Crazy things you hear while waiting in line...

Maybe some Pfizer engineers could help with the performance issues.

Oh, I have another one from Monday afternoon, and I feel real badly about this one.

Waiting on Mine Ride platform, the female was doing the spiel and checking seat belts. Her and the other worker were moving quite quickly. As they reached the third car she was speaking over the microphone about the great features of CCMR she then said "if you are ready to ride let me hear you say OWWWWWWWW!"

Right at that moment she pinched her hand while pushing down the seat bar. She was in alot of pain, the operator in the booth had her go to First Aid. Alot of riders and the coworkers did express concern for her.

On Tuesday I saw her back on the platform in good spirits.

Something entirely different would've flown out of my mouth at that point, which probably would've led to my dismissal, so I'd say she did a good job.

CoasterKyle1121 said:

I was walking on the Dragster midway and a man came up to me and said (Referring to TTD) "That's the worst ride this park could have added. It looks like a giant penis in the sky!"

Not nearly as much as Power Tower does on the skyline when lit at night.

Tilt-a-Whirl said:

Is it bad that I just kind of smile and nod when I'm told these crazy things? It's better than trying to correct the logic.

What else CAN you say or do in response to that? What is there to gain by calling him out on it? I've done the exact same "smile and nod" as you on several occasions.

I used to work with a guy who NEVER missed the opportunity to correct even the slightest slip up or misinformation spoken by any of his co-workers. I don't know if it made him feel smarter or superior or what. But he usually came across as a jerk and he was not nearly as well liked as he could have been had he not taken every possible opportunity to make others feel stupid.

I love this topic because almost every visit to the park has at least one gem. Today we rode the CPLERR back toward the main midway. After passing the burning building the people behind us saw Rougarou, one person said they should ride it. Another asked what the name of the ride was to which someone replied "Raptor". Someone else chimed in saying they really wanted to ride the Raptor, it is right here, Of course, along that stretch the name "Rougarou" is very visible on the photo building and the ride entrance.

Oh well, like Rusty said in the above post, sometimes you just keep quiet, don't be the park know-it-all person. I'm sure they had a nice ride on Rougarou except for the part where your ears bang against the restraints.

Just riding the train has a ton of doozies. Some common ones I remember off hand:

-Wow, look at Gemini, they're taking it down! It almost looks like it has loops. (Looking at MS 2.0)

-Wood coasters without loops aren't safe! That's illegal!

-OHMYGODTHERESAFIREINTHATHOUSE

"I can't believe that noob just said they didn't know that rougaroo was originally named banshee, I'm posting that on Pointbuzz, lmao noobz"

Irony = I posted this on PB¡

Technically he's not wrong, but it's not exactly common knowledge as the name was scrapped before Mantis was even built. So guy, if you're reading, it's actually VERY easy to believe that 'noob' didn't know.

Lady rushing toward the front of the park down the frontier trail: 'Maverick is this way!'

I had two good ones at the park yesterday.

1) A group of older teens were behind me in line for Valravn and one kid says, "How much do you think a roller coaster like this costs?" Another kid replies, "At least a couple million." And the first kid responded back, "Really? You think in the millions?" I just rolled my eyes.

2) Two young kids and their dad were standing on the exit ramp of Maverick. The dad said, "That's the Mean Streak over there that they're tearing down." And the kid responds, "No, they're changing it!" And the other kid added, "See that's new track!" And the father, who refused to be corrected by his eight year old sons, said, "No, they're tearing it down." And walked away.

I encountered one of those know-it-all people the other day. Boy was he bothered by the "crazy" thing I said.

My family and I were separating at the park for the afternoon and I said we should all meet at 6:00 at "Twisted Wicker". This guy, wearing some sort of yellow/green neon "single rider" shirt practically chased after me to tell me that I got the name wrong and that I should "show the park some respect" and get the name Wicked Twister right. OMG, this guy was fit to be tied. I just chuckled and kept walking!

And, I have and always will call it Twisted Wicker! The reason is because when it opened, I won a radio contest where I could choose two tickets to Cedar Point (Wicked Twister) or an outdoor suite of patio furniture (Twisted Wicker). Being 5 months pregnant, I opted for the furniture! I say it for fun and because it's a happy memory for me. I didn't realize people could be so bothered by it!

I couldn't resist posting in this thread because I hear the craziest things from guests when I'm on the clock. :)

"Why is Gatekeeper closed? Do you know when it will open back up?" As I'm sitting at Maverick's fastlane with no way of even knowing other rides are down other than overhearing people talking about it.

"What's the point of me even buying this wristband if you're letting that line through?" A man says as I ask him to wait a moment at the top of the stairs at crowd before entering the platform because I was finishing capping off the regular line, which was about an hour and a half compared to his 30 second trip up the stairs. What's better was that when I asked them to wait a moment, his about 6 or 7 year old son said, "That's okay!" Very cheerfully. I then had to explain to this guest that fastlane is not an immediate boarding pass and the rest of his family just screamed at me some more.

As I'm walking to the front of the park, someone wholeheartedly and truthfully shouts to their friend, "I wanna ride the Millennium Falcon!!" And the friend, in no sarcastic tone, says, "Oh my gosh yes, we need to!"

As I'm checking a man's seat, I ask him to pull down his orange harness, and he says to me, "Oh, but I want the full treatment hunny," creepily winking at me. I then explained to him that if he didn't pull it down, maybe security could give him the full treatment he was looking for.

He pulled it down with a look of fear in his face. 😂😂😂

There's so many more, but those are a few of my best.

If I see you on the platform, I'm going to start asking for the full treatment now.

If someone asks for the full treatment, or any stupid comment like that, they get an automatic staple, period.

Oh my. 😂😂😂

And yesss, stapling rude/creepy people is my favorite. My friend at Power Tower says S&S just stands for Safety and Security whenever she tries to get someone in nice and tight.

Not amusement park related, but still amusing:

Working the box office recently, a young woman came up to the window and asked where the whale hall was. And as we working the box office stood there looking at each other, wondering what she was talking about, she added that her mother told her to pick up her tickets at whale hall.

She was asking for will call, making the conversation between her and her mother, who'd bought the tickets, possibly the shortest game of telephone* ever.

*Which, for the youngsters, was a game played at parties in olden days, when everyone sat in a line; the person at one end of the line would whisper a phrase to the next person. The fun was in hearing what the person at the other end of the line heard as the phrase was passed from person to person.

This isn't CP specific but I was telling some of my friends about Kings Island getting Mystic Timbers this year and several looked at me with shocked expressions and they said, "What? They still make wooden coasters? But they're old." Maybe that's why CP hasn't built one haha.

your friends got less than five years till they are old, jokes on them.

While waiting for the train in frontier town today I heard someone next to me say "that's going to be just like Raptor." I looked over and saw an older man, 50-60, with a huge amount of disgust in both his voice and on his face a he looked at Mean Streak. I just laughed to myself as I tried to think of what possible part or element even looks a little like Raptor.

Maybe because it will be steel track instead of wood?