The friends who think you are crazy for going

Schneewittchen

Schneewittchen

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I feel your pain. We go to WDW every spring (we do more adventurous stuff in the summer). I'm kind of a Disney nut anyway - innovation, films, art, toys and clothes for the kids. My kids love it and my husband appreciates the Disney operations and engineering magic as well.

My boss is a disnerd too, so he doesn't tease, but a lot of other people judge...

That's when I start babbling about the suspension of reality, letting the mouse drive, the intersection of of imagination and industrial engineering, customer service excellence... Tell me more about your crummy timeshare in Mexico... Oh, it has a pool, that's nice.
 
Raineman

Raineman

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My DW and I have friends who are big Disney fans, but are so far in debt that they can't afford to go to WDW, so every time we talk about something from one of our trips, we always get the snarky remarks from them. "Must be nice to be able to go there all the time", "I don't know why you spend so much money to go there", etc. I do not apologize for my love of WDW, and I don't apologize for using some of the money I make to take a fun trip to WDW.
 
Courtney6682

Courtney6682

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Raineman said:
My DW and I have friends who are big Disney fans, but are so far in debt that they can't afford to go to WDW, so every time we talk about something from one of our trips, we always get the snarky remarks from them. "Must be nice to be able to go there all the time", "I don't know why you spend so much money to go there", etc. I do not apologize for my love of WDW, and I don't apologize for using some of the money I make to take a fun trip to WDW.
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I always reply with...''yes it is nice...we work hard and we play hard...'' usually shuts them up;)
 
Chef Mickey

Chef Mickey

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Goofyernmost said:
It is something that I have run into for years and as I have gotten older it has gotten worse. Before it was just looked on as being an obsession. I had one friend who constantly offered an eye roll when I mentioned that I was going to WDW again. She failed to remember that she goes to Aruba every single year during her birthday week. Same hotel, same beach, basically the same grains of sand and pretty much the same ocean. So which one of us is obsessed?

One of my daughters used to give out a loud sigh when I would mention that I was going. To that I replied, your right, I should take up heavy drinking as a substitute. And she, herself, as been a number of times, with her family, since she married and had children.

When I meet someone my age, (ancient), one of the first things I mention is my desire to go to Disney repeatedly. The vast majority of ladies my age look at me like I have three heads and I hear from them no more. A few have mentioned that they like WDW too, but, start to look at me funny when I tell them how often I have been. It seems that as we age, we are supposed to mature at the same time and just like opera and shuffleboard. I say nay, nay!
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Yeah, people are such hypocrites. They go camping in Yellowstone, gambling in Vegas, or some lame beach in Destin every year and call that "fun" while I would think it's torture. Different strokes.

Aruba is far from the nicest beach, in my opinion....yet she loves it. More power to her.
 
Mal

Mal

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I'll be honest, most of my friends/coworkers who totally do NOT get it, are at the end of the day jealous of an experience that they don't get to have, for whatever reason. I know for one of my coworkers in particular, her comments about me returning to Disney stem from a place of her being a wife to a man who refuses to go to Disney, and because she is not independent or strong willed enough to go on a trip without her husband, she won't ever get to go. So her comments come from a place of bitterness. Another friend cannot justify the "expense" (which of course has no basis other than maybe one article they've read online), so they won't ever go, no matter how many times I try to explain that Disney can absolutely be done on a budget (Hello? I am a single woman who doesn't make a ton of money, but I still go!) And of course there are those people who for some reason believe they are too grown up for Disney, which is preposterous.

At the end of the day, to me, people who say those kinds of things say them because they've never been and they don't understand the magic.
 
ScarletBegonias

ScarletBegonias

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I get it too and I've only gone 2x in 2 years. People are like "you're going back?"

Like others have said, people who haven't been (or have and just don't like it) won't get it, so I just smile and say "YEP!"

It's even worse when they find out we drive 16 hours. "WHY NOT FLY!?" We cannot justify the expense of flying, and the drive doesn't cut anything out of our trip, sooo yeah. :p
 
SSH

SSH

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We all get those questions...I don't take offense at all. I just reply the same way: "everyone has their happy place...where they feel totally relaxed, safe and at peace. For some it's the beach or a ski slope. Others in the middle of an ocean. For some it's a museum. And for me, it's Disney. Crazy, ain't it?" For some reason, that usually works.
 
danyoung56

danyoung56

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Like almost everyone else here, I've had to deal with these type of questions for years. Heck, even the lady who cuts my hair knows that I'm probably heading to either Orlando or Anaheim. It used to bother me if I couldn't convince someone that I wasn't a goof. Now it doesn't bother me as much. I try to tell people that I'm not just going to ride rides. I'm going to enjoy the scenery, and to eat great food, and to drink in unique situations, and see terrific live shows, and end each day with a world class fireworks show. They usually get it. And if they don't, who cares?
 
