Have you ever had a shock?

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this past summer, my family and i had gone to epcot. we were trying to board the universe of energy ride..the one with ellen..anyway my family was in a line to get into a row together and this huge obviously foreign family cuts in front of me..literally running..one of them pushed me back so she could get in front of me, then after about 12 of them were done cutting in front of me the last woman somehow punched me in the stomach..i was in complete shock..i couldn't even speak. then during the ride they were translating to the others that did not speak english. i had to remember i was in disney bc i really wanted to let them have it. talk about your big fat obnoxious foreign family reunion!
 
Bump!! I absolutely love this thread. I haven't been "fortunate" enough to witness many of these events, however I think part of my Disney Group last year caused several shocks. I took my 17 year old brother and 2 of his other friends [also 17] :rockband: to Disney and they were very... entertaining to say the least. They behaved themselves most of the time, however I'm sure they caused several shocks at the ToT, because his 2 friends [my brother knew better] kept rushing ahead of people in line to sit on the concrete wall because they were truly very lazy. People minded at first, but I think it ended up okay once they realized that the boys wouldn't go very far and wouldn't "cut" when it was time to get inside the building. They also enjoyed screaming at the "incorrect" spots on ToT... which of course resulted in everyone screaming.

They also enjoyed making everyone in my group [me, boyfriend, and the 3 amigos] pose in the pictures... so, if anyone has any strange people making weird faces in pictures, that's us :earboy2: Don't worry, everything was rated "G".

All in all, I think 3 17 year old boys are pretty shocking in themselves; these are actually pretty fun to be around, though they like doing many things to shock others... like tie each other to stop signs and take pictures of peoples' reactions [it's all voluntary!]

Keep posting everyone!!!

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bumping.......not getting these even though I am subscribed and hate to miss this thread - its great!!
 

Darian said:
We were at Typhoon Lagoon last October and were in line to ride one of the faster water slides. There was a family with a teenage daughter (age about 13 or 14)who's dad kept trying to pull down her top and bikini bottom to expose her hiney. Once he pulled out her bikin bottom front to take a peek. Mom seemed indifferent, pretended not to see. They were not from the US and thought maybe they had a different cultural values and so I should just mind my own business, but man, even so....

The girl didn't seem to be appreciating all the "Lolita" attention she was getting. It was disturbing and I considered asking her if she was "ok" or getting a cast member. "Perv" dad saw DW and I glaring at him and he kept his hands to himself. Maybe it was "innocent fun" and he was just teasing his daughter, but I'm thinkin not... more like wanting to throw him from the top of the TOT and see if he can fly like peter pan....

Darian
(not handling the memory well)

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Umm........his rear belongs in prison. I do not care what country you are from, that is abusive and wrong. Any dad that would humiliate his daughter like that in public needs his !@&* kicked...not to mention, just for doing that in the first place.
 
On our honeymoon my husband and I were at Epcot and there was a "Dad" FORCING his very young daughter onto BEAST. She was crying and screaming and that crazy man wouldn't let up. The poor baby was probably not even two she'll never want to go to Disney again.
 
Ok so the most shocking things have probably already been said, but I have to add the few stories I remember from my many trips over the years.

The last couple years was the first times I really realized and encountered "road rage" in WDW. People get on those ECV's, wheelchairs, or strollers and just plow people down. Well one day I'm crossing the bridge to Tomorrowland and that bridge gets particularly crowded during the day. I keep feeling something banging into my ankles/legs, I turn around and see one of those hard, plastic strollers behind me being pushed by this woman that looks very irritated with her baby inside. I could barely move across the bridge cus it was so crowded so I don't know what she was thinking was going to happen with her constantly banging the thing against my legs, I kept trying to tell myself it was an accident. Until I got one huge hard bang against my legs, I almost fell on top of her baby! She hit me so hard that it threw me off balance in the midst of this crowd and she was willing to get her baby crushed to what, move up 2 feet? Luckily I didn't fall or anything, but my god, is it really that much of an emergency that you need to potentially injure people including your child? I'm 5'10 and weigh a lot more than people think, I would have crushed her baby without a doubt. The lady just gave me a dirty look when I turned around and looked at her in shock.

