Not our finest moment as a family..whats yours lol

[ars0525]

o man, now where are Disney photogs when these meltdowns are being experienced in the parks? What funny conversation starters those Photpass pix would be!

You know, I am the 1st to snap pics of anything & everything. But I shifted into "omg, is this really happening?" mode when my mom went totally off the deep end. The way the character handlers were eyeballing her I thought for sure the Disney PoPo was on their way!

We left her at home with my mom and went back two days later. You can't get a do-over of your birthday, but we tried. When we got home, she asked where we had been, and we told her that we'd gone back to Disney, and lord, you would have thought you had told her we had killed Santa. She was so upset. However, on our subsequent Disney days, she's been an angel, because she knows we aren't kidding when we tell her she'll sit her hiney at home.

Where is the bowing/applauding icon?? You are the FIRST parent I have ever known who made good on the "you're not coming back if you don't start behaving" threat that we all hear oh 1000 times a day.

 

[cantwaitvaca09]

my moment was in 2009 Dh, & 2DD's age 2 & 5 at that time and me
We had an early flight, landed at MCO, took DME to our resort, right when we are stopping at the first resort drop off, out of nowhere my DD2 starts to throw up, (car sick) I have nothing for her to get sick in, a nice lady threw me her whole package of wipes as she is getting off the bus, now we get to our resort, room not ready, change DD in the bathroom, take a deep breath and get lunch, OK now room is ready, head to room it starts to down pour, our room is so far from where we ate lunch, DH is pushing everything in the stroller in the rain while DD's and I take cover. In our room, change DD's again, but DH is soaked, he can't change as Disney has not dropped our luggage. DH is now super crabby, finally get clothes late, head to ESPN (thinking that will make DH happy again) No tables. DH is now very mad I just started to cry my eyes ourt at the poor hostess because there are not tables.

This trip we are renting a car, so no bus sick, no lost luggage now running to room in the rain...

 

[GreenCntryGirl]

No meltdowns here but I don't give myself credit for that. It was a combination of paying attention to the advice of my favorite guidebook, previous visitors, and my level headed husband who only had 2 requirements for the trip: 1 sit down meal a day and a mid-afternoon break.

I did have a meltdown at Silver Dollar City once and it was uh-glee.

 

[RedfromNL]

We always make sure we take plenty of breaks!

On any holiday Disney or otherwise or even a shoppingtrip if one of us gets tired we take a break. We might split up for a bit but we feel it's better not to want to do it all and rest before you get real tired.

And reading these stories, I'm REALLY glad we do!

 

[m2zjj]

My moment was the first park day of our honeymoon. I didn't help that I started out the day cranky due to an issue renting a car at the airport the night before when we arrived. I'd never been to WDW before and DH had only been to Epcot and he decided that we should go to Epcot on our first day. He's showing me around the world showcase and neither of us knew exactly what all was there (lack of planning) so we were just wandering in and out of the shops until I stopped dead in my tracks and told him I wanted to ride some rides. He turned to look at me and says "there are no rides here this is Epcot"

I started crying and called my mom back home and started whining about how I wanted to go to Disney World for my honeymoon and DH took me to some crappy park with no rides. I think I even asked her if that was grounds for divorce. Not my best moment.

We finally decided to leave and on the way out I almost ran right into a cast member. She saw my tears, gave my DH a questioning look and when he explained the problem she grabbed our map and pointed out the different rides she thought we might like and suggested that maybe I would have more fun at MK. We ended up leaving and going to MK but we returned to Epcot several days later and I did enjoy it.

Lesson learned though do my own research before we go on vacation because if I trust DH I'll spend all day surrounded by rides and never even know they are there.

 

[AllieV]

Mine is similar to Fire14's story. We had a 6am flight with our 3 yr old. He barely slept on the flight and had a meltdown there on the plane then again when we stopped at the grocery store. Our room at Boardwalk was ready, but they'd taken the luggage from the towncar and didn't deliver it to us for hours. So the 3 yr old sees the pool and screams that he wants to swim but we have no luggage. Our ADR at Epcot's Italy was soon so we decide to walk him over there. It was a long, hot walk even in December. We check in and for some reason it's still going to be 40 minutes. Well about 7 minutes in, the BIG meltdown starts and we drag him bodily out of the restaurant, kicking and screaming as though we're kidnapping him. My husband walked about 20 paces behind me in case I got grabbed by security We waited for the boat but it didn't come so we walked all the way back, him having a fit the whole way, screaming he wants to swim and to let him go.

Then, of course, I have to hear my husband's, "I told you so. You always plan too much. You always think we can do everything." Aye.

