lusttolove

A charicteristic of summers at Disneyland is the addition of about 5,000 temporary cast members to handle the crowds. They're usually young college students, clean-cut, wholesome and attractive. Looking that is...all those cute people around one can end up in cases of raging hormones. Working crazy hours, you find ways to spend time with Miss Right...or Miss Right-now as the case may be. Some of the trainers are helpful and show you great hiding places for nookie---some obvious, some not so obvious and some downright incredulous.

The most infamous make-out spot on the West side is the mylar table over at Pirates of the Carribbean. It is used to cut sheets of mylar (duh!) used for the fire effects in the final scenes of the attraction. The table is about eight feet wide by ten feet long, and it's carpeted to keep the static-y stuff flat when they're rolling it out and measuring it. It's in a place that is difficult to find in the second show building...it's also very near the animation office, so anyone who uses it has got to be pretty determined. However, from what I've been told, the sheets of opaque material and the padding on the table come in handy. Personally, I've never tried it out there, but I've had it on good authority that when ya gotta have it, it's the most comfortable spot to be in.

Various co-workers have pointed out hot spots at the big house from time to time. A noisy spot that was pretty much hidden from everyone was in the attic on the side where the bride with the beating heart is. Behind all the props is a pretty wide open space, but I don't know...somehow the screams from the pop-up figures and guests doesn't seem all that romantic. One of the leads pointed out a big empty space behind the animated figures dancing in the ballroom. Trust me...if you don't work there in attractions, you will never ever find these places...they are no where near the tracks or anything that the guests see. There are odd sized crawl spaces all over the Mansion and if you're game, you'll find them...I was shown one behind the portraits that shoot each other. A whole lot of wood...splinters might hurt. For awhile, there was this really obnoxious girl working in our department, V. She was notorius for having flings with anyone and everyone. One night, one of the guys was in the Mansion break area reading the paper...he thought he heard something unusual upstairs in the facade (the cable motors for the ERs are up there) but disregarded it. After a few minutes he heard footsteps, then down the ladder came a flushed looking guy dressed in a Jungle Cruise costume. About five minutes later, V. comes down the ladder, her makeup smeared and hair poking every which way. This scene was repeated later withanother guy, then yet a third guy from the JC. After awhile we were tempted to add some graffitt upstairs...remember those hearts people used to draw or carve that said "Bob & Mary" or something to that effect? We wanted to write "V & the Jungle Cruise."

Sometimes it's a pain in the neck working with kids in the throes of lust. The worst is when a couple purposely signs up for the same summer schedule in the same attraction so they can get some...one couple I remember used to turn the power off in one of the ER's at the Mansion. There's a way of closing the doors and throwing the switch so that it stays at the bottom. We'd be upstairs wondering where the doggone thing was because the line was getting slowed down or stopped alltogether, then after a long delay, it would come up with the two of them looking "happy." They got separated after a couple of weeks...their escapades were slowing our capacity down.

The guests have been well known to get into the act too. Every attraction has cameras monitoring the routes, so if you've been there long enough, sooner or later you see everything. Stuff you never thought you wanted to see. There's usually a divide between genders of who are the more willing witnesses. If there's a crowd in the control tower late at night, you can bet there's a live sex show going on inside the ride. Pirates is notorius because of the long bench seats. Sometimes cast members would set couples up just to see if anything would happen. They'd leave a few boats in front of and behind a lone couple empty, then run to the tower and wait. I heard about one couple who were really getting into the act and her long blonde hair was trailing in the water. One of our more mischevious leads got on the intercom and yelled "ride 'em cowboy" into the mic...the sound echoed all over the ride and he said you never saw two people come apart so fast in your life. Other times, he's been known to go inside the show buildings waiting to ambush loving couples by pouring glasses of cold water on them as their boat passes underneath his hiding spots.

In the mid-'80s, one of our more enterprising visitors gave a whole new meaning to the wildlife on Tom Sawyer's Island. Security caught her and arrested her for soliciting in the caves. She had quite a little bundle of money on her that was more than she'd charged the John she was caught with. Wonder how many tricks she'd already turned that morning.

Another couple, who just couldn't wait, was caught by Jerry W. in a custodial storage area near the Haunted Mansion. He caught the couple in the act up against a wall. After that, the area was known for awhile as "Jerry's Palace."

One woman actually had the nerve to sue the park, saying that it was Disneyland's fault that her teenage daughter got pregnant, and claimed that it happened on the People Mover. Some cast members were tempted to take her to the ride's video banks and show her a tape saying "ok ma'am, here's you daughter and her boyfriend...now can you point out the exact moment of conception?"

Jerry gave another couple a shock. Half the Pirate's crew had witnessed their throes of passion during the 15 minute ride and when the boat came back into the station, Jerry was waiting to greet them. He asked them to get out of the boat on the entrance side and had them follow him up to the control tower. Jerry looked at them, pointed at the panels and said "see this? We have 13 cameras all over the ride, and we saw everything. Thanks for visiting, and you be sure to come again!" He thought the girl was going to push her boyfriend out of the tower into the flume.

Another kind of set up was used at the Mansion. There were two guys who were notorius for giving the wrong answer when some couples would ask how long the ride was (and I'm not gonna tell you either...hehehe). After giving the misinformation in Load, they'd trade spots with whoever was at Unload and get there in time to see nude couples coming into the exit area. Then they would refuse to stop the ride and send the hapless lovers out the exit holding their clothes.
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