Have you ever had a shock?

[slk537]

We had a couple on our last trip...at Universal IOA, we were going through Jurassic Park and saw a group of upper teen kids clustered around the front of the jeep from the movie. In the front was one girl in really short shorts which were unsnapped, unzipped, and open a bit. She was draped over the front of the jeep like she was posing for a calendar. Another boy was taking her picture while yet one more was kneeling in front of her with his head about zipper height. Nice.

The other main one was when DH and I were waiting for DS to come back from one of his events. We were sitting on a bench in front of one of the hotel buildings and another couple came and sat across from us. The woman began rubbing her legs and then dug into her fanny pack and pulled out a tube of cream. She then pulled off one tennis shoe and sock, propped her foot up on her knee and began rubbing cream into the red blister/bite/welts all over her foot. Then she put the sock back on, shoe back on, cream back in the bag and voila! Done. I completely understand having foot issues and needing antibiotic cream or something but I would have searched out a little more privacy.

 

[kaw1218]

I have had a few shocks... on our honeymoon DH and I were sitting out by the DL pool, a woman sat down and yelled to her husband that she wanted to feed the baby. I thought nothing of it...... until a child of about 4 or 5 came over and she proceeded to breast feed him!!! She wasn't even discreet about it.
another one at AK- we were in line for the safari and I was holding my then 9 month old when the couple in front of us proceeded to light up cigarettes. My husband bluntly told them to put it out. They tried to telling us in german that they don't speak english. At this point I will admit I wasn't very nice ....I grabbed my water bottle and started to 'douse the flame' they put it out at that point.
My worse experience at any park was at Sesame place when some jerk(I don't even want to call him a man) beat up cookie monster in front of everyone, and then tried to say that the 5ft girl inside tried to beat HIM up!!!!!!!

 

[dwheatl]

A few years ago we traveled to Washington D.C. and Williamsburg. We promised the kids that if they were good during the "educational" part of the trip, we would take them to Busch Gardens. On our last day, we went to BG, and my DH, who has mild cerebral palsy, was exhausted and rented a wheelchair. My DS and I took turns pushing him around, and when we got to a ride, he would get out and walk. In the afternoon, we parked the wheelchair to go on a boat ride, and when we came back, the wheelchair was nowhere to be seen. We continued around the park, riding rides but always on the lookout for the wheelchair. Finally, I spotted a late middle -aged man pushing his totally sauced wife around in the chair. I asked them if they had taken our wheelchair, and they swore up and down that they had not. I said, "Then you won't mind if I just look in the bag attached to the back." I reached in and pulled out my DD's Power Puff Girls hat (this couple had no children with them). My husband told my DS to go get security, and at that, the woman stumbled out of the chair and the two of them staggered off. I think they had hit the beer samples a couple of times too often.

 

[GroovyWheeler]

Like with the rental strollers at Disney, it's hard to tell which rental wheelchair is yours, because there's so many of them. Before I got my own manual wheelchair, I used to use a Disney wheelchair, and we wound up with a different wheelchair every time we came out of a ride. It's best to take all valuables with you, onto the ride, and never leave anything on a rental wheelchair from the parks, because chances are, it could get moved/mistaken for another person's.

I'm glad I bring my own manual wheelchair to the parks, because it stands out as belonging to someone, from the Disney park ones. This is because of mostly the stroller handle extension that is attached to the push handles for my 6',2" fiance' to easily push me in my wheelchair, without having to bend over. That, and the rest of the seating accessories on it, that also make it "stand out".

There was a couple of times we nearly came close to losing it completely. Once was when we were getting off the plane somewhere, and there was another guy that needed a wheelchair-only he had to use the airport wheelchair with the skycap.

When he saw mine, he thought it was an airport wheelchair, and sat in it. My mom was walking off the plane (with the seat cushion and footrests in hand) in front of me, caught them as they were turning around to go up the ramp, and said to the skycap pushing the guy: "That wheelchair belongs to us. My daughter needs it." It had a gate-check tag with my name on it, along with the final destination, which the skycap and the guy failed to notice. Well, the guy made a fuss about having to get out of it, but it truly belonged to us, and my mom would have a heck of a time, trying to get a new one through her medical insurance. Especially since they already had purchased my power chair, and according to them, it was my "primary use wheelchair".

I can't remember the second time very well.

Samantha

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Interesting thread.

My husband witnessed a group of Brazillian tourists make a circle in front of BTMR and let one of their group take a poo right there on the sidewalk. They didn't even clean it up, they just left it there. I'm not sure what happened to the group, but I suspect nothing.

I've seen soooo many kids urinate in various areas of the park, OUTSIDE of restrooms. Yuck.

