Have you ever had a shock?

[kathyseb]

A few years back, when we still stayed at one of the hotels at Downtown Disney, we boarded the bus to head to MGM. There was a family that spoke little English on the bus. It was a man and two children somewhere between 6-10. As the bus headed into the parking lot to let us off, the man was pointing out the castle to them. My husband and I just looked at each other. The boy said I did not know the castle was brown.
After that comment, we realized they thought Tower of Terror was the castle. Which meant they thought that they were at MK and not MGM.
We looked at each other again and kind of chuckled.
We did stop and help them. There were only at the parks that one day and we were trying to get them to MK the easiest and fastest way. They did not want to wait for a MK bus so we suggested going to EPCOT and walking through the park and taking the Monorail. But if they did not have a park hopper pass, that was not possible. Finally we directed them to a CM for assistance.
To this day, whenever we head into MGM one of us says to the other, I never knew the castle was brown!!

 

[Philadisney]

I'm new to these bords, but I had to tell my story. I was sixteen and it was then first time I had gone down to WDW. It was the weekend after thanksgiving 1999 and I must have been getting the flu. I felt sick getting off the plane. I felt sick driving to the hotel. Then I found out that our room wasn't ready. My Mom, her boyfriend, my friend and myself end up going to Epcot. Once inside the park they told me that it was probably because of the change in weather (CT in November to FL in November) and that if I eat something I'd feel better. Oh how wrong they were. I got to a bathroom the first time I got sick, but the second time was all over a trash can inbetween Italy and Germay and the second time was in the bushes as my Mother rushed me out of epcot and into the car. I felt so bad about getting sick!!! The poor CM didn't seem to know what to do, he asked my mother if she wanted him to call 911. It was some first trip is WDW.

i can relate, i got sick in epcot germany once too! such memories...

 

[orangeblossom]

I saw a British woman slap her brother-in-law for telling her what to do in the line for WWTBAM and saw all the security guys come up and get them.

 

[TimothyG]

A few years back, when we still stayed at one of the hotels at Downtown Disney, we boarded the bus to head to MGM. There was a family that spoke little English on the bus. It was a man and two children somewhere between 6-10. As the bus headed into the parking lot to let us off, the man was pointing out the castle to them. My husband and I just looked at each other. The boy said I did not know the castle was brown.
After that comment, we realized they thought Tower of Terror was the castle. Which meant they thought that they were at MK and not MGM.
We looked at each other again and kind of chuckled.
We did stop and help them. There were only at the parks that one day and we were trying to get them to MK the easiest and fastest way. They did not want to wait for a MK bus so we suggested going to EPCOT and walking through the park and taking the Monorail. But if they did not have a park hopper pass, that was not possible. Finally we directed them to a CM for assistance.
To this day, whenever we head into MGM one of us says to the other, I never knew the castle was brown!!

Haha.. I can't believe they didn't think something was wrong when the castle wasn't in the center of the park, had a big black part where lightning hit it, had the words "Hollywood Tower Hotel" on it, and had guests in it screaming... LOL

 

[SoccerDogWithEars]

Two things shocked me: One is a good shock, the other is just a really weird/scary/bad shock.
1. On the way down, my family stopped at a seafood restaurant Southern Living had raved about. Bad choice. We all ended up with food poisoning. So the at 3 am the first day there, I made a "protein spill" (CM code name for puke). Went back to sleep. When the clock went off, it was decided that Dad would go to the park to meet our friends, while Mom and I would stay in the hotel. Being the littlest one, I was the sickest. So once I had to "spill protein" while using the toilet. I ended up aiming for the tub, but missing....on both ends. The maids never said a word about it, only offered to run down and get us medicine from the gift shop. Dad ended up coming back after getting sick in the parks. But I was completely shocked on how the maids never said a single word, they were just as helpful as could be.
2. While on the bus, this woman who was obviously from NJ (no offense to anyone from there) got on with her DH, DD dressed in a cinderella costume, and DS dressed in some sort of knight costume. She opened up her map to Epcot, and said things like "I wonder where Soarin' is that sounds interesting (before it had opened)" and "there's a kennel here I want you to know that". She was completely oblivious. And she talked at the top of her lungs. course, while waiting for the buses there was another DM who shouted out the buses as they came......as if we don't know how to read.

