Have you ever had a shock?

[Lanie]

This one was more of a shock to me...I am in front of the Living Seas Pavillion at Epcot, and I stop to look at the Nemo display and tell my boyfriend it is so pretty and I am so happy to be in WDW for the first time ... He doesn't answer me, but I hear this weird little sound I turn around, and there is a 7 feet sea creature about 5 inches from my nose Of course, I screamed like a girl!!! Everybody around me were laughing really hard (including the sea creature ), and my boyfriend was almost rolling on the ground .
To this day, he still thinks this is the funniest thing ever, while I almost had a heart attack!

 

[Hollymom1229]

Yesterday my husband and I went to the Magic kingom. At one point in the afternoon it was raining and we figured it would be more fun to go on the TTA while waiting for our fast pass for Buzz to mature. When we got around the first corner I was assulted by a big puff of smoke. We did a quick look around and the man sitting in front of us was smoking. I get major headaches from exposure, not to mention that we were on a ride, so my husband asked the man to not smoke. The man nodded and then(this is what puts it on this board and not the smoking rant one) he threw his LIT cigerette over the edge! I am still in shock over that...

WOW!!! I can't believe anyone is that ignorant. I'm a smoker, and this entire mentality baffles me.

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Your boyfriend is right. Very Funny.

 

[Lanie]

BUMP
Too good to loose!!!

 

[disneymom727]

This happened on my last trip about 3 weeks ago. My niece and I were walking in the World Showcase. This older gentleman on an ECV riding by, legs spread, with part of his "anatomy" peaking out of his shorts.
At typhoon lagoon a family proceeds to change the kids out of their suits right in front of us. The children (boy and girl) were happily naked and mom/dad even proceeded to pour bottled water over them to "clean" them? Then the mom/dad both changed out of their suits under a towel. The way the guy was doing it we were waiting to get mooned...we did. Can't understand why they changed on the beach, the dressing rooms were not crowded at that time.

This made me laugh so hard I am crying!!!

 

[Tony Toon]

Not at WDW but at Sea World where we witnessed one of the most comical situations at the end of the Clyde and Seymour sealion show a couple of weeks ago. Picture this....

The show comes to its normal conclusion and everyone gets up to leave. Unnoticed in the front wheelchair row, someones granny (still in wheelchair) somehow is unknowingly bumped from behind and begins her journey very slowly but oh so unerringly across the pathway straight towards the glass wall of the sealion tank with Clyde perched up on the top of the wall - and all completely unnoticed. The wall is high enough that she was never in any real danger but as she approaches the glass she decides that her best means of defence is.....to put her umbrella up! It is at this point that her carer (?) realises what is happening and runs after the wheelchair arms in air, catching the runaway just in the nick of time.

I turned to my wife, DS (15) and DD (18) - "Did you see that?" I asked. The glee displayed on their faces answered my question. We all had seen it - but as we looked around us, wiping away our tears, we realised that we alone seemed to have noticed this moment of supreme farce.

Just had to share, although undoubtedly it has lost some of its impact in retelling.

 

[asta]

I finally have a shock (or maybe a disgust) to share. On Sat, 7/16 we were eating breakfast at the HRH (Universal). A lady came in with what appeared to be her husband and son. She was wearing a black thong bikinni covered by a very open weaved crochet cover up. The last thing I want to see anytime, let alone in a restaurant, is someone's bare bottom. It is beyond disgust to think of sitting in a chair after her barely covered bottom has been all over it. (Quick, someone grab a sanitizing wipe.) How can a health code that doesn't allow bare feet in a restaurant, allow bare bottoms.

 

[jac199]

My friend and I went to see Shaft at DTD in 2000. The theater was pretty empty because it was an early mid-week show. Now when I say the theater was empty I mean there were like 20 people in the place, there were a bunch of empty rows and this couple decides to sit just one seat away from my friend and me. About half way through the movie, out of the corner of my eye, I see the guy squirm in his seat then lift his girlfriend on to his lap. I couldn’t believe it when he starts bouncing her on his lap, it’s obvious what’s going on. I choked on my popcorn and nudged my friend to see if she was seeing the same thing. Her jaw was on the floor, looking over in disbelief. We weren’t in the last row of the theater, I wonder what the people behind us thought. The best part was while the guy is doing his thing the girl is totally caught up in the movie, laughing at the jokes. My friend and I still laugh about that part.

