The Disney Confessional

[Jennasis]

Repent! Repent! Come now my little Disney lambs...here is the place for you to confess your many Disney sins and be cleansed. Have you pool hopped? Reused a mug from 2008? Lied about your child's age to get them in free? Or something much more sinister?

Now finally, we have a place to purge ourselves of our wicked ways with a solemn promise to "NEVER TO IT AGAIN." Honest.

As they say, let he who is without sin cast the first stone...so I'll cast one at myself!

When I was a kid, we took a big family trip to WDW. There were 10 of us and we wanted to eat at the Coral Reef...badly. I was about 11 or so. Well, my dad drags us all into the restaurant and sits us in the waiting area and he goes up to the podium and says "Smith party of 10, reservation for 5:30pm". The hostess smiles, looks at the ressie list and then back at him. "Hmmm", she says..."I'm sorry but we do not have a reservation for that here."

Well dad (ever the showman) goes on a "tirade" about how we had this same problem at X restaurant earlier today and they lost our reservation to that one too and the manager swore up and down that he would make us a reservation at ANY place we wanted for dinner and everything would be fine and it was his DD's birthday and the system screwed up...

So the poor hostess looks like she's about to cry. I was mortified and wanted to leave so badly.

Eventually they apologized for losing our nonexistent reservation and were falling all over themselves to make the family happy. I just wanted to crawl under the table!

AHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I feel better already. ....Who's next?

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

Well, I can admit that I'm Disney sin-free. I even celebrate my birthday on the right day.

 

[mackeysmom]

Repent! Repent! Come now my little Disney lambs...here is the place for you to confess your many Disney sins and be cleansed. Have you pool hopped? Reused a mug from 2008? Lied about your child's age to get them in free? Or something much more sinister?

Now finally, we have a place to purge ourselves of our wicked ways with a solemn promise to "NEVER TO IT AGAIN." Honest.

As they say, let he who is without sin cast the first stone...so I'll cast one at myself!

When I was a kid, we took a big family trip to WDW. There were 10 of us and we wanted to eat at the Coral Reef...badly. I was about 11 or so. Well, my dad drags us all into the restaurant and sits us in the waiting area and he goes up to the podium and says "Smith party of 10, reservation for 5:30pm". The hostess smiles, looks at the ressie list and then back at him. "Hmmm", she says..."I'm sorry but we do not have a reservation for that here."

Well dad (ever the showman) goes on a "tirade" about how we had this same problem at X restaurant earlier today and they lost our reservation to that one too and the manager swore up and down that he would make us a reservation at ANY place we wanted for dinner and everything would be fine and it was his DD's birthday and the system screwed up...

So the poor hostess looks like she's about to cry. I was mortified and wanted to leave so badly.

Eventually they apologized for losing our nonexistent reservation and were falling all over themselves to make the family happy. I just wanted to crawl under the table!

AHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I feel better already. ....Who's next?

Last October we were celebrating my birthday with a "girl's only" trip, but we went about three weeks prior to my actual birthday. I lied so I could get a "Happy Birthday" pin to wear while I was there.

That's not too bad, right?

 

[Tinkermommy]

I confess that I take extra napkins and bring them home with me.

Sometimes you need that Disney fix. You can understand that, right?

 

[Toad_Passenger]

We reuse our mugs. But it's only because our mugs are old enough to fall into the "gray" area. When we purchased them we were specifically told they were good at that specific resort forever. We've never been questioned about them. In fact a lot of the staff love seeing the old mugs.

Call me a sinner if you want, but I stand by my innocence.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

Uhm .. let's see ..
we didn't use our fast passes at the right time! It was like, 2 or 3 hours late

 

[Buckalew11]

My Disney sin is too bad to confess on the DIS today. God forgives. Dissers do not.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Uhm .. let's see ..
we didn't use our fast passes at the right time! It was like, 2 or 3 hours late

I think that's the only one we've committed, too. I'm thinking, but can't think of anything else we've done.

