Strangest Interactions With Other Guests?

[ado121]

I was solo eating lunch at Starring Rolls in DHS. I was sitting at one of the four top tables. It was the middle of the lunch rush and every other table was taken. So when I saw a family of three come by, I offered to share my table with them. They declined and then proceeded to eat their meal standing up. What, do I have cooties or something?

you were very kind!

 

[mishkamushka]

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!

Not Dis related but I just had to share -- I broke my best friend's nose that way when we were in high school. We were riding the waves in the ocean and they were REALLY wild. I caught a wave, it flipped me over and I landed right on top of her. She hit the bottom of the ocean. I didn't know anything was wrong until I stood up and saw blood -- like the beginning of a bad movie. Luckily she was fine -- and her broken nose didn't ruin her ability to flirt with guys on the boardwalk that week

 

[gracy_hm]

Biergarten in 2002 my family was sat with a guest who dressed slightly like Santa it was odd. He introduced himself as santa and became progressively drunker and after my dad told her to taste the beer he had just purchased "Santa" said, "taste mine" He finished our classy meal by showing pictures of his wife which was a little person dressed as an elf in the photo of his wallet. As the check came he ended with a strange slur of comments, She may be small but she has an A** like a bear....okay now his comments were weird. Why would Disney seat us with such a colorful character and how did he get in the park dressed as Santa all around very strange.


Note:Santa was in his santa casual not the full velvet Christmas eve get up.

 

[lilwhiterabbit]

Not exactly a "strange interaction" but more of a unique coincidence: last year at MNNSHP we were approached by a castmember who really liked our (steampunk-inspired) costumes. We chatted with him for a bit, and it turned out he was from the Atlanta area as well. Six months later we're at a local steampunk convention in Atlanta and suddenly hear, "Hey there, how did you like your vacation?" And turned around to see the same cast member!

 

[CurlyJo224]

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.

Oh, she'll learn. She'll learn not to trust mom.

 

[LPZ_Stitch!]

Here's two ... both restaurant related:

At Biergarten, we get seated with a family that was already half-way through their meal ... some of the kids were up at the buffet. When they came back, they were *really* surprised to find these strangers at their table, staring at me and DS like we were from another planet.

In a really worried voice, one of the kids asks their dad, "Dad ... who are these people ... what are they doing here?"

Does dad explain that this is how it's done? Does he try to explain how people all sit together in German fest-haus restaurants? Nope. He just tells the kids, "They're just having dinner."

For the rest of the meal, no one talked with us and the kids just sat there staring at us with that horrified, "Are these strangers going to do something awful?" look on their faces ... so uncomfortable, it completely ruined my dinner and any plans of ever eating there again!

The second was at the SciFi Dine-In ... one of our favorite places to eat. Except once when we were seated next to a very rude family. They had a little kid, maybe two, who was literally *screaming* the entire meal; that totally-out-of-control temper-tantrum kind of screaming. Try to give him a bite of food, he's screaming. Take his plate away, more screaming. Give him a drink, still more screaming. Eventually, though, they solved their problem by turning him away from their table, straight towards us!! ... and just let him scream and scream and scream. While their kid is screaming at us, they nonchalantly finished their meal and then left! Of course, the *last* thing they do is pick up the little screamer and carry him out....

 

[jpeka65844]

Not exactly a "strange interaction" but more of a unique coincidence: last year at MNNSHP we were approached by a castmember who really liked our (steampunk-inspired) costumes. We chatted with him for a bit, and it turned out he was from the Atlanta area as well. Six months later we're at a local steampunk convention in Atlanta and suddenly hear, "Hey there, how did you like your vacation?" And turned around to see the same cast member!

Had to google steampunk. Cool. I learn something new every day!

 

[Babbletrish]

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)

Oh, wow, I think I might have been on that same Safari!

Except I was seated in front of Bubba and I got to hear his running commentary:

Patient Safari Hostess: "Oh, look at the Okapi!"
Bubba: "HOO-EEE, Tha's a BIG sucka raght thar!"
(Repeat for every species of African Megafauna visible on the tour.)

A little later on, I met up with Bubba again in the Maharaja Jungle aviary...

