I need a Do- Over!!! **Completed 6/13**

[heatherlynn444]

OH MY GOSH can I PLEASE tell you that your MIL is my grandmothers long lost TWIN! AAHH! its crazy! my grandmother is SO inconsiderate of everyone and so LOUD! she thinks just b/c she is old everyone has to listen to her, even strangers! for example: we are in the mall looking for clothes, and she suddenly yells "um, I think we are in the wrong place! this is fat people clothes!!!" my mom and i wanted to crawl in a hole! all these women started looking at us. how embarassing! oh, and at my rehersal dinner last month, after my sister made a toast and asks if anyone has anything to say, she yells :I am just gonna say I am so glad yall are not marrying Michael and frank!" (mine and my sisters ex boyfriendss for 3 years) we wanted to DIE!
oh oh and we took her to the GF for a week in 2003 with my family and our boyfriends, it was a NIGHTMARE! she walks so slow we finnaly convinced her to get a wheelchair, and she said and did the most annoying things! AAHHH! this si too funny how alike they are. sorry this is such a long post!

 

[Crazy Kanga]

After I posted and re-read the last installment, I realized I had left out a very important moment. On the way to Soarin' while Oblivia is convienienty trapped in her wheelchair, and we are speeding towards the Land, we are passed by two tween girls squealing and running passed us. As they blow by, one of them drops a change purse and doesn't realize it. So I yell at them to let them know they had dropped something and they run back grab it and run off. WELL, that does not sit well with Grandma,AKA parent to the world,AKA Oblivia. She begins to scream in a demonic tone at them "COME BACK HERE YOUNG LADIES! DON"T YOU KNOW HOW TO SAY THANK YOU!!!!!!" yada yada yada. You get the picture. I inform her that it really is no big deal and really not worth making a scene over, but she continues ad nauseum about how rude young people are these days and so forth. I guess you really had to be there! Anyway I thought I should add that little tid bit since I didn't have quite enough Grandma drama in that episode.

 

[verchad]

Kanga, I followed a link from another thread to this, it's great! Can't wair for more. I have a sis in law that loves to run the show whenever she can. Statements at a family gathering like, "Mom said she wanted the food placed on the buffet." Then Mom (my mil) comes out of the kitchen and says, "where do you think we should put the food at?"

Or she asks me if I can do a little project on the computer for her that turns into an ordeal. Once was for a fundraiser at our church. They had Santa there for the little ones and you could get a polaroid picture with him for a few dollars. Well she had a nice idea of making a little paper frame to put the picture in. She came over and it took 4 1/2 hours because she kept changing things and getting lost in all the clip art I have. Now if she asks for something like that, I just say what do you want, do it, give it to her, and if she wants changes I make them, doesn't take nearly as long.

It's just reassuring to know that we all put our pants on one leg at a time and we all have a relative that can drive us to drink!

 

[MomofCKJ]

Come back and finish! Please?

Allyson

 

[KathyRN137]

Ditto!

Kathy

 

[Tybug]

Oh my! This is way too funny! Yes, please come back and finish... I'm subscribing so I'll certain not to miss it!

 

[Crazy Kanga]

Thanks everyone for your nice replies, I have a tendancy to not acknowledge all of the kind posts, which is very rude of me, but I usually don't have much time for small talk and pleasantries since my life is very hectic right now. But, I truly appreciate my audience, however small it may be. What can I say, I am no ZZUB!
Now on with the show... As you recall we have managed to make it thru day 2 without killing anyone, but definitely infuriating quite a few people, and have returned for the night to the lovely Boardwalk. Now as we are wheeling Oblivia off of the "Friendship" boat, which by the way is somewhat ironic to me if you knew how many boat captains and fellow passengers she had managed to totally pss off, we realize we have somhow managed to make it back to the resort with the courtesy wheelchair from Epcot. How, you might ask, did we manage that? Well when Oblivia is involved, anything is possible, and I don't mean that in a good way. See, as we are leaving the park, she declares there is no way she can make it from the park gate to the boat dock without the wheelchair, so the lady at the wheelchair return tells us we can take one of the "courtesy" wheelchairs (different ones than the ones you use in the park) over to the boatdock if we bring it back. So We plan to do just that, but once we get there the boat is about to depart, so we have to hurry on and the boat captain tells us to go ahead and get on with the chair and he will bring it back over. I thought this was a little weird, but as we are about to make the boat late for its scheduled departure, I agree to it and we are off to the Boardwalk with an old rusty, hard to push, "courtesy" wheelchair. So once we get off of the boat with it we figure, "Oh what the heck we have it and we are going right back to Epcot tomorrow morning anyway, let's just keep the dang thing"! So we did, and wheeled it right on up to our room, had a good night's sleep and got up the next morning and decided to head to AK instead. Never fear we do eventually return the chair, and no one says a word. I am sure I will get flamed for depriving some poor soul of a courtesy wheelchair that day, but trust me, it was such a crappy hard to push rusty thing, it was actually a blessing that no one got stuck with it, trust me! And as an additional bonus for us, Oblivia has decided she needs to stay in the room and rest for the morning, so we actually have a somewhat peaceful trip to AK and are able to get a lot done... at least for a while. Dum Dum Dum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Crazy Kanga]

