"Amusement" Park

Once again, I apologize for being so horribly lax in my posting this summer. I'm a horrible person and all that jazz. But, if YOU worked over 40 hours every week, you might not get to play around on your computer as much as you like either...just sayin'.

Working at Lagoon has proven to be much more...interesting than I thought it would be. And, by interesting, I do not mean that my work itself is interesting-because it is not. I mean the things that happen to me at work are interesting, and sometimes not in a good way.  

RANDOM THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO ME AT LAGOON

1. I discovered how much of a weakness I have for men that have accents. Seriously- they can even be kind of unattractive but as soon as I hear them talk I go all to pieces. This is unfortunate when the only people you work with are European. It makes focusing on work very very hard...especially when they are very pretty. Which some of them are. 

2. I learned some sweet bowstaffing skills. One day, no one was coming on my ride, and the guy I was working with was this big tough looking foreign man. We started sweeping, and he started doing CRAZY flippy spinny things with his broom. It was impressive. It turns out, that back in Bulgaria he studied martial arts for four years and was super awesome. We spent the rest of the shift whacking each other with brooms. It was awesome.

3. Karl Malone is very nice. He brought his family to Lagoon and I got to meet him. At first, I didn't know who he was- I just figured that everybody was staring at him because he was so freaking tall! But it turns out that he was really just Karl Malone. It was cool beans.

4. A man once brought a fake tarantula on my ride and pretended to throw it at me to see if I would freak out.

I did.

5. These boys decided they loved me, so they came on my ride almost 20 times so they could talk to me. They even gave me a stuffed animal they won at one of the games. They were precious...but too young for me. 

6. I helped stop a criminal in his tracks! A kid tried to walk out of one of the stores with a bunch of stuff under his shirt. After we noticed him, he tried to run away but we caught him- and I got to stand watch and make sure he didn't get away again. Granted, he was only 8 years old, but it was exciting all the same.

7. I learned that while foreign men may be pretty, it is not good to give them your number. They will stalk you. And send you creeper texts. And you have to tell them that you have a boyfriend. And you have a lot of awkward encounters in the break room. The End.

8. One day, it was raining, and Puff The Magic Dragon wouldn't work...so they had to run it with people in it to try and get the breaks working....and I had to ride it, in the rain, 20 times in a row. Stupid Puff.

9. A man threw up on my ride and I had to clean it up. He ate hash browns for breakfast...I will not be eating hash browns again in the foreseeable future....Jibblie... 

10. People never ask me how my day is, what my favorite movie is, what kind of music I like, what my favorite kind of skittle is. No. They without fail ask me the same thing. Every. Day.

YES THIS IS MY NATURAL HAIR COLOR! HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN A GINGER BEFORE??? I appreciate that they're in awe of my hair...but I'm getting really sick of that being the only thing people ever ask me about. 

These are the most "amusing" things that have happened to me thus far. I have made a lot of children cry, and it makes me feel like a bad person inside, but other than that Lagoon is pretty mundane. And by "Pretty" I mean horribly. 

Moral of The Story: I can't wait for fall

The End.