Bubba: "Holy mackeral lookit dat bird with a mohawk!"
Me: (stifling laughter, because honestly that's a pretty astute observation) "She's a Victoria Crowned Dove, and we're standing right under her nest!"
Bubba: "Can ya eat it?!?"
Me: (not sure if he's joking)

Biergarten in 2002 my family was sat with a guest who dressed slightly like Santa it was odd. He introduced himself as santa and became progressively drunker and after my dad told her to taste the beer he had just purchased "Santa" said, "taste mine" He finished our classy meal by showing pictures of his wife which was a little person dressed as an elf in the photo of his wallet. As the check came he ended with a strange slur of comments, She may be small but she has an A** like a bear....okay now his comments were weird. Why would Disney seat us with such a colorful character and how did he get in the park dressed as Santa all around very strange.

Oh... wow... I think if this had happened to me in Disney, I'd just go with it. But if it happened on the local bus...

 

[rjthkids]

One of my favorite Disney memories was our last trip, two years ago.

My oldest daughter is blind, and she uses a cane for navigation. We were cutting through the Noodles station to get from Main Street to the Buzz Lightyear ride, and I'm focused on three of my other littles who are getting a little rambuncious, so I wasn't fully focused on oldest DD when....

CLANK. Her cane ran straight into the cane of another little boy who is blind. She was so surprised, and so was he, and they both blurted out at the same time a variation of "Hey, that's a cane!" LOL.

It turned out, he was the same age as my DD, and the Dad and little boy were on their way to meet up with his wife and other kids. We ended up spending a good 10 minutes just chatting about the Disney experiences and swapping favorite rides of the kids. That little boy was grinning ear to ear, and he absolutely cracked me up when he said to me, all surprised "Hey, I didn't know other blind people came to Disney world too!"

Anyway, not "weird" or "strange" but it sure made my day, and seeing how excited the little guy was, I'd venture to say it made his day too!

 

[TandLMommy28]

We were in line for Primeval Whirl and the little boy in front of us was probably about 7 or 8. He was chattering non-stop about everything Disney and his mom, who looked exhausted, was doing a lot of "uh-huh"-ing. He pointed to the ride cars and shouted with enthusiasm, "Look mom, it's a time machine!" She mustered up as much energy as she could and said with the kind of fake enthusiasm only a mother can, "Yes, honey, it does look just like a time machine. you are so creative!" She gave him a huge smile, trying to convince himm that he was so smart for thinking it was a time machine but you could clearly see on her face that she wasn't feeling the "time machine" vibe. Kind of like... "sure, it's a time machine if you believe it is."

The son responded with a dead serious, completely matter-of-fact tone, "No mom. It says 'Time Machine'. Right there on the side."

We giggled forever. Maybe it's not that funny but we have a daughter who is quite literal about EVERYTHING and we swear that child was her perfect match and we only hope to run into him in line again in about 15 years.

 

[ppb1701]

A couple of years ago, I was with mom and dad, we were catching a bus one night back from one of the parks, I think we'd ate at le celiers(I'm sure the spellings off). Anyway we're packed into this bus like sardines and mom's holding on to the handrails next to this boy (probably 3-4) and his mom. All of a sudden he sticks his hand up in mom's face and goes "Hey lady, wanna see my snail?" As long as she talked to him about this snail he'd picked up somewhere on the way to the bus he'd hold it down close to him, otherwise he stuck it back in her face. As you can probably guess mom was quite happy to reach the hotel.

 

[The 6 J's]

One of my favorite Disney memories was our last trip, two years ago.

My oldest daughter is blind, and she uses a cane for navigation. We were cutting through the Noodles station to get from Main Street to the Buzz Lightyear ride, and I'm focused on three of my other littles who are getting a little rambuncious, so I wasn't fully focused on oldest DD when....

CLANK. Her cane ran straight into the cane of another little boy who is blind. She was so surprised, and so was he, and they both blurted out at the same time a variation of "Hey, that's a cane!" LOL.

It turned out, he was the same age as my DD, and the Dad and little boy were on their way to meet up with his wife and other kids. We ended up spending a good 10 minutes just chatting about the Disney experiences and swapping favorite rides of the kids. That little boy was grinning ear to ear, and he absolutely cracked me up when he said to me, all surprised "Hey, I didn't know other blind people came to Disney world too!"

Anyway, not "weird" or "strange" but it sure made my day, and seeing how excited the little guy was, I'd venture to say it made his day too!

I haven't read every page but this is one of the best stories about a WDW experience I've ever heard. Thanks for sharing.

