What is the dumbest thing you've ever done at Disney

[steffali]

As me and my family were walking off the monorail my mother grabbed some girls arm and said ok where are we going next. She thought it was my sister when it was a complete stranger! Naturally me and my sister were behind her hysterical laughing and the poor girl looked like she was scared!!!

 

[vascubaguy]

I think the "White Power" story should win some type of award!!!
Reading it again got me laughing again... then I told DP that the spin-off thread should be "What's the dumbest thing you've done on the DIS?"

Answer:
"Telling the stories of the dumbest things I've done at WDW!"

 

[heart4dis]

DH and I were in Epcot on our belated honeymoon, and a guy in a suit approaches us just outside of "the golf ball" which was closed. He tells us to come with him, he'll show us something cool. We, being Disney newbies and TOTAL FREAKING IDIOTS treat him like a street pest in a big city, tell him thanks, not interested, and KEEP WALKING.

But I remembered him pretty well, because it was such an odd experience. I saw his picture later and recognized him.

It was Michael Eisner.

I'm such an idiot.

This has to be the worst of this thread!

 

[heart4dis]

--we got there really early to get a good seat. Hardly anyone was there yet. We sat front and center. We noticed that as people arrived they sat further back. We asked a CM if we should move back--weren't these the best seats? He assured us they were good seats, that we might be lightly misted but would be fine.

Who knew?

We of course were "misted" the entire show! Luckily we had our ponchos with us!

 

[tink1978]

This just happened a few weeks ago - LOL!!

We were in that building off to the right at Epcot (is it Innoventions?) where they have the computer games and the Smoke/Fire safety house? Right next to the Smoke house game - there was a little layout with different rooms set up and a CM was talking to some kids about fire safety - we wandered thru the house - and my dh opened up a little cabinet which we thought was part of the house - it looked like a fuse box and I was thinking they were showing how to label stuff/etc - there were all sorts of handwritten notes designating what was what - and I was thinking - "wow - that looks really messy with all that scribbled handwriting" but still thought it was somehow part of the "realistic" part of the display - so we reached over and flipped a few switches - to see what would happened - and the lights dimmed and the CM said "whoa - what's going on?" - and we just about DIED from embarrassment! It opened right up to the public - DUH! LOL WE tried to apologize and explain that we thought it was part of the display - LOLOL - then we slinked away and laughed till we cried and my girls were horrified at us since we always tell them not to touch stuff.

I would have been completely embarrassed if my parents did that!!! I think I would be more embarassed than them!

 

[tink1978]

Grad Nite in '84... I was standing there talking to a couple of friends and telling them where we needed to go and pointing toward the Hall of Presidents. Well, my finger poked straight into this girl's "chest". Very embarassing moment!

 

[tink1978]

I've told this here on the DIS before but will repeat it for the new people. On our 2002 trip we were at AK and went on Kali River Rappids. Of course we got totally soaked. I was wearing blue jean shorts that took forever to dry and my inner thighs got chaffed really bad from the wet shorts. We were supposed to do E-night at MK that night and I couldn't hardly walk. I had the not so brilliant idea to put sheets of moleskin over the sore parts. It felt better so I thought I was really smart for thinking of it. We got to MK and as the night wore on that moleskin started rolling up on the edges and sticking to my shorts and pulling. I went to the bathroom to see what kind of shape I was in and the moleskin was a mess so I decided to take it off and put new on. When I pulled it off ALL my skin came off with it. Inside each thight was totally raw. I couldn't walk at all and ended up having to go to the MK First Aid station. That was halfway through our trip and I had to rent an ECV to get around the parks for the rest of the trip. I know it's funny now, we still laugh about it, but it wasn't funny at all at the time. What was I thinking?

 

[tink1978]

This too, happened to me 2 years ago. Instead of moleskin, I wrapped my inner thigh with the kind of bandage you would tape to an ankle. Needless to say, the bandage unraveled, and was running down my legs. You can just imagine what this looked like. My husband and kids were horrified, and I was in terrible pain the rest of the week. I laugh at it now, but this pretty much ruined my trip. No more jean shorts for me.

In the words of the Waterboy's momma, "Jean shorts are the Debil"....

 

[tink1978]

On a high school orchestra trip back in 1994-95, my friend & I had this little insult game going where we'd say "Look, its your mom!" On the Great Movie Ride as the Alien drops from the ceiling, my friend decided to humor me. Well, the driver also heard her, paused in mid-speech and gave her a perturbed look as if she had insulted him. LOL

 

[tink1978]

I can't believe I am sharing this one. It is my DH's favorite laugh at my expense!! At AK's Rafiki's Planet Watch there is the animal "petting zoo" section. When you exit this area they have a place to wash your hands. There are two full size bronze elephant statues. One elephant has water coming out of his trunk. I washed my hands in the water and proceeded to dry my hands on the second elephant by rubbing my hands on the warm bronze of its body. When I looked at my husband, he said, what the He-- are you doing?! It turns out that the second elephant's trunk blows air to dry your hands. I thought the sun's warmth heating the bronze of the statue was the way to dry your hands! Every visit since, he is eager to point out my error! OOPS!

What???!!! That's hysterical!!!

 

[tink1978]

Two weeks ago, I was with my DS 3 at Blizzard Beach Tike's Peak. He said "Mommy let's play Power Rangers", so I said "sure, let's go". He walked quickly up the stairs and over to the kids' slides where you can sit next to each other and go down at the same time. We waited a minute as there were several moms and dads with kids in tow around the top. Then, when it was our turn, we sat down together, and in his deepest (albeit quiet) voice, he put up his muscles and said "Blue Power!". I, following his lead, and trying my best to play the part, threw my arms up and yelled robustly (assuming my son would like it more if I used more energy)......
........"WHITE POWER!!!!!!!" and then we went down the slide together. ARRRGGGGG - should have picked pink

Dawna

Yeah, not so great!! Maybe it was not noticed as much from others as much as it was from you!

