What have others done to make you roll your eyes and smile?

[teach22180]

People walking up to a restaurant like Le Cellier or Chef Mickey's and then getting mad when being told that there is no availability.

To be fair, all the guidebook I read made it sound like you could easily make reservations at Guest Services in the parks on the day you wanted to eat there. I'm so glad I found the disboards, so I knew to make ADR months in advance for Ohana's. Missing Stitch would have been such a disappointment!

 

[RayaniFoxmur]

Oh! I thought of a good one!

DH and I were at Whispering Canyon and getting ready to head over to DTD for some drinks. We hoped on the bus outside and suddenly as we were leaving WL this woman gets up and goes running to the front of the bus, ahead of the line. She starts SCREAMING about the bus going to DTD and not the Wilderness Lodge and wanted to be let out RIGHT THERE. The bus driver said no, and that we were going to the Grand Floridan first. She came back to her daughter (probably in her early 20's) and they started talking about what a "d---" they thought the driver was and how he had driven right past Fort Wilderness and how ridiculous he couldn't just drop them off at.

Well he ended up calling dispatch and finding out he could drop them off. He checked with everyone else on the bus if that would be okay with us and we were all totally okay with it.

So we pull into the Grand Floridian and I said to DH how I wanted to stay there again someday because of how much I loved it when we stayed there during the first part of our honeymoon. The 20 something leaned forward and said "Oh! That resort! That's the one that's on the lake, across from Epcot right?"

I was so flabbergasted I didn't even know what to say! I very slowly started "No... it's on the monorail... right by the Magic..." and I was interrupted by her mother who said "By Magic Mountain dear".

Oh god.

When they did finally get off the bus there was a rousing round of applause for the bus driver, especially because right before they got off the mother stopped to yell at him one last time because "SOMEONE TOLD US STOP FOUR SO THAT'S WHAT WE DID!" They seriously barely stopped complaining loudly and not family friendly the entire way to Fort Wilderness.

Well... we got to DTD, looked at the bus stop and sure enough, Wilderness Lodge/Grand Floridian and Fort Wilderness share a bus stop. I mean really, it wasn't the bus driver's fault that they didn't read the bus.

 

[tinkerbellmagic]

I was at EPCOT in february 2005 and was walking past Norway heading around the promenade and I heard a lady as they were leaving tell her child to "Say goodbye to Norwegia".

I guess World Geography wasn't one of her best subjects.

Still laughing at this one. I think that saying is going to become a tradition in our family from now on. Love it!

 

[Chuck65]

I ran into a lady I used to work with at Target one day. I asked her if they sold the GPS systems for your car because I wanted to get one before we went to Disney World. She said they went this past September and had a good time. I asked her if they did the free dining. Another guy working at the electronics counter overheard us and said, "You can get free dining at Disney?" I said yes and before I could finish she jumped in and said well you pay for it and they give you these credits to use. I said no, Disney has a promotion that allows you to eat free and she jumps in again and says it's all in the package you get but you still have to pay for it. I realized there was no convincing this Disney "expert" and just decided to keep my mouth shut. I did go back to electronics though and explain free dining to the guy behind the counter.

 

[chrismb22]

I overheard a cousin at a family party the other day. He was telling another cousin how when he and his friend were in WDW it was so hot that the person inside the Mickey "costume" (right there I knew he was crazy, there is no PERSON inside Mickey -- that's MICKEY!!) fainted and they had to take off his head right there in front of everyone. It took every ounce of me (and that's a lot of ounces) not to tell him off and tell him there have been variations of that rumor for years (but it would NEVER happen in front of guests) but he's the type of person who would never listen anyway. I just walked away and got a glass of wine.

 

[XxDisneyFan00xX]

If I had a dime for everytime someone called Test Track, Fast Track...ID BE RICH or how about Mission Mars? Or this one guy said 'I went on the lazy river at Magic Mountain.

 

[Mikelly1221]

This one is a running joke between DH and me. We were walking around Epcot from Future World into World Showcase..as we were coming into Canada, there was a group coming toward us with a late teens, early 20's unofficial tour guide. With complete authority, he looked over at his group and said, "I think..yep it is...this is Alaska!" HUH?????

Last time I checked, Alaska was part of the U.S.!

 

[TriMom]

This didn't make me roll my eyes, but it took every ounce in me not to die laughing on the sidewalk in AK.

We had just entered AK, and were walking toward the Oasis. Just as we passed the stroller rental, the tweens in front of us stopped short, started screaming, jumping and pointing. "Mom, Dad, come back here quick! I just saw a squirrel! Look a squirrel! Right there a squirrel!"

Had they been sarcastic, I might have rolled my eyes, but no, these girls were overjoyed by seeing a squirrel. Maybe I should charge admission to my backyard?

 

[RACHELSMOM1]

This didn't make me roll my eyes, but it took every ounce in me not to die laughing on the sidewalk in AK.

We had just entered AK, and were walking toward the Oasis. Just as we passed the stroller rental, the tweens in front of us stopped short, started screaming, jumping and pointing. "Mom, Dad, come back here quick! I just saw a squirrel! Look a squirrel! Right there a squirrel!"

Had they been sarcastic, I might have rolled my eyes, but no, these girls were overjoyed by seeing a squirrel. Maybe I should charge admission to my backyard?

Sounds like maybe big city girls who should get out of the concrete jungle a little more often. Maybe I shouldn't find it funny, but I do. I love this thread.

