I should take my own advice...

So i think all of you that read this should deffo read my housemate tom's blog - ethnictom.blogspot.com
its HILARIOUS, everytime i read his update im like crying in total hysterical laughter to the point where i think i may vomit, so i deffo reccomend it. the most recent of his posts had me just about roll off the sofa cos i physically couldn't keep upright i was laughing so hard i actually couldn't take air into my lungs. the one with the bike. if any of you know tom, it just makes this story way more funnier! so read the one with the bike.
After reading it i found his misfortune so funny i repeated this story at work. finding his pain funny.

Now another thing you should know for you to understand this story is the following:
At work the queue line for shrek goes right down the side of the building - visible and accesible to guests on the sidewalk, so frequently once we are loading a show, or when we are quiet, some guests climb over the bars/chains to avoid walking all the way to the actual enterance to then walk back on themselves. Normally we used to turn a blind eye, but we have been told to enforce that the guests walk all the way to the main enterance, for health and safety issues AND to make it fair on the other guests.

So today, i had some guests want to enter the last show, and they were at the front of the queue line, and some of their party wanted to ride Rockit, which had just gone down, so i offered to come and get them if rockit started running again before the park closed. Now most of this party entered shrek, whilst one of their party waited outside as they didnt want to ride shrek.
So i continued letting guests into the attraction and then noticed the rockit was running again, so i went inside to get the party, doing so by opening the wheelchair line as there was none in the line. Now after these people had gone to rockit, i noticed the other member of the party sitting on a bench, so i ran back inside to ask the party if this member had wanted to ride rockit or not. in the process i decided to hop over the wheelchair line chain. i got one leg over...but didn't lift my other leg high enough, which got caught on the line. In that same moment i KNEW i was going down. i made the LOUDEST smack on the floor, my glasses and hat went flying and i only just saved my face from a broken nose. that would have been perfect for New York.

Now when i said a loud smack on the floor, i mean loud enough to stop the preshow. i felt the blood rush to my face as i got up off the floor as fast as i could, to notice that the guests beside me pretended they hadn't seen and turned away...to save my embarassment. pfffft didn't matter then, i was already embarassed.
however it got worse.
the guests beside me were guests i had told off for trying to hop over the queue line cos they could hurt themselves. so i told them i was ok, and that was the reason why they should never climb over the lines.

then when i got to the party i was looking for, i asked if their other member had wanted to ride rockit...and of course they didnt....so all that for nothing.



but oh no. it wasn't over just yet.

not even

about 10minutes later we closed the attraction and i opened the chains to exit out my position...then walked to another way i could get into our theatre, and opened only one chain of the queue line...and climbed over the bottom chain.

but of course only one foot made it, and i caught my foot AGAIN.

not even 10 mins later. seriously.

luckily, i didnt land on the floor but my NEAR fall caught all the guests attention.

SO.

the lesson learned from this is DONT CLIMB OVER THE QUEUE LINES/CHAINS. not even if u work here.
my personal lesson - dont laugh at others misfortune...it will come back to you.

pffffffffft.


side note - i have bruised knees and a bruised wrist. i bet they dnt fade in time for NY.


bugger.