Most Embarressing Moments at Disney

[Clare Voince]

Not my most embarrassing moment personally. I was at Writer's Stop at DHS and ordered a coffee drink. While waiting for it to be made, a rather stout young fellow behind me with a lot of bravado and a booming voice orders SIX espressos to be put into one large cup. He is talking to everyone non-stop and explains that he is with friends, and they all just got to WDW, and he needs his caffeine fix, and this is the way he always orders his coffee, etc., etc., etc. Well, I am still waiting for my drink and the CM rings him up. He gives her his credit card and it is declined. He seems very bewildered and calls up someone on his cell phone. As he is talking on the phone, he makes his way subtly out the door and disappears towards Indiana Jones. It took a few moments for everyone to realize he wasn't coming back.

I just thought to myself: if he just arrived at Disney World, and he doesn't have enough credit on his credit card to buy a $10 drink, and he had no alternate way to pay for his drink, then his trip was already in a lot of trouble!

I wouldn't assume the card was maxed out. It's not unusual for a bank to consider vacation activity as 'suspicious' activity and put a block on a card. It happened to me once when I was in Austria, and my card was no where near the limit. Luckily for me it happened at an ATM, so I was spared the embarrassment part.

 

[onnawufei]

I'm still reading through this, but wanted to post mine which doubles as a convenient little bump just in case anyone else has anything to add.

Last year when we went to Animal Kingdom I decided to wear a grey tank top that I'd just bought before we'd left but had never tried on. I had that same tank top in three or four different colors, so I already knew it would fit. It wasn't until my DH and I had gotten several pictures taken on the Photo Pass, and he'd taken a couple of me (one with Chip and Dale) that I realized my shirt was pretty much completely see through. You could see my bright white bra very clearly through the material. Needless to say we didn't get any of those Photo Pass pictures. Though thankfully I was able to photoshop the ones my DH had taken enough that it wasn't so obvious.

 

[JenC025]

Last trip to Disney we brought my family with us. My mother can't handle long walks so she rented an electric chair. She can not drive and after this I realized she never will She was running over people left and right. She's quite flakey and ran into her friend caught her jeans on the wheel and kept going dragging poor friend before coming to a stop. We knick named it "The Meat Grinder" She kept beeping that little horn to worn people and we kept telling her to just slow down or go off to an empty area and learn how to properly work the darn thing.

 

[goofyernmost]

I'm still reading through this, but wanted to post mine which doubles as a convenient little bump just in case anyone else has anything to add.

Last year when we went to Animal Kingdom I decided to wear a grey tank top that I'd just bought before we'd left but had never tried on. I had that same tank top in three or four different colors, so I already knew it would fit. It wasn't until my DH and I had gotten several pictures taken on the Photo Pass, and he'd taken a couple of me (one with Chip and Dale) that I realized my shirt was pretty much completely see through. You could see my bright white bra very clearly through the material. Needless to say we didn't get any of those Photo Pass pictures. Though thankfully I was able to photoshop the ones my DH had taken enough that it wasn't so obvious.

Not wanting to cause problems here, but was there any reason that your DH couldn't have told you about that problem??? Or did he just think you already knew?

 

[goofyernmost]

Last trip to Disney we brought my family with us. My mother can't handle long walks so she rented an electric chair. She can not drive and after this I realized she never will She was running over people left and right. She's quite flakey and ran into her friend caught her jeans on the wheel and kept going dragging poor friend before coming to a stop. We knick named it "The Meat Grinder" She kept beeping that little horn to worn people and we kept telling her to just slow down or go off to an empty area and learn how to properly work the darn thing.

I wouldn't be surprised if that post created a little discussion.

 

[kimgg]

OK this is recent so I am almost embarrassed someone who was there will read this and know it was "me."

Last week on our first visit we went on the Peter Pan ride. We had been riding w/ our sons - dad w/ one son and me w/ the other on every other ride, since most had been "big" rides (SM, TOT, etc.). Anyway, my sons asked to ride together and since I thought of this like a "baby" ride I said fine. We were in the ship behind my sons. All was going well and I was spellbound by the beginning of the ride and even felt it was a little romantic to be riding w/ my husband for once. Then I saw my older son leaning over to look at the things below us from his ship in front of us, which made me nervous. Even though it is not as high as it appears due to the scale of the props, it is still a ways up there. I said without thinking out loud, I wonder if this bar locks, and lifted it up to check (to assure myself my sons were safe and could not fall out, even though I doubt very strongly they would ever try it). Well, those of you more experienced probably know what happens when you do that - - the whole ride came to a jerky stop! I realized instantly this was my fault! They played the recorded, "Please stay seated, . . . etc. etc." and soon we were moving again. I was SO embarrassed and covered my face, making it even more obvious it was me (I immediately realized I should have just played it off, like "what happened?") of course not many others were near enough to even be able to see me the way the ride curves around, but needless to say, the magic was broken ! I was so scared I would be confronted when I got off (me, a middle aged old lady) about why I was trying to "climb out" in the midde of the ride! Thankfully, no one said anything, I wonder if that happens to other people??

