Raulandpinboy
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Now mind you I'm not a sane man by any means, I wrote the book on nuts, and smile it makes them wonder what your up to is my favorite saying, but if 2 years ago you would have told me I would be at Disney's MGM wearing a wig and boa I would have told you that you were off you rocker.
Yes it was a sunny day in MGM and so it began I arrived looking like a normal person with a lanyard and a hand full of pins. But before I digress let me just say that even though it was spring break, and the park was full of college girls, once I put that wig on I thought hey the girls will think this is cute not a chance most comments were made by men, and my oldest granddaughter refused to walk with me because once again as she put it, my hair was nicer than hers.
I get in the park no problem the security guard only asked casually once why is there a purple wig and green boa in my backpack, I answered the usual I lost a bet, but it was spring break I was the least of their problems.
I meet with my DD and the grandkids and am handed my I'm with the Band (ED) shirt, cause in ten minutes I'm gonna be a superstar .
In to the men's room I go first I do my thing, so as not to have a repeat of the last event fiasco, for those that missed it search the boards for princesses that pee standing up thread. All finished and now I do my costume thing, I don on my shirt, my boa, and my purple wig, and of course my lanyard, I do all my adjusting and turn to find a man and his five kids just staring at me mouths open. I smile and hold out my lanyard as Scoop has shown me how to do, proper pin etiquette you know, but the man just yelled run kids, and they ran away screaming. (What's their problem I wonder)
Out the door I go and find a group of about 20 tourists waiting to see if its true, some nut case was in there putting on a wig nut case am I, have you all seen the Boa brigade ladies, and what good looking ladies they be I might add, and the numbers are growing yea I'm a nut case, they wear a hat with ears that says Goofy, but I'm a nut case.
It was about now as I was standing in line to get my map that my friend Bob gets me on my Nextel unit for those of you that do not know what a Nextel is, well it's a cell phone that is also a two way radio, you just press a button and the speaker phone starts a yapping, so while I'm in line my little radio phone starts talking with little comments like hey Cindy nice hair, you going punk or what . Bob you better turn yours off next time you go the bathroom, cause once you close the stall door I'm broadcasting and singing "Feelings whoa whoa whoa feeeeeeeeelings" lets see you talk your way out of that one.
It was off to the pin area, but wait the Saint patties day pin was out and its off to stand in line, we are all there and I notice the couple behind us are hugging each other, and shaking they just keep staring at me and at Donna, so I turn and say in my most polite southern hospitality voice how y'all doing want to see my pins, well she screamed he just handed me his wallet and said please don't hurt us Newbies you gotta love em. We explained what it was all about and they did calm down a bit, she never did stop screaming though.
Now here is the neat part (Leslie get ready to take your bow) people were coming up to us and saying OMG you're the boa brigade, they wanted their pictures taken with us, it was so neat, even Tokyo tourist thought we were famous, there must have been about 50 pictures taken of us around the park, and the Jim Greene made good on his threat, there were Disney camera men there, and they did keep following us around. Along with security that is and they were so nice.
To the pin event noooo we want food nooo we want pins kids your driving me nuts pick a place, fine pins it is we are off, but wait look at the line we want to do the pin cart poppy they aren't gonna refresh it forget it lets eat. If not for the fact that they are my grandkids, and part of the boa brigade I would have killed them there and then.
Its 9:30 off to the pizza planet thing were they have the Buzz and Woody meal, yes kids this is the only place on Disney property where you can ask a cast member for a Woody and not get thrown off property.
Its off to do the map and we meet up with our friend Jeff from New York we like him he's one of those motivational speaker types, not one of those let me help you help me to help you kind of speakers, he's for real, and he always has New York DS pins, so yes we like Jeff, were doing the map and we get to the Prop Shop the question if Mickey is a mouse, Pluto is a dog, what is Goofy??? So we start and the whole time the cast member just kept looking at my hair Chicken, No! cow, No! horse, No! frog, No! no! no! she yelled we were so loud that the manager came out to see what was going on, looked at as and yelled "A cow" Finally I lean over the counter and said look I asked the guy in Goofy suit what he was, and he said he was Puerto Rican, so the answer is Goofy is Puerto Rican. Oh she was good this one without blinking an eye she looked at the manager and yelled Goofy's a man, they just ruined my Disney magic, and ran into the back crying The manager just stared at us and said I hope you're happy "NO STAMP FOR YOU" the things these Disney kids do for a break time. But wait I said I want to buy three of the rack pins welllllllll gentlemen here's you stamp. (You gotta know how to speak Disney marketing talk people)
Were walking along to the next stop, when the Green Army men come by in their little van the guy on the van usually interacts with the guests, this time was no different as they came by the sergeant looks at me and says that's some hair son you'll never make it into this mans army with hair like that, At which point I yelled the Marines didn't have a problem with it, then he yells Semper-Fi and I yell hoorah and the world is good again. Except the two stragglers that were trying to keep up with the van those army men well one of them had an awful cute wiggle if my theories are correct, and I'm right this mans Army never had it so good.
