Time to harrass our dear Natalie. I need a power up at Toot Sweets first, so, heading in for a custard. First I'm alone, soon John walks in, followed a bit later by Brian. Observant dudes....when at CP, do what the Po!nters do...we know what food is good. They're won over by my raves for the cones. I wait an abominable amount of time while Miss Junior High Princess in front of me WHINES that she 'doesn't want a cherrrrrrrrrrry!' on her gol dang funnel cake and changes her order about four thousand times. I finally get my cone; after raving about how good it is, this one comes out with the texture of sorbet. Hm, so if I order pizza it will come out tasting like a discus with wax shreds on it, or if I order a chicken sandwich it will be a sponge between hockey pucks? I drop any other food suggestion ideas. (TS clerks have rocked the house this year! Last week it was Bonus Cone, and this week it's the girl who kept smiling as Petite Miss screeched about cherries)
My stomach's frozen into a cube by the time we hit CCMR, so we tread to Meanie to give me time to finish. I have, oh, say, 3" of waffle with about 2" of custard left in my cone. I'm innocently walking into the queues and the
R U D E host **YELLS** at me YOU CAN'T TAKE THAT IN THERE. This was beyond anything I had run into at the park ever. I'm thinking "WT*?" and ask, he says the line's in the station. Okay, weird, but I can deal. Minorly ticked, I eat my cone and walk in, amidst jokes about tattooing my name on my butt (don't ask...). Get over it, Anne. John, Brian, and I are blabbing it up on the station stairs and then I finally notice cobwebs forming on my feet. Haven't we been here a while? I edge up the stairs...yep, we're down mechanical. No announcement. The three of us stew. My foot's KILLING me, so I sit down. As I sit down, a mother and her daughter rush by me, saying "We're leaving. The ride isn't running, and they're being real jerks about it." I start to slow boil. I reach the ULTIMATE in P.O'age when the J E R K from the front comes up the queue, and making a Moses Parting The Red Sea-type movement, RUDELY yells to myself and a couple of others to STAND UP from the stairs in a voice that should be reserved for Army soldiers. Shocked people stand up, muttering that the guy was a real butthead and are now ticked at both a couple ops in the station (who were being rude to people when they asked whether the ride was down or not) as well as this dude. I stand my ground and shake my head at him. If he wants me to sit up, he can come up here, treat me and the other guests with some courtesy and politely ask me to stand up, and I will explain that my foot is injured. Then I will stand. The guy had NO REASON to use such a NASTY voice. He kept YELLING as if I was doing the trapeze on the Meanie frame, and now enlists OTHERS IN LINE to SCREAM at me! (Topper of this was when he yells "-OBEY THE RULES!!-") I felt my temper absolutely blow to smithereens. I wished the guy would come up and try to pull my pass or something, where I would promptly walk to Park Ops and be more than happy to explain the rotten treatment myself and other guests were getting to his boss. Others in line were disgusted as well. This one might warrant a trip to P.O. I try to take stuff in stride, but myself and other guests were treated so humiliatingly and rudely that you'd think the guests were in boot camp. While I'm there, I'll note that the employees KICK BUTT this year so far, making idiots like this stand out even further. I'll note it was just three people that were being creeps...others were chipper and friendly as usual.