..Pop My Jibbitz!!! We Are In Disney Woild! **UPD 6/23 PG 69 #1022**

[blue_river]

sm4987 has 52,647!!!

Where do you come up with this stuff?

I wonder how many posts that is per day?

 

[pixie dust 112]

Where do you come up with this stuff?

I wonder how many posts that is per day?

It's a secret. But now she's up to 52,716. She joined on 9/4/02 so that is 31.10 posts per day!

 

[twob4him]

Dan Murphy has 61,100. I asked him about it one time and apparently he was a host so he had lots of posts from that. I think I saw someone with over 100,000. Yeesh thats amazing!!!

OK Mr DU its a different month than the last time you posted so I think its safe now to post the next installment ...plus August will be here before you know it. How many more days do you have to report on???

OK now the teacher in me comes out....can you take the "i" out of "world" in your title....hahahahahahaha

 

[blue_river]

It's a secret. But now she's up to 52,716. She joined on 9/4/02 so that is 31.10 posts per day!

You're so smart

I'm going to have to agree with nsalz now

 

[PittypatBR]

We're waiting here.

 

[DISUNC]

Its coooooooooooooommmmmmmmiiiingggggggggggggggggg!

 

[KathyRN137]

Tease.

Kathy

 

[DISUNC]

Tease.

Kathy

got me!

 

[blue_river]

got me!

Nothing to add

 

[DISUNC]

SIDENOTE: I KNOW THAT I TOLD YOU ALL ON MY LAST EDITION THAT THE COMING TITLE WILL BE.."OLD FRIENDS'...scratch that.
When I completed Day 5, and went back to edit it....it was 17 pages long!
So in order not to hold my adoring public

up any longer....I am just posting the first part of Day 5...TITLED "In Search of a Bagel!​

....and now onto the next edition!

 

[DISUNC]

Day 5 Part 1 In Search of a Bagel!


Today, we are venturing outside WDW yet again to visit my Old Friend Screwy Louie.

I have known Screwy Louie since we were Freshman in a All Boys “Katlick” high school back in Brooklyn. We met the very first week while skipping out of classes, and escaping the evil Seniors who wanted to initiate us into the school

. Since then we have been best friends. For awhile Screwy Louie lived in San Francisco, where he met his future wife, who I will ‘lovingly’ refer to as Ursula !

Sidenote: It was great while Louie lived in SF, use to visit there all the time way back in the 80’s!

But Screwy Louie had a very good job offer in Tampa so he and Ursula moved and started a family. To put it mildly, Ursula sorta lost her mind in Tampa , so after two sons were born a very messy divorced followed. Screwy Louie has been awarded custody of his two sons. We all now how hard it is for a single parent to work and raise kids, Unless you have a Italian Mother from Brooklyn who insists that she come and live with you and the boys. So now Screwy Louie is living in Florida with his Mother, Father and Two sons.

Although we chat on the phone a few times a week, and email back and forth constantly, I haven’t seen SL for a few years.

Sidenote: From this point in time until the end of this TR, We who read this TR are setforth & henceward always and forever to be known as “Disers”, everyone else who JUST DON’T GET THE WDW EXPERIENCE is now known as “Muggles”

Anudda sidenote: “Muggles” aint a copyrighted name is it?

I am not quite sure if it is I who HATES being in the Mudda Country with “Muggles” or is it “Muggles” who hate being in the Mudda country with me. We Disers are a rare breed

. We know how to, when to, where too and what to do at the precise moment. Everything is scheduled just accordingly….and if someone thwarts our merry plans…..Well quite frankly we go “Stitch” on them! It is for these reasons, and others I don’t always tell SL that I am in Florida. Screwy Louie and his Sons are just mere Muggles.

Sidenote: Don’t You Judge Me!

When I was over ridden with guilt and decided to tell SL that I am coming down to WDW, his first reaction was “Great! I haven’t been there since the last time you came down 6 YEARS AGO”! He also INSISTED that we come to see his house.

Now these were the conditions of my trip to Tampa Bay. I will drive too (outside the pearly gates of Emerald City) a place called Wesley Chapel. I will then visit with SL’s family, catch up on old times. Look at way too many old pictures of when both myself & SL waist lines were 24 inches, wearing Earth Shoes (fore runner too Crocs) was cool, and Designer Jeans were to be worn so flippen tight that it made your voice a little higher than it should have been.

