Have you ever had a shock?

[kath1210]

We just came back from a great split stay at Pop and the CR. We had a good time at Pop - got several towel animals from our wonderful Mousekeeper. The only bad thing happened when we were checking out on Friday, December 23. For some reason, someone decided that 11 a.m. would be a good time to start power-washing the decks outside of our rooms. Just as we were coming out loaded down with bags, they were spraying soapy water all over the walkways.

As we started to slip and slide, I asked the employee if they could not find a better time to do this. He got an attitude right away and said "I got a boss" or something like that. I said that I was going to call to complain and he said, in a snotty tone, "You go ahead and do that, Lady." Well I did call, and the lady in the manager's office that I spoke to was very surprised that they were doing this at check-out time. She apologized and said she would make sure they stopped right away until a better time.

I am happy with the response from the manager's office, but I was shocked at the employee's defensive and snotty attitude. I was also shocked by the lack of common sense on the part of whoever made this dumb decision.

The only other semi-shocking thing was one girl in Epcot who was wearing torn jeans. They were torn in such a way that you could see the entire bottom of her butt cheek hanging out. Lovely!

 

[The Dark Dancer]

hehe, big shock today!


This evening, We were having my Aunt, Uncle, and 2 cousins over to swap Christmas presents. While my Aunt, Mom and I were in the kitchen, I was leaning against the counter when I began to feel dizzy. Everything in my vision started getting dark. Then I passed out.


I heard my Mom yell and I opened my eyes to see everyone staring at me. My head hurt like heck. My Mom had saw me falling and, apparently, My head hit the counter really hard. So now I have a big purple bruise on my jaw.

They took me into my Mom's room and I started to have a cold sweat. By this time my Dad had the car cranked and ready to go to the ER. (He had to move 2 cars out of the driveway.) Well, I didn't want to ruin Christmas for my family so I said I was fine.

They checked my pulse and It was strong, but fast. I'm okay now, though.


I have no Idea what happend to me.


(Yes we are going to the Doctor in the morning!) lol

 

[MELSMICE]

I am happy with the response from the manager's office, but I was shocked at the employee's defensive and snotty attitude. I was also shocked by the lack of common sense on the part of whoever made this dumb decision.

This could have been a company contracted through Disney, so it may not have been a Disney cast member. That doesn't excuse the rudeness at all, I'm just thinking "out loud".

 

[kath1210]

This could have been a company contracted through Disney, so it may not have been a Disney cast member. That doesn't excuse the rudeness at all, I'm just thinking "out loud".

We did confirm that it was a Disney cast member. That's the first thing the lady in the manager's office asked me, then she double-checked to confirm that he was a Disney employee.

I know we all have our bad days, and I was happy that the management was so sympathetic, so it was all in all not so bad. I am just amazed at the lack of common sense sometimes.

 

[CAD3655]

Last time we were at TL it started pouring so we decided to get some food while we waited to see if the storm would pass by quickly. The food seating area was packed with other people doing the same thing. It was literally standing room only. Well, this really nice family from India (who had flown 40+ hours to get to Disney) offered to share their table with us. There weren't enough chairs but we got to have a really great chat with them. There was another family there too sharing the table...I think they were from NY. We all had a great time.
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We were there at the beginning of December...Rained everyday...not fun...We offered the extra seats at our table all the time and met some really nice people. It's Disney...spread some happiness!

 

[ibleedblue]

We returned from a stay at POP a week ago and received a couple of shocks while there. DW and I are in the process of selling our house. After six weeks on the market, wouldn't you know that my agent calls at 10PM the night before we leave telling us we have an offer and it'll be in tomorrow. So we happily say ok and we'll take care of it by faxing back and forth while on vacation. When we check in I ask about faxing and the CM tells me it's $1.00 per page for incoming faxes. I thought that was steep, but was willing to pay the price. It didn't dawn on me till later to ask about outgoing faxes. Oh boy!! Here was the shock....$5 for the first page and $4 for each additional page!!!! We had 18 pages to send back! Total bill would have been $91 for incoming and outgoing faxes. DW and I reluctantly decided to take a day from our vacation and find a Kinkos or some place to fax from. My agent called on Thurday and told us the papers were faxed and at the POP waiting for us. That night was a MVMCP night for us, so we didn't get back till around 1am. I checked with the front desk, and sure enough the faxes were there. The super nice CM checked my room and said they hadn't been charged to the room yet and he didn't believe in charging people for that and to enjoy my night! I asked if he could direct me to a local Office Depot or someplace like that where I could go in the morning and fax them back since I had $73 worth of stuff to send back. He said if I brought it to him he'd take care of it for me! So we hustled to the room, signed what need to be signed and the wonderful CM faxed all 18 pages back for us at no charge!! What an excellent birthday that turned out to be for me! He said management had no way to track fax activity. I want to write the manager and compliment the service, but I don't want him to get in trouble!

