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Your Most Embarrassing Disney Moment!! (LETS GO, BE HONEST NOW)
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Fritz_and_Ernst
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This story is classic and we tell it to this day. We are walking through Liberty Square. We hear a commotion. In front of Columbia Harbor House is a family argueing. I am videotaping something, so I think what the heck this will be some good videotape. So the arguement turns a little violent. Picture these people are not small at all. The son is 13-15 and a easy 300. Mom is just as big. Just because it adds to the story, they are african american, so they are very passionite people, who tend to be loud. I am just skinny white guy taking it in. While most people are trying not to notice and walk by I am like action news guy going for an exclusive. Anyway she is nailing this kid in the face with open fists. He is saying stop mama, stop. He tries to get away by getting in the shrubs in front of the CHH, but mama's arms are too long and just nailing him. She sees me taping at this point and decides to turn the rage over to me. She walks towards me saying some explicits and asks what the (insert) you looking at honkey? This point in my life at Disney I feel a little sassy. I pretend not hear her. She asks if I am deaf, that's when I acknowledge her with, oh are you talking to me, I was videotaping this building for my memories when I get home. This is when we decide to bolt before it gets real ugly. By the time we are half way through Fantasyland we decide they couldn't have caught up with us anyway, but we were laughing hard.
So there you go, child abuse in a funny little story.
So there you go, child abuse in a funny little story.
I am glad this thread has been such a hit and people are enjoying it so much! I'm glad everyone has been so open with their humiliations and funny stories for the amusement of others. Glad everyone is enjoying it!
Hope to get some more embarrassing stories throughout the weekend!!
Hope to get some more embarrassing stories throughout the weekend!!
WDW1971
Member
June 1996...I was visiting WDW for the first time since 1976. I'd just graduated from college and my girlfriend Tonya, and her family (Dusty & Pat and Tonya's brother Dustin) invited me to go with them to WDW...they paid pretty much all of my expenses (which, in hindsight, I'm sure made them upset when we split up less than a month later... :lol: ...)
Aaaanyway, we were at the Studios and Dusty, Dustin and I wanted to ride ToT. Tonya and Pat decided to sit it out. After our ride (first one for us all), we were so excited that we wanted to get Tonya and Pat on there. After much convincing, we were back in line...all of us.
We progressed through the line, pre-show and queue for the elevator. We were sitting on the back row. I was on the far right as you look into the elevator and Tonya was seated by me. Well, things were fine as we went up. I got a gentle squeeze on my right knee from Tonya every time the elevator moved or something happened up until we entered the drop shaft. Then, things became a bit more...uncomfortable. Tonya went from the sweet little southern girl I knew and loved holding my knee to a wild falcon screaming and gripping me with her talons... :goodnevil
In the adrenaline rush, I didn't notice the pain too much...just some discomfort, really.
After exiting the gift shop, Pat was talking to me and looked down and said, "What happened to your leg?" It was then I noticed the five little streams of blood running down toward my feet. People were staring and I suddenly felt as if I was some sort of freak. :lookaroun
Well, the scars on my leg healed much faster than the hurt she put on my heart a few weeks later, but I still have her to thank for my love of WDW now. And now I get to share it with my wife and our two little boys this year.
Oh, and my wife LOVES the ToT!!! :sohappy:
Aaaanyway, we were at the Studios and Dusty, Dustin and I wanted to ride ToT. Tonya and Pat decided to sit it out. After our ride (first one for us all), we were so excited that we wanted to get Tonya and Pat on there. After much convincing, we were back in line...all of us.
We progressed through the line, pre-show and queue for the elevator. We were sitting on the back row. I was on the far right as you look into the elevator and Tonya was seated by me. Well, things were fine as we went up. I got a gentle squeeze on my right knee from Tonya every time the elevator moved or something happened up until we entered the drop shaft. Then, things became a bit more...uncomfortable. Tonya went from the sweet little southern girl I knew and loved holding my knee to a wild falcon screaming and gripping me with her talons... :goodnevil
In the adrenaline rush, I didn't notice the pain too much...just some discomfort, really.