Its getting late and by now I'm pretty much done with all the girls wanting to take their pictures with the guy in the purple hair, all that hugging and smiles, the kisses on the cheek, all those college girls running around cause its spring break wearing those band aid bathing suits with strings tops, all I want to do is go home and read a good book by the fire . Yea go home tomorrow night thank you very much. It's off to Tower of Terror
And who do we run into, none other then the Brazilian cheerleading squad from my night of joy adventures, don't these girls ever go home??? They remember me and call out "Olla Mr. Pins, hey tu purple hair es mui macho ride tower with us no" Weellll Ride tower with you yes, oh sorry si. Its now that I make my first mistake by turning to my wife who was in fact tired of the girls wanting to take their pictures with the guy in the purple hair, all that hugging and smiles, the kisses on the cheek, all those college girls running around cause its spring break wearing those band aid bathing suits with strings tops, and did in fact want to go home and read a good book by the fire Now I have no idea what in the world made me think that I could get away with asking my lovely wife of 19 years who barely tolerates my running around the parks in a wig if she minded if I rode tower of terror with a group of model looking cheerleaders from Brazil.
Men for the books don't ask me how I know this, but this is not a good question to ask, its like that other one of does this make me look fat they are all trick questions with no wrong or right answer they will just cause you lots of pain. And yes the look on here face made me turn around and smile all the while saying sorry girls me no ride tower . And she yells ANNNDD oh yes dear sorry girls me scared of tower act like little girl this is the answer I'm supposed to say to give to other women the impression that I'm a spineless jelly fish with no hope you see it's the only way to recover when you have erred in a very bad way with your wife, it's in the husbands are bad manual written by Richard Simmons.
But this time it backfired they smiled and said "oh Mr pins you ride with us we hold you tight and you no scared .. Now somehow I lost my mind and did it again I looked right at the wife and almost said hey honey could I then the world went purple It was like that commercial where the flying little fat guy from Golden Corral hits you with a frying pan Anyway all I remember is walking back to hat and behind me the Towers elevator doors opened and I heard a bunch of girls yelling "Adios Mr. Pins" oh what could have been.
Back at the hat back to reality we hand them a map they hand us a pin what a concept, it's a cool pin, and we wanted more but your only supposed to do it once and no other pin trader does it more than once right? Of course not and when your wearing a purple wig people will recognize you trust me. But we tried it again with some kids we borrowed cute little guys too, and got some more pins well those darned things kept me up all night every time I closed my eyes I kept seeing the devil, and I was in Heck it was hot and I was in room full of cast members with only mystery pins on their lanyards, but all I had was those darned dancing 2000 pins and they already had one each on their lanyards, meanwhile little kids kept coming in and trading a rack pooh for a Flubber, or a Mickey in the plane for a Wet Paint, I tried to trade with kids but Disney would not let me it was an awful dream. So tonight I gave my three extra pins away, and cleared my conscious.
Disclaimer
I was never a Marine, Navy seal maybe, the world may never know. Donna loves me and I'm not that bad, ask my girlfriend
)
Map pins are the devils workshop luring you in until you break and sin again
I have sinned but now I'm clean free at last, free at last. My DD is soooooo cool my grandkids are even cooler, and my wife is awesome. Amway was once considered to be the product of the future
(what happened) and what ever happened to that diet drink guru that had the big farmer boy in overalls yelling I'm thin I'm thin. Ed has claimed to be the inventor of that little blue handled thingy that sits in your kitchen drawer and does nothing. And that's why I can afford all those pins. It is so hard to go to the Gym and not laugh in the locker rooms. Janet Reno must have been hot in her youth 60 years ago.
