A MK Confession...a little long...but here it goes...

[ZacinIndy]

oh come on is this true?

 

[Robinette]

Funny?...Hilarious?....It must be just me but I'm wondering why you would ever share this story with anybody! I have three kids and still think this is just gross. JMHO

But, no harm done... except maybe to the bucket finder!

 

[FatCow]

The main reason I asked is... with a tub that large, why would anbody need extra popcorn!

 

[skiwee1]

Originally posted by ZacinIndy
oh come on is this true?

This "story" has been floating around the internet for years. It is an urban legend story and has no truth to it.

 

[DisneyMim]

As my daughter says, sometimes all you can say is "WOW"!

 

[Gabrielle]

Funny story!! And, you are forgiven. It wasn't that long ago that my kids were that little and I'm sympathetic!! Phooey on those who just don't understand what's it like with very small kids.

 

[Horizons16]

 

[phamton]

Originally posted by Gabrielle
Phooey on those who just don't understand what's it like with very small kids.

Oh believe me, I understand very small children. I am the mother of 5 myself and also a former elem. teacher.

I also recognize an urban legend when I see one.

One story that did happen to me years ago: I was at a water park (not Disney.) My twins wanted to go down the small water slide. They were 3 years old boy/girl twins. First the boy went down and after he got to the bottom of the slide he told me he needed to go to the bathroom really badly. His twin sister was at the top of the slide waiting to come down. I was at the bottom waiting to catch her so I couldn't leave. Without thinking, I just said, "Pee in the pool if you just can't wait." (I know it was wrong but I was kind of in a bind.)

I catch his sister and prepare to take them both to the bathroom when I see everyone staring at the side of the pool. There was my son standing out of the pool with his trunks down. He was standing up and urinating into the pool like it was a great, big toilet.

I know I deserve to be chastized for even suggesting that my son urinate in the water and I am willing to take my licks. Needless to say, I never suggested that again.

 

[Ibelieveinfairies]

I also recognize an urban legend when I see one.

At the risk of putting words into your mouth, I hope you are referring to the story of the whiskey bottle.
Unless I have a truly weird life and have experienced something that has been passed along as urban legend, this popcorn bucket story is completely and entirely true and is NOT urban legend to our family...has anyone heard this story from others? Maybe I am not alone in my popcorn bucket use, after all!

Wouldn't the man have felt the sloshing around and realize it wasn't popcorn?

I would think so, too...but he obviously didn't feel it right away, anyway, as he disappeared in the crowd...what was I to do? Yell out through the throngs of people: "Hey! Mister! You've taken my daughter's pee in that popcorn bucket!"

 

[ZacinIndy]

No we believe ya... really...

 

[EsmeraldaX]

OMG that is SO funny.

Serves him right for trying to get a free refill on someone else's bucket!!!!!!

 

[Pooh67_68]

OMGOODNESS I am so hard that I am crying. It serves him right for stealing it.

 

[pjlla]

As a woman who kept a potty seat in her car for years (had a DD) "just in case" I totally understand. And I would have rather had her use the potty in the back of the van (and have to deal with cleaning it out) versus some of those questionable porta-potties and such. Thanks for the laugh....................P

 

[skiwee1]

Originally posted by Ibelieveinfairies
At the risk of putting words into your mouth, I hope you are referring to the story of the whiskey bottle.
Unless I have a truly weird life and have experienced something that has been passed along as urban legend, this popcorn bucket story is completely and entirely true and is NOT urban legend to our family...has anyone heard this story from others? Maybe I am not alone in my popcorn bucket use, after all!


I would think so, too...but he obviously didn't feel it right away, anyway, as he disappeared in the crowd...what was I to do? Yell out through the throngs of people: "Hey! Mister! You've taken my daughter's pee in that popcorn bucket!"

I read your exact story years ago on the internet. Same thing passed off as happening to this person. I really don't believe you as I've read it before.

 

[Cinderella37]

If it's true, it sure does teach a lesson about trying to get something for free! I have never heard story before, myself.

 

[Micca]

DD (a CM) says there are no refills

 

[Kitty 34]

Great story!!!!

 

[PKS44]

I am with those who doubt this story..the OP has very few posts here before this and this is suspicious...the OP ought to come clean and admit the story did not actually happen to her--maybe she just heard it and is passing it along as if it happened to her...maybe her daughter did pee in a bucket--but the man taking the bucket did not happen...maybe she is just trolling for responses..it is a funny story but I have heard it before and it falls apart on its face because they do not give popcorn refills at WDW. The sloshing would also be obvious to anyone..the way the story is written is not believable--too many of the wrong kinds of details...why would anybody expect to find free refills that late in the evening after Spectro? Sorry-not buying it...

if the OP had a longer track record on these boards maybe it would be semi-believable....as is---let's just agree it's a funny made up story.

Paul

 

[Ibelieveinfairies]

I will admit that I haven't posted much here...love to read everyone's questions and answers and really have used these boards to plan trips (thanks to this board my DDs got to wake up Tinkerbell and we have made many more magic moments). I also have read enough here to know that no matter what I might say, there are those of you who will not believe my story...that's your choice.
I would love to see a link to this urban legend that some of you have seen...I would like to print it and place it in our scrapbook of that trip and dedicate a page to the unreal becoming real! If anyone has it, please post it (and I am not being sarcastic here at all!)
I don't know why that man thought he would get a free refill and I honestly don't know why he thought it would be a good idea to pick up someone's "discarded" bucket. But it happened.
Regardless, if I made you laugh by sharing my story, I have repaid the many chuckles I have had myself reading others' posts, and you can consider me a satisfied poster!

Oh, yeah, I am just wondering what "trolling for responses" means? I know what "lurking" means (just reading and not posting, right?) but am not sure what "trolling" means...could someone tell me? TIA

 

[phamton]

This story would work better if it had happened to a friend of a friend.

Originally posted by Ibelieveinfairies


I promptly draped (the blanket) over the top of the double stoller and instruct my DD to relieve her bladder in the empty popcorn bucket...she reluctantly did, I promptly put the lid on and it seemed no one around was the wiser.

You daughter was 5 and had the coordination to urinate while sitting in a stroller. Not only that she could aim her stream into a bucket. This all without gettting her clothes or the stroller wet. Then she managed to pull her clothes back on with no toilet paper. I could almost see this if the child were a boy but girls can't aim very well not to mention it would be all over the stroller and the clothes.

The parade began, the fireworks were watched, and all the while, we guarded this bucket to keep it from overturning in the street.

Wasn't the bucket wet when you had to put the lid on it?

As we gathered our belongings, I planned to deposit the bucket in the nearest garbage container.

Wouldn't it had been wiser to empty the contents into a toilet rather than a trash can?

We nestled the girls in their stroller

This same stroller that would have to have urine on it?

I had put down the offensive bucket when a man swoops in and says, "Look! Someone left their bucket! Can't we get free refills on this?"

Lucky he found your bucket out of the myriad of discarded buckets and trash. Why did he pick one that was right beside someone tying their shoe? Surely he would grab one not lying beside someone else. If you had been drinking a coke and laid the cup down to tie your shoe would someone actually pick up that coke to take?

snatches the bucket and is swallowed by the crowd before I can even comprehend what has happened...he had stolen our bucket of pee!!

The sloshing should have alerted him that all was not right with the world.