Strangest Interactions With Other Guests?

[Chickkypoo]

I did something similar when I was younger. I would always tug on my dad's back pocket when I was nervous waiting in lines.

We were in a grocery store and my "dad" had his back turned to me. I was nervous so I put my hand in his back pocket. The man whipped around. At that point I don't know who was more shocked, me or the man I thought was my dad. He probably thought I was trying to steal his wallet, lol.

 

[tink576]

My issue is, however, with the dad who just handed the kid off to me like he'd known me all his life.
I hope his wife read him the riot act when he got off the ride..I sure would have!!

My mother would have KILLED him. She still talks about how she threatened him when we were infants if he DARED pass us off to anyone (my mother is not the pass the baby around type). He knew if he passed the baby off he would never be allowed to be the proud papa holding us in church (or any other public pass the baby off places) again. ***She says he got really good at the dodge and hold maneuver. Oh if he had handed us off to a stranger...

 

[Mama Who]

In 1998, while DH and I were on our honeymoon, we had a very weird encouter at the Studios. We were sitting on the curb waiting for the fireworks show that used to be set off behind the Great Movie ride, and this older lady came up and sat down between us. It was not crowded so there was plenty of room on either side of us. Since this was our honeymoon, we were sitting close together, she almost sat on DH until he moved. Her family came along and she left.

Maybe she thought you two were being unseemly.

 

[mishkamushka]

One more "short story."

On the first trip to WDW with the kids the youngest was four. DD4 was, and still, is very attached to her mother. DD4 was all but physically attached to her Disney Mom(DM) all through the trip.

One day DM was wearing Khaki shorts. DD4 was just tall enough to be looking at DM's shorts all day long. One day we were getting on the train at MK at Frontier Land to ride to the front of the park. The waiting area for the train was packed with people and as the train pulled into the station, more people were walking into the waiting area. As more people packed in, we moved around a bit, and DD4 moved from my right side to my left. I looked down to check on her and she was hugging and rubbing a leg that disappeared into Khaki shorts. As I watched DD4 rub the leg, DD4's hands slipped UNDER the bottom of the shorts and moved up the leg!

Of course this leg going into Khaki shorts was not DD4's mother.

The poor lady being groped and rubbed by DD4 had this look of surprise, anger, and I AM GOING TO HIT SOMEONE. She looked down and saw this cute little girl, aka DD4, who looked up and saw she was hugging a strangers leg. DD4 was shocked. The groped lady smiled.

I just burst out laughing and apologized while we all got a good chuckle.

We will never forget that lady at the train station. I wonder if she remembers DD4?

Later,
Dan

Out of all 12 pages that I've read this one is the cutest and made me laugh hysterically -- THANK YOU

 

[Babbletrish]

I did something similar when I was younger. I would always tug on my dad's back pocket when I was nervous waiting in lines.

We were in a grocery store and my "dad" had his back turned to me. I was nervous so I put my hand in his back pocket. The man whipped around. At that point I don't know who was more shocked, me or the man I thought was my dad. He probably thought I was trying to steal his wallet, lol.

I remember very little from when I was little, but I do vividly recall the sensation of reality dropping out from under me the time I followed my family out of church (thank goodness we were all leaving the same building at the same time) -- then suddenly they turn around and OMG IT'S NOT THEM!!!???

Speaking of childhood freakouts, I have a very very strange story from one of my family's first Disney World trips that I can really remember. We stayed in the then-Lake Buena Vista Palace, and we spent a morning in the then-Disney Village Marketplace. Now, the Marketplace had a play area that my sister and I happily made a beeline for and mom and dad asked us if we'd be fine and then left us there to shop. The play area can be seen in this Walt Dated World page. The author of the webpage theorizes that the play structure was "most likely taken out due to liability reasons".

This is the story of such a liability. But maybe not the kind of story you'd expect.