 

[GingerbreadCoffin]

I can't believe that man just tossed a lit cigarette overboard. Would if it had landed in a stroller

This isn't something I watched happen but something that happened to me. Back in December 2004 my family decided to eat at Pecos Bill's. The kids and I got a table outside while DH went inside to order our food. I kept noticing all the birds running around under tables and I was a bit scared. I am terrified of anything with wings . Out of nowhere I look up from the ground and this HUUUUGE crow is flying right for me. It drive bombs me and skimmed the top of my pink,maribou feather Minnit Mouse ears . Everyone sitting near us just stopped eating and started flipping out. People ran indoors with trays ,covered their children asked if I was alright. The sad part was that I didn't even have any food

 

[WeemanMom]

 

[WeemanMom]

when i worked at Claire's i used to pierce ears and a lot of them were on kids between 2-9 and in those ages children freak out because the pain(which isn't really bad) and the noise(which scares them more) and the kids never wanted to get their ears pierced and the parents would literlary force them. i've had parents screaming at their kids and i've had them tell me "oh i'll sit on her and you can do it".........well since i was the Manager on Duty most of the nights(because i was by myself) i told them "i'm sorry but if your child really does not want this done, i'm not going to do it" and they'd get mad and i'd explain to them that there was another piercing place in the mall if they'd like to go there or that they can call and speak to my manager if they wanted to. most of the time they just left mumbling obcenities to me. it just amazes me what some parents do to their kids.

Try this one...my daughter was about eight when she had her ears pierced. She had begged me for months because her cousin had her's done. I took her to a place that did both ears at the same time. Only problem...one girl was out sick, they would need to be done separately. Against my better judgement (after, literally twenty minutes of begging) I agreed to let her have one and then the other ear done. The woman at the piercing stand just smiled...she had to have known.

Pop goes the first year and my dearly, devoted, wonderful child that just begged for this looks me straight in the eye and says....

'I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU MADE ME DO THIS!!!!'

My DH and DS were four stores down (in the Disney Store) and they heard her yell.

Yea, that's the last time I trusted her for a long time.

Now at the ripe old age of 13, we can laugh about it.

 

[WeemanMom]

This isn't really 'shocking', but we thought it was weird.
On the monorail from the Magic Kingdom to the Grand Floridian, a young couple boarded with their infant. He/she was tiny, probably just a few months old and in one of those transport system thingys. Not a traditional stroller, but one of those things you pop the carseat into. So, the baby was totally reclining, just looking at the celing of the monorail. Apparently, the baby was laughing or smiling because the parents were laughing their heads off at the baby and snapping picture after picture. Under normal circumstances, we wouldn't have even noticed, but it was AFTER closing time at the MK and it was pitch black outside. Each time they took a picture, everyone in the monorail car was blinded by the flash. One or two pics would have been fine, but this couple must have taken a dozen or more pictures between the MK and the TTC. When they finally got off, the remaining people in the car all collectively said, "Oh, Thank Goodness!"
Don't flame me for complaining about people taking pictures of their kids, but they must have taken a whole roll of the exact same thing. Aside from the fact that it was inconsiderate to use the flash in the dark in such a confined area. I had white flash spots in my eyes for the rest of the way to the GF!

Take solice in knowing that pictures taken in that much darkness with a flash often do not come out clearly. They really needed to turn off the flash and open the shutter. They probably got home and developed their pictures only to find out they could barely see their child.

 

[cancilla]

My most horrifying experience at the MK: I heard someone shouting from the direction of the river and turned to take a look. The CM in the little top room of the paddlewheeler was yelling at the top of his voice at a woman on the deck below him. The woman had a baby in one of those packs that holds the baby on her front. She was leaning all the way over the edge of the rail, so that her baby's head was pointing down, and she wasn't holding on to it.

I can't describe how paniced the CM looked while he yelled for her to stop leaning over the rail. I'm sure he could imagine (as I did) that poor baby sliding out...

I still feel a cold chill when I think about it.

--Dominick

 

[DisneyMom5]

I don't think she ever posted this herself, so...
My best friend and her family were in WDW in January. The finger scan was brand new, and to her dismay, she had a park guest in line in front of her that had something wrong with the structure of his hand. The scan would not take. The poor man, the CMs didn't stop trying and ask for id, as I am told they would now. They just kept yelling at him to place his fingers this way and that. My friend was mortified for the man.

Second - they were at FOTLK at AK, and best friend's b.i.l. had never been, and as they are watching the show b.i.l. says "wow, look at the fire! Is that supposed to happen?" And sure enough, the scenery had caught on fire.
They even got it on video.
Happily, so far no weird things like that have happened to my family! I guess its only a matter of time.