SideNote: These pics were taken in Brooklyn circa mid 70’s. Think…the looser version of Saturday Night Fever!

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Then we are to lunch at a Tampa Bay eatery located on a dock and then we will all (Sl & his 2 sons, Me & James) drive back to WDW…and the next day we will spend the day at one of the parks . But more about this later.

Back to the Story.

I got my annoying wakeup call from Stitch, and set up for what I needed for the day. James who at home is up with the birds…is HORRIBLE to get up when we are in WDW. I finally get him outta bed, and he has breakfast in the room. It takes me about 1 ½ hours to get ready, and he is done in 5 mins.

We get in the car too drive to this foreign Tampa place. When I start the car up I realize I must stop for gas. Since I bring my 4 cup coffee maker with me, I have my cup of coffee in my refillable mug. I realized at this point I NEEDED either a Bagel or a Roll. For some reason I just HAD TO HAVE a breakfast BREAD thing! Since I was in the car and the A/C was already starting to kick in, I figured I just get this at the Hess gas station, and bypass the Pop Centuries Café.

Sidenote: It is rare that I get a YEARNING for a specific food item, maybe 3 or 4 times a year. But whenever I do get a NEED or DESIRE …THAT’S IT…Nothing else is on my mind but that food substance. If my yearning is for Pizza from a specific Pizza parlor…I must stop whatever I am doing and go satisfy my desire and longing for that pizza. No matter how many miles I must drive, in what kind of weather. I NEED to fulfill my food desires. I once drove from the Pocono’s to Chinatown in NYC (120 miles each way) for a very specific Egg Roll from a very specific Chinese Restaurant

….IN A BLINDING RAIN STORM. It was SOOOOOOOOOO worth it!

So off we went to the Hess station, where I will get gasoline and a bagel. The drive from the POP to the Hess all I can think about was that Bagel. If they didn’t have a bagel, then I will get a roll. I decided either a Bagel with cream Cheese or a Roll with gobs of butter. Yes, my mouth was salivating, and my coffee I made this am was just perfect. MMMMMM hurry up Hess, I had to hit the gas. I was a man with a mission.

I drive into the gas station and get gas. Then I ask James if he wanted anything, he didn’t. I walk into the Hess Super-ette, and I am looking around by the coffee dispensers for either a roll or bagel. I don’t see anything. This place is unbelievably packed. I swear there is like 40 people in this little gas station store. The people who work there, like in every other Hess station are all dressed in freshly bleached VERY WHITE starched shirts & pants……

Sidenote: Hess is the cleanest gas stations I ever seen

I could not find any rolls or bagels so I asked one of the attendants if they have any rolls, he looks at me inquisitively and says in a very thick accent…”rrrrolls of vhat?”

“Rolls! Like in bread rolls” I answered with a look like ‘what are you a idiot’

Sidenote: Don’t everybody staying on Disney property go to the Hess gas station for their Morning roll?

He pointed me over to the coffee section

. Again I went and looked over there. Now mind you this isn’t an easy task….Seriously this place is packed like Times Square on New Years Eve. All I saw were cake like things, no Rolls, no bread…not even a empty basket or shelf where at one time these elusive items just ‘might have been.” Nutin!

I then asked the clerk at the cash register. While her head was down, she gave me the finger (NOOOOO not that finger)…she held up her pointer finger while looking down, as in “don’t bother me you fool, cant you see I am very busy counting change” finger! She then looked up very exasperated and said ‘What?”….

Sidenote: Don’t these people KNOW… I NEED A ROLL!

“Do you have any Rolls or Bagels?”
Then she answered me in a very southern whiskey voice “Just what kind of roll are you looking for, darling?
For some reason, with all the people standing around and this is DISNEY property I didn’t know what else to say so I answered mildly “Onion?”
“No Sweetie Pie, we are not the Dunkin Donuts here!”
Clearly she was annoyed with me! But I didn’t have the time to tell her about my fixation with my very rare but MUCH possessive Food Yearnings.

Oh Well, I thought to myself I will find a real Dunkin Donuts off of I-4 on my way to this place called Wesley Chapel, near Tampa. That’s It!……I will find a Dunkin Donuts and get a salted bagel with cream cheese and a coffee from them. Perfect! I GOTTA have this.

