Crazy stories at disney world

[SundaeAfternoon]

Not quite sure why "Pooh Sized" had to be included. I would have found it offensive if Hedi Klum was doing that.

 

[Dawgdad]

oh no...here we go.

 

[swald91]

Friend, where I'm from, redneck is not a very nice term. Mostly because some people assume that if someone has a southern accent, they are a redneck. Which then leads to the stereotype that all southerners are uneducated, etc. I do not think that was your intent. However, you could have left the redneck term out of your story and it still would have been just as effective in relaying how rude this lady was.

I'm pretty sure I am a redneck...I drive a truck and once burned a Dale Earnhardt #3 flag cuz it touched the ground.

Hehe - kidding, but seriously as someone from Georgia, I hear redneck alot...it's not so bad - I get the image she was trying to portray. Luckily, rednecks aren't sensitive or politically correct, so you can still make fun of them. It's all good.

My husband has family in Texas & we refer to them & they also call themselves Rednecks, & we are the Woodchucks-but it's all in good fun. I really don't see that as an insult...I hope my Texas family doesn't either

 

[cuches]

That's the worst case of entitlement I have ever read. I know I am obviously the only one here that noticed, but there it is.

Let's break this down.

You went to the wrong place to load (an accident, I understand that) and then because of a CM that was following the rules, you did everything in your power to get that person fired from a job that hardly pays anything anyway but probably is needed by the individual. All because you felt that the CM should have broken the rules for you and the dog. Well let's hope you had a "magical day" because you went out of your way to ruin someone else's. And, BTW, informing you of rules is not rude. It is doing their job.

The animal abuse issue is your issue. You brought it there on a hot day on hot pavement and now it's someone else that is the abuser? All so you and your aunt could get a ride in a theme park? It wasn't going to get any cooler in the middle of the day, you needed to be responsible and sympathetic to the dogs needs and take it out of that environment until it cooled down enough for it to be comfortable.

Because you never mentioned anything about the person in the wheelchair and why they would get entrance and not your group, I suspect that you know why they HAD to go in the rear entrance and how it was different from your reason. Sorry, but I am not willing to see where anyone had done you wrong.

Oh, and as a sidelight...that "manager" should be the one that is no longer with Disney. Giving out that information about alleged previous indiscretions of a CM is without class, leadership or anything other than trying to make it all go away. That would not be someone that I would ever consider management material.

Are you insane?!?!? Did you hear the part about the CM asking if this person was really BLIND?!?!? Is THAT part of her job too? As the mother of a special needs child who uses this same pass I am amazed that some people just don't get it. This CM should NOT be working with the public as she has VERY poor people skills.

 

[SundaeAfternoon]

Are you insane?!?!? Did you hear the part about the CM asking if this person was really BLIND?!?!? Is THAT part of her job too? As the mother of a special needs child who uses this same pass I am amazed that some people just don't get it. This CM should NOT be working with the public as she has VERY poor people skills.

Thank you!!

 

[tiggerfan9984]

However, you could have left the redneck term out of your story and it still would have been just as effective in relaying how rude this lady was.

I concur but I'm a coonass, so she wasn't talking about me.

 

[Must C Mickey]

Last week when we were in WDW, I saw my first jaw drop moment while in MK. We we riding POTC when we started hearing commotion from the boat behind us. I kept hearing it but schlep it off as noisy teens and was just glad they weren't on my boat. DH got pretty involved in their commotion and kept telling me that those guys in that boat back there are splashing. Thinking that was very immature of them (and not realizing the amount of splashing they were doing), I just kept on enjoying my POTC boat ride w/ the rest of our family. When we got to the end of the ride where the light is better, we got off of the boat and DH had to stop and see the splashy teens in the boat behind us. When we turned around to see the splashy teens....we could not believe what we saw... Those splashy teen boys were not teens at all and they weren't just splashing each other. Every single person on that boat was drenched b/c of these two men that had to be in their late 30's (and should've obviously knew better)! There was an older gentleman that jumped off their boat as soon as hit the dock and ran to get a CM manager. They grabbed the splashy guys and escorted them outside and reprimanded them telling they would wait for security to escort them out of the park. I could not believe that the men were still laughing and thought the whole thing was hilarious... you should have seen their other boat mates. I felt so bad for them. The older couple was really really drenched and very upset and there were two lil soaked twin girls crying w/ angry parents as well. All were soaking wet and very upset. I couldn't believe how selfish these guys were to ruin everyone's ride like that.