After exiting the gift shop, Pat was talking to me and looked down and said, "What happened to your leg?" It was then I noticed the five little streams of blood running down toward my feet. People were staring and I suddenly felt as if I was some sort of freak. :lookaroun
Well, the scars on my leg healed much faster than the hurt she put on my heart a few weeks later, but I still have her to thank for my love of WDW now. And now I get to share it with my wife and our two little boys this year.
Oh, and my wife LOVES the ToT!!! :sohappy:
BellhopMicah
New Member
Fritz_and_Ernst said:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
That is GREAT!
Texas84
Well-Known Member
We were waiting for the parade at MGM and I decided to rush off and get something in a store before it started. On the way back, there was a big crowd watching some MGM street characters. They asked for a volunteer for a rope trick and one of the players spotted me at the BACK of the crowd and started coming after ME with the rope. So I RAN, really because I didn't want to miss it. But when I heard the guy say "He's running away!", then I was embarrassed. 
captcanada
Member
This storey isnt nearly as good as most on here.
But...you all shared, so I may as well share too.
(Not as embarassing, but definately makes me look more foolish. Hope it makes some others feel better about themselves
)
Ok, it was January 2005 (probably the 22nd of Jan that just passed).
The temperature was record lows for Florida (around 45 degrees f).
I had never ridden Splash mountain (you can probably see where this is going) and I was with my Nephew and Brother-in-law. So....Uncle Tom (me) comes up with the brilliant plan of going on Splash Mountain (during a record low remember).
So, on we go. Everyone gets wet. I get the wettest (while wearing jeans, a t-shirt and a thick sweater....so I stay wet for quite a while).
At the end of the ride, while walking off....people are looking at me in the way I'd look at someone deciding whether or not they should ride (considering the temp and how wet I was). At this point my nephew looks up at his father and says......
"Lets not let Uncle Tom pick the rides anymore".
Of course....the people in line giggled at me.
Like I said....
Not quite as embarassing.....
but wow, did I feel like an idiot.
(P.S. The worst part is....I had fun....and I'd do it again!! )
But...you all shared, so I may as well share too.
(Not as embarassing, but definately makes me look more foolish. Hope it makes some others feel better about themselves
)Ok, it was January 2005 (probably the 22nd of Jan that just passed).
The temperature was record lows for Florida (around 45 degrees f).
I had never ridden Splash mountain (you can probably see where this is going) and I was with my Nephew and Brother-in-law. So....Uncle Tom (me) comes up with the brilliant plan of going on Splash Mountain (during a record low remember).
So, on we go. Everyone gets wet. I get the wettest (while wearing jeans, a t-shirt and a thick sweater....so I stay wet for quite a while).
At the end of the ride, while walking off....people are looking at me in the way I'd look at someone deciding whether or not they should ride (considering the temp and how wet I was). At this point my nephew looks up at his father and says......
"Lets not let Uncle Tom pick the rides anymore".
Of course....the people in line giggled at me.
Like I said....
Not quite as embarassing.....
but wow, did I feel like an idiot.
(P.S. The worst part is....I had fun....and I'd do it again!!
)
Christina
New Member
I have a story that doesn't seem so bad, but it embarassed me none the less...
So me and my sisters and two guys we'd met up with the day before at Universal were at the Wonderful World of Disney store in DD... we were browsing through the clothes there... I was looking for Pooh pj's...
So we're having a great time, and its one of those "relax in Disney" days. Besides, the guys we "picked up" ahah were pretty cute, so it was all good. Suddenly, this adorable old lady with the highest voice comes over to me.
"Excuse me dearie... you look to be about the size of my granddaughter. Can you try on a shirt for me."
