Wierd Guests '04

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Dan Mente said:
...Just COMMON SENCE!

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Too good to pass up...

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What time does the water show start?

Jes, I am surprised at you! Two hours to get from GL to CP. Come on, you were just trying to get the poor people lost. ;)

-Michael

Thanks so much for the advice Betty Ettiquette. :::rolls eyes and laughs:::

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'02 Merchandise
'03 Thunder Canyon
'04 Gemini

Working in the Res Office seemed to be the ultimate time to get the questions!

1. How much is the $8 parking fee?

2. What ocean are you guys near?

3. Is Cedar Point that place with the rollarcoasters? (They had to have seen the number for Reservations in SOMETHING that advertised Cedar Point, you'd think!)

I realize that many times guests just aren't thinking correctly when they ask a question like that, but it is still funny to those of us who have had to hear it time and time again!

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Res. Clerk '03
Sweep Zone #2 '04

I love the questions when park guests mix up parks. At WDW, I often got asked, "what monorail should I get on to go to Universal/Sea World/Busch Gardens?"

The classic, of course, is "what time is the 3:00 parade?"

I was once asked at CP "is that real sand on the beach?"

In reservations, you often are told, "I would like an ocean view."

There are just too many to count.

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"You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world...but it requires people to make the dreams a reality."

Yes, I love the "Can I get an ocean view" questions!!!

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Res. Clerk '03
Sweep Zone #2 '04

I love the question "What ocean is that?"

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Power Tower 2003 & 2004
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It amazes me the amount of Ocean talk we get at CP...I guess people just leave their brains on the causeway...On Ripcord we got that question frequently, and I often wanted to say "Yeah, did you hear Canada flooded and the Artic Ocean now borders the US?" But my quality customer service just caused me to smile and say "yeah, thats the Erie Ocean" HaHa

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~Josh M.~
**Formerly CoastFreak**
2002 - Ripcord
2004 - Millennium Force

I just don't get it! How can people lose that much common sense?

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Res. Clerk '03
Sweep Zone #2 '04

Easy answer: They never had it in the first place.

The crew should refer to it as the Indantartlantific Ocean.....I'd like to hear some customer responses to that one

On Thunder Canyon we would constantly get the question, "Which platform is moving?" even when they were standing on the firm concrete platform and I was walking in place right in front of them. That just shows the common sense of some people. This wasn't a rare occurrence...there were at least a few people everytime a group would stop and wait for a boat to come back around.

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Will Foamy become the next Strong Bad? I guess we will find out...

Caution: Foamy isn't quite as "PC" as Strong Bad.

You don't hear weird things till you work for Guest Services. Not that I'd know ;) but I bet if we would have written down all the weird things that were said, we could fill up, oh say two or three poster boards.

Haha.

"Snoopy Pass?" Whaaaaaaaaaaa??!

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"Hmm. . .we don't have anything like that. . .but I can give you this comment card."

When is the wind going to stop blowing? Hold on let me call God and tell him to turn off the fan!!

Is the line really 45 minutes long? No we just put the sign there for amusement.

What time does the 10 o'clock laser light show start?

Indantartlantific Ocean that is a mouthful can we get a pronuction key for that lol.
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My personally favorite quote would be when I was working on millie. I was standing at entrance. A woman came up with a small backpack. I told her that she was unable to bring the loose article in line. She pulled it off her back and folded it in half. She then put it up to my eye level and said, "Look, it folds." I politely responed, "I am sorry you are still un able to bring it in the line or on the ride. You may place it in a locker right there, please remember that it uses dollar coins." She then repeated, "But it folds." I once again said, "I am sorry but I can not allow any loose items in the line." She then unfolded the bag and then folded it again in a different direction and said, "But it folds." I said, "Sorry you can put it in the lockers to keep it safe." She responded, "Can't I leave it with you?" "No, I am not responsible for any items left around if they are stolen." I said. She said, "Well, where can I put it?" I pointed to the lockers and said, "You can leave it in a locker over there." She left and her two friends said, "You can catch up with us. I turned to them and said, "If she does it is considered line jumping and she may be kicked out of the park." They nodded and stood and waited...for about 30 seconds. They then said, "She'll catch up." As they got in the line, I said, "No it is considered line jumping." The guy waved off my comment. A few minutes later the woman with the bag came back and said, "I guess I will just catch up with them." I told her, "No, they can wait for you at the platform, you can not catch up it is considered line jumping." She waved off my comment and I watched her jump about 6 ques. I called security.

They came and pulled her out of line, she never had caught up with her friends. She was asked to leave the line by the guards and go to the end but then explained to them how i had inturupted her day because I would not let her folding bag go in the line. Her friends came out of line and stood next to her for another 30 seconds, they then disappeared. After a few more minutes of arguing, the free way person came over and said, two people ran past him and up the line, proclaiming that the officers told them to. The officers called backup and caught the two at the platform. The woman was removed from the area of the park, I did not see her again that night.

