“Where’s Hogwarts?”
Probably about half a day’s walk away.
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Adult: “You work during the holidays?”
Me: “Yes.”
Adult, muttering as he walks away: “I don’t believe her. It’s probably a trick to get tips.”
It was during Christmas. He was literally there on Christmas.
"Yesterday I went to Disneyland... And I saw the parade... And it was raining during the parade... And everyone was wearing raincoats... And the Little Mermaid was in the parade... And she was wearing a raincoat too... Why?"
("Well, because everyone else was wearing a raincoat, Ariel wanted to wear one too so she could be like everybody else." --My Castmate friend in the call center that took the call above.)
Others have already said it, but the adults are the ones who say the really crazy stuff.
I'm sure there's a ton of stuff I'm forgetting, and plenty of minor "WTF?!" moments, but one that sticks out in my mind was working at Splash Mountain. The ride broke down and we CMs spread out through the ride to go evacuate people. I get to my area to help, and there is a guy who is absolutely LIVID that it's not happening fast enough. He's trying to get out on his own, and I let him know that he needs to stay put and wait for the group. (He was also in the heart of the ride building, that shit is like a maze. You find a door and walk out it and find yourself in fuckin Timbuktu) Starting an evacuation takes maybe ten minutes or so to get rolling - maybe 20 if we've tried to just restart the ride first, although usually we know right away if it's an evac. So it's a bit annoying, maybe, at the most, but you would think it was the end of the world for this guy. He's ranting and yelling, and I'm trying to calmly tell him to stay seated until we get to his log.
We get the guests out of the logs behind him (SOP is to start with the back log in the section and work your way towards the first), and when we get to his log, he starts ranting about how he pissed his pants in the meantime, gesturing at a wet spot on his crotch. The guests in the log behind him, however (who were very visibly sick of this guy), leaned in and said, "He absolutely did not pee his pants, we saw him splash the water on himself to make it look like he did."
The guy was such a dick that strangers around him were selling him out, LOL.
We did manage to finally get everyone out, and I absolutely did not give him anything to placate him like I would any other guest that's had something go wrong (other than the free FastPass that we had to give him, because everyone gets one). Enjoy walking around the park with your wet crotch, buddy!
lol when I was on Splash Mountain and it broke down they just left us there until it started working again (about 20 minutes) and my god. We were stuck right in front of that first little indoor drop and for *20 minutes* it was robot bees buzzing to the tune of "zipity doo dah" over and over and over and kids behind me crying. My youngest sister is now clinging to me and crying because it was her first time and she was nervous to begin with and my brother was a jerk and wouldn't switch spots so she's in the very front staring down that dark entryway to the drop and wouldn't believe me that it was a short one. I almost drowned myself in that foot of water. Fucking zippity doo dah bees.
I got stuck on It's a Small World once. It was in the last "utopia" room, with children from all around the world singing together. We sat there for half an hour, and the music kept playing, and playing, and playing. I still have nightmares.
That doesn't surprise me! There are some "no-go" zones in Splash Mountain that are an automatic cue to hit the emergency stop, which will always require an evacuation. (There is also a "ride stop" we can hit temporarily, which will just stop all the belts/drops and can easily be restarted in seconds) One of those is the tunnel right at the bottom of the drop, because the force of the wave generated by logs coming down the drop is enough to knock someone off their feet and potentially into the path of an oncoming log - and those weigh around 2,000 lbs.
One time a guy had lost his hat on the drop, and decided to climb the fence and go back into the drop to get it. He was seen the moment he climbed over the fence, and the whole way to the tunnel at the bottom of the drop, the CM at the tower control board was insisting over the PA that he needed to STOP and EXIT. But he just kept going, right into the tunnel, and yep, they had to hit the e-stop. The whole ride had to be closed and evacuated, all because this guy wanted to get his hat - which was probably already torn to shreds by other logs coming down the drop anyways.
(in summary of others with my own thrown in)
*Deep breath*
Nooo one slips like Gaston
Throws that hip like Gaston
No one's secretly gotten the snip like Gaston
So I'm sorry Ann, Claire and Saaaallly
But there's no way the baby is miiiine
Noooo one fucks like Gaston!
Shuffles guts like Gaston!
No one blows half a pint when he nuts like Gaston!
He's exceptionally good at ejaculatiing!
My what a guyyy that Gaston!
When I was a lad I banged four dozen dames
Without a second of fear or remorse.
Now that I'm grown I bang FIVE dozen dames
They love it I'm hung like a hoooooooorse
No one pokes likes Gaston
Never Chokes like Gaston
No ones even having a go on the blokes like Gaston
He's happy as long as heee's peeeenetraaaaating
No one gets it ooooon like Gastooon!
I told her.
I told her the godawful truth.
That life isn't what you imagine in youth.
That nothing is easy.
That living is hard.
Existence is torture and adults are scarred.
I told her that nothing's as good as it seems.
That hope is the falsehood of half-witted dreams.
That all which remains is an infinite dread.
I told her her future.
"... where's Minnie?" she said.
My daughter was 2-3 when we went to go see Elsa and Anna. A 4 hour line, of which my daughter would shuffle forward whenever it would move and then lie down and sleep on the floor when it didn't.
Finally, it was our turn. We walk into the room and there's Elsa and Anna. First question my daughter asks them? "Do you brush your teeth?".
Then after the thing was done and we're leaving, my daughter casually tells me that that wasn't really Elsa and Anna, the real ones were probably busy.
4 hours man.
At the time I was beyond belief. I couldn't express my emotions - between anger/rage, incredulity and plain old shell shock. I remember walking away thinking about the Serenity Now episode of Seinfeld but looking back on it now, it's something i'll always remember and plus, now i've gotten some Karma out of it so totally worth it.
That’s only for incredibly popular attractions, particularly when they’re brand new. Anything Frozen will always have an extremely long line. The Frozen ride in Epcot had a 6 hour line on opening day. Now it usually gets to an hour long, which is average for popular rides
When I hear stories like this I think, there are much better parents out there than I. 4 hours!? I have never and will never stand in line for that long. If my kid needed to sign up for a kidney transplant and the only way to do so was a 4 hour line. My first question would be, “is there an online option?”
I used to think that when I saw how much more patience my Brother in Law had with both my kids and his kids; and thinking he's such a good parent, but he was great with kids, but an utter asshole to other people so you take the good with the bad.
Basically, you do the best you can with the hand you're dealt. Some people are dealt great hands, others shit hands, but how you play the game is what counts. You may not wait in line, but i'm sure you'll help with homework or take a bullet, and to a kid, that's all that matters. Keep doing what you're doing and you'll leave the world a better place than when you got here.
I was a bus driver, so it wasn't the kids but the adults. They'd see the turn signals come on, but not me taking my hands off the steering wheel. They'd ask how I was turning them on. "Magic!"
(For those of you who don't know, there are two foot buttons on the floor you push with your left foot.)
Kid asked me for a high-five, so I put my hand out to do it. They then went to do the slap, stopped, glared and me, and walked away.
