Have you ever had a shock?

[wareagle2]

Here for a day and already have had one shock. As many of you do, I find the dress people wear to the parks both hiliarious but unappropriate. We were ride the bus from POR to MK and noticed a couple that appear to be German based on stuff on their clothing. When we get to MK, they stand up. She is wearing some low rider pants but these are dropping a little too low...I'm laughing while my DW is ready to puke. I can say I've seen worse but that was in Israel where lots of the women seem to wear these tight low riders and have too much flab hanging over the edges.

 

[dani0622]

I can say I've seen worse but that was in Israel where lots of the women seem to wear these tight low riders and have too much flab hanging over the edges.

Over here in NJ we call that muffin top! (only when the shirt is too short to cover the flab)

 

[phillybeth]

Over here in NJ we call that muffin top! (only when the shirt is too short to cover the flab)

It's also refered to as a Dunlap- when your hips and belly dun lap over your pants.

 

[theycallmered]

I just refer to it as U-G-L-Y! UGLY!!

 

[Belle Amy]

I think the most shocking thing I've seen was on a Disney bus from Epcot to our hotel at POR. A mother with quite a few children, about 4 I'd say, and a small baby, sat next to us on the trip. During the ride, she proceeded to begin breast feeding the baby, in front of other children that were not her own. AND she made no attempt to cover her breast, it was completely exposed. We happened to be sitting toward the back and there were two children facing us and they could not stop STARING at the woman....I thought it was very rude and I'm sure the parents of the two young children across from us had a lot of explaining to do...they had to be 7 or 8 years old...perhaps I am insensitive because I don't have children, but I would assume a mother would at least have the courtesy to cover up while doing this!!!

 

[GoofieRuthie]

I think the most shocking thing I've seen was on a Disney bus from Epcot to our hotel at POR. A mother with quite a few children, about 4 I'd say, and a small baby, sat next to us on the trip. During the ride, she proceeded to begin breast feeding the baby, in front of other children that were not her own. AND she made no attempt to cover her breast, it was completely exposed. We happened to be sitting toward the back and there were two children facing us and they could not stop STARING at the woman....I thought it was very rude and I'm sure the parents of the two young children across from us had a lot of explaining to do...they had to be 7 or 8 years old...perhaps I am insensitive because I don't have children, but I would assume a mother would at least have the courtesy to cover up while doing this!!!

I hope you have your tin foil handy.............

 

[Belle Amy]

I just thought there would be a more graceful way to handle the process....

 

[afcgirl]

I just thought there would be a more graceful way to handle the process....

I agree with you and I have had two kids that I breastfed. You can breastfeed discretely, the woman was just looking for attention or going for shock value.

 

[LoriDee]

I just thought there would be a more graceful way to handle the process....

I would have to agree with you. I breastfeed all three of my children and I always used a cover up.

I'm not trying to turn this thread into a Breastfeeding debate.

 

[chrismb22]

Before this debate goes any further -- everyone, please look back a few pages. It's ALL been said before -- on both sides.

Just trying to lighten the mood

 

[MommyPoppins]

Just a quick observation about bfing. I bf my children and always covered up. However, I have had many friends who also bf'd and if they tried to cover up their babies would freak out and not be still. So there are many women out there who cannot cover up for those reasons, but that isn't an excuse for not being descreet. With my first child I always used a blanket, but after getting the hang of it I learned to just cover myself with my shirt when it was too hot for a blanket. You would tell I was bfing(if you were looking), but could not see my skin. I know that no one seems to want to see a breastfeeding woman for some reason it makes so many people uncomfortable. But you know what makes ME and MY family uncomfortable? All the woman who walk around with THEIR breasts and butts hanging out of their clothes and I'm not talking about the over weight people that everyone seems to have a problem with, I'm talking about the good looking woman with good bodies that flaunt it EVERYWHERE. From WDW, to walmart. 99% of the women who breastfeed don't show anywhere NEAR the amount of skin that 70 percent of the female poplulation shows on a daily basis. So if a woman wants her breast hanging out while feeding her baby, it's as much her right as the woman pissed off at her while she is sitting there with HER breasts hanging out of her push up bra and low cut shirt. I'm so sick of it being wrong for a bring woman to show skin, but if you have a problem with a non breastfeeding woman showing skin then you are considered a prud. What's wrong with the world?