I can honestly say that the WORST thing that I have personally witnessed would be the man/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend groping each other while waiting in line for Test Track. The guy had his hand so far down the front and ocassionally back of the woman's pants, it was disgusting. They were making out furiously, grinding against each other, and making quite a few grunting type noises. Quite a few people yelled at them to either leave the line and get a room, or just to plain stop. The man's reaction was to tell everyone to f--- off.

Luckily, security was there before we got to the end of the line....

 

[Stepharoonie!]

A few years ago we traveled to Washington D.C. and Williamsburg. We promised the kids that if they were good during the "educational" part of the trip, we would take them to Busch Gardens. On our last day, we went to BG, and my DH, who has mild cerebral palsy, was exhausted and rented a wheelchair. My DS and I took turns pushing him around, and when we got to a ride, he would get out and walk. In the afternoon, we parked the wheelchair to go on a boat ride, and when we came back, the wheelchair was nowhere to be seen. We continued around the park, riding rides but always on the lookout for the wheelchair. Finally, I spotted a late middle -aged man pushing his totally sauced wife around in the chair. I asked them if they had taken our wheelchair, and they swore up and down that they had not. I said, "Then you won't mind if I just look in the bag attached to the back." I reached in and pulled out my DD's Power Puff Girls hat (this couple had no children with them). My husband told my DS to go get security, and at that, the woman stumbled out of the chair and the two of them staggered off. I think they had hit the beer samples a couple of times too often.

Something similar happened to me at Universal once. Someone stole my personal stroller for my daughter. When I eventually found it (complete with her diaper bag still under the seat), I dumped out THEIR stuff on the sidewalk and walked away. Sheesh.

 

[Darian]

I have a shocker!! its not peeing or rudeness though. I was checking into Port Orleans Rvierside last year and an older gentleman fell off a couch. he began seizing, one man went over to help, and the man stopped breathing. so this man is yelling out does anyone know CPR? I ran up and did compressions for him. The mans color came back into his face and pulse ressumed, and a Lifeguard comes up with an AED and yells at us that "we better not be doing CPR on him if we don't know what we are doing, and we could be doing more damage then good" I was absolutely disgusted. the man lost consciousness again and the lifeguard didnt know how to use the AED, why did he bring it if he didnt know how to use it? It took forever for the EMT's to come, and I don't think he made it. Needless to say it put a damper on my trip, thats all i could think about. I was so upset for that man to yell at me, when i did know what i was doing, and then not help the poor man.

As a person with very advanced heart disease and who was resuscitated by my DW (she gave me CPR and saved my life last December.) I am shocked and mortified by that CM's clueless behavior. If that man died it sounds very likely that CM killed him. Did you talk to a supervisor or better yet the EMT's? Is it Disney policy to discourage people from rendering assistance and wait on some castmember to save the day?!?!? This really strikes me close to home and it is very upsetting to me.

I was more fortunate than the man you wrote about. I had an heart attack while buying jewelry for my DW on Main street at Disneyland. (no, it wasn't from looking at the prices... or maybe that was the trigger!) My sales clerk only worked at Disney part time. The other time she worked as a registered nurse at a local hospital. She saw what was going on and in 5 minutes I had paramedics hauling my semiconcious self out of the park and into an amubulance. At the hospital I got the intervention needed to save my life. I owe my life to that CM. Some weeks later I went back to Disneyland to thank her in person. I also left a thank you letter at City Hall.

Edit: j-ariel Don't let this experience keep you from helping people. When someone needs cpr, life is measured in only a few minutes. I think you are a hero. Keep up the great work!
Darian

 

[Darian]

Straight out of the mouth of the CM loading the Spaceship Earth ride: "God d@mn it! No one speaks english in the d@mned country anymore."

Now that's the Disney spirit!

I know I shouldn't, but I just had to laugh! That poor CM must have just encountered an infamous Brazilian tour group who all defecated in the loading zone. I feel for his frustration. heheheheh I can just invision some teenager overwhelmed and pimple faced who has just about had enough.

Seriously though, pehaps we should all bring little bars of soap to hand out to swearing people as a sweet reminder to mind their language.

 

[QueenGoblin]

Now, I haven't read through all 200 pages of this thread, and it is possible my family is mentioned here because of the incident I'm about to describe. So to any of you out there who were on the boat from MK to FW and then on the bus to the FW camp loops and had to listen to my DD (2 yo at the time) SCREAM for the entire trip, I'm really sorry.

