So I have first hand experience of a CM looosing their cool. Happened one day in MK parking lot, as I was being parked. As you do I was following along the ranks of CM directing me to the right row, and as it happened I must have been the first car along a new row, so driving further and further away from the tram lane all the way to the end of the row. The last cast member in the line was a small young lady, who was a number of spaces from the last space in the row, and she was kind of walking fast to get into the right position to guide cars in. As I approached her, and the end of the row, she started pointing to the space she wanted me in. Now there was already a line of cars parked at the front of the row, and we were to be the second lot of cars to park behind. As I followed what I thought were her instructions I pulled into the last space on the end of the row, directly behind an SUV or something that was parked in front. She looked at me as I did and waved her arms a bit, and then moved straight on to the next car and parked it one space away from me.
Now I thought I had followed her instructions, but turns out I had parked in what was either a much shorter end row, or the car in front hadn’t been pulled all the way to the front, and so the back of my car was sticking out into the traffic lane. Not by much, and more than enough to get past, but I can see if someone hadn’t been thinking as they drove along the row of parked cars they could have hit mine. But it wasn’t obvious when parking this was the case, and to be honest as I parked and turned the engine off I was none the wiser of the issue.
All of a sudden as I’m sat sorting out my stuff and turning off the sat nav and what have you this male CM in his early 20’s bangs hard on the passenger window and starts screaming at me. “Hey buddy, she told you not to park there. What the (insert expletive starting with f here) have you parked there for jerk. She made it clear where to park”. He continued to stand there staring at me and waving his arms about clearly massively annoyed, before smacking the side of the window again with his fist and shouting “move the (more swearing starting with f) jeep jerk” and stormed off.
Now to say I was shocked would be putting it mildly. To my mind I had parked where she indicated, and all was good. I’m at MK, the suns out, a day of rides and popcorn and fireworks is ahead of me, the girl who fleeced me for $17 to park had been nice and friendly(!) and all is good. The pixie dust is starting to settle over me and I’m feeling fine with the world. Suddenly as you can imagine I’m abused in drunken frat boy style by this college age lad whose role in the parking operation seemed to be abusing unsuspcting guests.
I have to admit I was kinda shell shocked. Not by any worry for my safety or fear he would come and attack me, but just because it was so utterly unexpected. So totally out of place. If I had done something I’d known to be wrong I would maybe have been expecting a telling off, but I was oblivious up until this point that i’d made this parking error.
By the time I had regained my sense of composure, the lad was no where to be seen, neither was the girl who had tried to park me, presumably by this point down the row parking other cars. So I waited till the family next to me has got all there stuff and moved off and carefully reversed out, and parked in the empty slot next to me. Soon I was on my way to grab a tram, and head to the TTC. I was by this point still shocked. It was just so out of place. A bit like turning the isle in your supermarket and seeing a zebra standing there checking out the breakfast cereals. You just don’t expect it.
I had every intention of reporting it, but I couldn’t see any CM in the parking lot who wasn’t busy, and by the time I got to MK and towards guest services I took a look at the queue hanging out the door, and though better of it. I proberbly should have reported it, as he was totally out of line, and no matter what my parking indiscretion that day, there was no need to lose it the way he did. If i’d seen a CM in the parking lot I guess I would have, but the big queue at guest services, and the lure of a Big Thunder fast pass made me keep moving.
