You Know You've Worked at an Amusement Park TOOOOO Long When....

1. You can say with absolute seriousness "Oh that's just a little bile, easy as pie to clean up"

2. You know the names of all the maintenance workers and which ride is their specialty

3. You know the height and ticket requirements of every ride

4. After noticing you received a dirty glass in a restaurant you decide to go ahead and drink out of it reasoning that you've had worse things in your ice water at work (bugs, paint chips, chunks of rust, grease...etc)

5. Making people puke and cleaning it up becomes fun

6. The cashier at the local Burger King has your order memorized year after year when you come in your uniform shirt on dinner break

7. On your day off you go to the park and your fellow employees don't recognize you out of uniform

8. The supervisors have your employee number memorized

9. You know the speed, date installed, weight limit, and passenger capacity of every ride in the park.

10. You know what ride you're on and who you are working with the night before

11. Torturing scared riders becomes an art

12. Returning customers not only remember you but what ride you were one the year before

13. A smile and affirmative response becomes an expressionless grunt

14. In crowded places you begin checking height and wristbands

15. The maintenance men say "hello" to you by name in Walmart

16. You invent new and interesting ways to push the same buttons(knees, forehead, elbows, feet...)

17. Your work bag contains rubber gloves (pukers), a deck of cards (for rainy days), a bouncy ball and other random toys (to keep your hands occupied), a book (for slow days), bandaids (for those little work related injuries), a hammer (to pound in those pesky popped up platform nails) and snacks galore....

18. You can answer a customer's question before they ask it, usually with a "no"

19. You begin to see and recognize old customers outside of the park

20. You can cut off your queue lines to be finished exactly at closing time

21. You look like you are working really hard when in reality you aren't doing much of anything

22. The phrase "enjoying the simple things in life" translates into laughing at scared crying children, purposely making the ride go longer so someone will barf, fighting with a fellow operator over a quarter, climbing around places on a ride only employees can go just for giggles, kicking kids off the ride for running, making up complicated answers that don't make sense in response to a simple question like "how fast does this ride go?", when asked if the ride goes upside down your response is "yes after it goes underwater and then through fire"

23. Your greatest ambition is to steal a "ride closed" sign

24. You've hit the e-stop on a roller coaster while telling a story about the other times you've hit the e-stop

25. You can judge the weight of a person by just looking at them and guess which rides they won't be able to fit into