This -kinda- Bugs Me

[Tink215]

Oh all the Time, You are not alone......Good thing about it is my DD 7 sticks up for me and tells everyone that WDW is mommy's happy place and no one should make fun of someones Happy place , She's so cool,lol....People dont get it sometimes and I understand that, and i agree some people can be mean and rude.........So I ignore and just sing its a small world until I annoy them,lol........ Yes I have done it before,lol....

 

[DisneyGirlie]

I get mocked all the time for it, and I LOVE it! LOVE LOVE LOVE it!
It makes me feel like even bigger of a Disney fan that I know that I already am when my friends make comments about it. Before I left for my trip in February, I was letting my teacher know I'd be absent, but didn't mention why. My friend who happened to still be in the room said, "Yeah because she's going to Disney World. She practically lives there." That comment made me smile so big. Last week I missed a couple days of school because I was sick and when I came back my friends said "Oh we thought you had gone to Disney World again!"
They laugh at me and say some mean things about it sometimes, but nonetheless I love it and I just think that anyone who has something negative to say about Disney just doesn't undertand it.

 

[XxDisneyFan00xX]

DITTO! My dh loves Disney - but he gets annoyed if I talk about it too much. That is why I come here - or call my sister (My2Angels on here) - to talk to other Disney fanatics! I do plan to eventually bring my hubby around though!

**OT - on the way back from the beach today, dh looks at me and tells me he is ready to go to Disney! I said - "Let's go!" **

Woooot!!!!

 

[Minnie Lor]

Yep, all the time. My sister and her family really razz me to the point of being rude. They go to Dauphin Island every spring break in Alabama. They've gone 7 years in a row but I'm warped because I go to WDW every 18 months or so. My niece (18) told me (very rudely, I might add) that Disney was for little kids and "Mickey is not cool". Well there's so much more to WDW than Mickey.

My DH gets it ~ thank goodness. It took awhile but he slowly came around. Still, I know that I can't talk about it too much. And he doesn't appreciate my obsessive trip planning so I do that while he's at work.

 

[Tomh]

At six feet tall, and 240 lbs people don't really make fun of me for anything. I could probably go to work wearing Mickey Ears and not hear much about it

 

[TruBlu]

All my friends roll their eyes when I pull out my spreadsheet for our upcoming trip, and DH jokes that I've joined a cult called the DIS... but they don't know what they are missing! We all need a little pixie dust in our lives. They are lucky they can get theirs from me!

 

[Shir Kahn]

I get it lightly from the people at work but I don't care. I love Disney and I have no problems letting people know about it. I do wish that people would realize that Disney is not just for children though. That's annoying.

 

[rosegirl]

"You're going...AGAIN? Weren't you just THERE 6 months ago???"

YES I AM, AND YES I WAS. AND I WILL BE AGAIN AND AGAIN!

My DH's family, due to financial constraints and the nature of his father's work, took only one long family vacation during his childhood. You know where they went-the happiest place on earth. And it was an amazing time. My father in law died too young of cancer, at age 54, and if that's the last and only vacation memory you have of your dad, you darn well better believe it's a good one.

To those who scoff at my love of WDW, I merely roll my eyes at their lack of appreciation. We have taken our children across the globe with us. They have been to Europe and coast to coast in the US...my kids climbed to nearly the top of St. Paul's Cathedral and know how to ride the London Underground. We are not unable/unwilling to go to other places. We just know it's a guaranteed good time at WDW. Plus, we know that there may be a horizon as to how long our kids will want to vacation with us and go to places like WDW. For all their travels, they realize even at a young age that WDW is uniquely American. Not to knock Vegas, but while what happens there might have to stay there, at WDW, what happens there stays in our hearts forever. Sorry. Didn't mean to get all...well, you know.

 

[Jessma9902]

You read my mind! I was just going to post something along this line today... I am really tired of family looking at me like a freak when I say I am going to Disney *again*. (2nd trip in 6 months). They don't get it. Maybe there is something wrong with me?!?! I'd much rather vacation at Disney than other places that they think are great. Glad to have a fellow fan to vent to!

 

[mistyt]

Ditto (except 22yo), my friends think it is so weird. They think it is lame that I actually wait for character photos I am glad I have DF to share in my passion though! I only recently got him to see the light in Nov when we went together for the first time.

Congrats on the Disney engagement!

