Have you ever had a shock?

[tlbwriter]

I'm sure dogs are not allowed, unless it was quite small and they smuggled it in. Yet how could they, if the bags are searched?

If it was a small dog, it could have been smuggled in under a jacket. Or maybe they covered it with a blanket in the stroller - do the CMs look under blankets if there's a baby allegedly sleeping under there?

 

[jann1033]

WHY??? maybe he loves space mountain? or is the long lost son of pluto? aw: aw: aw: aw: or is an expert on Buzz and the husband is tired of losing ? but what i wanna know is ...did the cms ask him how old he was and if he was over 3 did he buy a pass?

 

[DizBelle]

I'm sure dogs are not allowed, unless it was quite small and they smuggled it in. Yet how could they, if the bags are searched? Perhaps it was a stuffed toy dog. It seems to me, I read on another post about a lady who takes a stuffed toy dog with her to WDW. If I remember correctly, it seems she was greiving the death of her dog or child, I forget which, and she takes this toy for a substitute. My heart goes out to unbalanced people. The world must be a sad place for them.

Actually, the story said that this was her REAL dog that she had stuffed after he/she died.

 

[Texian@WDW]

Not that shocking - just kind of weird.

Standing outside Tinkerbelle's Treasure's, waiting for kids to come out. I was watching people coming into FantasyLand via the castle. This tall woman and short man kissed each other two or three times (he had to tippy toe) and they parted ways and I assume he left to go to the men's room. She came over to the bushes planted next to the building, took a swig of water, gargled and spit out the contents into the bushes. She did it repeatedly.

My first thought was that she was washing his kisses away, but maybe she had a dry throat. My second thought was "Why didn't you do that in the Ladies Room?".

 

[chip1]

To all those wondering about the dog, there is no doubt. It was a little dog just sitting in the stroller. My husband saw it, I saw it as well as my mom. We just kept looking because we just could not believe it. It just has to have slipped by the front gate somehow. It truly takes all kinds!

 

[nicolemomof4cuties]

A few pages back someone commented about large families and shocking things people say to you.... we have 4 kids, the oldest is 6- the twins are 4 and the youngest is 2. You wouldn't believe what people say to us.... at Disney last summer a woman in line for the teacups said to my DH, "don't you have a T.V.?" and then laughed so hard with her husband. We also had somebody ask us if we were a "blended" family. Is that anyone's business??? But the best one was at the Poly pool when a woman asked me "why didn't you bring your nanny?" Let me just say, these are well behaved kids that my DH and I watch very closely. I never know what to say to people when they say such shocking things- usually because they are just "curious" how we could have so many kids so close in age. Last week at the mall when a woman with one toddler (that seemed too much for her to handle!) said. "better you than me!" in reference to my twins, I said "you are absolutley right!" and just pushed my double stroller away.

Krismom--
My husband and I are the proud parents of 4 cuties ages 6,4,3 and1 and boy do we get some comments. Everything from "Do you know what causes that", "Ever heard of birth control?", and one old man at Wal-mart one day said "Wow you two must *&^87 like jackrabbits." Also my husband has black hair and dark brown eyes and olive complexion and I have Dark brown hair and blue eyes --well all of our children are blond (one platinum blond) and blue eyed. We have actually had quite a few people ask if they are adopted.....I mean HOW RUDE!!! Yeah, we adopted 4 children that just happen to look like photcopies of each other! I hope that we don't get any rude comments this week at Disney! Honestly though I have never had anyone make a rude comment about my children's behavior. Actually people tell me and the children all the time that they are well-behaved. My husband works 2nd shift so I have to take all of my children to the grocery store and such in the evenings alone (I run a daycare during the day) and a couple of days ago at Wal-mart one of the greeters said to another greeter as we were leaving " There goes those well-behaved children, their mom is sure lucky because they never misbehave!" (If she only saw them at bedtime....... ) My husband is one of 12 though so to us 4 children is like a small family . His family is DM , DD , DS 29 , My DH 27 , DS 25 , DS 23 , DB 21 , DS 20 , DB 18 , DS 16 , DS 13 , DB 11 , DS 9 , and
DB 6 People don't make the rude comments to his parent though because they are very quiet looking people IMHO. They went to their 1st amusement park this Summer and his DM was praying on the ferris wheel . They could'nt afford vacations so my DH thinks that they are important and we budget for them .

Nicole
wife to Reuben
Mother to
DS 6.5
DD 4.5
DD 3.5
DS 1.5

 

[DizBelle]

Krismom--
My husband and I are the proud parents of 4 cuties ages 6,4,3 and1 and boy do we get some comments. .... We have actually had quite a few people ask if they are adopted.....I mean HOW RUDE!!!

I don't think I understand how asking if they're adopted is rude.... Can someone explain? Is adopting or being adopted a bad thing?

 

[bwv4me]

I don't think I understand how asking if they're adopted is rude.... Can someone explain? Is adopting or being adopted a bad thing?

Of course it's not a bad thing but asking complete strangers if their child is adopted sure is!
What business is it of theirs?

