Funny things overheard this past week

[Sammy]

I've always enjoyed reading the posts where people relate funny things overheard or seen at the parks. We just returned from WDW yesterday and these were just a couple of things we saw/heard:

We were at MK one day and saw a man pointing to the castle and telling his son, "I think that's the Magic Kingdom over there..."

In Tomorrowland, we saw a family walking around and each was eating Chef Boyardee canned pasta right out of the cans!

Man inside the castle showing the mosaics to his daughter, "Look honey...it's Sleeping Beauty!"

At the Poly Luau, we sat next to a couple who were honeymooning (note the bride/groom mickey ears!). They didn't speak to each other the entire time!!

Not funny, but......one night we were waiting at MK for our bus back to the Dolphin. A woman was waiting with her HUGE double stroller loaded with packages and 1 infant and 1 small toddler. When the bus pulled up, she tried to board without folding the stroller. The bus driver wouldn't let her board unless it was folded and she proceeded to spend the next 10 minutes arguing with the driver about how "all the other bus drivers" had been letting her board. Once she finally realized he wasn't going to budge, she and her husband then spent the next 10 minutes unloading the packages and getting the thing folded. We just decided to wait for the next bus!!

Anyone else?

Sammy

 

[Terry S]

We were leaving Illuminations one night and heading out the back way, through the International Gateway to the Beach Club. Well when we got to the Beach Club there was a couple standing there looking at the Epcot Map and then back up at Beach Club, saying well I think this might be Norway. I asked them what they were looking for and they told me they were leaving Illuminations and trying to find the bus to All Star Movies. I told them they had to go back into Epcot and make a left and go to the front.

 

[K9pal]

When we were in Epcot last week, we were talking with a nice couple we met. She had been to WDW many times; it was his first time. I asked him (trying to make conversation) what park they had gone to the previous day. He said "I think we went to Disney World". Both DH and I had a tough time trying to keep from laughing!

 

[NYDisneyMom]

Not so much a funny thing I overheard, but.....last week I had a day at the pool pretty much ruined by two men who thought they were above the "rules" of the pool area.

In the course of a couple of hours the lifeguard had to tell them to: move their chairs away from the edge of the pool; not to dive into the pool; not to put small children on their shoulders and then finally, no food IN the pool.

Well, the two men in the group became irate. They yelled at the poor lifeguard on duty and then asked her to get her supervisor. She did exactly that. The supervisor came over, explained to the "gentlemen" about the rules, etc. Wasn't good enough for these guys..they wanted now to speak to the hotel manager. Ugh. The hotel manager came by a while later and told them the same thing.

They kept saying how they were being singled out, etc. It really took everything I had not to tell these idiots off. Big macho men who were mouthing off left and right, embarrassing their poor wives and expecting to be treated like royalty because they were spending their money at Disney.

I finally nabbed a chair on the other side of the pool, I had to get away from them or I would have lost it.

 

[CHIPSTER]

While at the MK a couple was trying to decide where to take a picture when they decided "Let's take it in front of the statue of Mickey and that guy". They had no clue that the Partner statue was of Mickey and Walt. How sad.

 

[disneyvoice]

On our last visit, my DH and I encountered a young child, probably 4 or 5 five years old, having a temper tantrum in the food court of ASMo. The mom got really fed up, grabbed him by the arm, lead him out of the food court and said "That's it!!! No more Surge for you!!!!" If you don't know what Surge is, it is a soft drink that has like ten times the normal amount of caffeine in it, most people use it in place of coffee for that morning upper or when they are cramming for midterms. The mom wasn't kidding, as she led him away we saw a can of Surge on the table!!!!

Later that day we were out by the pool. There was a group of women and children from England sitting behind us. At one point, a little English girl popped up from the water and yelled "Granny, watch me touch my bum on the bottom" in her perfect British accent. They whole group was also talking about how they couldn't beleive how inexpensive all of the food was - my DH and I were counting out our last pennies at that point!!!

 

[KathyFP]

I don't have any, we won't be in Disney for another month.

I love reading all of the comments. I can almost visualize myself being there.

 

[staylor]

I love the chef boy ardee cans. Reminds me of the canned corn story.

 

[SamSam]

I really enjoy reading all the stories. I'll try to watch and remember fun things that happen during our next trip.
Thanks to all for posting.

 

[FreshTressa]

Maybe they should make canned cereal, so you can get breakfast right out of the can. Or how about a canned sandwich??

Hmm, funniest thing I have heard....

Well, not that funny but once I overheard a couple that had looked around for about a half an hour in adventureland for the Indiana Jones ride.

 

[arminnie]

Okay - what is the canned corn story? I keep reading references to it and know it must be hilarious.

 

[nataliesdaddy]

Originally posted by NYDisneyMom
Not so much a funny thing I overheard, but.....last week I had a day at the pool pretty much ruined by two men who thought they were above the "rules" of the pool area.

In the course of a couple of hours the lifeguard had to tell them to: move their chairs away from the edge of the pool; not to dive into the pool; not to put small children on their shoulders and then finally, no food IN the pool.

Well, the two men in the group became irate. They yelled at the poor lifeguard on duty and then asked her to get her supervisor. She did exactly that. The supervisor came over, explained to the "gentlemen" about the rules, etc. Wasn't good enough for these guys..they wanted now to speak to the hotel manager. Ugh. The hotel manager came by a while later and told them the same thing.

