Strangest Interactions With Other Guests?

[lovebug33]

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!

I can't believe you didn't jump at the Muppet Show. I'd leave my DH for a guy who would take me to the muppet show!

 

[lovebug33]

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.

In the West, we have Basque restaurants, which are also served family style. They make this plainly clear when you walk in. Now, I am Basque, and we were sitting at the table, being served typical Basque food when another table was seated next to us. They started to go on and on about how backwards the Basque people are if they have to eat at one table and started bashing my culture. I turned to him and told him I was Basque and my family owned this restaurant. That got him to shut up fast!

 

[mom2rtk]

I can't believe you didn't jump at the Muppet Show. I'd leave my DH for a guy who would take me to the muppet show!

NO! Don't do it! He might have only chosen the Muppets as a cheap date. After all, she had already bought her own admission!

 

[LockShockBarrel]

NO! Don't do it! He might have only chosen the Muppets as a cheap date. After all, she had already bought her own admission!

She should hold out for a day trip to Blizzard Beach!

 

[TinkGirl28]

Last year my mom and I were leaving the MK and got into the very long, but fast moving line for the monorail. There were two women behind us that had a few small children. One of the kids ( a boy about 4 or 5), kept hitting my mom and I in the butt. It was very annoying, but we didn't say anything. It continued so we turned around and next thing we know, the mom is taking the boy over to the side of the ramp and pulling his pants down. He then begins to urinate right in front of hundreds of people. I understand kids sometimes have to go and can't hold it, but my mom and I both thought it was so inappropriate and gross. He didn't even have his back to people and was peeing more on the ramp then the grass. I can't figure out why a parent would want hundreds of strangers to see their child naked.

 

[KittyHellstrom]

My gf and I were waiting in line for a bus at EPCOT. Now, for those of us that have been a million times know almost every bus stop has a built in snake line for ease of boarding purposes, this one was no different. However, no one was using it, us included.

The bus arrives and, surprise, everyone rushes the door. Some older guy kept putting his shoulder in front of me so he could get in first. I had no problem with that at all, I was not worried about not making the bus.

I spoke softly to my gf: "this is why there is a line". Meaning, when we all rush the door like we did, loading is very inefficient.

The guy thought I was talking about him and only him, halfway up the steps he leans in close and says: "keep it up, I like to fight". Stunned all I could do was smile at the ridiculousness of the situation. I told him I was not talking about just him. He turns around, walks a few more steps, then threatens me again. I finally get passed the loony, when whom I guess was his son, said "keep it up boy, thats my pa" (yes they were very redneck).

obviously I should of just kept my comment to myself, but I have been to Disney many many times, and all I have come across were people super happy and friendly. I have never run into such hostility before.

strange stuff. The rest of the trip was a blast of course

-Hellstrom

 

[midnightlouise]

The weirdest thing that's happened to us happened last year while waiting for Kilimanjaro Safari at AK. There was a large Indian or Pakistani family with numerous strollers waiting for their fastpass time, as were we. When it was their time, the family started down the line but they left one of the strollers behind. After it had sat in the middle of the street (for lack of a better description) for about 10 minutes, I decided to push it over to the CMs so it could be parked somewhere safe.

Imagine my horror when I looked down and saw a BABY STILL IN IT!!

What the?! I guess Mom thought Dad had baby and Dad thought Mom did but holy smoke! I am so paranoid that I cannot even imagine not checking to make sure everyone is where they are supposed to be when getting in line. I was a nervous wreck after that!!

 

[mickey916]

I just remembered the STRANGEST thing we saw last year at Typhoon Lagoon. My oldest DS wanted to go on the humunga cowabunga but my younger DS decided not to (altho' he had done it back in '06 and liked it.) We decided to go in the small wading pool while we waited. I was sitting on the edge dangling my feet and my son was floating around in the water to keep cool. All of a sudden he comes flying out of the water and points to the "shore"...he says "ew mom, is that kid going the bathroom?" I looked and there was a boy about 4 years old standing by himself, with his bathing suit pulled down in the front and holding his male member but he wasn't going the bathroom, he was just "shaking it". My son said, "I'm all set swimming now. Let's go sit on the lounge chairs." We sat there for 15 minutes and the whole time the boy stood there periodically dropping his drawers and shaking it. The look on some people's faces were priceless as they walked by. I tried to figure out who he was with and finally discovered he was with a group of non-English speaking women who were sitting on the beach having iced coffees. Every once in a whie they yelled something over to him but I guess it never was "don't pull your pants down in public," 'cuz he just kept on doing it....