So I'm playing and having a grand old time, then I decide to leave the structure to stretch my legs a bit, happily oblivious to the utter (er) poo-storm that I was about to wander into. Now remember, I was about seven years old when this happened, but I was also kind of tall. It is entirely possible that she thought I was much older than I was when she ran up to me, because the out-of-ruttin'-nowhere hysterical angry mother obviously did not expect to be speaking with a terrified child. Our conversation went like this:

Hysterical Angry Mother: "OMG MY BABY!!! HE WENT INTO THE SLIDE THING!!! YOU JUST WALKED AWAY FROM THAT SLIDE THING YOU NEED TO HELP ME FIND MY BABY!!!"
Me: (As any young child who suddenly has a complete stranger screaming at them would.)
Hysterical Angry Mother: "WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH YOU DO YOU NOT SPEAK ENGLISH HELP ME FIND MY BABY!!!!!"
Me:

What happened immediately after this is a huge blur, but I'm pretty sure I ran the heck away and hid from this woman who was clearly mad but also I felt bad for her but ALSO I was a child what the heck was I supposed to do? I hid for what my seven-year-old brain with it's messed-up sense of time must have felt was long enough, then made my way back to the play structure hoping mom and dad were back by then. They were not, but what I saw instead is burned into my mind.

Hysterical Angry Mom has found her "baby", who is actually a kid of about the age where they will race towards a playground/toy store/candy aisle with the unerring and single-minded determination of a greyhound chasing a rabbit. She probably "lost" him by taking her eyes off him for a split-second when they got within line-of-sight of the play structure (thank goodness the Boneyard or the infamous Toontown hedge maze wasn't open yet). She hysterically thanks everyone who presumably pointed out that the play structure has one entrance and one exit. She then turns and walks right up to my astonished seven-year-old face and says,

Hysterical Angry Mother: "And YOU are a JERK!!!" (Walks away not giving a poo that she has just traumatized a seven-year-old girl during her trip to Disney World.)
Me:

Didn't tell my parents or my sister what had happened because I didn't even understand what the heck had just happened. This has weighed heavy on my mind for ages and I thank you all for letting me finally vent it.

 

[reginaastralis]

Hopefully this isn't too off topic, but I still can't believe the odds of these encounters...

When I think of the odds of being at the same parks, in the same area, and that close to run into each other, I'm just amazed.

I work as a server, and have known this family for years. Literally, as I have changed jobs, they have followed. This was about four years ago, but I was pushing my dd in her stroller through Epcot, and I hear someone screaming my name. I didn't think anything of it ... just kept right on walking, my name is Amanda, when haven't I been somewhere when someone didn't have the same name as me.

Fast foward a bit, and we're in line for Nemo, and I hear someone screaming my name again. It was the family, and the girls were angry that I hadn't stopped to say hi to them before. Crazy? yes.

Even more strange, about a year later, I was about to be boarding Peter Pan, and here comes the same family! Seriously. Now, living 45 mins to Disney is one thing, and running into them around town is another ... but two different trips is something all on it's own.

 

[bellelab]

I haven't finished reading the thread because this made my jaw drop. You were definately a lot calmer (and way more mature) than I would have been. My husband is Puerto Rican and my DSD is a spitting image of him. My rule of thumb when it comes to her - if she wants it and it's ok with mom and dad - she's going to get it and wear it whenever she wants. I love seeing any little girls in Princess dresses. I'm sure that your daughter looked too cute for words and the crabby lady was just jealous that she would never look that good!

Yes, I cannot believe the woman made that comment. My DD, adopted from Guatemala, is going to dress up as Princess Aurora on our upcoming trip. She her! If we got a comment like that I would probably burst into tears knowing it would crush DD if she heard that. I'm sure the little girl looked so gorgeous as Snow White! I just wonder if it were a Caucasian girl dressed as Tiana or Jasmine would the woman have said, "Since when is Jasmine white?" Doubt it. Ya know?

