Some times I wish I were psychic

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From: polar_33 <polar_33@y...>
Date: Wed Sep 4, 2002 9:24am
Subject: Some times I wish I were psychic


Ever get one of those guests that just come up to you and they expect
you to know what they want without them even telling you? It happens
to me quite often when I work on wagons. Someone will just come up
to me and ask for "One", when I ask them "One of what?" they
typically get all ticked off at me for not being psychic. Would you
like one Coke, one water, or one napkin? Help me out a little please
people.

Anyway, on my way into work today when I was walking through the
structure from the Ball CM lot to Winston gate I had a guest come up
to me and ask me "Do you know how to get to where I'm going?" I
stared at him for a few seconds hopeing that he would finish his
sentence. He didn't, but he repeated "How do I get to where I want
to go?". I then told him "Sorry, my psychic abilitys are a little
off, where are you going?" "Disneyland", He replied. "Just follow
the arrows on the signs that say tram, take the tram, and then follow
the arrows on the signs that say Disneyland", I answered. He turned
around and looked at the sign behind him, and walked off without
a "thank you"...typical.

[BirdMom]

That's the same type of guest that asks you where the bathroom is (and of course, you're closest to the bathroom that is in a spot that is kind of hidden) and starts to run off before you've finished giving directions...

[BirdMom]

In attractions, they think you can tell by looking how many are in their group - you say "how many" and they say "all of us" or "a bunch of us" or "up to there." One of my more temperamental cast mates got frustrated one day, held her hand up to her head and sputtered "I'm not psychic, ya know - I can't see where your group ends!!!" I mean, come on, 4 queues going, nearly 4,000 people an hour, and most groups aren't color coded by dress...

[Zazu]

In attractions, they think you can tell by looking how many are in their group....

I marvel at how many people don't know how many are in their family and give me the wrong number. I delight in shutting the gate in front of grandfather and telling him, "They just voted you out of the family."


... most groups aren't color coded by dress...

I used to think it looked stupid when a big family all dressed alike. Now I kinda like it.

[BassPlayer2001]

lol, with grouping on attractions it only gets better and better, you ask "how many" and they say "yes". Now how in the world would yes be a legitamate answer in any person's head to that question? Or of course at Star Tours the turnstile person sends mass groups to the specific gate, where the flight attendant groups them, and one of the more unique answers we get to "how many?" there is "Gate One" or just "One". At this point, most of us say, "we know you're at gate one, now how many people are in your group?" and they'll say "well, she said gate one over there." That's when I blow up, and say "you're at gate one, where I tell you which row to go in AFTER you give me an answer to how many you have!"

[Polar33]

lol, with grouping on attractions it only gets better and better, you ask "how many" and they say "yes". Now how in the world would yes be a legitamate answer in any person's head to that question?

On a similar note... After a guest orders something, before I'll give them the total, I will ask,"Will that be all for you?” I guess one of those six simple words confuses the heck out of some people because I will always get someone who replies "no", and just stares blankly at me as if they are waiting for me to read their mind. These people never actually want anything else, they just completely misunderstood the question.

Drove me so crazy one night I just stared back at the guests waiting for them to respond. Few realized their mistake, the others just got impatient and asked for the total. I continued the fun by reminding them that they told me that they weren’t done ordering. Most people got defensive saying that they didn't, but I just repeated back to them my earlier question and their answer. I got a lot of people to realize their error that way as they rather sheepishly responded "oh...I meant to say yes"

[Filmdirector17]

Don't even get me started about grouping at Autopia, you ask how many, oh we have two. So you send them to the last number, only to have the rest of the party get angry at you for splitting them up, there are six more of us, well they only said they had two I can't just guess that there are more of you. the other day I was grouping and two people came up to me and I asked how many in your party and they said two, so I put them on their number and allowed the SAP guests to fill the rest, then this huge guy comes down and starts cursing at me for splitting them up and I inform them that they didn't tell me there were more in their party to which the angry guest responds, well you never asked how many there were. People make me so angry sometimes.

[dl_keelboater]

Of course, you can't beat the guest who tells you he has 4 in his group, and holds up 3 fingers to reiterate. :?:

[Thatguy]

We used to compete to see who had the group that was off by the most. My personal best is a group of 23 that said they had two in their party...

[Anonymous]

I can totally agree with all of this. Dealt with it today at the Mansion ride at Foyer.

ME: "How many?"

GUEST: "Yes."

ME: "How many is all together in your group?"

GUEST: *blank stare*

ME: "Who's the last one in your group?"

GUEST: "She is."

Okay I cut the line after the lady.

GUEST: "Wait! That's my group right there."

ME: "Well, they said she was the last one."

Then someone from the party comes up.

GUEST: "He's with us!"

ME: "You just said. . .*mumbles* Nevermind. *fake smile* Go ahead"



OR


"Who's the last one of your group?"

"Oh it's Steve."

"And Steve would be who?"

[Weeble]

Hi how many in your group?----All of us!

[Anonymous]

My favorite is when you asked "How many" and they reply the ever popular "two" and you filled in those last two seats of the vehicle and then the next guy would say "Hey we are with them" and when you explain that they said they were a party of "TWO" the reply is well they are but we are "Three" and we are with them...which the response on my end would be "so that makes you a party of FIVE correct"... and they would say "yes but we can't sit five across"...WELL DUH!!! DO they not think that I can manage to figure out that they would have to sit two in one row and three in another...the question is "How many in your party" not who are you planning to ride with... or the other fun one was when it is close to the end of the night and you ask and they are like three no four no three... have we not been doing this all day????

