mythteller | Wet staffer contest (Reply)

sarahcarotte, myself, and a few friends spent the day at the St. Sauveur waterpark on Saturday. The day cost $30 each and it was pretty fun. The slides were wild and woolly and they had a circular wave pool that would get choppier as the day progressed (creating 5 foot waves at the end of the day). The day was intensely sunny, wwe got burned up, despite the attempts to block the sun with the cream. We were so tired at the end of the day, as well as Sunday, that I think we may have gotten some light heat stroke.

But something happened that day that really burns my biscuits. There are signs everywhere that say that you need to be in pretty good shape before you go down some of the rides. The experience can be pretty intense, so you need to be able to deal with the demands on your body. For example, if you flip out of your inner tube, you need to be able to pull yourself back into it to contine on your way. I get that.

But the staff that is supposed to be looking out for the sliders are only there for show, it seems. Without going into too many details, we had a small incident (no one got seriously hurt), but instead of being helpful, the staff did alot of pointing, whistling, and being impatient in broken English. Our incident was painful, but it could've just as easily been deadly and I'm not sure the St. Sauveur staff would've been able to handle it.

As it was, they seemed more concerned with staying dry and keeping their asses covered than being concerned with our well-being. In trying to sort out this incident, they must've insisted that we sign waiver forms about six times. At that point, I was willing to sign away my first born child if it meant we could safely make our way off the mountain.

I had asked for one of those wooden stretchers to get us off the mountain, but because we refused the ambulance ride (which would have cost us $200 for a couple of bruised knees), they refused us access to the stretcher. Our choices were to slide the rest of the way down the concrete slide or to walk down the mountain side in our bare feet.

I don't know if it's because two of my best friends are American, but I'm tempted to call my lawyer and pursue this. What I'd want to see is that the St. Sauveur staff get better training, be fluently bilingual, be armed with walkie-talkies (instead of just whistles), and be less concerned with waiver forms and more concerned with the safety of the people they are watching.

The last thing I want to hear on the news is that someone died of a spinal injury in one of these rides because the staffer didn't want to get her new sneakers wet.