Did I Really Just See That.....in Disney World?????

[Mr_Tom_Morrow]

I remember being on the Jungle Cruise several years back sadly I was boarded with a a group of high schoolers,all was fine and well until we came to the "any questions" part of the "plant knowledge speil" when one of the kids blurted out "Isn't that weed plant illegal?" everyone looked at the group shocked and the skipper was at a loss for words. Sadly the rest of her trip around she was fumbling her words some,I felt bad for her. Nothing ever happened to the kids either,kinda messed up IMO

 

[rustysgirl]

Another moment happened at Fantasmic during the same trip. Again, the tour groups were all over the stands. I swear, it was like being at an international soccer match. Different groups were waving flags from every country in South America, and they were all singing songs and yelling at each other. All of the people trying to take their seats and prepare for the show were all annoyed by this. It finally took an announcement over the PA system and CM's telling each group to be quiet and sit down. Man, I loved Disney's CMs a little bit more that night .

wow that happened to us when we were there! they were singing/chanting? not sure wat they were doing but it was obnoxious...& it was a good hour that they were carrying on....only the CMs didnt do anything about it. i had a migraine by the time the show started. but i sure do wish they would have said something or at least tried to control the crowd. guess it happens a lot if it happened to u too? maybe the CMs are used to it by now so they figured why bother? :brick::fork:

 

[Future Guy]

My wife and I were browsing through one of the gift shops in Adventureland when we noticed something that made me feel for the CM behind the register. A dad bought his son an Indiana Jones hat. The kid looked to be 8-10 yrs. old. He immediately put the hat on, and it was too large. So he goes over to the mom and whines "Mooommm! It's too biiig!" Without taking her eyes off the stuff she was looking at, the mom started loudly berating her husband for buying the wrong size hat. I was wondering why the kid couldn't have tried the hat on before his dad took it up to the register, but what do I know?

The CM behind the register offered that it would be no problem to exchange the hat for one of a more acceptable size, so the dad told the boy to go pick out another one. "Don't just stand there!" the mom shrieked at the dad as their son went back to the hat display to pick out a smaller one. "Help him!" Of course, the mom didn't budge from where she was; apparently the earrings she was looking at were more important than anything in the world at that moment, except embarassing herself and her family with her horrible behavior. The kid didn't seem to have any obvious disability, so I don't know why it was outside of his abilities to determine whether a given hat fit on his head or not, but the dad obediently did as he was told. I got the feeling that this was pretty much business as usual in their household. The woman was like Kate Gosselin on angry pills; if she acts that way in public, I wonder how she is behind closed doors?

My wife and I edged out of there, and I resisted the temptation to butt in and call the woman something that rhymes with "Stitch" but is a lot worse. Aw, who am I kidding? There's no insult worse than "Stitch".

 

[squeaks]

i have one bad story, one funny one, and one good.

while i was working at Everest, i came out of the break room to start a new rotation. this was during previews prior to the attraction "officially" opening, so the lines were pretty long, but the break room entrance door faces the tea garden cue area. you can see very clearly through the bamboo, so i noticed a mom hurrying her 7-8 year old son into the bushes opposite the break room towards the back maintenance area. i hopped up on the ledge to get a better view of what was going on, and i heard her saying "hurry up" as the boy was pulling his pants down to "water the plants"... i immediately called out through the bamboo, "Ma'am! i'm sorry, you can't do that..." she replied hastily with "WELL, WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO?!" me:"Um... there's a bathroom right down the walkway..." her:"HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET BACK IN LINE!?" me:"well, i'm sure all these nice people will let you back in line after your son has used the restroom" hoping she'd look around and see everyone staring at her and realize how ridiculous this was... she just grabbed her son by the hand and started walking through the crowd towards the entrance again... boggles my mind how people think that's ok.

my second story is from also working at Everest (saw a lot of stuff there), but it just made my night for some reason... i went to the computer to get a new assignment, and a task was given to me (i'm sure most will be familiar with the procedure, but if you're a cast member, you go to a computer to get your position. sometimes when there's nothing to do, yet, you get a 10-15 minute task, then it asks you to come back). i decided to help the fast pass person, since our attraction was still new and really busy. as i'm walking up to the entrance, i see two people bolt from stand-by in front of a few people who had just shown the FP CM their fast pass tickets, and power walk their way through the cue. i said "excuse me" to the guests who had just shown their tickets to the CM at fastpass, running passed them, and they just said "it's ok, let them go", but there was no way i was going to let them cut in line while we had a 2 hr wait. i caught up to them (the cutters) just before they were supposed to give their FP tickets to the CM at the entrance of our loading dock. they didn't notice me behind them, but i waited to see what they were going to say when the cast member asked for their tickets, and they didn't have any. CM asks them "Tickets?" and the woman goes on this lie about "oh, we lost our tickets, but the CM up in the front said it was fine to come on in without them", which made me even more upset, because they knew that we were so busy that they probably wouldn't have gotten an argument from the CM... as the CM was going to let them through the line, she noticed me standing behind them, and i just said "no, the CM at the front did not tell you that, you cut in line, and you're going to the exit..." the woman looked at me like "what?! you're kidding", and her husband looked at me like "ok... we're busted... oh well". she continued on "oh come on! give us a break! this sucks!" as i escorted them to the exit. very satisfying. i hate cutters :fork:

