Raulandpinboy
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- Joined
- Jul 15, 2001
Pin day at the Contemporary, or a day in the life of Raul secret pin agent, and keeper of Pintrader.
The day started out as any normal pin addicted persons' day, got home at 2:00am went to bed at 3:00am got up at 6:00am 'cause it was pin day.
Looked at my self in the mirror, and ask myself if it's all worth it? Looked down at pinbag and saw the picture that the Brazilian girls took of us all in the monorail, and noticed it was signed we love pinboy, and said yes it's all about the pins man I'ts worth it.
Cleverly hid picture from wife, and got dressed. Arrived at Contemporary at 7:00am. Security knows my car so they cleared a path, and I parked in my assigned spot next to pintraders car.
Looked inside pintraders car saw toothbrush on dash, pin backs on the floor all around the car, palm pilot on roof, shoes on trunk lid, and cell phone on hood with unknown person calling out "hello Kathryn are you there". Yes she was here my job begins.
Waved to cast-members arriving for morning shift. They all call out in unison "Morning Raul", I manage to raise one hand and wave back as my other hand is holding pinbacks, shoes, and a palm pilot, all while I'm on phone telling the person on the other end that "No I will not pick up the chip and dale pin for them, I don't care what Kathryn said. And the whole time her calling me Hon".
Follow trail of dropped pins to second floor, and get my Disney Permit to hunt pins. Ride escalator to 4th floor, looked for biggest group of people . Targeting targeting located and Walla, find Kathryn. Immediately drop to knees pledge allegiance to the queen, and give her shoes, and cell, keep pilot why look for it later. She starts talking on phone right where she left off, and says "Yea hon. you know I'll get you that pin" I slink away quietly get in line for pin cart parade to start at 10:00am, its 8:00am now so a two hour wait ..Nap time YEEEEEEEESSSS.
The following events may or may not be accurate since I was in and out of consciousness for the next two hours.
I lay on floor looking up at contemporary roof, and black out, I'm awakened to a women asking me if she can see my pins, I say yes and pass out, I wake to find a Swan, Market place dangle, and Epcot flower pot on my chest and people clapping saying great trade Raul, I figure cool, and pass out.
I awake and find my head supported off the floor by female leg, I look to left see wife standing there, it's not her leg though, and she's not mad, and no weapons in hand, so I know its not one of the Brazilian girls, look right its Heather granddaughter #2, say cool, pass out.
I awake look left see woman in folding chair sitting while pintrader stands holding shoes in hand, I start to get up, but woman gives chair to pintrader and she stands All is well in the world say cool, pass out.
10:00am pin cart time I'm up fully charged and good to go, the cart is loaded lots of everything, but I'm number like 20 in line, it's five pins per persons I figure that's 100 pins oh yea I'll get something alright.
We go through cart, and we gather outside cart area to compare and lick wounds, well I'll be, I got a Cast member Disney Institute with a little help (nuff said), a Disney Paris Studio pin, King Tritons Carousel pin, Tinkerbell Error pin, 1955 Moonliner from Disneyland. Not bad Y'all.
Granddaughter #1 got several LE's and #2 ran away with pins in hand yelling "YES YES ALL MINE" so I'm not sure what she got.
Rest of day was spent trading and looking out for number #1 (pintrader of course). The best joke of the day when a new person asked Pintrader who she was, and I immediately flipped my watch around Dick Tracy style, pointed up to the rooms and yelled "CODE GREEN CODE GREEN new person false alarm all agents return to posts check weapons in idle condition, I repeat CODE GREEN". They know now hee hee
Final verdict of the day Pin Cart much better this time, inside versus outside an A+, pin quality A-, amount of cool pins B+, cast member helpfulness at the carts A++, cuteness of the cart girls A++.
My Award for the best cast-member there, a gentleman by the name of Scott, friendly knows his pins, and can he sing.
The overall experience A+, comments to Disney inside ladies and gentlemen, keep them inside.
