Didn't witness anything
too shocking, but unfortunately, we left one for another guest:
Warning: The next paragraph contains graphic information about a bodily function:
Our first (or was it second?) night there, we were swimming in the volcano pool at the Poly around 9:00pm, when dd had to go to the bathroom. Well, the child is infamous for not having a bowel movement for days, then having a huge one all at once. This was her all at once. Unfortunately, she picked the wrong stall. She calls to me that the automatic flusher won't flush. I tell her to push the button, she does and it doesn't work either. I go in and push it again and again. We tried for 10 minutes to flush the thing, but it wouldn't. Finally, we gave up. Not wanting to gross out the next person
too much, we laid some toilet paper on top to try to "hide" the poop
, but that didn't work too well. We found a CM and told him that there was a broken toilet in there, but don't know how long it took till it was fixed, so if you got a nasty shock
in the volcano pool bathroom sometime Tuesday or Wednesday night, Sept 27 or 28, we sincerely apologize.
The most shocking behavior I noticed was the couple on the bus to the Poly from Typhoon Lagoon. I posted this in another thread, but I'll copy it here: As we were waiting for the bus, another one pulled up at the stop next to ours, and a couple (in their 50's, I'd guess) got off, then walked over to our bus stop and just stood sort of front and center, without getting in line. There were no ropes or anything indicating which way the line was supposed to go, so I at first gave them the benefit of the doubt, and assumed they just weren't sure which end of the line was the back and intended to hang back and get on the bus after all those of us who were waiting first. Well, I was wrong. As soon as our bus pulled up, the man said quietly to the woman "go to the middle door" and they jumped right on in front of everyone else. Someone made a comment about the fact there was a line, and several others agreed, but the couple just ignored everyone. Heck, they even ignored each other. It was like they were just sitting there, staring straight ahead, avoiding eye contact, because they knew what @ssholes they were.
Then, I was shocked at a few of the bathing suits at the two water parks. Some pretty hefty women wearing some smallish bikinis, and funny thing was that they all spoke English with perhaps British or Australian accents. I wasn't shocked in the sense that I thought they should cover up, I was more shocked in that they had the self-confidence to wear such suits, so much more so than most American women. Here I was, hiding my flab in my skirted one-piece, and women much larger than me were confident wearing bikinis. I wish we American women could follow thier lead and stop being ashamed and trying to hide our bodies when we start getting a little round.
The last thing that shocked me was a parenting issue. I try not to judge other parents decisions, because I don't know what's been happening all day, so I hate to bring this up, but one morning as we were walking from the monorail, arriving at MK, I noticed a toddler climbing out of his stroller, when the mom said "OK, we have to go back to the hotel now." They boy cried, the mom explained that she'd told him if he can't stay in the stroller, they'd have to go back to the hotel. She called ahead to dad and sis, and the whole family stopped and the older sister (maybe 4yo?) had the most crushed look on her face I've ever seen. I don't know if they all turned back or not, because they stopped walking while we kept on, but it sure seemed as if the whole family was going to go back to the hotel. I'm not judging the discipline choice for the toddler, as I'm sure that he'd been climbing out that day, and probably the days before, and this might be the only thing that would get through to him. But I do question making the older sister leave as well. Why not let one parent stay at MK with her, while the other took the toddler back? I felt so sorry for that little girl, just arriving at MK, not even through the gates and having to turn around and leave, because of my little brother.
I sure hope I missed the part where she stayed with one parent.
