So I was working this past weekend when some “inebriated” guests came to the attraction. They went through and I was happy to see them head out into the shop. 

About ten minutes later a fire alarm went off in the building and we had to evacuate everyone from the building. We finished that in three minutes and met up at the muster station across the street. After getting the all clear to head back in the building, we go inside and find out that the fire alarm was pulled from the second floor, next to the break room…but nobody had been on break.

We were about to write it off as a system error when one of my coworkers pushed the button for the elevator to go upstairs. The doors opened and we found the drunk guests sleeping on the floor. My supervisor looks at the guests and says,”Looks like that solves the mystery.”

I have received quite a few guesses as to what park I work at. 

The answers I’ve received vary greatly, some close and some very far. As entertaining as this is, I cannot disclose the theme part I employed by due to my contract. A damn shame, I know, but I like having a job. 

I hope I have not misled anyone into thinking this was a guessing game, I am writing this because of the borderline insane things that happen to me while I am working. I do appreciate you all following me and giving me the feedback though, it is always welcome. 

So, feel free to write whenever you want for whatever reason, I just can’t give away too much in a blatant fashion. For those who did figure it out though, bravo. 

So one day I was working right out at the entrance of the attraction. I was counting the people coming in when I saw someone jump the rail to get in. I let it go until the person got up to me and I said, “Congratulations on finding that shortcut! Unfortunately, it wasn’t open to the public, so I’m going to have to send you all the way back to the end of the line.

The guy looked at me and said, “No, it’s cool, I’ll go in now.” 

“No, you won’t. Go around.” I told him and lifted the chain to let him out. It was an extremely satisfying moment. 

First off, I apologize again for taking an extended break, These last few weeks have been Hell in many ways. Anyway, story time.

So my park recently held an event for high school students that went from an early closing time of 6pm and lasted until 2am. I quickly remembered how annoying high school students are. From leaving trash everywhere to shouting things while the attraction is going on and even getting out of their seats, it was not an extremely fun night. 

It was about 12:30am and I was working in our pre-show when I saw this couple sit against the wall of the room. Fuck it, I don’t care anymore, let them sit I thought to myself since they’re really not supposed to sit down, but I would do the same if I had the option. Then she put her head on his shoulder, which I brushed off again. However, I had to draw the line when he unbuttoned his pants and she put her head in his lap. I proceeded to yell at them to stop and called security to escort them out of the park. 

It was a long and brutal night…and the middle school one is coming up soon. 

So, I have a little thing under my name tag that says “Hablo Español” so I can assist Spanish, Portuguese, or even Italian guests. This day, I’m outside and everyone seemed to notice and say “Hola”. Also on this day were the remaining cheerleaders from a competition that was held the previous weekend. This group came up to me and notice my “Español” tag. One said, “I know Spanish! Hola!” I responded back in English and talked to another one because I was curious as to were this competition was. After she answered my question, the “Spanish Speaker” proceeded to spell out were the competition was at in Spanish. I already knew at this point, but after finishing she did it about 4 more times until I told her that I got it. I apparently looked irritated because one of them pointed out that I looked irritated and they all left me alone. A few came later asking were the others went in English, but I didn’t know. 

So a lady came up to me after one of the shows and told me she left her sunglasses in the theater. So, when the show got out, I brought her back into the theater to look for them. We searched two or three rows when I finally found them. The lady must have really loved those glasses, because she ran up to me and gave me an oddly intense hug. I gave her the glasses and, before she left, gave me a kiss, and then ran away. Very good day at work. 

Today I’m not going to be posting a humorous anecdote about my experiences with guests. No, today you are going to learn of the fun staff meetings I have. 

First off, one of my male co-workers came to the meeting dressed as a fairy. Much laughter followed that, and he now has earned more respect from us than anyone else we know.

Second, we normally don’t have too much food at these meetings. However,  one of the ladies I work with took it upon herself to buy at least 20 pizzas. 

Also, the entire point of the meeting was to tell the supervisors what was wrong with the attraction. The meeting went over by half an hour. It was great, we were able to vent everything to someone we assumed would try to fix stuff. 

The other day my attraction went down for technical reasons, so a few attendants (myself included) went outside with four hula-hoops to entertain guests. We held small contests and just played around, it was really fun. At one point a little girl came up to try, and her dad and her two brothers also wanted to try. They all did fairly well and we all clapped for them. They assumed that meant that they had won the hula-hoops and started walking away. When I tried to stop them, I discovered that none of them spoke English. I had to stall them for a few minutes until someone could come up to translate, and the guests looked pissed when they got the message. 

A  family came up to me one day while I was working and the small boy started telling me all about his day out of the blue. What shows he had seen, what rides he had been on, what he had to eat, just everything about his whole day. I listened, commented, and laughed along with the boy’s story. From the sound of it he had already been on everything in the park. When he was done I looked up at the parents, who were smiling, and I said, “He seems to be enjoying himself.” “Yeah,” the mother replied, “It’s been a busy day so far. But we were wondering when the park closes?” I told them that we closed in a few hours and the father suddenly looked concerned and asked me, “But, how are we supposed to do everything in that little amount of time?” I laughed and told him that it sounded like they had done everything already. He frowned and said, “Oh. Well that’s disappointing.”

I haven’t been posting as much lately because of the job I have this blog for. With the various weeks of spring break upon us, I have been working more and more and will continue to for a little while. I apologize if anyone was looking forward to posts, though I doubt this one is a very important part of you’re routine. 

I will, as always, post as often as I can. 

So I was at work one day when I passed by a kid who was crying about not being able to find his parents. Like any good employee/person, I stopped and asked him a few questions while signaling someone to call security about a lost child. He told me that his parents bought him an ice cream cone and then disappeared into a crowd. Security showed up and after about ten minutes  of them trying to convince the child to come with them, the parents show up and claim their son. When the security guard asked them what happened, they said, “Well, we wanted to ride the roller coaster, but he wasn’t tall enough.” The guard stood there staring at them and the mom said, “What? We bought him ice cream!”

So one day during the summer, I was working outside in the queue when all of the fans turned off. Immediately everyone assumed it was my fault and started yelling at me to turn the fans back on. So I call a technician and ask if we could have the fans back on. “Sure, we’ll send someone as soon as we can.” He says to me. An hour passes, and no tech shows up. Then it starts raining outside, and everyone is running into the queue to escape the weather. Just then a tech comes in and turns the fans/the misters on. Again, I was yelled at for being so insensitive to the fact that the guests were cold…and again I call the techs to turn them off, which they don’t do until the rain is over. I had nightmares about this day for a few nights.  

So one day a kid comes up to me and asks, “Is [superhero name] here?” I look down at him, smiled, and said, “No, he usually hangs around his ride” I said. The kid made a sad noise and reluctantly went into the building. “I’m sorry about that,” the mom said to me, “We went on [superhero name] ride before and he really liked it, but when we went on other rides he screamed for [same superhero] to save him and, of course, he didn’t. So now he’s been afraid to go on anything else. It took a lot just to get him on this.” I can’t lie, I felt really bad for that kid for the next week.