I also love the "how many?" "all of us"...WOW that is a huge group the line is like two hours long right now..

At the train at WDW the engineer is timing the stop. Therefore after the second single whistle you have to ask how many and make sure they are all together because you have about 30 seconds until you have to stop the line. I love when you ask how many and they say 4 but neglect to tell you that it is the 3 people in a row and Uncle Seymor is 10 people back because he couldn't keep up and they didn't want to wait... I just let the next 4 people through...How was I supposed to know that the guy that was in the number 4 spot was NOT with you... Keep your party together...

[trojantuba]

This was so bad at Jungle we actually had a queue spiel for it..."ladies and gentleman may I have your attention please, when you reach the front of the line the appropriate respnse when asked how many in your party is the actual number of people in your party...not 'to that guy, I don't know this many or all the way up to Uncle Fred'..we don't have an uncle Fred and therefore don't know who Uncle Fred is...thank you.

Other Favorites of mine included at Indy:
Me: how many?

Guest: Front please

Me: how many in your group?

Guest: We'd like the front row please

Me: I know, I need the number of people in your group

Guest: Can we drive?

[tabacco]

Heh... I've actually done that, but only at Splash, and only with the old logs. The grouper had a tendency to seat my friend and I (we're both 6'+ guys) in the SAME section of the log, making for an extremely sardinelike experience. I also found that if I said 'two' the grouper would tell us a row before I could even get out '...and if it's possible we'd like to be in seperate sections,' and then get this really annoyed look if I asked after they gave us a row number, so we ended up just saying 'one' and taking what we got :)

[coldfire409]

This is the funniest one I have from grouping at an attraction. I was loading the Movie Ride and I get two people. After asking them if they were only a party of two, and they answered yes, I dispatched the tram and sent it on their way. A minute later after the tram was dispatched the rest of their party came into the loading area and they expected to sit togher on the tram as it was leaving the dock. After telling them that I cannot let anybody enter a moving ride the people, that told me that they were two, wanted to get off. I told them that they cannot and for the next 22 mins the entire party was separated. It was almost closing time. . . did they not know how many were in their party for the entire day.

[IndyBob]

The asian tour group with like 50 peolpe are the best because the dont speak english and when you ask how many in there group they all look at each other then look at you again. Sometimes you get the hand symbols of an X or a T, what the hell does that mean. But they are so much fun to group and there are 2 excellent ways to do it.
1. just lead them to the row and spot and stop when there are 4 in the first row (Indy) then push person #5 to row 2 and when that row is full push person # 9 to row three and do that till they are all gone. (On a side note, I was working Indy one day and this huge group of Asian tourists came into the ride. So I grouped them all and there was one guy who didn't fit with all his friends, so I pounded on the back of the jeep and hoped on and pointed to him jokingly and hopped off and started to go back to grouping when I hear the other CMs laughing their heads off. This guy had acctually hoped on the back of the jeep to go with his friends like I had done. I was rolling. Tought me a lesson though)
2. When your having a bad day just go sit on the rope that leads to belts and watch them group themselves. It will cheer you up really fast!

And they never ask for the front or if they can drive, but sometimes they dont stay in their assinged rows when they are getting into the jeep and take 5 minutes to get in , especially the older ones (no Space for them)!

[Dante101]

Sometimes you get the hand symbols of an X or a T, what the hell does that mean.
I think the "X" means "stop" - like he's asking you, "Do you want me to stop?" I've also used it when trying to explain to a non-English-speaking Asian group that the ride is down (give the X sign while shaking your head and saying "broken.").

I can't remember what the "T" means. Maybe it means "time out," like "wait a moment."

Next time throw both your arms straight up, and see if they do an NFL touchdown dance or something...

[Anonymous]

The asian tourists are my favorite at Mansion. I tell them to look down and watch their step as they get onto the moving platform and they all look down and see that I'm walking and so forth. One gets on and somewhat trips, then the next person laughs at them, and you think that they'd get the idea of it moving but they don't, and trip as well. It goes on like that until everyone is one. Laugh, trip, next person, laughs trips. Also, sometimes they just ride into a random buggy with people they don't even know. Or we try to get two or three of them together but the gentlemen wearing the suits never really like to sit together. They all ride singles which sucks because there goes our counts for a bit. Oh well.

[VonSeegs]

sometimes they just ride into a random buggy with people they don't even know

My all time favorite are the one's that like to ride in between the buggies on the safety plates. As soon as I'm done freaking (because one of these days someone's gonna fall through) I have to laugh my knee socks off because it's the funniest thing EVER!

I also liked the one asain lady who sat on the floor of the buggy and then her daughter caught my arm in the bar of the clam shell. I had a flashlight in my free hand and was being dragged up the hill. My stupid ride stop wouldn't work so I threw it hard on the ground hoping that that would make the ride stop. It did. Not to mention the ride stop broke. Oops.

[tabacco]

Also, sometimes they just ride into a random buggy with people they don't even know.

I had that happen to me once. Some random guy just climbed in next to me. I think it was one of the more awkward rides I've ever had on the mansion :)