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

[McQueens_Girl78]

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

 

[CathrynRose]

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

L L!

 

[Ruana74864]

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.

I would still be kicking myself. LOL

 

[Ruana74864]

haha... makes me think of all those poor souls that are chewing gum and walk into WCC to have a nice meal...

What happens at WCC if your chewing gum?

 

[micknpluto]

A few years back I went to Disneyquest while at WDW and decided to try the 'build your own rollercoaster". What a DUMB***. I thought I was cool and made sure my coatser had LOTS of loops and was fast. Yeah, i didnt know you actually "rode" it in the sense it spun you around everytime you had a loop! I was so sick to my stomach after. Never again

 

[Ruana74864]

I recently fell on my face in front of all the folks at the flag ceremony. I was walking up to watch and clipped the edge of my shoe on an uneven piece of pavement. The next thing I knew, I was on the ground. Funny thing, not one person except DD came over to see if I was okay. So, I picked myself up and took my scraped up knees and hands home. I felt pretty silly!

Just so you know. I would have come to see if you were ok.

 

[Madi100]

The dumbest thing I've ever done at Disney was to not go to Disney. We were going to go to Walt Disney World for our honeymoon. We had it all planned, but had not bought airline tickets. We decided to save money, and we went to the Ozarks instead. How stupid were we??

The second dumbest thing we did was give up staying at the Contemporary for $126 a night to stay at All Star Music instead for $49.

This was all before I came here, of course!

 

[babywewe]

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.

LOL! I would have done the same thing!

 

[Val]

Two years ago at MGM my youngest DD and I stopped for ice cream before going to see Beauty and the Beast....no problem.....except they were closing the ice cream place because of a temp variation might have spoiled the ice cream.....I begged them to sell me one more scoop- had my tongue set on some. (Thankfully, my DD wanted fruit or something). They did. I ate it although I must admit that it tasted a little "off". About an hour later I ended up doubled up with horrible cramping and vomiting on the floor of a stall in the restroom at Brown Derby- had to be wheeled out in a wheelchair during the parade. The suits wanted to give refunds, etc....all I wanted was a ride back to the BWV where I could rest my stupid head, stomach, etc......they did give my DH and 4 kids a meal voucher as we had ADR's (back then it was PS's) at Brown Derby (and I think they thought I might sue). I DID NOT want to even see ANYTHING associated with food at that point- just wanted to get out of there due to bad tummy and huge embarrassment. After a couple of hours I got better- but boy, is bad ice cream really bad!!!! My new mantra: Listen to a CM who says the ice cream MIGHT be bad!

 

[golden1]

The last trip I went on, I went with my IL's whom I love. In my desire to have them see everything on a 5 day trip, I pushed my FIL too hard one day and he had to sit out the next day, our Discovery Cove day, no less! They are going this time and I will definitely go at a slower pace.

 

[Ride Junkie]

2) 1991-3ish, a few friends and I decided to take a weekend trek on our own to WDW (and I remember with the FL resident discount tix were $35!). Well, we weren't the best kids in the world, although we really didn't get into a whole lot of trouble. We were riding the Skyway across the MK and we lit up some "wacky tobacky". About halfway through we noticed a buncha security looking folks on the ground "following us". We paniced. So, we ate the rest of our stash. Well, no one was following us... And we were all a little green in the face for a while. It's now a "hey remember when..." story. Funny stuff.

I just snorted Red Bull out my nose. OMG, that one made me laugh out loud. That is hysterical! THANKS for that one.

 

[ZebraDomeCrazy]

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!

 

[snyderla]

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?

Oh, Jennymouse! I remember when you first posted this, I laughed until I cried! It was one of those "oh the horror of it, but I can't stop laughing!" moments. As a matter of fact, just the other day I was thinking of your story and posted on another thread about if anyone remembered it. I'm glad to have caught up with you again! Have you healed completely yet???

Lori

 

[Feralpeg]

Just so you know. I would have come to see if you were ok.