We head straight over to AK after getting lost on the way to the bus stop. Yes, people, I know it sounds crazy, but we did manage to get lost on the way to the dang bus stop. Well, This may seem stupid, and by the way it really is, but we are on our way to the bus stop, which we can see from our room and we decide, "there must be a faster way there." WRONG! We end up spending aboout 20 minutes lost in a maze in the BWI and almost make a detour thru a maintenence area before making it to the bus stop. Only we can figure out way to make a 5 minute trip to the bus take 20! The curse of Oblivia strikes even when she is in the room asleep. So we finally make it there and head to the dreaded rope drop holding pen, then eventually make it to the KS ride and man is it ever cold! For the first time ever, I am really NOT enjoying the ride. Hardly any animlas to speak of, but then......... we see the lion roar, and it is all worth it. After that we stroll thru MJT where an over zealous CM scolds us to "watch our body language" in front of the gorillas."Puh-leeze lady, they are behind glass, I am really not terribly affraid for my life." Then we head over to EE.
About that time Oblivia calls right when we are on EE! Yes. I am on the way up the incline when my cell phone rings. It's on vibrate so I don't hear it, but feel it ringing. Again, only Oblivia can time it this perfectly WRONG! We try to return the phone call when we get off the ride (which by the way was AWESOME!) but of course.... no answer! Just shoot me now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sweedee]

I am still reading and "enjoying" your TR! (well, I can't say I ENJOY it, but I am enjoying reading it!)

 

[dvc at last !]

Thanks for this report -- you made my day !


I love it --- give us more....

 

[verchad]

Way to leave us hanging, tune in next time. AHHHH! Hate when someone calls you and you don't get to it in time and you call them right back and they don't answer.

 

[Crazy Kanga]

We call repeatedly on from dh's cell to my cell which we left with her so she could call us when she got up and about. I mean like 20 times we call and no answer. We even tried calling the room phone. Nothing. So I figure she has gone down to the lobby to complain about the previous days events with the lights going out when we checked in(which by the way only took about 20 -30 minutes to resolve).because she had been griping about how they owed us a free upgrade to a suite for our troubles. And as it turns out I was right,she had tried to do exactly that, but I didn't find that out til much later. So anyway, we head from EE over to FOTLK which was fun as usual and we sang all the songs and had a great time and lo and behold the phone vibrates in the middle of the show. NO WAY! I can't even hear in there to answer it so we try calling her again when we get out, and guess what? No answer!
So we dscide to head back cuz we've had all the fun we can take what with the vibrating phone tag that was getting us nowhere. On the way back to the BW we of course stop at S/D YC, BC and fianlly BW. Man that sux. I mean I really can't complain that much cuz I got a great deal renting points, but if I was paying $300+ per night, I would be about all those stops. Sorry for the vent, but I just feel for the $$$ they need to not be sharing busses with that many deluxe resorts. I can see S/D and BW sharing and Y&BC sharing but...I digress.
So once we are back she is all rip roarin' ready to go, and we are a little wiped out and in need of a little rest. So we let ds put on his swimsuit and head down for a quick dip in the pool. I mean it is in the low 60's and I am in jeans and a jacket, but oh, well whatever floats your boat kid. After 2 or 3 trips down the "IT" slide, that he affectionately named "Clowney" he was ready to go. So back upstairs and presto chango we're ready to head back over to Epcot to return our contra-ban wheelchair from hell.

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Yay! I'm all caught up!! Let me just say, I'll take Waldo over Oblivia any day of the week!

 

[Disneyolic]

Well, I finally really read your trip report and I must say... Let's get going on it!

I love the way you talk in your posts. Reminds me of myself sometimes, especially with the "anywho's". I do that all the time.

Oh yea, in Grandma's defense, and only this once, I agree with her about the teenage girls not saying thank you. That really bothers me when people don't have a common courtesy for even that! How hard would that have been for them? I probably would have shouted back at them, "YOU'RE WELCOME!" Oh well, that's just me.

I'm looking forward to reading the rest of your report!

***DawnMaree

 

[Crazy Kanga]

Thanks, Dawn Maree. I have this thing where I am trying to drag it out until my next trip. Anywho, that's why I haven't updated in a while. That and I'm just plain lazy about it.
Thanks for noticin' me.

 

[alabamagirl]

Hilarious TR so far! This makes me appreciate my MIL so much.

 

[mandy200587]

Too funny, I can see stuff similar like this happening if I took my other sil to disney.

 

[Crazy Kanga]

Yay! Another June Stalker reading my trippie! Thanks for noticin' me!

 

[MsLeFever]

great reading - keep it up!

 

[crzy4mickey]

I can't wait to hear what happens next! Come back please.....