Have you ever had a shock?

[destinflgirl]

My sister and I went to the MNSSHP and we were sitting in the back of the castle taking a break near Cinderella's Carriage and a show was about to begin in front of the castler... Capt Hook ran up the stairs where we were sitting to go to the show.... well then peterpan ran by and we were like Peter Pan! Peter Pan! and Peter pan said "Kiss me A**"

It was actually a very funny moment as an adult and a story my sister and I share over and over and laugh.... but If a kid had been around it would have been bad.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

My sister and I went to the MNSSHP and we were sitting in the back of the castle taking a break near Cinderella's Carriage and a show was about to begin in front of the castler... Capt Hook ran up the stairs where we were sitting to go to the show.... well then peterpan ran by and we were like Peter Pan! Peter Pan! and Peter pan said "Kiss me A**"

It was actually a very funny moment as an adult and a story my sister and I share over and over and laugh.... but If a kid had been around it would have been bad.

That is a new one for me. I never thought any Disney character that can talk with you, would say anything like that. If it happened to me I would have reported him to Guest Relations & see what they would have done.

 

[ImprovGal]

In the beginning of May, I was poking around some of the shops in Studios. One of the stores carried quite a bit of princess clothing for adults. One garment in particular was a nightshirt that had a picture of Cinderella on it and the phrase, "Sorry, I'm taken." Ok, it wasn't exactly shocking, but I did stop and ponder the implications. I mean, if a guy needs to read your pj's to find out that you're attached, you may want to reconsider your social activities.....

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Not so much a "shock," but something I've never seen before and probably never will again...

September 1999. A very large group of Hare Krishnas heading for Space Mountain in the middle of a downpour. I don't know why it struck me as funny...

 

[scottb8888]

This is a great thread!

 

[UrsulasShadow]

Not so much a "shock," but something I've never seen before and probably never will again...

September 1999. A very large group of Hare Krishnas heading for Space Mountain in the middle of a downpour. I don't know why it struck me as funny...

Beam us up, Krishna (O! how irreverent!)

 

[CheapMom]

Well since it was mnsshp maybe it wasn't a Diney employed Peter Pan- but just someone with a good costume- but hey- if Minnie Mouse is giving people the finger at Chef Mickey's then I guess anything is possible.

 

[RI&BMOM]

Last week while walking into the theater for Fantasmic a man in an ECV and his family were coming up behind us. As we were walking we could hear people getting angry behind us and complaining about watching where you are going and a couple of ouches. There were so many people along that walkway. All of a sudden I get hit in the back of my leg by the ECV. I turned around and the man and his family were getting upset that nobody was getting out of their way. They decide to use the roped off path to the left where the strollers are parked! Thank goodness it was getting close to the entrance of the theater because there were just a few strollers in their way. The reason I say this is they were picking up the strollers that were in their way and throwing them up into the planter to get them out of their way! Whatever was in the strollers was getting tossed along with the strollers and they didn't care. Several people yelled for them to not do that, but they just kept on going. I couldn't believe that someone would do this with someone elses belongings.

 

[Darian]

Oh my gosh! I was just on another forum and a post made me relive a DL trauma from my childhood. When I was about 6 or 7, we were watching a parade on Main St. when Pluto came along. I was sitting on the curb, and he came over and growled and BIT me (I guess it wasn't a real bite, you know how character mouths are). As an adult, I told my husband about this, and he didn't believe me, but when our DD was about 6 or 7, it happened to her! I guess it's somewhere in the Pluto character handbook.
Also, another time when we took our kids to a Main St. parade, Pluto was in a wagon that was supposed to be from the dog pound, and he escaped with several real puppies. One of the puppies scrambled over to the little girl sitting next to my kids and relieved itself on her leg. As you might guess, our family now makes it a point to avoid in the parks. I love Pluto cartoons, though.

Oh dwheatl thats terrible! Talk about being a peeon. (misspelling intentional) Did the little kid who recieved the urination cry or how did she react? Did your experience with Pluto as a child effect the way you interacted with other characters in the park? A little over four decades ago I had a run in with one of the 3 little pigs at Disneyland. That had me freaked for years. I was pulling the pig's tail and the guy in side the costume threated to "beat my a**" if I didn't take off. Of course I deserved it! Today such behavior lands a person in prision. Not pulling pig tails but other things we did as kids. I suppose I'm not the only one to tip over an outhouse with someone in it.....

