The Battle For My Wallet V: Beyond the Number IV (Chapter Eighteen, p.75, 5/18)

[PirateFish989]

About half way through my wash, there was a kerfuffle in the laundry room. This lady needed to do a wash but all of the washers were full. Mine was still going but the others were finished. She left and came back a few minutes later. Same situation. She asked me what she should do.

Remember: I had the hat, the shirt AND the big boy shorts: I looked like I knew something.

I confessed that I didn’t know what Disney World laundry protocol was but back in college if someone had their stuff in the wash and you needed it, you could take it out. We actually would dump it on the floor. I didn’t counsel this lady to do any such thing. But when she asked, “do you think I can just put it in one of these baskets?” I said I thought that seemed reasonable.

She emptied one washer into the basket on wheels and started her wash. Then she left. I was watching the TV and drinking mug of pop and now closely guarding my stuff in the dryer. It was another 20 minutes or so before the lady whose wash had been removed showed up. She was in QUITE A RAGE when she found her clothes out of the washer.

If I calculated it correctly, she left her wash in there for about an hour. Also, as we later discovered, she had her stuff in three different washers.

I’m not taking sides in this thing, but if you’re going to take three washers, you might want to be there when the cycles finish. If not, you shouldn’t get huffy if someone moves your stuff.

And washer lady got pretty darn huffy.

So I couldn’t very well watch the tv with her huffing and puffing.

Then basket lady came back. And I just knew there was gonna be a cat fight. My money was on basket lady. She looked like she could throw down. But there was mostly just a lot of fake niceties. When washer lady left, basket lady asked me if she’d said anything. And I wondered where Potsie and Ralph Malph were. I played it down because there was no point in telling her how huffed up she was. But then washer lady came back in because her bra was missing.

My clothes had finished drying but I hated to miss what was coming next. So I folded them. S L O W L Y. There then ensued an intense search of every machine: washer and dryer for the bra. With her eyebrow raised, washer lady asked basket lady if she’d seen it when she took her clothes out. Basket lady had not. I offered that I hadn’t seen it either. Not that I was looking for it. But I think I would have noticed a green bra.

She put her clothes in a couple of dryers and stood around this time.

Basket lady also wasn’t leaving.

Then another lady showed up to get her stuff out of the dryer.

I unfolded and re-folded my clothes.

Basket lady’s husband/boyfriend/father? came in. She told him her green bra was missing. She didn’t whisper.

“Which bra?” he asked.

”The GREEN one!” she spit back at him. How could he not know which one she meant?! “I know it was in with my clothes but I can’t find it now. Maybe it fell behind the machine when that lady moved my stuff.”

“That lady” was in a conversation with the twins’ mom, but she heard washer lady. She snickered.

Who’s the twins’ mom? She’s the lady who came in to get her clothes out of the dryer. She had twins. And they were up at 6:00 am running around her room. And the neighbors didn’t care for it. So they banged on the door separating their room and asked them to keep it down.

She was a nice lady and I really did want to sympathize with her, but I think you’ve got to keep your kids quiet before 7 and after 11 at Disney World. So I found a nice way of saying I agree it’s hard to keep little ones quiet. I suggested they might do better in a non-adjoining room.

Meanwhile, washer lady’s search for her green bra continued unabated. I caught her eyeing the clothes I was folding. Eventually she gave up and took her clothes back up to her room where, one imagines, she discovered her green bra hanging over the shower curtain.

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I HATE when people leave their clothes in the washer way after their cycle has been done! Come on people!

Actually, a similar incident happend just this weekend in my dorm's laundry room. I just couldn't help staying around to find out who would win the scuffle that I was pretty sure would be unleashed the moment I left.

 

[praisehisname]

Unless you consider that inside that suit is just some sweaty, lanky college student making less money per hour than my wife pays for a decaf chai soy latte.

I've often thought about who exactly *is* in that suit. But then I get creeped out so I have to think of something else.

We had a great meal at Electric Umbrella and enjoyed countless refills of our beverages. We saved our cups and used them for the rest of the day. Sure it was inconvenient to walk all the way back to the Electric Umbrella from China, but dadgummit, the drinks were free! When we came home I put them for sale on Ebay. Got $15 for one and $13.75 for the other.

You almost had me! It took me up to the ebay part to figure out that you were joking. Or were you?

Loved the laundry room story! Did washer lady accuse you of taking her bra?

