Dave got a hair cut then had an appointment with a Chiropractor, his left shoulder blade is really bothering him. They took x-rays and want to see him 3 times a week for I don't know how long. Work was busy until around 4:30pm, that's when the school buses all left. Boy, I sure don't remember our schools taking us to amusement parks when I was in school. Marilyn came by later and asked if I wanted to work a double on Saturday, Ferris Wheel Assist, I said sure. She then tracked Dave down and he got a double shift too, working Space Shot.
June 5th - Saturday
In the a.m. I assisted on the Ferris Wheel which was fun. Work was slow though for a Saturday, the weather report said rain all day, but it didn't happen. On my p.m. shift I was still in the Underground. The rain finally hit, rather came down in buckets, about 5:30 p.m. which we then really became busy. Since we are in a covered building we don't really know what is going on in the rest of the park. They had closed down all the rides but ours, so everyone ran to us to get our of the rain plus ride a ride. 20 min. later the rain stopped and the sun came back out. The rest of the weather was fine until we closed at 10 p.m. We had started work at 9:40pm and got off at 10pm, long day but we both felt fine, won't make a habit of doing that though.
June 6th - Sunday
When we went into work we got our new job assignments which starts on Monday. Dave got days off cover, which means he goes to a different job everyday covering for the people that have that day off. I got G-Force no big deal until when I went on my break and looked at the sheet again. I had to be the operator on G-Force. For one thing I don't know how to operate the ride, and I never wanted to be an operator only an assistant. The worst thing of all was the operator has to speak into a mike, which I don't like to speak in public. Glenn trained me for the ride, Sunday night, and I let him know I wasn't happy at all. He said "Oh Jeri" you can do it, if I really don't like it come see him later and he would see what he could do.
June 7th - Monday
Started the new ride, messed up a few times when I tried to start the ride and speaking wasn't fun either. My assistant was new too, so he couldn't help me any, his name was Jerry too. Luckily it was a slow day and by the end of it I was doing pretty good. We did get some rain around 6pm but those people just won't leave the rides no matter what.
June 8th - Tuesday
In the morning we went to the Casino for the breakfast buffet, just can't beat that $3.50 price. It holds you just about all day too. Another slow day and I still had a couple mess ups on starting the ride but the people are really understanding and just said no big deal. Jerry was off so I had another new assist that hadn't worked the ride so I had to train her. Around 7pm it started raining a little, it would start, stop, start, stop. At 7:40 Dave comes over to my ride and said they are shutting everyone down. My ride was full, all of a sudden now I know why, and no white or black shirt people had told me to shut down so my ride was still going. As the ride was coming to a stop and I was talking to the people, in the mike, a maintenance man had gone in back and shut my power off, boy was I pissed. When we were walking out I let Kirby, a white shirt, know how pissed I was. He said they were short handed and just didn't make it to my ride to let me know, I said "I have a phone at my ride" just rude.
Dave's working Raging River, Dragon Roller Coaster, Inverter, Outlaw as Operator, CIA (come in anyway) they will figure out what to assign him, then on Sunday he is driving "Molly the Trolley". It goes from the Hotel and the RV Park to the amusement park.
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