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[DiszyDeanette]

Thank you for your kind words, I'm so upset by all I've read that my hands are shaking!

I had wondered why your daughter thought she was going to be killed on a bus full of people by a lone bus driver. This kind of explains it.

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

Good point about a bus of 50 people not offering to help, except they did offer to help. By the time he turned into the wrong resort they were all screaming at him to go to the next turn and not turn there. Yep, they all deserved to be taken for a side trip, and I'm just rolling on the floor laughing at someone telling me that my daughter experienced a non-rational fear for a brief moment.

Come on, has no one here ever experienced a fear that later on you can look at and say "well, that was just not rational because look, nothing happened."

I'm not telling you anything about your daughter. But in defense of the responding posters here, you certainly made it seem as if your daughter was a bit scarred, to wit: tear-bursting and fearing for her life. She was upset. Is that a more accurate assessment now that you can look back? It would seem so, given your recent posts.

I'm glad your daughter has recovered from such an odd experience. No, I don't think for 2 seconds you expected or wanted compensation for this. Yes, I do think you focused on your daughter's reaction instead of giving more facts about the whole scenario. Yes, I think any part of a person's post is open for commentary. Yes, I agree that Disney doesn't always provide an easy avenue for complaints. No, I haven't been drinking.

 

[Mariposa]

I had wondered why your daughter thought she was going to be killed on a bus full of people by a lone bus driver. This kind of explains it.

Wow, that was ridiculously rude and uncalled for.

 

[Aroura]

I had wondered why your daughter thought she was going to be killed on a bus full of people by a lone bus driver. This kind of explains it.

Are you kidding me?? Will you people leave this woman alone!! Who in God's name do any of you think you are for saying stuff like this about both her and her daughter?? The fact that her hands are shaking explain WHAT exactly deanette?? That her daughter is nuts?? For ONE thing, I am SURE this girl didn't think she would be the LONE victim. She probably thought something bad was going to happen to EVERYONE and got scared. This thread needs to be erased, because some of you are extremely unkind. If that was not the purpose and intent of what you just posted, I apologize, but it seems to me you came in here and wrote those lines to souly be nasty to the op. Is this NOT a Disney board?? Arn't we supposed to be a bit happier than the average pessimistic human??? I am extremely dissapointed in some of the comments I have seen in this thread. You should be ashamed.

 

[kmadams]

I had wondered why your daughter thought she was going to be killed on a bus full of people by a lone bus driver. This kind of explains it.

Huh?? Could you please how my message now explains things to you?

Many of you have a serious issue with the belief that because you are in a group that no one person could ever hurt you. Better take a closer look at the world around you.

 

[DisneyHokie]

Are you kidding me?? Will you people leave this woman alone!! Who in God's name do any of you think you are for saying stuff like this about both her and her daughter?? The fact that her hands are shaking explain WHAT exactly deanette?? That her daughter is nuts?? For ONE thing, I am SURE this girl didn't think she would be the LONE victim. She probably thought something bad was going to happen to EVERYONE and got scared. This thread needs to be erased, because some of you are extremely unkind. If that was not the purpose and intent of what you just posted, I apologize, but it seems to me you came in here and wrote those lines to souly be nasty to the op. Is this NOT a Disney board?? Arn't we supposed to be a bit happier than the average pessimistic human??? I am extremely dissapointed in some of the comments I have seen in this thread. You should be ashamed.

I also agree that this thread needs to be closed. This is getting ridiculous.

 

[kmadams]

Are you kidding me?? Will you people leave this woman alone!! Who in God's name do any of you think you are for saying stuff like this about both her and her daughter?? The fact that her hands are shaking explain WHAT exactly deanette?? That her daughter is nuts?? For ONE thing, I am SURE this girl didn't think she would be the LONE victim. She probably thought something bad was going to happen to EVERYONE and got scared. This thread needs to be erased, because some of you are extremely unkind. If that was not the purpose and intent of what you just posted, I apologize, but it seems to me you came in here and wrote those lines to souly be nasty to the op. Is this NOT a Disney board?? Arn't we supposed to be a bit happier than the average pessimistic human??? I am extremely dissapointed in some of the comments I have seen in this thread. You should be ashamed.

I agree, the thead is so off topic and should be closed. I don't know how to do that, but prehaps the moderator that thinks my daughter has serious fear issues could somehow arrange that?

I don't need to read anymore, and I'm highly disappointed in those of you who felt it was ok to go way off track. I'll do my part in stopping it by not further posting! I never asked if anyone thought it was/wasn't ok if my daughter was upset. It was her experience and her reaction. Since NONE of you know her you need to go find something/someone else to analyze.

 

[DiszyDeanette]

Huh?? Could you please how my message now explains things to you?

Many of you have a serious issue with the belief that because you are in a group that no one person could ever hurt you. Better take a closer look at the world around you.

Your hands were shaking? You were that upset over... a message board? And I'm out-of line to see how somebody that can get that upset over, again, a message board , could raise somebody to be an adult that thinks she is going to be killed (not just scared, but very specifically dead) on a bus load of people by a lone driver. Whatever, I'll sign off here, wouldn't want to upset you further.

 

[i<3Disney]

Your hands were shaking? You were that upset over... a message board? And I'm out-of line to see how somebody that can get that upset over, again, a message board , could raise somebody to be an adult that thinks she is going to be killed (not just scared, but very specifically dead) on a bus load of people by a lone driver. Whatever, I'll sign off here, wouldn't want to upset you further.

Oh give me a break.