 

[Donaldswife]

My Disney sin is too bad to confess on the DIS today. God forgives. Dissers do not.

Agreed! I will say that I would never do it again, and did not realize what I did was wrong at the time. Not that that does not absolve me of what I did, but I don't want to get flamed now for something I did as a noob seven year ago.

 

[Jennasis]

My Disney sin is too bad to confess on the DIS today. God forgives. Dissers do not.

I knew it! POOL HOPPER!!

In all seriousness, my child, if you wish to confess to me in private, my PM "confessional" is always available.

Forgiveness is my speciality.

 

[Buckalew11]

No pool hopping. That's elementary, my dear.

And I suppose it would be wrong to confess and think of forgiveness when I'm not sorry and given the chance I'll repeat the offense. lol

 

[ckay87]

My Disney sin is too bad to confess on the DIS today. God forgives. Dissers do not.

That was my thought too, but I'm in a mood so here goes....

Without going into all of the complexities, we used my 1-year-old (at the time) niece to sorely abuse the "baby-swap" system on Rock N Rollercoaster. I won't go into all of the details, but it involved baby disguises. One ride, one day, many many laughs (not to mention spins on the coaster.) I'm an Aerosmith fan, sue me. Oh heck, we spent so much time in the RnRC area that we shortened y'all's lines everyplace else that day!

 

[mhsjax]

Mother Jennasis, forgive me for I have sinned. I have on occasion used my refillable cup. But I swear on my Disney AP ticket, that I have never done anything else. Especially that pool hopping. Blaspheme

 

[Piglet843]

Uhm .. let's see ..
we didn't use our fast passes at the right time! It was like, 2 or 3 hours late

I think that's the only one we've committed, too. I'm thinking, but can't think of anything else we've done.

I thought they usually don't mind if you use your fast passes any time after the given time during that Day...
So long as its not a minute before...

If this is not the case....
*Forgive me Disney - for I have sinned...*

 

[jen0610]

No pool hopping. That's elementary, my dear.

And I suppose it would be wrong to confess and think of forgiveness when I'm not sorry and given the chance I'll repeat the offense. lol

At least your honest.

Around here, there are some pots that give the kettles all kinds of crap for doing what they do, when they really should be shaking hands and making friends.

 

[Snoopymom]

I put my ds5's shorts in the dryer at POFQ with crayons in the pocket

As I followed the big scary European lady back from the front desk who was grumbling and scolding me the whole way, ds runs up to me all excited and bragging that he AND daddy just got thrown out of the pool for horsing around. I wanted to die!!!

It was the day after hurricane Francis so they were the ONLY ones in the pool, and I was the ONLY one using the laundry room, and then we were the ONLY ones sitting in time out at the pool bar...me waiting to see if "Helga" was going to make me pay for a dryer and dh waiting for the lifeguard to decide if they could go back in the pool....so embarrassing!

The bartender thought it was so hillarious, he gave me a free margarita though. It did help.

 

[punkin]

Late Use of Fastpasses...do it all the time on purpose. Don't feel a bit sorry.

Poolhopping....never.

Mugs....never bought so never reused.

Lied about kids ages....Not recently.

 

[ferrytale]

I confess to reusing old mugs, but in all honesty, I had no idea that you weren't supposed to do that until I started DISing. Haven't reused them since...

 

[auntie]

We reuse our mugs. But it's only because our mugs are old enough to fall into the "gray" area. When we purchased them we were specifically told they were good at that specific resort forever. We've never been questioned about them. In fact a lot of the staff love seeing the old mugs.

Call me a sinner if you want, but I stand by my innocence.

Same for us with the old WL mugs.

I manage to sleep at night.

 

[marcyinPA]

My Disney sin is too bad to confess on the DIS today. God forgives. Dissers do not.

Ha! EXACTLY!! I was thinking about posting my multitude of Disney sins, but not feeling like dealing with the "fire and brimstone" which is the DIS tonight!