Have you ever had a shock?

[Grog]

Great job of standing your ground, Tiggernut_jadie! Loved that story And welcome to the DIS

 

[Efastpitch]

Originally posted by Tiggernut_jadie
All I can say to this thread is , if you get annoyed with people who 'cut in line' as the Americans say, never, EVER go to Disneyland Paris!!!

Mainland Europeans, and the French in particular, have absolutley NO IDEA how to queue (stand in line!)!!!

When we went a few years ago with my (then) 4 year old neice, my DH and I had been to WDW twice and knew all about how the line system works. By the afternoon of the first day I was playing a lovely game of 'Tripping the French Kid'...now I'm not talking little kids but it seems common practice for parents to send their pre-teen offspring under the barriers, then follow them. I got so sick and tired of waiting patiently whist these ignorant so and so's happily did all the rides without waiting, that I developed a strange twitch in my left leg which would suddenly shoot out to the side each time one of these brats tried to cut in. I must have got about a dozen that first day!!!



On one other occasion I was waiting in line for Dumbo with my neice and this kid of about 10 or 11 (yep, you guessed it...French!!!) pushed past us so hard my neice banged he head quite hard on one of the poles holding the barriers. I gave this child a peice of my mind and he said 'F off Englisher!' and flipped my the bird, then proceeded to push past the next five or so people to get to the front of the line. I was SOOOO mad by this point. Then, to add insult to injury, he proceeded to signal to mummy, daddy and little brother moron who then started to push past everyone indicating they needed to get to theri other child. Well I'd had enough by this point...and so being a LARGE lady, I just widened myself enough to FILL the width of the queueing area. When Mummy, daddy and little brother got to me I refused point blank to let them past. Mummy tried to push past me and got the full force of my weight on her left big toe. She began to rant at me in French but I used the 'I don't understand French' thing and refused to let them through. They did get on the ride the same time as us but not BEFORE me and my neice.

Afterwards I spoke to the CM, who was French obviously, and he just shrugged and said 'French people don't do lines!!!'

Needless to say I have not been back to DLP - I'd rather save my money for a trip to the REAL Disney Parks (WDW and DL)!!!

Perhaps this is why WDW Europe is losing so much money. $75 million at last count.

 

[Efastpitch]

Originally posted by Patchmom
While at Epcot a couple of years ago, my husband and I saw a woman change a baby's dirty diaper on a dining table outside of the Japanese Pavillion. There was a restroom 10 feet away. Kind of makes you want to wipe all tables down before using them!

We saw the same thing happen at AK two years ago. A man waiting on his DW to bring the food, decided it was ok to change his baby on the dining table. The only problem. He would not eat at that table because he had just changed his baby on it. We would tell anyone who attempted to set at that table that the man on the next table had change his baby. Talk about an akward moment.

 

[MELSMICE]

Originally posted by Efastpitch
Perhaps this is why WDW Europe is losing so much money. $75 million at last count.

WHOA!!!!!

 

[UKAnnie]

We went to DL Paris last year (after several visits to WDW) and I don't know how it is, but there just wasn't any magic to it, even though so much is the same. Perhaps it was just that it was full of French people! Even though, to be fair, we didn't experience any bad behaviour, maybe because we went at a slow time of year.

We kept looking for our favourite foods, etc. and they are all with a 'French' flavour and just not the same.

Mickey just seems more at home in the land of his birth (and we are coming to see him and his 74 friends IN 3 DAYS' TIME! Yeah!).

Ann
(who is absolutely minimalist due to her ignorance where computers are concerned, hence no pictures,no smileys,no TAGS - just waiting patiently for the TAG FAIRY to visit me in time for Christmas - pretty please, I've been good all year).

 

[ekmdisney]

Well, I finaly finished this thread. I had some great laughs and had a few times when I had to take my chin off the floor. Some people!

