The OTHER D

Mental disease...Now...the manager prolly has diseases!!!! HAHAHA!!! I think my disease has cleared up a little now that I am not there.

Chris, you think YOU got around that park...I think I was the rides whore...I mean...I got around on the rides more than a certain manager who was in Rivertown in 2002...lol! I was trained at seriously 85% of the rides throughout my time there!!!!!

OK...so this one didn't happen to me, This is a BABS story! it is not a rude guest, more of a rude...BUT FUNNY...employee! I don't know if any of you PKI people ever met EBONY, she worked on Express in 2001, but she was working on unload of the Adventure Express, and Babs was driving. This girl gets on and lays her purse down next to the train for Ebony to hold for her. Well, Ebony picks up the purse, and yells up to Babs, pointing at the purse, yelling "Babs, look at this" Well Ebony starts laughing so hard and yelling at Babs to look...well, the purse was home-made out of a pair of jeans. Well, in the end Ebony throws the purse at the girl and tells her "we can't hold dis!" It was VERY VERY funny!

OK...So this was I THINK 2000, MAYBE 2001, but I was working Cobra and this black guy came up the exit in a wheel chair (you know the kind I am talking about, not really hurt). Well...he was all dressed like a pimp, with the hat with the feather and all. ALL YELLOW! From Hat to Shoes, YELLOW!!! Well, he OF COURSE wanted his entire group to ride...Ummm NO, so I told him he could wait with one other person until the group got through the like 20 minute line, if that. Of COURSE he didn't like that answer and told me they WOULD ride, you know how those fights go, so I won't go through it. So in the end of it, he told me to go buy some socks (I was wearing short sock) and I just started laughing at him and told him and his group to get off my station and leave! It was great, The outfit was REDICULOUS!!!!!! The entire crew laughed at this guy, and I SWEAR, everywhere I have worked, all the stuff happens when I am in charge, or when I am in the GR spot!!!!

Hey Sparky, Did I ever tell you about the Banana Pimp??? That is another GOOD story!!!!

Personally, I would probably ride either The Beast, or DREAM that I was riding Cobra

2000 King Cobra (RIP) 2001 King Cobra(RIP)/Days of Thunder 2002 Log Flume Althought, I think I was trained at ALMOST EVERY ride in the park!!! Going back...YEAH RIGHT!!!!! Congrats on Delerium Sparkster!!!!

So, you wanna know about rude and ruthless guests? I could go on all day telling you about guests who have insulted me, verbally assulted me, threatened me, threatened my life...There are too many situations that Ride Operators are put into. ESPECIALLY working on the larger rides. Some of the FUN stuff happens when the employee is in a "fun" mood. I can recall an incident where I was working at Days Of Thunder (The Go Carts) and had a highly intoxicated gentleman end up driving the car. After being rotated so I could deal with the situation, I removed the gentleman from the track, after calling Security. When he FINALLY decided to get out of his car, he threatened me, and told me he hoped I would die. As he walked up the exit from the ride (refusing to stay until Sec. got there) he was continuing to threaten me, and all I kept saying was HAVE A GREAT DAY AT PARAMOUNTS Kings Island, BYE NOW, THANK YOU, HAVE A GOOD DAY (smiling the entire time...guests in line laughing) Right as he got to the top of the exit Security showed up and took him to their office. I later found out, he was charged with DUI!