now the good (i'll keep it short). after i stopped working at wdw, i went back during oct with my family to enjoy the holiday festivities. i was at one man's dream and pushed the second actuator for the animatronic to show my dad how it worked. 2 CMs came up to me and said i've "won a prize, follow me...". they informed me that i won 4 tickets to mickeys NSS that evening, $200 in gift cards, free "professional" face painting, and VIP seats to the parade that night! it was such a fun night... what an experience. (sorry for the long post)

 

[jonnyc]

my second story is from also working at Everest (saw a lot of stuff there), but it just made my night for some reason... i went to the computer to get a new assignment, and a task was given to me (i'm sure most will be familiar with the procedure, but if you're a cast member, you go to a computer to get your position. sometimes when there's nothing to do, yet, you get a 10-15 minute task, then it asks you to come back). i decided to help the fast pass person, since our attraction was still new and really busy. as i'm walking up to the entrance, i see two people bolt from stand-by in front of a few people who had just shown the FP CM their fast pass tickets, and power walk their way through the cue. i said "excuse me" to the guests who had just shown their tickets to the CM at fastpass, running passed them, and they just said "it's ok, let them go", but there was no way i was going to let them cut in line while we had a 2 hr wait. i caught up to them (the cutters) just before they were supposed to give their FP tickets to the CM at the entrance of our loading dock. they didn't notice me behind them, but i waited to see what they were going to say when the cast member asked for their tickets, and they didn't have any. CM asks them "Tickets?" and the woman goes on this lie about "oh, we lost our tickets, but the CM up in the front said it was fine to come on in without them", which made me even more upset, because they knew that we were so busy that they probably wouldn't have gotten an argument from the CM... as the CM was going to let them through the line, she noticed me standing behind them, and i just said "no, the CM at the front did not tell you that, you cut in line, and you're going to the exit..." the woman looked at me like "what?! you're kidding", and her husband looked at me like "ok... we're busted... oh well". she continued on "oh come on! give us a break! this sucks!" as i escorted them to the exit. very satisfying. i hate cutters :fork:

It's great to hear of CMs stopping cutters!

Although as a Brit, there is only one thing we enjoy more than being in a queue, and that is moaning about being in a queue. If we completely eradicated cutters what would have to moan about?

 

[wdwmagic]

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my second story is from also working at Everest (saw a lot of stuff there), but it just made my night for some reason... i went to the computer to get a new assignment, and a task was given to me (i'm sure most will be familiar with the procedure, but if you're a cast member, you go to a computer to get your position. sometimes when there's nothing to do, yet, you get a 10-15 minute task, then it asks you to come back). i decided to help the fast pass person, since our attraction was still new and really busy. as i'm walking up to the entrance, i see two people bolt from stand-by in front of a few people who had just shown the FP CM their fast pass tickets, and power walk their way through the cue. i said "excuse me" to the guests who had just shown their tickets to the CM at fastpass, running passed them, and they just said "it's ok, let them go", but there was no way i was going to let them cut in line while we had a 2 hr wait. i caught up to them (the cutters) just before they were supposed to give their FP tickets to the CM at the entrance of our loading dock. they didn't notice me behind them, but i waited to see what they were going to say when the cast member asked for their tickets, and they didn't have any. CM asks them "Tickets?" and the woman goes on this lie about "oh, we lost our tickets, but the CM up in the front said it was fine to come on in without them", which made me even more upset, because they knew that we were so busy that they probably wouldn't have gotten an argument from the CM... as the CM was going to let them through the line, she noticed me standing behind them, and i just said "no, the CM at the front did not tell you that, you cut in line, and you're going to the exit..." the woman looked at me like "what?! you're kidding", and her husband looked at me like "ok... we're busted... oh well". she continued on "oh come on! give us a break! this sucks!" as i escorted them to the exit. very satisfying. i hate cutters :fork:

Nice work!! :sohappy:

 

[squeaks]

It's great to hear of CMs stopping cutters!

