Most Embarressing Moments at Disney

[stephanie71717]

Hello everyone, I'm new to these boards but I couldn't help reading and now posting a few embarrassing moments that have happened to me in WDW.

The first happened to my sister a few years ago, it was actually a series of events. My sister is probabley one of the clumbsiest people I have ever known. The entire trip she would would spill coffee down her shirt, or sit in mustard or anything that came close to her, so she basically walked around looking like a mess everyday of the trip. Then we were going into COuntry Bear Jamboree when she suddenly fell down the stairs and basically did a but slide all the way down to the first row, everyone was asking her if she was ok and she snapped sayin loudly "I'm trying to catch up to my group" she peered over at me with the most evil of eyes, I thought it was hysterical and I still tease her about it every chance I get.

My most embarrassing moment happened last year at Pop, I was strolling down the hall making my way back to my room and I remembered that I left the little hook or doorstop out on my door because I didn't have my room key, I walk joyfully and open the door only to find that the room wasn't mine and there was a woman in her bra and undies laying on the bed watching tv while her kids also barely dressed were running around the room. I stood in shock apologizing over and over, I was stunned and kind of froze, finally I ran back to my room, the correct one this time. I told my dad and his GF about what had happened and they had a great laugh. The nect morning I went for a stroll and seen my dads GF sitting on a bench I walked up to her and she said oh Steph I want to introduce you to someone, it was the woman from the room!! So once again I froze and turned red and started apologizing again. She was from England and said "you Americans are very friendly". A few days later I knocked on her door, once again making the mistake of thinking it was mine. It was more embarrassment than I could handle.

 

[micknpluto]

last year at Pop, it was later in the evening, my mom was in the room and I decided I wanted to go back to the foodcourt. My friend and cousin were there waiting for me. I asked my Mom if I could use her electric scooter. ahahh. well..

I thought I was cool and put the thing on the highest speed level... I zoomed all the way to the food court... literally.... as I aproached the closed doors, I didnt realize the scooter needed a moment to slow down and there was a delay.. instead of coming to a complete stop I plowed right into the glass doors.. It made a loud noise and everyone who heard turned and looked at me as if I was an idiot. LOL It was so funny.. I was laughing and so were my friend and cousin!

I'll never do that again. slow is better.

 

[pkondz]

Hello everyone, I'm new to these boards... I walk joyfully and open the door only to find that the room wasn't mine and there was a woman in her bra and undies laying on the bed watching tv while her kids also barely dressed were running around the room... oh Steph I want to introduce you to someone, it was the woman from the room!! So once again I froze and turned red and started apologizing again...A few days later I knocked on her door, once again making the mistake of thinking it was mine. It was more embarrassment than I could handle.

Great Story! And welcome to the DIS!

 

[theatermouse]

Mine isn't as terrible, thankfully, but family who didn't even go on our trip still laugh at me for this.

Disclaimer: I have really bad ankles & have been spraining my left ankle at least once a year for the last 15 years. So when people here I fall, they assume it's that, but aren't surprised to hear that I've fallen.

We had just had dinner at the Whispering Canyon Cafe and went back to MK for the evening. My husband took the monorail back to the TTC parking lot to get our sweatshirts out of the car & our son's Stitch Light Up thingy. My son (barely 3) and I walked up to the Pinocchio meet & greet area in MK (at the front of the park) and I did my very first ever pin exchange with a girl from Germany. I was nervous for some reason since I hadn't done it before. I chatted with her for a few minutes as we went through the line. We got up to Pinocchio and I gave the Photopass person my camera and our PP Card. I took a pic with my son & Pinocchio and then backed out of the picture to get a few of him alone with Pinocchio. As I backed up, I ran into the curb that was set up to create a flowerbed. I couldn't keep my balance and I ended up going down and landing on my back/tailbone. I have a massive amount of hair & it was up, so it created a nice cushion for my head. I let out a yell and could tell I did something to my ankle, but I tried to get back up quickly and announced, "And I'm okay!" The crowd let out a sympathetic laugh and I went to get my son and leave the scene.

What's hilarious is that in the Photo Pass pictures, you can clearly see my son reacting to my fall. There were about 5-6 pictures of him turning his head to look. If you were to make a flipbook, it would look like animation! The CM that I traded pins with chased me down to make sure I was okay. My ankle hurt, I had scraped up my elbow, and my back was already killing me, but what hurt most was my pride. I was trying not to cry, but it didn't work. So there I am trying to convince her that I was okay while I was blubbering.

