would have used universally understood language and tipped his butt out of that chair, but she is much too nice. She just stood there, with her poor confused son waiting in the plane, until an employee saw what was happening and stepped in to remedy the situation.