Teenage Mutant Backseat Dancers - 11/18 UPDATE! P25 - Leaving on a jet plane

[smidgy]

so nebo hasn't been on the boards in months and months. finally getting a little use out of his hand.. and now the whole new set up... sheesh!! why did they have to make everything so small??????
anyway, cant wait to hear about your exploits in wdw solo!!! how exciting!!!

(ok, so I assume I am now "subscribed" to this thread? I hate changes!!!)

 

[pkondz]

well hi there! my name is smidgy. I am a disney aholic.... OH. sorry, wrong board
so this new disboards setup has me totally screwed up, I haven't gotten any email notifications...sigh.
ok hopefully now I am subscribed to this thread!!! I hope you had a fun time!!!!

Hi Smidgy!
Yes, you are now officially subscribed here... but... see bottom reply.

To get emails when someone replies to a watched thread, do this.

1. Hover your mouse over your username in the top right corner.
This will open a drop down list.
2. Click "Preferences"
3. Under "Options" make sure "Automatically watch threads that you create or when you reply..." has a check mark in it.
4. Click the box for "and receive email notifications of replies"

That should do it.

so nebo hasn't been on the boards in months and months. finally getting a little use out of his hand.. and now the whole new set up... sheesh!! why did they have to make everything so small??????
anyway, cant wait to hear about your exploits in wdw solo!!! how exciting!!!

(ok, so I assume I am now "subscribed" to this thread? I hate changes!!!)

I keep meaning to call you guys! D'oh!
I will... I will!

Yes, as mentioned, you are in fact subscribed here....
But we've all moved over to the solo TR.

Click the link below and it'll take you there.
Don't forget to say hi when you get there so you'll be subscribed, okay?

Besides, you've already come up in the latest chapter and I need you to confirm or deny what I claimed you said!

*****click this link! -> Canadian Buffoon's Solo Disney Vacation

 

[smidgy]

I'm sorry. I have been takng nebo to all his therapy and filling in for the other bartenderand I have been pretty sick with sore throat and fever and I think bronchitous.

I will refer nebo to this thread.. sorry.. just a mite overwhelmed and a mite sick..

 

[pkondz]

I'm sorry. I have been takng nebo to all his therapy and filling in for the other bartenderand I have been pretty sick with sore throat and fever and I think bronchitous.

I will refer nebo to this thread.. sorry.. just a mite overwhelmed and a mite sick..

Hope you feel better soon, Smidgy!
But send Nebo over to the new TR.
This one's pretty much finished.

 

[mustinjourney]

Ten minutes or so later, I'm in line for my tickets.
There's no repeat of yesterday's sheep bleatings.
As a matter of fact, there are two windows open and two lines.

I get in line behind a young couple with a baby who were next up.

I have no idea what the people in front of them were doing, but it took forever!


Here's how it should go:
"Hello, I'd like x tickets for Journey Behind the Falls."
"Certainly, sir/ma'am. That'll be x dollars."
"Here's my cash/debit card/credit card."
"Thank you, here are your tickets, have a nice day."

The end. Done.
Total time? Under three minutes.


But this isn't what happened.
When I got there, the couple with the baby were already waiting.
I hesitate to consider how long they had already been waiting,
but considering the lack of foot shuffling or eye rolling, it probably hadn't been too long yet.
After I had waited for what seemed to me to be an inordinate amount of time to purchase tickets,
the mother left to go change the baby.

More minutes tick by.
I felt not unlike how you feel right now at having to read through this.

I pity you, truly, I do.


Eventually, hmmmm.... I'll guess after about fifteen minutes,
the oh-so-slow guest leaves the window.
I'm not sure if he even bought tickets or was just getting information!

Or maybe he was debating the chicken or the egg.
(The answer, of course, is the egg. It came from space.)



Shortly after the slowest guest in the world departed the window and one half of the couple approached it,
the wife returned with a freshly changed baby.
It was still a baby though, so I guess it wasn't that changed.
It definitely was not a chicken... or an egg.


