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

[Zoemakes5]

I'm on there with the new shoes.
Another one, white shorts.

 

[fan_of_small_world]

I don't know if this qualifies, but I felt pretty dumb...

When I was 18 I went to WDW with my family. While waiting with DDad for the fireworks at the MK to start, I overheard two guys talking next to us. I kept picking up a few words I understood, but couldn't get a hold on what languge they were speaking. I'm not a bit shy, so I said "Hi. Where are y'all from?" OMG...they were from London and speaking English!! In my defense, they had (to me!) a very heavy cockney accent. We ended up talking until the fireworks started, about my accent versus theirs, England versus America, etc. and had a great time.

 

[CTDis4]

Second to last day of a father and Daughter trip I left my digital camera on the monorail. It was in a brand new disney camera bag I wasn't use to the camera bag and when I grabbed the backpack i missed the camera bag didn't relize it right away. We looked asked CM's who were great but someone had taken it. i cried for two days over the pics of me and my dad that I lost

 

[cgbsilver@hotmail.co]

I was about nine and really really excited about touching the dolphins on their feeding pool. For some reason, they never came near me and it was time to leave, so I told my dad I would wait for him there while he went to the bathroom. I was determin to touch the dolphins, it never happen, what did happen was me reaching to far into the pool to touch them and ending up swimming with them. You can imagine at firts everyone around was shock, them they started laughing. I climbed out and walked to were my parents and sibblings were, and they all started laughing ( except my Dad, who got upset at the rest for making fun of me). No one wanted to ride next to me in the car back to the hotel, because of the fish smell. Quite funny NOW>>>

For year my uncle had me convinced that every time he went back to Sea World, there was a picture of me promoting the Dolphin feeding tank.

 

[vascubaguy]

Hrmm... dumbest thing...

Well, we were at AK one day and it looked like it might rain, but the sun was still shining thru in spots... we figured we had a little while before it started... We were over in Dinoland and figured, what the heck, we'll ride Primeval Whirl before we head out since the line was so short.

We got in the short line, go seated and secured... it pulled up to the part where it stops before going out of the loading area... Just before we pulled out, it started pouring! I mean it looked like we were about to go thru a waterfall just to get outside... then we pull out into the monsoon and it stops in que to go up the hill... well we figured they would stop the ride, but they didn't. If you can imagine being on that ride with heavy rain, spinning and zooming around hills. It was horrible and rather painful with the raining hitting so hard it was stinging. I don't think I have evern gotten that wet on any ride before, thus we declared Primeval Whirl the "Best Water Ride at WDW!".

I have an "after" pic of us... there wasn't a dry spot on me.

Edit: Ok, the immediately after pic was of DP and my best-friend (notice the not so happy looks)

Ok, the pic of me wasn't taken until we were on our way out. It was still raining hard but we decided we weren't going to get any more wet, so we just walked back to the entrance in the rain. Of course, by the time we got there it had stopped raining and I was able to ring some of the water out of my clothes... (oh, did I mention I was wearing leather sandals!)... anyway, as I recall it made for a very chilly bus ride back to the hotel!

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Okay, well...I am one of those people of the "gothic" persuasion, I guess you'd say...so there I am, at the end of May or beginning of September, when there's about 500% humidity, wearing all black and refusing to set foot outside my hotel room without full makeup and hair "done." By the time I get to the resort bus stops, the hair is no longer sticking up and the makeup has completely sweated off. And if the heat doesn't do it, Splash Mountain and Test Track et al will. I do it every time.

 

[crzy4mickey]

We had 8:10 reservations at CRT one morning. There were 7 of us. Me, DS DD my DSis, DF(riend) her 2 DD's. We got all the way to the park entrance and I forgot my tickets. Of course we were late for our reservations and I went into panic mode. My Dsis and others could go ahead to get the table but they couldn't take my kids in since they didn't have their tickets. We went over to the customer service (long lines) and a nice CM let my kids go in with everyone else and I waited to get temp tickets. WHEW! THat was the one thing my DD was looking forward too all week! I finally made it to the Castle and the CM in there sprinkled me with pixie dust and wished for a better day for me! It was so nice. They waited for me and then seated us as soon as I got there! I irony of this is all week I drilled into everyone's heads every morning....do yo have your tickets, money...camera etc!

 

[jennymouse]

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?

 

[ms.ojo]

One trip we carried our ponchos every day just in case of rain. Our last day there was bright and sunny. No one had looked at the weather report. Yes, you guessed it we left the ponchos in the room. By lunch it was pouring. We broke down and bought new ponchos. Like magic the rain stopped.