Some of the pins:
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The day started out as any normal pin addicted persons' day, got home at 2:00am went to bed at 3:00am got up at 6:00am 'cause it was pin day.
Looked at my self in the mirror, and ask myself if it's all worth it? Looked down at pinbag and saw the picture that the Brazilian girls took of us all in the monorail, and noticed it was signed we love pinboy, and said yes it's all about the pins man I'ts worth it.
Cleverly hid picture from wife, and got dressed. Arrived at Contemporary at 7:00am. Security knows my car so they cleared a path, and I parked in my assigned spot next to pintraders car.
Looked inside pintraders car saw toothbrush on dash, pin backs on the floor all around the car, palm pilot on roof, shoes on trunk lid, and cell phone on hood with unknown person calling out "hello Kathryn are you there". Yes she was here my job begins.
Waved to cast-members arriving for morning shift. They all call out in unison "Morning Raul", I manage to raise one hand and wave back as my other hand is holding pinbacks, shoes, and a palm pilot, all while I'm on phone telling the person on the other end that "No I will not pick up the chip and dale pin for them, I don't care what Kathryn said. And the whole time her calling me Hon".
Follow trail of dropped pins to second floor, and get my Disney Permit to hunt pins. Ride escalator to 4th floor, looked for biggest group of people . Targeting targeting located and Walla, find Kathryn. Immediately drop to knees pledge allegiance to the queen, and give her shoes, and cell, keep pilot why look for it later. She starts talking on phone right where she left off, and says "Yea hon. you know I'll get you that pin" I slink away quietly get in line for pin cart parade to start at 10:00am, its 8:00am now so a two hour wait ..Nap time YEEEEEEEESSSS.
The following events may or may not be accurate since I was in and out of consciousness for the next two hours.
I lay on floor looking up at contemporary roof, and black out, I'm awakened to a women asking me if she can see my pins, I say yes and pass out, I wake to find a Swan, Market place dangle, and Epcot flower pot on my chest and people clapping saying great trade Raul, I figure cool, and pass out.
I awake and find my head supported off the floor by female leg, I look to left see wife standing there, it's not her leg though, and she's not mad, and no weapons in hand, so I know its not one of the Brazilian girls, look right its Heather granddaughter #2, say cool, pass out.
I awake look left see woman in folding chair sitting while pintrader stands holding shoes in hand, I start to get up, but woman gives chair to pintrader and she stands All is well in the world say cool, pass out.
10:00am pin cart time I'm up fully charged and good to go, the cart is loaded lots of everything, but I'm number like 20 in line, it's five pins per persons I figure that's 100 pins oh yea I'll get something alright.
We go through cart, and we gather outside cart area to compare and lick wounds, well I'll be, I got a Cast member Disney Institute with a little help (nuff said), a Disney Paris Studio pin, King Tritons Carousel pin, Tinkerbell Error pin, 1955 Moonliner from Disneyland. Not bad Y'all.
Granddaughter #1 got several LE's and #2 ran away with pins in hand yelling "YES YES ALL MINE" so I'm not sure what she got.
Rest of day was spent trading and looking out for number #1 (pintrader of course). The best joke of the day when a new person asked Pintrader who she was, and I immediately flipped my watch around Dick Tracy style, pointed up to the rooms and yelled "CODE GREEN CODE GREEN new person false alarm all agents return to posts check weapons in idle condition, I repeat CODE GREEN". They know now hee hee
Final verdict of the day Pin Cart much better this time, inside versus outside an A+, pin quality A-, amount of cool pins B+, cast member helpfulness at the carts A++, cuteness of the cart girls A++.
My Award for the best cast-member there, a gentleman by the name of Scott, friendly knows his pins, and can he sing.
The overall experience A+, comments to Disney inside ladies and gentlemen, keep them inside.
Some of the pins:
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<IMG BORDER=0 SRC="http://member.aol.com/raulandpinboy/pictures/pins1.jpg" WIDTH=250><BR>
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</A><BR><FONT face="arial,helvetica" color=blue size=4>My pincart choices Click to Enlarge</FONT>
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