Sunday, October 22, 2006
Going Straight To The Top...And Getting Stuck There!
This summer, I worked at an amusement park. There's a policy where if a worker is caught riding any of the rides in uniform, they're automatically fired. The park is usually empty in the hour or so before closing, so it's easy to get away with a lot of stuff.
I worked on this water/roller coaster type ride. Every night at closing, maintenance would come and turn off my ride, because it ran automatically throughout the day.
Anyhow, these two guys who worked on my ride decided to go on it in uniform just before closing, for jollies. Everything was going smoothly, until they came to the top of the second drop. Then, the ride suddenly stopped. It turns out, maintenance had come a few minutes early that night to turn off the ride.
And they were stuck...on the top of the biggest drop - in uniform, for all to see.
Needless to say, they were fired - after being rescued via cherrypicker, and enduring major embarassment in the process.
I worked on this water/roller coaster type ride. Every night at closing, maintenance would come and turn off my ride, because it ran automatically throughout the day.
Anyhow, these two guys who worked on my ride decided to go on it in uniform just before closing, for jollies. Everything was going smoothly, until they came to the top of the second drop. Then, the ride suddenly stopped. It turns out, maintenance had come a few minutes early that night to turn off the ride.
And they were stuck...on the top of the biggest drop - in uniform, for all to see.
Needless to say, they were fired - after being rescued via cherrypicker, and enduring major embarassment in the process.