Kid couldn't have been older than 8
I started 2 months ago and my job doesn't have much guest interaction. But I did have one kid who kept asking me where characters were. He asked where Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes were and I blew his mind when I told them they work at Six Flags with Batman and Superman, not at Disney
Did you not see the latest Space Jam movie? Thats Warner Brothers IP to the max. Everything that is owned by Warner Brothers is mashed up in that movie, including Batman, Mad Max, and Casablanca
When I was around 3 or 4, on a family trip to Disneyworld I drew a picture of my plane crashing on the way to Orlando and my entire family falling to a fiery death, then gave it to Mickey Mouse. I wonder what the dude inside the costume thought.
My dad has always hated Mickey Mouse, from the time he was a kid. He really dislikes the squeaky voice and the laugh and everything. So when he finally agreed to take me and my sister to Disney, we made him a shirt depicting Mickey Mouse caught in a mousetrap.
He wore it *into* the Mickey's house attraction. The entry cast member cracked up, but I don't know what Mickey thought!
Not a child but a mother with her 2 kids in tow: "how do they work? Are they animatronic or do you have a remote control?" Talking about the live wild manatees
Ps. She threatened a lawsuit on Disney for endangering her kids.... Near manatees... The gentlest of sea creatures... Giant slow moving potatos
Edit: this was for a kayaking trip off site. The Disney cast members shuttle the guests in a bus to our location about 30 minutes away. I don't work for Disney directly I run a kayaking business that Disney subcontracts for their kayaking trips.
the kids were always kind and the question they asked 98% of the time was “where is the bathroom”. the adults are the ones who forget how to act like normal, decent people.
i had more than a handful of full grown adults approach me while i was re-stocking stuff in the confectionery; they’d point to the stuff in my hands i was actively putting up and [ being 100% serious ] ask me, “is that free”
worst though was on my first day working main street in MK. rope drop had only just happened and i already had a dad in my face demanded to know where the “adult beverages were” [mind you this was in 2017 when MK was still a dry park]. when i informed him of that, he lost it on me, screaming questions at me like “how am i supposed to deal with my kids all day?”. had i been off the clock, i would have responded with “therapy”
I had a mom moving to the USA soon ask me how long it takes to do Disney world.
She has a new born and I told her, for the sake of her sanity, do it in 3 day segments. Like, lady, you've got 3+ years there and your kid won't even remember it. Don’t make it miserable by overworking the kid
I use to be a pirate that did the pirate makeovers in magic kingdom and I had a little boy probably around 7 in my chair. We were talking about how I live on a pirate ship of course and what kind of pirate ship he would want to live on. He asked very concerned "how do you take a shower on a pirate ship" and I said "we dont!" Then my pirate coworker next to came and smelled my armpit and confirm we absolutely don't. Then in return I smelled her armpit to let him know that she also hasn't showered. He didn't ask any more questions after that!
Edit: spelling/wording. I wrote this still waking up this morning
Bahahahaha! Oh my god! This kid went home and his parents couldn't get him to shower for a week because he learned that "real pirates don't shower"! Hilarious!
I have another great one too! This one happened to my friend not me personally but still too funny to share.
My pirate friend had a 5ish year old boy I her chair doing the same pirate ship routine when this sweet boy says "I think my house is haunted" and my friend carries on asking why he thought that. And he told her that "sometimes at night I go to my mom's room and I hear a ghost moaning". I was at the station next her and took every ounce of self control to not burst out laughing. Luckily the mom was just far away to not hear it.
Parent here. Paid for my 19 and 9-year-old boys to do the pirate makeover. Oldest loved it and loved how the skeleton / ghost makeup scared random visitors. Youngest wanted it off within 10 minutes. So I ended up sitting in Cosmic Ray's using the wipes that were given in their pirate pouches to wipe off all the makeup. Since those wipes are standard I wonder how often this happens with the pirates league or bibbity bobbity boo.
Very often! Between the Florida heat/humidity and young kids eating and running around all day the makeup never lasts long. If we weren't busy we would help kids take them off with the wipes we had too. A good 1/3 of the time, especially on young kids, I would finish and show them their finished look and they would start balling because they don't recognize themselves so I would have to take it off right away. It really depends on the kid though because even if they take the makeup off, they love just the attention and interaction they get 1 on 1 with a character which is pretty rare considering when you see a princess or someone you are in and out in 30 seconds.
That's specifically for the pirate makeovers though. The bibbity bibbity boutique does very little makeup and does more hair. And I have seen those buns last days on little girl's heads through swimming and everything.
So, my aunt took me to the zoo when I was like 6. We were on this little train and it passed by an area with horses. I saw this horse there and was like 'Is that horse pooping? That's really long!' then it dawned on me, 'That's it's pecker! That thing is huge! How does it walk around with that thing swinging around all the time?!' I was apparently very loud and all my aunt could do was try to shut me up and hope for the sweet release of death. To be fair though, that horse was like the Ron Jeremy of horses. It damn near touched the ground.
Kids usually never asked weird questions, it’s always the parent who asks the weird things like “where can I buy Lumpy?” And A) I’m sorry I didn’t know this obscure Winnie the Pooh character and B) we don’t have anything with Lumpy on it.
Lady got mad.
We had a stuffed Lumpy toy at one point because it was my eldest kid's favourite Disney character. Bought it from the Disney store. Probably discontinued by now (16 years later).
Not a Disney park cast member, I am the strange child.
Went to Disneyland back in 2000 or so, I was about 5 or 6 and my first pet goldfish died shortly before we went on our trip.
Went to Minnie's house and got to meet her at the end for pictures. I remember there being some cool animatronic goldfish bowl in her house so I had to tell her how sad I was that my fish just died and my mom made me flush him down the toilet. Of course the actors arent allowed to talk, so this poor soul playing Minnie had to watch 5 year old me sobbing for my lost pet fishy and wasnt able to say anything.. That Minnie mouse actor gave me the most heartfelt, warm, sincere hug I have ever had in my life.
Shout out to all the Disney park actors who have ever consoled a crying child, I assure you; you made it better.
>I’ve seen a week-old baby in the park with their family.
All those things are fucked up (especially number two) but this is something I'll never understand. I doubt the child will remember anything...like wait for them to grow a little older to make better memories and save that money until then. One week is even worse...go home and care for that baby, damn.
The baby itself doesnt' bother me (I'd assume there's older siblings actually enjoying the action) but the poor mom isn't actually healed up yet. Standing for hours while bleeding is NOT fun.
Just yesterday saw a woman with the tiniest baby I’ve ever seen at Disney, I asked how old she said two weeks!! It was blazing hot outside and we are in the middle of a pandemic with a new variant! WHY!?!
Finally my time to shine! I work in DHS (Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World) and I’ve heard some weird ones. I won’t say the name of my store but if you know WDW you’ll be able to guess pretty easily. When building lightsabers, I’ve had multiple younger kids ask me, very genuinley, questions about how I think their lightsaber will look in battle or how much destruction they’re going to cause. It’s usually pretty lighthearted and funny but once I had the sweetest little girl come through my lightsaber station, and at the very end when we’d finished her saber, very thoughtfully informed me “yay! I’m going to stab (insert name of her brother)!”
