Working at an amusement park can be a great job, but you also have to deal with some unpleasant customers sometimes.

What would you do if you had a customer trying to get on a ride more than 10 minutes before she was supposed to according to her timed ticket?

That is what happened to the ride attendant in this story, so he made her  wait even though she kept trying to sneak in.

Check it out.

Her Face Went Red In Anger

Quite some time ago I worked as a worker at a very popular theme park in Florida.

I’ve mentioned in other stories I’ve shared that I worked at an attraction.

One day I was fast pass line greeter and it was in the middle of peak season.

We were ridiculously crowded with wait times for stand-by being 2 hours, single rider around fifty minutes and fast pass over an hour.

We were instructed to allow people in on the time stamped on their fast pass to help thin the line.

Sometimes, when it wasn’t as busy we would allow people to enter 5 minutes earlier than their ride reservation.

A woman wearing white shorts, a fanny pack and a white sun visor came walking up happily with her group and showed me her fast pass.

I stopped her because it was 10 minutes early.

No big deal, right?

I politely explained she would have to wait to enter on the time stamped on the fast pass ticket.

Woman: Oh come on! Really?! It’s just a few minutes early!

Me: I apologize ma’am, unfortunately we are very busy so you’ll have to wait for the time on your fast pass.

Woman: That’s ridiculous, everyone else let us in a few minutes early.

Woman tries to walk past me but it’s not happening.

I block her by stepping in her way.

I smile and ask her to step to the side.

Woman: Ugh 😤

I continue to let people in according to the times on their passes as the woman glares angry daggers at me.

A man next to her tells her to just wait it’s not that serious but she’s fuming.

Literally 3 minutes go by and she storms back up and shoves the pass in my face.

Learn some patients lady.

Woman: Good enough now, can I go in now?!

Me trying to remain magical: Ma’am you still have 7 minutes until you can enter. Please step to the side.

Woman: You’re joking, 7 minutes! You’re not seriously going to make me wait for 7 minutes?!

Me: Yes, please step to the side.

Another 2 minutes go by as a line of people come in.

I check everyone’s time not looking at faces so much but hands and tickets when I see the same ticket.

I Look up and it’s the same woman again!

She still had 5 minutes to wait.

Now I’m irritated and she’s irritated.

She just won’t give up.

I just stare at her for a few seconds quietly before doing a two finger point back to the side where her group and others were waiting patiently.

She stormed back off as my co-worker K walked up with my break slip.

The woman instantly got a grin on her face when she saw I was about to leave.

Her grin upset me and my petty box was immediately switched to “on”.

I gave K a brief version of events and instructed him to make sure she waited until the EXACT time printed on the fast pass ticket.

He laughed a bit and said “okay”.

I walk away but only a few feet when she sauntered over arrogantly grinning to K and shows him the ticket.

K: Sorry but you’ll have to wait until the time printed on the fast pass ma’am.

Geez lady, just go wait a few more minutes.

Woman with her face turning incredibly red in anger: DID SHE TELL YOU TO DO THAT?!

K: I have to work with her.

Me standing pettily a few feet away: 😐

What is so hard about waiting until the correct assigned time?

Read on to see what people in the comments say about this story.

I can just picture it.

Yes, that is a great coworker.

This commenter makes a great point.

Exactly, why does she think they have a time on the ticket?

It must have been satisfying.

Come on Karen, just wait your turn.

That’s what the rest of us are doing.

If you liked that post, check out this one about an employee that got revenge on HR when they refused to reimburse his travel.