| # | Author | Message |
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| Mickeyfan1
Thu 1/8/2009 11:25a | As a former Cast Member there really wasn't a lot that would upset me with the exception parade times. Obviously when we set up ropes for viewing areas it is so we can have people watching the parade and also have a walkway behind them on Main Street.
So many times when the parade was going on people would stop in the walkways, especially with strollers or wheelchairs, blocking the entire walkway hold their children up so they could see the passing "pagentry" and when we would politley volunteer to help them into the viewing area and/or under the ropes would get upset with us and call us all kinds of things. No regard for others they were holding up, it was "all about them". I would always do my best, but this is what would bug me the most.
However I have to admit I never lost the "magic". |
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| 73baloo
Thu 1/8/2009 1:02p | Mickeyfan1 - Glad you never lost the magic. I am from a "touristy" area on the Washington coast. I always told my children to act on vacation the way they wished our tourists would act. They are all adults now but they did learn that lesson. It is really too bad that more people do not think that way. We always say please and thank you to Cast Members...they are not servants to be ordered around or yelled at.
I had a guy here turn his boat around in my yard and when I called him on it he yelled and told me he paid my wages. I just calmly told him I was a computer programmer that worked from home...his wife laughed when he turned red. |
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| Ursula
Thu 1/8/2009 1:14p | The only thing that annoyed me were the "know it alls" who would grill me about Disneyland and then make rude comments when I tried to explain that no, I didn't know the time of day that Walt was born.
I LOVED the out-of-town people who came to DL for the first time. I so enjoyed being part of their magic.
I loved doing Guest Control for the parades, too. You really got a good feel for "John America" and then the reverse, you got a good feel for how foreigners see America. |
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| Mickeyfan1
Thu 1/8/2009 1:16p | It is so true 73baloo. I also have to say the good times far out numbered the bad. One of my favorited experiences was one evening when I had a little guy about 7 who had lost his parents there on Main Street about an hour before the MSEP. Well I had him stick with me for a little while and even let him help me direct people across the street using my special flashlight that they give us on Guest Control. Finally while heading over to Lost Children we found Mom and Dad and everything was back as it should be. The next day as I was walking out onto Main Street to go to work, I hear my name being shouted. I look around and there is this little guy up on Dad's shoulder in the Park for a 2nd day. I went over and said hello and he was just so excited about having helped me on Main Street and waving that flashlight. I told him I would be out there again that night, and sure enough they showed up, he helped me a little and I was able to find them an excellent viewing spot ont he curb right at Christmas Tree Point as we called it then. They loved every minute of the parade.
It's things like this that make the bad times all worth it. And again they were for the most part very few and far between. |
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| MomluvsDisney
Thu 1/8/2009 1:17p | The nerve of some people. Amazing what people will say at times. |
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| FiveBearRugs
Thu 1/8/2009 1:58p | <<Ursula: The only thing that annoyed me were the "know it alls" who would grill me about Disneyland and then make rude comments when I tried to explain that no, I didn't know the time of day that Walt was born.>>
What? You...lol...you don't KNOW what time of day Walt was born? You heathen! And you call yourself a CM? Blasphemy! A Disney fan! You sicken me! And I suppose you don't "know" what Walt's blood type was either? Or, or how much his tax return was in 1961? You mean to tell me that you can't even tell me what his favorite breakfast meat was? Away with you! Go back to your little office cubicle and finish your TPS reports... |
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| FiveBearRugs
Thu 1/8/2009 1:59p | <<Westsider: "OH CAROL! HE'S GOT A LANYARD! CAROL, GET CONNIE! PINS! SO MR. MAN IN THE GREEN TUXEDO, DO YOU HAVE ANY SUPER SECRET DVC DOUBLE WHAMMIES THEY RELEASED FROM THE MOROCCO PAVILION IN '04?! ARE YOU HIDING THEM FROM US? WHAT DID YOU JUST TRADE WITH THAT LITTLE GIRL FOR, DVC DOUBLE WHAMMIES? CONNIE, GET OVER HERE!">>
Big pins! Rare pins! Big money now! Big money! No whammies, no whammies! Big pins! No whammies, STOP! |
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| Walter Elias
Thu 1/8/2009 5:18p | Westsider--That is TOO funny! LOL
I don't know how CMs put up with that stuff day after day. I was at DL for 5 days at Christmas, and by the 5th day of dealing with pushy obnoxious adults, even my kids were tired and ready to go home. My 5 year old actually jumped for joy when I told him we were going home. |
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| gadzuux
Thu 1/8/2009 10:52p | Five days is a long time for DL. The most I can manage is two days, and I love the place dearly, but enough is enough. Until the next time. |
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| Mr X
Fri 1/9/2009 6:50a | I think three days would be fun.
I can understand not wanting to spend five days there though...BUT, after all there is a ton to see and do in Southern California (DarkBeer was nice enough to school me on how awesome Orange County and San Diego really are!). Spending too much time in Anaheim is silly (and the same goes for Tokyo Disneyland too...I'm stunned when I hear that people are traveling to Japan only to spend 5 days at the park and 1 day in the city!). |