 

[disneyaggie]

We returned from a stay at POP a week ago and received a couple of shocks while there. DW and I are in the process of selling our house. After six weeks on the market, wouldn't you know that my agent calls at 10PM the night before we leave telling us we have an offer and it'll be in tomorrow. So we happily say ok and we'll take care of it by faxing back and forth while on vacation. When we check in I ask about faxing and the CM tells me it's $1.00 per page for incoming faxes. I thought that was steep, but was willing to pay the price. It didn't dawn on me till later to ask about outgoing faxes. Oh boy!! Here was the shock....$5 for the first page and $4 for each additional page!!!! We had 18 pages to send back! Total bill would have been $91 for incoming and outgoing faxes. DW and I reluctantly decided to take a day from our vacation and find a Kinkos or some place to fax from. My agent called on Thurday and told us the papers were faxed and at the POP waiting for us. That night was a MVMCP night for us, so we didn't get back till around 1am. I checked with the front desk, and sure enough the faxes were there. The super nice CM checked my room and said they hadn't been charged to the room yet and he didn't believe in charging people for that and to enjoy my night! I asked if he could direct me to a local Office Depot or someplace like that where I could go in the morning and fax them back since I had $73 worth of stuff to send back. He said if I brought it to him he'd take care of it for me! So we hustled to the room, signed what need to be signed and the wonderful CM faxed all 18 pages back for us at no charge!! What an excellent birthday that turned out to be for me! He said management had no way to track fax activity. I want to write the manager and compliment the service, but I don't want him to get in trouble!

YIKES! I think I would have fainted over those prices! What a nice guy! I am sure just knowing that he helped you was plenty enough of thanks for him.

 

[SpectroMagic*o*]

Wowsers!! What restaurant did this happen in? i wonder what they were fighting about? Its so tacky when married people do this kinda thing to each other. I bet they use old refillable mugs and pool hop too... grrrrrrr

Darian

Wow, This is pretty shocking to me...I cant believe people find the time to get this irratated by people who use refillable mugs and pool hop. How does one point out a pool hopper anyway? I'd rather just relax by the pool than worry about who's here from another resort. Speaking of pools, one of the more shocking things I've seen was a kid who did #2 in the pool, they had to clear out the whole pool to clean it up. They call it Code Brown which I thought was pretty funny. I know some kids dont know better, but itdoes make you cringe.

ug:

 

[kgilchri]

When I was interning at Universal I saw a few things that were really crazy but the worst thing I heard about was this young guy (16ish) who was riding Jurassic Park and he had sat incorrectly in the boat. Well, when they came down the big hill the bar crushed his lap and he lost one very valuable body part. It made me cringe and I'm not even a guy!

Another was this guy who had recently returned from Iraq was pretty drunk and heading up the escalator at City Walk. Well, I guess he thought it was a good idea to sit on the railing while he rode up. He lost his balance and hit his head on the corner of the dining cart below. It was a horrible site.

 

[Mariposa]

We had a good shock on our stay at Pop Century.

About two nights before we were supposed to leave we got a knock on our door at around 11:30 p.m. It was someone from luggage, asking if we'd had any extra luggage delivered with ours?? (We'd checked in over a week earlier.) They were vaguely rude and pretty insistent, but it really was no big deal.. about 4 minutes of our time and then they were on their way. We could hear them knocking on the door of one of our neighbors just afterwards... We didn't call and complain or anything, just noted it as odd.

