Have you ever had a shock?

[jenniskinni]

OK Poohnatic! As a former New Beetle owner ): who had to give it up (ok in exchange for a 3rd child) that is the coolest use of the flower vase ever!!

 

[ericamanda01]

Bump!

 

[tinkertastic]

THis happened years ago. The parks had just switched from the old mustard, ketchup and mayo packets to the machines that pump out the condiments. I was at my favorite lunch spot Peco's Bill. I guess people were just sooo not used to the machines, the lines were endless. Every machine line was 20-30 deep. Well, as I made it to the front of the line there was a lady and a man and I guess they were both aggravated at how long it had taken them to get the condiments, I not sure who cut in front of who, i think the lady may have cut in front of the man, as she starts to fill her little cups the man says something to the effect of- it's amazing how some people just can't wait their turn, well the lady answers back in a extremely rude manor. Mind you, DO THESE TWO NOT REMEMBER WHERE THEY ARE?? THERE ARE CHILDERN STANDING ALL AROUND THEM.
Anyway, here comes the shocker, the insults start to fly and then the lady takes all the little condiment cups that she had filled and smacks them on the front of the mans white crisp clean shirt, just like that. Now the mans shirt is covered in ketchup mustard and mayo and they start to shove eachother. Someone finally came and broke them up (I was maybe 16 at the time and i didn't think I should be the one to try and break them up, besides I just stood there frozen in disbelief). I swore a full out food fight was about to begin. It was sooo surreal. I never imagined that anything like that could ever happen at MK.

[COLOR=MediumTurquoise]Tinkertastic[/COLOR]

 

[PneumaticTransit]

On my visit to MGM last weekend I saw a few interesting things...

I was eating lunch outside of the ABC Commisary when I noticed a guy at the table across from us flossing his teeth while his wife was still eating. I know some people are crazy about their teeth, but the bathroom wasn't that far away. I just kept imagining little food globs flinging into his wife's lunch. Then he proceeds to toss the floss on the ground, and it was a breezy day... it drifted a few feet only to land on some poor girls foot (she was wearing sandals - see why they aren't a good idea?) EW EW EW! Then the guy tears off another piece of floss and starts all over again. Ack!

During the same sitting outside the Commisary a mom and dad (think Ken & Barbie) with 2 small children walk up to a table. The kids had a balloon signed by Winnie the Pooh and the dad was arguing they couldn't take it on the rides so they had to get rid of it. He continues to sit on the balloon, and bounce up and down 'til it pops and laughs hysterically at his kids sad faces. What a great dad. Even if his kids couldn't keep it, why wouldn't he just give it to another little kid?

And last, but not least - I passed by a woman wearing a tube top and hot pants. Lets just say these were VERY small hot pants that probably required a good waxing if you know what I mean. Trailing behind her are her daughters (about 14 and 9 y/o's) wearing the EXACT same outfit. It looked like a train of cheap street walkers.

 

[WishingOnAStar]

It looked like a train of cheap street walkers.

 

[prince of thieves]

I haven't even come close to reading through every single post on this thread but this one might take the cake in terms of an eye opener. read through this thread first:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=413061
and tell me what you think. When you get to the two posters RWETHEREYET and YESDEAR, they are both my parents and thus I am the topic of discussion in the thread. It was by far the scariest thing that I have ever had to do and am very fortunate that things turned out the way they did. I will never, ever forget that day and event.

 

[IloveWINNIEthePOOH]

I haven't even come close to reading through every single post on this thread but this one might take the cake in terms of an eye opener. read through this thread first:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=413061
and tell me what you think. When you get to the two posters RWETHEREYET and YESDEAR, they are both my parents and thus I am the topic of discussion in the thread. It was by far the scariest thing that I have ever had to do and am very fortunate that things turned out the way they did. I will never, ever forget that day and event.

Wow, that is awesome! I bet you felt proud of your duties! Congrats to you!!