Then I was waiting in line for those rockets in Tomorrowland, I can't remember what the ride is called off hand, but anyway, the line can take a really long time I've noticed on every trip (which makes me question why I keep riding that crappy ride). So there's this little girl in front of me alone which is odd, but she's maybe 10 so I'm thinking maybe her parents are waiting for her to the side. Well in the midst of waiting in this hour long line, various members of her family keep cutting in line to come talk to her. And when I heard them speak, let's just say they were rather "ghetto." I couldn't believe the huge attitude coming out for this cute girl. Her brother (probably around 14 or 15) then drops off this toddler with the 10 year old and tells her to take care of it. She proceeds to drag this cute little 2 year old around by the hand yelling at him to hurry up. He obviously can't walk very fast and didn't know what was going on, he just waddled around chewing on his hand staring off into nowhere, so I had to help him along and wait for him to catch up to her, but of course this whole process irritated everyone in line behind us. Then right as we get to the open part of the line where they are about to take you up in the elevator, she starts yelling for her entire family to come over, so about 10-15 children run up and crawl under the bars and fill up the area before the elevators and the CM's let this happen! They even waited while the children went and got an "adult" to ride the ride cus the toddler was too small to ride with all of them cus none of them were older than 16. So they bring their 20 year old brother (they told the CM's he was 20 is the only reason I know this) who was wearing incredibly baggy pants and a t-shirt with marijuana leaves (he looked responsible!) who looked completely annoyed by having to go on the ride (how about the entire line of people who were annoyed at having to wait for these guys!). I end up getting shoved into the elevator with them which was incredibly uncomfortable as they're all fighting and pushing each other. We get up top and wait for our turn to ride, as soon as those gates open they just push me and the only other person not with their party out of the way to go claim their rockets (this poor man had a toddler with him too that almost got trampled). What particularly shocked me about this situation was that the CM's watched and allowed this to take place.

Another incident occured when I was a young teenager. My best friend and I got in line for SM on a very hot and crowded June day. We know we're going to have to wait for an hour to two hours, in fact we had already waited about half hour by the time we got to the part where it goes under the railroad (now where the fast passes are handed out and where the line usually starts). BTW, there were no fast passes back then. Anyway, so this CM comes up to us, a young teenage boy, and starts talking to us. He's flirting with us and we're just complaining about the lines that day and how hot it was etc. and he tells us we don't need to wait in line. He tells us he can get us on without waiting and all we had to do was go up the exit and tell the people "baby swap." We were very hesitant about it cus we didn't know what that meant, we obviously knew it was not on the up-and-up, but after him sort of harassing us about "just doing it" for awhile, we decide to go for it cus he assures us it will be no problem (plus we were like 14). So we go into the exit and tell the people working there "baby swap" and of course they ask us where our baby was. We had no clue what they were talking about (of course we assumed baby swapping had something to do with babies), but we didn't know what it was exactly. Needless to say they "busted" us, but we tried to explain to them that the guy working there told us to do it and gave him his name and stuff then ended up having to go to the end of the line again :(. I hope he got in trouble.

My gross story happened in line for the Imagination ride in Epcot. A kid not too far in front of us in line just vomits everywhere. He covered the entire width of the walkway so no one could walk around it and everyone had to hop over it. (I think he had sausage pizza for lunch :P). Needless to say, the mother of the child didn't take the child out of line or even have someone in her party go tell a CM to come clean it up, she just pretended like nothing happened. When we got to the front of the line we told the CM's about it (wasn't too far from the front).

I luckily have not been aware of any urination incidents or the like. One thing that does gross me out though is when children pick their noses. I've seen them wiping their boogers on the rails so I NEVER touch them. I expect this from children, but what pisses me off is that their parents see them and don't correct them or even acknowledge that what they're doing is gross. Children won't learn their lessons about right/wrong or in this case just basic hygiene if they're never told what they're doing is inappropriate. It's just pathetic if you ask me on their parents parts to be so apathetic to the behavior of their children in those parks. Of course that's nothing compared to the children who run around screaming, tearing things up and putting others in harm's way. AK was the worst. My sister and I encountered so many kids running rampant with what appeared to be no supervision. The worst is when they stop suddenly in front of you when you're walking cus it causes you to almost fall or trample them and then also cause people behind you to bump into you. I'm pretty tall so it's easy for me to miss small children under me.

My sister and I were in line for that safari thing and this little foriegn kid (not sure what country but he was Asian and his parents weren't speaking English). They were walking in front of us in line and this kid just kept stopping randomly as he swung from the rails, holding on to both sides so no one could even pass him. Then he would run up and down the line, even though the line was continually moving and his parents wouldn't even care that their 5 year old just ran off from them, or actually I don't think they were paying attention to even notice. I wanted to tell him that his child ran off but he didn't seem to care and well the whole language barrier thing. At one point the dad realized his son was missing and started freaking out yet they still continued in the line (/boggle), when the kid finally ran back up the line to them he gave the kid a severe scolding in some language. I wanted to tell him that it wouldn't have happened if he had been watching his son as much as my sister and I were :P.