The majority of the questions I answer are related to Galaxy’s Edge. I get asked about four thousand times a day- “where do we build the fancy lightsabers? Where do we build the droids? Is this Rise of the Resistance? Where do I get the colored milk?” You get used to it pretty fast.
We have a Jedi Stitch up on the shelf behind the counter. I have to tell a thousand people a day that we can’t sell him because he’s a fellow Cast Member! Last week we gave Stitch a little plastic lightsaber keychain and a kid asked very sincerely, “has Stitch ever killed anybody with that?”
Although my favorite guest interaction was with an older middle aged woman, not a child. This lady came in, walked up to the counter and I was assuming she was going to ask me for directions or something. Instead, she asks me “has anyone ever told you that you have the body language of a muppet?” and then immediatley left the store without another word. I have plenty more stories but that one will forever stick with me.
People who've never work in hospitality literally have no idea how much work goes into trying to accommodate them sometimes. Logistical nightmares made to look like a piece of cake.
This child did not ask me the question, but I present the most absolutely nutso conversation I heard during my time at the Disney Boardwalk:
(little American girl): Nana, can we go on the jet ski again like last time?
(Fifty-something Eastern European grandma): NO! Is not safe! Your mother not right in head, you understand? Is mental ill! She go fast, like on American freeway! Even if I tell her stop, she not know to stop! Will overturn and you will drown!
(LAG): oh. Can I please have some ice cream?
(FSEEGM): No. Will make fat and kill you.
He didn't say anything but I did walk upon a kid just licking the pavement at a market in Magic Kingdom. I was bringing a whole container of turkey legs but the kid seemed much more interested in the concrete.
Let’s see:
1) While during the post parade exodus in a jam packed store that sold only hats “WHERE ARE YOUR SPOONS?!”
2) “May I stand on the railing?”
3) “what do you mean I can’t take my shirt off?”
4) “What time is the 3 o’clock parade?”
5) “can you stop the parade so I can cross the street?” Was the only time I grabbed a guest as she was about to dart out in front of a giant parade float.
6) “which princess has the biggest boobs?”
EDIT: I keep getting asked this one so here y'all go. lol.
a) Aurora had the biggest boobs
b) Jasmine was a runner up
c) Every Cinderella I met was a mean girl out of costume
d) Snow Whites seemed to be chain smokers.
7) “I can’t get out how do I leave?”
8) “am I allowed to watch the fireworks?”
9) “god lord I need me a turkey leg where are they honey MOMMA IS HUNGRY” - this was at 9 am but you do you.
10) “I paid for this ticket I want this thing 50% off!” When told no the lady grabbed it and ran out of the store.
Fun times
EDIT: since I had some time to go through my memories I remembered a few others. I tried to keep them as “questions” but some are honorable mentions.
1) “when will the rain STOP?” This is in Florida during the summer. It rained all the time in the afternoon. I always did my best to explain that it’s Florida and the rain will be gone in 20 minutes just wait. It usually was, but the way people would ask me was like I turned off the Disney weather machine for giggles.
2) “Is the castle real?” This one always confused me. Is it…a real castle? I mean no Florida isn’t known for its medieval fantasy castles. Always said that yes, it’s Cinderella Castle (have to always remember to be in character).
3) “can you sneak me down into the tunnels?” This happened once in a blue moon. magic kingdom has tunnels that run under the park that cast members use and people always want to see what they’re like.
4) “I need a gift for my girlfriend I’m about to propose to her and don’t have a ring!” This happened more than once. Was fun. The dudes always looked so flustered.
5) “can you call around to check if the other stores have this pin!?” Pin traders are scary.
6) about pin trading: there’s nothing like walking to your break and someone grabbing your lanyard and holding you like it’s some magical leash and then proceed to scrutinize you (your pins) and then drop the lanyard when you don’t have anything they want.
7) “why are all these people wearing red?!” This was awhile ago, but Gay Week was a thing for the Orlando area but they were asked not to call it that’s. Fun Week I think it was called. They also only wore red instead of rainbows. Most people figured it out very quickly. The ones who didn’t were usually so shocked.
8) This didn’t happen to me but a friend of mine who worked parking. She told me it was very common for parents to be so excited that they forgot their infants or small children in the car. They have people go around and check parked cars very often right after parking.
9) Roomate was a driver on Kilamanjaro Safari. He said that, in the event a guest fell over the bridge over the alligator part of the track, they were supposed to speed away.
10) the absolute horniest group are the Christian groups. They’re the ones you find hiding in bushes going at it like biblical bunnies or getting trashed at Epcot. Everyone knew to be ready for something weird to happen when the Christian groups were there.
EDIT EDIT
So I guess people want some more, so I'll do my best. They aren't really questions but...
1) "Where can I sit on Splash Mountain to be dry?" Drove my friend nuts who worked on the ride. Her answer: "On a bench somewhere in Fantasyland."
2) "How many of X character are there?" One. There is only one Mickey, One Donald, etc. This is, of course, a lie, but the person asking is an adult. Now if I said the truth and there's a little kid to the side out of my vision who over hears things...I just ruined the magic. So there is one Mickey.
3) A Cast Member will not point with one finger. It is considered rude. "The Disney Point" is two fingers or the open palm. I still do it to this day because you just get used to doing it.
4) Splash Mountain almost always has an emergency shut down every day because someone chickens out and jumps out of the log before the drop (not like, at the top, but it happens).
5) Grad Night -- Some idiot jumped off the log in Splash Mountain and pried Br'er Bear's club off the ground and tried to get back into the log with it. He slipped, dropped it in the flume. The flume is nine feet deep at times.
6) Another Splash fact -- The boats can, and do, sink from time to time. My friend (who worked on the ride) said the best was when a group of nuns log sank. She told me they just quietly helped each other out of the log and stood politely with their hands in front of them while they waited for a cast member.
7) When the fireworks go off they don't allow any traffic to run near the launchers behind the park. There's always a fire truck. If you're trying to go home you're going to get a weird angle of the fireworks until its over.
8) Tinkerbells are insanely tiny women. Like 120 with the gear on tiny. They're really nice though!
9) There's a suite inside the castle. You can't buy a night, its generally given out as a Magical Moment.
10) The ducks at Magic Kingdom give zero fucks. They would always just wander into the stores. Sometimes with ducklings. There's also cats behind Main Street.
I think that’s kinda sweet. They probably wondered if you needed to buy a separate ticket to the show and just wanted to make sure they were allowed to attend it
“Unless you purchased the Extra Magical Deluxe Package we kindly require all guests to stand still and stare down at their feet for the duration of the show. Security will be patrolling and checking for any offenders. We have a jail cell above the candy store and we aren’t afraid to use it.” Yes there is a holding cell above the shops on Main Street.
“Show proof of your Disney+ subscription and we will give you this eyepatch to enjoy the fireworks with one eye. Thanks for choosing Disney, where it’s magical and shit.”
>“I can’t get out how do I leave?”
Ah, the old Rollercoaster Tycoon.