Nice work!! :sohappy:

thanks! that wasn't the first or last time i had to deal with cutters, but it was definitely the best story... i'll never forget walking them out, we had to go through the loading position where a manager was waiting as i was escorting the couple out (not by request, he [the manager] just so happened to be there) and the loading CM asked curiously "Uh... how many?" to load them on the train, and i just said "Nope, they're not riding... they're going to the exit". my manager looked at me confused, so i had to come back and explain afterward. he wasn't too upset at me :lol:

 

[joanna71985]

Yesterday, we were at DHS and decided to ride TSM around 5:30 in the evening.

As we were at the second story junction, I observed a rather large woman on a wheelchair rolled into the front of the packed line, (Read: cut the line), and began to argue with the CMs at the handicapped load/unload area.

As we boarded, rode the attraction, and exited some 15-20 minutes later (tech difficulties that time), I still saw the same people waiting in line and fuming as the CMs there load the woman onto a specialized ride vehicle and wrapped her down.

Why???

I'm not sure exactly what happened (it's hard to tell from the story). But wheelchair parties are sent to another area to board the ride. So the woman wasn't cutting (that I can tell from the story).

 

[EPCOTPluto]

I'm not sure exactly what happened (it's hard to tell from the story). But wheelchair parties are sent to another area to board the ride. So the woman wasn't cutting (that I can tell from the story).

Well, from what I saw, the line already had motorized scooters and wheelchairs, and it was a rather long line. But that one woman and her husband came from the usual exit of TSM and was pushed to the very front of the line.

Perhaps there was some other reason for it... But I did noticed that she just instigated an altercation of some sort with the two Cast Members at the handicapped switch (is there a better name for it?), with angry gestures, and that after I left some 15-20 minutes later, the couple finally boarded a ride vehicle.....

Of course, I didn't seem to see a lot, but the beginning was an inkling of what probably happened. :shrug:

 

[xdan0920]

I have rarely taken notice of anything horrific going on while in the world but I do have one story from my last trip. My fiance and I were sitting on a bench in WS one night, we were enjoying a beer and a turkey leg. She took a picture of me while I was in mid bite on the turkey leg. It came out hysterical and we were cracking up. A man walking past with his, I have to assume daughter, who he was yelling at for one thing or another. I mean he was really laying into her, heard us laughing and decided we had to be laughing at him. So as he was walking away from us he turned around, and while still back pedaling started yelling at us and challenging me to a fight. Well, needless to say we were very confused, and his misguided anger just cracked us up even more. That just encouraged him, and he yelled some nonsense about putting me in my place, although his language was less then kid friendly, and continued on his merry way yelling at his daughter. In a different place I may have been less patient with a person like that, but in Disney who is really looking for a fight? Besides he provided us with a very funny memory.

 

[_Scar]

some fat people should not wear a tank top with skimpy shorts.... I'm talking 4 to 5 bills.

 

[goofykt]

A couple weeks ago I read one of the early posts on this thread about a person seeing a mother practically beating her kid for swinging on the chain while waiting for a bus. Needless to say I was horrified, and thought things like that were the exception and not the rule.

My DH and I are in WDW this week, and I have seen two of the craziest episodes of public abuse...it's unbelievable.

The first time, we were waiting in line for a bus at All-Star Movies. About 50 people were waiting in the little chained line area, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. There was a huge group of about 20 Italians in front of us and their children were really well behaved and they were all pretty friendly. Immediately in front of us was a quiet 10 year old girl and her father. She seemed very well-behaved and wasn't making any kind of trouble that I could see, so it must have been something she said to her father rather than physically acting out...because out of nowhere I saw him smack her across the side of the head hard with his open palm. He then grabbed her head with his hand (like you'd palm a basketball) and squeezed so that she couldn't move her head AT ALL. All she could do was watch him out of the corner of her eye as he screamed at her and squeezed her head for about 2-3 minutes.

As if that wasn't bad enough, last night my husband and I were leaving DHS and I saw a mother attempt to choke her 6-7 year old son. There was a group of 5 women and 2 children in front of us, and one of the boys was REALLY making a scene. I couldn't understand what he was saying, but you could tell the problem was that he didn't want to leave the park. They were pulling him toward the exit by his arms, but he was crying and screaming hysterically, and periodically he would stop walking altogether and someone would literally have to drag him along the walkway. Finally the mom had enough, and in one swift movement she started screaming like a crazy person and lunged at his throat with both hands. All four of the other women had to jump in front of her and physically hold her back from him. She calmed down, but about a minute later pushed him up against the wall of one of the shops and screamed in his face for about a minute and spanked him hard several times. Right as a cast member was about to intervene, the father joined the group and calmly took both sons away toward the exit.