I get back in the car and James asked me if they had any rolls. I told him No, but Look out for signs for Dunkin Donuts, I am gonna get a Bagel. And off we drive.

Sidenote: If you can recall, I am not crazy about driving some where that I am not sure where I am going. I will do it; I just hate looking for signs. What I hate about Road signs, is that often they don’t give you enough warning as to when you must change lanes or get off the next exit. For instance you are driving late at night and realize that you desperately need gasoline. You are driving on the highway, and you see the sign that says “GASOLINE NEXT EXIT”, then as soon as you see the sign, read the sign and processes the sign in your mind…Like lightening, BAM, You just passed the exit!!! What the HECK!!!! I hate that! I mean the sign was just 10 feet before the exit…for me …it should have been like at least 1 Mile before the exit. Then right after you pass the exit, they have another sign saying that “The Next Exit is 26 miles” away! Why? Why in Gods good name would they tell you AFTER you pass the exit, that what you just passed is gone and you wont see another one for quite some time. And to add to the angst you know, someone in the car HAS to make a rest stop then.

Shouldn’t that “Next Exit 26 Miles” sign be way before the exit you just passed?
Now in Florida especially on Interstate 4, this is REALLY noticeable. The I-4 Signage Guru had some SEVERE spatial/exit getting off of/signage too late issues!

Amongst other issues…read on!

I am now on I-4 driving and looking at the Interstates Blue signs, ya know the ones that tell you what is coming up at the next exit. One set of blue signs tell you what hotels are off the next exit, one set tells you what food, and one set tells you what gas stations. We are on the lookout for the set saying DUNKIN DONUTS.

After we drive about 10 miles I notice the Blue signs coming up, for backup purposes I tell James to read the signs too. And as I drive towards the signs I start to see the pink and brown writing. Yes! I can taste that Salted Bagel with cream cheese NOW! As we get closer this is confirmed. “Dunkin Donuts Next exit.” So I get into the right lane, and get off the exit.

Sidenote: I dunno about where you live, But in most States that I drove in there is always the BIG Blue signs on the Highways telling you what is coming up at the next exit, then when you actually get onto the off ramp there are a second set of blue signs stating by an arrow as to the direction you must turn to get to a specific place. Also the signs denote by mileage as to how far off the road they are.

I am now on the off ramp looking for the blue sign with the arrow telling me where Dunkin Donuts is. Only there are NO Blue signs on the off ramp! AGH! So I don’t know if I go left, right or straight ahead. At the end of the off ramp there is a light and it is GREEN.

NO! I need a Red light and time to survey the landscape. The good news is that the road ends, so I am down to two choices Left or Right! I call back to James…”Make a choice…Left or Right?

“Left!” he yells
“No right!” he changes his mind….”NO, NO left!”, yet again!

Since now there is a huge MACK truck on my left, I decide to go right. I figured that I would drive a bit and will soon see something. (There were a lot of hotels, eateries & gas stations listed on the Big Blue signs for this exit). I make the right and start driving, all I see is trees. I drive, and drive and drive ….and NOTHING. No where is there even a sign of life.
Then James yells up front that he just saw an alligator on the road!

Oh crap!

I want that bagel SOOOOOOOOOO BAD. So the first chance I get I make a U-Turn and start driving back towards I-4. My best guestimate would be I shoulda made a left hand turn. After a considerable while (I drove about 2 or 3 miles) I get back to the I-4 overpass. I decided to go pass the on ramp and find this elusive Dunkin Donuts (or any sign of life). So I am now in the spot I would have been had I made a left originally, and again I drive and I drive and I drive…and More NUTIN! WTH???? Where is everything? I know in my neck of the country, its like against the law or something to post an off highway eatery that is more than 1 or 2 miles away from the highway! I drove about 2 miles and again I gave up and made a U-Turn back to I-4.

So now after going off course about 6 miles and about 20 minutes lost (it seemed like 1 hour) I am back on I-4. I figured I won’t get off the Interstate UNLESS I can visually see a Strip mall from the next exit that has a Dunkin Donuts sign.

We drove for about 45 minutes and saw NO BLUE sign with a Dunkin Donuts or even a 7-11 type food place mentioned. It was all Hotels and Restaurants. I would have killed for a bagel at this point! Finally there is a Blue Sign that says “Starbucks”

THAT WILL DO!