My other main "shocker" for WDW or DL is going with people who have never been there. I LOVE taking people who have never been there cus it's neat to show them around and see them enjoy themselves cus it's all new stuff to them, but sometimes I've taken new people who want to leave after 2-3 hours. I just don't get it. First of all, who doesn't like WDW or DL? :) Second of all, who pays $50+ for a ticket and wants to leave after 2 hours?! This has happened to me on a few occasions. I try to make people rough it out longer, but it certainly spoils my day when that happens. So now I only like to go either alone or with people I know really love it. I know it's odd to go to WDW parks alone, but I almost have a better time that way, although some of the longer line waits can get lonely. However with single rider lines and fast passes, I never end up waiting long for stuff anymore, especially when I go alone and know the tricks of timing.

My nice shocker was these 3 little kids, probably ages 3-5 were standing next to me and they told their mom I was pretty and that I looked like Cinderella. I felt like hell from drinking late the night before, lack of sleep, and lack of make-up. That made my day though :).
 
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Just back Sunday. The most shocking thing I experienced happened just before Spectromagic was about to begin. Main Street was dark and my husband, my MIL and my daughter and I were sitting on the curb waiting for it to begin. We could see it coming down the street, it was about 1 minute away from us. Then all of a sudden a man about 6 feet tall 180 pounds comes from behind us and bolts over me and my husbands heads. He hit my husband's shoulder with his foot and continues across Main Street into the crowd on the other side. He reminded me of a deer bolting across the highway. He hit my husband and kept going. A CM saw what happened but the man disappeared in the crowd. I couldn't believe it. I don't know what he was running to or from. We tried not to let it spoil the parade.
 
Just got back yesterday, and if the shock from 70 degrees in Orlando to 15 degrees in Indianapolis wasn't enough, here's a new one...

My wife and I were staying at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, and we had a room overlooking the savannah. For those of you keeping score, we were overlooking the savannah (the Uzima, I think) on the east side of the resort, where some rooms just out 90 degrees from the rest of the "horseshoe". If you look at http://allearsnet.com/acc/aklmap3.jpg , we were in the section that runs "north east" of the zebra picture. Consequently, our balcony was situated perpendicular to the section just to the right of the zebra head.

Okay, so hopefully you have the setup... We were watching the animals from our balcony one afternoon, and I glanced over to talk to my wife, and just over her right shoulder is Naked Butt Guy. She sees the expression of shock on my face, so SHE looks to her right, and... well... there he is, wandering around in his room with the drapes open, dressed in his birthday suit. :earseek:

For those of you who haven't stayed at the AKL, they have signs posted that say keep your drapes closed for privacy, because cameras are everywhere, not just from guests, but security cameras to make sure people don't bother the animals.

We made sure to look at the savannah, only the savannah, and nothing but the savannah for the rest of the stay. :rolleyes1

Doug
 
hauntedcity said:
Just got back yesterday, and if the shock from 70 degrees in Orlando to 15 degrees in Indianapolis wasn't enough,


Welcome back to good ol Indiana! :wave: :eek:

Great thread!! Gives me some good laughs!
 
While watching Illuminations last Monday at the Cantina San Angel outside of the Mexico pavillion, a girl, I'll say around 10 to 12, walked up to our table and took the straw out of my lemonade. She then proceeded to put the straw in her drink, and started slurping away as she kept on walking. Wendy looked at me and asked, "did that girl just steal our straw"?, and I couldn't help but start laughing at the quizzical look on her face. Definitely one of the stranger shocks I could imagine having at WDW.
 
MHG26 said:
My other main "shocker" for WDW or DL is going with people who have never been there. I LOVE taking people who have never been there cus it's neat to show them around and see them enjoy themselves cus it's all new stuff to them, but sometimes I've taken new people who want to leave after 2-3 hours. I just don't get it. First of all, who doesn't like WDW or DL? :) Second of all, who pays $50+ for a ticket and wants to leave after 2 hours?! This has happened to me on a few occasions. I try to make people rough it out longer, but it certainly spoils my day when that happens. So now I only like to go either alone or with people I know really love it. I know it's odd to go to WDW parks alone, but I almost have a better time that way, although some of the longer line waits can get lonely. However with single rider lines and fast passes, I never end up waiting long for stuff anymore, especially when I go alone and know the tricks of timing.