We got in our car one year when we were staying at the CR. We decided that we would drive to MK and park there. Man did we feel stupid when we realized that there is no parking lot at MK. We ended up driving back to CR, parking again, and riding the monrail!

Oh my gosh...I can't stop laughing. When I was 10 my family took a trip to Disney and we stayed at the Contemporary. We thought we would take a drive around to see things that evening and get the lay of the land as my Dad was so fond of saying. We would do MK in the morning. Little did we realize it would have been better to hop the Monorail for a *tour*. LOL We did do that later.

 

[BlondeAlligator]

OK...so this wasn't me but rather my DH...we were at WDW for the first time since becoming parents. It was our 10 year anniversary trip, and so my Mom stayed at home with our DD who was one whiloe we had a vacation alone. We were exhausted & delirious & giddy & having so much fun. One afternoon at Pecos Bill's in the MK my DH went off to the restroom after we finished lunch. When he came back he was laughing hysterically & red in the face. I asked him what was up & he told me this story:

"I went into the bathroom & thought it was strange that there were no urinals, but I figured, 'whatever' & just decided to use a stall. While I was in there I heard a bunch of women's voices come into the bathroom. I thought 'Oh @#!*'...I'm in the Ladies room!!! How did this happen???' I thought I'd just wait it out until they left, but more & more ladies just kept soming in! So I finally decided to just flush & leave...I opened the door to the stall & everyone just stared at me, totally aghast, so I said 'Hi ladies!', & RAN!!!"

I asked him how in the world he made this goofy mistake & he said that he thought maybe it was some kind of European style bathroom with no urinals since WDW caters to people from all over the world. I told him I was pretty sure that Europe had urinals as well, & that it was a pretty lame defense! We laughed about it the whole rest of the trip & everytime he had to "go" I would walk him all the way to the men's room just to make sure he got it right!

This story proved what a crazy effect infant-induced sleep deprivation can have on a person!

 

[CathrynRose]

I don't think I have evern gotten that wet on any ride before, thus we declared Primeval Whirl the "Best Water Ride at WDW!".

I have an "after" pic of us (or at least me)... there wasn't a dry spot on me.

Thats *so* funny!

Post the pics!!!

 

[CathrynRose]

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.
When I pulled it off ALL my skin came off with it. Inside each thight was totally raw.

L L ! ! !

Oh noooooo ! ! ! How terrible!

My g/f had a bad experience with wet jeans not drying, after a 6 Flags ride. It involved Monistat - lots of it! Poor thing was just in so much *pain* too.

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

Whoa, whoa, whoa...now hold on...you cant come in here and say "Mickey ended up in a fountain"...too funny, we must hear the story.

oh yes, details please!

 

[bbump]

Our family posed by the Dummy Diagrams for pictures in line for Test TRack.
We even did the same arm movements to look extra dumb.

Disney is a great place to act goofy and dumb...you have more fun!

wooo hooooo!!!!


(plus don't forget to sing all the ride songs at the top of your lungs while waiting in line)

 

[CdnDisneyFan]

I did the new shoes thing,
stayed offsite (in the middle of nowhere, on the corner of two major highways, during lovebug season) that prompted me to stay onsite from now on.

Went with my ever complaining mom (enough said!)


There are more, but those stand out most in my mind

Jules

 

[sanctus]

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.

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

Sanctus! Ahhhhhhhh What an opportunity you might have passed on!


A couple of summers ago, we were all standing around on Hollywood Blvd right near the curb. It is where there are benches and trees planted every so many feet. Evidently we made a decision about what to do and get ready to walk off when I turn around and run directly into a tree branch Wham! It hurt

I was kind of stunned for a second but we went ahead. Took my girls to Playhouse Disney and my Mom stood in the back. When it was over she asked me what was wrong. She thought I was crying! But it was my eye watering so bad after I ran into that tree limb.

 

[cgbsilver@hotmail.co]

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.

OHH my God , I would still be kicking myself.

 

[taragl]

It was Michael Eisner.

I'm such an idiot.

Wow... WOW! But I could see myself doing that too. In NYC when someone says "Come with me, I want to show you something", you walk the other way fast!

My moment:
New pretty high-heeled sandals with slippery smooth soles + wet spot on the floor of O'hana = fall in front of the entire restaurant

Duh.

 

[penzish]

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.