Crazy stories at disney world

[Dawgdad]

I used to work at Bath and Body Works and we had a mom and her young, Chinese son come in shopping. He was adopted, absolutely adorable, and we got to know each other real well in their 30 minutes in the store. His name was Sam and he told me he was 5.

So Mom is paying for her purchases and spends quite a chunk of $$, about $100, I think. To which Sam replied "Mom! Dont' spend all that money! You won't have enough to go back to China to get me a baby sister!"

Kids are so cute!

wow - our baby (well, he's 4 - not much of a baby anymore) is Sam. I think there are probably times that his big sister wishes we had not gone back to China a few years later. hehe. All of our kids ask fairly often if we are going back...

 

[babyrich]

yep - we have been asked a few times where we got our 2 Chinese kids...

I typically say we got them at Walmart...

It's amazing what people will say - I've always found that humor is the best way to expose their ignorance.

I cant believe anyone would dare ask if your children are adopted. Is it really any of their business? Next time you should say why do you ask, dont you think he/she looks like me???

 

[Dawgdad]

I cant believe anyone would dare ask if your children are adopted. Is it really any of their business? Next time you should say why do you ask, dont you think he/she looks like me???

My wife and I have a good sense of humor. Doesn't do any good to get upset with idiots. I have, many times, held the sides of her head, pushing her eyes together and said, "when you do this, she has my eyes"

My wife posted a picture of our daughter on a China adopt chat board...with a "Made in China" sticker on her nose...holy crap - some of those folks have no sense of humor.

Our philosophy is that it's pretty obvious that they are adopted - they are Chinese...both of our China babies have known from day one that we went to China and brought them back home to their new family. All of the crap about abandonment and whatever - there may be a day for that (or maybe not) - but for us, we adopted them because they did not have parents. No different than the hundreds of thousands of kids adopted in the US every year. We just wanted a big family, and the only way to do that when your wife says, "we can have all the kids you want, but I'm not having anymore", is to adopt. hehe

 

[babyrich]

My wife and I have a good sense of humor. Doesn't do any good to get upset with idiots. I have, many times, held the sides of her head, pushing her eyes together and said, "when you do this, she has my eyes"

My wife posted a picture of our daughter on a China adopt chat board...with a "Made in China" sticker on her nose...holy crap - some of those folks have no sense of humor.

Our philosophy is that it's pretty obvious that they are adopted - they are Chinese...both of our China babies have known from day one that we went to China and brought them back home to their new family. All of the crap about abandonment and whatever - there may be a day for that (or maybe not) - but for us, we adopted them because they did not have parents. No different than the hundreds of thousands of kids adopted in the US every year. We just wanted a big family, and the only way to do that when your wife says, "we can have all the kids you want, but I'm not having anymore", is to adopt. hehe

It just amazes me how stupid people really are. You need a sense of humor to deal with it or you would probably be smacking the crap out of alot of folks.

 

[RockinDisney]

I have, many times, held the sides of her head, pushing her eyes together and said, "when you do this, she has my eyes"

I would love to see some of the facial responses you get when do that

And I LOVE the made in China Sticker

 

[ratlenhum]

It just amazes me how stupid people really are. You need a sense of humor to deal with it or you would probably be smacking the crap out of alot of folks.

what a great sense of humor

 

[Dawgdad]

I would love to see some of the facial responses you get when do that

And I LOVE the made in China Sticker

also, I have a camera that somehow senses when someone blinks. Everytime I take a picture of our daughter, "did someone blink?" pops up on the screen. So now, everytime I take a picture of her I ask my wife why there isn't an "asian" setting. After all, the friggin camera was made in China.

 

[RockinDisney]

also, I have a camera that somehow senses when someone blinks. Everytime I take a picture of our daughter, "did someone blink?" pops up on the screen. So now, everytime I take a picture of her I ask my wife why there isn't an "asian" setting. After all, the friggin camera was made in China.

Big hugs to you and your wife

 

[jusero]

Let's get back to the original topic of this thread and end the arguing back and forth here. Any further arguments will be deleted and may result in infractions being issued.

Thank you Brian! I love this thread if it stays true to its topic.

 

[d_lairson]

I had a upsetting moment at MK about a year ago. The DW and I were sat near the diamond horseshoe waiting on the 3pm parade, and on the sidewalk behind us, out of the way of everyone and in a somewhat secluded spot a muslim family had rolled out their prayer rugs and were taking turns doing there prayers, men first, then the women and children. A CM walked by sweeping up trash and said loud enough for a lot of people to hear "F***ing Muslims".

I was shocked! I'm buddhist and maybe a little sensitive to people commenting on other religions, but I had to say something to a manager, I went to Liberty Tree and asked for a manager. I told her what happened but since I did not get the CM name I don't think there was much that could be done.

