Employees...

Ok, forgive my ignorance if I'm too sleepy right now but...

^ Is there actually a "Breakers East Towel Rolling Crew" ?

A few years ago I watched (and taped) "The Largest Amusment Park" on the Discovery Channel. It was an hour long show all about CP. There was a segment on Breakers Hotel, and their laundry department.

They were talking about how they wash, dry, and fold the towels. They were saying how most people do not even know they are there, but they like to keep it that way. That means that people just think their towels magically appear clean back in their rooms. They would rather have it that way, than have people complain that they DIDN'T have any clean towels.

The laundry area was pretty big, and considering that they have A LOT of towels to wash, dry, and fold...I wouldn't doubt them having a Breakers East Towel Rolling Crew.

No, its just a little joke based on the fact that the people that fold the towels for the pools outside of breakers are Ripcord and go kart employees and I think its ridiculous that the lifeguards can't do that since all they do is sit around before the pools open anyway.

Ironically, I haven't had to roll a single towel this year since I've only been working weekends and haven't been given a shift where thats part of my job.

That could always change, Mr. Brown.

^^Hahahaha!!!

Isn't there always a way to "sneak" out of it, though, or fake an injury or something!?

Does Ripcord still get to do Pool Opens?

I remember getting to the park way too early to skim all the pools, hose of the decks, and all that other fun stuff... Sometimes I even got to go and butt-pick around Wicked Twister! Woohoo.

Hey Josh.....remember when Challenge Racing beat Ripcord in the Softball game and Ripcord had to do pool opens for a week?

::sigh::... I do remember that fateful game. It was a great time though. We had a crowd at Commons watching us.

The pool opens always were a bad start to my day though.

Thanks for the clarification :)

The awful idea known as pool opens is still in existence. It's a terrible start to anyone's day. It doesn't help that all the lifeguards are lazy and have attitude problems....

RaceRinger said:
That could always change, Mr. Brown.

Like I've said before steve, if I have a pool open on the weekend, I'm just going to call off.

Walking past Beach Rental still makes me think of those awful mornings... The worst was when I had a few Pool Opens with an O-C thrown in for good measure. Given that Ripcord closes an hour after the park, that made for one long day.

::sigh:: Now I'm getting all nostalgic about working at Ripcord... From having a guest grab for his Ripcord and grabbing my "ripcord" instead (awkward), to having the area manager walk past right as I said "3,2,1, die" (oops)

3 2 1 die? Thats ballsy.

Yeah... It was one of those moments where we had been joking with the flyers alot before we sent them up... and they actually said to me "Do you guys say 321 fly, or 321 die?" So as a joke I said "3,2,1 die".

In retrospect it was a stupid decision, but oh well... I was 6 years younger and less wise than I am now. The area manager simply said "you might not want to say that anymore" and went on his way..

Josh M. said:
From having a guest grab for his Ripcord and grabbing my "ripcord" instead (awkward)

I quickly learned to leave a little distance between the ripcord and the "ripcord" when I'm controlling. Kinda sucks that the two tend to line up next to each other when the fliers get proned.

And yah, "3 2 1 die" is pretty ballsy indeed, but funny none the less.

The other day at skyscraper someone thought I was saying "Get ready to scream and die" instead of kick the sky. (Bill Spehn's genius spiel, not mine)

Rehashing the ride slogan for Raptor on Skyscraper is pretty cheesy... Im sure they could have thought of something else for Skyscraper...

Josh, you ARE talking about the company that came up with such gems as "Flight Deck" and "Backlot Stunt Coaster".

True... My personal favorite is "Drop Tower"