 

[cuches]

Loving these stories!

My DH and I have been to WDW a lot but never went up the SFR Tree so this past Sept. we finally did it, 90+ degree heat and all. I asked my DH "what to we get when we get to the top" he yelled out "A STOKE". I thought the guy behind us was going to pee his pants.

I wanted to comment to the story of the boy with the toy that said Chile on it and his fathers rude response: Why are Americans seen as RUDE? There are plenty of rude people from all over the world. When we were waiting in the LONG line for Soarin' there was a cute young British girl (maybe around 10) who kept staring at my daughter. My daughter has autism and is non-vebal but she makes this odd sounds every now and then when she is happy or excited. We love when she does because we know she is happy It is not loud or obnoxious but definitely noticeable. Most people just ignore it or just look away but this little girl couldn't get over it. I politely told the girl and her family why my daughter was doing that (most people don't understand autism in general) and thought that would be the end of the staring but now the entire family was staring and making weird faces. I know they spoke English and understood what I said but talk about RUDE!!!!

Tina

 

[SnowandMittens]

We've had Toy Story Mania shut down on us before because the family in the car next to us, mom dad and baby (toddler) were holding him UP. Like, picked up out of the seat and over past the guns so he could "see better". I've never seen CMs walk INTO TSM but they sure did and escorted the family out. The worst part was that the parents were confused as to WHY it was dangerous for their child.

The second story was pratically the same thing, only on Kilimjaro. There was a three or four year old girl in the back of the truck standing ON the bench (ie, her knee caps were about the side wall level. The driver asked multiple times for the parents to sit her down and they didn't.

Apparently they didn't speak English (I believe it was Spanish) and the driver finally stopped our truck in the elephant cave part and said, I kid you not, sit your child down for saftey or we will evict you from the park in at least 6 different languages. The family looked so embarrassed after that. We thought it was great and congratulated the CM on her ability to speak so many languages. She laughed and said she had memorized all of them for specifically that reason.

 

[MineMail]

I like this thread!

How, may I ask, do you lose your wedding ring off a boat in IASW??? Do people feel the need to take them off during a ride?

Crazy guest, great CM.

I have had family members lose weight rapidly because of illness. Their rings also slipped off accidentally, but at home. They wanted to wear them because of their meaning, so I bought them ring guards at a jewelry store to make them fit better.

Every year, we rent a large passenger van to get our large family to Disney...

Bravo! That's a great story!

I don't have a crazy story, but a sweet one. On their first trip to WDW, my youngest kids were small enough to believe everything was real. When we went on the Haunted Mansion, the five of us couldn't fit in one Doombuggie, so my older daughter took one sister and the third sister rode with us. We couldn't see what was going on in the other car, but our rider had a good time and wanted to go again. Her sister refused! Turns out the big sister had poked her a few times when she was scared and set her up to be startled by the ghoul in the graveyard. I assured her that she had to go with me to have fun and she'd see it was all pretend. We're waiting in the stretching room and she starts freaking out, so I'm talking her down when a few teens nearby took pity on her and told her that it was okay, they'd protect her - it is all pretend and nothing would go wrong, things like that.

Of course, she wanted to ride with them instead of me. They became her heroes.

 

[nmmom95]

That's the worst case of entitlement I have ever read. I know I am obviously the only one here that noticed, but there it is.

Let's break this down.

You went to the wrong place to load (an accident, I understand that) and then because of a CM that was following the rules, you did everything in your power to get that person fired from a job that hardly pays anything anyway but probably is needed by the individual. All because you felt that the CM should have broken the rules for you and the dog. Well let's hope you had a "magical day" because you went out of your way to ruin someone else's. And, BTW, informing you of rules is not rude. It is doing their job.

The animal abuse issue is your issue. You brought it there on a hot day on hot pavement and now it's someone else that is the abuser? All so you and your aunt could get a ride in a theme park? It wasn't going to get any cooler in the middle of the day, you needed to be responsible and sympathetic to the dogs needs and take it out of that environment until it cooled down enough for it to be comfortable.

