Yes, the ride is over now

[dawn]

I was at Blizzard Beach yesterday. My six year old was riding the tube slides at Ski Patrol and I was hanging out near the bottom in case she needed a hand out.

A woman comes down the slide, and just sits in the tube floating around in the landing pool. The lifeguard CM pulls her tube over to the shallows and holds it so she can get out. Woman just blinks at her. "You need to get out now, Ma'am." Woman just blinks at her and mutters something in not-English. "The slide is over, it's time to get out." SG waves frantically at her son who's come down after her, so the CM grabs that tube too, and is now trying to hold both tubes in the shallows and to encourage the (now two) SGs out. They looked completely boggled. Like they were going to spend the rest of the day there. And folks were still coming down the slides, but couldn't get out of the landing pool.

I seemed to recall that CM's weren't allowed to physically help people, so I waded out and held out my hand to offer the mother a hand up until she finally took it, and then I pulled. She eventually got the idea, and her son got up too. Then they stalked off, leaving their tubes bobbing in the water.

I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out what they thought was supposed to happen next. On the bright side, it makes me feel better about getting to the seat-belt check on Test Track with DD not buckled in today.

[hobie16]

I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out what they thought was supposed to happen next.

A submarine was suppose to surface and transport them to EPCOT.