Like thousands of other people this past weekend my wife and I took our two youngest daughters to the fair on Saturday afternoon. As we all know its not a cheap day - everything cost an arm and a leg - and you except that, but what you don't expect to get for your money is a power tripping Carney worker. We were there for almost three hours already so the girls were getting tired (OK the parents were getting tired). We said one more ride and were outta here, the girls chose the bumper cars. When we were going through the gate I showed the worker my daughters wrist band and off we went to find a car, while I was helping my daughter in the car the worker approached me and said that I had to have a ticket as well and I told him that my daughter has downs syndrome and needs help to operate the car, he told me he didn't care. Then I said to him that the lady at the ticket booth said if my daughter needs any help at all with any ride I could go on for free to assist her, the worker puffed out his chest and said, "I don't give a crap what she said, she's wrong." So then I told him he was abusing his power and that he was a jerk, he then told me to get out and that he was being abused by me and was just doing his job (now he's the victim). So instead of making a scene we left the exit, and by the time I made it around to my wife the worker was arguing with two other mothers because they asked why we were kicked off the ride and I heard him yell "maybe I should kick your kids off as well." After that I told the manager, Terry, what he was saying and doing. Terry was very sorry and went to talk to the worker in question ( I know there like a big family on the road but business is business Terry told me). Terry confronted him and the worker was in his face arguing with him as well... don't get me wrong, all the other workers were nice as could be, inviting me on the rides even if my daughter didn't need help. When the rides were over my daughter was the first one helped off, which was very much appreciated. It's just to bad the only ride my daughter actually needed help with we came across a power tripping worker with a chip on his shoulder that turned our nice day at the fair into a nightmare. In closing, the next day when I went to pick up my son and his friends at the fair they pointed out the worker that wouldn't allow them on a ride because they "touched" the fence...any guesses?
Brad McQuay
Prince George