It seems like I have read about this happening before to someone but no idea if I am just imagining that to make myself feel better.

Oh well, it was a funny story.

 

[Mickey1Fan]

A few years ago my Mom and I went to WDW and were headed to one of the parks. We were not sitting together on the bus and when it stops at Blizzard Beach, I look to my Mom's seat to see if we could sit together after the stop and she is gone. I go to the front of the bus to ask the driver not to go and there stands Mom wondering why I'm not off the bus. Every day afterwords we would just start giggling every time we passed Blizzard Beach.

Thanks for sharing everyone. I should be going to bed but these stories are just so funny.

 

[Hauntedmansion13]

Mine was when an older lady picked my little sister when no one would carry her

 

[onnawufei]

Not wanting to cause problems here, but was there any reason that your DH couldn't have told you about that problem??? Or did he just think you already knew?

That is a very good question that I asked myself after looking at my pictures. He apparently thought I already knew. So now that that's cleared up, hopefully this year the pictures will be a little less... revealing.

 

[MareSINY]

Ok confession time...

In April I took my 9 year old niece to DW for a long weekend. One day we went to the pool at WL and swam for a few hours. Eventually I told her we needed to go back to the room, I was cold and had to pee. She finally agreed to leave. By the time we got to our floor I was doing the dance. We got to our door and I'm trying to get the key to work and it's giving me a heck of a time. I finally make it through the door, over to the tile floor and before I can stop I start peeing. My niece turns to me and says, "Dude! You're peeing!" I run into the bathroom and into the shower stall, fully dressed in swim wear. I couldn't stop laughing, I asked her to come take my glasses for me so I could shower. She was afraid to come near me, afraid she'd step in my pee. I showered first with my swim wear on and then stripped out of them and showered off without them on. Laughing the entire time. Needless to say when I got out of the shower I had to clean the mess I made. I still giggle whenever I think of her saying, "Dude you're peeing!" LOL

Same niece, 5 years earlier... we were in Epcot and the adults were riding Test Track. I stayed back to watch the kids with my dad. All of a sudden she started freaking out that she had to go to the bathroom. So off I go to find a potty. Well, when we get into the stall I realize that she was so upset because she had to do #2, not #1! Back then I had never changed a poopy diaper or anything of the sort, so I was a bit freaked out, as was she. LOL So I did my best to clean her up, but I was not going to put soiled panties back on her. So I threw them in the garbage in the stall and we went back with her going commando. By the time we returned everyone was wondering what took us so long. I was flustered and telling them the story, my sister thought it was hysterical. I told her she was sans panties and laughing she said, "But those are her favorite My Little Pony panties!" So I told her she was welcome to go retrieve them from the third stall of the bathroom but I wasn't doing it. We were near the smoking area and everyone was getting quite the chuckle over this.

Today I am a first rate poop changer. Who ever would have thought? LOL

 

[SunnyP4Disney]

My story is about my elderly mother (she's 73). We always go to the water parks, it's our favorite part of Disney and just float on Castaway Creek for literally hours while my hubby and son go on all the big rides. My mom and I were riding around CC for about 2 hours when we were supposed to meet the boys for lunch.

We get to a stop and I pop right off my tube. My mom is caught in a death grip via her rear end by the tube. She cannot get out, she is hermetically sealed to this inner tube! I swim over and as she is holding on to the rail I am trying to pop her out of it to no avail. Her little tiny old lady hiney is cemented to this raft! It takes the lifeguard along with two other large men to work in unison to get my mom detached from that tube. And it made the most awkward sound as she was peeled from it.

She had to walk around the park for about an hour with a giant red ring around her thighs, and to this day she still has anxiety when we have to get out of our inner tubes, lol!

 

[BenA81]

Mine was when an older lady picked my little sister when no one would carry her

huh? need more info on this one, I don't get it.