So, the next day we call the front desk to ask about the balance on our room (weren't really worried about it, but I do like to keep tabs) and it was faaaaaar lower than I knew it should be.. DFiance inquires about the last several charges and discovers that Pop Century has given us a $200 credit for 'luggage inconvenience.' We make sure that they didn't wrongly apply that to our room (afraid it was meant for the person that lost the 'additional luggage' that may have been delivered to us???), but it appeared that they had given the credit to all the guests that had been disturbed the night before. Wow. How incredibly cool.

 

[Gymbomom]

We had a good shock on our stay at Pop Century.

About two nights before we were supposed to leave we got a knock on our door at around 11:30 p.m. It was someone from luggage, asking if we'd had any extra luggage delivered with ours?? (We'd checked in over a week earlier.) They were vaguely rude and pretty insistent, but it really was no big deal.. about 4 minutes of our time and then they were on their way. We could hear them knocking on the door of one of our neighbors just afterwards... We didn't call and complain or anything, just noted it as odd.

So, the next day we call the front desk to ask about the balance on our room (weren't really worried about it, but I do like to keep tabs) and it was faaaaaar lower than I knew it should be.. DFiance inquires about the last several charges and discovers that Pop Century has given us a $200 credit for 'luggage inconvenience.' We make sure that they didn't wrongly apply that to our room (afraid it was meant for the person that lost the 'additional luggage' that may have been delivered to us???), but it appeared that they had given the credit to all the guests that had been disturbed the night before. Wow. How incredibly cool.

WOW!!!!!!

People have to raise a "stink" usually to get response from management!!

 

[Chickkypoo]

This shock didn't happen to me, it happened to my brother:

Last year when my brother was riding the bus back to PC after a night at Pleasure Island, he was on the bus alone with two very intoxicated women who were flirting with him (he didn't know these girls). At one point one of the girls said she really had to go pee, and couldn't hold it, so she proceeded to walk to the back of the bus, squat and relieve herself onto the back floor of the bus.

Needless to say, this didn't impress my brother, and when he stopped by my room to tell me this story, I was totally disgusted!

What I couldn't understand is he said the bus driver didn't say a word to these girls!

 

[jann1033]

I posted this previously....

We were waiting to watch Fantasmic this evening and a trio of teenagers where sitting two rows behind us. The row directly behind us was empty. These three teenagers thought it was funny to tell a women sitting next to us to sit down, she was blocking their view. No it was 6:00, show didn't start for an hour and the woman was taking off her backpack to sit down. Then ...........


They busted a package of ketchup on the sit in front of them and smeared it all over the seat. They were laughing like someone was watching a comedy show. A man sitting close got a CM and the teenagers received a warning.

we saw a number of unrestrained bratty teenaged kids also. one group was harrassing a woman ( stranger to them) while waiting for the bus to dtd from gf pretty late ( 11or so) and weren't old enough to get into pi( at that time) so we wondered where in the world they were going. the cm standing there just ignored what was going on but the woman seemed really upset and glad when we got there as she had been alone at the stop with them . they were rude and obnoxious and one 18 yr old young man was all over a " just turned 14" yr old girl (his hands were all over the place) . the rest were 14 and younger and from the conversation it sounded like they were staying at GF and just leaving for the "evening" .you just have to wonder what kind of parents do these kids have and where in the world are they. and if they thought the 18 yr old was "responsible" enough to look out for the younger ones they were nuttier than their kids!

the bratty kids with the catsup should have had to lick it up imo

 

[bigmerle1966]

This shock didn't happen to me, it happened to my brother:

Last year when my brother was riding the bus back to PC after a night at Pleasure Island, he was on the bus alone with two very intoxicated women who were flirting with him (he didn't know these girls). At one point one of the girls said she really had to go pee, and couldn't hold it, so she proceeded to walk to the back of the bus, squat and relieve herself onto the back floor of the bus.

Needless to say, this didn't impress my brother, and when he stopped by my room to tell me this story, I was totally disgusted!

What I couldn't understand is he said the bus driver didn't say a word to these girls!

Since they were drunk he probably didn't want to get into a confrontation with them. Drunk people can be quite happy one minute and lose their minds the next. The driver may also have had rules to follow with how to handle drunks.

