cstraub
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Woke up tonight and my mind wandered onto something I had forgotten for awhile.
When we visited Sea World (Orlando) on a rainy day this last November (2005) we saw a lady fall. She had slipped on the entrance to the bathroom floor near some shops and restraunts in the back of the park near the bridge you walk over to get to the Shamu show. It haunts me to this day. It was a horrible fall and the woman had an adult down syndrome daughter with her. The daughter started crying when the woman fell. It was just a terrible scene.
Prior to the woman falling I had taken my DD5 to the same bathroom and both of us almost slipped. My DD5 did but I was holding her hand and saved her from a potential fall. When I realized how slippery the surface was I went immediatley to one of the shops and told a woman working there. She was nice and attentive but blew me off. I really felt like someone was going to fall so I had the woman that was working in the shop come with me to see how people were slipping. While we were on our way that is when the woman slipped with the down sydrome daughter. I was just so upset and the woman working there went to go get help.
Security and first aid arrived. The whole time we waited for them I told people to watch the slippery floor. There were helathy grown men slipping and almost falling- every single one!!! I am not exagerating and it was a pretty busy day.
I made a comment to security that it was a very bad choice of flooring and he said if I had a complaint I should take it up with guest relations. He was very rude and never thanked me for bringing this to my attention. I got the impression that they thought I was trying to cause problems but in reality I was trying to save people from falling.
I just wonder if that floor is still there and if people fall all the time. It just kills me to think how this could really hurt someone and I am ashamed that I have not called guest relations as of yet. I vow to do it first thing tom moring. I just think of how a fall can change your life. My dad and my DD5 both suffered falls in 2005. My dad shattered his arm and was put in to a nursing home to recover for about a month (required surgery and had mobility issues already). My DD fell off of a slide and had a skull fracture and contusion. These experiences have been life changing for us.
I just hope the flooring has been changed and that no one else has been hurt.
I will update after I make the call to Sea World that is long overdue!
When we visited Sea World (Orlando) on a rainy day this last November (2005) we saw a lady fall. She had slipped on the entrance to the bathroom floor near some shops and restraunts in the back of the park near the bridge you walk over to get to the Shamu show. It haunts me to this day. It was a horrible fall and the woman had an adult down syndrome daughter with her. The daughter started crying when the woman fell. It was just a terrible scene.
Prior to the woman falling I had taken my DD5 to the same bathroom and both of us almost slipped. My DD5 did but I was holding her hand and saved her from a potential fall. When I realized how slippery the surface was I went immediatley to one of the shops and told a woman working there. She was nice and attentive but blew me off. I really felt like someone was going to fall so I had the woman that was working in the shop come with me to see how people were slipping. While we were on our way that is when the woman slipped with the down sydrome daughter. I was just so upset and the woman working there went to go get help.
Security and first aid arrived. The whole time we waited for them I told people to watch the slippery floor. There were helathy grown men slipping and almost falling- every single one!!! I am not exagerating and it was a pretty busy day.
I made a comment to security that it was a very bad choice of flooring and he said if I had a complaint I should take it up with guest relations. He was very rude and never thanked me for bringing this to my attention. I got the impression that they thought I was trying to cause problems but in reality I was trying to save people from falling.
I just wonder if that floor is still there and if people fall all the time. It just kills me to think how this could really hurt someone and I am ashamed that I have not called guest relations as of yet. I vow to do it first thing tom moring. I just think of how a fall can change your life. My dad and my DD5 both suffered falls in 2005. My dad shattered his arm and was put in to a nursing home to recover for about a month (required surgery and had mobility issues already). My DD fell off of a slide and had a skull fracture and contusion. These experiences have been life changing for us.
I just hope the flooring has been changed and that no one else has been hurt.
I will update after I make the call to Sea World that is long overdue!