Well, for me here is my story. We were in the area during Thanksgiving. So we went to MK to see the all the Mickeys that we could see with out having to go into the park. While we were looking at the other ones on the other side of the main gate near the train station. I noticed these kids crawling all over one of the Mickeys. They are just having the time of there lives and mom is standing right next to them and laughing and talking with them. Then there was a guy in a ECV right next to them not really watching what is going on. Then out of nowhere a CM comes up and tells the kids that they can't play on the Mickeys and they need to get off. (What did they think the ropes are there for anyway?) Well, as soon as the CM shows up and starts to yell at the kids to get off, then mom and dad (who is in the ECV) start to yell at their kids to get off the Mickey. Acting like they didn't even know that their kids were on the other side of the rope. We just stood there on the other side of the gate just shaking our heads.

Then while we were looking at some of the other Mickeys on the free side of the gate. A little boy about 8 or 9 comes walking by, and goes under the rope and walks right in front of us. So I say " The rope is there for a reason." He then looks at me and tells me that I couldn't tell him what to do, because I was not is mother. Then he runs off.

 

[Maridw]

When we were there last week, we saw a couple people just step over the ropes or under them to have a pic taken with the Mickey. Some people obviously don't get the concept that the rope means "OFF LIMITS - DO NOT PASS!"

I was trying to think if we saw anything that really shocked us while we were there and off hand I can't remember anything that stands out that "shocked" us. We did see a couple parents getting after kids who were obviously over tired and in great need of a nap.

While we were at the MVMCP on the 30th, we were headed to BTMRR from Adventureland and we were stopped by the ropes for the parade. It hadn't started but the CM's were waiting for a band to come by and were then going to open the crossing area.

There was a family and one of their kids was not happy. He didn't want to wait to see the parade and they had decided to do that. At one point the mom says to her son, "Okay that's it, one more word and the hat goes, the sweatshirt goes and any other thing you wanted to buy, No more!" I looked at DH and we both had to smile, but we weren't the only ones, a couple other parents along the way did the same. We could all related to a family member giving everyone else grief and a parent just fed up with it all.

Didn't see them again, so don't know if the child kept his hat & sweatshirt.

 

[ekmdisney]

One that just popped in my head was this one.

I was at DL in 2000. While looking over some postcards next to Splash Mountain exit, I noticed this guy; who to me was look like he was talking to his self. So I moved a little bit away from him. Then out of no where this little boy about 6 or 7 comes up to him and starts talking to him. The little boy goes: "Dad, are you still on the phone?" I then noticed the cord leading from his waste band to his ear. Then the little boy goes up and puts his arms around his dads waste and says: "Dad, get off the phone! You're in Disneyland!" Dad just kept on talking, totaly ignoring his son. I felt sorry for the kid.

 

[lagirl]

My mouth has been wide open reading this thread. I haven't been to WDW yet, but am wondering what I'll be "seeing".

 

[sdamico71]

I remember visiting WDW as a pre-teen with my parents. It was the dead of the summer. (Aug to be exact). A woman in front of us lifted her arms and her armpit hair was braided and had a ponty tail holder on it. I thought I was going to vomit. I had never seen armpit hair on a woman until that point. It totally grossed me out.

 

[tzvdmd]

Sometimes I wonder what we as humans have evolved into and will it keep getting worse. I see photos of my parents with me as a child at WDW and my folks looked "dressed up". I think I could really use some of the family values Walt Disney saw when he envisioned the parks. Then again other times it come down to just plain old common sence.

 

[LadyAurora]

I guess my story isn't really "shocking" considering all the hype about Mission:Space, but it was a surprise to me!
DH, myself and our friends had just ridden M:S and were walking down the main pathway back towards the fountain. I saw a lady, and I thought she was sniffing the bushes. So I took a closer look to see what plants were there, as I really enjoy the landscaping at Disney.
Much to my regret, I got a closer look at her vomiting in the bushes, not sniffing them!