Now I'm thinking, NO... back off lady. But I was in a good mood so I look at my sisters and my friends and they shrug and nod. Lindsay is doing what we like to call "silent laughing", and Brooke rolls her eyes, looking bored. So I turn towards the lady.
"Sure, I'll try on the shirt."
She smiles at me and goes off to get the shirt. I talk to my friends for a bit, and she comes back, holding what I think to be a enormous, Cinderella tablecloth. She hands it over to me and looks at me expectantly. I look down at it and realize that it is, indeed a shirt.
Brooke is laughing. "Put it on." So I put it on over my clothes, and it falls way past down my knees and is about five times too big. Grandma smiles at me and thanks me for trying it on. Everyone at the store is staring at me and laughing because I look like I'm drowning in a big tub of fabric. Grandma then proceeds to pull out a picture of her granddaughter, who must of been at least 250 lbs. Needless to say, I was insulted and embrassed at "looking about her size" being only 135 pounds.
Anyways, I thought that was pretty embarassing... another time I lost my bikini top in Typhoon Lagon... luckily I had a Nirvana shirt there, but still.
So me and my sisters and two guys we'd met up with the day before at Universal were at the Wonderful World of Disney store in DD... we were browsing through the clothes there... I was looking for Pooh pj's...
So we're having a great time, and its one of those "relax in Disney" days. Besides, the guys we "picked up" ahah were pretty cute, so it was all good. Suddenly, this adorable old lady with the highest voice comes over to me.
"Excuse me dearie... you look to be about the size of my granddaughter. Can you try on a shirt for me."
Now I'm thinking, NO... back off lady. But I was in a good mood so I look at my sisters and my friends and they shrug and nod. Lindsay is doing what we like to call "silent laughing", and Brooke rolls her eyes, looking bored. So I turn towards the lady.
"Sure, I'll try on the shirt."
She smiles at me and goes off to get the shirt. I talk to my friends for a bit, and she comes back, holding what I think to be a enormous, Cinderella tablecloth. She hands it over to me and looks at me expectantly. I look down at it and realize that it is, indeed a shirt.
Brooke is laughing. "Put it on." So I put it on over my clothes, and it falls way past down my knees and is about five times too big. Grandma smiles at me and thanks me for trying it on. Everyone at the store is staring at me and laughing because I look like I'm drowning in a big tub of fabric. Grandma then proceeds to pull out a picture of her granddaughter, who must of been at least 250 lbs. Needless to say, I was insulted and embrassed at "looking about her size" being only 135 pounds.
Anyways, I thought that was pretty embarassing... another time I lost my bikini top in Typhoon Lagon... luckily I had a Nirvana shirt there, but still.
Yukinon
New Member
I love all the stories so far!! Mine arent quite embarassing but just fun memories really
* After a long long long day at MK (I was about 10 at the time) we were walking near Cinderella's castle and I think it was me, I saw some ducks in the moat and I yelled "DUCK" and with that my grandpa ducked his head like something was going to hit him!! We all had a good laugh that time!
* Same trip, my mom had to go to the bathroom at Tony's in MK and went in the men's room - but the bad part was that she went into a stall, did her business and it wasnt until she was washing her hands that she noticed the urinal... so now whenever we are at Tony's we direct her in the right side
* In 2000, we had a large group going to Disney... me, my mom, my grandma, my Aunt Audrey, my Uncle Joe, my Aunt Barb, and my cousin John. Well we rented 2 wheelchairs that year - one for Granny and one for Aunt Barb and my Uncle Joe and cousin John were pushing them. One late night in the Epcot parking lot (we were literally the last cars there!) the two men of the group decide to play chicken with the wheelchairs! They were at opposite ends and run at full speed at each other and just as they were about to crash they would go other directions!!! This took up at least another half hour... then John goes running off with Granny to the other side of the parking lot singing "Its a jolly holiday with Granny" I was so happy that nobody else was around!!