The woman could not believe her eyes.
She started to lose it right there.
Wife: "You're still getting tickets?!?!!!"
Husband: "It's okay..."
Wife: "This is crazy! How long does it take to get some tickets?"
(How long, indeed?)
Husband: "Relax. It's okay, I'm..."
Wife: "I will not relax! This is insane! It's been at least half an hour!"
(I suspect she might not be quite correct here... but then again, I don't know for sure.)
Husband: "I just got here, just give me a second."
Wife: "Let me talk to them. How long does it take..."
Husband: "Shhhh! Just wait a..."
Clerk: "Here are your tickets, sir."

The husband escorts his still fuming wife out of the area so I do not hear the classic line,
"Don't you shush me!"


I step up to the window.

"Hello, I'd like 4 tickets for Journey Behind the Falls."
"Certainly, sir. That'll be 45 dollars."
"Here's my debit card."
"Thank you, here are your tickets, have a nice day."

Done.
In under three minutes.

WARNING -- ZOMBIE THREAD.

Since I'm having to patiently wait for your latest update on Banff -- I figured I'd go back and read your non-disney TRs. yes -- the torture of waiting for updates is less worse than the torture of reading your TRs. hahaha

Just wanted to make a couple comments.

The post before this one, you had mentioned that you bypassed the other people that were waiting in one line. My guess, is that they were trying to form a single line that would break off into multiple windows in order to avoid this exact type of situation. I've seen it happen at movie theaters, and it works so much better. The average wait time goes way down, and there is far less variability in checking out, since one idiot can't completely break the whole system.

http://blog.lavi.com/2014/10/15/single-line-multiple-line-queue/

Late last year, Kay (my youngest daughter) and I made a bet.
The bet was to see if we could go an entire year without eating french fries.
That was last November.
Neither one of us has had fries since.

We are both dying for fries!!!
And just to prove I can, I haven't had chips either.

Gawd I want fries. And chips. And poutine. And fries & chili.
Fresh cut, frozen, unpeeled.... I don't care! I want 'em!!
Ten months down... two to go.

You say you gave up chips...however, earlier in the TR you said you had chile con queso. Didn't you eat chips with the queso?

Side note -- I'm from Houston -- and the thought of kids being, what 14 years old, and NEVER having had queso is absolutely mind blowing. I probably have it 3 to 5 times a month. At mexican restaurants here, you can ask for queso instead of ranch for your salad. Therefore, since it is on a salad -- queso = healthy.

 

[pkondz]

WARNING -- ZOMBIE THREAD.

IT'S ALIIIIIVVVEEEE!!!!!!

Since I'm having to patiently wait for your latest update on Banff -- I figured I'd go back and read your non-disney TRs. yes -- the torture of waiting for updates is less worse than the torture of reading your TRs. hahaha

Okay! Okay! I'll get writing!

Sheesh!

The post before this one, you had mentioned that you bypassed the other people that were waiting in one line. My guess, is that they were trying to form a single line that would break off into multiple windows in order to avoid this exact type of situation. I've seen it happen at movie theaters, and it works so much better. The average wait time goes way down, and there is far less variability in checking out, since one idiot can't completely break the whole system.

http://blog.lavi.com/2014/10/15/single-line-multiple-line-queue/

I checked that link you posted.
Makes complete sense.

If I remember correctly, there was a single line
that fed into corrals.
You could pick the corral, but once you were in it...
you were stuck.

You say you gave up chips...however, earlier in the TR you said you had chile con queso. Didn't you eat chips with the queso?

To be more specific,
I gave up potato chips.
I will eat corn chips....
but I don't eat much.

Maybe... Once a month? Or less?

Side note -- I'm from Houston -- and the thought of kids being, what 14 years old, and NEVER having had queso is absolutely mind blowing. I probably have it 3 to 5 times a month.

Whoa.
Yep, it's not that popular up here.

Don't know why not.
The stuff is amazing.

At mexican restaurants here, you can ask for queso instead of ranch for your salad. Therefore, since it is on a salad -- queso = healthy.

I do this.
Taco salad (although I don't bother with the taco shell.
I ain't got time fo dat.)

Lettuce, seasoned ground beef,
Queso, shredded cheese, tomatoes, green onion.