Unusual Guests

BlueStreak64 said:
The unusual guests for me weren't the stupid ones, because they were the majority.

Like the classic saying goes, "the guest leave their brain in their car." Yet I might think different if you've been in the parking lot at closing.

Surprisingly, majority of the people waiting in line don't really know what they're waiting for. CP could build a very large queue for nothing and I'll bet there will be a 15+ minute wait on Saturdays. Sad yet true. :)

Am I sure it's just a test? Well after dealing with dumb trashy low quality guests all day I want to see how everyone else deals with them. Plus go ahead and make fun of me, I am the person who also screams as the Mine Ride is pulling out of the station ever so slowly. If you want to make fun of me go ahead I am only going to add fuel to that fire. Plus I would rather get made fun of for putting on a dumb act then being CPBoy77 everyday.

Plus I would rather get made fun of for putting on a dumb act then being CPBoy77 everyday.

I love being the center of attention.:)

Another thing to look at is the fact that the unusual guests are the ones employees remember. A usual guest are the thousand people who ride every hour that put the stuff in the bin, sit, strap themselves in, go on a ride, stop, get out, and walk down the exit. It's those one or two who can't even get the stuff in the bin right let alone every step after that every hour.

Though I had many of unusually guests that were all entertaining, one that stands out were these two boys. They waited in line at monster (like 5-7min) and when they entered the loading platform they stopped and looked all confused. "Wait, we wanted to get on that!" (pointing at Gemini) Its crazy how confused guests can get with somthing as simple as a queue line.
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I still say my favorite was a little boy my first summer...I was at load, and he comes to get in the car, and asks me if we have any "lay-down pillows" for him for the ride. All I could do was smile and tell him that we didn't have any. He was the cutest child ever.

I was walking over by dragster and magnum area and i over heard a young kid asking his dad " dad whats the gemini called" and his dad said its called the gemini this season

This was my favorite unusual guest this past season. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXnS8KH9pA4

[url][url]Hey what does n00b mean. I don't care if people make fun of me I do crazy things in public just to see how everyone else reacts. But I do not know what a n00b is so I don't know if I wanna be that. But yeah go ahead my friends all walk away when I do something stupid I can take it. I would be insulted if they didnt.

Noob is just another word for newbie

So lemme get this straight, you get a kick out of making our job more stressful then it already is? I don't think that is a respectable goal to be pursuing. While it may be funny the first time, it definitly gets old after 12345543 people have done the same thing over and over. Just like the people who think its the funniest thing in the world when they duck under the height stick.

I was sweeping on the Frontier Trail once and someone came up to me and asked if they were still in Cedar Point.

I guess I could understand, since the look of the Trail is so different from the rest of the park, but come on...I think you would know if you had left an amusement park.

This is a really gross story, but here is goes...

I was working at Turnpike Cars and I remember seeing this older dude (about 50) get into a car and I remember thinking that the swimmer shorts that he was wearing was WAY to short. Someone checked his seatbelt and let him go, I was jumping cars and happened to be at the stop sign when he got there and I went up to him and asked him how his drive was and as I was about to pull his car up I saw the most disgusting thing I have ever seen in my life...it seemed as though one of his "little fellas" was hanging out and he was just sitting there legs spread open talking to me completely oblivious to what had slipped out!

Another time there was a very very "big boned" lady that was about to get into one of the cars and I KNEW that she wasnt going to fit behind the wheel let alone in the passenger seat but somehow she wedged herself behind the steering wheel (I was stunned!)...and I kid you not, you could not even see the steering wheel anymore!!! I had told her that she could sit in the passenger seat and steer from there but she kinda took offense to that. Well anyway, once the car came up to the stop sign I pulled her car back up and when she was about to get out, SHE COULDN'T!!! She was trying to get outta that car for a good 3-4 mins and I had NO CLUE WHAT TO DO...I was thinking to myself that I might have to call the ride down because this woman was stuck...

Park OP: "Park OP, this is _______"

Pete: "Um...This is Pete at Turnpikes, *pause* uh, we are down loaded, *very long pause* guest operational??