 

[Darian]

Last summer we were in line for Soarin'. We ended up waiting 75 minutes and got on at midnight (EMH). While in line, there was this very obnoxious group (A women and two kids). The kids kept fooling around raming into others around them and at times screaming. Well, my dad had a rather large wound on his leg (from a bicycle crash) and it was healing well. The kids had nearly fallen into this wound of his without the least bit concern.

Had the kids fallen into it, it would have caused some pain for my dad (though he would never show it lol, naturally! ). And it would have caused it to open back up. My dad turned around and VERY politly asked the kids to be careful. After he looked away. the women pulled the kids over to her, motioned as if she was kicking my dad's wound and whispered to them to go over and kick him as hard as they could in his wound.

My jaw dropped! I couldn't believe what this women was asking her kids to do! I could expect this in the "real" world, but never in Disney! What was she thinking!!?? Is this how she wants to raise/teach those kids! I still can't get over some people's thought process...what DO they think??

Please note the part of Loves Disney's post that I put in bold. This has got to be number one of ALL the shocks I've read on this thread! I can tolerate rudeness and being self centered or even impatient. But to deliberately train your own children to inflict pain and injury on another human being takes the prize. What do they do for fun? Go to retirement homes and beat the residents with their own canes? Pull the wings off flies? The most horrifying thing is what kind of adults will these sadistic children be? And some people wonder why our prisons are so full..... geezzz.

 

[agnes!]

We were just at the World this past week (got home today). Our latest shock happened in the Magic Kingdom.
It was the middle of the day, bright and sunny with *lots* of people around. We were walking from the Hub into Tomorrowland, near the Buzz Lightyear side. I saw a baby stroller with a baby in it & no obvious family adult nearby, so I looked around to make sure the baby wasn't alone. We took another step or two and then I saw a mother with an older toddler (at least two but probably closer to three, maybe even older) taking the girl's pants off along with her underwear. The girl then proceeded to urinate on the sidewalk...
I kept on walking and thought I had something new to add to the "shock" thread.

After this, the family of line-cutters at Test Track hardly bears mentioning. Actually, now that I think about it the whole experience this past Monday at Test Track should be mentioned...especially the incompetent line dispatcher who: 1) let the ENTIRE single-rider line get on the ride before *ANY* of the FastPass'ers or *ANY* of the StandBys 2) also let most of the StandBy line get on the ride, the FastPass line went out of the building and the StandBy was *maybe* 20 minutes long! 3) seemed to mis-manage the whole sequence so badly that we had multiple rooms let out at the same time, so parties got separated...which led to the family of line-cutters. There were about three people ahead of them, they ask to join the others and what are you going to do? It ended up being about 6 or 7 people who waltzed by everybody else...I like to thnk it happened because we were all too nice to have a throwdown .

It made me appreciate all the competent line dispatchers at the other attractions. Sometimes it's the simplest things that can make or break an experience.

agnes!

 

[DizBelle]

We were just at the World this past week (got home today). Our latest shock happened in the Magic Kingdom.
It was the middle of the day, bright and sunny with *lots* of people around. We were walking from the Hub into Tomorrowland, near the Buzz Lightyear side. I saw a baby stroller with a baby in it & no obvious family adult nearby, so I looked around to make sure the baby wasn't alone. We took another step or two and then I saw a mother with an older toddler (at least two but probably closer to three, maybe even older) taking the girl's pants off along with her underwear. The girl then proceeded to urinate on the sidewalk...
I kept on walking and thought I had something new to add to the "shock" thread.

After this, the family of line-cutters at Test Track hardly bears mentioning. Actually, now that I think about it the whole experience this past Monday at Test Track should be mentioned...especially the incompetent line dispatcher who: 1) let the ENTIRE single-rider line get on the ride before *ANY* of the FastPass'ers or *ANY* of the StandBys 2) also let most of the StandBy line get on the ride, the FastPass line went out of the building and the StandBy was *maybe* 20 minutes long! 3) seemed to mis-manage the whole sequence so badly that we had multiple rooms let out at the same time, so parties got separated...which led to the family of line-cutters. There were about three people ahead of them, they ask to join the others and what are you going to do? It ended up being about 6 or 7 people who waltzed by everybody else...I like to thnk it happened because we were all too nice to have a throwdown .

It made me appreciate all the competent line dispatchers at the other attractions. Sometimes it's the simplest things that can make or break an experience.

agnes!