 

[bugsy]

Haha.. I can't believe they didn't think something was wrong when the castle wasn't in the center of the park, had a big black part where lightning hit it, had the words "Hollywood Tower Hotel" on it, and had guests in it screaming... LOL

now, now, one man's trailer park is another man's castle!
musn't judge, musn't judge

 

[orangeblossom]

You're dern skippy! On my honeymoon, my DH and I stood everywhere we rode the busses to in order that older folks, women with children, little ones, pregnant ladies and folks with injuries could sit in safety. When I went down and was obviously pregnant, people would push past me to get into a seat before I could. There were a few really great people who would see me clinging to my DH and insist that I take their seat (which I would loudly and gratefully thank them for) and some of these folks were people who rightfully should have remained seated.

The most shocking incident I have with this is when a very nice man offered me his seat next to his wife, and before I could lower myself into the seat, some half-drunken guy slides in directly beneath my lowering fanny! I debated letting my DH and the other husband pummel him, but decided to go ahead and finish lowering my large pregnant caboose right onto this guy's lap. I told him, and everyone on the bus that I had no problem sharing the seat with him, but that I hoped he was ok with the idea that I was 5.5 months pregnant and was still vomiting quite a bit. I also told him (loudly) that I hoped that I didn't cut the circulation off to the rest of his legs. He laughed and joked about it, saying that he couldn't tell that I was pregnant, and offered to let my husband be my seat-cushion for the ride, but I bet you a million dollars he'll be more careful about whose seat he steals next time.

Just another reminder that it's not always obvious who needs a seat....My S.O. and I both have hip problems and need a place to sit after a long day in the parks.

 

[MELSMICE]

Just returned this afternoon. There were 2 things I was a little shocked by & others I was just annoyed by.

Shocking - the person that left their babies diaper in the pre-show room of Test Track. Totally gross & classless IMO.

Also, the person that vomitted right outside of Cape May Cafe & left it there for others to walk through. I went to the front desk & told them about it. How lovely for the people dining in Cape May to be able to dine with that beautiful scent wafting through the restaurant!

Annoying - the people that walked through the hallways very early in the morning (before 7 a.m.) running & yelling. Not everyone gets up at the crack of dawn to go to a park.

Didn't sound like all the kids in the hallway wanted to either - especially the one whininig very loudly & throwing himself on the ground saying "but I don't want to go to a park today!!!"

 

[THE HAT]

here is one for you all...not sure if it is a shocker but, certainly is amusing,lol.

this past january while in Mk we were coming out of cosmic ray's with our tray of food to sit outside and eat, when we stepped out the doors and something goes flying by us, and hits the window with a WHACK. i say "what the heck was that?" and dh goes "i think it was a bird" when the only other people at at table look at us and go "there is another one right over there" (indicating the other side of them, they had one on each side). well sure enough, there were 2 dead birds on the ground. so dh heads inside to get a CM, well when he tells them what happened, they don't say "what?!!?" or "are you sure?" but instead they say "AGAIN". seems to be that this happens alot, even with the wire along the edges of the roofs to deter them. (now after that comment of the fact that it happens on a reg basis... it made me look at my rotisserie chicken in a whole new light)

well it gets better still...the CM gets ahold of another CM who is incharge of cleaning up the outside tables and keeping the ground crumb free. well he comes over with his broom and the dustpan thing. looks at the 2 "dead" birds and then turns to us and says with this look of puzzlement on his face "how am i supposed to fit them into this thing?!!?" (they were very large)

well he somehow does get them to fit, and the whole time he just keeps apologizing to us and the other couple that was eating there too. well neither us nor they were offended, we just kept laughing at the whole thing, as it was quite amusing, (not the birds getting killed, but the CM being so baffled and the fact we saw it happen etc etc)

so he goes off with the "dead" birds and leaves us with another " i am so sorry you had to witness that", and goes to dispose of the birds.

