The Disney Confessional

[stichy]

I have, more than once...

... re-used my refillable mug. But only if we took 2 trips in the same year and the mug was the exact same one.

... had my husband and 6 year old hold a table at a CS restaurant while I purchased 2 adult meals, then sent my husband to the CS line to purchase his adult meal

... used my fastpasses waaaaay after the return time

... put an adult beverage in my water bottle during Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party

I do the adult meal for kid at CS all the time. A lot of the times we share the meals and end up using all the credits for adult meals. Okay not a lot of the times, all the time.

I used my disney pool towels today when we went white water rafting.

 

[livie1205]

Do you happen to have a cigarette scar on your shoulder? If so, sorry!





I try not to judge, but there's a reason this is a no-no. It really stinks to be standing there with your tray of food, and there are people sitting at tables with no food. If everyone waited until they had their food, there'd be enough tables for everyone. But since not everyone is so considerate, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do. Me, I usually just hover over people who are almost finished so they get the hint and move on.

I guess my disney sin would be taking waaaayyy longer to eat while someone hovers over us..I dont mind if you hover...food still tastes the same.

 

[PixieDustandEeyore]

I guess my disney sin would be taking waaaayyy longer to eat while someone hovers over us..I dont mind if you hover...food still tastes the same.

I do that too... we usually use food time as a time to sit and take awhile to eat our food relax our feet...if someone is interrupting our down time by hovering that large drink sure takes a while to drink itself

 

[auntie]

You know after reading these confessions..I realize I have sinned waaay more than I ever thought I had. Call me clueless, because I had no idea half of them were so called sins.

 

[mickeysgal]

Do you happen to have a cigarette scar on your shoulder? If so, sorry!





I try not to judge, but there's a reason this is a no-no. It really stinks to be standing there with your tray of food, and there are people sitting at tables with no food. If everyone waited until they had their food, there'd be enough tables for everyone. But since not everyone is so considerate, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do. Me, I usually just hover over people who are almost finished so they get the hint and move on.

What I think is a no-no is walking around trying to balance a tray (or two) of drinks and letting very pricey food go cold while wandering around looking for a table and trying to keep the kids and possibly strollers in tow at the same time. To me, it makes no sense to have a family of five all stand in line to get food (can't imagine the DIS complaints about that - clogging the line) then move as a mass in and around a restaurant looking for a table. A few times of balancing trays, trying to hold a child's hand, and a stroller to push, and I'll bet others will convert and commit the Holding-The-Table Sin. These complaints have got to come from childless couples or people whose kids are old enough or even no longer traveling with them that they forget how difficult coordinating meal times can be. Shoot - I've traveled with other familes before. That means all 9 of us should have stayed in line together, and moved en masse like a conga line through the restaurant? No, I'll hold the table any day of the week - usually it takes just about the entire time of ordering to find a table. Probably also send the kiddies for some condiments during the wait time as well. And we'd probably linger afterwards as well - which apparently is another sin.

 

[mickeysgal]

You know after reading these confessions..I realize I have sinned waaay more than I ever thought I had. Call me clueless I guess because I had no idea half of them were so called sins.

I'm still waiting for the confessions of some really bad ones. Most of these so far are minor in the eyes only of the DIS.

 

[auntie]

Is this idea of not having someone get a table while someone else in the party gets on line for the food an actual Disney policy? Or is this one of those Dis no-no's Is there a sign posted at counter service establishments indicating this. If so..I really am clueless. I had no idea. I'm starting to wonder how I make it through a day with all these rules.
Sounds ridiculous to me.

 

[DisGirlAllie]

I try not to judge, but there's a reason this is a no-no. It really stinks to be standing there with your tray of food, and there are people sitting at tables with no food. If everyone waited until they had their food, there'd be enough tables for everyone. But since not everyone is so considerate, I guess you gotta do what you gotta do. Me, I usually just hover over people who are almost finished so they get the hint and move on.

When this happens, my dad sends me over. I've been dubbed "the hoverer master"

 

[enigmaticorange]

oooooohhh goodness. i am not going to confess my worst Disney sins because i was young and stupid and a teenager. I did however discover spiking the coffee in my refillable mug when walking into the parks. Not getting smashed of course, but it made the evening a little less stressful....

 

[DisGirlAllie]

Is this idea of not having someone get a table while someone else in the party gets on line for the food an actual Disney policy? Or is this one of those Dis no-no's Is there a sign posted at counter service establishments indicating this. If so..I really am clueless. I had no idea. I'm starting to wonder how I make it through a day with all these rules.
Sounds ridiculous to me.

The CMs only enforce it when it's REALLY busy. When I was there in August, they wouldn't let people do this until the crowds died down.

 

[queenb123]

man you all are angels... not only am I sinner but an awful mother.. oh well here it goes...