Once we were starting to get in line for Dumbo when a woman frantically starts speaking to me in Spanish. This has happened before other places. I think people assume I speak Spanish because of my 2 kids, who are Guatemalan. Anyway, I tell her I'm sorry I can't speak Spanish. Just then, my husband, who had been lagging back a little came up and I told the woman to ask him because he did speak Spanish. She looked at him and then me again and stormed off. Not sure what that was about? I think she was frustrated because I do have dark hair but DH has blonde hair and blue eyes so I think she was just really confused!

 

[ToddyLu]

My Mom and Dad went with DH and I to MK one evening in 2008. The Jungle Cruise was closed for the evening, but my Mother (age 65) was drawn to the little remote controlled boats that are near the que. Anywho my very innoscent silly wonderfully funny Mother starts driving the boat around. Feverishly trying to turn the little boat with her steering wheel. Woman at the helm...damn the torpedos....I mean trying to spin that wheel and drive that boat like she stole it...

We let her do this for about 10 minutes (my DH is in hysterics and she thinks he is enjoying her drive the boat)...she was having a wonderful time...we finally told her that she was not drivng the boat.....it wasn't connected and no money had been placed in the machine. She got very angry and told us that yes she was driving the boat.....whatcha gonna do...its family

The little boat would turn the way she wanted on occasion just long enough to keep her at it. It was most enjoyable to watch.

 

[Sneezie]

The last December Hubby,dd8 and myself visit the world for a few days to enjoy the beautiful christmas decorations,and we were boarding the monorail in our way the our Dinner at 1900 Park Fare,Our DD8 was wearing her beautiful Snow White Costume and to be honest (Dont want to brag about it),She was just beautiful.....We were standing there,no seats available,(its ok) and suddenly this mature,old lady give this just snooty look to my daughter (she looked at form head to toe) and said and I quote : "Since when Snow White is hispanic". Gooosh!!,I was about to loose it,but I guess she thought that we were not able to understand what she was saying,,Gees ,people we are in the 21st century and most hispanics are bilingual...My husband also heard her and decided its not worth it let it go..But I am puertorrican and a US Citizen and I am a very passionate person when it comes to defend myself and my family and I got the right to do soo..I went over to her in a very decent way and I told that it was very rude what she said and that we were able to understand EVERYTHING.. She then apologize and said that I was not her intention to offend anyone..My point is that we can just all have respect and dont matter how you looks or where u come from,we can all just get along??! and to the other PP that said that wea are not able to understand what are you saying..just dont be soo sure
US Army wife..

My response would have been to look her up and down, say, "We looked for a rude a#s#h#le costume, but they were all sold out," then walk away.

 

[LockShockBarrel]

I've had my butt literally punched and pushed by a little Brazilian kid in line for POTC, I apparently wasn't moving fast enough for his liking.

I've been behind very very..interesting... southerner's on the safari. They were so over the top it was amazing. "Thar be the lions Bubba!!! Lookit! Daggum too bad we ain't got no catnip! Mebbe that'd make'm wake the hell up" (I'm quoting directly, this is something I will never forget. Not trying to make fun of all southerners)

I've been glared at by old people when we were seated before them at WCC because we had an ADR. The husband went up to the podium and pointed at us demanding to know why we were being seated first. The CM was the same one that checkced us in and said to him "Do you have a reservation?" The husband said "No" The CM replied "They do"

As far the lost kids, we see a lot of that where I work. Unfortunately, some of them aren't mistakes, and I really hope that isn't the case with some of these stories from Disney. A few months ago, a little girl who was about 3 1/2 or 4 wasn't paying a lot of attention to her mom so the mom decided to "teach her a lesson". I watched the mom pull her son behind another display and tell him "be quiet". The little girl realizes the mom isn't there and looks around calling "Mommy?"...then starts shaking and crying. I was close enough to see and hear all this and could clearly see the mom from where I was standing. I caught her eye and pointed to the kid and she just shook her head "No" and put her finger up to her lips like "don't say anything!" No frickin way lady, this kid was petrified, and this was not the way to teach her daughter a lesson. I went up to the little girl and said loudly enough for the mom to hear me "Don't worry! Your mommy is right over here, let's go find her!!!" I hear this huge exasperated sigh and over marches the mom dragging sonny boy behind her complaining how the daughter will never learn and I just ruined things.