 

[aladdinsgirl]

My story isn't THAT shocking, just one of those situations where you think, I can't believe I'm seeing this. We were at the Magic Kingdom in December waiting for Spectro Magic to begin. As we were sitting on the curb in front of Cinderella Castle, other families sat down to join us. One of the families was a dad and his son, I'm guessing about 3 years old. They are eating popcorn, as the dad would give the little boy some popcorn, he would drop some on the ground. The little boy would then bend over and eat the popcorn off the ground. There was a CM standing right there, she was as shocked as we were that the dad is letting the little boy eat off the ground. She tells the dad what the little boy is doing, I'm sure thinking that the dad just didn't see what his son was doing. The dad said, "I know, a little dirt won't hurt him."

Krista

 

[jann1033]

Originally posted by aladdinsgirl
as the dad would give the little boy some popcorn, he would drop some on the ground. The little boy would then bend over and eat the popcorn off the ground. :
Krista

well I've seen people feeding birds that way and since the dad was obviously bird-brained maybe he thought the boy had
inherited it!

not really shocking but I was surprised how many times I saw puking people...one adult all over the floor in whispering canyon..anyone for breakfast??? one little kid waiting for the bus to dtd at the Contemporary and the parents DEBATED on if they should take him back to the room or just take him along while the kid was pretty obviously not just suffering from a bad breakfast. I didn't look around at MS, I had had enough by then

 

[leighe]

On our last trip I saw this little girl (probably 4 or 5) in front of Tinkerbell's Toy Shop in MK absolutely SCREAMING at her parents. She was dressed head to toe in Tinkerbell - even the slippers and was holding a brand new Tinkerbell barbie (I guess it was new, it was still in the box) and kept crying, "But you never get me anything I want! Never! Never!" Then she laid down on the ground and started rolling around. That was shocking enough, but the way her parents handled it was even worse. (Note: They had a stroller completely COVERED in Disney merchandise bags). Her mom looked at her dad and said, "Well, I hope your are happy. You have ruined her first trip to Disney World. We are going to stay three extra days to make up for this." Then she picked the little girl up and marched her into the store and I guess bought her something. Her dad just rolled his eyes and followed them with the loaded down stroller. Can you imagine? DH and I were just rivited to this scene. We started keeping a tantrum meeter for the rest of the week, but we never saw anything that touched that, EVER!

 

[jann1033]

spoiled

 

[wonderlandaddict]

Last year on spring break ( our first night) we caught a bus at All Stars to Epcot. When we got on the bus I noticed it was half full of some sort of tour group from another country. After a few minutes my 8 year old asked me what they were passing around.
It was a group of teenage girls and they were passing around a HUGE bottle of some type of alcohol, then they pulled out a 2 liter of coke to chase it with. I was in complete SHOCK. There were no adults on the bus except my husband & I. The group kept getting louder & louder, chanting & clapping when someone would take a drink and using the f--- word alot!!! At first I thought we might have got on the wrong bus, but no it was disney. We quickly moved our 4 kids to the very back of the bus & I walked up to the girls & asked them to please stop saying the F--- word as there are children on the bus. They agreed to, but I did hear it a few more times just quieter & they continued to drink without hiding it at all!! Bus driver acted like he never noticed anything. We watched them enter Epcot without any problem at all carrying their 2 liter of coke in their hands, they hide the alcohol. We decided to return to the hotel & spring break is not anytime we will return!!!!!!!!!!

 

[elliemae1192]

I got a shock when one of those darn seagulls pooped right on my head...

So funny! I don't know if my DH has a bullseye on his head or what but that's happened to him twice at DW and once at the Gulf of Mexico. He's learned to wear hats on vacation!

In Dec of 2000 we stopped at the McDonald's fry stand in MK and parked on a bench with the kids to enjoy our snack. All of a sudden this swarm of birds came at us. They didn't just take a couple of fries, they ATTACKED us. Felt like we were in a Hitchcok movie. DH ran around flapping his arms trying to scare them off while DD, DS, and I were rolling with laughter.

 

[musicalSaranader]

Welcome to the DIS, elliemae!!

 

[leighe]

Welcome to the boards, elliemae! I am terrified of birds so that woudl be my worst nightmare! No fries for me at MK!