As far as letting all of the single riders in before the others... One of the pre-show rooms is dedicated to single riders. When they exit the pre-show room, they are funneled into a line separate from the main line for other riders. So, the single rider room exists to one line and the other rooms exit to another line. This is how the loaders know who is a single rider and who is not. Anyone in that line can be put into a single empty seat in a car.

 

[bsusanmb]

This happened to me, and I am still embarrassed over it.

When my daughter was 2, she was always trying to run away from me, thinking it was a game. Well, she got away from me in one of the stores in MK, first by hiding in the racks of clothing, and then just took off. I was frantic (this was years ago). I was calling her name MOLLY MOLLY and got CM's to help me, but no MOLLY anywhere. It was horrible, and I thought she was gone this time for sure.

After what seemed to be an eternity (but was probably no more than 4 minutes), I see a CM walking hand in hand with my Molly. I ran to her and hugged her and asked where she found her - she said that she found this little girl sitting behind a counter all alone, and when she asked her what her name was, she wouldn't answer - she tried several times, but she wouldn't answer - finally the CM asked her, "what does your mommy call you?" and Molly responded, "bad girl" - OH, how embarrassing. I never live that one down either - I am ashamed to admit it!

 

[agnes!]

As far as letting all of the single riders in before the others... One of the pre-show rooms is dedicated to single riders. When they exit the pre-show room, they are funneled into a line separate from the main line for other riders. So, the single rider room exists to one line and the other rooms exit to another line. This is how the loaders know who is a single rider and who is not. Anyone in that line can be put into a single empty seat in a car.

This might be the way it is *supposed* to work at Test Track, but it was definitely NOT the way it worked the last time we were there. The singles ALL got on before any of the FastPass'ers. We saw them all getting out of their cars while we were *still* waiting in line, many cars away from being loaded! The loaders then compounded the existing problem created by the line dispatcher by not filling up ANY extra/empty seats when we were loaded into the cars.

agnes!

 

[Luv2Roam]

Living near the world we go often. Rarely do we see anything out of the ordinary. But there are times.....

A recent and common trend we have seen (and not just at WDW) is young women and their thonged bums literally resting on the chair they are sitting on because their pants ride so low.

One woman in a (non Disney restaurant) reminded me of the old repairman jokes of butt cracks. Looked like it too!

And can't say anyone is showing anything anyone would want to look at! It's more for the shock and attention value obviously. Or they don't realize how bad they look.

Between that and seats being used as diaper changing tables, I really think twice about where I sit now.

 

[Corryn]

finally the CM asked her, "what does your mommy call you?" and Molly responded, "bad girl" - OH, how embarrassing. I never live that one down either - I am ashamed to admit it!

HYSTERICAL

 

[LiteBrite]

Originally Posted by Loves Disney
Last summer we were in line for Soarin'. We ended up waiting 75 minutes and got on at midnight (EMH). While in line, there was this very obnoxious group (A women and two kids). The kids kept fooling around raming into others around them and at times screaming. Well, my dad had a rather large wound on his leg (from a bicycle crash) and it was healing well. The kids had nearly fallen into this wound of his without the least bit concern.

Had the kids fallen into it, it would have caused some pain for my dad (though he would never show it lol, naturally! ). And it would have caused it to open back up. My dad turned around and VERY politly asked the kids to be careful. After he looked away. the women pulled the kids over to her, motioned as if she was kicking my dad's wound and whispered to them to go over and kick him as hard as they could in his wound.

My jaw dropped! I couldn't believe what this women was asking her kids to do! I could expect this in the "real" world, but never in Disney! What was she thinking!!?? Is this how she wants to raise/teach those kids! I still can't get over some people's thought process...what DO they think??

Please note the part of Loves Disney's post that I put in bold. This has got to be number one of ALL the shocks I've read on this thread! I can tolerate rudeness and being self centered or even impatient. But to deliberately train your own children to inflict pain and injury on another human being takes the prize. What do they do for fun? Go to retirement homes and beat the residents with their own canes? Pull the wings off flies? The most horrifying thing is what kind of adults will these sadistic children be? And some people wonder why our prisons are so full..... geezzz.

Darian, I just wanted to tell you that I agree with you, and that this story disturbed me more than anything I can remember reading on this thread so far. The complete lack of regard for another person's welfare, the lack of respect for an older person, and especially the fact that it was the mom egging the children on - I just can't wrap my mind around this one.