DL last year my DD (3 at the time) wanted a princess pen I said 'no' well we get out of the store and what does she have in her little hands. A princess pen. Told her dad to take her in line for our next planned ride and I would go pay for the pen (DD kept it with her) well after standing in line for about 10minutes and only one person closer of 5 more people ahead of me. I left. Never paying for the pen. Never told exDH either.

DW this year...
let my oldest DS (17) sneak his little brother and sister in line to meet Tiana. We kind of got caught. The CM asked us after we exited if we were in line. I stayed at the exit the whole time. He took DS and had him sneak in line then took DD to join them. I told the CM that I sent my two boys to go get in line while DD and I finished our dinner. Kind of true they did leave ahead of us. Well then my DS goes into lying mode. He tells the CM that he left his little brother in line, which he knew was wrong to come and get his little sister. The CM says 'well I remember seeing him (my DS 5) in line just not the rest of you. (ds 17 and DD 4).None of them were in line.....All I said was I was not aware the line was closed since I was waiting for them at the exit.... yes I am a bad mother. But I have great Tiana and Naveen pictures...

let me add that I did tell DS if we got kicked out the park he would be the one who whould have to explain to his little brother and sister why.

 

[3Leafs]

My neice isn't quite "3" yet but we have reservations at BBB...

 

[ratherbeatdisney]

I have posted once already, but i forgot another one ! I worked at Disneyland and i had a highschool friend who also worked there with me at the same time, he worked in Costume Issue. Lets just say somehow he aquired and gave to me a Disneyland Fire Department and a Disneyland Sercurity Shirt. I still have them to this day, not sure what i can ever do with them, but i aint getting rid of them anytime soon.

 

[livie1205]

maybe this is a start of a non perfect,non uptight dis?I hope so because its a drag when people "act" like they are so perfect all the time...when we all know sometimes we are not.you dont have to be perfect all the time to be a good person....

 

[superme80]

I am loving this thread.
I think my worse sin is yelling at some people who tried to stand right in front of my friends and I after we waited nearly 2 hours for fireworks. I forgot where we had parked ourselves, but some people tried to push us back after we had been waiting. Needless to say they did the walk of shame somewhere else.

I think that is the worst of it.

 

[VALDAN]

Oh, I just remembered. I have walked into a counter-service restraint and grabbed a table and sent my husband to the counter to place our order. Aapparently a Dis sin, because you should not get a table until after you have gotten your food.

Then add me to this list as well. We ALWAYS do this. Especially when the kids were young and in strollers. There is no flippin' way I was going to stand in line with an entourage of kids and strollers to then carry trays, push stollers, and wander around a restaurant looking for a table. Come on, get real. Now that the kids are older, I send them out as scouts for tables, while I order.

Just another example of DIS folks with too much time on their hands to label this as a no-no.

Without a doubt!
If this is a no- no might as well ban me from all public places!!
People do this all over, not just in Disney.

And I would use my refillable mug but I always forget to pack it.

 

[disneyxo]

I don't have any new sins to confess, mine are all similiar to other posters. And like others I didn't know must of them were sins.

And they are:
1. I have reused mugs
2. I have had my daughters sit at a table while I ordered the food.
3. I have taken home towel animals
4. I have used pool towels in the room (but always returned them to the pool bin the next time we walked by the pool)
5. I have taken the extra shampoo and conditioner home (this one really boggles me as to why its a sin since I use my own stuff while I am there so I can take it disney ones home as a little disney reminder)

I can proudly say I will not be committing the following sins on my very next trip. 1,2,3,5 (the key words being on "my next trip " because we are staying at the Dolphin and my daughters aren't coming on the trip. No promises on any other future trips)

 

[Traveliz]

I do some of the above but the one that springs to mind and in the few pages I have read I have not seen:

I take real plastic fast food straws into Animal Kingdom. I use them and then put them back into my bag so as not to harm any animals. I couldn't use to stand the no straw and the paper wax things they have now are just icky.

Liz

 

[PlutoLuvr]

Wow, I had no idea taking the mini shampoos/soaps was a "sin." This practice was actually encouraged by a recent local news show -- and not just at Disney hotels, but any hotel.

Our local battered women's shelters can really use the stuff. One of the reps on the program did bring up Disney/Universal theme park hotel soaps/shampoos because having those in rooms where children of abused women end up staying can help put them at ease by having Disney stuff in the room. The lady on the program even talked about making sure to remove all the soaps/shampoos daily so that the maids will replenish them every day of your stay.

I just can't imagine taking home soaps/shampoos at any hotel is a sin. Isn't that part of what you pay for?

But back to sins, hasn't anyone mentioned acid trips on Grad Night yet?

 

[Liberty Belle]

I think it's time for me to start sinning. I've always been afraid to re-use refillable mugs, but maybe I'll give it a try.