 

[bethbuchall]

Just a quick observation about bfing. I bf my children and always covered up. However, I have had many friends who also bf'd and if they tried to cover up their babies would freak out and not be still. So there are many women out there who cannot cover up for those reasons, but that isn't an excuse for not being descreet. With my first child I always used a blanket, but after getting the hang of it I learned to just cover myself with my shirt when it was too hot for a blanket. You would tell I was bfing(if you were looking), but could not see my skin. I know that no one seems to want to see a breastfeeding woman for some reason it makes so many people uncomfortable. But you know what makes ME and MY family uncomfortable? All the woman who walk around with THEIR breasts and butts hanging out of their clothes and I'm not talking about the over weight people that everyone seems to have a problem with, I'm talking about the good looking woman with good bodies that flaunt it EVERYWHERE. From WDW, to walmart. 99% of the women who breastfeed don't show anywhere NEAR the amount of skin that 70 percent of the female poplulation shows on a daily basis. So if a woman wants her breast hanging out while feeding her baby, it's as much her right as the woman pissed off at her while she is sitting there with HER breasts hanging out of her push up bra and low cut shirt. I'm so sick of it being wrong for a bring woman to show skin, but if you have a problem with a non breastfeeding woman showing skin then you are considered a prud. What's wrong with the world?

AMEN!

 

[arminnie]

Roll wave, roll. And Roll tide. At least one is doing well this season! Ok, so Tulane hardly ever does well...at least we're playing this year!

I'm a Tulane Grad - back in my day we were still in the SEC and lost by about 60 points every game.

 

[Barbers2005]

The first time I went to WDW I was twelve, and had two rather shocking experiences. We had a group of five, so I always ended up sitting by myself on the shuttle to the parks. One morning, this teenage girl from a Brazilian tour group came up to me and asked if anyone was sitting next to me. When I said no, she sat down and motioned to two of her friends, who proceeded to sit on her lap. They were joking around in Portuguese (I think) having a great time, and by the end of the trip, they were mostly in MY lap, without so much as a "pardon me". The worst part is, there were plenty of seats on the bus. Another day, on the bus back from MK, my aunt, brother and two cousins all sat on one side of the bus, and I sat across the aisle with a boy about my age next to me and his mom on the other side of him. I was pretty tired and I guess I fell asleep sitting up. At any rate, when I opened my eyes the woman had switched seats with her son and was cradling my head to her bosom. I was pretty freaked out and unsure what to do, so I sat there for a minute or so with my eyes WIDE open, but not moving a muscle. Luckily my aunt noticed I was awake, because she leaned forward and said something to me. Even then, the woman was reluctant to let go and gave me a couple of pats on the head for good measure. I think she was foreign, so maybe it was a culture thing, but it was creepy just the same. (oh yeah, and a big ol' thanks for nothing to my family for letting some strange woman accost me in my sleep)

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Barbers, YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dislifer]

I guess this is not a big deal but....I just couldn't believe the audacity...
My family and I were standing in line for Spaceship Earth, (it was a very long line) and a family came and just boldly cut in front of more than half of the line. I couldn't believe it!!! No one said anything to them. A middle aged man just went under the rope or whatever the partition was and led the way for about 6 - 10 of his family to cut in front of everyone!!!
I could never do that!

 

[jwsqrdplus2]

Oh yeah, I remembered one more that had both DH and I with dropped jaws.

