Stupid Guest Tricks

Mr. Syndrome went to Typhoon Lagoon today while I was slaving away with my work. He's rocketing down the Storm Slide, and SG is standing at the end...just STANDING, with his back to the trough in prime position to get taken out. Personally I would have let nature take its course, especially if I was my husband's size, but he had mercy and rolled as he hit the water to avoid the SG. Unfortunately, he clipped his finger on the underwater matting and had to get a bandaid over at First Aid to stop the bleeding. The SG remained mostly oblivious...his wife starting yelling at him, but I don't think he had any idea why.

At FA there was another potential SG who seemed to think it was the appropriate place complain about the fact that his ticket had gotten wet. Mr. Syndrome didn't stick around long enough to see how that one played out tho'.

You should see some of the tickets they bring to us at Guest Services asking for replacement. The layers are coming apart, they can't be scanned, but at least if we can read the code we can reissue them and ask themn to please try to keep them dry in the future.

Syndrome wrote:He's rocketing down the Storm Slide, and SG is standing at the end...just STANDING, with his back to the trough in prime position to get taken out.

The Mr. should have gone for the spare. :twisted:

He should learn real quick to get out of the way. An SG is liable to come down on an Orlando Rental Scooter.

Switchbeam 9 wrote:He should learn real quick to get out of the way. An SG is liable to come down on an Orlando Rental Scooter.

I LOVE that mental picture.

I love the SG that come to the ticket window to get all the tickets in their party replaced. Reason: One person in the party had them in their pocket and they went on Grizzly River Rapids or Splash Mountain and got them wet. Then they fuse together and make on lump of 8 or 10 tickets!!!
When we issue multi-day tickets, (most of us) we tell guests to please keep their tickets safe and dry, and I tell groups with children to have one responsible adult carry all the tickets. All the while some SG Timmy or Tammy jumping in the SG parent's face, trying to grab the tickets out of my hand or the parents hand.
The thing that cracks me up the most is right after I suggest that the parent hold the ticket, they immediately hand the ticket to little Timmy to hold for the day. Already I can tell they will be back either by the end of the day or early the next day to replace the ticket.

TT

My husband is a glutton for punishment. Today he went to Blizzard Beach and saw a couple more good ones. One little boy of about six was touching the fake snow and complaining that it wasn't real. Okay, you can excuse that in a little kid. But later he sees a grown man feeling the fake ice and complaining, "It's not even cold! You'd think they'd at least make it feel cold."

I think Mr. Syndrome was doing more himself a favor by not taking out said SG. I mean, if he had rocketed through the guy and knocked him over, assuming he hits somewhere circa the ankles, that means that SG's feet go forward and head goes back, right on top of Mr. Syndrome.

Mercy? Nah, self-preservation. The way he should be thinking in said case anyway.

Terrytunes wrote:I love the SG that come to the ticket window to get all the tickets in their party replaced. Reason: One person in the party had them in their pocket and they went on Grizzly River Rapids or Splash Mountain and got them wet. Then they fuse together and make on lump of 8 or 10 tickets!!!

I can own up to doing this once (and only once...). I was visiting Islands of Adventure for the first time. I held off on the water rides until the end of the day and then hit them in rapid-succession. Beforehand I put all my things in a locker: camera, camera bag and everything from my pockets. My *front* pockets... Totally forgot about the wallet in my back pocket. It was fine through Jurassic Park and Ripsaw Falls, but it was Bilge Rat Barges that did it in. My wallet got SOAKED. My Disney AP got wet and curled up when it dried, had to get it replaced at the park the next day. The worst thing was that I'd been keeping ALL my receipts in my wallet. So I had about 5 days' worth of receipts all mushed together in a soggy mess...

-Rob

I got one to beat all of that. I was visiting my bf for his birthday, and a few of us were in his pool. All of a sudden, he panics and realizes his cell phone was in his swimsuit pocket. We had been in the pool for ten minutes by this point. Suffice it to say that he replaced it the next day. (he's a lurker here, and he's gonna kill me when he sees this! lol. :twisted :)