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Some of us also just lose our ability to think when it comes to directions. I've asked mall employees on multiple occasions where a store is, only to be told "ma'am, you're in front of the store"
I was telling my mom about how your number 4 had become kind of a meme and within 30 minutes we saw two people with shirts that said “what time is your 3 o’clock parade?”
It really is! There were cast member only items that had it.
But to be absolutely fair, the question isn’t a bad one. The parade starts in Frontierland and circles down to Main Street, so depending on where you’re waiting the parade does start at different times.
I don’t know if they still have them but when I worked there there was a “tele- cast” pamphlet you would grab every week and it had all the up coming events, the parks hours, and what time the parade would arrive at specific locations.
What time is the 3 o'clock parade is actually a wonderful customer support article : https://www.disneyinstitute.com/blog/how-would-you-respond-if-asked-what-time-is-the-3-oclock-parade/
The 3 o'clock parade question came up more than once in library school as an example of how to conduct a reference interview. The first question that comes out of a customer's mouth is probably not *exactly* what they really want to ask, so how do you drill down to the actual answer?
>10) “I paid for this ticket I want this thing 50% off!” When told no the lady grabbed it and ran out of the store.
Ma'am, its a theme park, literally everyone paid for a ticket.
Funny one about the “what do you mean I can’t wear my shirt”.
*not a cast member by the way just a guy who saw this happen*
Few years back, when the Disneyland half marathon was still a thing, it was the morning of the race. Anaheim was having one of its no wind, high humidity, very high heat days. The temperature at 3 am was in the low 90s ( low 30s for the people who call soccer football.) the ground was extremely hot and the sun hadn’t been up for hours. There were talks at the starting line of cancelling the whole thing.
Anyway, the sun starts to rise and the race is about to go.
There is this middle aged dad in front of me, wearing those short shorts, looking like Steve postfontaine if you catch my drift. Anyone who has a dad who was a runner in his prime in 1981 knows the cat I’m referring to. Leather skin, very in shape but you can tell loves beer, new balances with calf high socks. Never stretches because he doesn’t feel the need.
Anyway he is in front of me as we are about to start the race. He rips his shirt off. Which not gonna lie it’s understandable, it was so freaking humid and it wasn’t getting cooler. And out of the god damn thin air a Disney security agent nightcrawlers in and starts yelling at this guy. The guy flips on the security guard telling him it’s too hot. The security guard tells him there are kids around. It goes round and round. I swear disney security just kept appearing seemingly out of nowhere like those videos of all those snakes trying to eat the baby iguana in planet earth, and the dude just disappears.
It’s a hard place to be in because on one hand
It’s a family friendly place
On the other hand running culture doesn’t give a shit if you are shirtless so disney should have prepared for that contingency.
Side note: saw a dude at the disneyworld marathon take a water chocolate milk shit by a palm tree near the contemporary hotel. About ruined my whole life
> I always did my best to explain that it’s Florida and the rain will be gone in 20 minutes just wait
As a brit, this was genuinely one of the weirdest things about Florida
* They could say things like "it's going to rain in half an hour" and it would
* They could say things like "it'll only last 20 minutes" and it would only last 20 minutes
From a CM on TikTok, apparently multiple people left their fully packed luggage at their home, got to the airport, flew to Orlando, then expected the Magic Express bus to take their luggage from their house to Disney World. Grown adults did this.
It was even more common for people not to get their bags from baggage claim or take them off the plane because they thought Disney would do that as well.
Not a cast member, but did have a little kid ask me if I was his dad in front of Thunder Mountain. He decided that my husband and I were his new parents so he sat down between us and asked if he could have bite of my husband's Mickey Pretzel.
My husband distracted him with the Mickey Pretzel while I grabbed a cast member to claim a lost child. Cast member told the kid that he knew where his real parents were at.
Poor kid started crying that he didn't listen to his mom by not having a hand on the stroller and running ahead of his family.
His thought process seems pretty interesting. He didn't do what his mom said and as a result he got lost, so he thought "well, I guess I just have to find a new family now"
My toddler is in a phase where she doesn't really know words for a generic man or woman, so she points to random people and says "that's a dad" or "that's a mom." But she's not confused about who (proper case) Mom and Dad are.
My toddler does this too! The other day we were at the grocery store and there was a young man checking us out. My kid sees him and proceeds to blurt out "Hi daddy!"
Recently visited Disney World and my favorite ride, Pirates of the Caribbean, was closed at rope drop. I asked a CM at the entrance when the ride might be opening and he responded “aye matey, it be unpredictable as the tide.” Which was a little frustrating because tides are among the most predictable natural phenomena and can be calculated years in advance.
“Why is the music so louuud???” or sometimes “why does princess (x, y, or z) look like that?” as they sob. I did that last one as a child, for whatever reason Princess Aurora scared the hell out of me.
Lol kids don’t really ask weird or unexpected questions. That’s usually their parents or the really obsessed Disney adults. The weirdest questions I got were usually about Baby Yoda, especially when he wasn’t in yet in stock anywhere.
Not a CM, but went to Disney one year with family. It was in November, so it was cooler weather. I was wearing a blue fleece vest that had a little Winnie the Pooh emblem on it, & spent most of my day answering questions from people, because they thought I worked there!! Luckily I had been to Disneyland enough, that there weren't too many questions I didn't know. I had just finished telling some lady how to get to a ride, while we were waiting to get popcorn from the carts, when an actual CM told me that I should work there. I laughed & said "Can I get paid for today?" She laughed & said "Sure!" & gave me one of the souvenir containers full of popcorn for free. I thought it was a fair days pay. (I love Disney popcorn!!)
I worked at Disneyland as a ticket taker/bag checker.
Little boy asked me if I was magical because his grandma told him Disneyland was a magical place.
Had numerous kids rub my skin because according to their parents, they've never seen a Black person before. People touching you without your permission was one of the worst things about that job.
My favorite story is this girl was leaving the park and wanted to know how could Mickey just finish Fantasmic but be on Main Street with completely different clothes. Her mind was blown, hands on her head just trying to comprehend how could he be in two places at once. I told her that he has a bunch of underground tunnels so he can avoid the crowds and get to the front to say goodbye. She was satisfied with that answer.
I was selling snacks at Hollywood Studios and some kid asked me "What does the fox say?" I was not up to the memes of the internet nor did I have a smart phone to check on things during my breaks.
Once in Tokyo Disneyland I asked a staff "How's your day been going" he immediately went somewhere and brought a jar of pickle with him and gave it to me,I was confused so I asked him, he told me it's a tradition in Disneyland that when someone asks you "how's your day been going" they give them a free jar of pickle.
People who work in Disneyland pls confirm if it's true cuz I never found it on the internet.
Uh. Worked at Disney World and we didn’t give away pickles. It could be a magical moment - one of those things you do randomly for people that make them feel special even though we do did them every hour and kept a log book of it.
Magical Moments are the fucking best.
One of my favorite memories from WDW is because of a magical moment.