 

[ZoZo]

Best ever...
We were at ToT and sitting next to a 5 year old girl and her mother. My (at the time) DB and I ran into this girl and her mother father, and sister at Downtown Disney later that same day. They were actually staying at the same resort (CBR). The little girl had ridden ToT with her mother but when she saw DBf she said to her father "I was a brave girl but the man next to me screamed like a little girl."

It is still (Though DB and I broke up but are still besties) my favorite memory of the World for that trip!

This is my favorite! Busted!

 

[bdoyledimou]

At our last trip, me and my 2 kids were in line for Fast passes for Space Mountain (which had been down for most of the day) at around 5 pm for a return time of 10:50 pm!! The Standby line was displaying 120 minutes and the lione was out the door..

The CMs were shutting down the machines while i was in line, but kept one open.

I finally got to the machine and got two passes and then the third one printed out "this is not a pass". I asked the CM if there was any way to get just one more, cause i only had two. I held the two up to show her, and the woman who was behind me in line declared "I only need two!" and grabbed them out of my hand and disappeared into the crowd.

I was just stunned, and my kids just looked at me with wide open mouths and the CM looked at us, looked at the disappearing woman and back at us.
Told us to follow her and took us to the Fast Pass line and handed us each three instant fast passes.

I still can't believe someone would pull fast passes right out of someones hand like that though.


We also had a "foreign language" at Tough to be a bug where a family stopped in the middle seats and ignored the CM telling them to move down.

The mother told her family (in Spanish) to just pretend they didn't speak english. My Wife (who speaks spanish) was politly asking them to keep moving down when this went down, and the woman turned to her husband and called her a "witch".

So then addressed her in Spanish and in no uncertain terms told her off but good. The woman was horrified that she had been called out and moved down, but then made her son sit beside my wife.

NOT Disney related but once while in Sau Paulo on business I was having a meal when two women were sat at the table beside us.

They were American and speaking english, and were talking about the waiters and the food, and then started talking about ME (in a flattering way mind you). I just continued to eat my meal.

When i was finished and was leaving i paused, and pointed out that, even though they were thousands of miles from home, in a non English country,they should be aware that people outside of America DO speak English so they should be a bit more discrete. (they were very embarrassed, but i hope they learned a lesson)

 

[lovebug33]

Yes, I cannot believe the woman made that comment. My DD, adopted from Guatemala, is going to dress up as Princess Aurora on our upcoming trip. She her! If we got a comment like that I would probably burst into tears knowing it would crush DD if she heard that. I'm sure the little girl looked so gorgeous as Snow White! I just wonder if it were a Caucasian girl dressed as Tiana or Jasmine would the woman have said, "Since when is Jasmine white?" Doubt it. Ya know?


Now I had the same thought. I saw many a white little girl dressed up as Princess Tiana this week and never thought to myself, "Isn't Princess Tiana supposed to be black?" Would she have made the comment to a white girl? That is horrible!

 

[umichigan10]

I remember very little from when I was little, but I do vividly recall the sensation of reality dropping out from under me the time I followed my family out of church (thank goodness we were all leaving the same building at the same time) -- then suddenly they turn around and OMG IT'S NOT THEM!!!???

Speaking of childhood freakouts, I have a very very strange story from one of my family's first Disney World trips that I can really remember. We stayed in the then-Lake Buena Vista Palace, and we spent a morning in the then-Disney Village Marketplace. Now, the Marketplace had a play area that my sister and I happily made a beeline for and mom and dad asked us if we'd be fine and then left us there to shop. The play area can be seen in this Walt Dated World page. The author of the webpage theorizes that the play structure was "most likely taken out due to liability reasons".