 

[MinnieM21]

My best friend's first trip to Disney was without me. It was for spring break in college.
They were waiting in line for something (I want to say Splash Mountain) and there is a group of about 6 highschool cheerleaders with their coach ahead of them. As they get closer to the front of the line, more cheerleaders keep pushing ahead of them to 'join their group'. After about a half hour of this, and at least 10 cheerleaders, my friend gets annoyed and starts making comments to the members of her group about how it is rude to cut in line, especially with so many people. We are from MA, and my friend has a strong Boston accent, is about 6 feet tall, athletic and a redhead (Think Donna from That 70's Show). Well, as she is making comments a few more cheerleaders are cutting. One very small, blonde cheerleader turns to her, does the hairflip, trusts forward one hip, puts her hands on her hips and says in a Southern accent "Ya'll are friendly. Where ya'll from?". My friend turns to her, gives her one look and says "Not your trailer park."
The cheerleader ran to her coach and complained. The coach came back and apologized for all of the girls attitudes and let my friends move up ahead of them. Apparently, the coach had spent enough time with the cheerleaders to know how terribly they behave.
Not the nicest thing to say, but whenever we see intentional rude behavior ANYWHERE we now just turn to each other and ask "Ya'll are friendly. Where Ya'll from?" and have a good laugh.

 

[Aidensmom]

During the same sitting outside the Commisary a mom and dad (think Ken & Barbie) with 2 small children walk up to a table. The kids had a balloon signed by Winnie the Pooh and the dad was arguing they couldn't take it on the rides so they had to get rid of it. He continues to sit on the balloon, and bounce up and down 'til it pops and laughs hysterically at his kids sad faces. What a great dad. Even if his kids couldn't keep it, why wouldn't he just give it to another little kid?

That is just sad!

 

[Mom to Will and Finn]

During the same sitting outside the Commisary a mom and dad (think Ken & Barbie) with 2 small children walk up to a table. The kids had a balloon signed by Winnie the Pooh and the dad was arguing they couldn't take it on the rides so they had to get rid of it. He continues to sit on the balloon, and bounce up and down 'til it pops and laughs hysterically at his kids sad faces. What a great dad. Even if his kids couldn't keep it, why wouldn't he just give it to another little kid?
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I can't stand it when people laugh at children like that. What a horrible man.

 

[tlbwriter]

Ok two shocks one not funny actually sad. We were at fantasmic for the first time ever and a little boy 2 rows back threw up everywhere. It started with coughing and went into dry heaves then vomitting The shock was they stayed to watch the show poor kid

If my daughter coughs hard enough, she will vomit. She could just be coughing because a piece of popcorn is tickling her throat, or because she's not quite over a cold and something made her laugh very hard, which tends to cause a coughing fit if she has a cold. So the kid might not really have been too sick to stay for the show (and if he's anything like my kid, dragging him away from a show he wanted to see would cause crying, and then more coughing, and would do more harm than good! )

 

[MI mom of 3]

bump...this is too good to end

 

[ladysoleil]

Here's another one for ya...

We were at MK for our anniversary trip back in March. Unfortunately, on Day 1 of the trip, I managed to trip and fall into a ditch in front of our hotel (I am sooooo coordinated) and sprained my ankle quite badly.

So, we ended up renting a wheelchair. I was *not* about to blow our Disney trip by sitting in the hotel with my feet up!

Most of the time, we did fine. However, this one made my jaw drop. We were standing in line at the Speedway (handicapped goes through the regular line until you hit the wheelchair entrance), and there were a couple of very hyperactive young boys in front of us. The younger one, probably about six or so, was entertaining himself by making rude faces at me. I thought this was amusing, so I wasn't bent out of shape by it.

However, that apparently got boring really quickly, because after a few minutes of this, the kid hauled off and *kicked* my wheelchair! I was stunned. Aside from the fact that it freakin' hurt, I was amazed that he'd done such a thing. My husband, aka, "the pusher", said, loudly enough for the parents to hear, "Did you just kick my wife's wheelchair?!?".

And the kid *does it again!*

The parents obviously heard. Just didn't bother to do anything about it. Amazing. I couldn't believe what had just happened. I was so stunned that all I could stammer out was, "hon, please don't kick my wheelchair!". The kid then nodded and went running off further up the line.