 

[BenA81]

I'm not very good at directions. It took me forever to figure out how to get out of space mountain, I kept walking around aimlessly. Some CM gave me a quizzical look when I came his way, the "what the heck are you doing this way?" look. He tried pointing me in the right direction and I finally made my way out. I should just follow others when they get off the ride but I get too easily distracted by my surroundings.

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This story is embarassing for my sister...
When I was 9 I went to MK with my sister(12) and my grandparents. We finally got to the ride I had wanted to do all day, Haunted Mansion. We make our way into the stretching room and the illusion starts and I'm fascinated and loving it. My sister? not so much. She starts to full out freak out. So my Grandpa takes matters into his own hands and escorts all of us out the exit.* All I remember is being in a bright room with pipes and my Grandpa doing all he can to find the next exit (I guess this is where I get my sense of direction ). We finally make our way out and I'm pretty furious with my sister and I never let her forget it.

Fast forward 18 years later and I finally make it back to MK to ride Haunted Mansion in October 2008. I took a picture of the ride with my cell phone on the way in and messaged it to her with a note: "Finally riding and nobody will prevent me from missing it this time!"

*In hindsight, I often wonder why I didn't just ride with my Grandma and we could have met my sister and Grandpa at the end of the ride?

 

[MidoriTsusuki]

Bump!
Please keep this going!

 

[JUS915]

bump

 

[mickeyfan71]

My most embarrasing moment was in Oct last year. My DD (17 yrs old) and I are leaving Hollywood Studios after a long day. While we were waiting for the bus for the resort a CM was playing trivia games with all of us in line. His question was "Mickey Mouse was hanging out in EPCOT today near Mission Space looking for something. Do you know what he was looking for?"
Well, I decided to lean over and whisper my answer to my DD. She thought I was giving her the correct answer and yells loudly, "Uranus"
I was so embarrased! The CM corrected her quickly! She finally realized what she had said about 5 mins later!

 

[pkondz]

Bumpitty bump

 

[DISengineer]

I don't even remember what ride it was. It was one of those where you ride a mat down and race with your partner. My wife forgot she had her glasses on. When she hit bottom at the end of the ride she lost them. Amazingly after I got off my mat I made out the image of them at the bottom. I went back to get them but Disney lifeguards were on the job. They stopped the ride and started looking too. I got to close to the water coming down and almost got knocked down by it. It's surprising how much force it has. It took about 10 minutes but we saw the glasses again and a guard retrieved them. I'm sure there were mad guests at the top waiting. Sorry to all of you we made wait.

 

[Jazcat]

ooook. DW and I had a nice romantic dinner at California Grill. It was really good. We had some time to kill before the fireworks, so I decided to make a trip to the bathroom. A long trip, if you know what I mean.

I was in the stall just finishing up when a kid sits in the stall next to me. Ok fine, until the dad leans in and says, "you doing ok buddy?" Yeah dad he's fine. From where I was sitting you couldn't tell I was there from the door. Then his mom leans in and yells, "Are you pooping again! You just went in the room." I'm really hoping she doesn't come in the bathroom at this point.

Oh no, she doesn't come in. Instead, she yells, "Whooo you're worse than your father!" Here's the thing. He wasn't going at all, just me. The dad comes back and yells "Boy you stink!".

He then comes into the bathroom with a few of the male members of their family all laughing and joking that he made the family proud. Half the restaurant had to hear this. They stood in the bathroom cheering and laughing and waited for this kid to come out.

Well I was ready to leave when this whole thing started. I couldn't just get up and leave. I had to sit there the whole time and hope to God they wouldn't notice I was there. Thankfully they all left high-fiving this kid and such. I wash up and walk out.

DW is sitting on the couch staring at me with this mortified look on her face. She is beat red. That family is all standing right there too. I couldn't even look any of them in the eye. I just walked away.

 

[bluejasmine]

My most embarrasing moment was in Oct last year. My DD (17 yrs old) and I are leaving Hollywood Studios after a long day. While we were waiting for the bus for the resort a CM was playing trivia games with all of us in line. His question was "Mickey Mouse was hanging out in EPCOT today near Mission Space looking for something. Do you know what he was looking for?"
Well, I decided to lean over and whisper my answer to my DD. She thought I was giving her the correct answer and yells loudly, "Uranus"
I was so embarrased! The CM corrected her quickly! She finally realized what she had said about 5 mins later!

LOL wow that sounds like something my DH would whispher! TOOO Funny!