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

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My cousin works at an amusement park. One of the attractions is a aquatic exhibit underground that includes sharks. One part of the exhibit is a glass tunnel within a shark tank so sharks can swim on all sides of the people inside. Some Russian couple was annoyed that they could not take a picture inside the crowded tunnel without other people being in the photo so they complained and asked my cousin to order others to make way for them to take a picture. My cousin refused as employees can’t order people to move away for the sake a photo, so after a while of bickering, the Russian couple stormed up indignantly. It’s shocking how some people can act so entitled.

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The wife wouldn’t let the dad go on a rollercoaster. He proceeded to have a pretty big meltdown about how he just spent several hundred dollars on American Girl dolls, why the hell can’t he spend $5 on a rollercoaster ride.

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I was in the guest service area and witnessed a woman screaming at the workers because she had gotten shit on by a bird. They were trying to steer her towards a gift shop where she could purchase a new shirt, which angered her even more. She really believed that the park was at fault, and was yelling “what are you going to do about this!?” at these poor kids working their summer jobs. I’m glad she got shit on.

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Whenever I worked on our most popular roller coaster, every couple of ride cycles there would be a kid crying and saying they didn’t want to ride. We were not allowed to send a coaster if a kid was screaming about not wanting to ride. We would either have to talk to them and try to calm them down or just let them out and have them wait in the exit for their parents. I’ve witnessed countless parents try to tell me that their kid was just being a baby and to just start the coaster down the tracks anyways. Not only is it policy, but it’s just a shitty thing to do to a child. This coaster was a huge wooden coaster that was pretty rough and intense in some parts and if a kid is super scared it might even traumatized them. I’ve had parents tell me to shut up, not to talk to their kids, that I can’t let them out of the seat, basically they just wanted to force their crying child to endure an intense coaster when they clearly didn’t want to.

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.