 

[nicolemomof4cuties]

I am not saying that is bad to adopt or be adopted--actually I am unable to have more children due to a medical problem and we have been thinking of adopting in the future. We LOVE being parents and love children in general. Which is one of the reasons that we run a home daycare. What I think is rude is that someone that I don't know from Adam thinks that they have a right to come up and ask if my kids are adopted. Like it is their business. Sometimes the comments and stares are just too much. We can't go anywhere without the obnoxious comments and what-not. The nice comments are great and make up for it quite a bit, though .

 

[MELSMICE]

I don't think I understand how asking if they're adopted is rude.... Can someone explain? Is adopting or being adopted a bad thing?

Being adopted is not a bad thing at all, but asking if a child is adopted is very rude, IMO. Who cares & what does it matter?

 

[3gr8kids]

 

[AnaheimGirl]

Yeah, we adopted 4 children that just happen to look like photcopies of each other!

Well, you could have adopted a sibling group.

But really, as an adoptive mom, I agree, it's a rude question for anyone to just ask a stranger out of nosiness. As if it matters : Sometimes the asker might be considering adoption and want to ask about your experience, but they really ought to make that clear up front.

 

[shezfrombermuda]

We just returned Tuesday from our trip. Monday while sitting waiting for a show, our family saw a couple walk by with a stroller with a DOG in it! In fact, they sat waiting for the same show as us. I just kept looking at them in disbelief. Why on earth would you bring a dog to DisneyWorld? I understand seeing eye dogs, etc. I also understand people who bring their dogs on vacation. But to the parkts? WHY??? I don't understand why they were allowed in. Where do they urinate, etc.? Just could not believe what we saw. It takes all kinds.

I just returned on Wednesday. I saw a woman pulling a suitcase type bag on wheels with a dog in it in the World Showcase!!! It had a small netted window in the side, big enough to see that it was a white dog. I thought the same thing, why would you bring a dog? How could they get it through the front gate?

 

[monty]

WHY??? maybe he loves space mountain? or is the long lost son of pluto? aw: aw: aw: aw: or is an expert on Buzz and the husband is tired of losing ? but what i wanna know is ...did the cms ask him how old he was and if he was over 3 did he buy a pass?

is that in dog years or human years??

 

[KCMiller]

We just returned Tuesday from our trip. Monday while sitting waiting for a show, our family saw a couple walk by with a stroller with a DOG in it! In fact, they sat waiting for the same show as us. I just kept looking at them in disbelief. Why on earth would you bring a dog to DisneyWorld? I understand seeing eye dogs, etc. I also understand people who bring their dogs on vacation. But to the parkts? WHY??? I don't understand why they were allowed in. Where do they urinate, etc.? Just could not believe what we saw. It takes all kinds.

Omigod!!! They've followed me here from the camping board!!!! They're taking their little doggie in the stroller INTO the parks now, not just taking them to all the resort pools so their poor doggie will have a good time . . . .



KC

 

[Uuaww]

oh man, if a dog got into the pool it is really bad, legally you have to drain the pool.

 

[CAD3655]

just a bump

 

[Ride Junkie]

Another bump! Keep this one alive...more please!

 

[MELSMICE]

Just returned a few hours ago. I didn't see anything really shocking.

Just the same old thing - some rude people, some people dressed inappropriately - nothing too exciting though. An uneventful trip!

 

[frayedend]

One thing I would say is that whatever you witness, short of abusing a child, you can't know all the circumstances of the shocking offense. My family behaved badly on a Disney cruise a few years ago, but if everyone knew the entire story masybe they wouldn't judge us so quickly. Here it is...

We had a 6 month old boy and couldn't find a "picture with characters" before 7 PM on any night. Well at 7 PM my kid was in no mood to take pictures. We checked and there weren't any other times except one night with Goofy at 5 PM. We had dinner shortly after that time, so we got in line at 4:00. There was no line, just us and the Pursers desk. We talked to the people at the desk for a while and entertained our kid by playing. About 4:30 a woman and her daughter, about 10 years old comes to the area. Since there is no line yet we are just standing there. Finally as people show up, a line starts to form behind this woman. Well, we decide not to move, since we were first and she obviously knows this. Then her husband comes down a few minutes later. We see her and her husband whispering and looking at us as if we are not supposed to be first. Anyway, Goofy finally shows up and my wife brings my son to Goofy's lap. The woman and husband scream that there is a line and we are not first. Luckily the photographer clicked away quickly and got my son done. The woman and husband continue yelling at us. At which point my wife, very upset says "F%$@ You and your matching Wal-mart dresses!". Well, that was wrong because of the kids in line, but we were just so mad. We knew we were first mostly because as the mother/daughter arrived we whispered jokes to eachother about their matching dresses. Anyhow, they then tell us to go back to New York. Presumably they can't tell the difference between a Boston and New York accent. These people didn't realize that they were the straw that broke the camels back, so to speak. To this day it bothers me that they probably truly believed they were first and I had no chance to prove it to them.

Well I'm sure we looked like the bad guys. They even called security on us and we were warned that we could be booted from the ship if we used profanity. What people did not know was we had tried on 4 occasions to get pictures with a character and our son. Every other thing on that cruise went wrong, too much to list here. It was probably the worst vacation ever and we just got caught at the wrong time.