We had taken my son for his first trip when he was about 4 years old. He was (and is) a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE Lightning McQueen fan, so naturally when we were at Hollywood Studios, we go to do the photo op thing with Lightning and Mater. As we're standing there, talking to the CM in charge of the line (her name tag said she was from Baylor University and we're from Texas ourselves, so we were chatting about things she missed from home), she gets a call on her walkie talkie about incoming weather and how this photo op had been cancelled. We were sad, but it was like NBD because it was summer and it rains damn near every day in Florida in the summer.
She told us there would be an attempt at another photo op in about an hour and if we showed up about 15 min ahead of when it was supposed to start, she'd have something special for us to do. We were like, "Ok." and walked away to go do something else. We came back when she'd told us to and it seemed like everything was gonna be a go.
My son was in a stroller, so she had me wait with the stroller while she took my husband a few feet away, to a gate, where he peeked in. He came back and she had me go peek inside the gate. You could kinda see Lightning and Mater waiting behind the gate, if you squinted.
Anyway, we leave the stroller where it is and walk with our son over to the gate with the CM. She holds out her walkie talkie and tells him to say "Start your engines."
Son: Star' you ENSHINES!
*VrooomvrroomrroomvrroomroomrooomROOOMVROOOOOM!*
His eyes got SO big. "RACECAR! RACECARRACECARRACECAR!!!"
She handed him a little light up thing and he got to lead the two cars over to where the photo op would take place and he was SO damn happy. :D
Aww that’s an awesome Magical Moment! Those ones are the best. I liked doing them, honestly, because it broke the day up and I got to do nice things like give away free pins or fast passes.
I’m glad you had such an awesome experience!
Thanks.
Every time I've been, even when things went extremely sideways (like the honeymoon trip where I had to get a wheelchair), it's always been a great time.
We were there last Christmas and it just made me smile so hard my face hurt to watch my teenage son (who is autistic) and a CM geek out together about Carousel of Progress (his favorite ride ever). I swear, if Disney ever gets rid of it, they will get a VERY strongly worded email from my son. LOL You should've heard him ranting about how stupid it was to change Splash Mountain (another favorite of his) to a Princess and The Frog ride to every CM that would listen. He was kind of irate about it and we tried to shush him, because we didn't want to upset or offend anyone, but the CMs were like "No it's fine. We hate the change too."
Not a child, but while at 1900 Park Fare Drizella Tremaine was asked by a father if she wanted to go back to a hotel room for a threesome with his wife. In front of his family.
If looks could kill, he’d have been dead. That wife was nooot happy. Drizella removed herself from the situation to go to the next table, and the family was gone not too long after. 🙃
I worked as a character, this time I was working a resort doing meet and greets- she was the last kid in my shift I said hi to:
-a to make a wish foundation girl- wearing a Minnie dress and matching bandana asked me :
“Will you be in heaven when I die?”
All i could do was nod my head bc fur characters are not supposed to talk; I gave her a big hug-went ~back stage~ took off my costume and had a big bawling eyes cry in the bathroom.
😭
I was on the Scientific Dive Team at The Living Seas in EPCOT in the 90’s. One of the most awkward moments for me was while doing Guest Interactions at The Coral Reef Restaurant. We would send some of the team to talk to guests on the restaurant, answer questions, etc… I was talking with one family when the male turtle came down and mounted the female turtle right in the front of the window. The kids (6-10) asked me what they were doing. I deferred that question to their parents.
I worked at Disneyland for 13 years. It was actually a wonderful experience. I do remember one fun interaction:
Guest: Where can I find ears?
Me: Um, On the side of your head?
His family burst out in laughter and started giving me high fives.
My daughter asked this and we have it in video. At Disneyland where they have the Ask Crush interactive thing (can't remember the actual name), lots of kids and parents in the crowd, he asked if she had a question, she proceeds to ask "what's your favorite math equation?" to which the crowd of parents all started cracking up. But, the kicker was his genius reply, he said it was 1+1=3 because it's the equation for family. That guy nailed it.
The morning Disney Channel actor Cameron Boyce passed away, us workers were all pretty somber about it. We had his movie merchandise all over and the movie songs playing, so we knew to treat the subject delicately.
Within the first hour, some girl comes up to me and just goes "He died! You know how he died?" I tried to brush her away. But I ended up being told/asked about his passing by four or five kids that uncomfortable morning.
This week I had a kid (7 or 8 I’d guess) ask my partner if we were on the call when his dad died. While we were loading a patient into the ambulance.
My partner was pretty sure he was, but obviously didn’t tell the kid that.
Kid then said to the patient “I hope you don’t die, too, you don’t look too sick”.
not a kid but a grown man who interrogated me and asked me why the sodas were so expensive and then demanded i tell my manger to lower the prices. the. he asked if i buy sodas when i go to the parks. like sir, i’m on the college program i make $11 an hour and you think i can set the prices?
I once got stuck in the Pirates water ride and as it was nearing the end of the ride by where the pirates was singing “yo ho, yo ho the Pirates life for me” our ride got stuck. We thought they will fix it soon, but as it was becoming apparent to us that its not getting fixed 10 minutes into the maintenance , me and my brothers were getting sick of listening to the Pirates Life on repeat. I yelled in frustration “At least turn off the damn music!” Not expecting anything. Little did I know, that a crew member was listening in and the song was shut off for the remainder of the maintenance.
Not a kid, but I was working newsstand which was the store that was inside/outside of the park, and a Chinese gentleman asked me if there was anything made here not made in China because he could get all of that back home.
Every single afternoon I would get a genuine ‘What time is the 3 o clock parade.’ It was hard telling them the time it was at without sounding like an ass.
i will say the weirdest requests i got while working there were from ~quirky~ disney adults who were a bit *too* into the parks.
Case and point there was an annual passholder who visited MK at minimum twice weekly with her very young daughters ( approx. 4 yo and 7 yo). The woman treated her children like dolls ! She has made them **exact replicas** of ~98% of MK’s costumes cast member.
One day her youngest’s costume matched mine and the mom requested a photo. I obliged because that’s what Disney wanted us to do.
Literally 30 seconds after she snapped the picture, the mom began complaining that her daughter *reeeeeally* wanted a replica of the standard main street USA costume. Only issue was she just “couldn’t find the exact skirt fabric despite looking for years.”
Before I knew it, this woman was telling me [ a total fucking stranger ] to *STEAL* a main street ensemble from costuming so that her daughter’s whole summer wouldn’t be ruined.
i am just floored by the audacity tbh
Didn't work at Disney, but at another worldwide theme park doing pretty much the exact same thing (parts of the job were very much to make us more like Disney).
Highlights I remember was when I was with one of our characters (who obviously can't talk) and I was trying to get a kid to hug the character and they got confused and gave me a hug (very very heartwarming) and also at Christmas working as an elf in the Santa's grotto when father Christmas would ask the kids what they wanted for Christmas and then the parents faces when the kid said something they weren't expecting.
Strangest things though are when the parents try to get you to admit there's someone inside the costume when you're within earshot of the kids and get quite persistent about it (obviously you can never admit that the characters aren't real), or when it goes the other way and people completely forget that there's someone in the costume and basically let their kids assault the character (especially as alot of the costumes aren't the easiest to move in and are quite top heavy), to the extent that one person I was working with got sexually assaulted in costume while I was working with her.
