Random Acts of Magic

[A Mickeyfan]

I always carry the small bottle's of Purell in my backpack. I was on the singles line at EE and there were some teen girls there and they saw the one bottle hanging off my backpack and one asked to use it. I gave her the entire thing.. she was thrilled. I had another clip on bottle in my bag. She was telling me how she always carries it with her but had forgotten it. I know my DD usually does too. I thought if that were my DD, I would love for someone to take care of her with yuky hands too

I also always give away my FP's when I leave the park if I am not going back to use them. That is a given.. why waste them.. I usually look for a group the size of my group and pass them on..

Also, while I am not "giving" anything, if I see people taking pictures and they have one person not in the picture due to "taking it", I usually offer to take it for them so they can all be in and have a special memory...

 

[boufa]

The entire trio so far has been magical, and the FM's have been great, but the best one has been Sunday night. It was 1030pm, and I left the kids and wife to sleep in our room after a long day in Epcot. I headed over to mk alone to take some night photos. I stopped by guest services to upgraded my ticket to park Hopper. I was making small talk with the cm, next thing she hands me a reciept nd says that she had to remove my ticket from my key, but that it was worth it to me. I was confused and asked her whatthe total was for the Hopper upgrade, she said, its done... you can take the new ticket and have fun. I realized that she had given me the Hopper for free. Cool.

They darn near had to drag me out at 130am. Every time I use my paper ticket, I thank her for the magic.

 

[sewingmolly]

We always try to pass on any FPs that we aren't going to use, but it can be tricky finding the right group to pass them on to. Sometimes when you try to give people FPs they are hesitant to take them. During on March trip my neice was given two FPs for ToT, but we were leaving the park. So my neice, 15 yo, comes up to us (we had been waiting on a bench for her) and in her loudest outside voice says "Mom, someone gave me these FP but we can't use them. I wonder if anyone around here would like them. It's really a great ride." She continued for a few minutes and sure enough a couple near by mentioned that they really liked the ride. She can be kind of shy and didn't want to have to approach people, but she wanted to do the right thing.

 

[pampam]

We always try to pass on any FPs that we aren't going to use, but it can be tricky finding the right group to pass them on to. Sometimes when you try to give people FPs they are hesitant to take them. During on March trip my neice was given two FPs for ToT, but we were leaving the park. So my neice, 15 yo, comes up to us (we had been waiting on a bench for her) and in her loudest outside voice says "Mom, someone gave me these FP but we can't use them. I wonder if anyone around here would like them. It's really a great ride." She continued for a few minutes and sure enough a couple near by mentioned that they really liked the ride. She can be kind of shy and didn't want to have to approach people, but she wanted to do the right thing.

aww. I like it.

 

[Schmeck]

So reading the thread taking place right now about people not wanting to give up their seat on the bus for elderly, pregnant, handicapped, or small children has made me want to start a new thread for people who are still kind and think of others. So I thought we could share some stories of things we did "Random Acts of Kidness" while at Disney to make anothers person's trip better.

For instance 2 years ago we had a member of our party drop out of going to MNSSHP so I found the cutest little kid in a costume I could spot and gave them the free ticket.

A while back another family lost their youngest child around the pool at CBR during breakfast and I offered to help them search for the child and once found I took their food in and got it replaced since the birds had devoured it while we were searching.

Does anyone else have stories of how they have helped others have a magicial time.

My daughter likes to hand out those inexpensive stretchy bracelet things the little kids seem to love. We also help people find attractions, etc.

I'm trying to figure out how giving a kid a ticket to an event (that costs $$$) was a good idea - you either forced that family to have to buy tickets for the rest of them, or set the kid up for a meltdown when he was told he couldn't go. That is, unless you went over to the ticket counters to give a family in line the one ticket. That would make sense.

Of course, the whole premise that people who do not give up seats on a bus for others are so not magical is what sets people up for failure in the first place. Judging who deserves a seat is probably the biggest mistake made here on the DIS. Judging other people based on your own values is pretty unmagical!

 

[anewvance]

We went to Ohanas for dinner on Saturday night. We got there early so the kids made a few bracelet lei's at the check in area. Then they did the hula dancing lessons and each got 2 more bracelet lei's. After we ate dinner, we were on the bus heading to Disney Studios and there was a family with 2 little girls. One of the girls were looking at my daughter's lei's and my daughter asked her if she wanted one. She even let her pick out the color she wanted. Then they asked the younger daughter if she wanted one and let her choose which one she wanted. There was a girl sitting next to my oldest daughter who was with her dad and she was watching so my oldest daughter asked her if she wanted one too. By the time we got off the bus, the kids had handed lei's out to 5 different little girls. I was very proud of them... plus I wasn't bringing home a load of these things.

 

[canadianmom2three]

On our first ever trip, we were in the Pepper market food court at a really busy time. We had eaten in the court, and DH and the kids had gone out ahead while I waited in the long line to check out. Ahead of me was a lady who had a whole bunch of breakfasts to go. When she was ready to pay, she could not find her room card to pay. She was telling the cashier that was all she brought since the rest of her family was asleep and she snuck out. She was asking if they could just charge it to her room without (which he wasn't able to do). I felt so bad for her waiting in line to take breakfast back to her family and then losing her key on top of that, so I offered to pay for her meals. She was super grateful and asked for my room # so she could arrange to pay me back. I wasn't sure that I would really see the $$ again, and it wasn't the cheapest breakfast, that's for sure, but I was thinking that it didn't really matter that much to do something that made such a big difference for her. When we got back to our room that night, there was a message on our room phone thanking me again, and letting me know that she had arranged for a credit to our room to pay back for the breakfast.

 

[Disneybrenda]

Things like this are what make Disney so special. Too bad the magic doesn't
always carry over everyday.

 

[A Mickeyfan]

Of course, the whole premise that people who do not give up seats on a bus for others are so not magical is what sets people up for failure in the first place. Judging who deserves a seat is probably the biggest mistake made here on the DIS. Judging other people based on your own values is pretty unmagical!

This is very true.. while you may not "see" something wrong with a healthy looking person, and feel they should get up and offer their seat, you don't know if they have any conditions.. They may have a bad knee (or knees), they may have bad arms/hands and cannot hold onto the bars, they may have had surgery and cannot stand while the bus is in motion & their body being jerked by the bus.. you just do not know. Who are we to really judge who is supposed to give their seat up just on their appearance? We are too fast to judge and assume... without knowing.

 

[jmkjr72]

i like to give away some of my extra pins

 

[dtstampz]

When I checked out of the Coronado on Sunday, I gave away some packages of glow bracelets to a family who was checking in. (I brought them for the Halloween party and then forgot to take them along!)
I had a nice fellow offer me his seat on the monorail on Saturday. I declined, but thanked him for his kindness.