* This coming trip we're going on next week, already goofy moments... booking our hotel, my mom requests a "sleepa-sofer" instead of a "sleeper-sofa"
And once we get on this trip I'm sure many more embarrasing moments and stories to tell
* After a long long long day at MK (I was about 10 at the time) we were walking near Cinderella's castle and I think it was me, I saw some ducks in the moat and I yelled "DUCK" and with that my grandpa ducked his head like something was going to hit him!! We all had a good laugh that time!
* Same trip, my mom had to go to the bathroom at Tony's in MK and went in the men's room - but the bad part was that she went into a stall, did her business and it wasnt until she was washing her hands that she noticed the urinal... so now whenever we are at Tony's we direct her in the right side
* In 2000, we had a large group going to Disney... me, my mom, my grandma, my Aunt Audrey, my Uncle Joe, my Aunt Barb, and my cousin John. Well we rented 2 wheelchairs that year - one for Granny and one for Aunt Barb and my Uncle Joe and cousin John were pushing them. One late night in the Epcot parking lot (we were literally the last cars there!) the two men of the group decide to play chicken with the wheelchairs! They were at opposite ends and run at full speed at each other and just as they were about to crash they would go other directions!!! This took up at least another half hour... then John goes running off with Granny to the other side of the parking lot singing "Its a jolly holiday with Granny" I was so happy that nobody else was around!!
* This coming trip we're going on next week, already goofy moments... booking our hotel, my mom requests a "sleepa-sofer" instead of a "sleeper-sofa"
And once we get on this trip I'm sure many more embarrasing moments and stories to tell
PrincessK
Member
Ok, I might as well join the fun too. These are hysterical.
So it's 2000 and Mom and I are on vacation. We're in the MK in Liberty Square by the Christmas shop when she decides that she's going to use the ladies room. I was still waiting to pay, so I told her that I would meet her there. I ask her which one and she tells me "Pinocchio's Bathroom." Fine. I was staying for E Rides, but I had her room key, so she needed to see me before she left.
I pay for my stuff and head over. Except, I meant the ones by Small World and Peter Pan and she meant the one by the restaurant. I go, and she's not there. I head back the the Christmas Shop...she's not there. I think that maybe she's did go to the one by the restaurant...not there either. I go back to the Christmas Shop. By this point a CM has seen me running around. Thinking I lost a kid, he asks me what the issue is. I told him I lost my mother...this guy now thinks that I'm either Special Needs or that my Mom is senile. (Keep in mind I was 20 at the time and she was 45.) He could barely keep a straight face when my mother walked up a few minutes later.
Mom and I joke to this day about it. We'll see what happens in 3 days when we head back!
Kristin
So it's 2000 and Mom and I are on vacation. We're in the MK in Liberty Square by the Christmas shop when she decides that she's going to use the ladies room. I was still waiting to pay, so I told her that I would meet her there. I ask her which one and she tells me "Pinocchio's Bathroom." Fine. I was staying for E Rides, but I had her room key, so she needed to see me before she left.
I pay for my stuff and head over. Except, I meant the ones by Small World and Peter Pan and she meant the one by the restaurant. I go, and she's not there. I head back the the Christmas Shop...she's not there. I think that maybe she's did go to the one by the restaurant...not there either. I go back to the Christmas Shop. By this point a CM has seen me running around. Thinking I lost a kid, he asks me what the issue is. I told him I lost my mother...this guy now thinks that I'm either Special Needs or that my Mom is senile. (Keep in mind I was 20 at the time and she was 45.) He could barely keep a straight face when my mother walked up a few minutes later.
Mom and I joke to this day about it. We'll see what happens in 3 days when we head back!