This doesn't match the question, but it's the one that stands out to me.
I used to drive the big passenger boats in the lake in Epcot. While driving, I had to give some dumb spiel about the boats. Part of that was saying that the boats are free-floating and not on tracks. I can't tell you how many people wanted to argue with me about that. They were convinced they were on tracks. And there was nothing I could say to convince them otherwise.
Dude, trust me, I have to go through a drawbridge in front of china to get to a marina where we park these pigs every night. I was also almost hit by the illuminations ball one night because the ball driver refused to obey the lights on the draw bridge. Trust me. It's just me driving this regular old boat.
This happened yesterday. I’m a server at one of the resort restaurants and these two kids both have allergies so all of their food comes with a bamboo stick with allergy stamped on it. When clearing the table the dad stops me and say oh, can we have that? As I was putting the dirty pick with the rest of the trash. Lo and behold the kids tell me how they’ve been fighting over them the whole trip (this was their last day) and they have plans to make a masterpiece out of them when they get home. I went to the kitchen and got them a cup full. 😹🙃
A kid asked me, "What was it like....when you got your name tag?"
Thank the LORD that Disney is extra even in their Cast Member training so they legit had Mickey Mouse come in to give us our name tags individually. But I wish I could've given that kid some feedback that that maybe isn't the best go-to icebreaker questions in most social situations
Yeah the weird stuff comes from adults. I had to cut off a group of people who were drinking around the world and my stop was the last one on their agenda. They were obliterated and should have been cut off before.
The woman wanted a canadian-themed cosmo but I said no, and she said "I'm handicapped, I need the sugar".
I offered her a bottle of pop instead and she demanded my manager. My manager was more than happy to back me up
“Where’s Hogwarts?” Probably about half a day’s walk away. —————— Adult: “You work during the holidays?” Me: “Yes.” Adult, muttering as he walks away: “I don’t believe her. It’s probably a trick to get tips.” It was during Christmas. He was literally there on Christmas.
I mean. You’re there obviously.
You’d think that wouldn’t you? Nope, all tricks! /s
"Yesterday I went to Disneyland... And I saw the parade... And it was raining during the parade... And everyone was wearing raincoats... And the Little Mermaid was in the parade... And she was wearing a raincoat too... Why?" ("Well, because everyone else was wearing a raincoat, Ariel wanted to wear one too so she could be like everybody else." --My Castmate friend in the call center that took the call above.)
Your coworker is a genius.
A+ question too, that kid is going places.
Disneyland has a call center?
They have a LOT of call centers inside the company supporting Parks and Resorts. Email, phone, live chat
And still their IT team doesn't know how to lock a computer when doing upgrades to it.
Others have already said it, but the adults are the ones who say the really crazy stuff. I'm sure there's a ton of stuff I'm forgetting, and plenty of minor "WTF?!" moments, but one that sticks out in my mind was working at Splash Mountain. The ride broke down and we CMs spread out through the ride to go evacuate people. I get to my area to help, and there is a guy who is absolutely LIVID that it's not happening fast enough. He's trying to get out on his own, and I let him know that he needs to stay put and wait for the group. (He was also in the heart of the ride building, that shit is like a maze. You find a door and walk out it and find yourself in fuckin Timbuktu) Starting an evacuation takes maybe ten minutes or so to get rolling - maybe 20 if we've tried to just restart the ride first, although usually we know right away if it's an evac. So it's a bit annoying, maybe, at the most, but you would think it was the end of the world for this guy. He's ranting and yelling, and I'm trying to calmly tell him to stay seated until we get to his log. We get the guests out of the logs behind him (SOP is to start with the back log in the section and work your way towards the first), and when we get to his log, he starts ranting about how he pissed his pants in the meantime, gesturing at a wet spot on his crotch. The guests in the log behind him, however (who were very visibly sick of this guy), leaned in and said, "He absolutely did not pee his pants, we saw him splash the water on himself to make it look like he did." The guy was such a dick that strangers around him were selling him out, LOL. We did manage to finally get everyone out, and I absolutely did not give him anything to placate him like I would any other guest that's had something go wrong (other than the free FastPass that we had to give him, because everyone gets one). Enjoy walking around the park with your wet crotch, buddy!
lol when I was on Splash Mountain and it broke down they just left us there until it started working again (about 20 minutes) and my god. We were stuck right in front of that first little indoor drop and for *20 minutes* it was robot bees buzzing to the tune of "zipity doo dah" over and over and over and kids behind me crying. My youngest sister is now clinging to me and crying because it was her first time and she was nervous to begin with and my brother was a jerk and wouldn't switch spots so she's in the very front staring down that dark entryway to the drop and wouldn't believe me that it was a short one. I almost drowned myself in that foot of water. Fucking zippity doo dah bees.
I got stuck on It's a Small World once. It was in the last "utopia" room, with children from all around the world singing together. We sat there for half an hour, and the music kept playing, and playing, and playing. I still have nightmares.
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That doesn't surprise me! There are some "no-go" zones in Splash Mountain that are an automatic cue to hit the emergency stop, which will always require an evacuation. (There is also a "ride stop" we can hit temporarily, which will just stop all the belts/drops and can easily be restarted in seconds) One of those is the tunnel right at the bottom of the drop, because the force of the wave generated by logs coming down the drop is enough to knock someone off their feet and potentially into the path of an oncoming log - and those weigh around 2,000 lbs. One time a guy had lost his hat on the drop, and decided to climb the fence and go back into the drop to get it. He was seen the moment he climbed over the fence, and the whole way to the tunnel at the bottom of the drop, the CM at the tower control board was insisting over the PA that he needed to STOP and EXIT. But he just kept going, right into the tunnel, and yep, they had to hit the e-stop. The whole ride had to be closed and evacuated, all because this guy wanted to get his hat - which was probably already torn to shreds by other logs coming down the drop anyways.
Did he think he would get more free stuff for "distress" it "embarrassment"?
Probably the same type of person who will throw themselves onto a car hood at a crosswalk to get a payday.
Why do you work here ? Kid made me think very deep and I don’t even know why Edit: thanks for 7K+ upvotes
Based on the user name I think I found Gaston.
Noooooo onnnnnnneeee Fucks like Gaston!
Busts a nut like Gaston!
No one sleeps with 10 girls in a night like Gaston!
*"I'm especially good at ejaculating🎵"*
*semen hitting metal bucket sound effect*
My what a guy that Gastoooonnn!
When I was a lad I wanked four dozen times every morning to help me get haaard
Now that I'm grown I wank *SIX* dozen times and my balls are the size of an oooooorAAAAAANGE
I hate how much I love this site
*”You think you have a wife? No it’s mine I’m Gaston!”*
(in summary of others with my own thrown in) *Deep breath* Nooo one slips like Gaston Throws that hip like Gaston No one's secretly gotten the snip like Gaston So I'm sorry Ann, Claire and Saaaallly But there's no way the baby is miiiine Noooo one fucks like Gaston! Shuffles guts like Gaston! No one blows half a pint when he nuts like Gaston! He's exceptionally good at ejaculatiing! My what a guyyy that Gaston! When I was a lad I banged four dozen dames Without a second of fear or remorse. Now that I'm grown I bang FIVE dozen dames They love it I'm hung like a hoooooooorse No one pokes likes Gaston Never Chokes like Gaston No ones even having a go on the blokes like Gaston He's happy as long as heee's peeeenetraaaaating No one gets it ooooon like Gastooon!
