Have you ever had a shock?

[ekmdisney]

trying to post a picture but not sure I am doing this right so please bear with me.
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Well sorry that didn't work. Will have to figure out what I did wrong.[/QUOTE]

Is this the pic you are trying to post??

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[katelynsmommy2001]

We were just at MK a couple of weeks ago! ( sad it's over) and I handed the photo pass photographer my card. We were seeing Mickey!! After taking our pic, she gets a call on her cell phone! I figured she would let it ring! Nope! SHe answers it!! In the process, she places our card from the whole day in her pocket with about 300 blank photo pass cards!! There was another photographer there who was nice enogh to go thru & find our pics!! And i got a free 5x7 too!! Couldn't believe CM answered a call!!

 

[dmk1021]

Couldn't believe CM answered a call!!

Sadly, I can believe it. Once, there was a young man loading Peter Pan and he was too busy to actually do his job because he was checking his text messages on his cell phone.

Now, technically, that did not "ruin" the magic for me, because I am a pessimist and know that all those CMs are not as passionate about WDW as I am; however, that being said, for a first-timer, or anyone else for that reason, that CM (and it seems yours as well) could potentially tarnish the reputation of WDW as a truly special place among the theme parks of the world. I have family that really thinks Disney is a waste of time, and that it's no better than our local Six Flags. They are entitled to their opinion. If they decided to finally go and see what all the fuss is about, and they encountered a CM that was on his/her cell phone, that would justify their opinion. I really take it seriously when I see CMs who don't give "good show" as they say at WDW. I grew up really idolizing WED, and as an adult, I have a true appreciation for what he was trying to accomplish with DL and WDW, and it makes me mad when some lazy kid (or whoever) that does not care puts a blemish on that.

My long-winded answer of the day, folks!

 

[Angelrose]

THANK YOU ekmdisney! Yes that is the picture I wanted to post. Now here is the text that you can't read.

"Guests of the Magic Kingdom were surprised to see a monorail going at a high rate of speed on Tuesday Morning. From eyewitness accounts this is what we believe happened. At about 8am monorail pink stopped at the Grand Floridian hotel to pick up passengers. The driver left the cab to talk to the station attendant. To his surprise, the monorail sped off with a woman (who has been dubbed the "Monorail Maniac") at the controls. The driver said that he didn't know that it would go that fast. After a high speed ride, the monorail stopped at the Ticket Center where the woman and her laughing male companion disappeared into the early morning crowd. Some of the people hear her say "I'm Sweet Mary". Passengers disembarking said it was the best thrill ride they had ever been on. Authorities are still searching for her but don't believe she is connected with any known terrorist group. A generous reward is offered for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the "Monorail Maniac". Anyone with information is requested to call WDW at 1 800 237-5751."


Now before anyone faints. This was a joke. My friends were always teasing me about going to WDW. They kept saying I was going to kidnap Mickey and bring him home. So My DH and I decided to give them a little fun. Before we even left for our trip, we typed out the "newspaper report". Then we got to ride in the front of the monorail and took these pictures. The final bit was finding an Orlando Sentinal paper discarded in the trash. We cut out the title and then when we got home we put it all together and sent it to my friends. They did get a good laugh out of it. In fact one friend, you know who you are, took the picture to WDW and showed it to a monorail driver who actually asked if it was real! LOL

Hope you all get a little chuckle out of it.

 

[Talking Hands]

Sadly, I can believe it. Once, there was a young man loading Peter Pan and he was too busy to actually do his job because he was checking his text messages on his cell phone.

Castmembers are not even supposed to have personal cell phones onstage. There are some castmembers that have Disney cell phones for communication but I usually see those on supervisors and higher ups.

 

[offtheice]

My last trip in dec, I had the bus driver cursing out one of the guest on the bus.. They almost dropped there gloves.. lol

 

[Jaxs27]

I really pushed this memory out of my head but it really irritated me at the time. We were in Mickey's philharmonic with my dd who was 3. When it started she really got into it. She was reaching for Donald and just loved the heck out of it. Well the grown man behind her said very loudly, "I can't see because that little brat won't stop jumping up." I understood his irritation, but come on. I then kept trying to keep her down and he kept on grumbling and it really ruined it for me. She totally enjoyed it though and didn't even pay attention to him, so I was ok. When we were leaving I shot him the worst possible look I could, his poor wife was beyond embarrassed.