Kristin
Steamboat_Kevin
Well-Known Member
I walked into a door at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, it was one of those clear doors and it was so clean that i didn't know it was there! :lookaroun
I also slipped and fell on one of those jumping fountains at Epcot :lol:
I also slipped and fell on one of those jumping fountains at Epcot :lol:
SpenceMan01
Well-Known Member
:lol:
These stories are all great! They've got me laughing soo hard. I have one that happened on our trip this past January. I don't know if it's quite embarassing moreso as it is funny...
Now, as we all know, WDW has visitors from around the world, and from many cultures, and many times people wear clothes from their respective cultures. So, we were walking from Hall of Presidents/Liberty Square, along the hub to Adventureland. There was a small crowd of people gathered off to our right. In the center there was one lady dressed in a weird sort of outfit. My Dad turned to me and asked "So, what country do you think she's from?" I turned and looked and said, "Uhh.. Dad.... that's Pocahontas."
:lol:
These stories are all great! They've got me laughing soo hard. I have one that happened on our trip this past January. I don't know if it's quite embarassing moreso as it is funny...
Now, as we all know, WDW has visitors from around the world, and from many cultures, and many times people wear clothes from their respective cultures. So, we were walking from Hall of Presidents/Liberty Square, along the hub to Adventureland. There was a small crowd of people gathered off to our right. In the center there was one lady dressed in a weird sort of outfit. My Dad turned to me and asked "So, what country do you think she's from?" I turned and looked and said, "Uhh.. Dad.... that's Pocahontas."
:lol:
:lol: :lol:
These stories are great, ok here's one of my other ones that really isn't as embarassingg, but again, just a funny story... LOTS of stuff happened in one day
So it was our senior class trip and we were on the monorail, it was me and about 6 of my buddies in a car with like 8 girls (not from our school and we weren't with them, just lucky coincidence)
So my buddy and I were the only one's standing, so we decided to be creepy just for laughs (these girls were very attractive i must add) and so one was on a cell phone an my buddy goes "WOW... I'VE GOT A CELLPHONE TOO... WEIRD!!!" and then I just looked to one of the girls and go "so... no adam's apple huh... how's that workin for ya?" and we went on with like 6 or 7 one liners, but they were laughing... so they started talking to us... Later that night, i was with my girlfriend and we saw these girls again and they came up to me and were like "so where are the rest of your friends you were with when you guys were hitting on us" and I just laughed and was like "oh god now is not a good time" (i WAS NOT hitting on them, it was just we were trying to be creepy... and it backfired) My girlfriend knows me so she was fine with it...
but then, we're watching whatever fireworks show it was then (not wishes) and before it starts and we go into a store... and i get in line to buy my mom something... and no lie... a woman literally ducks her shoulder and pushes me entirely out of line... I WAS BLATANTLY IN LINE... and she ducked her shoulder and pushed me out.. I said something but she then went up to the counter... then... i was next in line... and when the guy calls the next person to help... HE CALLS THE PERSON BEHIND ME... so i go "what am i invisibile??!!?!" and just put down the gift and walked out angry...
So we meet up with my friends, i tell them bout the girls and they just laugh and then we watch the fireworks... so the fireworks ends and i'm sure a lot of you have been on Main St. after fireworks... there's like literally a million people RUSHING to the exit and you can't move unless the crowd does... so.. its 9:58 and the park officially is closed at 10:00 and some lady is coming UP main st. and yells right at me and my friends "they should have a line for people trying to get into the park!" WHAT?!?!?!?! why?!?!?!?! :lol: what can she accomplish... but she was serious... apparently she wanted to walk to Space Mt and see it close in front of her????
Then, we get out of the park and some lady in front of me has a stroller (the double ones) and she PARKS THE STROLLER AND LOCKS IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CROWD AND LEAVES.... So.. me and my friend are directly behind her and walk into it... then... we cannot get around it cuz everyone is rushing... and we felt like idiots just sitting in the middle of the crowd stuck behind a stroller...
So those are not as good... I know, but A LOT of the posts we are getting here are very funny!! So lets get some more stories because I can tell many people are reading these and really enjoying them!
