Overheard on the Epcot monorail from a teenaged girl:
"You mean Epcot's a theme park? I thought it was all in the big ball!"
My DBFF#1 said the same exact thing (she is going to kill me for posting this, btw). We're headed to WDW next Saturday and both she and DBFF #2 have never been. So I was telling them about everything and preparing them for the different parks and she looks at me and goes, "Wait...so Epcot is not all in the sphere?"
"No."
"Oh. Too bad. I mean, I'm still going to love it...but I was kind of excited about an entirely indoor park."
And two others from DL
1. We had taken DBFF #2 to DL in May of 2006 (it was her first Disneypark EVER). Well everything is fine...we get there at opening...grab a croissant in the Main Street Bakery and get right on Indy, POTC, and HM and then head towards Critter Country. Well right before we get to Splash Mountain she just stops and stares at me. I'm confused and looking at her, trying to figure out what is going on and she responds "Holy C**p, I'm in
Disneyland!" Apparently the excitement took a while to process. (She is just as excited about this trip and has told EVERYONE who will listen how we are having breakfast with Winnie the Pooh -- my friends and I really are still 5 when it comes to Disney).
2. That same trip we decided that we were going to be "Team Pirate". There were five of us going and each one of us had a shirt that had something to do with POTC -- be it the original ride or the movies. Well, we NEVER expected the attention it would get us. And all we were doing was wearing shirts. People in line kept commenting that we looked awesome and CM's struck up conversations with us in almost every line.
Earlier in the day on its a small world as the boat was getting ready to leave, the CM operating the controls looked at us and then in the microphone said, "For those of you in the back row, I'm afraid today is not your day." We all look at her confused until we realized she was talking about the fact the POTC was closed for renovations at this time.
Then later, going into the Winnie the Pooh ride we even had the CM watch three of us pass and then catch on to the theme and make us come back to join the other two so he could see us all together. He then preceeds to take off his hat and do a "Jack Sparrow" bow to us all. Turns out POTC was his normal ride and due to the renovation he had been temporarily reassigned.
Needless to say, we're taking the shirts with us this time too.