 

[Twinprincesses]

In the playhouse disney line there was a little kid probably 7 shoved in a stroller and he was all alone with nobody else in site. Right when the show was getting ready to let in about 9 people came to the line. I guess they were using him to hold thier place.

 

[Poohnatic]

I saw the tail end of an shocking event.

Woman in her late 60s/early 70's in an ECV (a big, HEAVY one) at Epcot. She apparently ran over the foot of a gentleman. Wife was telling the CM's at Norway that they need to do something about it, her husband was in pain.

I saw the wife of the injured guy first, then I see this HUGE ECV, with a woman sitting on it, with a look on her face like she was just going for a casual visit in the park. Her husband was getting into it with the guy who was obviously in a lot of pain about my wife just had double hip replacement, she needs this thing. Injured man was yelling at the top of his lungs that he may need a foot replacement.

Shocking that the woman who did it didn't say one word, not an apology-NOTHING. Her husband was of the mind that it was the guy's fault for standing in front of them in a very crowded area. She wanted to go and she didn't care who she ran over.

Suzanne

 

[HooKooDooKu]

Biggest shock I can remember during a Disney trip was on a Disney Cruise. I'm walking down the Aft stair case when I encounter a black labrador retriever that is by himself, trying to figure out how to get on the elevator.



Now this story does have a simple explanation... it was 'Cash the wonder dog'. For those that don't know, Cash is a service dog for Linda, a member of these boards. Fortunately I had just passed Linda up on Deck 9, so I knew right where to lead him. Apparently Cash had escaped from his cabin and when looking for Linda when the cabin steward came to clean.



My second story is not Disney related, but is both "shocking" and funny. We were watching the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" when a older gentleman comes into the movie with what appear to be his grandchildren (ages 5-7?). So first, I'm thinking that this isn't an appropriate movie for these kids. But to make things worse, his cell phone goes off during the movie... and he ANSWERS IT. OK, so we think, surely he's going to say something like "I'm in a movie, let me call you back later". But as you've already guessed by now, he instead strikes up a conversation, and isn't even attempting to keep his voice down. You can hear the mumbling from people all over the audience as we all keep thinking... surely he's about to hang up that phone. This goes on for about 1 minute and I'm just about to tell this guy off when he finally hangs up. Not five minutes later, the grand kids start whining about something. His response is to repeatedly tell the kid to "keep quite". You could hear the audible chuckle from the entire audience as this man has to keep telling the kids over and over to "keep quiet".

 

[misskrystal]

Something that really annoys me is people saving tables in fast food restaurants (not just at Disney but anywhere) while there are people who have stood in line for their food and can't find an empty table anywhere.

I don't mind table saving, what bothers me is when someone uses a table to just sit and relax, while the rest of us spend 30 minutes looking for somewhere to eat.

It happened to us at BB this summer. One lady was relaxing at the only shaded table left, while families with food had to sit in the sun. Fortunately it didn't take long for her to sense everyone's annoyance and she moved.

 

[3gr8kids]

BUMP

 

[Tyendanega]

I've spent quite a long time reading through this thread amused and shocked, reading some of the funnier ones to DH. But I have to say that besides the stories of witnessing mental/physical abuse of children, the irresponsible act of not protecting children from the devastating affects of the sun ranks right up there for me! From the time my DD was a baby, I had her wear sunglasses and sunblock when we've been out in sun, and only let her out to play when the sun was NOT at its harshest. I've even had people look at her in her stroller and chuckle (a baby wearing sunglasses is pretty cute!)

In that same vein, though I didn't witness it in WDW, it was in my home town in CNY, I did see a lady leaving the supermarket on a blisteringly hot day with her son (maybe 2yo?) in the cart. As she got to her car, she lifted her son out of the cart and put him down next to her. The poor thing was barefoot and the asphalt was so hot you could see car tire marks in it and that heat wave effect when asphalt melts!! Needless to say the poor thing started wailing! Her response was to yell at him, saying she was tired and hot and they were almost done. I couldn't help but point out to her that her shoeless son was probably getting burned on the soles of his feet if she'd just stop thinking about herself for a second!