First real job!
Being American, I didn't have some formal Work Experience program to give me stories to tell. But on my summer vacations from age 16 until college I worked in an amusement park as a ride operator.

Much of the time it wasn't bad, really, but it could get tedious when the bratty kids would escape their parents and be rude little shits to everyone. But what they didn't realize was that ride operators have their ways of exacting revenge.

Ever been on the Tilt-A-Whirl?



Next time you ride the thing, pay attention to the operator. It's controlled by one lever which functions as a clutch when pushed one way (to engage it) and a brake when pushed the other way. It didn't take me long to figure out how to manipulate that lever to make one car in particular spin very hard, the entire time.

So there were a lot of very bratty kids who suddenly found themselves with severe motion sickness, and were much less obnoxious when they were heaving up the candy and junk food they had been gorging on... in fact, at that point I found them to be thoroughly entertaining.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 12 May 2007, 16:04, Reply)