In May of last year we took DD to WDW for the first time. She had a great time for most of the trip, so other parents of toddlers please do not be discouraged. We went to MK for EMH one night and our personal stroller was "borrowed" (turned up later that week). It was getting late so we headed down to wait for the boat back to FW. DD fell asleep but woke up when I stood to get on the boat (see, if I had the stroller, this might not have happened. ) When we came to the park that evening, we had ridden the monorail, so DD sees us getting on the boat and freaks out because she thinks we aren't going back to the cabin. Well, she cries and screams for the entire boat ride, and then the entire bus ride to get back to our cabin loop. We try everything to calm her down but nothing is working, so we finally just give up and let her cry. DH is about to melt right into his chair, he is so embarrassed. We are hearing all kinds of sarcastic comments, which doesn't help. Then, on the bus, a family gets off before our stop and the mom says loudly (and meanly) so that we will hear, "Sometimes they need an old fashioned smack on the ***."
DH and I were already frustrated and embarassed, but I couldn't believe someone would suggest we hit a child who was so obviously already at her wits end. I mean, if that lady thought my DD was obnoxious when screaming about being tired and confused, can you imagine how she would be screaming if I started hitting her on top of it? So not so much a shocking moment as a shocking comment. Saddest thing was my DH was ready to just stay at FW for the rest of the trip with DD because he was so worried DD would have another meltdown and trigger the kinds of responses we got that night. Luckily, we did go back to the parks and DD (and DH) had a wonderful time.

 

[almacdonald]

I know I shouldn't, but I just had to laugh! That poor CM must have just encountered an infamous Brazilian tour group who all defecated in the loading zone. I feel for his frustration. heheheheh I can just invision some teenager overwhelmed and pimple faced who has just about had enough.

Seriously though, pehaps we should all bring little bars of soap to hand out to swearing people as a sweet reminder to mind their language.

It was an old crotchedy man that had the potty mouth. And he said it TO us in regards to someone who simply couldn't hear him, not about someone who had done anything wrong. It was a far cry from the typical "have a magical day"!!!

 

[DebIreland]

Now, I haven't read through all 200 pages of this thread, and it is possible my family is mentioned here because of the incident I'm about to describe. So to any of you out there who were on the boat from MK to FW and then on the bus to the FW camp loops and had to listen to my DD (2 yo at the time) SCREAM for the entire trip, I'm really sorry.

In May of last year we took DD to WDW for the first time. She had a great time for most of the trip, so other parents of toddlers please do not be discouraged. We went to MK for EMH one night and our personal stroller was "borrowed" (turned up later that week). It was getting late so we headed down to wait for the boat back to FW. DD fell asleep but woke up when I stood to get on the boat (see, if I had the stroller, this might not have happened. ) When we came to the park that evening, we had ridden the monorail, so DD sees us getting on the boat and freaks out because she thinks we aren't going back to the cabin. Well, she cries and screams for the entire boat ride, and then the entire bus ride to get back to our cabin loop. We try everything to calm her down but nothing is working, so we finally just give up and let her cry. DH is about to melt right into his chair, he is so embarrassed. We are hearing all kinds of sarcastic comments, which doesn't help. Then, on the bus, a family gets off before our stop and the mom says loudly (and meanly) so that we will hear, "Sometimes they need an old fashioned smack on the ***."
DH and I were already frustrated and embarassed, but I couldn't believe someone would suggest we hit a child who was so obviously already at her wits end. I mean, if that lady thought my DD was obnoxious when screaming about being tired and confused, can you imagine how she would be screaming if I started hitting her on top of it? So not so much a shocking moment as a shocking comment. Saddest thing was my DH was ready to just stay at FW for the rest of the trip with DD because he was so worried DD would have another meltdown and trigger the kinds of responses we got that night. Luckily, we did go back to the parks and DD (and DH) had a wonderful time.

No, no, you're mistaken! That was my DD! We too had on awful evening where my daughter, then 15 months just would not stop screaming. We were at Spectro and couldn't exit with the crowds so I just had to hang back as much as I could but even so, I got some choice looks from passers-by. She was so upset, I felt horrible for her as, like your daughter, she too had a fabulous time and we did pace ourselves but I guess we kept her out too long that day and she was just sick of it. Why on earth do people stare at a baby or toddler who's clearly crying because they're upset (not crying because they can't get the toy they want and are vandalising a store or something)? Do they think there's a switch that says 'off' that we somehow missed? Anyway, I felt for you reading your post. Poor baby had a bad day. As for that comment from the woman? Ugh! Ignorant and rude and a million times more offensive than any toddler screams.

 

[Darian]

It was a nice spring day at the Disneyland Resort and I had gotten a Concierge level suite at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel to celebrate my DW's 40th birthday. Security was quite tight with guards on each corridor due to the "celebrities" staying at the hotel for ABC's Super Soap weekend. Or some such thing.

We had planned a nice birthday party in the suite for DW. Security had our guest list so guests could be brought up to the card-only access floor. Between the champagne and tuxedo chocolate dipped strawberrys, DW and I were feeling quite grand. Security had obviously mistaken us for persons of some importance and were gracious to a fault. It was like living out a magical dream.