 

[tink1978]

My most embarassing would actually be the most embarassing for my son as well. Two years ago, on NYE, we ate at Japan in Epcot. Well, during Illuminations my son tells me he has to go to the bathroom. It took us forever to find one. The line to the women's restroom was forever long, so I went ahead and let my son go by himself to the men's restroom (he had just turned 5). Anyway, he had not come out about 20 minutes later. I asked a man to yell for him to see if all was okay. I could hear my son yelling for me..the men in line told me to just go on in, which is embarrassing in and of itself. Anyway, My son had a severe case of diarrhea from the Japanese food and (this is gross) had gotten it everywhere in the stall (on the floor, the toilet seat, his clothes). So here I am, in the smallest bathroom in Epcot (one stall, one urinal and a sink) telling men I am in there because my son is sick and washing soiled clothes in the sink beside men who are peeing right beside me. In the end, my son walked out with wet, but clean shorts, a shirt, and no underwear.

 

[ZebraDomeCrazy]

My most embarassing would actually be the most embarassing for my son as well. Two years ago, on NYE, we ate at Japan in Epcot. Well, during Illuminations my son tells me he has to go to the bathroom. It took us forever to find one. The line to the women's restroom was forever long, so I went ahead and let my son go by himself to the men's restroom (he had just turned 5). Anyway, he had not come out about 20 minutes later. I asked a man to yell for him to see if all was okay. I could hear my son yelling for me..the men in line told me to just go on in, which is embarrassing in and of itself. Anyway, My son had a severe case of diarrhea from the Japanese food and (this is gross) had gotten it everywhere in the stall (on the floor, the toilet seat, his clothes). So here I am, in the smallest bathroom in Epcot (one stall, one urinal and a sink) telling men I am in there because my son is sick and washing soiled clothes in the sink beside men who are peeing right beside me. In the end, my son walked out with wet, but clean shorts, a shirt, and no underwear.

Maybe embarrassing for you -- but what a great story - what a great Mom you are!!! The things we do for our children without hesitation. And besides, you'll be able to use this story against him when he's older for a laugh!!

 

[Lil ole moi]

My first trip back in 1990, my then husband and our best friends parked our shared rental vehicle in the parking lot of the Magic Kingdom without marking down which section we were parked in.

At park closing, we hopped on the parking tram and proceeding to look for our "white 4-door rental vehicle". We hopped off when we thought we saw it, walked over casually to it, tried the key in the door, then realized it wasn't ours. One of our friends said, "oh there it is" pointing to another "white 4-door vehicle", so again we try that one, but nope, that's not it. This continues with us running from vehicle to vehicle (sure that each one we see is ours).

Well over ONE HOUR later, still running from white 4-door vehicle to white 4-door vehicle, a tram operator (who just finished with the last guests) finally takes pity on us (after seeing us walking from lot to lot loaded down with shopping bags) and drives us around the different sections until we find our white 4-door vehicle parked all alone in one of the sections.

From that day on, we ALWAYS marked down what section we were parked in.

 

[huey578]

Coming back home...lol

 

[sweet7696]

Two weeks ago, I was with my DS 3 at Blizzard Beach Tike's Peak. He said "Mommy let's play Power Rangers", so I said "sure, let's go". He walked quickly up the stairs and over to the kids' slides where you can sit next to each other and go down at the same time. We waited a minute as there were several moms and dads with kids in tow around the top. Then, when it was our turn, we sat down together, and in his deepest (albeit quiet) voice, he put up his muscles and said "Blue Power!". I, following his lead, and trying my best to play the part, threw my arms up and yelled robustly (assuming my son would like it more if I used more energy)......
........"WHITE POWER!!!!!!!" and then we went down the slide together. ARRRGGGGG - should have picked pink

Dawna

OMG!!!! I know that is a terrible thing to yell, but I just can't stop laughing!!! I could totally see me doing the same thing on accident!!!
Jess

 

[pampam]

I know I've mentioned this in another posting, but this is truly one of the dumbest things I've ever done in WDW. My friend and I were on BTM for the very first time. It wasn't too crowded, so as the train pulls into the station, we decided to ride it again. We were sitting in the very first seat. We stood to get out, and I gee'ed when I should have hawed. I didn't notice that everyone was exiting to the right. I exited to the left. There was a short flight of stairs, so we walked up, and ended up in the control room of the ride. "What are you doing", yelled the young cm at the controls. I appologized and explained that I was looking for the exit. The young cm loading the other guests ran up the stairs. "What are you doing", he yelled. Again I appologized, explaining we went the wrong way. I'm laughing by now, and my young friend is so embarrased, she's crying. "That's ok", said the young cm. "When the next train pulls up, just exit through the train. So, we went down the stairs, and when the next train pulled in, we entered, sat down, and went for another ride.

 

[cavecricket]

Before becoming a DVC owner, I camped at FW with my family. We would go to WL to get a brownie for all to share ( they were huge! )

Well, this was back when you could ride the golf carts to the WL via the walking path.....We forgot the brownie in the golf cart.....later that night I remembered it and instead of bringing it in the camper right away I decided to sneak a couple bites for myself in the dark night at our campsite.....as I walked into the camper to remind everyone about the yummy brownie I discovered it was **SWARMING** with ants!!!!!!

.....I learned a very valuable lesson that night!