My friends always bust on me too! What they find even weirder is that I chose to go to WDW for my 21st birthday trip! I still don't see anything weird about it!

 

[CinderellyCinderelly]

same thing here. only people that get it are my older sister and me! next trip (leave on friday, yay me!) is with mama, dad, and the little bro. they go, but don't LOVE IT. i told them we need to be up for rope drop, esp on easter, and they looked at me like i had three heads!!!!

also, i'm 20 and the parents were going to send me to WDW with a few friends for my 21st bday! i invited my college friends who said "we just went last year!!" so i was like ok, i'll ask my high school friends cuz some haven't even gone! what did they say? "DISNEYLAND??? ISN'T THAT FOR LITTLE KIDS?" "your parents are sending you on a vacation to DISNEY?!?! why don't you ask them if we could go to mexico instead?!" UM, NO THANKS! grrrr

 

[Somnia]

I know exactly what you mean. I'm 25 and people give me that weird look when I mention how often I goto DW and when I just talk about it in general and how magical it is. Being a guy with no kids probably doesn't help, but its something I've done with my family every year since I was 2 and it isn't going to stop. A few of my friends who have never gone have decided because I talk about it so much that we should go next year as a group so they can see it themselves...theres 3 of us and I think it's going to be a blast since they are letting me plan everything...drinking around the world will be interesting to say the least with a group of friends

 

[Tara8595]

Why do you go to Disney so much?

BECAUSE I CAN.

I actually had one of those obnoxious / competitive type mothers on the playground the other day look at my 9 month old (in his Walt Disney World hat) say...

Her: He's been to Disneyworld already?
Me: No, but we're going in August.
Her: Why would you take him so soon? Do they even have anything at Disneyworld for babies that young?
Me: Are you kidding?
Her: You must have a double income, it's really expensive.
Me: No, and not really.
Her: We're taking ours when she's 6 so that she'll remember it.
Me: That's too bad you have to wait so long. ​

What a loser.

 

[So This is Love]

I get made fun of all the time because I talk about Disney a lot. Mostly I get laughed at if I cry about something Disney. I can't help it sometimes! Some people say crying is going overboard.

My sister gets made fun of because she is so into Disney that her wedding ring is a mickey head. Hmm...Maybe that is going overboard.

Tara, I'm with you that I don't agree to wait until your kids will remember it. Why can't the kid go just to enjoy something. My son went at 12 months and my daughter at 17 months and they both loved it! The only objection I have is that I never wanted to take a nursing baby - just for personal convienance, but if someone wants to then more power to them.

 

[fireman17]

I would like to add in here about this. Almost on a daily basis the brothers here at work bust my chops about Disney. Anytime something comes on TV about it I'm in the middle of it be it me owning Disney World or when my next trip is.
They all do it in good fun and I wouldn't expect anything less from them becase when any of them plan to go to WDW they always come to me and my DW for advice and after we finish busting on them we gladly help them plane their trip and everytime they thank us when they return and tell us we were a great help for their trip.
And they always say they can't wait to go back!!

 

[danny1649]

Moved your post here where it is beeter fit on this board. Danny

 

[Christine43]

I think it's entirely possible that I become more excited about our upcoming trip than the kids do to some extent. I have friends who think I'm nuts saving up for our annual trip but I shrug it off. If they don't get it, I feel a little sad for them but I don't let it irritate me.

 

[mistyt]

At six feet tall, and 240 lbs people don't really make fun of me for anything. I could probably go to work wearing Mickey Ears and not hear much about it

That just put the BEST picture in my head!

Thanks for the laugh before I go suffer through my finals!

 

[mistyt]

I know exactly what you mean. I'm 25 and people give me that weird look when I mention how often I goto DW and when I just talk about it in general and how magical it is. Being a guy with no kids probably doesn't help, but its something I've done with my family every year since I was 2 and it isn't going to stop. A few of my friends who have never gone have decided because I talk about it so much that we should go next year as a group so they can see it themselves...theres 3 of us and I think it's going to be a blast since they are letting me plan everything...drinking around the world will be interesting to say the least with a group of friends

LOL at drinking around the world!

So hey...a 25 year old male disney lover?

Wanna get married

Kidding of course!

 

[GeminiAngel]

I got teased at work all the time until I pointed out everybody else's obsessions! I said see you like sports, you like cooking, you like HG tv (home and garden channel). I like Disney. Its all a way to entertain ourselves.