Stupid Guest question that had me questioning reality.

[Draidum]

Hey everyone! This is my first post so I hope you enjoy it.

So the other day I was working at Kilimanjaro Safaris as a greeter. I saw this woman in her 40's wandering around with a confused look on her face, so I decide to go and see if I could help her.
She sees that I am coming to help her and is instantly relieved. The first question that she has for me is not too bad, she asks "Excuse me, but when does the next safari leave?" I can understand how someone that is not familiar with the attraction can be confused. So I explain that the trucks constantly depart so she can go on a safari whenever she wants to.
The next question she asks is "how long is the wait then?" Which again, I can understand it if you can't see the big sign above my head that says "wait time 65 minutes from this point." So I tell her that it is about a 65 minute wait. Which I know is a common stupid guest question, but just wait it gets better I promise.
The final question that she asked just completely blew my mind away. She asked, "65 minutes... is that... is that like an hour?"

:eek::confused:

After picking up the scattered pieces of my brain I finally respond by saying "yes, it is an hour and 5 minutes." In which the response from her was "oh, you must be pretty good at math then." Then she just walked away leaving me completely dumbfounded. Now that is stupid!

[Cranbiz]

Great first post. Welcome.

I'm sure the marsupial welcoming committee will be along soon to give you a proper welcome.

[Big Wallaby]

Before anyone else gets a chance,
Karibuni! :welcome: to :sgt: from :wombat: and :wallaby: !!!

During my time at Safari, I came to the conclusion that it was not a very well designed queue for FastPass. I think they learned later that a FastPass line needs to start directly next to the main entrance or people will miss it. I think this lady you're talking about might have missed it if she had been plopped down in front of it with a great big flashing sign saying "FastPass Return for Kilimanjaro Safari, ENTER HERE!"

Keep working on your math skills. Someday, I am hoping to be able to count all three bontebok (okay, both bonteboks and the blesbok, but we don't tell the guests that).

[hobie16]

Then she just walked away leaving me completely dumbfounded.
Did you check for hidden cameras? :D:

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Hey everyone! This is my first post so I hope you enjoy it.

So the other day I was working at Kilimanjaro Safaris as a greeter. I saw this woman in her 40's wandering around with a confused look on her face, so I decide to go and see if I could help her.
She sees that I am coming to help her and is instantly relieved. The first question that she has for me is not too bad, she asks "Excuse me, but when does the next safari leave?" I can understand how someone that is not familiar with the attraction can be confused. So I explain that the trucks constantly depart so she can go on a safari whenever she wants to.
The next question she asks is "how long is the wait then?" Which again, I can understand it if you can't see the big sign above my head that says "wait time 65 minutes from this point." So I tell her that it is about a 65 minute wait. Which I know is a common stupid guest question, but just wait it gets better I promise.
The final question that she asked just completely blew my mind away. She asked, "65 minutes... is that... is that like an hour?"

:eek::confused:

After picking up the scattered pieces of my brain I finally respond by saying "yes, it is an hour and 5 minutes." In which the response from her was "oh, you must be pretty good at math then." Then she just walked away leaving me completely dumbfounded. Now that is stupid!

HA!! Welcome to the SGT!!

I guess you had a chance encounter with the result of modern education? heheheh, maybe she was sleeping during "how to tell time" and other time related subjects in kindergarten!

[danmedix]

Could she tie her own shoes, or sing her ABC's?

[Elena (aka: Bubble Lady)]

welcome aboard! and don't get too confused if this topic takes a sudden turn...could be for the better...but then again... :eek:

[BRWombat]

Look, a squirrel!

Welcome, Draidum!!!

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Look, a squirrel!

Welcome, Draidum!!!

Where??????


In the CHRISTMAS tree, Clark?

[felinefan]

Seriously, it's shocking what some people don't know nowadays. Some folks have been brought up reading only digital time, and can't read an analog clock or watch. I remember when the L.A. Times used to have this column on the Farmer's Market, in the Fairfax District, and one time the reporter was in a jewelry store in the Market, and overheard a young man ask the clerk, "This watch shows time with hands? Is this something new?" :rolleyes:
This was in the late 70s-early 80s, when digital watches were really getting popular.

And now that the L.A. County Fair is on, there's the commercials with the ditzy Paris Hilton wannabes, who can't figure out what a sheep says or recognize one, who can't figure out a bumper car ride, or who aren't sure what exactly cotton candy is. :eek::rolleyes: Those commercials, I fear, are too realistic.

