Six Flags: Stalking and Surveying

So, recently I’ve started a new project to send me into bankruptcy.

So, we got Season Passes for Christmas last year and Cassie and I have been going to Six Flags basically all year. It was really fun at first, but by now we just enjoy walking around and people watching. She describes things to me and I’ll try and make up different stories. For me, it’s a lot of listening, picking up things people say that I find witty, striking, or realistic. For movie dialogue ideas.

That sounds really stalkerish, so moving on…

Anyways, when we get bored of doing that, we’ll watch rides or have our cameras out to try and record major fails. We even got really a bunch of pretty cheap cameras to practice filming and use in case they dropped and broke.

Cassie lets me hold the cameras, so I can get a good feel for the right angles and positions to have a camera, even though I can’t see it. Honestly, she scares a lot of people because once she knows your ambition, she’ll do everything she can to make sure you achieve it.

Her intensity just freaks a lot of people out, especially since she becomes personally invested in helping you succeed. A lot of people feel pressured, but I know I need all the help I can get.

Anyways, back to the fun part.

People have done some of the craziest, most hilarious things on different rides.

Like on Thunder River, which is basically a huge tubing, extreme lazy river ride, we have over twenty scenes of people dropping their new, expensive iPhones in the water.

Of course, this is back in the summer because now the "river" is just an empty concrete bowl.

Apparently, around the middle of the ride, there are a bunch of water cannons that people can pay to squirt water at the tubes and some of the people getting shot at flip out.

They wave their Iphones in the air and shout, “Don’t shoot! I have a phone! Don’t shoot!”

Which is weird to me, because the obvious solution is hiding your phone in your bra or something. Shove it in a pocket. Do literally anything but wildly wave it through the air on a ride where you can be jolted at any minute.

Unfortunately, that’s what people do all the time.

Last time, a girl waved her phone with a very loose grip over the water and shouted, “THIS IS THE NEW IPHONE! DON’T SHOOT!”

They still shot of course, but it wasn’t the water cannons that did anything. Her tube bumped into a barrel and because her phone was in the air, it fell out of her grip into the water.

It’s one of those situations I find tragically hilarious.

Cassie couldn’t stop replaying the video in slow motion. Apparently, it was an agonizing descent into the water.

But yeah, sometimes we watch different tubes go by for hours and I listen to all the different responses. There was a girl trying to hide her newly earned green dinosaur plushie from the water and that one kind of broke my heart.

I think the other most hilarious thing that Cassie helped me film was on a huge roller coaster. The ride had just finished and was whooshing to a stop when someone’s really freakishly expensive glasses came off and went flying just above all the seats.

Whoever lost it was in the front row and so hands began flying up from all the other seats trying to catch it. It went through over ten rows and no one managed to get it.

Everyone was too late to understand what was happening.

It was all:

“What?”

“Are those sunglasses?”

“That poor girl.”

“I got them! Ugh, never mind.”

“Huh?”

“Look! It’s someone’s glasses! Grab them!”

But, yeah, that’s basically what happened over the weekend. There was this competition where they had all these dogs dress up in adorable costumes! There was a Jedi dog that I would have actually dog-napped.

Oh! And at the beginning, when we were entering the park, we got surveyed by this women. She was a Six Flags employee, or at least she had the shirt, but it was still felt really weird.

Cassie was super suspicious and on her game with it. I probably gave her away because I kept tilting my head in surprise.

The lady would ask, “So, how old are you?”

“Sorry, is this a survey?”

“Why? Does it feel like a survey?” I think the employee was being sarcastic, but it was hard to tell. Cassie just rolled with it.

“I’m 17 and this is my sister, she’s 16.” The sister card, always a good line.

“Very good, this is just to help Six Flags improve customer service and make this the best experience possible for you! Did you come here with anyone else?”

“Yes, one of our Aunt’s is in the restroom, we’re waiting for her.” Ahh, our fictional aunt, I know her well.

“Ohh, very fun! It’s so nice to see kids here with their families. And how old is she?”

“She’s 45.”

“Great, great, now if you could just input your address and season pass ID in here? Thanks.”

After that, she left and went to interview other people so it seemed pretty legit, but it was still weird. Cassie’s smooth evasions were pretty hilarious though.

I guess that’s really all of my Six Flags experiences this week,

Thanks,

Mia.

#old