 

[AshleeH]

I'm wondering why Disney doesn't film some of these moments for their commercials. Can you imagine? The OneRepublic song playing in the background, shot of the castle and princesses with children running, and then a couple screaming at each other, kids having tantrums, and the words: "For the TRUE Disney experience" float across the screen . Doesn't really have the same punch as the current ads, I guess.

 

[NHKristy76]

Fun Topic !

When it became clear they wouldn't voluntarily move, I reached over a grabbed toy lightsaber from a vendor, and smashed the woman over her head in an effort to knock some sense into her. Her husband rears back and takes a swing at me, which I duck to avoid. He hits the man next to me, an off duty cop, square in the face. The cop, filled with rage and overpriced beer, tackles the hooligan into a crowd of rowdy frat boys. Pretty soon fists are flying, stands are getting knocked over, and uttter chaos reigns. Just then, the parade rounds the corner, and the 501st, seeing chaos, rears into action, jumping into the fray to restrain people. Long story short, 14 arrests, 2 years of ongoing litigation, and I have scars on my fist from the front teeth of the hooligan when I knocked them out of his skull.

hehe - just wondered who read these long posts. All of this really happened except the preceeding paragraph; I just ended up yelling at the woman until her husband, a very nice guy, ushered her to the back of the four deep crowd with an apologetic nod of his head.

I read it all was freaking out! LMAO! So glad to hear that you didn't actually smash someone over the head with a lightsaber!

 

[Cap'nJack'sMum]

You had me at "lightsaber"!!!

Totally!!!

 

[Tink0513]

I'm wondering why Disney doesn't film some of these moments for their commercials. Can you imagine? The OneRepublic song playing in the background, shot of the castle and princesses with children running, and then a couple screaming at each other, kids having tantrums, and the words: "For the TRUE Disney experience" float across the screen . Doesn't really have the same punch as the current ads, I guess.

Our joke last month on our trip every time we would see a kids crying, meltdown etc... Someone on our group would joke outloud and say "Its the happiest place on earth!!!"

 

[NHKristy76]

Since we've been to WDW quite a few times, I've got a couple of good stories to share!

We took our DD for the first time when she was 15mos old (in reality, it was just that I had waited 15 mos after child birth before I could get back there...) The first two days were absolutely glorious. We were taking breaks, swimming, splashing in puddles on Main St. You could have made a video out of the kind of family vacation we were on. On the third day, I started to feel NASTY. I was grouchy and tired and had the shakes... by the fourth day, both my husband and I had come down with the most god awful case of the Norwalk (sp?) virus. We ended up locked up in the hotel room, with a perfectly healthy happy 15 mos old (god help us all!). On day 6 we did try to venture out, only to toss our cookies once at MK and then four times on our way back to the hotel. So, after a visit from the local doctor, we rearranged our flights and cut our visit 3 days short.


We decide to take our DD, now 3, for her birthday. We are having a great time although Allison had started pulling fits which was not typical for her. So there we are at breakfast at Cindy's on her 3rd birthday, Cindy and a bunch of friends are singing Happy Birthday to her at the table, and she flips out because Belle was not there. She grabs the table runner and yanks on it just as I tried to stop her. The princesses were all HORRIFIED as was I. I picked her up and walked out of the restaurant, all the way down Main Street (she stopped flipping out as we walked out the exit and just stared at me with her big brown eyes), onto the bus, back to our room, plopped her on the bed before I said a single word. (My husband decided to finish breakfast and take a photo tour of the MK...) A couple days after we got home, and I swore I would never take this kid to Disney World again, we find out that she had strep throat and 2 massive ear infections. I felt horrible!

 

[Raenstoirm]

Ours happened in 1998 I guess. It was me and my mother, my mother's sister and her son and my grandmother (in a wheelchair). One of the timeshare salesman had conned the sisters into a presentation about Celebration (maybe it wasnt time share, but it was about celebration because they gave us a tour). I was 16 and thrilled about being able to see the "disney town." About half way through the sales guy's spiel, my 14 year old cousin just loses it. I had never seen a 14 year old boy cry like a 4 year old before. There was no calming him down. He wanted to go back to the parks, period. The poor salesman didnt know what to do with this 6 foot "man" through a major fit in his office, so he gave us tickets to a dinner show and sent us on our way. To be honest we were all bored by that time anyway (we had already had our tour), so we were secretly grateful for the outburst, but it was just crazy. His behavior that day is one of the most vivid memories I have of that trip!