I love to listen to first timers on their first trip on the resort bus to MK. I have heard moms tell their kids that the Swan and the Dolphin are the Castle. The Contemporary has been called space mountain. It is really not their fault, they have never experienced The Magic before and they are just discovering it for the first time. I just listen, roll my eyes, and smile, unless they ask questions I may be able to answer. I once heard a man tell his daughter that TOT (which he could see on the ride to MGM) was The Haunted Mansion. Nobody could convince him otherwise. DH and I just looked at each other and rolled our eyes.

 

[fey_spirit]

Or maybe that's what the kid called, and the grandmother decided it was cute and kept using it? You know kind of like with some parents - all animals become known by the sounds they make because for some reason when you're three a cow is a moo moo and a cat is a Meow Meow?

Norway is prounced "Nor-ee-Uh" and spelled "Norge" in Norwegian. Maybe it was an attempt at the language.

The last time we stayed at the Poly we were waiting with a family at the monorail stop. They were waiting for the monorail to Animal Kingdom.

 

[Nemo32]

I just got back from my senior trip to WDW and the entire time I was rolling my eyes and smiling because my friends were calling the rides all sorts of things. For example, my one friend kept The Haunted Mansion The haunted house. And almost everyone was calling Disney World, Disneyland. It was very amusing.

MY DBF, despite how much I talk about our WALT DISNEY WORLD trip in May, still calls it Disneyland and even bought me an antenna topper that says Disneyland- I've never been to Disneyland.

While having lunch at DHS's ABC Commissary, a lady sitting at the next table was talking on a mobile phone trying to tell the person on the other end of the phone what restaurant she was in. She kept saying, "I am at the ABC Commissionary. Yes, the ABC Commissionary".

I'm guilty of this one...I think it was reading error.

 

[CoachBagFanatic]

I do the same thing. It will always be the Disney Village!!

It's nice to see that I am not the only Disney Village person out there.

 

[CoachBagFanatic]

This one is a running joke between DH and me. We were walking around Epcot from Future World into World Showcase..as we were coming into Canada, there was a group coming toward us with a late teens, early 20's unofficial tour guide. With complete authority, he looked over at his group and said, "I think..yep it is...this is Alaska!" HUH?????

Last time I checked, Alaska was part of the U.S.!

This is something my DH would do. Gotta love it.

This didn't make me roll my eyes, but it took every ounce in me not to die laughing on the sidewalk in AK.

We had just entered AK, and were walking toward the Oasis. Just as we passed the stroller rental, the tweens in front of us stopped short, started screaming, jumping and pointing. "Mom, Dad, come back here quick! I just saw a squirrel! Look a squirrel! Right there a squirrel!"

Had they been sarcastic, I might have rolled my eyes, but no, these girls were overjoyed by seeing a squirrel. Maybe I should charge admission to my backyard?

This is too funny.

 

[NMAmy]

This didn't make me roll my eyes, but it took every ounce in me not to die laughing on the sidewalk in AK.

We had just entered AK, and were walking toward the Oasis. Just as we passed the stroller rental, the tweens in front of us stopped short, started screaming, jumping and pointing. "Mom, Dad, come back here quick! I just saw a squirrel! Look a squirrel! Right there a squirrel!"

Had they been sarcastic, I might have rolled my eyes, but no, these girls were overjoyed by seeing a squirrel. Maybe I should charge admission to my backyard?

I saw a whole big family at Epcot gathered around the railings on one of the paths between Future World and World Showcase. I'm nosey so I told DH, I'm going to see what they're all looking at. Yep, it was a squirrel! They were fascinated.

Now when I lived in New Mexico, I don't remember seeing any squirrels so I'm guessing they're not always as familiar to others as they are to us.

I told DH, I was going to charge $50 a person to come to our backyard--we not only have squirrels, we have bunnies and the occasional possum and skunk, too. NMAmy's Animal Kingdom!

 

[durango kid]

I'm at the WORLD alot, so I hear some pretty crazy things but the very worst thing I ever heard was while my wife and I were on the monorail leaving the park one day. In the car with us were three people in their mid-twenties. One was explaining to the other two "The reason you never hear any noise from the horses that pull the trolly on Main Street is that all the horses have had an operation to remove their larynx." He went on to say that it was a huge secret, but he "knows of" a trainer at the stables who swore him to secrecy, and the horse collar is designed to hide the scar. My DW and I were stunned into silence by the stupidity of it all. Then one of the others said they were sure this was true because "it's well known that Walt was a big user of LSD, that's where he got all his ideas" Now I've heard enough and I'm about to correct the situation, when the monorail pulled into the station and they got off. We didn't know weather to laugh or cry.

 

[Wall E]

On the topic of the big silver golf ball, before I turned him into a Disneyphile, hubby had never been to WDW and actually believed that all of Epcot was inside the ball!

My wife thought the same thing before she went for the first time.

I still kid her about that one

 

[Dopey420]

"it's well known that Walt was a big user of LSD, that's where he got all his ideas"

OOOHHHH....now I understand It's a Small World.....

 

[tink too]

We were on the Lynx bus from I-Drive to TTC a couple of years ago with extended family. It was our DBIL's first trip, so when the gentleman at the seat next to him offered some "expert" tips, he was more than happy to listen.

My DH and I listened in silence and tried to remember all the things we'd have to tell DBIL to ignore. My favourite was when the guy asked DBIL if he liked fast cars, he said if he did, he should definately try out at the Mario Andretti Experience which was on WDW property!

 

[capecoddisneyfamily]

For the longest time I called Spaceship Earth "the golfball", so I don't give people too hard a time when I hear it.

My DS4 is thinks giants play golf with it at night when the park closes.

 

[disneyaggie]

Oh my god my DH thought the exact same thing! I tease him lovingly about it, but he really knew absolutely nothing about Disney before I came along!

And you married him anyway. You are a good woman!