 

[avgeek81]

All this talk of children "droping their pants" reminded me that when i was on the Jungle Cruise last January I saw a little boy peeing off the side of the boat. The female skipper said little boy please sit down and the dad was like he'll be done in a minute. She then realized what he was doing. She was laughing so hard that she couldnt do the first have of the spiel

 

[BLTLDZ]

All this talk of children "droping their pants" reminded me that when i was on the Jungle Cruise last January I saw a little boy peeing off the side of the boat. The female skipper said little boy please sit down and the dad was like he'll be done in a minute. She then realized what he was doing. She was laughing so hard that she couldnt do the first have of the spiel

She found it funny? That's kind of nasty.

 

[Disnydad]

Our first trip years ago my sister and I ate dinner at the Italian restaurant in Epcot. A few of the waiters (one assigned to our table and some others) kept making little comments in Italian to each other every time they passed one another. I got the impression they might have been talking about me since they were also looking over from time to time but I wasn't 100% sure. (In my 20's, long blond hair.)

There was a mature couple seated next to us and finally the lady spoke to our waiter in Italian and he went beet red in the face. When he left she turned to me and let me know she had put him and his friends in their place. I didn't get the impression they were saying anything really bad (at least I hope not) but she was a good old fashioned Italian mama and decided enough was enough!

We got free dessert. Don't know if it was because of me or the Italian speaking lady. LOL!

This happened to us last year there. My wife speaks Italian and we had our entire meal $ refunded along with an appology. My wife refuses to go back in that place now.

 

[Mama Who]

She found it funny? That's kind of nasty.

At least it wasn't where people swim... maybe less nasty than...

Nope. I got nothin. Letting your kid pee off the boat at Disney is just nasty.

 

[mickey&minniealways]

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)



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...

Sounds like you might have met my son. The funny part is that he was not there at that time. But this would be typical of him. He will have you believing just about anything. It is nothing to him to get everyone laughing and believing some new fantastic story of his. He is 22 now and we are going back to WDW in a few weeks. I am almost afraid of what he and his brother who is 24 and their cousin also 22 will get into this time. DD is also into L.A.R.P. so he might get into any given persona depending where he is and the mood strikes him.

 

[mmay60046]

A few years ago my wife and I did the anniversary trip without kids. We were at Blizzard Beach waiting in the line for the ski lift. A few families behind us was this loud Italian family (dad, mom, and a son and daughter about 10-11 years old). And I don't mean Italian family from Jersey or Brooklyn, I mean I'm pretty sure they were visiting from Italy because they were loudly speaking in Italian.

Well they were line creepers because half way through the line they were right behind us, and they obviously didn't understand or care about the concept of personal space or they wanted to get past us because the kids kept nudging and bumping into us. Normally I don't care, you can crowd or nudge or bump me all you want but I'm not going to move out of your way so you can get in front of me. But this being the waterpark, I didn't have my shirt on and I have tattoos of M&M's on my shoulders.

So now the girl in this family starts poking the tattoos on my shoulders. After she did it a second time I turned around and looked at her dad to see if he was going to say something to his kid. Nope, he just looked back at me with a sort of smirk on his face. So I turned back around and said to my wife "if she pokes me again I'll say something to her myself" and sure enough she poked me in the shoulder a 3rd time. So I calmly turned around, looked her in the eyes and firmly (but not loudly) said "STOP" and she looked back at me and said "okay". It was the only word of english I heard any of them say the whole time. I held her eyes with mine for a good 3 or 4 seconds so that she knew I wasn't playing. I looked at her parents again and they weren't looking at me anymore but were nervously glancing around trying to avoid looking at me.

After that I didn't get poked or bumped by them again.