About sharing Disney with others: When we went last September, we knew that good friends of ours from church were going to be there at the same time. We compared touring plans and found out that we would be in MK the same day, and we made plans to ride Pirates together. We enjoyed the ride, laughed, took some pictures, and then separated and continued our vacations. So I completely understand where you're coming from, and I'm glad your dinner turned out to be enjoyable!

We said goodbye to our friends and walked back to the Boardwalk.

So you parked at the Boardwalk and walked over to Epcot? Even though you weren't staying at the Boardwalk? Isn't there a rule about that somewhere?

Denise

 

[PirateFish989]

Okay, so I just realized that I totally missed an installment! Oh no! This silly little thing called college is getting in the way!

Anyway, the sock...EWWWW times 100! I can't even think about it. Although, I definitely think the picture of the barf was more disgusting.

ZZUB, I'm really enjoying your report though!

 

[dizprincess717]

I don’t think anything happens by accident and I believe all good things are created by God. So I’m not so surprised as I listen to the post-show song, Promise, and find lyrics which suggest God’s hand is evident in places we don’t always expect to find it:

There is music
If you listen
In the rhythm of each breath we take
Destinations undiscovered
Revelations from every choice we make
And I know
There are diamonds dancing in the sky
All we have to do is open our eyes.

ZZUB, you just took me back to 3 weeks ago when my boyfriend and I went to WDW and stood around the lagoon to watch Illuminations. Months before our short trip, we decided that Promise is going to be our first dance song. Reading what you wrote put a huge smile on my face!

...And it also made me hungry for some good 'ole German food!

 

[Crazy Kanga]

Truthfully, we weren’t that hot.


A clever nod to Courtney and Ryan!

I love it when I can pull out your oh so subtle references, whether it be to classic TV shows or a classic trip report.

Oh and I really love how you can preach to the masses without us even realizing it. You're as good as my preacher, and that's sayin' someting!

 

[ZZUB]

You probably didn't notice I was gone, did you? I was out of town yesterday. It was a grueling day. And I unintentionally fasted until 2:45 yesterday afternoon. I was hungry, tired, airport ZZUB.

You have to work at Disney. It's not a trip to Hawaii. You have to research, wake up early, stay out late, walk 100 miles, and fight crowds.

That's precisely why we skipped Disneyland when we were in SoCal last month. We wanted a restful vacation.

You and your refills.

It's my middle name. Did you miss that part?

I hope Mrs. Z didn't eat a lot of sauerkraut/sauage in Germany

Gawd forbid a million times Mrs. Z would eat sauerkraut/sausage. No. Baby Z came in with fussy britches on.

Thanks for sharing your inter dialouge on the Illuminations Show. I am having to dig deep this week to find the strength and courage that I always pray for and he always provides... in unexpected ways like perhaps a post of the DISBOARD.

God shows up in places we don't always expect him. I'm glad that like Balaam's donkey, He can use even me to encourage someone.

k actually had work to do this morning and wasn't able to read this until a few minutes ago even though I had seen that you had posted and it was killing me.

You need a new job. Your current one seriously interferes with your Dis-time.

We are going to have to give Epcot more of a chance the next time we go

I was anti-EPCOT for a long time. It's amazing what you'll discover if you give it sufficient time and really explore it.

Really? Have they started selling Yoo Hoo and Poptarts there?

No. Oddly enough, ZZUB likes other foods, too. Donuts, chocolate cake, deviled eggs. Potato salad.

Have a good trip to Disney World, Ashclan. Buy us presents.

So you parked at the Boardwalk and walked over to Epcot? Even though you weren't staying at the Boardwalk? Isn't there a rule about that somewhere?

I'm not aware of a rule which prohibits you from parking at the Boardwalk if you are going to explore the Boardwalk. Which we did. We even made a purchase there. Technical compliance with the "rule?" Perhaps.

Anyway, the sock...EWWWW times 100! I can't even think about it. Although, I definitely think the picture of the barf was more disgusting.

You could try to be more wrong, but you would not be successful.

Reading what you wrote put a huge smile on my face!

Glad to do it. I like making folks smile.

You're as good as my preacher, and that's sayin' something!

Thanks, Kanga. You're better than LaLa and Frickles and the other 27 people who are now on ignore.

 

[50 years Too!]