This is the story of such a liability. But maybe not the kind of story you'd expect.

So I'm playing and having a grand old time, then I decide to leave the structure to stretch my legs a bit, happily oblivious to the utter (er) poo-storm that I was about to wander into. Now remember, I was about seven years old when this happened, but I was also kind of tall. It is entirely possible that she thought I was much older than I was when she ran up to me, because the out-of-ruttin'-nowhere hysterical angry mother obviously did not expect to be speaking with a terrified child. Our conversation went like this:

Hysterical Angry Mother: "OMG MY BABY!!! HE WENT INTO THE SLIDE THING!!! YOU JUST WALKED AWAY FROM THAT SLIDE THING YOU NEED TO HELP ME FIND MY BABY!!!"
Me: (As any young child who suddenly has a complete stranger screaming at them would.)
Hysterical Angry Mother: "WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH YOU DO YOU NOT SPEAK ENGLISH HELP ME FIND MY BABY!!!!!"
Me:

What happened immediately after this is a huge blur, but I'm pretty sure I ran the heck away and hid from this woman who was clearly mad but also I felt bad for her but ALSO I was a child what the heck was I supposed to do? I hid for what my seven-year-old brain with it's messed-up sense of time must have felt was long enough, then made my way back to the play structure hoping mom and dad were back by then. They were not, but what I saw instead is burned into my mind.

Hysterical Angry Mom has found her "baby", who is actually a kid of about the age where they will race towards a playground/toy store/candy aisle with the unerring and single-minded determination of a greyhound chasing a rabbit. She probably "lost" him by taking her eyes off him for a split-second when they got within line-of-sight of the play structure (thank goodness the Boneyard or the infamous Toontown hedge maze wasn't open yet). She hysterically thanks everyone who presumably pointed out that the play structure has one entrance and one exit. She then turns and walks right up to my astonished seven-year-old face and says,

Hysterical Angry Mother: "And YOU are a JERK!!!" (Walks away not giving a poo that she has just traumatized a seven-year-old girl during her trip to Disney World.)
Me:

Didn't tell my parents or my sister what had happened because I didn't even understand what the heck had just happened. This has weighed heavy on my mind for ages and I thank you all for letting me finally vent it.

This person WAS A JERK. Unbelieveable what people will do to others, specifically children, sometimes.

 

[nmmom95]

My response would have been to look her up and down, say, "We looked for a rude a#s#h#le costume, but they were all sold out," then walk away.

That made me LOl...good one!

 

[osprey6]

DW and I went to TL in 2001, and after a while we walked into the wave pool (which was perfectly still at the moment, apparently having suffered some minor malfunction). Coincidentally, we walked in with two older teenage girls who had just come in to the park and it was obviously their first time there, saying what a great pool it was, there's nothing this big back home, etc. They continued to move into deeper water until they were as far as they could stand, and directly in front of us.

Wave pools are common in our area; the county operates three and charges $5 for admission, so we go several times a year and are used to where the waves break and how to stand your ground or ride the waves.

Well apparently the malfunction was fixed because the wave warning signal went off, which panicked and confused the girls. The asked what the sound was, and I told them it meant waves were coming. They didn't realize it was a wave pool, but thought that was neat, but it seems they didn't realize the SIZE of said waves, let alone how to handle them.

So the first wave comes at them and they are just staring at it. I turned around to try to body surf the wave, and got in into a sort of crouch to jump in to the curl, when I hear them screaming again and a split second later, one of them crashes into the back of my knees and the other one runs into my head. Naturally, I go down in a heap.

Meanwhile, DW has caught the wave and rode in a bit. She turns around and sees these two girls more or less draped over me, and a lifeguard rushing at me because I'm woozy, bleeding etc.