 

[live4christp1]

The year was 2000 it was our first family trip to WDW DD was 8 DS was 5. We were at a character breakfast at the Restaurantosaurus. Donalds Safari Breakfast, different venue. Anyways a Portly man came in wearing jeans, white t-shirt, black boots, suspenders sits down and starts eating by himself at the buffet. He had a white beard, spectacles, etc. Long story short, he looked just like santa. I npointed this man out to the kids and they were going crazy. They had with them autograpgh books for the characters, so on our way out we stopped by and the kids asked him for his autograph. He tells us he is taking a short vacation and has to get back to the north pole soon. He then signs their books "Santa" and we went on our way. Never found out but I knew he did not work for Disney. It was strange but cute and the kids loved it at an age where they were still believers. Great experience, I kinow i have pictures somewhere, and we still have the autograph books too.

We saw Santa at our resort pool one year. It was March (Spring Break) and we had a pool day. We notice this guy who looks just like Santa over on one of the lounge chairs, red swim trunks, glasses - he even sat and read "The Night Before Christmas" to the kids who gathered around. Told the kids that Santa was on Spring Break too.

 

[phanomouse]

My strangest interaction has turned out to make one of my best friendships. Since I was 15 I have been obnoxious (Yes it started at 15 and not a year sooner) I was at Butchart Gardens with my family and was extremely board waiting for my dad to finish talking business with one of his partners. We were standing close to a fork in the walkway and I decided to stand at the fork and direct traffic. I would send 4 people one way and then the next 4 the other. Sometimes I split families up and they would just go without question (the paths reconnected shortly after). I did this for a little more than an hour before I realized there was a whole group of people standing videoing me and laughing. I couldn't believe no one questioned me, I was a 15 yr old kid!

Anyway, I've kept my amateur traffic controller/tour guide status over the years by doing the same thing at different places, including all over WDW. Once I walked up to a family that seemed completely lost and asked if they we the "Smith" Family waiting to go on the tour of the Hub. They said no and I asked if they would like to go anyway since the "Smiths" had not shown up. The dad actually said yes! I looked over and my wife was about to die, she was purple and trying to hide.

I proceeded to walk this family around the hub and point things out that I knew about the MK, as well as some made up things like. Edgar Allen Poe having a favorite bench where he would overlook the haunted mansion and that is where he came up with the poem the Raven. I only did this for about 15 minutes and then then told them that was the end and I hoped they enjoyed it. The husband and wife approached me holding out a $50 bill, I told them that I actually owed them, admitted to just having fun with them and offered to buy them dinner. They said they figured it out after I told them Walt used to love to swim laps in the rivers of america, but they had more fun in that 15 minutes than they had been having the entire week. (personally I would have killed me if I was them, and yet I still do it having that opinion) Anyway I convinced them to let me buy them dinner that night and we now coordinate our vacations with them.

 

[TinkerBelle_325]

I have tons of these!

Strangest & Most Annoying
- In 2003, my parents, my best friend and I were having dinner at Rose & Crown. We were seated inside, towards the back of the restaurant. It was quite crowded and busy. Shortly after we were seated, a family was seated in our section. This family was two mothers, and 3 or 4 small children (all under the age of 7, ranging from 5 to 7 I'd say). These kids were the noisiest, rudest, worst behaved children I have ever seen in a restaurant. Their butts never touched their chairs. They were on the floor under the table, they were screaming, yelling, singing, shouting. They ran around and nearly collided with servers multiple times. They were so loud it was difficult to carry on a conversation. The two mothers simply sat there, ignoring them.

We gave the kids a chance, a good 15-20 minutes, in hopes that either of the adults at the table would step up and parent. Nope.

Our server and all the tables around us were very frustrated. We mentioned it to our server and she said there was nothing she could do. We understood that and politely asked for the manager. Well, the manager that showed up could not have been older than 25. We were sure he was just the night manager, but felt he would likely have more power than the server.

We explained the problem. He said, and I quote:

"There is nothing that I can do. Plus, why are you even asking, Disneyworld is for kids."



And here all this time I thought Disneyworld was for everyone that paid to be there

My DDad did not like that answer, but he kept his cool and said "If my daughter and her friend were behaving like those children, would you do something about it?"

