Things people do that irritate you when you go to the zoo? #2

Ignoring every rule that is posted everywhere. A lot of parks have areas with free roaming lemurs nowadays and the rules are pretty simple; do not eat and drink and do not try to touch the animals. Every time I visit one of these areas there are at LEAST 5 moms trying to take a picture of their kid touching a lemur or the parents opening a bag of crisps while there are 50 signs telling them not to.

I have been working in the theme park industry for at least 5 years now and I can not stand the idiocracy of guests already.
 
cockatootle said:
I have been working in the theme park industry for at least 5 years now and I can not stand the idiocracy of guests already.
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Does your theme park have any unusual rules? For example at Disneyland, they must not:

- Point with one finger (they must point with an open hand)
- Wear sunglasses (it puts a barrier between them and guests)
- Say they don’t know something (the answer is only a radio away)
- Bend to pick up garbage (they must make a dance about it)
- Wear jewellery
- Display knowledge outside of the realm of their character

And many more...

The rules aren’t necessarily unreasonable but (just to be a jerk), if I worked there, I’d treat it as a personal challenge to see how many I could break in one hit:

I’d lower my sunglasses to glare at the guest who’d just asked me why Mickey and Minnie Mouse have exceeded the life expectancy of a wild mouse one hundred fold and tell him I didn’t know; I had bigger things to worry about having to pick up the stupid garbage *HE* (jabs finger at guest) dropped down here. Then I’d look at my watch and complain loudly how I still have three hours left on my shift to play whatever character it was I was playing.
 
Zoofan15 said:
Does your theme park have any unusual rules? For example at Disneyland, they must not:

- Point with one finger (they must point with an open hand)
- Wear sunglasses (it puts a barrier between them and guests)
- Say they don’t know something (the answer is only a radio away)
- Bend to pick up garbage (they must make a dance about it)
- Wear jewellery
- Display knowledge outside of the realm of their character

And many more...

The rules aren’t necessarily unreasonable but (just to be a jerk), if I worked there, I’d treat it as a personal challenge to see how many I could break in one hit:

I’d lower my sunglasses to glare at the guest who’d just asked me why Mickey and Minnie Mouse have exceeded the life expectancy of a wild mouse one hundred fold and tell him I didn’t know; I had bigger things to worry about having to pick up the stupid garbage *HE* (jabs finger at guest) dropped down here. Then I’d look at my watch and complain loudly how I still have three hours left on my shift to play whatever character it was I was playing.
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The park I worked at had some unusual rules yes, it was luckily not that harsh as it is in the Disney parks but for example, a lot of us employees were riding public transport to and from our work, and while we were wearing our uniforms from home to work and back we were not allowed to wear headphones because we were ambassadors and had to be able to answer questions from guests to and from work. We were allowed to smoke though, but headphones were forbidden lol. :^)
 
Things that irritate me:

1) Crowds, I hate too many people
2) People getting the species wrong even though they have read the sign. (One lady was so sure a nyala was a bongo) even though they are different colours and female nyalas are polled
3) Children (and the odd adult) screaming at animals in a bid to try and get their attention
4) People putting phones for pictures in animals faces, just respect their personal space
5) Children moaning about wanting to go on a play area, you came to the zoo to see animals
6) People skipping the 'less exciting' animals
 
Prochilodus246 said:
Things that irritate me:

1) Crowds, I hate too many people
2) People getting the species wrong even though they have read the sign. (One lady was so sure a nyala was a bongo) even though they are different colours and female nyalas are polled
3) Children (and the odd adult) screaming at animals in a bid to try and get their attention
4) People putting phones for pictures in animals faces, just respect their personal space
5) Children moaning about wanting to go on a play area, you came to the zoo to see animals
6) People skipping the 'less exciting' animals
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Well you got to at least respect that the lady knew what a bongo is.
 
OstrichMania said:
Mate, they're kids. Sure, kids love animals but they also need some stimulation time-to-time. Seeing animals isn't very stimulating for children, given it essentially is just walking around and looking at animals.
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I just think I feel this way as I was the young child who read all the signs, and avidly seeked out all the unusual species of the zoo :D
 
amur leopard said:
After 10 is mature? More like 15 or 16 from my perspective...
I definitely wouldn't call 11 year olds mature, or 14 years olds for that matter.
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I think Fanfin anglerfish thought of the fact that above 10 kids usually can behave and understand that they go to the zoo to see animals and not to go to the playground. But yeah, 11 years olds are not mature, even 16 years olds aren't fully. I think people have to be at least 20 to call themselves adults. (I haven't reached this age yet)
 
Even as a small child (under 10), I preferred to watch the animals rather than play on the playground. I saw them in books or on TV and it was just so cool to see them in real life. Most kids off that age were more fascinated with going to a theme park, but I preferred to go to the zoo every weekend:p.
 
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