 

[Buckimion]

Once upon a Thanksgiving week we tried to cram four parks into three days. On day one we started at AK and DW tells me as soon as we get into the park she needs to use the restroom. Happens every single time. And right on cue she gets lost, costing ride time. When we meet up again after over an hour, she is sheepish until she sees the thundercloud on my face and instantly her mood is ruined too. We hit the highlights and are at least on speaking terms by the time we get to the Studios. My feet and legs are killing me from running around AK looking for her so I opt for a wheelchair and she and DD start fighting over who will push. DD is a girl after my own heart and knows if DW is pushing gift shops instead of rides will be the priority. In line for RnRC, they get into a pushing match and quit paying attention. People run around past me to keep up in line which sets me off on both of them. How we got out through the day after that without killing each other is still a mystery but when they finally settled down (DW got control of the wheelchair but limited extensive gift shop time to ToT) things got quiet for the day.

 

[Reddy]

what is it about Epcot?? my son had his meltdown there too, we stopped in Japan to get sushi for Dh & me, our fault there, we know we have to eat at Lotus Blossom over in China which is where we planned for him to eat since we know he loves it )actually licks the plate & eats everyone dessert.

guess that will teach me to change the menu for us again - one of these days I'm going without the boys so I can eat someplace else in Epcot

 

[sweeteypie1118]

Our first trip was in 2007. My son was 7 at the time. I waited to take him to Disney for the first time because he was terrified of Chuck E Cheese and I was afraid of a ruined trip with him running away every time he saw a character.

So, it was me, DH, DS7, and not so dear MIL. How I got roped into bringing her, I dont know! It was winter break and we had an ice storm the day before we were supposed to leave for FL. I was already in knots worrying that our flight would either be cancelled or seriously delayed causing a flip out by my son who had absolutely no patience. My FIL is driving us to the airport. On the way, my son tells me he's not feeling so well. He feels like he is going to be sick. Now, he has never been car sick..EVER. So, I open a window and say you'll be fine. A few minutes later he says it again. I say its probably because you didnt have breakfast yet and gave him a juice box. We literally just pull up to the curb at the airport and he throws up all over himself..twice! So, we get out of the truck, get all our luggage on the icy curb, and my wonderful FIL just takes off! I have a puke coverd kid, a pain in the butt old lady and tons of luggage. I have no choice now but to throw away his winter coat since my FIL left before I could give it to him to throw in the wash. I certainly wasnt going to put it in our luggage. I have to throw away his pants too. I get him into the airport bathroom and take out some clothes from the luggage and get him changed. The airport is MAYHEM! I hear people complaining their flight to Orlando were cancelled. I feel like throwing up myself now! Luckily however, our flight was the first flight that day that hadnt been cancelled and we took off only about 45 minutes late after my son happily wolfed down a bagel.

Most of the week was uneventful other than the constant complaining from MIL. She complained about all the food. Never had a good thing to say. She is a woman that lives to complain. Then she would always order something that wasnt included in the dining plan and never offered to pay for it. Never once opened her wallet to buy so much as a lemonade for her grandson. Then she decided that she wanted DH to leave AK as he was 40 minutes into the EE line to take her back to her room. The next day we slapped her in a wheelchair and just wheeled her cranky butt around.

Another day, DH flipped out on me. We were going to a counter service restaurant. I dont remember which. I'm pretty sure it was in HS. It was a very large place with lots of seating, or should I say, lots of unavailable seating. So, I tell him to order everyones food while we scope out a place to sit. He couldnt find us when he got the food and had to walk around to find our table. Then he threw a fit on me and was nasty until I started crying and refused to eat. I kept thinking I'm sitting here crying in the Happiest Place on Earth!!

I went to Disney this pat August for 9 days with just my son and we had a perfectly lovely meltdown free time. Think it may be DH and not Disney He stayed home and got to deal with the hurricane that hit the day after we left. Karma!

 

[siskaren]

After reading this thread, is it wrong of me to be glad that I travel to WDW solo?

 

[sweeteypie1118]

After reading this thread, is it wrong of me to be glad that I travel to WDW solo?

NO, I would love to leave my family behind!

 

[jcvalenti]

After reading this thread, is it wrong of me to be glad that I travel to WDW solo?

Not wrong, but I doubt any of the complainers with kids would trade in the thousand moments of joy watching the kids have the time of their life for the occasional meltdown.

That being said, the occasional adults only trip to Food & Wine is always great.

 

[Darragh]

My grandson has gone with us for four trips now and just last week he told his uncle (my son) that all we do at WDW is fight. Hmmm.. I don't really remember it that way. We've had occasional exchanges of sharp words. But that is just a natural outcome of too much walking and not enough rest or water. I still think that we have the best times when we're there! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[pigletto]

Our first trip was in 2007. My son was 7 at the time. I waited to take him to Disney for the first time because he was terrified of Chuck E Cheese and I was afraid of a ruined trip with him running away every time he saw a character.