I asked the lady if she needed any help but I was thinking to myself "what could I possibly do to help her" the only thing going through my head was "You dummy, if you would have just sat in the passenger seat like I had suggested then you wouldnt be in this situation" The funny part though, was when I finally told her to "push everything to the side" and by that I meant all her fat from underneath the wheel. She finally got out after a total of about 5 minutes. I felt really bad for her because everyone in the line was staring at her, I told her to have a nice day but embarrassed and angry, she said "You guys should make these damn things bigger"

At millennium I had to release lapbars once so i gave the hand signal and then lapbars came up. The person in 3-2 park started yelling, and I quote "My thing come un-done." I proceded to ignore his coment and wonder how he was going to find his way home that night.

Yah, but guests always freak out when restraints release, no matter how many times you say it was on purpose.

I loved the busiest Saturday we had during Halloweekends this past year. At one point there was about a 10-15 minute wait at park ops just to complain about having to wait in long lines. That is irony.

On more than one occasion, on the two Saturdays where there was a 45 minute wait to buy tickets, I had people come up to my window and hand me tickets they'd bought at AAA/Meijer/etc. Needless to say they weren't happy they just waited 45 minutes when they could have just walked in the gate, but it was hilarious.

Ralph Wiggum said:

On more than one occasion, on the two Saturdays where there was a 45 minute wait to buy tickets, I had people come up to my window and hand me tickets they'd bought at AAA/Meijer/etc. Needless to say they weren't happy they just waited 45 minutes when they could have just walked in the gate, but it was hilarious.

I always felt bad for people who did that, or the ones who waited that long to bring their online tickets to the window.. especially people who looked like they were going to cry..

On another note, there were certain people that gave me the most problems during the summer. Going by facts, not being racist, but about 90% of the time it was blacks. For certain ones I had to deal with, they try to get away with things. For instance, there was a group I dealt with in Group Sales, who claimed to have 75 juniors. I sold their tickets, but 10 minutes later the group leader is back with 40 tickets, and needs to buy adults. 10 minutes later, he comes back with more junior tickets to buy adults. Then he comes back again later to exchange more tickets. Not only did it happen at group sales, but also at the resort gate. I don't know how many I had to argue with that their juniors are over 48 inches.

You know, can we get some consistency with the measuring devices at all locations? Parents aren't the only ones who get ticked off that their kid is too short to ride when they just paid full price, or they just came from another ride. Those devices that are made in the park (the steel tube/metal bar concoctions) are so inconsistent from ride to ride as well, and better alternatives should be found. One of those "little things" that would really make the guests day a lot better.

End rant; back to discussing the unusual guests.

What made me mad was when I caught one lady within a fairly large group who had a forged re-entry stamp. I'm sure Ryan knows exactly what I was looking for, and I saw it plain as day. After about 20 minutes or so of this lady and her group yelling obscenities at my supervisor and the police, creating a scene in front of a lot of people, and claiming they were being treated unfairly due to the color of their skin, her and her group were allowed to just head into the park and go on their way. I was really disappointed in how that was handled by the police. They all should have gotten the boot, instead they got a free admission.

I only spent two weekends picking up extra hours in rides, so while I saw people do lots of unusual things, I didn't experience anything that would be out of the ordinary everyday things that every ride op puts up with.

In Screamsters, your fellow employees are far more unusual than most of the guests, but I wouldn't have it any other way. :-) I think maybe the most unusual story I have would be when one of our guys found two really drunk guests having sex behind the Blacksmith shop in 2006. The police had fun with those two. Nothing very unusual happened in Fear Faire this past year, that kinda makes me sad.

BlueStreak64 said:You know, can we get some consistency with the measuring devices at all locations?

The funny thing is, the metal bar stands (not the plastic sticks) are pretty accurate from location to location. I know this first hand because I had to go measure a bunch one day. And if you are ever suspect of one of them being taller/shorter then what is should be, ask for a supervisor to measure it.

I don't just mean ride to ride, but also throughout the park. Like some consistency between Park Ops and other rides, as well as some way to quickly and accurately measure kids at the park entrance. Those newer stands with the individual height markers seem to be quite a bit shorter than the metal bar stands from my experience with kids with wrist bands.