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Yes it was a sunny day in MGM and so it began I arrived looking like a normal person with a lanyard and a hand full of pins. But before I digress let me just say that even though it was spring break, and the park was full of college girls, once I put that wig on I thought hey the girls will think this is cute not a chance most comments were made by men, and my oldest granddaughter refused to walk with me because once again as she put it, my hair was nicer than hers.
I get in the park no problem the security guard only asked casually once why is there a purple wig and green boa in my backpack, I answered the usual I lost a bet, but it was spring break I was the least of their problems.
I meet with my DD and the grandkids and am handed my I'm with the Band (ED) shirt, cause in ten minutes I'm gonna be a superstar .
In to the men's room I go first I do my thing, so as not to have a repeat of the last event fiasco, for those that missed it search the boards for princesses that pee standing up thread. All finished and now I do my costume thing, I don on my shirt, my boa, and my purple wig, and of course my lanyard, I do all my adjusting and turn to find a man and his five kids just staring at me mouths open. I smile and hold out my lanyard as Scoop has shown me how to do, proper pin etiquette you know, but the man just yelled run kids, and they ran away screaming. (What's their problem I wonder)
Out the door I go and find a group of about 20 tourists waiting to see if its true, some nut case was in there putting on a wig nut case am I, have you all seen the Boa brigade ladies, and what good looking ladies they be I might add, and the numbers are growing yea I'm a nut case, they wear a hat with ears that says Goofy, but I'm a nut case.
It was about now as I was standing in line to get my map that my friend Bob gets me on my Nextel unit for those of you that do not know what a Nextel is, well it's a cell phone that is also a two way radio, you just press a button and the speaker phone starts a yapping, so while I'm in line my little radio phone starts talking with little comments like hey Cindy nice hair, you going punk or what . Bob you better turn yours off next time you go the bathroom, cause once you close the stall door I'm broadcasting and singing "Feelings whoa whoa whoa feeeeeeeeelings" lets see you talk your way out of that one.
It was off to the pin area, but wait the Saint patties day pin was out and its off to stand in line, we are all there and I notice the couple behind us are hugging each other, and shaking they just keep staring at me and at Donna, so I turn and say in my most polite southern hospitality voice how y'all doing want to see my pins, well she screamed he just handed me his wallet and said please don't hurt us Newbies you gotta love em. We explained what it was all about and they did calm down a bit, she never did stop screaming though.
Now here is the neat part (Leslie get ready to take your bow) people were coming up to us and saying OMG you're the boa brigade, they wanted their pictures taken with us, it was so neat, even Tokyo tourist thought we were famous, there must have been about 50 pictures taken of us around the park, and the Jim Greene made good on his threat, there were Disney camera men there, and they did keep following us around. Along with security that is and they were so nice.
To the pin event noooo we want food nooo we want pins kids your driving me nuts pick a place, fine pins it is we are off, but wait look at the line we want to do the pin cart poppy they aren't gonna refresh it forget it lets eat. If not for the fact that they are my grandkids, and part of the boa brigade I would have killed them there and then.
Its 9:30 off to the pizza planet thing were they have the Buzz and Woody meal, yes kids this is the only place on Disney property where you can ask a cast member for a Woody and not get thrown off property.
Its off to do the map and we meet up with our friend Jeff from New York we like him he's one of those motivational speaker types, not one of those let me help you help me to help you kind of speakers, he's for real, and he always has New York DS pins, so yes we like Jeff, were doing the map and we get to the Prop Shop the question if Mickey is a mouse, Pluto is a dog, what is Goofy??? So we start and the whole time the cast member just kept looking at my hair Chicken, No! cow, No! horse, No! frog, No! no! no! she yelled we were so loud that the manager came out to see what was going on, looked at as and yelled "A cow" Finally I lean over the counter and said look I asked the guy in Goofy suit what he was, and he said he was Puerto Rican, so the answer is Goofy is Puerto Rican. Oh she was good this one without blinking an eye she looked at the manager and yelled Goofy's a man, they just ruined my Disney magic, and ran into the back crying The manager just stared at us and said I hope you're happy "NO STAMP FOR YOU" the things these Disney kids do for a break time. But wait I said I want to buy three of the rack pins welllllllll gentlemen here's you stamp. (You gotta know how to speak Disney marketing talk people)
Were walking along to the next stop, when the Green Army men come by in their little van the guy on the van usually interacts with the guests, this time was no different as they came by the sergeant looks at me and says that's some hair son you'll never make it into this mans army with hair like that, At which point I yelled the Marines didn't have a problem with it, then he yells Semper-Fi and I yell hoorah and the world is good again. Except the two stragglers that were trying to keep up with the van those army men well one of them had an awful cute wiggle if my theories are correct, and I'm right this mans Army never had it so good.
