Ridiculous or just plain weird in-queue stories, I wanna hear 'em.

[Michaelson]

Last February my wife, eldest daughter and son-in-law were on our annual trip to WDW and were standing in a late evening line for POC. In front of us was a Mom and her two young daughters, I'm guessing ages 5 and 7. The little girls were definitely running on adrenaline, as they started talking to my daughter non-stop.

My daughter has had her hair dyed in with a bright shade of red running through it for many years, and apparently the girls had ridden Pirates before, as they immediately applied the 'redhead' connection of the ride to my daughter. My daughter is ALWAYS friendly and engaging with folks (she's a GameStop manager), and even though the Mom rolled her eyes at us at the constant talking of the little girls to our daughter through the ENTIRE que, it was all fine. We enjoyed their constant little girl chatting as we worked our way down the line.

Just as we got to the split and before they sent the Mom and little ones in one direction and us in the other, the 7 year old ran up to my daughter, threw her arms around her and shouted, 'You are now my FAVORITE Disney pirate princess!', then ran off to join her Mom. Needless to say, a LOT of smiles were seen by the crowd waiting with us.

So, in case anyone asks you, now you know the Red Head Pirate actually has a human representative living here in Tennessee. ;-)

Regards! M

 

[KBLovedDisney]

You'll have to do the up-arrow backtrack...

Yep, I just had my "doh" moment for the day.

 

[Missing_Aria]

Not in a queue, but in Town Square near the Emporium. A big guy, around 6'4", in a woman's dress, high heels, long curly wig and full makeup. I've got nothing against transvestites or transgenders, but he certainly stood out in the crowd. I was a little jealous, cause his makeup was so much better than mine.

God do I know the feeling as the girlfriend of a transgender woman. Her legs are amazing and go on for DAYS and she's all "ugh I hate my legs they're so huge." No sweetie they're long and amazing and look way better in heels than mine every have.

 

[Blackburn23]

Little boy in front of us in line to meet Chewy for no reason at all turns around and tells my 5 year old that Chewy is fake. My son looks this kid dead in the eyes and yells "HE IS REAL AND HE IS A WOOKIE AND IF HE DOESNT LIKE YOU HE WILL RIP YOUR ARMS OFF!!" little boy in front of us begins to cry, demands they leave the line. Dad who was playing on his cell phone and missed that whole convo can't understand why and apologies to us for his kids tears. I play completely stupid to the whole thing and we got to move up a spot when the family left....

Moral of the story, don't tell my kid a character isn't real....

 

[KBLovedDisney]

Little boy in front of us in line to meet Chewy for no reason at all turns around and tells my 5 year old that Chewy is fake. My son looks this kid dead in the eyes and yells "HE IS REAL AND HE IS A WOOKIE AND IF HE DOESNT LIKE YOU HE WILL RIP YOUR ARMS OFF!!" little boy in front of us begins to cry, demands they leave the line. Dad who was playing on his cell phone and missed that whole convo can't understand why and apologies to us for his kids tears. I play completely stupid to the whole thing and we got to move up a spot when the family left....

Moral of the story, don't tell my kid a character isn't real....

Please tell me he got one ginormous hug from Chewy.

And for the kid who was standing in line to meet a "fake" Wookie:

 

[Blackburn23]

Please tell me he got one ginormous hug from Chewy.

And for the kid who was standing in line to meet a "fake" Wookie:

He lived it up with Chewie! Made my boys day.

 

[twilight mitsuk]

Last February my wife, eldest daughter and son-in-law were on our annual trip to WDW and were standing in a late evening line for POC. In front of us was a Mom and her two young daughters, I'm guessing ages 5 and 7. The little girls were definitely running on adrenaline, as they started talking to my daughter non-stop.

My daughter has had her hair dyed in with a bright shade of red running through it for many years, and apparently the girls had ridden Pirates before, as they immediately applied the 'redhead' connection of the ride to my daughter. My daughter is ALWAYS friendly and engaging with folks (she's a GameStop manager), and even though the Mom rolled her eyes at us at the constant talking of the little girls to our daughter through the ENTIRE que, it was all fine. We enjoyed their constant little girl chatting as we worked our way down the line.

Just as we got to the split and before they sent the Mom and little ones in one direction and us in the other, the 7 year old ran up to my daughter, threw her arms around her and shouted, 'You are now my FAVORITE Disney pirate princess!', then ran off to join her Mom. Needless to say, a LOT of smiles were seen by the crowd waiting with us.

So, in case anyone asks you, now you know the Red Head Pirate actually has a human representative living here in Tennessee. ;-)

Regards! M

I always ended up getting called Harry Potter

 

[Jedi Stitch]

That’s when the War of 1812 ended

*pushing my taped glasses back by one finger and clears throat.
"Well actually, there was the Pig Wars in Washington State over the San Juan Islands in 1859. Basically a fight over manifest destiny and did the treaty mean the straight on the east or west side of the archipelago. In the end, US got the Islands and didn't bicker about not taking the lower half of Victoria Island that was south of the 48th parallel."

 

[Jedi Stitch]

Sorry 49th.