Because you never mentioned anything about the person in the wheelchair and why they would get entrance and not your group, I suspect that you know why they HAD to go in the rear entrance and how it was different from your reason. Sorry, but I am not willing to see where anyone had done you wrong.

Oh, and as a sidelight...that "manager" should be the one that is no longer with Disney. Giving out that information about alleged previous indiscretions of a CM is without class, leadership or anything other than trying to make it all go away. That would not be someone that I would ever consider management material.

 

[cinderella crazy]

Hehe - kidding, but seriously as someone from Georgia, I hear redneck alot...it's not so bad - I get the image she was trying to portray. Luckily, rednecks aren't sensitive or politically correct, so you can still make fun of them. It's all good.

I have found this to usually be the case. Although I have also known some people that have a hard time remembering that the civil war has indeed ended.

My husband has family in Texas & we refer to them & they also call themselves Rednecks, & we are the Woodchucks-but it's all in good fun. I really don't see that as an insult...I hope my Texas family doesn't either

Sounds like good old fun to me! I really didn't think the whole "redneck" thing was that big of a deal, but there may be others who might not feel the same. Although it says I'm from Tennessee, I moved here 16 years ago from a burb of Chicago. So I'm neither a southerner nor a northerner. I don't know what I am!

 

[floridianer]

That's horrible! I would have gotten a CM! I hope there weren't little ones around them to hear!

Well,that would have been great but this is Disney World and I bet there were 100 kids around
Just stupid teen but what make me really sick is that the parents were right beside them

 

[kwitcherkicken99]

That's the worst case of entitlement I have ever read. I know I am obviously the only one here that noticed, but there it is.

I was trying not to take your flame, but I had to. You are probably trolling for a fight anyway so here goes... (there's been a lot of that lately)

Asking for the same treatment is not entitlement at all. It was insulting to the family to be accused of faking blindness and all they wanted was the same privileges of the family in the wheelchair who were "visibly" handicapped.

Do you have ANY idea what a blind person goes through on a daily basis? The stares? The comments? It's horrible. I can't tell you the number of times we encounter people who consider their assistive technology as a novelty or think they are extra special because the excel at everything they do, just because their eyes don't work, oh, they are just so special.

I'm sighted and I work with 2 blind young adults. Hearing what people say, act like... it's sickening. I've seen people (teens AND adults) play games of avoiding the cane, saying out loud, "look out! she's blind!", try to help them use the bathroom (because they've obviously never done that before...). The CM was out of line by insinuating that they were pretending to be blind just to bring their pet into the park. It's a fairly elaborate scheme, even for Disney, don'tcha think?

It's hard to have a disability/disorder/syndrome for all of those affected, but I guarantee, all they want is to be treated with respect, period. People have their assistive items for a reason, whether it be a wheelchair, crutches, a dog. Using one over the other doesn't make them any worse or any better, they're just trying to enjoy their vacation. I can only assume that particular CM was one of the many in this world who view having a disability as a weakness. Either that or they are just plain insensitive to those who operate a little "different" than themself.

Don't sit and condescend if you can't walk in their shoes. It is extremely embarassing to have your disability thrown in your face, heck, anything that isn't "normal" for that matter. Maybe that CM was having a bad day, but that is no right to hurt someone else.

Vent over, sorry for hijacking the thread, flame suit on.

 

[babyrich]

Loving these stories!

My DH and I have been to WDW a lot but never went up the SFR Tree so this past Sept. we finally did it, 90+ degree heat and all. I asked my DH "what to we get when we get to the top" he yelled out "A STOKE". I thought the guy behind us was going to pee his pants.

I wanted to comment to the story of the boy with the toy that said Chile on it and his fathers rude response: Why are Americans seen as RUDE? There are plenty of rude people from all over the world. When we were waiting in the LONG line for Soarin' there was a cute young British girl (maybe around 10) who kept staring at my daughter. My daughter has autism and is non-vebal but she makes this odd sounds every now and then when she is happy or excited. We love when she does because we know she is happy It is not loud or obnoxious but definitely noticeable. Most people just ignore it or just look away but this little girl couldn't get over it. I politely told the girl and her family why my daughter was doing that (most people don't understand autism in general) and thought that would be the end of the staring but now the entire family was staring and making weird faces. I know they spoke English and understood what I said but talk about RUDE!!!!