On another note my personally favorite question while at Mean Streak entrance was, "Is the Dragster working?" or "Why is the Millenium Force stopped?" and lastly, the action of people who bend over to try and make themselves shorted than the height stick but look like an bozo in that time.
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Millie/Mean Streak '03
Kiddie Kingdom '04

O.k., this happened at G.L. back IN the day when I used to work there, I had to measure a child for being to short.

On the R.W.B., I was checking lap bars and noticed a girl that I thought was too small to ride the ride. I asked her mom if I could measure and the mom agreed. So I measured the girl and she was too short, told the mother and the mother didn't fuss, she said fine and left. But now a voice from seat 62 yelled "awh, you a**hole let the kid ride!!!" Now the girl and mother came from 31, this guy didn't have any type of relationship with this mother or girl what-so-ever.

But before I tell you what happened, let me put into your minds the type of day it was, it a Saturday afternoon, busy, having to run two trains this day. It was hot out and my line was about a 45 min. wait.

So after this name calling by this guy, I told myself that he was not going to be riding my ride today and since he already waited in line, I figured that waiting an extra five minutes before I told him wouldn't hurt (since there were people in front of him waiting to get on the ride)

When his turn finally came, he sat down; I approached him and told him that he had to leave. He looked at me and said “For what?!?!” “For calling me a name when I was measuring that child.” “Well I’m not leaving!” So I said fine, I’ll just call security and make you leave, I have all day, it doesn’t matter to me. So when I started walking towards the control booth to get to the phone, he finally got out of the train.

So figuring that it was over, I though let’s get the ride moving since I now had a train on the check brakes. We rechecked the bars, gave the clear sign and the train started moving out of the station. Wouldn’t you know it, low and behold, his friend which was sitting in 61, said as the train was leaving the station, “YOU A**HOLE”

I told the driver to stop the train, (which at this point, half the train was in the station and half out) I unlocked the bar and told him that he can join his friend.

Now the threats come, “I’m going to beat you up as soon as you leave.” “You better watch yourself” So I call security, the guys start running at this point away from my ride, security calls me later that day and told me that they apprehended the guys and kicked them out of the park.

Let’s just say, alcohol, heat and rides do not mix.

I also love too when guests complain about the height requirement as if you went home the night before, cut a stick and said “Yes, this is what the height requirement will be today.” People just don’t understand there are rules for a reason; we’re just trying to follow them.------------------
How many times do I have to ask you to please do not sit on the silver hand rails?

Great keeping your cool Emily----you go .)~

At Universal Orlando I.O.A. I worked on Popeye and Blutos Bilge Rat Barges (try sayin' that on the speil)! We were down one day--allll day---hot as heck---and people came in droves---asking the famous line "When will you be open"? You guys, even with a ride down sighn, you still get asked ?'z. But this is the thing---how many ride ops does it take to get the message across---Ok, the ride will be closed all day---and then a guest will proceed to ask another employee. My faveorite is when you get on the mega-phone and tell them the ride is "having technical dificulties, do not know how long it will take"--and they STILL walk up and ask "when will it be open" As Ace Of Base once said "Cest La Vie"

DAN
PARK OP-'00

In the Frontier Inn. "Do you have a restroom". Sadly I had to tell the family that it was under the "Frontier Lift".

Hmmm... here's one that made my brain hurt at corkscrew entrance in '04

"is this the entrance for the big blue one *points to millenium force's lift hill* over there?" On that mid-june morning I lost faith in humanity...

Here's another story about would be darwin award winners...

Back in early season '04 there was a huge thunderstorm that just came from nowhere and had the guests panicking like they sometimes do... within 5 minutes of going down for weather park op called and told us to start pulling people off the midway, which we did... bringing about 50 or so people into our break room and maintenance room... after about 5 minutes or so i begin to notice guests starting to lean and sit ON THE TRACK... so i walk over and ask them to come down and please stay away from it for obvious reasons... and this group of kids gave me an attitude about it...now I wasn't the most tactful ride host in '04 so i put it rather bluntly... and i quote...

Guest: "Why can't we sit or lean on this"

ME: "well let's sit back and think about this for a second... There's a Thunderstorm in the area, right?"

G: "yeah"

Me: "and the track you're sitting on is metal right?"

G:"uh huh..."

me: "And that track is about 2500 feet long and goes about 85 feet in the air" *thunderclap*

Guest #2: "Whoa... Top thrill just got hit..."

*guest #1 Gets off the track and the rest of the group gets well clear of the track*

Me: "I'm glad you understand..."

Alright. . . . . .

I want everyone to close their eyes ( ok, maybe that's a bad idea cause then you can't read what i'm saying). But I want you all to picture where camp snoopy is. Right behind Dragster and around Gemini.

People always come up to me and ask "How do we get to Milliennium Force from here?"

PLEASE! There is NO short cut behind Dragster or in Camp Snoopy to get to Milliennium Force!

Also, one guest asked me "What's that big purple one over there?"

Milliennium Force is also NOT purple! It's blue!

I hope you all have a Cedar Fantastic Day! *instert annoyed grin here*

"...and lastly, the action of people who bend over to try and make themselves shorted than the height stick..."

My personal favorite. The best part is that they all think they are the FIRST person to ever do that. Little do they know, we tallied everyone.