These stories are great, ok here's one of my other ones that really isn't as embarassingg, but again, just a funny story... LOTS of stuff happened in one day
So it was our senior class trip and we were on the monorail, it was me and about 6 of my buddies in a car with like 8 girls (not from our school and we weren't with them, just lucky coincidence)
So my buddy and I were the only one's standing, so we decided to be creepy just for laughs (these girls were very attractive i must add) and so one was on a cell phone an my buddy goes "WOW... I'VE GOT A CELLPHONE TOO... WEIRD!!!" and then I just looked to one of the girls and go "so... no adam's apple huh... how's that workin for ya?" and we went on with like 6 or 7 one liners, but they were laughing... so they started talking to us... Later that night, i was with my girlfriend and we saw these girls again and they came up to me and were like "so where are the rest of your friends you were with when you guys were hitting on us" and I just laughed and was like "oh god now is not a good time" (i WAS NOT hitting on them, it was just we were trying to be creepy... and it backfired) My girlfriend knows me so she was fine with it...
but then, we're watching whatever fireworks show it was then (not wishes) and before it starts and we go into a store... and i get in line to buy my mom something... and no lie... a woman literally ducks her shoulder and pushes me entirely out of line... I WAS BLATANTLY IN LINE... and she ducked her shoulder and pushed me out.. I said something but she then went up to the counter... then... i was next in line... and when the guy calls the next person to help... HE CALLS THE PERSON BEHIND ME... so i go "what am i invisibile??!!?!" and just put down the gift and walked out angry...
So we meet up with my friends, i tell them bout the girls and they just laugh and then we watch the fireworks... so the fireworks ends and i'm sure a lot of you have been on Main St. after fireworks... there's like literally a million people RUSHING to the exit and you can't move unless the crowd does... so.. its 9:58 and the park officially is closed at 10:00 and some lady is coming UP main st. and yells right at me and my friends "they should have a line for people trying to get into the park!" WHAT?!?!?!?! why?!?!?!?! :lol: what can she accomplish... but she was serious... apparently she wanted to walk to Space Mt and see it close in front of her????
Then, we get out of the park and some lady in front of me has a stroller (the double ones) and she PARKS THE STROLLER AND LOCKS IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CROWD AND LEAVES.... So.. me and my friend are directly behind her and walk into it... then... we cannot get around it cuz everyone is rushing... and we felt like idiots just sitting in the middle of the crowd stuck behind a stroller...
So those are not as good... I know, but A LOT of the posts we are getting here are very funny!! So lets get some more stories because I can tell many people are reading these and really enjoying them!
Anymore funny stories to help get me and probably some others through the work day with a few laughs?
If we're out of stories I just want to thank everyone for their help. We seemed to have made a lot of people laugh.
I'll try to think of some more original threads to start too if I can, I enjoyed everyone's participation and it was fun to watch the popularity of this thread grow!
If we're out of stories I just want to thank everyone for their help. We seemed to have made a lot of people laugh.
I'll try to think of some more original threads to start too if I can, I enjoyed everyone's participation and it was fun to watch the popularity of this thread grow!
Disneydreaming
New Member
My kids have been reading this thread and love it, even reading about themselves, lolol.
They reminded me of another really embarasing moment, this time its the same kid that threw the plates off the dinner table at Garden Grill (belive me she is an angel most of the time, this is her alter ego!!)