TXDisney

TXDisney

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We get the "why are you guys going again with no kids" comment quite a bit. Which until recently we didn't tell many people we've been trying for kids with difficulty and no success yet (people making those comments is a whole other subject). My answer to them is wdw is my happy place. Everyone has there's, so relate it to there's is what I do.
 
Disney4family

Disney4family

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We're ending our school days up here on Long Island. Yearbooks are out. Honestly, my seniors have been "out" since spring break. :confused:
We were talking about the upcoming summer and their exciting plans for going to college. One of them just said to me last period that my feelings towards Disney World reminded him of a quote from The Little Prince (which we read in French) - "All grown ups were once children, but only few of them remember it."
Pretty accurate. The people with the "blank stares" just don't get it, but we're fortunate we do.:happy:
 
JIMINYCR

JIMINYCR

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I've finally gotten to the point where I tell only the friends who love Disney as much as we do that we're going. ( Most of our friends fall into this category anyway) Their response is to be happy/ exhilarated for us or jealous of us. The nay sayers and Disney haters find out about our trip after we return. When they say why didnt you tell us you were going? ... I say, cause I knew it wouldnt interest you and you wouldnt want to hear me talk about it..... AND I never bring them back anything from Disney either... there that serves them right... :p:p:p
 
Pixie VaVoom

Pixie VaVoom

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Ya know - if you are the one paying your own way with money that you have earned, you should be able to stand in your own front yard and light dollar bills on fire while singing "Yankee Doodle" if that is what you want to do !! by all means go to Disney if you want toand can afford it !! The naysayers can all go play in traffic on the "Tomorrowland Speedway" for all they matter !! Life is short - eat your "Mickey Premium Bar" FIRST !!
 
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Disney.Mike

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I'll agree with several others here. The majority of people I know who give me the "your going again" speech are jealous. I've heard all the snarky comments about how it must be nice to be rich enough to go. The bad thing is many of these come from people with similar money.

I just chose to have a 50 inch flatscreen instead of a 75 inch and my wife chose to drive a minivan instead of a $80k Suburban. The thing that gets me is that many of these people spend upwards of 200-300$ a week on eating out.

but to each their own.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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TXDisney said:
We get the "why are you guys going again with no kids" comment quite a bit. Which until recently we didn't tell many people we've been trying for kids with difficulty and no success yet (people making those comments is a whole other subject). My answer to them is wdw is my happy place. Everyone has there's, so relate it to there's is what I do.
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Wait until you are my age and go alone. There is no understanding at all. What? You're going by yourself? Why? Why, would that be fun? Aren't you a little to old for that? Actually, that is a good question, and the only answer I have is because I like going, it makes me feel good and brings back a lot of memories that are good ones that I don't ever want to lose. So in the words of an old friend of mine... "You go to your church, I'll go to mine."
 
KikoKea

KikoKea

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Since several of my friends cannot afford to visit WDW or DL, or messed-up life problems don't allow them to, I sometimes say we're going to the East Coast and let people assume we're visiting family since they know I fly back often to help my mom.

For others, when they ask why we are going again, I briefly explain that we can totally relax there. We enjoy the anticipation of the trip, have fun, don't rush, tease each other, and generally act like we are 40 years younger.
 
DisneyGigi

DisneyGigi

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One thing I have figured out is most of the people that say that to us.. A. Have never been, B, went at a really horrid time with no idea of what to expect and hated it, C, are jealous we go more than they do. The same people usually always go to the same beach, the same time of the year every year and have been to Dollywood 5000 times lol. I am glad they don't get it, they may wanna go with us if they did. ;)
 
Beckett

Beckett

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Wow! There's a lot of us Disney lovers who get a hard time from others about visiting so often! I agree with all of you who said it is a bit of jealousy, and in my case those who have criticized me are actually in debt from buying unnecessary things just so that they can brag about them and they don't understand why I don't want the same things. I could care less about that. I get to pay for all of my daughter's and my needs and save for my trips thanks to not wasting money like that. My daughter won't remember me buying her the latest things constantly during her childhood, but I know she will remember our trips.
 

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