To which the manager replied "Of course, but they are adults."

DDad replied "Well those two adults at that table are condoning that type of behavior. Why is it that you refuse to address the issues simply because they have small children?"

I swear to god...the entire section of the dining room cheered and clapped!

Unfortunately, the manager still did not address the situation directly. He moved DMom, DDad, my best friend and I to a table outside on the patio. We didn't ask for that, and while we appreciated it, we still felt for the people who were left inside with that three-ringed circus

Strangest "I told you so!"
In 2009 we were at Typhoon Lagoon. We have been visiting Typhoon Lagoon since it opened and we find the people watching is absolutely fascinating!

We had done a few morning slides, and returned to the wave pool area to rest and catch some waves.

DMom and I saw a mother and her 3 or 4 year old daughter playing in the Whitecap Cove area. The little 4 year old decided to sit down and splash in the water.

DMom laughed and turned to me and said "When you were 5, I did the exact same thing. Dad had gone to catch some waves, so I set you down to play at the edge of the water and sat down beside you. Well, in came a wave and it sent us both flying a good 10 feet back on the rough surface. Our behinds and the backs of our legs were all scratched and we had tumbled head over feet backwards! The shocked look on your face was priceless, but it was alarming how strong those waves are! We learned never to sit when the waves come that's for sure!!

Well, the horn sounded and we decided to go in. As we pass the mother and daughter we smiled and said "You might want to pick her up before the waves come in, they are pretty strong!"

The mother simply smiled and shrugged, allowing the girl to continue to play.

DMom and I waded a bit deeper, but we could still see the mother and daughter.

Lo and behold, the wave did the exact same thing to that poor little girl that it had done to DMom & I. She was fine, a bit scared and shocked but not hurt. When we walked past the mother laughed and said "Well I sure should have listened to you! I won't be doing that again any time soon!"

 

[AdamsPrincess]

I have a funny one.

DH and I were on our way to ride Splash Mountain and were standing looking at the time, and guy comes up with his family and he gave of 2 fastpasses, we said thank you so much. well come to find out he didn't want to go but his daughter still did she had to be about 5 years old. And she followed us on the ride. We are thinking, ok then, well then she said she was scared and she ended up sitting in between us on the ride .

We laughed the whole time. SO then the ride was over and we are walking down by the photos and the dad is there waiting, told us thank you and while we are checking out the photos, he proceedes to BUY THE PICTURE.

how would you like that, total strangers and their daughter. maybe we are framed on someones wall right now!

 

[pwdebbie]

I've told this story elsewhere but it fits here.

We were in AK in Nov. 2010 on a rainy day. We took shelter near the Tusker House and found a seat at a table with a man we did not know. Of course we struck up conversation with him. He was a very wealthy older man from the Keys making his first visit to WDW because his young wife (we thought she was his daughter) wanted to go.

The wife left for EE and he then commented to us that he was surprised Disney let the park get so run down. I asked what he meant and he said, "There are cracks in the pavement, the walls are crumbling, the signs have misspellings, everything needs painted and spruced up." I tried to explain to him that this was the way AK was supposed to look, part of the design to give the feel of Africa and Asia. He looked at me and said, "You mean they PAID to make it look like this????"

Umm, yep, they did!

 

[umichigan10]

I've told this story elsewhere but it fits here.

We were in AK in Nov. 2010 on a rainy day. We took shelter near the Tusker House and found a seat at a table with a man we did not know. Of course we struck up conversation with him. He was a very wealthy older man from the Keys making his first visit to WDW because his young wife (we thought she was his daughter) wanted to go.

The wife left for EE and he then commented to us that he was surprised Disney let the park get so run down. I asked what he meant and he said, "There are cracks in the pavement, the walls are crumbling, the signs have misspellings, everything needs painted and spruced up." I tried to explain to him that this was the way AK was supposed to look, part of the design to give the feel of Africa and Asia. He looked at me and said, "You mean they PAID to make it look like this????"

Umm, yep, they did!

OMG, I remember when you posted this elsewhwere, but it still makes me laugh