05-28-2005, 11:39 PM
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| | | Don't you hate it when...
You tell a parent that their kid is too short to ride, they get all mad and have a hissy fit? lol Well that happened to me and my manager today lol. I knew the kid was too short to ride for the simple fact that he was carrying the kid. Well when he came up to us we were like can we measure him. So we did and he was like 3-4 inches too short. WELL...... this guy got so mad. He was like
Guy- "you guys just let 2 other kids on that was the same height! I saw you!, I saw You"
Us- "No we didn't"
Guy- Yes you did, (pointing) that kid and that kid
Us- those kids are tall enough
Guy walks away down the exit ramp then, just to prove this guy wrong, my manager got the kid that the guy says was too short and we measure him. He was tall enough to ride. I was so mad the guy walked away cause i wanted to prove him wrong.
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05-28-2005, 11:48 PM
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| | | I see way too many parents complaining that their kid is too short to ride. Can't they just follow the rules?
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05-28-2005, 11:48 PM
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| | | I would just settle for a day where a parent does not complain. We gat about mad parents a day if not an hour on Top Gun.
They think since their kids is only 1-3 inched too short they think we can let that slide and put them on.
Some parents even said they would return later with bigger shoes for their kids or would go stuff paper in the kids shoes.
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05-28-2005, 11:55 PM
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| | | HAHA. Don't they have like a marker at the beginning of the line to see if the person can ride or not? If they are too short, doesn't that give them a hint that they can't ride? Dumb people. |
05-29-2005, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by sfft_2108 HAHA. Don't they have like a marker at the beginning of the line to see if the person can ride or not? If they are too short, doesn't that give them a hint that they can't ride? Dumb people. | Unfortunately, most people that measure their child on the height signs will throw their hand up their on the top of their childs head and measure from the top of their hand. This of course adds about a half an inch to the childs height. At SFKK all ride ops are trained specifically to use a straight edge and stand at eye level (among other tips) to get as accurate a height check as possible!
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05-29-2005, 12:27 AM
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| | | The marker at the entrance is causeing 99% of the problem. The height marker at the entrance to Top Gun is a few inches off and despite telling this to upper management they still do nothing.
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06-01-2005, 11:06 AM
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| | | lmao "I saw you!, I saw You" omg lol but yea... OMG lol let me tell you what happened yesterday. I measured this kid she was to short the dad was like" SHE IS TALL ENOUGH, I said no sir she is not. He said I want to speak to your supervisor. I grabed my supervisor even he measured her and she was still to short. so the DAD hop out of line pissed like 5 mins he camed back and she had a band that she was required to have I'm like"OMG" You know what! |
06-01-2005, 11:39 AM
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| | | I hate it when somebody comes up to ride the ride with their kid, and it is around 11am, and they say they rode it twice earlier, while you know they didn't for you have been at height check since opening and havent seen them. Height check is definitely the worst part of being a ride attendant. |
06-01-2005, 02:34 PM
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| | | At Frontier City, we have something more decisive than a simple height marker; we have overhead rotating bar preset on the required height on every ride entrance that is used to clearly mark the min/max height. If, on a minimum height requisite, the bar easily passes over the child's head, the child is then decisively too short to ride. Surely we're not the only park to have these devices.
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06-01-2005, 02:44 PM
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| | | that happened to my twin brother in third grade, it was pretty dumb becasue he had ridden kumba and montu all day being just tall enough and so we go back to montu and they let me on being an inch taller, and intsead of having his back to the measuring thing he put his forehead to it and ended up being too short, so we ride it, get off, go back and he gets measured the other way this time and they let him on - my parents didnt care but they should have noticed taht the first time
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06-01-2005, 02:57 PM
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| | | hurricane, we have those things too, but people still argue to get on. It's annoying.
The other thing I hate is the electromagnetic gates at talon. Since they don't open by themselves, the people have to open them, and when someone gets distracted and forgets to open them, the gates are already closed and then they say, "well the gate was never opened" and they get all mad.
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06-01-2005, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Hurricane At Frontier City, we have something more decisive than a simple height marker; we have overhead rotating bar preset on the required height on every ride entrance that is used to clearly mark the min/max height. If, on a minimum height requisite, the bar easily passes over the child's head, the child is then decisively too short to ride. Surely we're not the only park to have these devices. | we have them at KW, the bar must stop. If it goes over thier head then they are too short.
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06-02-2005, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Hurricane At Frontier City, we have something more decisive than a simple height marker; we have overhead rotating bar preset on the required height on every ride entrance that is used to clearly mark the min/max height. If, on a minimum height requisite, the bar easily passes over the child's head, the child is then decisively too short to ride. Surely we're not the only park to have these devices. | we had those back in 96... they were awesome |
06-02-2005, 06:26 PM
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| | I'm growing to hate the Volcano(Enterprise) @ Kennywood for one reason and one reason only.
Huss changed the minimum ride height from 46" to 54"
That's an 8" swing! And what's worse is that the park's website still has it as 46".
Know how many complaints I get per shift about "but they rode it last year!" 
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06-03-2005, 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Vic_SFKK we had those back in 96... they were awesome | They don't have them anymore? What happened and why did they take them out?
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