The girls are none the worse for wear and immediately get up and say "let's do that again." Then they saw me, realized what had happened and insisted on following me out to first aid and buying some ice cream. I'm saying really, it's OK, it's not as bad as it looks. They persisted and bought me and DW ice cream sandwiches.

We saw them later on the lazy river and they mentioned how we kept running into one another!

 

[ccudmore]

A few years back we were waiting for the parade at DHS and noticed a family beside us was wearing heavy coats (it was in the mid 80s that day). For us, being from Canada, that was scorching hot weather. We got chatting with them and found out they were from Brazil. According to the father in the family, they mother couldn't stand the "cold weather" and wanted to go home.

 

[JennyLane1977]

I don't know if this counts as "strange"... but here's my story:

Back in the summer of 2000, my family took a vacation to WDW. I had just graduated college, and was planning on moving to Orlando in the fall, so this was our last "family" vacation for awhile. I bought a pair of those Tigger headband ears, and I was wearing them everywhere.
We decided one day to ride Peter Pan's Flight, which, in all our previous trips, we'd never ridden before. I remember the Cast Member at unload saying, "Hi Tigger!" and giving me a big smile. I don't know why he stuck in my head, but it made me laugh, plus, he was cute!

Fast forward about a year, I was living in Orlando, and had gotten a job at WDW, in Fantasyland attractions. I became good friends with one of my co-workers, and one day, we were hanging out in Epcot, waiting for Illuminations, just talking. I mentioned that day on my family vacation, how we'd never ridden Pan before, and it was funny that I worked there now... and the CM that had said "Hi Tigger" to me. Well, he his eyes got HUGE and he said, "OMG I think that was me!" We discussed the details a bit more, and that was, in fact, when he'd just started working there.

It was also fitting that another one of our attractions was It's a small world! Anyway, he and I ended up dating for a while, and I always thought it was such a strange coincidence how we "first" met.

 

[tink576]

I don't know if this counts as "strange"... but here's my story:

Back in the summer of 2000, my family took a vacation to WDW. I had just graduated college, and was planning on moving to Orlando in the fall, so this was our last "family" vacation for awhile. I bought a pair of those Tigger headband ears, and I was wearing them everywhere.
We decided one day to ride Peter Pan's Flight, which, in all our previous trips, we'd never ridden before. I remember the Cast Member at unload saying, "Hi Tigger!" and giving me a big smile. I don't know why he stuck in my head, but it made me laugh, plus, he was cute!

Fast forward about a year, I was living in Orlando, and had gotten a job at WDW, in Fantasyland attractions. I became good friends with one of my co-workers, and one day, we were hanging out in Epcot, waiting for Illuminations, just talking. I mentioned that day on my family vacation, how we'd never ridden Pan before, and it was funny that I worked there now... and the CM that had said "Hi Tigger" to me. Well, he his eyes got HUGE and he said, "OMG I think that was me!" We discussed the details a bit more, and that was, in fact, when he'd just started working there.

It was also fitting that another one of our attractions was It's a small world! Anyway, he and I ended up dating for a while, and I always thought it was such a strange coincidence how we "first" met.

That's so cute! I always say hi ____ to the little princesses that walk throughout the day when we are at the parks. Some of the girls just eat it up and maybe a quarter of them get all confused and keep trying to tell me that they are not a princess but that they are just a little girl (no I'm Julie not Cinderella). It's always fun to spread a little magic that way.

 

[tspnmb]

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My son may be someone’s funny story..
This happened on our first trip a few years ago my 4yr old then 2 was standing in line for the Winnie the Pooh Ride.
The line was pretty long and hot in October that year and my son who is a very very well behaved kid out of no where started playing the bongos on this nice ladies bottom.
She was standing directly in from of him and had on the bright white pants..right at head level..maybe that drew his attention.? lol
Whatever reason he started "playing" and she causally turned around and patted him on the head and smiled.. I was so embarrassed and thankful that she was a good sport. I tried to apologize but there was a language barrier.. She just continued to smile and pat him on the head..