Its getting late and by now I'm pretty much done with all the girls wanting to take their pictures with the guy in the purple hair, all that hugging and smiles, the kisses on the cheek, all those college girls running around cause its spring break wearing those band aid bathing suits with strings tops, all I want to do is go home and read a good book by the fire . Yea go home tomorrow night thank you very much. It's off to Tower of Terror
And who do we run into, none other then the Brazilian cheerleading squad from my night of joy adventures, don't these girls ever go home??? They remember me and call out "Olla Mr. Pins, hey tu purple hair es mui macho ride tower with us no" Weellll Ride tower with you yes, oh sorry si. Its now that I make my first mistake by turning to my wife who was in fact tired of the girls wanting to take their pictures with the guy in the purple hair, all that hugging and smiles, the kisses on the cheek, all those college girls running around cause its spring break wearing those band aid bathing suits with strings tops, and did in fact want to go home and read a good book by the fire Now I have no idea what in the world made me think that I could get away with asking my lovely wife of 19 years who barely tolerates my running around the parks in a wig if she minded if I rode tower of terror with a group of model looking cheerleaders from Brazil.
Men for the books don't ask me how I know this, but this is not a good question to ask, its like that other one of does this make me look fat they are all trick questions with no wrong or right answer they will just cause you lots of pain. And yes the look on here face made me turn around and smile all the while saying sorry girls me no ride tower . And she yells ANNNDD oh yes dear sorry girls me scared of tower act like little girl this is the answer I'm supposed to say to give to other women the impression that I'm a spineless jelly fish with no hope you see it's the only way to recover when you have erred in a very bad way with your wife, it's in the husbands are bad manual written by Richard Simmons.
But this time it backfired they smiled and said "oh Mr pins you ride with us we hold you tight and you no scared .. Now somehow I lost my mind and did it again I looked right at the wife and almost said hey honey could I then the world went purple It was like that commercial where the flying little fat guy from Golden Corral hits you with a frying pan Anyway all I remember is walking back to hat and behind me the Towers elevator doors opened and I heard a bunch of girls yelling "Adios Mr. Pins" oh what could have been.
Back at the hat back to reality we hand them a map they hand us a pin what a concept, it's a cool pin, and we wanted more but your only supposed to do it once and no other pin trader does it more than once right? Of course not and when your wearing a purple wig people will recognize you trust me. But we tried it again with some kids we borrowed cute little guys too, and got some more pins well those darned things kept me up all night every time I closed my eyes I kept seeing the devil, and I was in Heck it was hot and I was in room full of cast members with only mystery pins on their lanyards, but all I had was those darned dancing 2000 pins and they already had one each on their lanyards, meanwhile little kids kept coming in and trading a rack pooh for a Flubber, or a Mickey in the plane for a Wet Paint, I tried to trade with kids but Disney would not let me it was an awful dream. So tonight I gave my three extra pins away, and cleared my conscious.
Disclaimer
I was never a Marine, Navy seal maybe, the world may never know. Donna loves me and I'm not that bad, ask my girlfriend
)
Map pins are the devils workshop luring you in until you break and sin again
I have sinned but now I'm clean free at last, free at last. My DD is soooooo cool my grandkids are even cooler, and my wife is awesome. Amway was once considered to be the product of the future
(what happened) and what ever happened to that diet drink guru that had the big farmer boy in overalls yelling I'm thin I'm thin. Ed has claimed to be the inventor of that little blue handled thingy that sits in your kitchen drawer and does nothing. And that's why I can afford all those pins. It is so hard to go to the Gym and not laugh in the locker rooms. Janet Reno must have been hot in her youth 60 years ago. And now the evidence
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Can't wait for the AK event, only 25 days to go. See you all soon!
