Curiosity. My other half is a UNCA alumnus.
Yeah, but first he's got to gain that little knowledge.
maybe... in fact... I work in Times Square and it doesn't even bother me that Mickey and Minnie (and sometimes Woody) are walking around taking pictures with people.. it bothers me that they are charging for it and SPEAKING through their mask!! lol how annoying!
nce we were having a conversation with a mutual friend who was thinking of making the trip so I was telling her about the free dining,and the "know it all" said nothing infront of me but then later in another room to the side was quietly telling her that I had no idea what I was talking about because there was no way Disney would ever give away free food for a whole week LOL ,as if I'd make that up .Some people just make me laugh this is the same person who thinks Barbie Rapunzel and Tangled are the same character lol.
I haven't met somebody like this, but I have met the complete opposite. There was one girl that I was acquaintances with in high school that quite literally lived and breathed everything Disney... it was almost like a trigger word for her or something. Her greatest hero was Walt Disney, all of her favorite songs were Disney, and every project she did for Digital Design, the class we took, were about Disney.
Don't get me wrong, she was a very nice girl and gifted when it came to digital artwork, but... wow, she could talk up a storm about it. I always thought that I was a huge Disney fan and knew everything there was to know for the most part (up until that point, I was always teased for my great interest in Disney), but she certainly proved me wrong. She actually spent an entire class period talking about all of the ghostly characters featured in The Haunted Mansion and, much like you, I wasn't able to get a word in about the subject.
Anyway, all she ever seemed to talk about at school was Disney, and all I ever saw on her facebook would be links to Disney songs, clips, or statuses about Disney. She told me that she wanted to work for Disney, and I asked, "Oh, as an animator or something?" "No, I want to be a cast member!" "Oh, cool!" All I can really say is that she must be super dedicated if that's what she wants to do for a living, as I've heard a lot of unpleasant stories about being a cast member at one of the parks.
I'm not trying to be condescending in any way, I actually think it's amazing that she's this into Disney, but in my opinion, she seemed like the kind of person who's really into Disney... maybe just a little too much.
Ok. Let's hope this person doesn't read the boards.
I've been visiting WDW regularly since I was 6 months old. I've taken at least 25-30 trips by now. I also live near Disneyland and have been to Disneyland about 100 times. Add in the fact that I've been an active member of WDWMagic for 8 years, and I'm pretty confident in saying I know a thing or 2 about the parks.
Took a trip to Orlando a few days ago with my BF, who has probably been to WDW 200 times, has been a forum member here for about a decade, and knows more about the parks than I do (which is saying a lot). My BF brought his friend along with us to the parks, and his friend brought a girl with him.
This girl he brought along (who we'd never met before) is a CM. However, my BF's knowledge and my knowledge of the parks exceeded hers 20 fold. Regardless, she was a complete know-it-all the entire trip. Handed out trivia to us incessantly, and the things she told us we had already known for years (common knowledge stuff). She was "leading" us around, as if it was our first time there. Dragging us from point A to point B in supposedly "the fastest ways" which were not direct or fast routes. Telling us all about attractions that we'd been on 30 times as much as she had. She treated us like we had never stepped foot in a Disney park before and that she was our all-knowing tour guide.
The worst part was half the stuff she went on about wasn't even true. For example, she was saying that one of the singing busts in the Haunted Mansion was actually Walt Disney
I did a decent job of holding my tongue, but really would have enjoyed myself a lot more had I been able to see what I wanted to see during my limited time in the parks instead of being dragged around by a self-appointed tour guide.
Keys to the Kingdom tour. You get to ride Jungle Cruise without the corny jokes and get a history of the ride including how the jokes came to be.