 

[jusero]

what a great sense of humor

One way we dealt with ignorant people: My hubby (Philippino), me (white), my best friend (African-American) and her hubby (India Indian) were walking down the street in a downtown touristy area. Hubby and I were holding hands and so were my friends. Whenever we noticed anyone staring with disdain or ignorance, we said, "ready, set, go!" And we would switch partners and be holding hands with each other's hubby. This would really freak people out. And if they kept looking, we would, "ready, set, go" again and end up with the girls holding hands and the guys holding hands. Talk about confusing the heck out of people who were already dazed and confused!

I know, kind of a sick sense of humor, but it's better than letting other people's ignorance ruin our day. And probably gave them something to talk about for a long time.

 

[freepixie]

My wife and I have a good sense of humor. Doesn't do any good to get upset with idiots. I have, many times, held the sides of her head, pushing her eyes together and said, "when you do this, she has my eyes"

My wife posted a picture of our daughter on a China adopt chat board...with a "Made in China" sticker on her nose...holy crap - some of those folks have no sense of humor.

Our philosophy is that it's pretty obvious that they are adopted - they are Chinese...both of our China babies have known from day one that we went to China and brought them back home to their new family. All of the crap about abandonment and whatever - there may be a day for that (or maybe not) - but for us, we adopted them because they did not have parents. No different than the hundreds of thousands of kids adopted in the US every year. We just wanted a big family, and the only way to do that when your wife says, "we can have all the kids you want, but I'm not having anymore", is to adopt. hehe

I love that "Made in China" sticker story - I just took a course in Mandarin and our professor is from China and he said in class how people in our hometown will just walk up to him and say "Hey are you Chinese?" and he always replies to them, "Can't you see my tag says Made in China??" and the people asking always look at him very confused!!

 

[RAPstar]

One way we dealt with ignorant people: My hubby (Philippino), me (white), my best friend (African-American) and her hubby (India Indian) were walking down the street in a downtown touristy area. Hubby and I were holding hands and so were my friends. Whenever we noticed anyone staring with disdain or ignorance, we said, "ready, set, go!" And we would switch partners and be holding hands with each other's hubby. This would really freak people out. And if they kept looking, we would, "ready, set, go" again and end up with the girls holding hands and the guys holding hands. Talk about confusing the heck out of people who were already dazed and confused!

I know, kind of a sick sense of humor, but it's better than letting other people's ignorance ruin our day. And probably gave them something to talk about for a long time.

I like the way you think!!

 

[tzolkin]

I was stuck on ToT in the dark right before you go into the drop tower where the room is and the doors open me and my uncle are sitting there and we look at each other and ask "are we moving?" after 30min or so the lights go on and we see its a white room with glass and projectors it was really cool but it made me kinda nervous. Afterwards they ask us if we want to ride again and we said "ummmmmm no."

DD and I were in the front row on TOT with a group of college-age guys. The ride stopped in the dark right at the beginning and after a few seconds a CM announces "Please keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle". Right away the guy next to me starts appologizing, "Sorry everyone. That was me. Sorry". (I guess he was leaning forward with his forearms on the front window.) We thought the ride would start right back up, but we sat there in pitch black silence for quite a while. After several minutes the people in back started commenting that this was the most terrifying ride they'd been on. Then some people started getting freaked out that the ride couldn't be restarted or was broken. Finally, the ride started moving.

As they left my husband turned to my friend and I and went "Well, he got all the gas out, I guess all that was left were solids." Gross, I know, but the people behind us had a good laugh after being gassed for almost two hours.

When I was a kid we lived near Disney and had season passes. We would often go just for the evening parade/shows. We were the family who would find the perfect spot 90 mins early or more. Without fail people would always push their way in- usually adults getting right in front of the kids. My brother has always been very gassy. My sisters and I hated this on long car rides, but didn't mind so much at Disney. Quite often his aroma was so bad that the people that had pushed their way in front of us would move away holding their noses and gagging. Taking my own family as an adult, watching Illumniations isn't quite the same.

 

[Mikailova]

In 2005, I went to PI. So I'm in the beach club ordering drinks at the bar. I have a tattoo of a star on my back and I was wearing a tank-top when this man comes up and starts tracing the star with his finger. I turn around, and he's at least 25 years older than me, and he's looking at me very lewdly. The bartender and I are completely frozen for a second. Then I snapped back to reality, looked the guy right in the eye and snarled at him, like an animal angry growl, and said "Don't EVER touch me." He kinda got freaked out and walked off very quickly. The bartender asked me if I was ok and I told her I was fine, just a little shaken. That memory still makes my skin crawl.

 

[Mikailova]

Oh another one I just remembered from Fall of 2008 when I was there with my dad. This one isn't crazy or creepy so much as ironically funny. My dad had never been to Disney and we were making sure he saw and rode everything. So we're getting in line for IASW and I'm doing this very serious preparation for the ride. I'm letting him know that this ride is going to kill half his brain cells, and he's going to come out a completely zombie, who will only be able to sing the same song for the rest of our vacation and probably for some time after we get home, but it's a Disney right of passage that we must all take to be true Disney people, and blah blah blah, and he's trying not to laugh and be just as serious with me. Big joke haha.