 

[MommyPoppins]

We were at MK this past Sat. DH had taken the older boys to BTMR and I took the little ones to use our Peter Pan FP’s, which we had gotten earlier in the evening. We had a very short wait, less than 5 minutes. Would have been 4, but this incredibly rude family cut in front of us. The CM let the boys and me through the rope and into the main line and the she closed the rope. Well when she opened it again and next FP family just pushed me out of the way and got in front of me. A mom, dad and 2 kids. Ethan was openly miffed and she looked at him and said said, “Oh, you have to wait your turn.”. EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get this, she was wearing lime green. So, hey, if your reading this, that was really rude and you’re now voted out of the DIS. NO DIS FOR YOU! We had a fun ride anyway.

I was also shocked at the amount of college kids openly smoking anywhere they pleased. Walking through Dinoland, sitting on Mainstreet. Wherever.

 

[dbenlee]

I really pushed this memory out of my head but it really irritated me at the time. We were in Mickey's philharmonic with my dd who was 3. When it started she really got into it. She was reaching for Donald and just loved the heck out of it. Well the grown man behind her said very loudly, "I can't see because that little brat won't stop jumping up." I understood his irritation, but come on. I then kept trying to keep her down and he kept on grumbling and it really ruined it for me. She totally enjoyed it though and didn't even pay attention to him, so I was ok. When we were leaving I shot him the worst possible look I could, his poor wife was beyond embarrassed.

I have never understood this type of reaction at Mickey's Philharmagic or any other show. Half of the magic of the show is watching my DS 6 and other children's reactions during the show. Seeing every child in the place reaching for items "floating" out of the screen is well worth the inconvienence of having little heads and arms in the way of the screen.

 

[disneyaggie]

I have never understood this type of reaction at Mickey's Philharmagic or any other show. Half of the magic of the show is watching my DS 6 and other children's reactions during the show. Seeing every child in the place reaching for items "floating" out of the screen is well worth the inconvienence of having little heads and arms in the way of the screen.

If ever I start feeling frustrated with kiddos "just being kids" (which rarely happens), I stop and realize how fortunate we are to be able to live in a country where women don't wear burkas and children can laugh and play freely, as opposed to so many others who are not as fortunate. It sure makes me enjoy the children, their little arms in my way, and their laughter even more.

 

[jann1033]

I really pushed this memory out of my head but it really irritated me at the time. We were in Mickey's philharmonic with my dd who was 3. When it started she really got into it. She was reaching for Donald and just loved the heck out of it. Well the grown man behind her said very loudly, "I can't see because that little brat won't stop jumping up." I understood his irritation, but come on. I then kept trying to keep her down and he kept on grumbling and it really ruined it for me. She totally enjoyed it though and didn't even pay attention to him, so I was ok. When we were leaving I shot him the worst possible look I could, his poor wife was beyond embarrassed.

well he'd really hate me cause i realize i do this at every 3d show. i try to control it but just can't ( not jumping but reaching)

 

[MommyPoppins]

I forgot to mention my shock at how filthy the bathrooms were. I never once saw a CM in there cleaning up and there was always paper on the floor and pee and worse on the seats. I felt like I had walked out of WDW and into Walmart.

One time I walked into a stall and there was nastiness all over the back of the seat and the back inside of the toilet. By nastiness, I don't mean just pee. I mean, how does that happen? I feel sorry for the person that left that mess, it must have been explosive.

 

[jann1033]

I forgot to mention my shock at how filthy the bathrooms were. I never once saw a CM in there cleaning up and there was always paper on the floor and pee and worse on the seats. I felt like I had walked out of WDW and into Walmart.

One time I walked into a stall and there was nastiness all over the back of the seat and the back inside of the toilet. By nastiness, I don't mean just pee. I mean, how does that happen? I feel sorry for the person that left that mess, it must have been explosive.

ya know ya have to wonder if they would do that at home...once i got someone's" left overs" all over my shorts( must have been down the front of the outside of the potty) smelled great till i could get somewhere and change and i thought i would really lose it in the mean time ( still makes me want to gag)

 

[aunt kelly]

Last week we were at the Dig Site pool at Coronado Springs. The weather was beautiful and the pool was packed. Of course, everyone was running around barefoot. I saw a man on the other side of the pool hug his small son (which I thought was cute). Then he lit up a cigarette (can you smoke at the pools?) Then he started flipping his ashes on the concrete by the pool where people were walking barefoot. Gross!