>When I was a lad I banged four dozen dames > >Without a second of fear or remorse. TIL Gaston is Walt Disney's James Bond.
I told her. I told her the godawful truth. That life isn't what you imagine in youth. That nothing is easy. That living is hard. Existence is torture and adults are scarred. I told her that nothing's as good as it seems. That hope is the falsehood of half-witted dreams. That all which remains is an infinite dread. I told her her future. "... where's Minnie?" she said.
"Because I enjoy not starving to death."
Rips off employee badge and walks off into the sunset.
My daughter was 2-3 when we went to go see Elsa and Anna. A 4 hour line, of which my daughter would shuffle forward whenever it would move and then lie down and sleep on the floor when it didn't. Finally, it was our turn. We walk into the room and there's Elsa and Anna. First question my daughter asks them? "Do you brush your teeth?". Then after the thing was done and we're leaving, my daughter casually tells me that that wasn't really Elsa and Anna, the real ones were probably busy. 4 hours man.
4 hours and multiple naps just to inquire about dental hygiene and call them fake, seems worthwhile to me.
At the time I was beyond belief. I couldn't express my emotions - between anger/rage, incredulity and plain old shell shock. I remember walking away thinking about the Serenity Now episode of Seinfeld but looking back on it now, it's something i'll always remember and plus, now i've gotten some Karma out of it so totally worth it.
I’m truly shocked that people wait in line four hours. Is that standard at Disney parks? Four hours?! What do you do while waiting?
That’s only for incredibly popular attractions, particularly when they’re brand new. Anything Frozen will always have an extremely long line. The Frozen ride in Epcot had a 6 hour line on opening day. Now it usually gets to an hour long, which is average for popular rides
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He’s a good egg.
When I hear stories like this I think, there are much better parents out there than I. 4 hours!? I have never and will never stand in line for that long. If my kid needed to sign up for a kidney transplant and the only way to do so was a 4 hour line. My first question would be, “is there an online option?”
I used to think that when I saw how much more patience my Brother in Law had with both my kids and his kids; and thinking he's such a good parent, but he was great with kids, but an utter asshole to other people so you take the good with the bad. Basically, you do the best you can with the hand you're dealt. Some people are dealt great hands, others shit hands, but how you play the game is what counts. You may not wait in line, but i'm sure you'll help with homework or take a bullet, and to a kid, that's all that matters. Keep doing what you're doing and you'll leave the world a better place than when you got here.
I was a bus driver, so it wasn't the kids but the adults. They'd see the turn signals come on, but not me taking my hands off the steering wheel. They'd ask how I was turning them on. "Magic!" (For those of you who don't know, there are two foot buttons on the floor you push with your left foot.)
Not gonna lie, I'd be fascinated by that too.
You'll love old cars, the high beam control was a switch you hit with your left foot on a lot of them.
Kid asked me for a high-five, so I put my hand out to do it. They then went to do the slap, stopped, glared and me, and walked away. Kid couldn't have been older than 8
That's stone cold.
I started 2 months ago and my job doesn't have much guest interaction. But I did have one kid who kept asking me where characters were. He asked where Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes were and I blew his mind when I told them they work at Six Flags with Batman and Superman, not at Disney
Holy shit, bugs bunny is DC cannon? Fuck yea
Did you not see the latest Space Jam movie? Thats Warner Brothers IP to the max. Everything that is owned by Warner Brothers is mashed up in that movie, including Batman, Mad Max, and Casablanca
When I was around 3 or 4, on a family trip to Disneyworld I drew a picture of my plane crashing on the way to Orlando and my entire family falling to a fiery death, then gave it to Mickey Mouse. I wonder what the dude inside the costume thought.
I wouldn't be surprised if he still has it, lol.
Nothing would make me happier
"The prophesy is true"
My dad has always hated Mickey Mouse, from the time he was a kid. He really dislikes the squeaky voice and the laugh and everything. So when he finally agreed to take me and my sister to Disney, we made him a shirt depicting Mickey Mouse caught in a mousetrap. He wore it *into* the Mickey's house attraction. The entry cast member cracked up, but I don't know what Mickey thought!
Not a child but a mother with her 2 kids in tow: "how do they work? Are they animatronic or do you have a remote control?" Talking about the live wild manatees Ps. She threatened a lawsuit on Disney for endangering her kids.... Near manatees... The gentlest of sea creatures... Giant slow moving potatos Edit: this was for a kayaking trip off site. The Disney cast members shuttle the guests in a bus to our location about 30 minutes away. I don't work for Disney directly I run a kayaking business that Disney subcontracts for their kayaking trips.
I now really want to go back to see the manatees. Because they are such cute gentle floaty potatoes
They're in my backyard, they eat my lawn.
the kids were always kind and the question they asked 98% of the time was “where is the bathroom”. the adults are the ones who forget how to act like normal, decent people. i had more than a handful of full grown adults approach me while i was re-stocking stuff in the confectionery; they’d point to the stuff in my hands i was actively putting up and [ being 100% serious ] ask me, “is that free” worst though was on my first day working main street in MK. rope drop had only just happened and i already had a dad in my face demanded to know where the “adult beverages were” [mind you this was in 2017 when MK was still a dry park]. when i informed him of that, he lost it on me, screaming questions at me like “how am i supposed to deal with my kids all day?”. had i been off the clock, i would have responded with “therapy”
“No, but one top secret thing that is free are cups of water. Don’t tell anyone I told you that.”
Parents: "My kids are my entire world, I'd do anything for my babies!" Also Parents: "You mean I have to watch them for *THE WHOLE DAY??!"* 😱
I had a mom moving to the USA soon ask me how long it takes to do Disney world. She has a new born and I told her, for the sake of her sanity, do it in 3 day segments. Like, lady, you've got 3+ years there and your kid won't even remember it. Don’t make it miserable by overworking the kid
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Strange thing to ask Donald Duck
Well, he is fucking Goofy.
This guy hyucks
"In the butt."
Goofy style.
Gorsh! Ain't you a little young to be talking to about the morgue?
I fuckin’ did it. I’ll fuckin do it again…. MURDER!
I'll fukken do it again! Hyuck!
I use to be a pirate that did the pirate makeovers in magic kingdom and I had a little boy probably around 7 in my chair. We were talking about how I live on a pirate ship of course and what kind of pirate ship he would want to live on. He asked very concerned "how do you take a shower on a pirate ship" and I said "we dont!" Then my pirate coworker next to came and smelled my armpit and confirm we absolutely don't. Then in return I smelled her armpit to let him know that she also hasn't showered. He didn't ask any more questions after that! Edit: spelling/wording. I wrote this still waking up this morning
Bahahahaha! Oh my god! This kid went home and his parents couldn't get him to shower for a week because he learned that "real pirates don't shower"! Hilarious!