I ached for the rest of the night, but didn't feel the brunt of it until the next morning. My husband & son went on to AK without me so that I could take my time & limp my way there. The shower at the AS Sports was awesome on my back!

I don't know why, but I told my cousin about it over the phone. She laughed at me and said, "Only you could get hurt at Disney!" (Boy is she wrong, she should read this thread! ) She then proceeded to call our grandmother & my sister-in-law to tell the tale about my fall. Family!!

 

[A_NY_Outlaw]

besides laughing hysterically at my DW when she got pooped on by a pigeon outside mama melrose's, nothing embarassing to me personally. but one year we went, we were in tomorrowland, and waiting in line for Astro Orbiter. We watched this kid (must have been about 6 or 7 yo) running under the que line chains near the TTA entrance. Well, needless to say, his parents weren't watching and he got careless and ran full steam into the chain- which ultimately closelined him at neck level. The kid ultimately was ok, but that was a big "DOH" here's your sign!

 

[luvmickey5374]

One of my friends and her BF and her DD's from home was in Disney at the same time as we were one year. We met up for dinner and then went around MK for the evening. It had been pouring rain for days and it had finally stopped so we were happy to be walking around without gettin soaked for once. I had on my crocs....you can see where this is going...so I was trying to be very careful not to slip and fall The kids wanted to go on IASW so we grudgingly(sorry) walked over there. All of our kids were in front of us, then me and DH and behind was my friend and her BF. Me and DH were walking arm in arm and out of nowhere in the queue of IASW I fell square on my knee and fell over immediately!! I had never felt pain like that before...EVER! My DD's got scared and were crying and my DH was freaking out because of the way I reacted...I'm usually pretty calm and have a high pain tolerance. All I wanted to do was lay there for a second and get my wits about me but ofcourse the CM's came over and everyone in line was crowding around me...UGHHHH! I finally said to the CM please just let me sit here a second!! After my hubby realized I was gonna be ok, he whispered in my ear"What hurts more, your knee or your pride?" Oh he's a funny one!! I could've dealt with it if we were alone because it's not like we would see anyone again but there was my friend and her BF behind me to see the whole thingI really thought I was going to be done for the trip that's how bad it hurt but with ice and advil I was good to go the next morning!! Left one heck of bruise though Then to top it off I still had to go on IASW

 

[Calissto31]

We leave on July 4th. We really have this trip planned for tons of fun. We are going to stay at the Swan, for the first two nights. Then, check-in at the Poly for the remaining 7 nights. We're really looking forward to the Cirque du Soliel show, since we've never seen it. Plus, Dh made reservations at Victoria and Albert's, for the two of us.

After we check-out at the Poly, we're heading to KSC- ds9 is all set for space camp, that week

We are looking forward to returning to our happy place, alone

I'll be there on July 4th too with my DH for our 1yr anniversary. Have a wonderful time...it sounds like you REALLY deserve it.

 

[Calissto31]

Kinda like my aunt. Her brain and mouth were working at two different speeds and she referred to her two favorite dwarves as "Gropey" and "Dumpy"

I just went to tell my DH this story and told him this person said "gropey and dumpy" instedy of dumpy and gropey...lol i totally got tongue tied!

 

[DisGirlAllie]

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[poolguy]

I was 15 and my sister was 12 when we took a trip to WDW with our parents and grandparents. We are in Adv Land and by now my grandparents are getting tiered and can’t walk too fast. My parents send my sister and I up to the front of the park to Guest Serv to get a wheel chair. We figure that we can “recharge” our grandparents by letting one walk and one ride then change places every so often. We get the wheel chair and head back down Main Street USA (very crowded, no surprise). I tell my sister to sit in the wheel chair and I would push her. No way is she doing that!! So I sit in the chair and she is pushing me along Main Street when she decided to cross over the tracks in the road. She is pushing the wheel chair at such a small angel (to the tracks) that the front wheels of the chair get caught in the tracks. Me and the wheel chair end up face down in the middle of Main Street. She is laughing so hard she can’t talk and I am laughing a little, but I stop when I feel 3-4 men pick me up and others picking up the wheel chair. To them, this poor disabled boy just bit the dust. I was too afraid to stand up and get in the chair by myself. I didn’t want anyone to think I was making light of disabled people. The mean stares people where giving my sister for laughing at the misfortune of the poor disabled boy. I’m sure only so few hindered people saw that.