They kept saying how they were being singled out, etc. It really took everything I had not to tell these idiots off. Big macho men who were mouthing off left and right, embarrassing their poor wives and expecting to be treated like royalty because they were spending their money at Disney.

I finally nabbed a chair on the other side of the pool, I had to get away from them or I would have lost it.

wow where were these two scum?

 

[Beejayjay]

Not actually something overheard at Disney, but it cracked me up, thought it might give y'all a laugh too.

My partner has two boys, aged 11 and 9 at the time, both bright lads. Somehow, the subject of the game Trivial Pursuit came up in conversation one night, and I mentioned that I have a travel version of it, and that we should take it on the plane when we make our trip to WDW.

The younger lad, Lewis, asked what the game is about, I explained, and he seemed quite interested.

"Can we have a game ?"

I replied "I think it might be a bit hard for you Lew, a lot of the questions are about things that happened way before you were born and you probably haven't studied yet in school"

He wanted to try it out though.

"Try me with a question then" he said.

I dragged out a card and picked what was, surprisingly, listed, as a sport question, thinking he might at least have a chance at a sport Q.

The choice turned out to be an inspired one - the question was, at which sport was Beethoven a world champion ? Apparently he was a world champion horse rider !! (Big bonus points to anyone who knew that !!)

Lew looked very puzzled. I asked him if he even knew who Beethoven was.

"Sure" he replied, "it's that great big dog in the films..."

Cue side splitting laughter from myself and mum, and complete bewilderment from poor lew.

Priceless...

Aside from the hilarious yet understandable mistake with the identity (he watches tv rather more than he listens to classical music ! ), I didn't have the heart to ask him how he thought a dog would ride a horse. You gotta love the way kids minds work...

 

[miko]

Sometime earlier this year I was on flight from Dulles to Orlando and had 2 young girls with their mother sitting behind us. They were very excited about their trip to WDW and began planning their days on the plane. They both agreed that they had to go on the "Haunted Elevator", "Space Capsule", "Runaway Train" and be sure to spend some time in the "Magic Castle"!

 

[nutz4dzny]

This happened on the way to WDW at the Airport. Two macho men ( so they thought) were sitting in the airport while their 4 very misbehaved children ran all around screaming and bumping into people. The 2 wives were trying to calm them down while the husbands just looked away and kept talking to themselves. Finally one of the wives went to the bathroom with one on each arm. When she got back she discovered she had lost her cell phone. Left it at the airport X-ray machine. Well, her husband started to yell at her how stupid she was and how he would never do that. We moved away at that point. Now it gets even better!

We got boarded on the plane. My husband and I were in first class. We noticed that they were towards the back of the plane with screaming kids! Anyway right before take off we look to our right 3 seats back, in first class are these 2 Jack******! We just shook our heads. Then we saw the Flight attendants do their head count. Then they were whispering to each other and finally one of them went up to the guys and asked to see their boarding passes. They played dumb and said their wives had them. Finally they admitted that they were supposed to be in the back but saw the empty seats in first class and they wanted to get away from the noise of their screaming kids! Imagine that! They were kicked out and we asked the FA if that happened a lot and they said yes!

Reading the other Posts made me think of this incident.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Just a quick corn update........

Several years ago, a similar thread as this started on the Community Board (CB) (BTW, stop by there if you have not as yet ). Similar funnies, visuals and vocals, were being put forth. They were as funny and as hilarious as these. One poster said the strangest thing she had seen (that was the title of the thread, Strangest things seen at the World (or similar wording)) was a couple sitting on the City Hall steps in MK, each eating corn from cans. She said it just looked sort of weird, ya know, eating canned corn on the City Hall steps.

Well, it was funny, sort of strange like, similar to the Chef Boyardee above. A few more posters down, someone added, again, kind of like above, that they were just sitting there at their computer, smiling and laughing, thinking of the visualization of the corn eaters at City Hall. They said that it seemed so strange, weird, LOL. A few more people chimed in that they too thought it was so very funny, and before you knew it the thread had turned into a canned corn thread. It did get back on track and the thread became a DIS classic, now gone forever though.

What really immortalized it though, in DIS lore, was when DIS'er, WillyJ, (sure do miss him ), used his wonderfully witty literary talents and wrote 'the history and story behind the City Hall corn eating couple'. That 'story', and subsequent post replies, was one of the most hilarious threads ever on the CB. It too, is gone forever, somewhere along the line in board crashes, moves or archiving.

Some wonderful stories and people make the DIS what it is, family.

Enjoy.



Dan

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Not overheard, but seen...and it's really not that funny, I guess...but once I saw a huge group of Hare Krishnas heading for Space Mountain...it just struck me as funny; I don't know why.

 

[UKAnnie]

Surreal moment - the Hare Krishnas heading for Space Mountain. I was in Westminister Abbey, London last month and there were several Amish families in their traditional dress looking around the Abbey - kind of looked a bit surreal too. But of course there's nothing at all wrong with either scenario!

Ann.

 

[Chim Chiminy]

When we were at AK in August we had the most annoying family behind us on the safari. Throughout the whole ride the two women in the family were talking very loudly about how fake the animals looked. "It is Disney after all." Even when we stopped because a giraffe was literally a foot from the vehicle eating leaves off a tree, you could see its long black tongue pulling the leaves off. "So fake.....can't they make their animals look any better."
To top it off, they started argueing with one of the husbands about what they were doing the next day. He in turn got on his cell phone to call Uncle so and so in New Jersey.
I couldn't get over the fact that they thought all of the animals in the park were fake!