What was your most surreal moment at Disney

[stemikger]

What was the most unusual thing that happened to you at Disney. Wheather it was good, bad or just plain weird.

My moment was last year when I was walking in EPCOT with my wife and daughter and my wife bumped into this guy with his family. The guy immediately fell to the floor and was rolling around in pain for what seemed like forever. I stopped to try and help him or offer to get him some help. To me he looked like a healthy, fit guy in his late 30s early 40s. His wife was very attractive and didn't seem all that fazed. She said he probably just got the wind knocked out of him. We waited for him to get to his feet and he said that he was alright, which he clearly wasn't and he walked away from us slowly. We felt real bad and just said sorry and walked away.

Just to mention my wife's size. She is 5'5 and about 118 lbs. I on the other hand am 5'6 and 190lbs. But I wasn't the one who walked into him. My wife and I were pretty shaken up after that and we were wondering if maybe the guy had an illness. I hope not. After we stopped feeling bad I was calling my wife the bull. LOL.

 

[ckckc2000]

I'm sure he had some kind of mental disorder

 

[stemikger]

I'm sure he had some kind of mental disorder

Originally posted by ckckc2000

It didn't seem that way at all. They looked like the perfect American family. Very well dressed and very attractive people. They looked kind of like yuppies. I remember he had a Rolex on. He seemed the oppossite of someone who would get hurt easily. Very fit and tone. Not extremely muscular, but very fit. But hey you never know, maybe it did have some sort of disorder. As I stated before, his wife's reacction seemed like she witnessed this before. Very strange. My wife didn't even walk into him that hard. She said she barley felt it. Well anyway, I hope he is alright.

 

[Leota]

Bizarre!

 

[Martha7]

Maybe he was hoping you'd get really upset, and then he could sue you! You have to get those Rolexes somehow, you know! Perhaps he thought he'd found a way to recoup his Disney expenses! I would have been as perplexed as you, I'm afraid... I don't think we've had any surreal Disney experiences yet, but we leave in a week and a half, so let me get back to you!

 

[feenie]

Maybe he had been bumped into a lot already that day, and decided to freak the very next person to bump into him out....

 

[stemikger]

Maybe he had been bumped into a lot already that day, and decided to freak the very next person to bump into him out....
Originally posted by feenie

I didn't think about that, but if that was his intention it worked.

 

[SeaShelley]

My first "it's a small world" experience (nothing to do with the ride BTW ) came during my family's 1989 Christmas trip. Our second day at the Grosvnor Hotel by the Marketplace and we were taking our afternoon rest by the pool. All of a sudden my dad says "Hey Collie (my DM), isn't that Joe Michaud from high school?" Sure enough, my folks graduated from high school with this guy and he was now the head cook at the hotel!

 

[vettechick99]

I was at WDW for the very first time as an adult in '97 (think Pepto castle era ) traveling with my ex, his mother, his sister and her DH the weekend after Christmas. His mother had graciously bought us a trip down there and we drove down from GA for a long weekend. We were in the MK that particular night and to say it was a madhouse is an understatement!

So one of the nighttime parades was going on and we were late for something at the front of the park but we were at Splash. So we were all bobbing and weaving through the packed crowd in Frontierland, all running single-file and trying to keep up with each other. Well as we're bookin' it on the frontierland bridge/walkways, I pass a couple and hear them call my name. I stop and look around and sure enough, it's my cousin, Bill and his wife, Kristin from NYC. I only have 7 cousins and they all live in NY & NJ, so it was totally surreal that I ran into one of them at WDW (which is MY neck of the woods!).

We talked for just a moment and said our hellos and went on our way. It was soooo freakin' freaky!

 

[3mickeys&me]

We went in 2002 with a big family group. My IL's, SIL, BIL, their kids and us. While we were in the food court at Port Oreans Riverside a girl I grew up with and haven't seen in 17 yrs walked right up to me. I was shocked!!! She and her dh were on their honeymoon!! We are now back in touch!! Very cool

 

[barbaraann]

It was Easter morning '2004'. Early morning at Magic Kingdom. They opened at 7:30 that day. When they finally let us in, I did my usual thing on Early morning and that was to walk down Main Street., and head for the castle. I usually head straight for the Dumbo ride. There were two kids walking beside me about ages, 9 or 10, I'd say. I was by myself. I looked toward the castle. It was "gone"! Could not see it at all. Got my camera out. Had to have a picture of that. I took my usual picture of the clock on the "left side of main street'. Always take that shot, so I know what time I have arrived at the "magic". These two children are still about at the same pleace as me on main street. Since it was Easter, I told them that perhaps the Easter Bunny had swiped the castle. They didn't get it at first, but then they laughed. As we walked closer, you could see a faint outline of the castle. Even when we were right out front of it you could still only see part of it. It was a really foggy morning. That first look down Main Street, usually makes my heart leap with joy, because I am finally seeing the castle, in all it's glory. This morning my heart lept in my throat, I am surprised I didn't cry. I knew the castle had to be there. It's too big to not be there. I am surprised I stopped for pictures and did not just run to it. Well it was very "spooky! I will never forget that moment. Later on about noon I ventured over to the castle again. There it was in all it's glory! Can't wait to see it again. My trip is 87 days away.