So, it was me, DH, DS7, and not so dear MIL. How I got roped into bringing her, I dont know! It was winter break and we had an ice storm the day before we were supposed to leave for FL. I was already in knots worrying that our flight would either be cancelled or seriously delayed causing a flip out by my son who had absolutely no patience. My FIL is driving us to the airport. On the way, my son tells me he's not feeling so well. He feels like he is going to be sick. Now, he has never been car sick..EVER. So, I open a window and say you'll be fine. A few minutes later he says it again. I say its probably because you didnt have breakfast yet and gave him a juice box. We literally just pull up to the curb at the airport and he throws up all over himself..twice! So, we get out of the truck, get all our luggage on the icy curb, and my wonderful FIL just takes off! I have a puke coverd kid, a pain in the butt old lady and tons of luggage. I have no choice now but to throw away his winter coat since my FIL left before I could give it to him to throw in the wash. I certainly wasnt going to put it in our luggage. I have to throw away his pants too. I get him into the airport bathroom and take out some clothes from the luggage and get him changed. The airport is MAYHEM! I hear people complaining their flight to Orlando were cancelled. I feel like throwing up myself now! Luckily however, our flight was the first flight that day that hadnt been cancelled and we took off only about 45 minutes late after my son happily wolfed down a bagel.

Most of the week was uneventful other than the constant complaining from MIL. She complained about all the food. Never had a good thing to say. She is a woman that lives to complain. Then she would always order something that wasnt included in the dining plan and never offered to pay for it. Never once opened her wallet to buy so much as a lemonade for her grandson. Then she decided that she wanted DH to leave AK as he was 40 minutes into the EE line to take her back to her room. The next day we slapped her in a wheelchair and just wheeled her cranky butt around.

Another day, DH flipped out on me. We were going to a counter service restaurant. I dont remember which. I'm pretty sure it was in HS. It was a very large place with lots of seating, or should I say, lots of unavailable seating. So, I tell him to order everyones food while we scope out a place to sit. He couldnt find us when he got the food and had to walk around to find our table. Then he threw a fit on me and was nasty until I started crying and refused to eat. I kept thinking I'm sitting here crying in the Happiest Place on Earth!!

I went to Disney this pat August for 9 days with just my son and we had a perfectly lovely meltdown free time. Think it may be DH and not Disney He stayed home and got to deal with the hurricane that hit the day after we left. Karma!

Well not exactly a melt down but I do have a vomit story

Last August we went to Disney for 12 days. On our very last day, right before check out ds says he feels pukey and his stomach hurts.
We wait it out a bit but it's going down hill fast. We're already signed up for ME and it's time to leave.
He goes into the bathroom twice but never throws up. I got him some children's stomach medicine from the gift shop and he laid in my lap on the bench waiting for ME. We got to the airport without incident as he slept the whole way.
Into the airport we go. So far so good and I'm thinking he just has a tummy ache at this point which isn't so unusual for him if he hasn't been eating his normal diet.

We get up to security. I open everyones passports to the picture page and put the boarding passes in them. We got a cranky TSA agent who pretty much barked at me to hand everyone their own passport and boarding pass.

I am flustered from being cranked at and hand dd hers first. She gets inspected and goes through security while mine is being looked at. I turn to hand ds his and he is WHITE and his cheeks are puffed out like he is trying not to vomit

All I remember saying is "Oh no..please not..."

BLAH!! All over the floor. My shoes. In the line.

I was useless. Just stood there with my mouth open for what felt like an enternity (husband swears it was 30 seconds). He rushes ds to the bathroom while I stutter and apologize to everyone around me and start to cry (nice coping skills mom).
Out of nowhere comes a sanitation man who has sand and I help him clean. Only then to remember that my dd (14 at the time) is BY HERSELF ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SECURITY.
DS came back with a clean shirt from the gift shop, all cleaned up and looking much better. I waved to dd and the agent went to tell her to wait where she was because she couldn't come back over.

I thought for sure we would need a hotel for the night but was surprised when the TSA lady said. You need to get home.
So home we went. Ds thankfully slept the whole way.
Now the not so funny to tell later part. He didn't have the flu. It was his appendix and we were in the hospital that night for the next two weeks.
He is great now.

But throwing up? In the SECURITY LINE? That will be a story for the ages. My friends and family howl every time they hear it because they know how I plan everything down to the second for travel. There was no planning for that one.