Tina

I have a disease that really distorts my face. I get stared at constantly and most of the time I am not bothered by it. I do have a problem when parents dont seem to be able to explain to their children that sometime people are different. One time we were waiting for rope drop at DHS, a boy around 10 looked at me than turned to his mom and said, what's wrong with her, the mother, taps the dad and points at me and than says to the boy, I dont know but dont go near her. Really!!!??? Now when I hear someone make a comment, I usually reply with "there is nothing wrong with me, go about your day". I dont feel it is anyone's business and I should not have to explain why I look the way I do. Its not the kids who need a kick in the butt, sometimes its the parents.

 

[cathydwin]

In September 09 while waiting for a bus back to POP, similar comments were made about loading handicap first. My DD was getting upset at the rudness and had just stepped over to say something when the bus driver came to the door after loading a wheelchair and stated "It is Florida law that the handicap have first seating and may never be in the same situation!". The rude person just shut up and turned very red. Y

 

[Scurvy]

That's the worst case of entitlement I have ever read. I know I am obviously the only one here that noticed, but there it is.


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The animal abuse issue is your issue. You brought it there on a hot day on hot pavement and now it's someone else that is the abuser? All so you and your aunt could get a ride in a theme park? It wasn't going to get any cooler in the middle of the day, you needed to be responsible and sympathetic to the dogs needs and take it out of that environment until it cooled down enough for it to be comfortable.

I agree, particularly with the portion about it being "torture for the dog". If the pavement that day was so hot it was torture for the dog, then I don't understand why the dog was there. It seems more logical to me for them to wait until the temperature was tolerable for the poor dog before making it spend all day on the pavement. And if there was no way for them to wait for a cooler time to go to the parks, well. . . I know they make shoes for dogs to wear in the snow, and people cover seeing-eye horses' hooves when they go into buildings. I would think that if the dog's comfort was a priority to the owner and her family they could have found a way to protect the dog's paws.

I do, however, think that the CM was rude to say that the owner should proove she was blind. However, given the fact that the poster said the CM was rude for telling them the rules, I suspect the poster was being hostile toward the CM before she resorted to that.

I was trying not to take your flame, but I had to. You are probably trolling for a fight anyway so here goes... (there's been a lot of that lately)

Asking for the same treatment is not entitlement at all. It was insulting to the family to be accused of faking blindness and all they wanted was the same privileges of the family in the wheelchair who were "visibly" handicapped.

Actually in this case it is entitlement to ask for the same treatment. People in wheelchairs can not go through the regular line at Splash Mountain - there are steps. They have no choice but to go through the exit where there are no steps. It isn't a "privilege" - it's the only way they can access the ride. The guide dogs and owners I have seen are able to go up steps, which means they are able to access the ride through the normal line and there is no need for them to go through the exit.

 

[kwitcherkicken99]

Actually in this case it is entitlement to ask for the same treatment. People in wheelchairs can not go through the regular line at Splash Mountain - there are steps. They have no choice but to go through the exit where there are no steps. It isn't a "privilege" - it's the only way they can access the ride. The guide dogs and owners I have seen are able to go up steps, which means they are able to access the ride through the normal line and there is no need for them to go through the exit.

It may not be a case of one's ability to handle the steps, moreso than other guests ability to handle the guide dog. Boarding through an exit with a guide dog is better for everyone.

You cannot know if someone in the regular line has an allergy, fear of dogs (like the person had been attacked in life and is deathly afraid of all dogs...), inability to leave the animal alone, etc. In this situation it is much easier for everyone to remove the original situation from being a situation.

I can probably assume the aunt didn't want any more special privileges than she asked to be blind.

 

[webstah]

Boy, this thread sure has gotten off topic.
Let's hear somemore crazy behavior stories.

 

[aquarhapsody]

This makes me wish I had crazy stories. But our family always seems to have pretty normal Disney trips, which is odd cause we are not normal.