Open every night now for 26 years (plus Sat. & Sun. afternoons in the Summer and Fall)and I am STILL trying to figure out the customer.
The area of my puzzlement lies within the common minor complaints which just so happen to be diametrically opposed to one another.
They being returning customers not finding what they came here for and the two camps of oppostion are those looking for something "New!" Versus those disappointed because some old standby is no longer here or used for their tour of the house.
An extra dimension to these arguements is the pure fact that no customer coming here will ever memorize everything that awaits them inside of these property lines.
Our personal little joke comes from confused customers who talk about devices that we have never ever had here such as coffins with trap doors opening out the bottom dropping people far, far away... or Bath tubs, doing essentually the same task.
Add to this the mistaken people who will actually argue with my Wife as to the secret passage that they say opens up right next to our front door from the 1949 Hudson car body peacefully residing there, with no such passage and no evidence of such from inside the house or basement. I have shown some people the basement there to prove them mistaken.
Maybe the confusion is good? They are blowing up a balloon to be much larger than it could ever be?
Maybe the house tour's length helps affect their mind in such ways. I am pretty much talking the entire time covering a vast number of subjects as I point out artifacts within the house alng with usually funny stories about people's reactions to various frights here along with some actual Supernatural events and their effect upon some visitors.
The area of my puzzlement lies within the common minor complaints which just so happen to be diametrically opposed to one another.
They being returning customers not finding what they came here for and the two camps of oppostion are those looking for something "New!" Versus those disappointed because some old standby is no longer here or used for their tour of the house.
An extra dimension to these arguements is the pure fact that no customer coming here will ever memorize everything that awaits them inside of these property lines.
Our personal little joke comes from confused customers who talk about devices that we have never ever had here such as coffins with trap doors opening out the bottom dropping people far, far away... or Bath tubs, doing essentually the same task.
Add to this the mistaken people who will actually argue with my Wife as to the secret passage that they say opens up right next to our front door from the 1949 Hudson car body peacefully residing there, with no such passage and no evidence of such from inside the house or basement. I have shown some people the basement there to prove them mistaken.
Maybe the confusion is good? They are blowing up a balloon to be much larger than it could ever be?
Maybe the house tour's length helps affect their mind in such ways. I am pretty much talking the entire time covering a vast number of subjects as I point out artifacts within the house alng with usually funny stories about people's reactions to various frights here along with some actual Supernatural events and their effect upon some visitors.
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