DW and I went downstairs for a soak in one of the Jacuzzis. On the bottom floor, as we went outside, a CM opened the door while I looked up in horror to see a completely nude 60 something old lady standing on her balcony in her sagging glory. My insides turned cold with the sudden discontinuity and shock. My perfect little dream suddenly shattered into horror. I turned to the CM and said "now thats something you don't see every day!"

He replied in a deadpan voice... "I do."

Realizing we had both just acted out some of the dialog from the Jungle Cruise, we all cracked up laughing. I still felt like gouging out my own eyes. The CM got on his radio and soon the curtains were mercifully closed. Only in California.

 

[Disneynut71]

I get so mad when I see parents walking around with their baby or toddler as red as an apple. One day I offered a mom my daughters sun block because her baby was so red I got the dirtest look from her. My son who tans very easily still gets a coat of sun block (even in his hair) A baby can't say "hey mom or dad i'm burning here"

My favorite is the people with strollers...On my last trip I was walking down Main St and a women pushed her stroller at my ankle, I said ouch...she did it again I said louder OUCH...One more time I turned around and said do you mind I would like to keep my ankle intact. No i'm sorry, nothing.

 

[ibleedblue]

I get so mad when I see parents walking around with their baby or toddler as red as an apple. One day I offered a mom my daughters sun block because her baby was so red I got the dirtest look from her.

It's very possible that kid was just fine and mom was tired of people butting in. My son turns RED...very red...any time he's hot. When we take him out and the temperature is 80 degrees or more, he's gonna turn red. We get so many comments from people offering sunblock it gets a bit tiresome because it's always with the 'oh my God your such horrible parents' tone. My kid stays coated in sunblock and he doesn't get sunburned. He simply turns red when he's hot. I feel like printing this up on index cards and handing them out or hanging one around his neck when we go out on hot days. We'll be there June of next year, and I've already told DW to prepare for the comments like this one all......day......long.

/rant...and back to your regularly scheduled topic.

 

[jann1033]

It's very possible that kid was just fine and mom was tired of people butting in. My son turns RED...very red...any time he's hot. When we take him out and the temperature is 80 degrees or more, he's gonna turn red. We get so many comments from people offering sunblock it gets a bit tiresome because it's always with the 'oh my God your such horrible parents' tone. My kid stays coated in sunblock and he doesn't get sunburned. He simply turns red when he's hot. I feel like printing this up on index cards and handing them out or hanging one around his neck when we go out on hot days. We'll be there June of next year, and I've already told DW to prepare for the comments like this one all......day......long.

/rant...and back to your regularly scheduled topic.

i can second this as i never burn( well once in my more than 1/2 a century( faint) I did) but when i am hot i look like i am either a lobster or ready to pass out from sunstroke but it's just the way i am. i'm fine and as soon as i get where it's cool, it's gone sooo baby might be the same

 

[dwheatl]

DW and I went downstairs for a soak in one of the Jacuzzis. On the bottom floor, as we went outside, a CM opened the door while I looked up in horror to see a completely nude 60 something old lady standing on her balcony in her sagging glory. My insides turned cold with the sudden discontinuity and shock. My perfect little dream suddenly shattered into horror. I turned to the CM and said "now thats something you don't see every day!"

He replied in a deadpan voice... "I do."


All I could think of was the woman in the movie"Something About Mary".

 

[dwheatl]

Sorry, Darian. I tried to quote you, but I fouled it up somehow.

 

[Disneynut71]

It's very possible that kid was just fine and mom was tired of people butting in. My son turns RED...very red...any time he's hot. When we take him out and the temperature is 80 degrees or more, he's gonna turn red. We get so many comments from people offering sunblock it gets a bit tiresome because it's always with the 'oh my God your such horrible parents' tone. My kid stays coated in sunblock and he doesn't get sunburned. He simply turns red when he's hot. I feel like printing this up on index cards and handing them out or hanging one around his neck when we go out on hot days. We'll be there June of next year, and I've already told DW to prepare for the comments like this one all......day......long.

/rant...and back to your regularly scheduled topic.

That could be the case but for every mother who does put sunblock on their child there are a few who don't...I have seen children at the pool in the evening just as red... A baby(i'm talking under a year) should not be in direct sunlight in 90+ degree weather. Mom and dad have sunglasses and a hat and baby has nothing. When I took my daughter (then 9 months) I made sure she was covered with a hat and an umbrella to make sure she wasn't directly in the sun for any long amount of time.

 

[Darian]

Sorry, Darian. I tried to quote you, but I fouled it up somehow.

No worries!

 

[Uuaww]

Just curious if the next time someone runs into me numerous times with a stroller or something, or is being extremely rude in general can I use the line "If you do that to me again, I will rip your jaw off" or is that just a bit to extreme?