So weird!

 

[jlowejd5]

A couple of years ago, DW and I were just exiting the main room of the TimeKeeper when this snotty little 11-year-old girl hauled off and elbowed her right in the small of the back as she walked by, just out of boredom, I guess. Not a little nudge, but a full-on elbow smash. DW has a disc problem and sciatica, and it darn near put us back to the hotel for the afternoon. I couldn't get caught up with Stupid and her parents to bellow at them without abandoning DW, so I had to swallow it and help her walk over to a bench for twenty minutes until the shooting pains down her leg subsided. I swear I have never in my life been closer to jackslapping somebody else's kid. Grr...

Luckily, we got the kinks worked out and were able to enjoy the rest of the day. I do emphatically believe in the great and mysterious healing power of ice cream shaped like our favorite rodent...

 

[Darian]

A couple of years ago, DW and I were just exiting the main room of the TimeKeeper when this snotty little 11-year-old girl hauled off and elbowed her right in the small of the back as she walked by, just out of boredom, I guess. Not a little nudge, but a full-on elbow smash. DW has a disc problem and sciatica, and it darn near put us back to the hotel for the afternoon. I couldn't get caught up with Stupid and her parents to bellow at them without abandoning DW, so I had to swallow it and help her walk over to a bench for twenty minutes until the shooting pains down her leg subsided. I swear I have never in my life been closer to jackslapping somebody else's kid. Grr...

Luckily, we got the kinks worked out and were able to enjoy the rest of the day. I do emphatically believe in the great and mysterious healing power of ice cream shaped like our favorite rodent...

God Almighty! The viciousness of that little 11 year old monster! Sounds like she has a promising career as a customer of the correctional system. You are a better person than I am. I would have been unable to restrain my urge for physical retribution. I'm glad you DW is ok.

 

[Disney 4 Me]

bump. I enjoy this thread and hope others will post their shocks!

 

[Pixiedusttravel]

Okay, we just had one on our latest visit last week. While we were at MK (I think it was on Wed.) It started to rain. We took cover in Fantasyland right outside the place where people exit the Philharmagic show. We were checking out the merchandise at the little store there when we noticed a lady changing her baby's diaper (which is fine). When she was done changing him (and let me add this was a 2 year old looking child with a NASTY #2 diaper) she proceeded to look around for a garbage can, and casually drop the diaper into one of the purple containers that you put your 3-D glasses in after the show! I looked at my DH to see if he had seen what I had seen, and obviously he did because he had the same dumbfound look on his face! Here's the real kicker - a CM was walking by and saw the whole thing and didn't say a word.

 

[alabamagirl]

I have been fortunate not to see most of these things, even while I worked at Disney but.........

One time my fiance and I stayed at POR and were really wanting to get into the hottub but it was always full. One day it was only half full so we got in with another family. Well mom was a rather large lady and let's just say her bathing suit didn't quite fit. At all. She was falling out of the front (yes hair and all) and the back. Gross. Needless to say my fiance saw that and was out of the hottub like a flash.

 

[Sherrilatte]

Okay, we just had one on our latest visit last week. While we were at MK (I think it was on Wed.) It started to rain. We took cover in Fantasyland right outside the place where people exit the Philharmagic show. We were checking out the merchandise at the little store there when we noticed a lady changing her baby's diaper (which is fine). When she was done changing him (and let me add this was a 2 year old looking child with a NASTY #2 diaper) she proceeded to look around for a garbage can, and casually drop the diaper into one of the purple containers that you put your 3-D glasses in after the show! I looked at my DH to see if he had seen what I had seen, and obviously he did because he had the same dumbfound look on his face! Here's the real kicker - a CM was walking by and saw the whole thing and didn't say a word.

OMG!!!

 

[mitros]

You know, there are so many nuts out there. The CM probably was afraid the woman would make a huge scene {I have witnessed such outbursts from these types} and make the CM feel bad even though the CM would be in the right to say something to this person.