How do you have fun/play with guest

[calcajun]

As a rideop, supervisor or manager, how do you have fun with your guest?

 

For me the all time ultimate is to be at my signature coaster at closing to have a little fun with the last trainload.

 

If conditions are right and I can afford the time, I will give a few consecutive rerides.

With each round trip the trainload of guests get more and more pumped and vocal till the third or fourth trip they are giving high fives and chanting my name all the way up the lift!

 

I usually get back to the midway before they finish the last ride and as they are leaving and they see me they are still yelling to me and having a great time because I gave them something really special after the park closed.

 

It is awesome to know that those guests are talking about the guy that let them reride over and over while they are driving home.

[FlyingScooter]

Well, in my field, I'll knock off Late Charges, installment fees. That usually works pretty good to make folks happy.

[memphish]

I like TPR for the lack of man-boobies, and it does not look like this

 

..Oh and I am waiting for the TPR-eHarmony merger featuring DonkeySearch 2.4

[benzo41190]

it is kinda mean but if there is someone that looks scared, and there lap bar is not touching the lap (remember, to the once a year riders they will think they will fall out if there lap bar is not tight) I will go like "O No" like something is wrong. When the ride starts they are crying and they are panicing, it is very funny. Then when there in the station they are saying, O my god I almost fell out (when there was only a 3/4 inch gap.

[PhishyBrewer]

I remember working on Raptor, I would always be on the look out for people that where just plain scared and really didn't want to ride and didn't really want anything to do with the 12 million dollar green beast. Once they were seated and the harnesses would lock and the seatbelts were on, I would signal to the guy in controls to unlock the row of harnesses where the scared individual would be. The harness would come up and I would go over to them and say, "Sorry about that. It happens sometimes. If it happens while you ride, just hold down real tight." You want to talk about screaming!

 

That cheered me up every time.

[PhishyBrewer]

Well, in my field, I'll knock off Late Charges, installment fees. That usually works pretty good to make folks happy.

 

How about hooking a brother up?!

[DenDen]

Back in the day as parking staff, we used to get a lot of bigoted questions from guests, like "Are there a lot of black/jew/dego/polock/biblebeater/(insert your own insult here) people in the park today?" (I know, it's outrageous, but that's Pittsburgh for ya!) We would come up with the wildest answers to see if they believed us, and if they would turn around and leave, or just call us "smart arses". We actually made a game of it, and would bet money. Though not the best, I was pretty good at it...

 

"Actually, today is Zulu Day. Animal sacrifices are in pavilion #2, shrunken heads over by the log jammer, and they're serving catapillar delicacies behind the jack rabbit. I hear they're also having a manure brick-laying relays as well. It's really stinky back there."

 

A few punk teens actually bought this story, and left.

 

(DARN TYPOS!)

[timetrial3141592]

All I know is that somebody had a lot of fun with Montu while I was riding it, as they sent me around three times, and turned off the MCBR for the last two. I was riding in the back car, so the small loop was awesome. Funny thing: there was no line for any ride besides the Python and Gwazi the entire day.