I think it's great that you don't mind going alone on the rides - that is fun, enjoying the park to your self! I went to MK by myself one afternoon and thought it was a great time.
Getting back to your disappointment with others sometimes...it can be difficult traveling with other people. Every person is different and their interests are different. I've had people who like to "hang" out at the pool all day long and others who like to see "everything" by 12 (before they turn into a pumpkin).
IMHO: if you really like taking new people - give them a chance to express their interests and move along at their own pace. Disney can be overwhelming for newbies. (Even us veterans are constantly discovering new things).
Depending on the time of year you take them can also make a big difference. Some can't handle the heat, humidity or the crowds. Some don't like being rushed or pushed.
If you want to keep a "schedule" for riding, seeing, etc. then let them know that before you get to the park what your time frame is, add some "breaks" along the way -- FP really lets you do that now. Let them be in on the planning stage as well and let them decide some things too.
Set a time for lunch and if all else fails set up a time to re-connect. (Be specific, so they can find it and you both can find each other).
Me and my DH can go and go ALL day and we don't care how many times we traverse a pathway, my bro on the other hand likes circling a park ONE time only - sees and does it all - but he and his weight find it inefficient to go back and forth for any ride.
Hope some of these insights help a little. My favorite adage on this is, "When life throws you lemons, make lemonade." :3dglasses
 
i've never seen anything too bad at disney. universal is where i've seen: fistfights, alot of drunk people, and basically no order on the rides. the worst thing about disney is getting out of the park after the fireworks. i know it's a long day and people just want to go home, but as soon as the last firework is done, it's a mad scramble for the exits.you don't want to trip or stumble, you will be run over! now we leave early or stay a little later, just to avoid that. fortunately that is the only bad experience i've ever had at disney.
 
When I was in the MK last year in mid-August, we were wandering near Pirates of the Caribean when two teens (16 - 17, maybe, a boy and a girl) walk by pushing a stroller with a toddler in it. Maybe it was their kid, maybe it was their little sister, but really, it's no one's business anyway!
So walking in the other direction in a couple with their daughter, maybe 10 or 11, who snidely yells out "Someone forgot to use a condom!" at the two teens. I almost died.
The parents of the girl just smiled, and kept walking, thinking it was funny that their daughter just humiliated two people enjoying their Disney Day!
 
Come on! How could you possibly know anyone's story just by looking at them?!?!? Maybe they were on a Grand Gathering trip and the toddler was their little cousin or niece. Either way, it's none of their business.
 
And how do you know that they are teens? Maybe they just look young, and they are really in their 20's.
 
psycbert said:
When I was in the MK last year in mid-August, we were wandering near Pirates of the Caribean when two teens (16 - 17, maybe, a boy and a girl) walk by pushing a stroller with a toddler in it. Maybe it was their kid, maybe it was their little sister, but really, it's no one's business anyway!
So walking in the other direction in a couple with their daughter, maybe 10 or 11, who snidely yells out "Someone forgot to use a condom!" at the two teens. I almost died.
The parents of the girl just smiled, and kept walking, thinking it was funny that their daughter just humiliated two people enjoying their Disney Day!


Oh my goodness!! My child would never see the light of day again if she did that!! And heck for those who said you (one) don't know who's kid that was for sure, I totally agree! (And with the OPs statement that it isn't anyone's business.) I used to go to DL with my older sisters and their boyfriends ALL the time when I was a toddler and preschooler.
 
While at the MK last week my mom and I were walking from Adventureland towards Main Street. It was early in the morning so we were still tired but then all of a sudden we heard a man say to his kid "DADDY PEED IN THE SHOWER THIS MORNING!!!" and he giggled. He was all excited about it and the kid laughed and they went running and skipping together towards Adventureland. That definately woke both of us up! We just looked at each other like did he say...? and we couldn't stop laughing.
 
My only big thing on my recent trip is when we sit in a spot for the parade and fireworks at night and its not like we are hogging a lot of room but are sitting "indian style" I can't believe how many people just try to squish their way in or say, "can you move so we can sit down" or have their kids sit down right in front of us.

I even had one couple move my things so they could sit down. Those things were there for a reason, my son was in the "road" with other kids playing with the cast members so that was kind of saving his spot for him. I did tell them that the spot is for my son and they need to move. I did get dirty looks though.
 
My oldest sister had her son when she was 28 and I was 18 (but looked 14). I used to think it was hilarious to push the stroller at the mall and garner dirty looks (this was in 1974--I think there are a lot more teen pregnancies these days, but it's still nobody's business!)

Lots of parents in their 20s look young--and besides, I am happy to see people enjoying Disney World, no matter what their ages. DH and I just celebrated his 50th birthday at Disney World this weekend--and every time I saw an elderly couple at the parks, I though "That's us in 30 years!" :-)
 
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