It was me with my 3 daughters one day in the MK by ourselves, my now ex-husband was off visiting with local family. My kids were all pretty young at the time, I think 10, 4 and 3, with each one of them wanting to go on entirely different rides, arguing and creating so much friction I just wanted to leave. (Come to think of it I was pretty brave doing this by myself at their ages!!). Anyway, to be diplomatic we tossed coins to decide which ride we would go on first. Unfortunately, we did this while standing in one of the "spokes" in front of the castle, and my 3 year old lost. One of her 'hissy fits' came on, and in front of MANY people she took off one of her shoes, threw it down with all the might she had and threw herself on the ground pounding her fists. Then my 4 year old starts yelling at her to quit embarrasing her, and my 10 year old starts yelling at me to make them stop. At this point everyone is watching this display going on, and being overwhelmed, I was at a loss to get control of the situation. I surrendered to the bench nearby and put my head down and litterally started crying in the happiest place on earth. A lady watching the whole scene came over and asked if there was anything she could do and I said (jokingly) 'take my kids, PLEASE!!'. She laughed it off and I did too, and gave me a pat on the back and said she completely understood. I felt better just because this one lady stopped and offered comfort and my kids, seeing the embarrasment they were causing for themselves, stopped being brats.
They reminded me of another really embarasing moment, this time its the same kid that threw the plates off the dinner table at Garden Grill (belive me she is an angel most of the time, this is her alter ego!!)
It was me with my 3 daughters one day in the MK by ourselves, my now ex-husband was off visiting with local family. My kids were all pretty young at the time, I think 10, 4 and 3, with each one of them wanting to go on entirely different rides, arguing and creating so much friction I just wanted to leave. (Come to think of it I was pretty brave doing this by myself at their ages!!). Anyway, to be diplomatic we tossed coins to decide which ride we would go on first. Unfortunately, we did this while standing in one of the "spokes" in front of the castle, and my 3 year old lost. One of her 'hissy fits' came on, and in front of MANY people she took off one of her shoes, threw it down with all the might she had and threw herself on the ground pounding her fists. Then my 4 year old starts yelling at her to quit embarrasing her, and my 10 year old starts yelling at me to make them stop. At this point everyone is watching this display going on, and being overwhelmed, I was at a loss to get control of the situation. I surrendered to the bench nearby and put my head down and litterally started crying in the happiest place on earth. A lady watching the whole scene came over and asked if there was anything she could do and I said (jokingly) 'take my kids, PLEASE!!'. She laughed it off and I did too, and gave me a pat on the back and said she completely understood. I felt better just because this one lady stopped and offered comfort and my kids, seeing the embarrasment they were causing for themselves, stopped being brats.
slappy magoo
Well-Known Member
It was November of 1997. My (now-ex) wife and I are at MGM. We're waiting for the ol' Superstar Television show, where they'd have volunteers act out moments from TV shows. I have a baaaad habit of being silly in public and embarrassing whoever is with me, and the old ball and chain asked me...BEGGED me...to not make a scene. I promised, and intended to keep the promise...when a cast member literally pointed at me and said "Could you come up here for a second?" Thinking he literally needed help with something (after all I'ma big strapping lad) I get up ready to do some heavy lifting. He asks me to say "It's Tool Time!" in my best announcer voice, and apparently I did well, and I got the gig. I wound up being Al in the Home Improvement section of the show. I won't say I was good or bad, but I had another guest come up to me and complain that it was unfair they allowed a "ringer" to be Al instead of a guest like...you know...him. He assumed I was "the guy" that Disney hires to act like a guest and volunteer and show all the rubes how easy it is. And I guess he really REALLY wanted to be Al. I asked him why he didn't volunteer, and one of his kids said "He was peeing!"
That's right. The kid. The guy who was whining that he wasn't invited to play was married with children. Instead of acting like it wasn't a big deal to not be a part of the show, he decided to teach his children a valuable lesson of crying like a newborn with a bee sting if you don't get your way. The guy kept on me for not "letting" him be Al, which is SO unfair being that I obviously work for Disney, and this is a show for the guests. At this point, he's following me to Muppetvision. So I finally stop, turn around, and say, "You know, when the show is going on...you're not really ON television, you know that, right?" He's starting to shrink down, aware that maybe he made a mistake, maybe the guy walking through MGM with an increasingly unhappy wife heading towards another attraction isn't on the Disney payroll after all. And him starting to shrink away just starts making me angrier. I start to tell this guy Im' going to be wherever he is for the rest of the trip, and every ride he wants to ride, every restaurant where he wants to eat, everytime he's gotta take a leak, I'm gonna be there first, and he's gonna have to wait for me. By the time I'm done, his wife and kids are gonna assume they're mine. There's a pause, and then his more-vocal kid says... "OK."