 

[MHSweb79]

At Biergarten, we get seated with a family that was already half-way through their meal ... some of the kids were up at the buffet. When they came back, they were *really* surprised to find these strangers at their table, staring at me and DS like we were from another planet.

This never ceases to amaze me and it happens all the time!

We've eaten at Biergarten several times. When you make the ADR, you are told you'll be seated with others at your table. When you check in, you're told you'll be seated with others at your table. When the hostess seats you, she explains that, BIG SURPRISE, you will be seated with others at your table, in the German Biergarten way. I think your server also explains it if your table isn't full when you are seated.

What else can they do?

 

[erincon23]

This was probably 10 years ago -- I was at DHS with my DH and our two boys, who were probably 8 and 5? at the time. I was sitting outside Pizza Planet at one of the little outdoor tables while they got our lunch. A guy who was probably in his mid 20's came up and sat down right next to me, at my table, and started chatting. I was about 40, and on my best of days, have never looked like Twiggy or Megan Fox. This guy was trying to pick me up! "Are you here by yourself?" No, I'm with my family. "I'm here alone, and just looking for some company. Want to go to the Muppet Show with me?" No, I'm waiting for my husband and kids. It honestly took me about 5 minutes to convince him that I wasn't going to run away with him! My DH thought it was very funny!

 

[LPZ_Stitch!]

This never ceases to amaze me and it happens all the time!

I can excuse the kids; because most kids would be looking around at the cool things to see inside the restaurant and not listening to the server. It's quite likely that they might not have known about the "group seating."

What bugged me the most was that the parents (especially the dad) didn't even *try* to make the situation any less awkward. Clearly, his own kids were uncomfortable. And, we were uncomfortable, too.

For most of the meal, the whole family kind of sat with their backs to us, turned away nearly 90-degrees to the table ... even before the floor show started up!

 

[piperdown]

I can excuse the kids; because most kids would be looking around at the cool things to see inside the restaurant and not listening to the server. It's quite likely that they might not have known about the "group seating."

What bugged me the most was that the parents (especially the dad) didn't even *try* to make the situation any less awkward. Clearly, his own kids were uncomfortable. And, we were uncomfortable, too.

For most of the meal, the whole family kind of sat with their backs to us, turned away nearly 90-degrees to the table ... even before the floor show started up!

That's really sad.

We had a blast getting to know the other family seated at our table. Husband, wife and 2 daugters from upstate New York with the husband's mother from New Jersey. We're from Texas (born and bred), so it was great fun exchanging stories and getting to know each other.

 

[ThreeTinks]

We didn't interact with this family but on our last trip we were on the decking waiting to get into our raft at KRR and the boat that was just released from the dock had a family in it that immediately stripped their children down to their UNDERWEAR The CM getting ready to load us just looked at us and shook her head, I asked "are they really in just their underwear?!" and she said yes, and now that the raft has left there is no way to stop them I couldn't believe it.

 

[jackieinJuneau]

In 1999 I was 17 and dressed a bit odd as teens tend too. I was in Epcot with my family. I little girl maybe 6 or 7 stopped in a bathroom and asked me if I was from Europe. Because I was dressed differently then she was used too I replied nope I am from Michigan,

 

[summerlady]

In 1999 I was 17 and dressed a bit odd as teens tend too. I was in Epcot with my family. I little girl maybe 6 or 7 stopped in a bathroom and asked me if I was from Europe. Because I was dressed differently then she was used too I replied nope I am from Michigan,

Something similar happened to my DD in the late 80's. She was dressed in long khaki shorts and hiking boots with socks, had a backpack (which wasn't as common as now), a couple of adults approached her, looking for directions, and asked if she spoke English.

 

[Babbletrish]

This never ceases to amaze me and it happens all the time!

We've eaten at Biergarten several times. When you make the ADR, you are told you'll be seated with others at your table. When you check in, you're told you'll be seated with others at your table. When the hostess seats you, she explains that, BIG SURPRISE, you will be seated with others at your table, in the German Biergarten way. I think your server also explains it if your table isn't full when you are seated.

What else can they do?

It reminds me of something I'd read on (sorry) another website:

"When it rains, we have to shut down the ride. Since it thunderstorms nearly every afternoon during the summer in Florida, I told endless streams of people that the ride was closed due to weather. I would tell someone why the ride was closed and the person directly behind them (Less than 2 feet away) would ask the exact same question, quite often phrasing it 'So it's closed because of the weather, huh?'"