Just got back from WDW with college girlfriends.
Went to Ft. Lauderdale to visit one of the women at her lovely home on a canal.
(Let's just say they hit the big time).
Anyway, we were chatting with one of her neighbors who transplanted from Jersey (Soprano music playing in your imagination). She said Gawd forbid a million times about a million times. The first GFMT I about spit out my wine.
Nice woman, though.

Deb

 

[disney junky]

Loved it

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

Basket lady’s husband/boyfriend/father? came in. She told him her green bra was missing. She didn’t whisper.

Was it a lime green bra?

 

[DVCTiff]

[/IMG]

They say people look like their dogs....

Notice the nice hearth in the background with no crap!

Holy cow - that's our dog twin!

 

[Yzma and Kronk]

Zzub - WB - and I didn't notice you were gone.

I usually on check here on Mondays.

But this caught my eye:

Originally Posted by Ash Hussein Clan

How did you know?

A banana prize for you....

 

[ZZUB]

Was it a lime green bra?

Now THAT's funny.

Holy cow - that's our dog twin!

Freaky. Did you get your dog in Virginia, b/c if you did, then maybe he's Stafford's long lost brother, Pete.

 

[GreatBiscuit]

Zzub, that was another fantastic installment. I think the reason I love your reports (in a purely Platonic fashion mind you) is that they are not just about the trip, they are about the journey.

 

[Crazy Kanga]

Thanks for the shout out, whatever that means. And by the way, there will be no Zzub/Kanga meet, but there will be a Delswife/Kanga Meet!

 

[blue_river]

A break day, for those of you who are not ZZUBs, is a day when you take a break.

I get it!

Sucky, for your edification, is less violent than sucks.

Admit it - you like using the word.

Truthfully, we weren’t that hot.

Post a pic and let us decide

“Really? Does it make that big a difference?”
“Oh, it makes a difference,” I said. I was wearing a Wilderness Lodge shirt and a ball cap with a tiny red Mickey Mouse on it. And of course, a pair of big boy shorts. I looked authoritative.

You would have had me suckyed in <---- notice my less violent wording here! Go with it - it's Canadian

I felt as old as John McCain looks.

Whaaaaaaaat? The new "thirty" ain't old

We sat in the shade on the little wall in front of Innoventions. We ate ice-cream and watched the water fly and splash and dance to music which tickled our ears.

It’s one of my favorite memories of any trip to Disney World.

Aww..you're a softy

She was in QUITE A RAGE when she found her clothes out of the washer.

If I calculated it correctly, she left her wash in there for about an hour. Also, as we later discovered, she had her stuff in three different washers.

My clothes had finished drying but I hated to miss what was coming next. So I folded them. S L O W L Y.

Not that I was looking for it. But I think I would have noticed a green bra.

or any bra for that matter

I unfolded and re-folded my clothes.

I'm sure they noticed

Mrs. Z and I have been married for either 13 or 14 years now depending on whether you believe the date printed in our wedding album or on the calendar I had made for Mrs. Z for Christmas.

Funny stuff

I picked up some treats and a couple bottles of water and my wife and I sat with the girls at a table on the Boardwalk and talked for a bit. About our day. About our night. About our friends and how good it was to see them.

I'm glad it turned out to be a nice evening

 

[Scrapfriend]

Long time lurker here, I am moved by your descriptions of Illuminations and wishing my hubby was not so anti-disney so I could go enjoy it in person. Yes, I am in a mixed marriage. But God blessed me when he brought my hubby into my life, so I have to overlook that part.

Love your trippys, I don't read many but yours are worth my time.

Oh, and the verse in your signature (Jer 29:11), is my verse too.

I would be happy to make your wife a decaf soy chai latte next time your in the neighborhood, and maybe you can sway my husband into at least trying disney.

 

[Frickles]

You probably didn't notice I was gone, did you? I was out of town yesterday.

I thought it smelled better around here.

 

[ZZUB]

And by the way, there will be no Zzub/Kanga meet, but there will be a Delswife/Kanga Meet!

Did I get dumped for a clearly better writer? Who are the ZZUBs going to meet up with in one month and 10 days??? You can now join the 28 other people on ignore. I hear they've had t-shirts made.

Admit it - you like using the word.

What was your first clue?

Whaaaaaaaat? The new "thirty" ain't old

No, the new 30 isn't old. Until you bump into someone who is the new embryo.