Sidenote: I HATE Starbucks coffee. I don’t know why people go crazy over it. Too me it always tastes like burnt mud. As far as I am concerned Starbucks proves that in this country if you package “you know what” and marketed it right…..People will clamor and pay top dollar for it. Starbucks Rant Over!

I figured Starbucks has to have some type of roll or bagel. I get off the exit and onto the off ramp. This time I see a Strip mall off the exit. Again I look for the Blue signs stating where the Starbucks is by the show of an arrow, AGAIN, no second blue arrow signs.

Sidenote: Is the Florida Sign Master flippen kidden me?????? Really Florida got some serious Road Sign issues.

I decide on my own, with no help from James to make a right hand turn. However I did employee him to look for Starbucks. This was not easy since there was Dozens of Strip Malls laid out before us, with dozens of Strip Mall signs, with dozens of store names all over the place. We had a lot of reading to do, very fast!

Finally over to my right I noticed a Starbucks sign, now to figure out how to get into that Strip mall, all this while everyone is whizzing by me going 55mph. I seen a driveway up ahead not far from the Starbucks. I pull into the driveway on the right, and soon realize that this is not the driveway for Starbucks. Even though Starbucks is about 20 feet away, this driveway slopes down goes in the completely opposite direction. After some serious zigging and zagging and twisting and turning I finally made it to the Starbucks!

Once inside I asked if they had any rolls or bagels. “Sorry, but we do have scones!”

Okay I will take a scone, and a grande regular coffee, and then James decides he too wants a scone and some type of frozen coffee. I placed the order, and then paid something like $16.00. I stood there waiting for my order. However the Starbuck lady would not hand it to me there where I stood at the ‘Ordering Station”. She left the order 3 feet away at the ‘Pickup Station”. I am looking around for a Candid Camera, there was no one in the store but she The Queen of Starbucks, Myself & James (we were her jesters there to amuse her). I swear she couldn’t give me the order in the same spot that I ordered from; I had too sidestepped 3 feet to the “next station.” This is a weird Starbuck law.

I got in the car, and took a bite of the scone. I decided I hate scones.

I took a sip of the coffee, YUP its burnt mud down in Florida too!

I realized that with all the stopping and getting off of I4 and going nowhere, I am now running late by about 45 mins! Gotta get movin to go to Wesley Chapel!

If you care too, Please grab your Pin Lanyards and come back for the next installment titled “Old Friends”

 

[crossfamily]

See you should of ordered a white chocolate mocha They are awsome... Now how long will we have to wait for the next installment? Hey thats 2 installments up on PD...

 

[disneyaddicted]

A food craving that bad? Sounds like the time I drove from Chincoteague, Va. to Salisbury Md. in mid July looking for Jelly beans, I was way pregnant though, never did get Jelly beans but Red Lobster caught my eye and then the craving for lobster happened.
I am not a big fan of the roads in Pa, but I am spoiled by the blue signs and arrows that lead you to the front door of your destination every time.

ditto on the burnt mud at Satrbucks! Blech!

 

[SillyMe]

Where do you get your smilies?

 

[jcc0621]

Yippee Your back! Great installment. I don't drink coffee, but any time I mention Starbucks to DH he starts to twitch and mumbles something about bitter mud.

 

[tiggerwannabe]

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

OMG, Muggles....... I it!

Maybe you should have gotten a dehydrated bagel from KSC you could have saved for such an emergency!

 

[TOT_Princess_412]

I love ya DISUNC but did ya ever think of the Boardwalk Bakery that is like 10 feet away from the Hess station ...they have bagels and rolls(and scones)...and coffee that isnt made from mud.........Another Great installment ! I cant wait to hear how your day with SL were.....

 

[dwheatl]

I know why you wanted that bagel. Coffee + ciggies + nuttin'=big hole in the stomach. You gotta have carbs to protect your vital organs.

I'm protective of my Dis time too. Only one friend and 2 of my sisters are allowed to join my posse there.

 

[twob4him]

Yaaaa I was so surprised this morning to log on and see this hilarious episode! Oh the angst for needing (not wanting) something and no one, like the highway signage people, seems to care. But somehow you made it thru DU!! Awaiting more good stuff.
PS Are you leaving that "i" in World just to bug me????