I wasn't going to post but I can't help it now. I would also be very upset if people on a DISNEY message board were talking about how I raise my child.


Disgusting.

 

[FishFlavoredSoda]

Why is it people get so complacent when they're in a group environment?

"I'm in a group of people. I should be invincible!!! One bus driver won't do anything to me!"

Sorry, but haven't you been to the movies? If that bus driver had any fatal intent, he could randomly pick ANY one off. The more people, the less he cares about who he picks off. There IS a reason to be scared! And there is NOTHING wrong for being scared! Granted, the odds of a movie-like sequence does not occur often in real life, it should not be written off as impossible. This is how things happen. This is how CNN or Fox News gets their front page. From events that no one thought twice about that anything bad could happen.

I'm going to defend the OP and say that the attacks on their parenting is absolute garbage. The daughter has her own right to feel the way she did. If you think she's overreacting, so be it. However, you cannot argue that it's not a possiblity for any ONE person to get injured. I mean, come on. If I was the bus driver, and I had a gun, I could only shoot one person at a time. I can't harm the whole group at once unless I drove the bus off a cliff.

 

[Disneybabe84]

omg. I cannot believe that. That is totally insane, especially for Disney. Was the bus driver new? I'm so glad everyone is alright; especially your daughter. You would think he would have a radio to connect with someone. I'm so sorry you had this experience and I hope this never ever happens again. You definatly should contact someone ..

 

[ExPirateShopGirl]

considering an angry mob qualifies as a group environment... I'll take my chances with the poor lost bus driver...

 

[Disneybabe84]

Ok, totally disreguard my post I didnt realize all that was going on. as I read more I got it

 

[TuppenceABag]

Any advice or similar stories??

Perhaps next time the OP will think twice before asking for advice (good or bad) on an open forum where everyone can give their opinion (yes, even a moderator! *gasp*). I myself think the story is blown out of proportion for dramatic effect.

 

[BTown]

Sounds like a strange experience to me, but the story just doesnt seem to jive. I've talked to a few of the bus drivers before, and the training seems pretty intense. Several weeks of learning the various routes, and a final road test which lasts several hours, covering all routes, and the driver is afforded only two mistakes for the whole test. It would seem like any officially trained driver would know the property well enough to get a sense of where they are and need to be at any moment and figure out where he or she needs to go. Of course, mistakes do happen, but that's why dispatching exists. Like everything else at WDW, the buses run on schedules with a central dispatch, and it would seem fairly easy for them to realize when one of their buses has gone astray. Also, knowing full well that stupid people do, in fact, exists, I can't imagine for the life of me that anyone would think an hour and a half detour off property would be preferable to simply admitting they were lost and getting help from dispatch.

Of course, I'm not saying this is all a farce, I'm just saying, the odds of this happening seem so small that it is really, really weird.

And I'll go out and say it, the fear of being murdered on a Disney bus with 50 people is irrational at best. I knew it would only be a matter of time before the element of "terrorism" and how "we dont live in the same world today as we used to" but in fact, we do live in the same world today. Just because we are being shown violence and terror on every news channel we have access to, doesnt mean we are any more or any less safe than we have ever been. In the past 16 or so years, how many major terrorist attacks have thier been on the US? I dont know, 3 or so? In fact, the 90's offered more to be afraid of than today, but we all look back at those days as peaceful happy times. Mainly because we didnt live in a culture dominated by fear then.

We are all entitled to our feelings, rational or irrational. But from a objective standing, for an adult to fear for his or her life due to a bus detour is irrational fear. Believe it or not, danger does not lurk at every corner. Everyone is not out to kill us, and your probably more likely to get struck by lightening at the very moment you win the lottery than you are of falling prey to a crazed killer or terrorist on a WDW resort bus.

Now, I've made my rant, I'm wearing my asbestos undies, flame away.

 

[BTown]

I myself think the story is blown out of proportion for dramatic effect.

Perhaps TuppenceABag has gotten to the bottom of this whole thing... dramatic effect...

 

[richard_andmel]

So now the woman is a bad parent, with a crazy daughter and a liar??? Honestly, why is it every time someone posts a strong opinion about a bad experience they had at WDW on these boards does it eventually turn into an attack on the OP???

Everyone just drink your koolaid and repeat after me, "Disney is perfect and never does anything wrong and if you think they did you must be at fault."

Mel

 

[JPN4265]

Sounds like new E-Ticket ride to me. Can you get a fast pass for this ride?


On a side note, it could have been worst, he could have run out of gas.

 

[flortlebap]

OK I think some of these posts have been a little harsh...

OP, why not email Disney now? It's probably not too late. I can actually understand why your DD was scared - I'm sure she wasn't SERIOUSLY fearing for her life, but it worried me actually on our last trip when the journey back from DTD took us off property! It only added about 10 mins to the trip so I wasn't too bothered (and was too tired to care!) but had it lasted as long as that it would have been a little more worrying.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Well, here's my humble opinion. As a Dis bord Mod, you cleo should have never thought yourself to be a dime-store psychologist to a new member. Excellent impression you have made on your forums by doing that. So, as you will call people crazy for thinking for one moment that something 'shady' was going on with the bus driver, I say it is pretty crazy for you to have a mod position on these boards because it was pretty unprofessional the way you said some things. As an Admin myself, it wouldn't be tolerated. Much like the Bus Driver, you are "staff' here, and expected to act as so.

Great post!! Some of your thoughts crossed my mind as well.

OP, I'm so sorry you are being given such a hard time