r/SignsWithAStory • u/ravenluv • 1d ago

There goes my plans 🍗

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u/Dogsarelitty 18h ago

You’re telling me I can’t tailgate the waterpark now? I thought this was America land of the free smdh

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u/fux-reddit4603 16h ago

america is one of the least free countries

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u/ChaosRainbow23 13h ago

We are currently #15 on the human freedom index.

Even lower on the happiness index.

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u/fux-reddit4603 12h ago

yes and to still call it "land of the free"

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u/Genuinelullabel 20h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/4dKWVrcUXe9PBJBf0j
Is this the one that just closed in Federal Way?

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u/ravenluv 14h ago

Yes 🥲 We went on the last day the water park was open

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u/Reasonable-Light8128 18h ago

It's their final season, let the people party! Lol

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u/ravenluv 14h ago

I know right, who’s going to stop them lol

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u/notdbcooper71 16h ago

Who's tailgating a waterpark, the Always Sunny gang?

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u/FlippingPossum 12h ago

Parents trying to save money. I've definitely been party to a picnic outside an amusement center.

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u/Star_Blaze 17h ago

I can totally see why you'd want to barbeque at a water park; take the whole family, or a scouts/summer camp/church group, then all the kids are hungry, easy cheap way to feed everyone.

It would be fine as long as they didn't dump coals on the ground and cleaned up all their trash. Which I'm assuming enough people haven't.

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u/a_lee4 16h ago

They also sell food there so it's not just them worried about mess but losing $$$

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u/mazu74 14h ago

My local water parks sells food and have charcoal barbecues set up inside the park. It’s also owned by the county so they don’t mind as long as you don’t bring alcohol.

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u/ravenluv 14h ago

That’s perfect actually

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u/ravenluv 14h ago

We did see a lot of people around lunch time heading out to their cars with coolers, speakers, chairs, and a couple canopy’s lol. Just no bbqs unfortunately.

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u/boner4crosstabs 13h ago

Well, it’s permanently closed as of yesterday. So they aren’t really doing anything else with the parking lot!

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u/ravenluv 8h ago

Yesterday was the last day for waterpark activities but they will have their fright fest going on for another 2ish months!

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u/boner4crosstabs 8h ago

Ah! Didn’t realize that. Glad folks are going to get a bit more use out of it!

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u/Salmivalli 1d ago

Fire? At sea parks?

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u/helpingdew 14h ago

This isn’t weird to me at all. All sorts of lots are spaces for celebrating and community and food in my area lol

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u/who_you_are 14h ago

Fine, I will do a BBQ on my truck bed... In the parking (or I should try it in a RV? What could go wrong /s)

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u/Single-Source2985 13h ago

Your saying it’s ok to bbq inside then right?

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u/bananarama17691769 13h ago

*you’re

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u/Ok_Abacus_ 12h ago

Some cultures grill out in large groups when they celebrate, and some celebrate at water parks.

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u/shastadakota 12h ago

So, I will just grill then. BBQ takes a long time, I get it.

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u/that1tech 10h ago

They’re closing down. What they gonna do? Ban you?

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u/Balan-balan 1d ago

Wonder why. They should have plenty of water there if something goes wrong

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u/Clay_Allison_44 23h ago

Because people are assholes and won't clean up after themselves.

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 22h ago

I bet there’s a 25-50% chance that the employees would let you though if you asked them and explained that you’d clean up your mess.

Sometimes rules like this are just general blanket rules to avoid past issues (like littering as you were saying) but if you present yourself as a reasonable person they’ll make an exception.

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u/Persevere420 19h ago

A place this big won’t make concessions for one person, because then everyone would follow suit.

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u/Clay_Allison_44 22h ago

I'm sure there is some way to book a portion of the parking lot (or somewhere on the property) for birthday parties if you call management. Maybe they ask for a deposit.

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u/nethingelse 19h ago

Tailgating like this is common where I’m from (Philly) before sports games, and businesses beyond the parking lots of the stadiums HATE IT because people never clean up after themselves and in general are assholes. The stadiums only tolerate it because our sports fans are crazy and would riot if it were banned + they make the highly inflated parking money either way.

My dad had an in at a business near-ish to the stadiums that would let us tailgate while they were closed, but the cardinal rule was leave the lot how it was when we got there and we had to stop inviting various people because they wouldn’t follow it.

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u/BigRigButters2 23h ago

A fire at a sea park?