It's so crazy when these situations come up, because when you hear about them you think "oh I'd go get help or do something to protect the child immediately"...but the thing is that you're so completely in shock by what you're seeing, that by the time you come to your senses, it's over and you don't know what you should do. Will a cast member believe you over the parent? Will they even be able to do anything about it, especially since the person will be back in their home country in a week? It's wild. Completely insane behavior. If people act like this in public, and on vacation, I'd hate to think of what they do to these poor children behind closed doors. Heaven help them.

 

[KingStefan]

A couple weeks ago ...Heaven help them.

You know, following this and other threads I thought of situations like this I've seen at the World, and then turned my thoughts inward and thought about the pressure and stress of vacation at the World and how it affects your emotions.

On one hand, you're at the "happiest place on earth", and the magic sweeps you away if you let it - or are able to let it. On the other hand, we run ourselves ragged at the World; much more than most of us do on a daily basis in our usual lives.

This puts some unusual stress on us - on the whole of the family - and sometimes we do things that we normally wouldn't do. I'm not saying that I condone abuse of anybody towards anyone else (parent to child, adult to adult, sibling to sibling, even child to parent, when you think about it - etc. - any combination you can think of). However, we often say to ourselves "wow, if they do that here, what must it be like in private", when in actuality, I think that often it is the other way around.

Generally at the World, when things happen that normally would be unpleasant, I try to add to the magic by finding a giving way around the situation, or accepting dissapointment as a small in the many wonderful magical things that are happening around us. But I can remember times (even on our recent trip a few weeks ago) where tempers ran high. Like when you pause to see something or take a picture and someone else in the party wants to move on. Or one of the kids whines for ice cream when lunch ADRs are in half an hour, etc. Especially when it's hot and humid and you didn't get enough sleep last night because you were at EMH or sitting up planning the next day when everyone else is asleep, or whatever.

Now nobody in my family has ever gone completely balistic (thank God, and I have to say sometimes that there but for His grace go we), but even though the happiness and joy and magic in the World are greater than anything else I've experienced, sometimes the stress is up there almost at the same level, too.

So all I'm saying is that it is entirely understandable (not acceptable necessarily, but understandable) when someone loses their temper at the World. I've cetainly been in that not-so-good place; I just haven't acted out in an extreme way when some others have. I have always had the philosophy that we should give others the benefit of the doubt anytime we can and not judge lest we be judged ourselves. After all, isn't that all part of making the magic together? Disney just sets the stage and provides CMs to facilitate things, but it's up to us, the guests, in the long run to make the magic real!

Sorry for the long post, but I'm in a philosophical mood, and with everything else going on in my life, I just had to get that off my chest.

 

[Scott951]

Bump.....I miss seeing these stories....

 

[skyhawk8519]

I proposed to my girlfriend (now wife) in Jan of 2007. It was at the Poly where we were staying with her family. That night, we found a quiet hammock and talked about our future life together and how I would promise to support her and how I will be faithful to her. (I know, mushy mushy haha)

Just then, on the balcony of the Club Level longhouse, was a woman screaming at the top of her lungs probably on the phone " You F&^&#* BIT^%, You slept with MY HUSBAND!! I cant believe why would you do this to my family AT DISNEY WORLD!!!!"

It was easily past 1AM, but my then newly named Fiance' iterated that she never wants that experience!

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

Sorry, my wife can get a little loud.

 

[sublimesting]

I proposed to my girlfriend (now wife) in Jan of 2007. It was at the Poly where we were staying with her family. That night, we found a quiet hammock and talked about our future life together and how I would promise to support her and how I will be faithful to her. (I know, mushy mushy haha)

Just then, on the balcony of the Club Level longhouse, was a woman screaming at the top of her lungs probably on the phone " You F&^&#* BIT^%, You slept with MY HUSBAND!! I cant believe why would you do this to my family AT DISNEY WORLD!!!!"

It was easily past 1AM, but my then newly named Fiance' iterated that she never wants that experience!

Well, that's ironic......

So, I wonder, did he sleep with the woman AT Disney World? Was the husband also in trouble?

 

[E P C O T]

Void.

 

[Goofygirl07]

My family and I just so happened to go to MK during Gay Pride Week (which we had no clue existed at WDW) and boy did we see A LOT of unusal happenings/beings. Plus a lot of red. lol

i never seen so many short shorts on men....plus innapropriate sayings on shirts.

 

[misterID]

Yeah, I got stuck at Disney when I was 12 on gay day. I noticed everyone was wearing red shirts... Didn't think too much of it. But when we were getting a citrus swirl we noticed what was written on all the red shirts... Dude... It was pretty funny, though. I read they got in trouble for all the stuff written on their shirts that day.

On a seperate occasion, and not on gay day, I saw 2 pretty girls making out. That wasn't so bad.