 

[pixiedust23]

A couple things...
1) hands reaching out for objects and a child jumping up and down in a seat are two different things. I can see how a jumping child could be a distraction and an annoyance, esp if the individual waited for a long time to see the attraction.
2) i totally agree on the smoking thing, but I'm out of college and I look like I'm in hs, so try not to stereotype. Those "college kids" you see smoking could def be adults in their 20's.
3)we went to sesame place when i was younger and i was running around in the water attraction area...i think it was a giant pool kind of area (this was many years ago) and i actually stepped barefoot on a lit and completely extinguished cigarette. I spent at least an hour in first aid and I had issues walking for the rest of our mini vacation.

 

[Dislifer]

I forgot to mention my shock at how filthy the bathrooms were. I never once saw a CM in there cleaning up and there was always paper on the floor and pee and worse on the seats. I felt like I had walked out of WDW and into Walmart.

One time I walked into a stall and there was nastiness all over the back of the seat and the back inside of the toilet. By nastiness, I don't mean just pee. I mean, how does that happen? I feel sorry for the person that left that mess, it must have been explosive.

I feel sorry for the person who has to clean it!!!! People are so nasty in public bathrooms!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LuvN~Travel]

With your story and my story, I wonder how often Disney makes the mistake of double or triple booking a room. Scary if you think about it!! [/QUOTE]


Quite a bit apparently.
One of my customers went to WDW the day after New Year's this year, and he and his companion were booked into an already booked room at AKL. When they walked in they walked into a room where the woman was getting dressed! Her husband then came at them with his fists up ready to fight!
Well my customer and his companion went back to the desk and as they were being booked in another room, the other family was raising an awful ruckus.
When all was said and done, my customer and his companion were upgraded to concierge for the entire stay, and the other family had their entire stay comped!
I told my customer he got a better upgrade than i did there.
Kim

 

[KatheeME]

bump!

 

[tdryl98]

okay, so here is my shock, or better yet shocks. we, me and dd7 went the 2nd week of feb. we left late in the day and arrived at our room at pop around 1am. as i go into the bathroom i notice the clothsline thing is streatched across the tub and it was being used to dry a pair of thong underware. how could u miss that when u cleaned the room?

several days later we are off to ride poc. we get on the ride, no lines, its great. however the guy behind us thinks its a good thing to take pictures through the whole ride. finally i just can't take being blinded any more and say something. he says sorry, u should have said something sooner, then proceedes to take 6 more pictures. what?

lastly i had a lovely time with all the cheerleaders, did i mention a 2 hour flight with a whole squad that was being filmed for the lifetime network? no, i guess i'm trying to block that from my memory. anyway we get in line for sm at mk, we have a fass pass so we don't stop to wait until almost at the end. what comes up behind us but a group of cheerleaders. first one sees the sign showing a person in an ECV transfereing to a wheelchair to get inline for the ride so she proceedes to yell the cripples need to transfer about 10times. then she turns to one of her friends and say "so and so it say you have to supervise your children" which so and so replys, "actually it says expectant mothers shouldn't ride, maybe i can get rid of it". wow, my mother raised me with more manners than to say things like that with a bunch of small children around.

 

[ntink]

My shock was earlier this month while waiting in line to get in to AK. We got there around 10am and there were long lines to get in. As we are waiting in line, I hear a woman behind me say "leave your brother alone, he's not feeling well". A few minutes later, I turned around and I saw 2 young boys in a double stroller, the one looked quite ill to me and I hear two women (looked like Mom & Grandmom) talking to another couple behind them saying how sick the one boy was, how he had a fever, vomiting and diahrea (spelling?) since they arrived but what a trooper he was coming to the parks each day and what a pain it was to go back to the room in the middle of the day so he could get some rest.
I wanted to scream and could not stop thinking about the poor boy for the rest of the day and even now it makes me so upset to think that a sick child was dragged through the parks. The boy looked like he just wanted to be back in bed.
I try very hard not to judge people because you really never know what a person's situation is unless you are involved but I could not get by this one. The topper for me was that it appeared they had a large group with them so why couldn't someone stay back in the room with the child?