My First Stupid Guest Trick
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 11:43 pm
Here we go, here is the short and unimpressive tale of my very first stupid guest trick!!
Today I went to the resort as a guest (thanks everyone for your help & advice on parking and entering backstage when doing so), primarily to see the Parade of Stars since I've never seen it before and am probably going to be working it along with the EP. I was kind of hoping to sneak onto ToT, so I went to DCA first but unfortunately I couldn't get on (private party, probably press and management). So I decided before I hopped over to Disneyland, I'd hit the single rider on Soarin'.
I was on the right side of the building. For whatever reason, the C rows of seats (all the way to the right) were not being seated, I think there was a malfunction with the seatbelts. Being a single, I was the last person in line for area B, row 1.
As everyone walks into the seating area, about half of the row 1 guests get confused as to where to sit. Half of them follow the arrow and sit in area B on the left of us, and the other half sit in area C on our right. Even though it wasn't really my job, I politely pointed out to them that the arrow is pointing left, and they all should sit in area B. They realize I'm right, but by this time the other half of row 1 guests (which consisted of a woman and her daughters and their friends) have taken up ALL of row 1 by sitting in random seats and placing their bags on the others. The other guests say to themselves "Well, where do we sit?" and I say to the woman and her kids "I think we should move all the way down so we can all sit in this row". Remember, to them I was just another guest. She completely ignores me, until the CM working load walks up and asks everyone to move all the way down so everyone can sit.
As they're fublimng around moving, and the others are trying to sit, I turn to the CM and say "I feel your pain. I just got hired". She asked where I was working, and we talked for a minute waiting for the others to settle so I could sit, as my seat was the last one. The problem was, the daughter of the woman is STILL sitting in the last seat where I'm supposed to sit, her mother next to her, and her bags on the seat after that. I politely ask if her and her daughter can move down one so I can sit, and she says "No, my daughter is sitting here. You'll have to wait for the next ride." I then explained to her that a specific number of guests are lined up for each row so that there is a seat for everyone, and we can all ride if she puts her bags away where they are supposed to go (under the seat) and moves over. She then gets up and gives me a nasty look as she begins putting her bags away, snapping "WE WERE HERE FIRST!".
After I sat down and put my seatbelt on, the load CM came up next to me, tapped me on the shoulder and whispered "Now I feel your pain!"
Today I went to the resort as a guest (thanks everyone for your help & advice on parking and entering backstage when doing so), primarily to see the Parade of Stars since I've never seen it before and am probably going to be working it along with the EP. I was kind of hoping to sneak onto ToT, so I went to DCA first but unfortunately I couldn't get on (private party, probably press and management). So I decided before I hopped over to Disneyland, I'd hit the single rider on Soarin'.
I was on the right side of the building. For whatever reason, the C rows of seats (all the way to the right) were not being seated, I think there was a malfunction with the seatbelts. Being a single, I was the last person in line for area B, row 1.
As everyone walks into the seating area, about half of the row 1 guests get confused as to where to sit. Half of them follow the arrow and sit in area B on the left of us, and the other half sit in area C on our right. Even though it wasn't really my job, I politely pointed out to them that the arrow is pointing left, and they all should sit in area B. They realize I'm right, but by this time the other half of row 1 guests (which consisted of a woman and her daughters and their friends) have taken up ALL of row 1 by sitting in random seats and placing their bags on the others. The other guests say to themselves "Well, where do we sit?" and I say to the woman and her kids "I think we should move all the way down so we can all sit in this row". Remember, to them I was just another guest. She completely ignores me, until the CM working load walks up and asks everyone to move all the way down so everyone can sit.
As they're fublimng around moving, and the others are trying to sit, I turn to the CM and say "I feel your pain. I just got hired". She asked where I was working, and we talked for a minute waiting for the others to settle so I could sit, as my seat was the last one. The problem was, the daughter of the woman is STILL sitting in the last seat where I'm supposed to sit, her mother next to her, and her bags on the seat after that. I politely ask if her and her daughter can move down one so I can sit, and she says "No, my daughter is sitting here. You'll have to wait for the next ride." I then explained to her that a specific number of guests are lined up for each row so that there is a seat for everyone, and we can all ride if she puts her bags away where they are supposed to go (under the seat) and moves over. She then gets up and gives me a nasty look as she begins putting her bags away, snapping "WE WERE HERE FIRST!".
After I sat down and put my seatbelt on, the load CM came up next to me, tapped me on the shoulder and whispered "Now I feel your pain!"