23 Theme Park Employees Confess The Biggest Adult Tantrums They’ve Witnessed

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We did allow Make a Wish kids to cut the line and meet the characters first (for obvious reasons). One time when I did this, the mother got very angry and said “I wish my kids had cancer so they could cut the line!” I had no response except to pray the poor Make a Wish family hadn’t heard her.

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I worked in the kiddie area of one of the SeaWorld parks. There was a little coaster there called the Shamu Express, which you had to be 38 inches tall to ride. This crusty man came up with his baby- had to be like 18 months old, in a diaper- wanting to ride. Went off on me when I said she couldn’t. Almost comically he picked her up and held her against the 38 inch sign, feet dangling in the air, trying to make it look like this baby was as tall as a four year old. He started making fun of me, read my name tag and made fun of my name as he stormed off.

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I worked at an amusement park last summer. I had a parent throw a basket of cheesy fries at me because his daughter wasn’t tall enough to ride the ride. He said he waited in line for 45 mins. I responded that he had 3 opportunities to check her height in the line. That was apparently not the correct answer.

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Ride ops here. Witnessed a grown man grab, shake, and push a girl who was about 5 feet tall and 100 lbs on a good day because his front-of-line return was an hour later and she wouldn’t let him in.

Written by Laura McNairy

Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.