Thank you!

 

[snowwite]

drinking only coffee and diet coke
dragging the kids to another park and then falling asleep during the parade from sheer exhaustion
going to MGM during super soap weekend
going on a spinning ride after lunch

 

[2xcited2slp]

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!

Yeah, it's one of those new fangled hand dryin' machines. This is too funny. Sorry, but I don't blame your DH for not letting you live this one down. Although, I am the one who is waving her hands like crazy trying to get the "automatic" soap dispensers, faucets, etc. to work. We could invent a new dance.

 

[2xcited2slp]

Ok, I've got my story.

I was sitting on the curb waiting for Spectro with one of those yummy funnel cakes from Sleepy Hollow, you know the ones with ALL the powdered sugar? Yeah, well, a small "gust" of wind comes by.

What, do I have something on my face??

 

[lyzziesmom]

Ok so this wasn't at WDW, it was at the "other" park, but it was hands-down (no pun intended) the stupidest thing I've done. I'm standing with DD on one of those moving sidewalk thingies, and we're both standing kind of sideways, leaning against the handrail. She kept trying to get my attention for something and finally I turned my head to tell her not to bother me until we get to the end of the moving sidewalk.

Can anyone see where this is going?

Yep that's right... we were AT the end. I went sprawling sideways onto the ground, immediately got up before I tripped my DD and who knows how many other people. An employee ran over to help me and like a dummy I insisted I was fine. Bumped my elbow pretty good, but no bruising, so how bad could it be? Pretty soon I had to sit down, was feeling a little faint. So a couple bottles of water and a nice little rest later, we were on our way. Ate a nice buffet dinner & went to sleep.

Fast forward to 5 am... we are sitting in the ER learning all about my broken elbow.

Moral of this story: always ALWAYS face forward on anything that moves.

Oh, and did I mention this was the FIRST DAY of our vacation??

 

[snyderla]

Here's mine...in 1975 my father took us to WDW for the first time. We camped at Ft. Wilderness and had a wonderful time. It was mid June and one evening we experienced a downpour of rain. My sis, bro & 2 cousins were in the tent by ourselves at that time and noticed the top of the tent drooping with rain puddles. We thought the tent might cave in, so from inside the tent we pushed up on the roof of the tent, pushing the rain off. That was wonderful, for a few minutes, until the rain started coming through the tent were we had touched it! The rain kept coming in and so, being the great problem solvers we are, we decided to mop up the water with our clothes! We spent the rest of the evening in a laundromat, hearing a lecture about why you do not touch the inside of the tent during a rain storm and what made us think our clothes were the best way to mop up the rain.

That was a wonderful trip in spite of my dumb move. I remember swimming at the beach at Ft. Wilderness. You can't do that anymore. And there used to be a train that ran around the campground. It was the last family vacation we took before my parents divorced. (Although I HAVE been back to WDW with my parents as an adult since then. We have had 2 family reunions there.) Maybe that's why I've now been back 15 times!

 

[kaytieeldr]

I recently fell on my face in front of all the folks at the flag ceremony. I was walking up to watch and clipped the edge of my shoe on an uneven piece of pavement. The next thing I knew, I was on the ground. Funny thing, not one person except DD came over to see if I was okay. So, I picked myself up and took my scraped up knees and hands home. I felt pretty silly!

My first visit EVER to Disneyland... I'd been at California Adventure most of the afternoon/evening, finally getting into DL around 10 PM... in an ECV... you know how there are curb cuts in the circle at the base of Main Street at WDW, and the rest is actual curbing about three or four inches high? Common sense would tell you that it's the same in Disneyland - but I've never claimed to have much sense.
I rode the ECV sideways off the curb, with me and it landing on our right side
Unlike Peg, though - in about two seconds there were two Guests right with me. One is a Physical Therapist (talk about luck!) I was fine, and I was alone so couldn't be embarassed all that long... and I did get to go Backstage with a CM to get to First Aid...