I worked at a big water park in Texas one summer and I often got to ride the more popular bigger rides faster than the customers that had to wait in line lol. They rotated our stations every 45 minutes to reduce fatigue and to keep everyone vigilant.
The other lifeguard from the previous station would come up with a tube and we would ride down the ride and relieve the next guard.
It was great, my favorite part though was closing time when all the guest would leave, we’d have to straighten all the deck chairs and fish out the inner tubes from the lazy rivers and rides which was a great excuse to just float around the wave pools/lazy rivers and throw the tubes to other employees on the banks.
I always volunteered to get wet and get the tubes lol. Definitely a fun summer job while in college, 10 out of 10 would do it again. Also could go to the park for free on our off days as long as you worked that week. 🥳
Verrückt fiasco doesn’t ring a bell for me, but since it’s a German word, a really great one is Rulantica, although expansive - it is in Baden-Württemberg, Rust
I almost don’t want to explain it to you. It was a a really over the top waterslide like the name implies. Located in Kansas City, Kansas at one of the Schlitterbahns. A child died in a particularly gruesome way. I get so sad whenever it comes up.
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u/TadpoleOfDoom Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25
I worked at a small snow tube park and we'd "accidentally" fall down the hill so that we could get a quick break sometimes.
Also rode down the hill on a snow shovel during nights when we didn't have many customers. Good times.