Looking back, I feel bad because that kid must've been miserable with a dad like that, but the comic timing was perfect. Under my breath, I told him "Remember why you're here" and walked away. I saw them one more time that day and his kid shot me a smile and wave like "There's my new daddy!"
That's right. The kid. The guy who was whining that he wasn't invited to play was married with children. Instead of acting like it wasn't a big deal to not be a part of the show, he decided to teach his children a valuable lesson of crying like a newborn with a bee sting if you don't get your way. The guy kept on me for not "letting" him be Al, which is SO unfair being that I obviously work for Disney, and this is a show for the guests. At this point, he's following me to Muppetvision. So I finally stop, turn around, and say, "You know, when the show is going on...you're not really ON television, you know that, right?" He's starting to shrink down, aware that maybe he made a mistake, maybe the guy walking through MGM with an increasingly unhappy wife heading towards another attraction isn't on the Disney payroll after all. And him starting to shrink away just starts making me angrier. I start to tell this guy Im' going to be wherever he is for the rest of the trip, and every ride he wants to ride, every restaurant where he wants to eat, everytime he's gotta take a leak, I'm gonna be there first, and he's gonna have to wait for me. By the time I'm done, his wife and kids are gonna assume they're mine. There's a pause, and then his more-vocal kid says... "OK."
Looking back, I feel bad because that kid must've been miserable with a dad like that, but the comic timing was perfect. Under my breath, I told him "Remember why you're here" and walked away. I saw them one more time that day and his kid shot me a smile and wave like "There's my new daddy!"
WDW1971 said:
I wish it were still open too. One trip my family brought along my brother's girlfriend and my sister's boyfriend (I was like 12 then... so...) and well... my brother is honest to god the most intraverted person you'd ever meet, but you wouldn't meet him cuz he generally just doesn't meet or talk to random people. Like, he's one of the nicest, and easily the funniest person i know... but he just likes his small group of friends, his fiance', and his family... pretty much just plays golf all the time. again, he's EXTREMELY happy, if not the happiest person i know as well... im just saying all this because generally people as intraverted as my brother are miserable... easily aggitated... ya know? But he isn't... at all, he's just extremely quiet and keeps to himself. In Disney, he'll never start a convo with a stranger in a line, never show off his happiness, but he'd never shoot someone done
Anyways... this isn't even a story, I'm just mad cuz... he was on that show when they were doing David Letterman and he got to be a guest... so he was up there for like 10 minutes like he was a guest on David Letterman... in front of everyone... AND I MISSED IT!!!!!!!!!! Him and his girlfriend (now fiance) were the only ones there... I seriously think I'd pay every dollar i've ever earned to see that... He certainly did not volunteer because that is the LAST thing you'd picture him doing...
thinking back 8 years ago when that happened... I am now actually getting mad cuz I wish sooooo bad I could see that
I'm not as intraverted... somewhat, I HATE being in situations like that... so when I made my way onto Who Wants to be a Millionaire Play It.... I WAS TERRIFIED...
Not to mention... a 4 year old woulda done better than me considering I had 1 question on a Disney Channel kids show, a question on Pokemon', and a question on some kids toy... they were all wicked easy... but I had no clue... I was 18... I then lost on the $8,000 question because it was a latin question... Did I mention I was in Latin V (5) honors at the time.... AND I GOT THIS EASY QUESTION WRONG ABOUT LATIN!!!!!!! :brick:
OK, I wanted to throw in a few off-topic stories cuz I enjoy this topic and these replies so much