 

[SteveAZee]

Stopped at Ghirardelli's for ice cream and was treated to the matinee showing of a group of three older women sharing a can of tuna.

We moved to a different table.

Glad it wasn't cat food.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

Glad it wasn't cat food.

Thought canned tuna was cat food...

 

[CoreNovawarAMM]

I forget which line it was, I'm thinking a Fantasyland dark ride, but the guy in front of me was sharing a box of Willy Wonka Nerds candy with his family, and he turned around and gave me some. Then he gave me some more. I enjoy Nerds but don't have them often, so I was glad to accept. It was nice of him, but kind of strange at the same time.

There was a lady (ahead of my family and I in the FoP line) who was offering the people with her some gum. She turned around and offered us some. We accepted her offer and thanked her.

 

[graphite1326]

Little boy in front of us in line to meet Chewy for no reason at all turns around and tells my 5 year old that Chewy is fake. My son looks this kid dead in the eyes and yells "HE IS REAL AND HE IS A WOOKIE AND IF HE DOESNT LIKE YOU HE WILL RIP YOUR ARMS OFF!!" little boy in front of us begins to cry, demands they leave the line. Dad who was playing on his cell phone and missed that whole convo can't understand why and apologies to us for his kids tears. I play completely stupid to the whole thing and we got to move up a spot when the family left....

Moral of the story, don't tell my kid a character isn't real....

Uh we are going in the fall. Can I borrow him?

 

[graphite1326]

My wife will be visiting WDW for the first time in November. You have no idea how hard it will be for me to not be the guy you described. Even though she married me, sometimes my geek flag flies a little too high, even for her.

But I didn't and I wonder why
I feel like letting my GEEK flag fly
And I feel like I owe it, to someone, yeah

 

[KBLovedDisney]

But I didn't and I wonder why
I feel like letting my GEEK flag fly
And I feel like I owe it, to someone, yeah

Know what? I say Let your Geek Flag Fly!

 

[Sonconato]

I was on line for the Teacups and some kid (Like around 3 or 4) was licking the chain in the queue. His parents didn't do anything about it. Another time on POTC, there was a guy dressed as a pirate. He was walking through the line and talking (It sounded more like yelling to me) to kids. I don't know if those kids were even related to him or just random kids. The CM's didn't do anything about it. They just let him walk right on the ride. I heard him yelling in the boat behind me.

I don’t know what it is with these kids…and parents! We had seen something very similar at the Peter Pan Fastpass line a couple of months ago. This kid, about the same age, maybe a little older, licked the stainless-steel handrail along the entire queue line. He didn’t spare an inch! Meanwhile, the two parents were totally ignoring the kid. They were busy looking at their phones. Needless to say, we’ve tried very hard not to touch any handrails since.

 

[HwdStudio]

I forget which line it was, I'm thinking a Fantasyland dark ride, but the guy in front of me was sharing a box of Willy Wonka Nerds candy with his family, and he turned around and gave me some. Then he gave me some more. I enjoy Nerds but don't have them often, so I was glad to accept. It was nice of him, but kind of strange at the same time.

A kid in the elevator at the WDW Dolphin offered me some of his Skittles one day. I guess thought I needed to taste the rainbow. True Story

 

[disneyspirit]

Not an in queue story, but this one stuck with me as pretty funny: I walked past a family, mom, dad, 2 kids. The dad points and says, "there's the Tower of Terror right there. Let's see how long the wait is." The problem is that this happened in EPCOT. And he was pointing at the tan colored prayer tower in the Morocco pavilion. Took all my self control not to bust out laughing. I pity the poor CM who had to tell him the truth when he couldn't find the entrance to the ToT.

The funny thing is the top of Tower of Terror looks Moroccan because it's visible behind it. So he was pointing in the right direction.

 

[CoreNovawarAMM]

Not an in queue story, but this one stuck with me as pretty funny: I walked past a family, mom, dad, 2 kids. The dad points and says, "there's the Tower of Terror right there. Let's see how long the wait is." The problem is that this happened in EPCOT. And he was pointing at the tan colored prayer tower in the Morocco pavilion. Took all my self control not to bust out laughing. I pity the poor CM who had to tell him the truth when he couldn't find the entrance to the ToT.

Yesterday at MK, a little girl pointed right at the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and said, “Look, it’s the Rock n’ Roller Coaster!”

 

[Mousey21]

This is a classic funny yet not really. While waiting in the Que at the Haunted Mansion under the awning where there is a wall with the green iron fence HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, for some unexplained reason a child stuck his head through the rungs of the fence and got stuck (sort of funny,maybe ?) Father couldn't release his head, trying to Hercules the rungs and separate them but that wasn't going to work . Now heres sort of the wrong (very wrong thing) yet funny, all the others standing and holding up the line had their out stretched arms through, over and every other way filming this poor kid with their phones . Some people . I informed the now panicking father (as sirens can be heard approaching) he got it in there he'll have to get out the same way only his ears may hurt a bit more backing his head out (sorry I'm chuckling to my self as remembering this, I was going to suggest butter) the young boy being now a tad embarrassed was able to pull his head out and without loosing an ear.

Not at Disney but when I was 2 I did this at my grandmas on her stair railings.....firemen had to come get me out.