It's a Fat World After All

I heard on the radio yesterday that Disneyland is going to be closing down "It's A Small World" so they can dig out a few more inches and change to more bouyant boats?? Why? because we are 25% fatter than we used to be and the boats are bottoming out and getting stuck.

Here's the scenario. The Disney employee ride operator sees that two "hefty" sized persons are getting on the ride in the same boat. He wants to put less people on the boat, to compensate for weight, but there's a lot of people waiting. And they don't want to see a boat that could fit 4 or 5 more people! So they fill the boat and off the go. At certain parts of the ride, probably a corner- the boat hits the bottom- and won't move. Boat comes up behind it- and another, and another. So now there are 2, 3,4...FIVE boats lined up because one boat is stuck?? Why?? Because that boat is resting on the bottom of the pathway because there is too much weight.

A comment in the article I read was also made that the people waiting for the front boat to get moving are also driven crazy by the annoying music!!

So around comes the employee to the first boat. And asks either the two "hefty passengers" or five or six regular sized passengers to please exit the boat and leave through an emergency door. The embarrassment! The horror of it!! Good Lord.

So Disneyland is going to compensate for our fat asses. They will also be doing this with Pirates of the Carribean.

It was either that- or they put scales outside of the ride. You must be have a BMI less than 30 to ride this ride!!