Long time lurker here, I am moved by your descriptions of Illuminations and wishing my hubby was not so anti-disney so I could go enjoy it in person. Yes, I am in a mixed marriage. But God blessed me when he brought my hubby into my life, so I have to overlook that part.

Welcome aboard Scrapfriend. Can we call you Scrappy? Don't give up on your husband. My wife has gotten me to do A WHOLE BUNCH of things just because she asked me the right way. It's insane what the woman can get me to do for her. Most of my friends are the same way, we'll do just about anything to make/keep our wives happy. So there's hope for you. One suggestion: when you do convince your husband to try Disney World with you, go during one of the lesser crowded times and brace him for how much $$$ he's going to spend ahead of time. It seems to me that Vettechick99 had some convincing to do with her husband, but by the end of their first trip he was talking about buying into DVC. So there's hope.

I thought it smelled better around here.

I find that hard to believe. Seen as how you're still here. How did you get past the filter anyway? I have you on double dose ignore.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

Goof came up behind me and stuck his big ol’ face next to mine. So I snapped a picture of the two of us.

That's HOT.

Truthfully, we weren’t that hot.

Oh.

and other rides that sounded “wicked cool.” Whatever that means.

Welcome to MA. We're wicked cool here.

I was wearing a Wilderness Lodge shirt and a ball cap with a tiny red Mickey Mouse on it. And of course, a pair of big boy shorts. I looked authoritative.

What? No Disney CM nametag?

About a year and a half ago, I found the music for one of the six fountain shows and downloaded it.

One of the many reasons I love Live365. Some of the others are the SSE, World of Motion, Horizons and PotC ride tracks, Wishes! and Promise.

I confessed that I didn’t know what Disney World laundry protocol was but back in college if someone had their stuff in the wash and you needed it, you could take it out. We actually would dump it on the floor. I didn’t counsel this lady to do any such thing. But when she asked, “do you think I can just put it in one of these baskets?” I said I thought that seemed reasonable.

She emptied one washer into the basket on wheels and started her wash. Then she left. I was watching the TV and drinking mug of pop and now closely guarding my stuff in the dryer. It was another 20 minutes or so before the lady whose wash had been removed showed up. She was in QUITE A RAGE when she found her clothes out of the washer.

If I calculated it correctly, she left her wash in there for about an hour. Also, as we later discovered, she had her stuff in three different washers.

We share a coin-op washer/dryer in our tenement. Our second floor neighbors do this all the time. There's only two of them down there, but I swear to you, they have about 10 loads of laundry to do every Monday and leave the loads in both machines for days on end. But what REALLY gets my...rear end...is that if I'm not standing by the dryer, basket in hand, waiting for the buzzer to go off so that I can immediately remove my newly clean and warm clothes, they will remove them for me and PUT THEM ON THE TABLE WHERE THEIR DIRTY UNDERWEAR AND SOCKS ARE WAITING TO BE PUT IN THE DRYER.

Sorry. Your rather hilarious laundry story obviously struck a nerve. I'm going to call my therapist right now.

And washer lady got pretty darn huffy.

After the rant above, I feel the need to clarify that I have never met ZZUB in his big boy pants and am not Washer Lady.

I confess, I’m pretty selfish with my family time in Disney World. I don’t quickly share it with other people.

I'm the same way about my solo time in Disney, isn't that strange? I'm going on my first non-solo trip is a few years this autumn and am a little stressed about whether or not we'll clash.

There is music
If you listen
In the rhythm of each breath we take
Destinations undiscovered
Revelations from every choice we make
And I know
There are diamonds dancing in the sky
All we have to do is open our eyes.

Indeed.

Ok Z (may I call you Z?), I have to confess that your entire Illuminations description struck a deep and resonating chord for me. Had me teary-eyed, but in the good way. Thank you for that.

 

[PISCESANGEL]

Originally posted by ZZUB:

For all of my so-called wit and alleged talent, I can’t do what God has done.

Wow. I was reading this installment, and when I came to this sentence, I had to immediately pause and take in just how profound this statement is. Probably one of the most profound sentences I have ever read.


I've always enjoyed reading about your trips (I've mostly been a lurker) and I have always thought you have done a great job of putting your trips into words that can make us feel like we are really there with you (good times, and not so good times!) But today, I am most grateful to be reading, for you have blessed me. Thank you, and I wish you and your family health and many more trips to Disney!