 

[wdwislife]

Well on my last WDW trip I caught a stomach bug while in MK. Let's just say it was a bit embarassing when all of tomorrowland is staring at you after vomiting into a metal palm tree's flower box. :/

 

[BayouMickey]

Last Nov we went and it was the first time my wife had to use an ECV.
Well we stoped to eat at the CS right next to the HISTK playground (can't think of the name off hand). Well The wife asked me to get the ECV from out of the seating area and onto the main throughway between the CS and the backlot tour. My youngest DD distracted me briefly and next thing I know, I have the ECV stuck in the middle of the stairs...

 

[lbklyn]

This was many years ago at MK. We were with my niece who was about 9. It was August (blazing hot) and she was miserable pretty much the whole time. Still have the pictures of her on line (outside in the heat) waiting to go in rides with a look on her face that would be scarier than anything in Haunted Mansion. Well, the boys (about 7) and the rest of us were having a great time so it was no surprise that everything and anything that went awry was happening to her. But the funny part is we are leaving MK on our last night walking down mainstreet (she still has the look on her face) and we hear an actual thud. When I turn around she is swinging her arms wildly and screaming at the top of her lungs. She is ALL over Main Street. We finally calm her down and find out one of those HUGE FLYING palmetto bugs had slammed into her forehead! She thought it was caught in her hair. The thud we heard was when it hit her, THAT is how big this sucker was.
Needless to say all eyes were on us and I just kept thinking what a way to exit the Magic Kingdom!
It's 20 years later and when she puts that look of misery on I can only think of that trip. But she (and the rest of us) look back and LAUGH!

 

[micknpluto]

This was many years ago at MK. We were with my niece who was about 9. It was August (blazing hot) and she was miserable pretty much the whole time. Still have the pictures of her on line (outside in the heat) waiting to go in rides with a look on her face that would be scarier than anything in Haunted Mansion. Well, the boys (about 7) and the rest of us were having a great time so it was no surprise that everything and anything that went awry was happening to her. But the funny part is we are leaving MK on our last night walking down mainstreet (she still has the look on her face) and we hear an actual thud. When I turn around she is swinging her arms wildly and screaming at the top of her lungs. She is ALL over Main Street. We finally calm her down and find out one of those HUGE FLYING palmetto bugs had slammed into her forehead! She thought it was caught in her hair. The thud we heard was when it hit her, THAT is how big this sucker was.
Needless to say all eyes were on us and I just kept thinking what a way to exit the Magic Kingdom!
It's 20 years later and when she puts that look of misery on I can only think of that trip. But she (and the rest of us) look back and LAUGH!

ahhh those bugs are sick! nasty. I would have done the same thing if that happened to me.

 

[lbklyn]

Oh Believe me, I know!!! If I could have taken the hit for her I would have. It was just not her week!

 

[ToddyLu]

I started reading this thread on the first page.....on page (not lying)22.....I think I wonder how many pages there are to this thread.....didn't check the dates....geez.

I have a funny thing that happened just the other day when I called to order my MNSSHP tickets. The CM answers the phone and I purchase 4 for 10/31. When I wanted to purchase 2 tickets for 10/29 she said it wans't on her screen. Now being a diehard fan I had checked my site several times and told her so....she just apologized and I only got the 4 for 10/31. Now of course this was after a 30 min hold on the phone.

So I went back to the Disney site and the 29th was still an option....so I called back.....guess who answered the phone after 25 minute wait(wasn't going to give up).....same CM.....I stumbled around and then had to admit I had just called bought tickets from her....She asked " are you checking up on me?'...."no"....I said. THen I said, "I just wanted to make sure that nothing had changed in 20 minutes"...she was nice about it but I was embarassed big time.

But that is nothing compared to the trip in 2007. WE live 130 miles from the New Orleasn Airport. We get up to the gate, check in, show our driver's license.... you guessed it , I was expired.....horrified.....DH angry but handling it well. No other form of ID on me--had cleaned out and brought "a little purse" for the trip. I had to call my Father to bring my Passport from home---my parents live 130 miles from New Orleans, too. We made a later flight. We still laugh at my MIL standing by the security check point waving "bye" as she went to the gate. Nothing was spoiling her trip.

My Daddy is a wonderful man...Gave him my gas card and told him to fill up his truck on the way home. Now we sit in the car in the driveway and physically go over all driver's licences for expiration dates.

