My story is tame and it's not what I did wrong
to Disney, but what I (and my friend) did wrong
at Disney.
I was in 7th grade, so it must have been...*counts* about 1989-1990ish. I was about 11 or 12. (Yes, I'm getting old. Hush.) A group of us in the "Gifted" program where going on a field trip to Epcot. (Because it was "educational." It's a perk of living in Tampa Bay. LOL) Anyway, my friend and I had AP's. (Technically, mine wasn't even mine. Mine was a girl I babysat, but back then, no biometrics so her parents let me borrow her pass.) We talked about skipping out and heading to MK since we could park hop and MK was MUCH more fun then Epcot. Problem was, we were in a group with a parent or someone herding us through the day. It was SO lame.
Until lunch. At lunch, we all went to The Land and broke up for an hour to eat in the building as we wanted. We were supposed to meet back with the group in an hour. Instead, we decided to enact our brilliant park hopping plan and ran for the monorail.
We hopped over to MK. Where it promptly started pouring rain and we wound up taking off our shoes and walking around barefoot. We rode Haunted Mansion and I bought one of those "ghost dog" leashes. It amused the heck out of me. Realizing it was now getting late, we hurried back to the monorail and Epcot. But the travel time took us a lot longer then expected and by now, we were late for the time to return back to the buses!! This was bad. We didn't want them leaving without us (of course, as an adult, I realize they would never leave two kids behind but then, all I could think about was having to call my Mom to drive out to Orlando to come get me.)
We couldn't remember where the bus was parked. We were running around and FINALLY found it. They were worried and mad and separated us to grill us about what happened. (And so we couldn't come up with a story together on the ride home.) We had agreed
no matter what do NOT admit going to MK. If you don't admit it, they don't have proof and we'll get away with it.
They did the whole "(other person) admitted you went to MK, so you might as well just confess" thing to both of us. I didn't fall for it. I stuck to my story that we wandered around the countries trying to find our group again for hours. My friend did. D'oh!
We wound up each getting 1 day of out-of-school suspension. A day I wound up spending over at the same friend's house.
It was totally worth it, we had a complete blast and as the only "bad" thing I ever did in my school career, I don't regret it one bit. To this day, I still have fond memories whenever I see those "ghost dog" leashes at HM!