 

[wilma-bride]

Last year we saw a woman drag her child, kicking and screaming onto ToT. The poor child really did not want to ride it and screamed blue murder through the whole ride. The worst thing - not one person said anything to her, even the CMs. We could still hear her screaming as we walked away from ToT after and the woman going 'For Christ's sake, it wasn't that bad, stop making such a fuss'.

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

I totally forgot about this...

My husband got a shock.

This January, we went to the "World" without our children. Our last night, of course he went to bed as soon as we got back to the room and I packed everything we wouldn't need at 5:45 am. I must have finally crawled into bed at midnight.

In the night, I look at the clock and it reads 6:30am!!!! So I literally jump out of bed and start hissing "get up, I didn't hear the alarm clock. We are late," or something to that effect. We have to be at the airport, like NOW. I am sucking down toothpaste and just thinking of how the CMs at the WL front desk are going to see a whirlwind of me, sprinting through the automatic doors, can anyone say "express checkout." So we are fully dressed, throwing suitcases on our shoulders and I glance at the TV. 2:10am. The alarm clock was wrong. And just to give you some background, my husband is not easily amused, or laid back AT ALL. DH is NOT happy. (Thank goodness for that TV, can you imagine if we had made it to the car!)

So I guess it all turned out ok. We got 3 more hours of sleep (in different beds) and made it to the airport on time.

 

[WeemanMom]

This one really had me laughing! I loved it!!!

Probably because I could just see something like that happening to me.

p.s....served DH right for not at least checking one thing...the clock.

 

[pdchris]

Not at WDW but at Sea World where we witnessed one of the most comical situations at the end of the Clyde and Seymour sealion show a couple of weeks ago. Picture this....

The show comes to its normal conclusion and everyone gets up to leave. Unnoticed in the front wheelchair row, someones granny (still in wheelchair) somehow is unknowingly bumped from behind and begins her journey very slowly but oh so unerringly across the pathway straight towards the glass wall of the sealion tank with Clyde perched up on the top of the wall - and all completely unnoticed. The wall is high enough that she was never in any real danger but as she approaches the glass she decides that her best means of defence is.....to put her umbrella up! It is at this point that her carer (?) realises what is happening and runs after the wheelchair arms in air, catching the runaway just in the nick of time.

I turned to my wife, DS (15) and DD (18) - "Did you see that?" I asked. The glee displayed on their faces answered my question. We all had seen it - but as we looked around us, wiping away our tears, we realised that we alone seemed to have noticed this moment of supreme farce.

Just had to share, although undoubtedly it has lost some of its impact in retelling.

ROFLMAO
That was great! Thanks for the laugh!

 

[WeemanMom]

I am so glad to hear you didn't "give in" to your DD--too many times you see parents give in to avoid an embarrassing scene and it doesn't teach the kids anything! As for calling her a little snothead, I'm sorry but that just makes me giggle!

I agree that too often parents try to 'avoid the scene' by giving in. As parents we have to remember there is another way to avoid the scene...take the child home (or in this case, back to the hotel). I have a son (10 yrs old) with special needs. At times he loses control, simply cannot control his own behavior. He has gone past the line where he can settle down. In the past he would simply not try to control his out bursts/meltdowns (usually caused by over-stimulation...loud place, high activity levels, sudden changes in schedules, etc).

Because DH and I have stuck to it and not allowed him to use this as an excuse he has learned to (to some degree) control himself. Or he will tell us he is becoming overwhelmed and remove himself from the situation.

This was learned because he didn't like missing out on window shopping (hey, just MIGHT get something), missed trips to miniature golf, movies, etc., removal from a restuarant.

Now at the age og ten he fully realizes that he is the only person responsible for his own actions AND we no longer are the family in the (insert actitivity here) causing the scene.

 

[MELSMICE]

I totally forgot about this...

My husband got a shock.

This January, we went to the "World" without our children. Our last night, of course he went to bed as soon as we got back to the room and I packed everything we wouldn't need at 5:45 am. I must have finally crawled into bed at midnight.

In the night, I look at the clock and it reads 6:30am!!!! So I literally jump out of bed and start hissing "get up, I didn't hear the alarm clock. We are late," or something to that effect. We have to be at the airport, like NOW. I am sucking down toothpaste and just thinking of how the CMs at the WL front desk are going to see a whirlwind of me, sprinting through the automatic doors, can anyone say "express checkout." So we are fully dressed, throwing suitcases on our shoulders and I glance at the TV. 2:10am. The alarm clock was wrong. And just to give you some background, my husband is not easily amused, or laid back AT ALL. DH is NOT happy. (Thank goodness for that TV, can you imagine if we had made it to the car!)

So I guess it all turned out ok. We got 3 more hours of sleep (in different beds) and made it to the airport on time.