we carry on with our eating...and he comes back about 10 min later, with a shocked look on his face, and procedes to tell us what happened next....on his way to dispose of the birds he saw his manager in a gift shop, so he went in to show him what he had in the dustpan.(why i don't know, but he was surprised to have to clean up 2 at one time) about 10 feet from them were some customers shopping but they couldn't see the dust pan so he opened it up to show him, and kind of joustled it a bit to show that there was 2 of them..well......apparently..ummm...only one was dead and the other one was just a bit stunned, because it flew out of the dustpan, and flew by the customer who was 10 feet away, and flew around the gift shop in a dazed state, b4 finding its way out the door.

well if you could have seen this poor kids face, and here we were just dying with laughter at the whole thing, and he just keeps saying i am so sorry, and then he would say it just flew right out of the dust pan. he then walked off, and came back with sodas, ice cream, and popcorn for all of us.

we never saw him again during our trip but i do hope the rest of his week was better.

 

[TinkerbellMama]

I'd be willing to bet that the child insisted on wearing those shoes that day. Mom probably warned her that they would be uncomfortable but the kid didn't care and wanted to wear them anyway.

Maybe so...but if my ds wanted to light himself on fire, I wouldn't just say, "I warned you it will be hot," and hand him a match!

 

[TinkerbellMama]

And I just want to let everyone know that yes, I breastfed my baby in public. I'd gladly go to a designated area if they had more than ONE. But if someone saw me that's their problem and they shouldn't be staring. I was completely covered up and sitting on the ground in a corner with my 2 strollers in front of me. After reading about all the breastfeeding haters here on the DIS I didn't want to take any chances of someone reporting about me.

Good for you!!!!

 

[Aidensmom]

At the little playground area in Toon Town in MK, DS3 had just started going down a slide when a little boy about 1, who looked as if he had just learned to walk about 3 days earlier, toddled up to the the bottom of the slide and tried to climb up it. At that point there was no way for my son to stop his descent, and he ended up slamming right into the little boy's head. I rushed over to the bottom of the slide to make sure both children were OK (thankfully they were), and looked for the little one's mother to apologize. However, no one seemed to know this child. I tried asking him who his mommy was, but he of course was not old enough to tell me, he just started off towards another part of the playground. About 2 minutes later, he was back over at the slide, and went around a corner at the same time as another small child coming from the opposite direction, and their little foreheads smacked right into each other, and this "parentless" little boy was knocked to the ground. Still no parent coming to check on the child, so I again went to see if he was OK. He seemed alright, as he wasn't crying or anything and just wanted to continue playing, but it was worrying me that there seemed to be no one watching him. Finally, about 10 minutes later, a young woman talking on a cell phone walked over and motioned to him it was time to go (God forbid she interrupt her conversation).

I was just utterly amazed that someone could leave ANY child, much less that young, to play on a playground and have absolutely NO idea what was going on with him. All I can say is that for that child's sake, I hope that was an isolated incident.

 

[disneyaggie]

At the little playground area in Toon Town in MK, DS3 had just started going down a slide when a little boy about 1, who looked as if he had just learned to walk about 3 days earlier, toddled up to the the bottom of the slide and tried to climb up it. At that point there was no way for my son to stop his descent, and he ended up slamming right into the little boy's head. I rushed over to the bottom of the slide to make sure both children were OK (thankfully they were), and looked for the little one's mother to apologize. However, no one seemed to know this child. I tried asking him who his mommy was, but he of course was not old enough to tell me, he just started off towards another part of the playground. About 2 minutes later, he was back over at the slide, and went around a corner at the same time as another small child coming from the opposite direction, and their little foreheads smacked right into each other, and this "parentless" little boy was knocked to the ground. Still no parent coming to check on the child, so I again went to see if he was OK. He seemed alright, as he wasn't crying or anything and just wanted to continue playing, but it was worrying me that there seemed to be no one watching him. Finally, about 10 minutes later, a young woman talking on a cell phone walked over and motioned to him it was time to go (God forbid she interrupt her conversation).

I was just utterly amazed that someone could leave ANY child, much less that young, to play on a playground and have absolutely NO idea what was going on with him. All I can say is that for that child's sake, I hope that was an isolated incident.

Unbelievable! Too bad a CM didn't take the child off for protection. That would have scared Miss AT&T . . . coming back with no child left. What a dope! And trust me, these ding-a-lings breed and have more!

