Unusual Guests

I know almost all employees here have had at least one weird question or complaint coming from one of the guests, so post them here. Or maybe it is something a guest did that was so weird, that it was just not normal. No matter how funny or stupid it was, some could just use a little common sense.

Once I was walking around the park doing surveys, and a random guy comes up behind me and starts telling me how beautiful the park is, with all of the trees and landscaping. Then all of a sudden he changes the subject to how high parking is, and that it is so expensive. So expensive that he almost didn't come to the park this year. He made sure I wrote that down so management would see it. uhh huh.

"do I really have to wear this seatbelt?" got that question alot on Thunder Canyon, also, "are we going to get wet?" People are crazy, you never know what will come out of there mouth.

Ryan06 said:
Once I was walking around the park doing surveys, and a random guy comes up behind me and starts telling me how beautiful the park is, with all of the trees and landscaping.

Trees? What trees? :)

There are some really nice ones over by Antique Cars and the ice show theater. That's about it until Frontier Trail, though.

--Resident Tree Enthusiast

HoosierTTD said:
There are some really nice ones over by Antique Cars and the ice show theater. That's about it until Frontier Trail, though.

--Resident Tree Enthusiast

That's exactly where I was talking to him, right near the Antique Cars. I don't know what he was trying to do, but persuade me to think that parking is too high. He was making a big deal out of it with his depressing story.

Maybe, he was just really thirsty and wanted that free drink coupon... ;)

The unusual guest stories are what make the days go by faster. Most of mine are stupid unless you were actually there though.

I once had a guest stop his go-kart in the middle of the track, get out, lift up the hood, and proceed to perform maintenance on the kart. But according to him, "Oh, it's okay. I know what I'm doing."

SECURITY!!!

^ LMAO that post just made my day. I guess he wanted to tune that sucker up to make it go faster. HAHHA

I was at Geauga Lake with my friend and we were by head spin in the midway. The park was very empty (yes it was empty because it was GL :)

Then out of nowhere this girl and some others come racing up to me, I mean RACING, and asked me, out of breath, what size pants do I wear??

I stood and didn't say anything, but my friend just started laughing and they walked away.

We had a guy with something like 100 peircings all over his body (I forget the exact number, we asked).

The best stupid question I heard was when one of my friends was walking through the soak city parking lot and a guest pulled up and asked where the parking lot was.

Am I going to die was also a popular one at ripcord. Also why is there cement below us? My favorite answer was that it was easier to clean off the blood.

I just loved the question

What time is the 10pm laser light show.

or

What time will it stop raining!

The unusual guests for me weren't the stupid ones, because they were the majority. For me, the stories I consider unusual guest stories are the ones involving guests that just seemed to "get it."

One of my favorite situations happened while I was at unload. I had just closed the gates when a guest came up to the side of the station. He asked me if the ride went upside down at all. I tried my hardest not to laugh, but right as I was about to say no, the guy in the back row yelled out "Yeah, it goes upside down 5 times!" I had to catch myself before I busted out laughing, but I was still chuckling when I said no.

My favorite guest story happened at Disney. I was working the Jungle Cruise and some guy was videotaping his family while they were walking back and forth in our maze-like queue. When he got up to the loading area he kept on walking, and ended up right in the lagoon. He didn't look up and his family did nothing to stop him.

Of course, guest in compromising positions were pretty commonplace in the resorts. I chased naked folks out of the pools/jacuzzi. Our security folks found some teenagers studying anatomy in a starwell in the middle of the night. When he stumbled on them the guy was scared out of his mind and was begging that they not tell her father...who had agreed to bring him along on the family vacation.

When I first got to the resort an older (70+) woman was assigned to help train me. She took me into rooms and showed me what to look for (things that might be out of place, dirty areas that needed attention, etc). One day we were in an empty room in the middle of the afternoon (guest are usually in the park then) and a couple was very involved in what they were up to in the next room. Now, this was the old, old wings of Breakers so the sound was hardly even muted. I wanted to get out of there right away but this trainer of mine just kept on going not even acknowledging the "circus" taking place next door.

After several uncomfortable minutes for me we were heading out into the hall and she looked at me and said, "get use to it...you will see and hear it all in this job."

While working the entrance at Wicked Twister...

"Why are you guys only running one train today?"

stupid stupid stupid

One time in Park Plaza some guest came up and asked my. "Where is the Disney Store?" after explaining to here that we have peanuts charaters and if she wanted the Snoopy Boutique was not far. She then went on to ask "So is Snoopy your only Disney Character?"

Ohh by the way BlueStreak64 I was probably the one who asked you if the ride went upside down. I do that to almost every crew. The Iron Dragon is my favorite. I just want to see how they handle stupid guests, and since I don't work there anymore I test everyone by being an dumb guest.

Are you sure it's just a test?

Test or not... hes still making himself look dumb in public. which means anyone who hears it makes fun of him, calls him a n00b, teases him, etc etc.

At least i would.

SoakCity2006 said:
I just want to see how they handle stupid guests, and since I don't work there anymore I test everyone by being an dumb guest.

And by doing that you just get made fun of in these types of topics.. like this one.