This past Easter weekend I took a road trip with a friend, and stopped by Six Flags Great Adventure (New Jersey) on the rainy 11th of April, 2009. Throughout our visit to the park employees either wished us a six flags day, or asked us if we were having a six flags day. Since the term “six flags day” was never actually defined, I thought I would share what it means to me:

• Messages left for the V.I.P. team will go unanswered.
  
• Pay $5 to use your own printer to pre-pay for passes.
  
• Said passes will print in a horribly mangled manner, but will actually work.
  
• Receive contradictory information from different employees as to which rides are operating. Spend your limited time in the park killing time under the mistaken belief that all the rides are closed.
  
• Receive incorrect directions to locations such as the seasons pass center and flash pass center.
  
• Have a guest services employee assert that a refund will be issued, and ask you to return at least 30 minutes later for the paperwork to be processed. Return over an hour later (while the park is closing prematurely) to find it has not yet been processed.
  
• Be promised a refund later that day, with an email confirmation to be sent shortly. This refund will in fact not take place, nor will any emails explaining the situation be received.
  
• Discover that the redeeming quality of poor weather days (short lines) is in fact a curse since rides will not operate without a minimum compliment of riders. Staff will be unaware of the minimum ride numbers for other rides. They will also be unwilling to contact other rides (via phone, radio, etc.) to retrieve this information for guests seeking to make informed decisions before heading out across the park.
  
• After a significant amount of waiting for more guests to arrive, finally riding a single major attraction being unable to pay ridiculously marked up prices for a photo of us on the ride, as at some point between entering the line up and actually riding the booth had closed.
  
• Exit to find the washrooms locked with no indication of where other facilities may be located.
  
• After a public announcement that the park would be closing shortly (15 minutes), hurrying over to a games booth that had previously seemed interesting, to find it abandoned.
  

So there you have it, that’s what a six flags day means to me. I'll take as few of them as I can get, thanks.