I try to convince people to go on vacation to WDW instead of other places
Most of my friends love Disney, but we don't talk about it much due to it makes them sad cause they cannot go....
One of my best friends LOVES Disney and she is expecting her second child. When she announced that she was having a baby, she bought four sets of Mickey ear hats to tell everyone.
I don't have a lot of themed merchandise, so I don't get stopped by people to talk Disney.
That is so sweet with the 4 sets of ears.
The merch definitely makes a difference...as one of my friends put it, you have to be pretty fond of Disney to put it on your car. I get the sadness part too...I have a friend who really enjoys WDW and wants to treat her daughter for HS grad next year, but it's not looking like it will be in the budget
which makes it tough to talk Disney.
Years ago, I was smoking and sitting next to woman who started chatting with me. I noticed her purse had a Mickey on it and I said, "Mickey purse!" She smiled big and said, "I like Mickey!"
She became a very close friend. It probably would have happened without the Mickey connection, but we always credit Mickey as the beginning of our friendship!
That's awesome!!! A friendship made b/c of the Mouse
Let's just say I am NOT surrounded by Disney lovers. So much so that I fear I've become a closet WDW fan. We had new neighbors move in next door a few years ago and I enthusiastically told them that we were heading back down for our yearly trip to WDW. I'm sure lepers and ex-cons have been looked at with less repugnance than I got from them that day and have been treated the same ever since. I would love to meet more "like-minded" people but I obviously live in the wrong circles....LOL.
That's kind of how it is at home. DH is not the fan that I am, so I can't really get into it at home. Of course, most people think it's nuts - still, I am lucky that my two new supervisors are also big WDW fans. It's nice to have some of the love of WDW at work...especially when they roll up to your desk and want to talk ADRs vs. work.
One of my customers at work was a Disney bus driver so he is a lot of fun to talk to and I have some co-workers that have been going recently so its fun to chat about new experiences at the world. Other than that I haven't met many people that have ever been before. The big vacation destinations for people around me are the beach and hunting in the mountains.
Well, that's very cool ... I'm sure he's got some great stories. Most of the people here do other things during vacay as well and reserve WDW for that "one big trip" so usually not many fans to talk to either...at least in my circles.
I've meet many whom respect Disney and have been there, but never meet a full on fan. I have gotten people more interested in Disney though and we do have chats. I'm kinda the Disney Guru in my hometown. I do have an aunt though that's a writer and she wrote many children's books for Disney! She lives in Santa Barbara near DL. So when we see each other we always discuss Disney sometimes!
Yeah- most of the people I meet are like that....and then somehow I wind up in a little group of people looking for trip planning advice. That was the crazy part about meeting the woman at the field trip...we were both able to field questions from the rest of the moms and dads who wanted to take their kids, but were scared b/c of how huge it is...from the planning perspective. That's awesome about your aunt! I'm sure she'd be a great person to talk Disney. What kinds of things has she written for them?
I wear a disney shirt pretty much every day of the year, I have enough to wear a different one every day for atleast a month (pathetic I know) and I always have a mickey antenna topper on my car that matches the time of year it is. Also I have a few visible Disney tattoos and I generally have my nails painted some type of Disney theme, so I get a lot of patients at work that talk to me about Disney, its usually my go to when I'm talking to a patient during a surgery/procedure as it seems to calm people down and they can focus more on my blabbing on and on about Disney rather then the fact that they are getting skin cancer removed.
I personally think it's awesome that you have all of those shirts. I've thought about getting the antenna topper set, but it's probably good that I didn't since this vehile doens't have a traditional antenna. I'm sure all of that does help your patients as well. The girl that sits next to me at work is going through some of that right now, and I know she's very stressed. In fact, I just made a cake for a charity event that's put on by a girl who lost her dad to issues surrounding a melanoma...horrible about her father, but we raised a lot of $ for the American Cancer Society.
I work at a specialty toy store so I definitely run into some Disney lovers. Although I have found that just because you have a Mickey purse, that does not mean you want to have conversation : / I was just being friendly! But this woman wanted nothing to do with me!
Apparently she needs more Mickey!
Well, that sounds like a lot of fun! As for the lady with the bag...I think that's why I've been apprehensive about getting too chatty, but so far I've been lucky. Definitely sounds like that lady could use an extended stay in the magic bubble!!!
I have some Disneyland/Mickey tshirts and a WDW sweatshirt I wore at college. After the "corporate shill!" shouts from the companies are evil crowd, a lot of people thought it was cool. I'm interested to see what happens if I do the Campus Rep program
I think a lot of people just don't get it. I read an interesting article the other day on Disney World w/o kids and it follows a Disney skeptic who winds up touring with a friend who is a Disney enthusiast. Part of me just wanted to jump into the article and beg this woman to loosen up, embrace it all, etc.
http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/visiting-disney-world-without-kids
Not sure what's all involved in the Campus Rep program (since I only had friends who did the college program), but I'm sure it would be interesting...at the very least.
