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

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College student got upset when I told him he was too big to ride the 25 cent helicopter outside the arcade. There wasn’t much I could do to stop him since it didn’t require a ticket, so being unable to fit inside the actual helicopter, he climbed on top and held on to the fake propeller. Moments later I hear an epic bang against the side of the ticket booth. The hydraulic spring thing on the bottom of the helicopter had broken, swaying him back and forth like a mechanical bull before flinging him off, right into the side of the ticket booth.

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A mom lost it and started screaming at a co-worker and I in a different language because her son wasn’t allowed to go down the slide anymore after he tried to climb up it. Twice. (This was at the kitty slides at a water park)

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Last week, the ride I was working at was down for about 45 minutes due to a mechanical problem, and we had a guest in line that was irrationally angry about the downtime. He started yelling out “I could build a better amusement park than this! I’m going to buy up all the farmland in the area and build my own park! Make amusement parks great again!” I wish I could say he was joking, but he looked serious. Unless he’s a billionaire, I don’t think that park is going to get very far.

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.