 

[ForTheLoveofDisney]

My story is similiar to the others. I graduated highschool in NJ with a girl who had disabilities. Last year my friend and her two boys went w/ me to WDW. We went over to see the One Man's Dream at MGM and this girl looked just like the girl I went to school with. Well I was hard core staring and then I caught a glimpse of her name tag and sure enough it was her. I went over to talk to her and she was a little freaked out! She was not popular in school and was more often than not picked on and teased. I never picked on her and once she realized who I was she was relieved! She said she had been working there for 5 years now. She lived in Celebration and loved her job.

I told my friend, who was with me, about what just had happened and how this is such a small world. . . . My friend just said, "I thought it was kind of strange you were hard core staring at someone with disabilities. That is so not like you."

 

[TurnR@TheMouseHouse]

My friend and I ran for the last bus leaving O'Hana's. When we got on the bus the female driver is talking on her microphone (which she did not put down or stop talking into the entire trip to WL and FW) She is saying, "Welcome, Welcome, one and all, hop aboard".

As we pull out she's asking everyone, very loud I might add, "Did everyone have a good time?" Then she starts telling stories about Disney and laughing and laughing! She keeps turning around looking at us sitting in the front seat to her left. I am watching the road and looking at her and she is going on, and on, and on. Telling jokes and laughing and laughing.

It was bizarre! I leaned over and told my friend, "You have just entered the Twilight Zone! Trust me it felt like it.

Then she asked everyone if we saw Wishes and then breaks into, "When you Wish Upon a Star" trying to get all the tired people to sing along. In the meantime she's looking back not at the road...the bus makes a little swerve over to the side of the road and she says, "Whoops!" Then starts the crazy laughing again! It was Surreal for sure.

By the time she pulls into WL there is no more chatter on the bus and I never saw so many people exit a bus so fast. My friend and I were the only two people left on the bus. I look at my friend and say, "I wonder if we are really going to FW?"

The lady driver starts with the microphone again and we are sitting 3 feet away. She starts going on and on about how much she, "LOVES working for disney". I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Disney. You know what I mean? Do you?" I say, "Well...yeah! What's not to love".

She says, "NOTHING!" and starts with the laughing again. She proceeded to continue talking in fragments, into he microphone, about stuff I can't even remember all the way to FW while we are sitting there staring at the road with these looks of total disbelief on our faces! I wish I would have taken my friends picture. Then I could have called it "Kathy on the Bus" and people would ask, "Why are you just staring like that?"

When we got to FW she took us all the way to our campsite bus stop and we say our good-byes like we were old friends and wished each other "Magical Days". We walked to our site very quietly and when we got inside the 5th wheel we just burst out laughing, saying, "Did that really happen?" "Where did she come from?"

I guess you had to be there...but it was a Disney moment!

 

[mwerner2]

I think our family may have *provided* a surreal moment similar to the one stemikger experienced.

My 16yo niece went with us to WDW. We had just experienced ToT and were exiting the gift shop. She had seen what she described as a very weird looking man, (one tooth, bushy gray hair) and was sort of keeping track of where he was so she didn't get too close. She was also managing to freak herself out. (You have to have teenage girls to understand this!! )

As we were walking down the hill, some poor man accidently bumped into my niece from behind. She let out a totally piercing shreik and of course everyone looked at the gentleman that had run into her like he was the boogy man. She gasped that she thought he was that "weird guy". The rest of us burst out laughing. Even the poor guy's wife was laughing. (He didn't look too happy)

We apologized and moved on, still laughing hysterically. I'm sure he thought we were the *nutso* family.

 

[strmtroopr96]

This has happened to myself many times. LOL In 1991, we were riding the People Mover and were going through the place where you could look down onto a gift shop. There I spotted my mother's Aunt! We didn't even know that she was down vacation with my mom's cousin and his family.
In 1997, when I was CM, I worked at the World of Disney. I was checking people put when I looked up and there was a family I knew from home. I used to baby-sit for the son and his niece and nephew. During that same time, I also ran into my Elementary gym teacher while I was at work. LOL At Pleasure Island, I also ran into a kid who had gone to my college but now worked for Disney as well as one of my old RA's from College.
My father has a definite gift for always running into someone he knows no matter where we go. In 1991, he knew the kid working at the car rental desk as someone from home. He also runs into the same guy and his family at different vacation spots (Sesame Place, WDW, etc.) that he knows through business. Doesn't matter where, there will be somebody he knows! LOL

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

We were on our way to the World's Fair in New Orleans and everywhere we stopped people were talking about how disappointed they were. Since we were in the area we headed toward Disney World instead.

Having grown up the oldest in a very large family Disney World was as foreign to me as going to Europe would be. Something to dream about but not to possibly be able to attain.

We had to stay off site that first trip due to budget concerns but when we entered the property I felt like Alice in Wonderland and have not stopped enjoying the magic ever since. We now stay on site and have more money and time to spend but that first trip will always be the very best one to me.

Slightly Goofy

 

[tc]

Being at WDW five days after 9/11, extremely surreal. There were so few people there. The shows were empty (there were 4 of us at the Hunchback show). The mood was very subdued, yet the CMs bent over backwards to make our stay as magical as possible.