I can also assure you that if something serious would have happened to the child, she would be crawling all over the place with lawyers wanting to sue!

 

[foreverscarlett7]

Bump!!!!!!!!!!

 

[PatricenPete]

Before I post my most shocking moment, allow me to preface it by saying that I am a nursing mother and I do appreciate the that I have the right to nurse him wherever I want. That being said.....

One year on the way out of the ride Dinosaur, right in the middle of the store that you are led into upon exiting the ride was a woman breastfeeding her baby. She was literally sitting in the middle of the exit path, people were TRIPPING over her and she just sat there. One woman DID say something to her and she just said, I have the right to feed my son anywhere I want. I agree with that statement, but felt this was taking things a bit too far.....

 

[NewEnglandDisney]

I would want to take that magic wand and whack the clueless losers over their heads!

Actually, for some of the worst offenders, that's not where I'd use the magic wand...but then again, this is a family board so I'll keep it to myself.

Keep them coming guys! Love this thread!

N.E.D.

 

[disneyaggie]

Before I post my most shocking moment, allow me to preface it by saying that I am a nursing mother and I do appreciate the that I have the right to nurse him wherever I want. That being said.....

One year on the way out of the ride Dinosaur, right in the middle of the store that you are led into upon exiting the ride was a woman breastfeeding her baby. She was literally sitting in the middle of the exit path, people were TRIPPING over her and she just sat there. One woman DID say something to her and she just said, I have the right to feed my son anywhere I want. I agree with that statement, but felt this was taking things a bit too far.....

To do this discretely (my preference would be out of the public's view) is one thing . . . but to stop traffic in the middle of the exit path is way out of line. What a dope!

And when one woman DID say something to her (good for her!), the ding-a-ling replied that she had the right to feed her son anywhere she wanted. I think I would have been tempted to say, "Well, I have the right to walk wherever I want; and I have been walking longer than you've been breastfeeding" and with that, stepped on her! (not really, but the rudeness of others really irritates me!).

 

[ILoveDisney-Angie]

We were in line at Buzz Lightyear - Space Ranger Spin and I noticed a woman carrying a doll that was only dressed in a diaper. She was all over with this doll, not supporting it's head, holding it with one arm. I thought how life like this doll looked. Well it moved and that's when I knew that it was a real baby. It was the middle of July, a VERY sunny, hot day and all this baby has on is a diaper!!! She was winging it around like it was a doll. I don't have any kids but I know enough to know that the way this lady was handling the baby was inappropriate. I started talking really loudly about what a HORRIBLE mother this woman was and proceeded to go up to her (she was in the fast pass lane) but DH was grabbing me and telling me to be quiet. I couldn't stop spazzing though and she looked at me and kept walking.

 

[disneyaggie]

We were in line at Buzz Lightyear - Space Ranger Spin and I noticed a woman carrying a doll that was only dressed in a diaper. She was all over with this doll, not supporting it's head, holding it with one arm. I thought how life like this doll looked. Well it moved and that's when I knew that it was a real baby. It was the middle of July, a VERY sunny, hot day and all this baby has on is a diaper!!! She was winging it around like it was a doll. I don't have any kids but I know enough to know that the way this lady was handling the baby was inappropriate. I started talking really loudly about what a HORRIBLE mother this woman was and proceeded to go up to her (she was in the fast pass lane) but DH was grabbing me and telling me to be quiet. I couldn't stop spazzing though and she looked at me and kept walking.

YIKES! I'd like to swing her around like she did her baby. I bet she would not take too kindly to that, huh? I am a big advocate on protecting children and animals! I, too, would have been having a fit!

 

[4greatboys]

Last June we were waiting in the gift shop of the RnR coaster and a man grabs his ds about 9 or 10 yrs old by the hair of the head and starts shaking his head violently, stops, screams at him some more and does it again. I told him if he touched the child like that again I was getting park security--which I did anyway. They really just watched the guy. I couldnt believe what I was seeing. If thats what he does in public imagine what he does to that kid in private. I just couldnt stay silent about it. It was extremely abusive behavior. He and I had words and he told me if I had been abused when I was a kid maybe I could have learned how to keep my fat mouth shut.
You know Im adult and really dont care what the dude thinks about me but I was really worried for the poor kid.