 

[A&E'sMom]

In December, my family was in line at Great Movie ride. We were outside the big entrance room, where they films are shown. There was a couple with a toddler. The mom was holding the toddler who had his head on his moms shoulder (so he was facing us and they weren't).

I pulled out my mega-pack of tic tacs, and offered them to the kids. This toddler whacked the tic tacs outta my hand! Dozens of tic tacs went flying everywhere! The mother turned around, looked at me and the mess she thought I made! We were so shocked this kid did this we didn't know what to say! I had a feeling she wouldn't have believed me if I told her that her son whacked them out of my hands - And the kid had no reaction to what he did either, kind of like it was just something to do..

OMG! This sounds like something my 16 mo would do. Although, I wouldn't think it as funny if it were my kid that did it.

 

[GrumpyDad1974]

Last year waiting for the bus at pop a little hand grabbed mine and was holding it, at first it didnt register with me because my nephue usually does that at random times (he was not there, i'm a little slow sometimes) and my DD who is 10 is way to cool to hold dads hand. The it hit me I have no idea who's child this is and they will think im stealing him or something, DW thought it was cute for a split second until she had the same thought i did. Dw wife kept saying let go and i tried he wouldn't he had a good grip, it seemed to go on forever like a bad sitcom. It turns out he was a little boy about 3 who was tired and in front on the group of people and thought i was his dad, i told the parents and handed him off to the real father and we just laughed about it.

 

[Mickey_for_President]

My first embarassing story was when my Dad accidently asked to order a "Chicken Condom" instead of a Chicken Combo whilst ordering a meal on our WDW vacation . I was 12 and I burst out laughing and said "I don't think they make Chicken flavored ones." My Mum was horrified first at my Dad then moreso at me because we are really devout catholics and she thought I was pretty innocent at the time and that the comment would have gone over my head

On our 2008 trip we were at Aquatica so not WDW that day. My Mum LOVES the Lazy River and is very nervous about anything fast or anything that a toddler couldn't go on basically. Anyway, Aquatica had just opened that week so we didn't know the layout. I took Mum to what I thought was the Lazy River, thinking it was a bit strange that we had to wear life vests instead of using a tube/dingy. Mum kept saying it looked fast and I was saying no its fine. So we get in....... and its the RAPIDS

Straight away, I get swept away and it is kind of fast and the current is strong. I got separated from my Mum and I can just hear her SCREAMING, "Oh, Natalie HELP me!!!!!!!!!!!!! Help, Jesus, Help!!!!!!!!!!" really loud. I turn around to try to get to her and see her clinging on to the side getting tossed about, water flying over her head. I try to swim to her, I'm going "MUM!!!!!! I can't get to you!!!!!!!" and she's going, "NATALIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! You should never have brought me on this. You should have known. How could you be so stupid?!!!!!" EVERYONE is looking at us . Then the lifeguard said, "Does she need help?" I said "Yeah, she thought it was the Lazy River !" So he blows his whistle and jumps in, meanwhile, they turn the jets off and stop the rapids so it does actually become a Lazy River ironic, huh? I disappear round the corner as, I had to go round again, as he is rescuing my Mum, pulling her out the water to safety!!!!!!!!!!
So there I am, floating away and these teenagers are floating by me. One of them says, "Dude, why is this going so slow, it looked like it was faster before." So they asked the nearest lifeguard to make it go faster. The lifeguard replies, "Sorry, we had an emergency and had to turn it off. It should be back on in an HOUR or TWO " So EVERYONE starts to complain. Then this girl swims up and says, "Yeah, this lady got in and started having a heart attack because she was scared." Then everyone starts saying what kind of a stupid person gets into a rapids and then chickens out. Girl says, "Well, actually, her daughter told her it was the lazy river." At which point, I decide to swim by, unnoticed. Then I hear, "Dude, that's her daughter. That's the one that got the ride stopped for the next two hours!" How embarassed can you be? Especially when, as the water was slowed down, it took 20 minutes until I was able to get back to the exit!!!!!" Well, not as embarassed as my Mum. Apparently, the lifeguard was really struggling to get her out the water whilst everyone was watching (she was a little overweight at the time) and then when she was explaining what happened to my Dad............ her false teeth shot out of her mouth!

OMG... I love this thread. And I LOVE your family! Totally Hilarious! and Mortifying!

 

[pkondz]

how embarrassing! nothing new in almost a month! bump!