Crazy things you hear while waiting in line...

Everybody has things we're ignorant about. I can talk about roller coasters for hours but know nothing about wine beyond that sometimes it comes in boxes :-)

I worked in a store years ago and made a game out of asking the store manager, a wine expert, for recommendations. It amused me how he'd ask very detailed questions -- "You're making chili? What kind of meat? White, brown, red or black beans? Which vegetables?" -- ponder for a few moments and then make a recommendation. (And I'd go to the store and buy the store brand.)

Good point. I'm far from a wine expert myself. Or a mechanic. So I can get how my friend (who is a mechanic) feels when I ask him questions that are probably on par with "what is the difference between Valravn and Rougarou" or something line that.

Sunday AM while waiting for Dragster to open a family behind me was talking about the ride. One of the teenage aged kids had his mom convinced that "several people were killed on TTD a few years ago when a cable snapped and decapitated them all." The kid left the line shortly after to go to the lockers and I assured the mom that what he said wasn't true. I did tell her that there had been a cable snap incident about 12 years ago and there were 3 or 4 people with minor cuts but nothing too serious. I did notice that she backed away from the fence though. :-)

jimmyburke said:

It is as ridiculous as a couple of other notorious proposals that I remember:

3. Bring back LeBron and we will surely win a title

Well look at that, it worked!

Yesterday while waiting to get off Magnum, I heard someone call Valravn the Vile Raven...

The other day I was talking to a guy and he started talking about TTD, and how it was 800 feet tall. I asked how he knew that, and he said he "knew the owner of the cedar point in Ohio AND the cedar point in California." LOL people can be hilarious.

Last Monday we exited Wicked Twister and began walking towards Iron Dragon. We cut through Camp Snoopy. As you look up, the first drop of Valravn comes into view. Two ladies walking near us, one pointed & says, "That is the one that they re-did and painted, used to be called Mantis".

I just glanced at my son who was grinning.

^ I hope you mean Planet Snoopy... *grin*

So, I was walking down planet snoopy on my way from Windseeker to dragster, and I see a father and his son grinning about something and calling Planet Snoopy "Camp Snoopy" completely unaware that camp snoopy is on the other side of the park. ;-)

Go Intamin you made my morning 😂

Yeah, you got me there. I had trouble discerning a camp from a planet. Kind of like getting mixed up between Cadillac Cars & Antique Cars.

Yesterday at Kings Island, I was waiting in line for Diamondback. This guy was talking to his gf about how "The Son of Beast is gonna return next year, and they are taking out this ride for it," I would surly hope they are not taking out Diamondback! ;)

And another:

In line for TTD I heard a group of teenagers talking. "I got stuck at the top of the Valravn, It broke and they had to put it in reverse to get us down!" one said.

I was unable to keep it together

At Walt Disney World last week, I heard a man say that Rockin Roller Coaster goes from 0-100 mph really fast and is the fastest coaster in the world.

Today on the train, one family was discussing whether rougarou was previously named Raptor. Another man mentioned to his family how they had an extra coaster not being used at another park so they just brought over the extra pieces to change the trains out for the Rougarou conversion.

Not waiting in line, but yesterday while walking past the barnyard, my wife had just corrected my daughter who misidentified a few geese as ducks, when an adult blonde woman of about 40 walking in the other direction shouted out to her group: "Look at all those chickens!"

I can understand a 9 year old mistaking a completely white goose for a duck, but I would think that an adult would know what a chicken looks like...

At the state fair last weekend there was a giant pumpkin weigh off. I heard some gal up on the Sky Glider turn around to someone in the seat behind her and while pointing across the grounds say "Hey, lookie at all them big wartermaylons!"

I was at Kings Island yesterday and heard some crazy Cedar Point information.

1) Mystic Timbers is the new ride for Cedar Point next season, they are just pretending it is going to KI.

2) Maverick is the tallest and fastest ride in the world.

3) And some people were claiming that CCMR is more intense than Adventure express and that Iron Dragon is more intense than The Bat.

Today in Magnum's que line, a group of teenagers was arguing about what they were riding later. One was like "How 'bout the big red one that shoots you down the drop?" then another said "You mean the Valravn?"

Eventually they established that the "Big red one that shoots you down the first hill" was Maverick.

Rusty said:

Not waiting in line, but yesterday while walking past the barnyard, my wife had just corrected my daughter who misidentified a few geese as ducks, when an adult blonde woman of about 40 walking in the other direction shouted out to her group: "Look at all those chickens!"

I can understand a 9 year old mistaking a completely white goose for a duck, but I would think that an adult would know what a chicken looks like...

Do they even have chickens this year? Last year they didn't have any chickens because of whatever bird disease was making the rounds. I noticed a turkey Thursday but I admit I haven't really given the critters much attention this year.

It was avian influenza, which actually was kept at bay in Ohio last year. But there were no bird shows, poultry barns on the county and state fairgrounds sat empty, and "farmyard" displays were re-imagined for the summer of '15.
This year there's no major threat so it's all go and the 4Hers are back in business.

As for CP, I'm not sure. I've been by there a few times and failed to notice.