"Wow Amelia! You work at Cedar Point! That must be so cool! What do you do?"

"I'm a ride host."

"Oh my gosh. That is awesome! You must have some really great stories!"

"Oh. I do."

"Will you tell me one?"

"Um.."

Now, whether those stories are 'happy' or not is yet also another story. Let me tell you about one that proves working in Ride Operations at The Roller Coaster Capital of the World consists not only of happy screams, but terrified ones as well.

*WARNING! THE FOLLOWING CONTENT IS GROSSLY HILARIOUS. WARNING!*

Station: Challenge Racing - aka Go Karts

Photo Credit: Ian Hoffman

Time: Close

Event: Mayflies

Explanation: We had to shut down early that night for mayflies.

We literally called down Weather, Mayflies?

Then I heard my Area Supervisor telling guests, "I'm sorry, but we're down right now because of the Mayflies."

I repeat, MAYFLIES! Both tracks were completely covered! If they were driven on, all of the bugs guts would have made the track a safety hazard because it would have been so slippery.

So, as written in our job description, we had to attempt to remove the mayflies. We were given leaf blowers and were told to blow off the mayflies from the tracks.

Spoiler alert! Mayflies do not leave anything easily, not even when they are being blown by leaf blowers. We quickly discovered that they fall onto their sides, their wings shine, and you have to be within six inches of them for them to detach.

Then! This is the best part! They roll over! They don't even fly away!

It is literally like blowing leaves! Except with you know mayflies. It is by far one of the weirdest things I have ever done working at Cedar Point. I can also say, however, that it is one of the most entertaining and disgusting things I have ever done. We ended up having to leaf blow each other off numerous times as well because there were so many stuck onto us while we were attempting to blow them off the tracks.

Eventually we closed early because our Head Manager realized it was a losing battle.

The next day we came into work in the morning only to discover...

Drum roll please....

Almost all the mayflies were still there! Except, most of them were dead. If they weren't dead, they still didn't move.

Again, as per our job description, we had to clear off the tracks of any and all obstacles... Most of the time we only had to dry the tracks after it rained by using brushes and squeegees and anything else we had in our shed. This time was by far the weirdest and worst to clean up. We ended up squeegeeing the mayflies... We pushed them into a huge pile similar to a leaf pile.

Now, this is the part where it gets really gross. If you thought it was bad before. Wait till you read this...

Since one third of the mayflies were still alive, they fluttered and flopped around in the piles. They did not even bother to try to fly away! Think about it! It looked similar to this

Only occasionally moving! Not even bothering to try to escape from the dumpster they were going to be thrown into!

Don't even get me started on the stench. I'm not afraid of bugs. I don't mind bugs. In fact I like to catch bugs. But. I could not. I mean could not. Handle this. I ran. I ran as fast, as far and as soon as my Supervisor told me I could.

They were everywhere, and it was just too gross for me.

Now, keep in mind, every. Single. Freakin'. Place. I went. There were Mayflies. They were thickest in the park, but were still largely noticeable inland as well.

It was terrible.

I have to say though, the most terrible part of the entire experience was stepping on them. When you step on a mayfly, it makes a pop noise. It is basically like stepping on bubble wrap. Now, imagine that constantly. There is no where to escape. The concrete was practically black because of how many there were. Walking on eggshells? Na, na, na man. Mayflies. Gosh, it was grossly hilarious.

Reaction: priceless.