I've worked at two theme parks in my life so far. And here are my wonderful stories of both of them:

First there was Burlington Go Karts. It was a pretty run down piece a crap place, abandoned by it's original owner and taken up by a new guy who was a real dick (excuse my latin) to work for.

Anyhow, you wouldn't BELIEVE the questions tourists would ask. Aside from trivial things such as whether or not I was the boss's son (the boss being twenty and me being 15 at the time) but they asked the craziest things. One guy asked me, if it was mandatory to "slow down for the turns on the go kart track". I looked at him for a minute, and thought to myself ("If this could get his lisence, then it should be no problem for me"), so just for laughs, I said "No sir, it is no mandatory to slow down for the turns, in fact, you can SPEED UP when you reach the hair pin."

Long story short, he ended up in the field by the track and a fellow worker an I had to drag him out.

A woman of about 40 or 45, asked me if the bumper cars could fly. One man and his child asked me if the automated batting cages had a little midget inside trhowing the balls. At first I thought he was joking, but the look on his face and tone of his voice proved otherwise.

Some people asked if the go karts were on a track. Which would really pretty much take the whole point of "go karts" away. And I mean, the karts were crashing into each other, and breaking though the barricades by other moronic tourists who I really wonder how they got their driving lisences.

Just for fun one day, a fellow worker and I decided to release the goveners (little things that control how fast the kart can go.) so that the top speed went from a measily 25 mph, to about 50. Well, that may be a tad bit exaterated, maybe 45. But anyways, the kid we put in it was holding on for dear life. He was so afraid. It was great. I never seen a little kid so afraid for his life before. Of course we never put the kid in any dangers. We had a remote switch to turn the cars off if hey get to rowdy, and there was tires all over the place to stop people from crashing.

After saying goodbye to the wretched place that was Burlington, I decided to work at another Amusement Park called Rainbow Valley instead. This place is great, I'm tellin ya. You can't go to work one day without some craaazy friggen adventure just waiting for you.

Such as the time when my boss Neil (who must weigh in at LEAST 250 to 300 pounds. Not fat either. This guy is hella built) gave a theiving customer a run for his money.

There are these tiny little boats we called "Lobster Boats". Ran by a small car battery, the little things go extremely slow. You could probably crawl faster than these boats go. The pond they are in is about 3 feet deep. Filled with Leeches, abnormal seaweed, possibly mini monsters, and we think a few video camaras owned by foolish tourists.

A group of teenagers decided they would "rebel against the system" and steal the batteries out of these miniature boats. What they didn't expect was how heavy the battery would be. Weighing about 15 to 20 pounds I think, they are sorta decieving to the eye. One guy flipped his boat completely over, another guy fell in.

But that didn't stop our courageous rebelious thieves, no sir, they got right back up covered in leeches and took off to their car.

Not quite sure who was working lower boats that day (lower is what we call the area where the lobster boats are held) but they called Neil on the walkie talkie. Neil put his golf cart into Overdrive (just to add some dramatic effect) and zoomed out into the parking lot to find the culprits.

Neil grabbed one of them by the arm and oen guy made the mistake of trying to punch him, Neil cleaned his clock and grabbed the other by the scruff of the neck and tossed him to the ground. He grabbed the third hoodlem and pulled him out of his car and said calmly "You better not try to steal another god damned thing out of this park again, or so help you god you'll be dealing with me. Got it?"

And yes, that was just one of the many stories. There's also the time when we paid a staff member to drink a coffee "Flavor Burst" (Hole Juice as we called it because of it's extreme disgustingness if disgustingness is a word. It's a small cup of ice cream with some really gross artifical flavoring poured on top of it) with soap, pepsi, ketchup, and relish added in and stirred to perfection.

The six of us on break chipped in 7 bucks each (for a total of 42 dollars for those of you too lazy to multiply that) and he drank it. Our supervisor then read the soap container and was trying to figure out whether or not it was toxic. So we sent the Extremely Gross Hole Juice drinker to the bathroom and told him to puke. Apparently, if I remember correctly, he did puke, but it turned out the soap was non-toxic anyways so it was just double gross for him.

There is also the time at Middle where we kept telling this kid to stop chasing the ducks with his peddal boat, but he refused to, and ended up the duck was pulled beneath his boat and caught in the propeller and the duck was murdered.

There is a monorail above Middle pond, about 15 feet in the air. One kid got the genius idea he was going to jump out of the ride and land in the pond. Mind you, Middle pond is only a foot deeper than Lower. Makes about 4 feet in total. The kid was lucky and didn't break his legs or kill himself, but he did sprain his ankle I think. Serves the bastard right in my opinion.

Upper Pond, is where the the Motorerized Swans and Boats are. Like Lower, they run on little car batteries.

John, an old friend of mine, was fired from Rainbow Valley, for Jumping off the lifejacket house into the pond which is about 15 meters and filled with I would bet to be HUNDREDS of digital video camars, camaras, wallets, purses, possibly children, shoes, a seaman, and lord knows what else.

John was never a bright person anyways. So Rainbow Valley was at no real loss.

I'd post more but my hand is dying from typing. That and everything else is kinda boring, and yeah.

I've always wanted to work in a theme park. :P

I think the most fun theme park to work at would be universal because they get those cool shirts and the role-playing is cool.

That gave me a few good laughs. Wish I could work in an amusement park. :(

Ha ha, sorry for the horrible grammer/spelling mistakes. I was like half asleep while typing it.

It would be awesome to work at like a really huge popular theme park but kind of hard at the same time. Like, it's stressful enough dealing with a lot of customers but I can't imagine the stress level at like a really popular park.

But all that aside, working at the amusement parks is the most fun I've ever had. Working the rides is simple just as long as you're responsible enough to use them right (unlike other dimwit co-workers of mine). The only bad part is when you get angry parents yelling at you because their kid doesn't meet the hieght requirements as if it is your fault their kid is a midget (me being 5'5 I am allowed to say midget :) ". And you feel kinda bad too when you tell a little kid they are too short to go on :(