 

[bigmerle1966]

Several from my trip last week. We first stayed at the AmeriSuites and the first full day we were there we came back from MK mid-day to go to the pool and relax. It was my DS and I and her two girls ages almost 6 and 2 1/2 yo. We were in the pool and there was this little girl, about 4yo, who was playing near us. At one point she said something to the little one about her swimsuit and I said something back to her. Well you would have thought I was this child's best friend. First she was playing around and was tickling me, then she and another child, who I thought was her brother, were playing tag and she would grab me and ask me to save her, at one point trying to climb in my lap (I was sitting in the shallow part). I kept looking around for an adult who was with her and at one point the little girl looked at this lady who was on a lounger at the pools edge and smiled at her and the woman smiled back. I thought she was with her, but then she got into the pool with a man who had been there playing with another child and didn't look at this little girl at all. Just before I left the pool I finally saw someone talking to this child, it was her grandmother. Now the pool has zero entry and on either side of this area, on the edges of the pool are fake rocks and two crabs that spray water. There was no way that you could see the area we were in from the outer side of this unless you stood on top of them. This child's grandmother was sitting somewhere on the other side of these things and could not see this child at all.

Another pool incident, this time at OKW. We were again in the pool and I was sitting on the steps with my younger niece. The baby pool water was so nasty that I kept her in the big pool. Something hit me in the chest, hard. It was a tennis ball and this old idiot says "Good shot, two points" ***. Now it hurt and I was so stunned it was all I could do to keep from crying but he was so lucky that it didn't hit my neice, who was right next to me when it happened. He would have been at the bottom of that pool. The thing that got me the most was that after that he kept saying to the teens he was playing with "We have to watch out for the other people" yet did not bother to apologize to me.

 

[Dislifer]

Several from my trip last week. We first stayed at the AmeriSuites and the first full day we were there we came back from MK mid-day to go to the pool and relax. It was my DS and I and her two girls ages almost 6 and 2 1/2 yo. We were in the pool and there was this little girl, about 4yo, who was playing near us. At one point she said something to the little one about her swimsuit and I said something back to her. Well you would have thought I was this child's best friend. First she was playing around and was tickling me, then she and another child, who I thought was her brother, were playing tag and she would grab me and ask me to save her, at one point trying to climb in my lap (I was sitting in the shallow part). I kept looking around for an adult who was with her and at one point the little girl looked at this lady who was on a lounger at the pools edge and smiled at her and the woman smiled back. I thought she was with her, but then she got into the pool with a man who had been there playing with another child and didn't look at this little girl at all. Just before I left the pool I finally saw someone talking to this child, it was her grandmother. Now the pool has zero entry and on either side of this area, on the edges of the pool are fake rocks and two crabs that spray water. There was no way that you could see the area we were in from the outer side of this unless you stood on top of them. This child's grandmother was sitting somewhere on the other side of these things and could not see this child at all.

Thank goodness God watches over children like that!!! What are her parents/grandparents thinking!!!??? Or should I say...are they thinking at all!!!

Another pool incident, this time at OKW. We were again in the pool and I was sitting on the steps with my younger niece. The baby pool water was so nasty that I kept her in the big pool. Something hit me in the chest, hard. It was a tennis ball and this old idiot says "Good shot, two points" ***. Now it hurt and I was so stunned it was all I could do to keep from crying but he was so lucky that it didn't hit my neice, who was right next to me when it happened. He would have been at the bottom of that pool. The thing that got me the most was that after that he kept saying to the teens he was playing with "We have to watch out for the other people" yet did not bother to apologize to me.

How did you not say something to this idiot??? Unbelievable!
You really did run into a few winners!!!!!!!!

 

[Deebo]

I was at the the MK, waiting in line for POC (in the area where it's pretty dark). I felt a hand going up inside the leg of my shorts, and it grabbed near the crotch of my underwear! I was obviously surprised, and my immediate reaction was to swat at whoever it was as hard as I could. Turns out, it was a little boy about 5 years old. His mom really lit into me for smacking the hand of her 'little precious'. When I explained what had happened, she didn't see any problem -- he must have thought I was her, and she couldn't understand why I swatted his hand. She continued to make rude remarks to me, as if protecting myself from being fondled in public was some sort of crime. I don't know what goes on at their house, but little kid or not, there are certain behaviors that should be off limits, with mom as well as with strangers. And no, she never did reprimand him or tell him to apologize.