[Near Philly]

Hi Draidum !

welcome aboard! and don't get too confused if this topic takes a sudden turn...could be for the better...but then again... :eek:


Please keep your hands and legs inside the ride vehicle at all times.
Your ride vehicle (thread) may suddenly change direction without warning.
If your ride vehicle does change direction it is quite possibly never coming back to its original course.
This is normal and is no cause for alarm.

Thank you for riding SGT and have a stupidity free day.


felinefan: I know people who can not tell time on an analog clock with just hands and no numbers.

[felinefan]

And I'm one of them. I grew up telling time on analog clocks, but I prefer digital. For some odd reason, I mess up telling time with an analog watch and not with a digital--though my watch of late has refused to go back to 12 hour time and insists on being on 24 hour (military ) time. Frankly, I think there might be some kind of speech/reading disability in my family, because some of us struggle to spell and pronounce words correctly, and my mom is the worst. And my brother has the worst time following directions. I must've missed most of it, because I'm the best speller and reader in my family, and can do some things better than they can.

[Shorty82]

Seriously, it's shocking what some people don't know nowadays. Some folks have been brought up reading only digital time, and can't read an analog clock or watch.

I'll admit that while I knew how to read an analog clock I sucked at it because I always wore digital watches up until a few months ago when I got a Goofy watch. It took me a while to be able to read it at a glance and I depend on the numbers. I have the 80th Anniversary Mickey watch and have a hard time with it has it only has a few numbers.

[Draidum]

Did you check for hidden cameras? :D:

Its funny you say that because when she asked me that question, I looked around wondering if it was really happening, or if it was some kind of joke.

[Main Streeter]

could be for the better:eek:Or the Bubble. :) Sorry Elena, I just had to. ;)

[GaTechGal]

I'll admit that while I knew how to read an analog clock I sucked at it because I always wore digital watches up until a few months ago when I got a Goofy watch. It took me a while to be able to read it at a glance and I depend on the numbers. I have the 80th Anniversary Mickey watch and have a hard time with it has it only has a few numbers.

If it's like my Goofy watch, it's a challange anyway because it runs BACKWARDS. My only problem with analog watches these days is seeing them without my glasses.

[Shorty82]

If it's like my Goofy watch, it's a challange anyway because it runs BACKWARDS. My only problem with analog watches these days is seeing them without my glasses.

They quit making those a while back, mine runs in the normal direction.

[Mayonnaise]

At the Playhouse where I do a lot of my theater work they have an analog clock in the box office, which runs BACKWARDS. It's also numbered backwards, for your convenience, but it leads to a of of incorrect readings of time, even by people who know it's running backwards. They think it's 3:35 at 2:25 because even with the counterclockwise clock, your brain still reads the number that the hand would have just passed if it were a clockwise clock.

8^P

[BRWombat]

Sorry, but I couldn't read this discussion without thinking of Douglas Adams' lines from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

[hhsrat]

Please keep your hands and legs inside the ride vehicle at all times.
Your ride vehicle (thread) may suddenly change direction without warning.
If your ride vehicle does change direction it is quite possibly never coming back to its original course.
This is normal and is no cause for alarm.


Also, please tuck any loose articles in those net bags in front of you, that will keep them from bouncing around when we hit rough roads, and we will hit rough roads. Please watch your hands and feet on the right, as the doors ... (doors close) are already closed, so you're stuck with me for the next 2 weeks.

[Ms. Matterhorn]

I'll admit that while I knew how to read an analog clock I sucked at it because I always wore digital watches up until a few months ago when I got a Goofy watch. It took me a while to be able to read it at a glance and I depend on the numbers. I have the 80th Anniversary Mickey watch and have a hard time with it has it only has a few numbers.

Doesn't the Goofy watch run in reverse? I remember there used to be one that did.:goofy2:

[dazyhill]

Doesn't the Goofy watch run in reverse? I remember there used to be one that did.:goofy2:


LOL Yes it does. I wore one for a while but I had to stop. I kept getting confused as to what time it was. :) :confused:

[Shorty82]

Doesn't the Goofy watch run in reverse? I remember there used to be one that did.:goofy2:

There used to be one but sadly it was discontinued. The one I have runs the normal way. :goofy:

[Ms. Matterhorn]

There used to be one but sadly it was discontinued. The one I have runs the normal way. :goofy:

You can still get one on Ebay (a goofy watch that runs backwards)!

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-RARE-BACKWARDS-GOLD-GOOFY-WATCH-BY-LORUS_W0QQitemZ250292243021QQihZ015QQcategoryZ31387QQss PageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

You guys talking about telling time reminds me of a trick I used to do on first night of class. I would bring in a binary clock and set it up. its amazing how fast they figured out how to tell time that way! (especially when it was break time..by MY clock!!) hehehehe