We were at AKL pool at the bottom of the slide. You know the protocol: all the parents stand near the bottom of the slide to "catch" their kid when he/she comes down. Both our DDs were having fun on the slide, so DH and I were standing at the bottom chatting with each other. But we were watching the top of the slide too since DD2 had a tendency to not wait long enough after the person in front of her.

Well, I saw this older girl (6-7) range kind of push her way past a 3yo girl who seemed to be hesitating a bit. The little one was in water wings and to me looked like she was trying to see her mom at the bottom before she actually got on the slide. The mom was right by the bottom of the slide. Anyway, the older girls comes down the slide and the mom grabs her arm and pulls her off to the side while scolding her about pushing her way in front of a 3yo. The older girl was upset and crying.

I didn't think too much about it until a couple of minutes later when I hear/see the mom arguing with a man in the water. Apparently, the older girl was not her child. She actually had manhandled a stranger's child, and now the older girl's father was yelling at the mom. The mom kept insisting that his daughter had pushed her 3yo out of the way to go on the slide. The father kept coming right back with, "you had no right to touch and scold my daughter."

I don't know the actual outcome, but I cannot imagine grabbing and scolding another family's child. The 3yo wasn't hurt or scared from what I could tell. She was having a great time on the slide. But the older girl will probably always rememeber the mean lady at the AKL pool.

 

[Mrs.D]

Well, I'm not 100% sure of what I saw, but it sure looked like shoplifting. DH and I were at MGM yesterday, enjoying some fries. We were sitting at a table behind the merchandise stand that is amongst the food kiosks at the "Sunset Ranch Market," I think that's what it's called, on the way to Tower of Terror and Rock'n'Roller Coaster. A teenage boy with a bunch of friends was goofing off. I saw him take a hat from the shelf, put it on, and clown around a little for his pals. The kept moving further away from the shelf...the girls working at the stand were both behind the register, chatting. The boy and his friends moved even further away, now they were by the fruit stand and I couldn't see them any more. I kept watching, thinking this group would be back any minute. Then I saw an older gentleman from a table behind me go in that direction, with a mad expression on his face. I told DH I thought I just saw a boy steal a hat, and that the other man must have seen the same thing. The older man came back after a minute, shaking his head. I figure the boy and his friends were long gone.

On the other hand, at the end of the night, some people "cut" in the line for the trams at MK, and a lady called them on it. Right on, lady! She and her friend were both very tall, and this was Saturday night around 10:15 pm or so. It was very crowded. I was thinking nice things about the lady for speaking up. Her companion was mad at her for causing a scene! So, lady, if you are out there, good job!

 

[kath1210]

Just back and I thought I wouldn't have any stories to tell, but I have two:

1. Walking around at MGM, one woman was telling another about her son, who apparently walked out of a store with an item without paying for it. She said: "I told him not to worry about taking it back; I can't believe that they would have the gall to charge $6 for that little thing anyway." My DD11 and I overheard this and our mouths dropped in shock!

2. At WCC on Friday night, three little girls, about 8 or 9 years old, were in the restroom together. Two of them went into a stall, leaving the third one outside. The third one was apparently ticked off about this, so she screamed and flung her entire body into the stall door. The door either broke or somehow was forced open. I got the heck out of there as all 3 of them were screaming their heads off! Strange!

 

[Dislifer]

Just back and I thought I wouldn't have any stories to tell, but I have two:

1. Walking around at MGM, one woman was telling another about her son, who apparently walked out of a store with an item without paying for it. She said: "I told him not to worry about taking it back; I can't believe that they would have the gall to charge $6 for that little thing anyway." My DD11 and I overheard this and our mouths dropped in shock!

2. At WCC on Friday night, three little girls, about 8 or 9 years old, were in the restroom together. Two of them went into a stall, leaving the third one outside. The third one was apparently ticked off about this, so she screamed and flung her entire body into the stall door. The door either broke or somehow was forced open. I got the heck out of there as all 3 of them were screaming their heads off! Strange!

That certainly is strange! I wonder where the adult was? It is scary how so many children don't know how to use self control.