Karen Mocks Make-A-Wish Kid and Says “I Wish My Kid Had Cancer So We Could Cut in Line”
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🗓️ 30 June 2024
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| 0:00.0 | And entitled, Karen, gets upset at a theme park when she has a make-a-wish kid cut in line in front of her, |
| 0:06.0 | going so far as to belittle this kid for having cancer, |
| 0:09.2 | while also wishing that her kid had cancer just so they could cut line as well. |
| 0:13.3 | And I've honestly never been more angry at anybody in my life. |
| 0:16.9 | Here's what happened. |
| 0:18.0 | Over my many, many years as a photographer for a major theme park, |
| 0:22.0 | I've been asked repeatedly if I've ever lost my cool with a |
| 0:24.8 | guest and when I think about it the story I'm going to tell you is that very situation. |
| 0:29.2 | For those of you who don't know there's a wonderful organization called Make A Wish in the United States, which grants |
| 0:35.0 | wishes to severely terminally ill kids. |
| 0:38.0 | One popular wish is to come to our park and we pull out all the stops for them. And I have many fond memories of these kids and their families. |
| 0:46.0 | There's an etiquette in place for certain character locations, which most which families are aware of. |
| 0:51.0 | The kid waits to the exit while someone in your party |
| 0:53.9 | alerts the character attendant so they can tell the character and alert the |
| 0:57.4 | rest of the line so the kid can meet the character. The family also wears a |
| 1:01.6 | special pin and lanyard, so everybody knows exactly what's going on. |
| 1:06.0 | Now most guests are great about this, and even complimented us on making the wishes vacation special. |
| 1:12.0 | But there is a few bad apples in every barrel. |
| 1:14.4 | One afternoon I was photographing a princess character |
| 1:17.3 | and we had a family show up who for some reason |
| 1:20.2 | wasn't aware that they needed to wait in line. |
| 1:22.6 | Our attendant had closed the line and was waiting at the end of the line. |
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