Do you chat with your "neighbors"?

[tonyboy]

Just curious if on the balcony or other area of the resort how many people go out of their way to say Hi to a fellow DVC'er? I try to do it but sometimes I get the "Why are you talking to me look". Maybe it's just me but I don't think we're a scary looking family. LOL

 

[Scott H]

I try to say hi to folks we meet at DVC. Seems like the neighborly thing to do.

 

[lurontravel]

Yes, I do try to chat with my DVC neighbors. My husband thinks I'm a nut, but I like to be friendly.

 

[lenshanem]

I like to chat with peopel while at WDW. It is a palce I love. Some peopel are really friendly, maybe the mood of WDW gets them that way. Others? I have had soem compltete cold shoulders turned on me wheil trying to stike up a conversation.
Gosh, I met the nICEST couple whiel waiting on the curb for Spectro last November. He was retired and told me they stay at SOG every year for two weeks. (At CR that time.) His wife was shopping whiel he waited, but he just loved my girls and they loved him. I apologized for intruding on him after the parade but he got such a kick out of seeing my youngest watching the parade. I think he got plenty of video of her, too.

 

[eva]

I like to chat with people too. You can usually tell right off if someone is the chatty type. If you look right at them and smile then they return the smile they are probably the friendly type. If they pretend that they don't see me then I don't open a dialog. Occasionally I can't resist and still have to say something about how nice the day is or something.

 

[tixx]

not Me

 

[jaysue]

Yes, I chat up the neighbours in the parking lots, in ride queues, in the pool etc. Most of the people are pretty nice IMHO

thanks
jaysue

 

[dianeschlicht]

Yes, I like to talk to folks too. I especially like to chat with folks on the buses in the morning. Everyone is raring to go and in a good mood. On the way back later in the day, they are usually too sleepy to talk!

 

[JimC]

Usually do chat with folks while at Disney. More likely if I see they are DVC, DIS, AP or Passporter affiliated. Figure these are the more serious Disney enthusiasts and you can really have great discussions about almost anything Disney.

Also try to be helpful if I see someone who looks confused or lost. Try to do that anywhere I am.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

I talk up a storm at Disney! LOL some times I am the one who initiates conversation, and other times other people will talk to me...there is something about the place. My oldest son is so funny...you teach them about not talking to strangers and such. One time last year, I was talking to someone at the bus stop, and we were chatting like we knew each other our whole lives..my son taps me and says "um mom, isn't this person a stranger?" I have a dilemma, I can't tell him people in Disney are not strangers, because they are...they just don't FEEL like strangers!

 

[Terry S]

We talk to people all the time as well. People on the balcony next to us, at the pool, on the bus, in the ride lines. My kids talk to people all the time as well. They know the rule is the only time they can talk to a stranger is when I am there with them. Once there was a women in a wheel chair that my daughter entertained while we waited for the fireworks to start. My daughter ended up crawling up on her lap (at the womens request) and watched the fireworks with her. The women thanked us later as she cried.

We also ended up meeting Belle and Rellas Dad and Mom from here on the DIS by chating up with them on the balcony next to us at the BCV's. Very nice people.

 

[AnnaS]

I usually like a short conversation when someone is close by and/or waiting or sitting by the pool. It depends though on their body language and or eye contact. I smile at everyone at work most of the day and they all ask why. I do notice some people who "always" look miserable and just stay away no matter where I am. I guess it depends on the type of day/mood we are in that day. I have them too. But overall, it's nice to be nice and share somthing in common with someone else for 20 minutes or for one minute.

 

[disneyberry]

at WDW, if someone smiles and starts chatting with me, i chat. met some very nice people at WDW before...

but i'm a shy person , so i'm usually not the one to go up to someone and start talking to them.

of course, when i'm home... walking about the city... or on the subway... heh. keep to yourself is the way to go.
people who smile randomly at strangers... that's absurd and crazy here.

 

[lenshanem]

people who smile randomly at strangers... that's absurd and crazy here

I guess you would freak then if you moved to the south? LOL I must ahve smiled at fifty people today with direct eye contact whiel out Christmas shopping. Call me a southern girl or maybe I am crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pmcpmc]

don't ring before visiting and say Hello to everyone
Don't feel embarassed you're on holiday
This is the time to match anybody's bull****(if I'm I allowed to say that guess it didn't pass the censor sorry I thought it was an Americanism)
What fun to own an Irish Castle!

 

[Nick@ VB+OKW]

Originally posted by lenshanem
I guess you would freak then if you moved to the south? I must have smiled at fifty people today with direct eye contact while out Christmas shopping.

...........................

 

[lenshanem]

Nick gave me a smilie!

(By the way, thanks for correcting my spelling Nick. )

 

[Nick@ VB+OKW]

Originally posted by lenshanem
(By the way, thanks for correcting my spelling Nick.

.........any time Shannon

 

[bobbiwoz]

I think that Nick@VB+OKW and lenshanem would definitely say hi to each other! We haven't been home yet, but it's in my nature to smile and say hi, I hope we have friendly neighbors as well!

Bobbi

 

[CK1]

Lenshanem, it may well be a "southern" thing! I'm born/bred southern (S.C.) and one thing my in-laws immediately joked about when dh and I were first dating is that I'd strike up a conversation anywhere! And the use of "Yes Ma'am" and "No sir" etc when talking to older people -- that's a southern thing as well that gets noticed up north! An older woman and her dh seemed lost in a bookstore up north once, so I asked if I could help her ( "Can I possibly help you find something, Ma'am?" is what I think I said) So she told me what she needed, I told her where she could find it. Her husband then looked at me, then looked at my dh and said, pointing at me, "She's not from around here, is she?" (Of course the accent when saying it is a dead-giveaway too, I'm sure...) I get the same response at any store in my dh's home area, or when visiting my northern relatives (upstate NY). I don't have an intense southern acccent -- I always felt if I could pick out someone else's accent, I must not have one! But... my dh swears that as soon as I come in contact with anyone from the south, my moderate accent becomes a full-fledged drawl. Must be some kind of synergistic transformation between southerners!


It drives my normally reserved DH nuts how I'll start a conversation with strangers in a cash register line, or at an airport, or at WDW. My SIL and I are the same in this respect (she's not southern... just chatty, I guess!) And her dh (my hubby's brother) is equally (maybe genetically?) reserved, so the two of them sit and cringe, or try to scurry off! She and I got chatty with this fellow from Canada traveling with his young daughter (and like us, staying at VWL), and it seemed throughout our stay that everywhere we went in the parks, the resort, the pool, we kept running into them -- our dhs thought we had planned it and wanted to know just HOW much had we told this guy?!? (LOL)