So we get off the ride and as we're walking out, I somehow screwed up walking through the exit turnstile and walked into the side of it instead of into the actual rotating bar and my dad who is watching me and starting to crack up walks into the walk. We died laughing.

 

[cousinbb]

I posted this once before but I'll do it again

On my family's third trip to Disney, we rode Dinosaur for the first time. We were put in the 1st and second rows. All of us knew that there would be dinosaurs coming at us and what not, but it scared the bijeebers out of us, especially my brother, who was 8 at the time. When the ride stopped, he was frozen in his seat because he got so scared. I also learned later on in the day that he 'wet' himself on Dinosaur.....I only hope that someone noticed their seat was wet BEFORE they sat down.

Another time, we saw Stitch's Great Escape for the first time. When I walked into the seating area, I noticed there were bars overhead. I freaked out and asked a CM if this ride goes upside-down because I hate going upside-down. But he kindly replied that no this is only a show.... Oh.....

 

[I<3stitch626]

i lovee this thread
and i finally thought of a story to share

okay, last year my parents, myself, and my best friend (myself and bff are late teens) went to the world during halloween time so my mom thought it would be fun to do something special for it, besides mickey's not so scary party (we've done that a couple years before). So we decided to try the carriage ride at fort wilderness, which tells the story of the head less horseman as you go around on a path thru the woods. I've heard about it on here and heard there was a "surprise" at the end... besides the "surprise" it was a pretty peaceful ride as you listen to the story. Anyway, as the story was ending me and the bff were relaxing just looking around and all of a sudden my mom screams bloody murder, grabs my arm, screams my name and asks why would i do that? apparently she heard rustling in the bushes BEHIND her..mind you i was sitting IN FRONT of her and completely freaked out and tried to say that i did it to scare her guess the story and the awaiting surprise got the best of her
needless to say our carriage driver was DIEING laughing
...and my mom thought I would be the one getting scared

 

[pixiefairy]

Love some of these stories!!!

One that comes to mind for us has to be on our solo trip a year ago. We were in line for Soarin' and we ended up listening to the family behind us argue. I didn't catch the beginning of the whole thing, but what made us both sit up and take notice was the mother exclaiming to the two kids "Your father's a JERK!". It didn't seem to faze Dad and he tried to smooth things over by telling everyone to "hug and start over". It was kind of amusing to listen to....and we pretty much would just look at each other randomly throughout our vacation and say "your father's a JERK!".

Another has to be the sight we saw at DHS this past November. I had just left the ladies room and walked past what I thought was a young girl. I did a double take and saw instead a shorter woman, dressed up like Alice In Wonderland..only the costume was more of the risque variety, with the just-above-the-knee stockings and super short dress. It made our jaws drop a little bit.

And our scariest crazy story was on a bus ride leaving DTD one night. It was quite late, probably the last bus going back to the resorts. We were waiting for quite awhile, and finally a bus shows up and this couple came from out of nowhere and elbowed us out of the way to get on the bus. I was tired and grumpy and feeling very un-Disney at that point and had a few choice words for her. We ended up all standing towards the front of the packed bus, so their mad dash was really not worth all the fuss. Anyway...then the bus driver started to drive and it was like he was trying out for Nascar or something....stopping and starting quickly, throwing us all over the bus. I was starting to get really scared with the rate of speed he was going. When we got back to POR, rather than waiting for our stop, we got off at the main stop and walked back to our room ALL the way in the back Alligator Bayou section. There was also a man who got off when we did, who was mumbling to himself a lot. I have to say I was practically running to our room, my dh limping behind me telling me to slow down..lol. I loved the quiet and isolation at POR...but that night, I swore someone was going to jump out of the bushes at us....yikes!

 

[mom2cookies]

On our first trip over Easter vacation back in 2004 my family experienced Disney magic via another guest. My 3 DDs' birthdays are the 9, 13, & 15 of April so they all got birthday buttons. However, only the youngest ( 10 at the time) was wearing her button on the particular day. We were in line for the Enchanted Tiki room, second in line. Just watching the pre-show ( wondering if that was it LOL ) when the man in front of us turns to my daughter as asked " is it your birthday?" she shyly said yes. The man proceeded to take out his wallet and pull out a $10 bill. He held it out to her and said " happy birthday i hope it is magical". My DD taught never to take things from strangers looked at me with wide eyes and big smile. I told her yes she could have it. And BRAVO to my DD, she THANKED the man with no prompting from me. < so proud of her! OF course her 2 older sister were wishing at that point they had their buttons on and of course they DID have them on by the time we left ETR. LOL : 0 )

They did get an offer from the CM at Splash Mt to ride again but eldest DD said no ty because she was afraid her dad would yell at them. ( he wasn't very much in the Disney SPirit that trip) But even though that offer hasn't been repeated, they have gone to WDW several times since and know they can ride whatever they want as many times as they want . DH can't stay away.