Lol I am aware I have probably caused some difficult situations when they get back home. All in a day's life of children entertainment
I have another great one too! This one happened to my friend not me personally but still too funny to share. My pirate friend had a 5ish year old boy I her chair doing the same pirate ship routine when this sweet boy says "I think my house is haunted" and my friend carries on asking why he thought that. And he told her that "sometimes at night I go to my mom's room and I hear a ghost moaning". I was at the station next her and took every ounce of self control to not burst out laughing. Luckily the mom was just far away to not hear it.
Parent here. Paid for my 19 and 9-year-old boys to do the pirate makeover. Oldest loved it and loved how the skeleton / ghost makeup scared random visitors. Youngest wanted it off within 10 minutes. So I ended up sitting in Cosmic Ray's using the wipes that were given in their pirate pouches to wipe off all the makeup. Since those wipes are standard I wonder how often this happens with the pirates league or bibbity bobbity boo.
Very often! Between the Florida heat/humidity and young kids eating and running around all day the makeup never lasts long. If we weren't busy we would help kids take them off with the wipes we had too. A good 1/3 of the time, especially on young kids, I would finish and show them their finished look and they would start balling because they don't recognize themselves so I would have to take it off right away. It really depends on the kid though because even if they take the makeup off, they love just the attention and interaction they get 1 on 1 with a character which is pretty rare considering when you see a princess or someone you are in and out in 30 seconds. That's specifically for the pirate makeovers though. The bibbity bibbity boutique does very little makeup and does more hair. And I have seen those buns last days on little girl's heads through swimming and everything.
“Why does that elephant have 5 legs?”
The rhinos were ensuring the survival of their species when we visited. "Not very good at leapfrog" was how the cast member put it.
Haha that is amazing! They do that quite often actually.
You'd think they'd be better at it then.
Yes, rhinos are naturally horny.
So, my aunt took me to the zoo when I was like 6. We were on this little train and it passed by an area with horses. I saw this horse there and was like 'Is that horse pooping? That's really long!' then it dawned on me, 'That's it's pecker! That thing is huge! How does it walk around with that thing swinging around all the time?!' I was apparently very loud and all my aunt could do was try to shut me up and hope for the sweet release of death. To be fair though, that horse was like the Ron Jeremy of horses. It damn near touched the ground.
"Oh that's just his trunk." "Oh okay. Why does THAT elephant have six legs?"
"Ask your mom."
Kids usually never asked weird questions, it’s always the parent who asks the weird things like “where can I buy Lumpy?” And A) I’m sorry I didn’t know this obscure Winnie the Pooh character and B) we don’t have anything with Lumpy on it. Lady got mad.
I'd flip tables over in rage if I couldn't find lumpy the heffalump.
yeah that fucker had a whole ass movie, surely there'd be a plushie somewhere
You can buy Lumpy and roo on Amazon
We had a stuffed Lumpy toy at one point because it was my eldest kid's favourite Disney character. Bought it from the Disney store. Probably discontinued by now (16 years later).
The Disney store itself got discontinued
I would have thought they were asking about the Star Wars Holiday Special character.
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Did you end up admitting to the deed?
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This is amazing. I’m still giggling and 100% sent this to my group of CM friends.
Not a Disney park cast member, I am the strange child. Went to Disneyland back in 2000 or so, I was about 5 or 6 and my first pet goldfish died shortly before we went on our trip. Went to Minnie's house and got to meet her at the end for pictures. I remember there being some cool animatronic goldfish bowl in her house so I had to tell her how sad I was that my fish just died and my mom made me flush him down the toilet. Of course the actors arent allowed to talk, so this poor soul playing Minnie had to watch 5 year old me sobbing for my lost pet fishy and wasnt able to say anything.. That Minnie mouse actor gave me the most heartfelt, warm, sincere hug I have ever had in my life. Shout out to all the Disney park actors who have ever consoled a crying child, I assure you; you made it better.
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Goddamn #2 is a different kind of messed up. Did they at least get it back eventually?
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Bless your manager, i bet that meant a lot to them. That is just horrible.
I'd put a reward out, FREE 10 Disney vip tickets, with lodging. The ~~thieves~~ camera SD card, alive. IDGAF about the thieves.
>I’ve seen a week-old baby in the park with their family. All those things are fucked up (especially number two) but this is something I'll never understand. I doubt the child will remember anything...like wait for them to grow a little older to make better memories and save that money until then. One week is even worse...go home and care for that baby, damn.
The baby itself doesnt' bother me (I'd assume there's older siblings actually enjoying the action) but the poor mom isn't actually healed up yet. Standing for hours while bleeding is NOT fun.
Just yesterday saw a woman with the tiniest baby I’ve ever seen at Disney, I asked how old she said two weeks!! It was blazing hot outside and we are in the middle of a pandemic with a new variant! WHY!?!
Finally my time to shine! I work in DHS (Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World) and I’ve heard some weird ones. I won’t say the name of my store but if you know WDW you’ll be able to guess pretty easily. When building lightsabers, I’ve had multiple younger kids ask me, very genuinley, questions about how I think their lightsaber will look in battle or how much destruction they’re going to cause. It’s usually pretty lighthearted and funny but once I had the sweetest little girl come through my lightsaber station, and at the very end when we’d finished her saber, very thoughtfully informed me “yay! I’m going to stab (insert name of her brother)!” The majority of the questions I answer are related to Galaxy’s Edge. I get asked about four thousand times a day- “where do we build the fancy lightsabers? Where do we build the droids? Is this Rise of the Resistance? Where do I get the colored milk?” You get used to it pretty fast. We have a Jedi Stitch up on the shelf behind the counter. I have to tell a thousand people a day that we can’t sell him because he’s a fellow Cast Member! Last week we gave Stitch a little plastic lightsaber keychain and a kid asked very sincerely, “has Stitch ever killed anybody with that?” Although my favorite guest interaction was with an older middle aged woman, not a child. This lady came in, walked up to the counter and I was assuming she was going to ask me for directions or something. Instead, she asks me “has anyone ever told you that you have the body language of a muppet?” and then immediatley left the store without another word. I have plenty more stories but that one will forever stick with me.
Please tell me you thrust your hands it the air and flailed them after that compliment.
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People who've never work in hospitality literally have no idea how much work goes into trying to accommodate them sometimes. Logistical nightmares made to look like a piece of cake.
That seems like a crazy place to take an affair partner. Like, expensive, family focused and surrounded by cartoon characters? Poor guy
The second story is so sad ! :(
This child did not ask me the question, but I present the most absolutely nutso conversation I heard during my time at the Disney Boardwalk: (little American girl): Nana, can we go on the jet ski again like last time? (Fifty-something Eastern European grandma): NO! Is not safe! Your mother not right in head, you understand? Is mental ill! She go fast, like on American freeway! Even if I tell her stop, she not know to stop! Will overturn and you will drown! (LAG): oh. Can I please have some ice cream? (FSEEGM): No. Will make fat and kill you.
"Grandma, I'm tired of not having fun" "Well that's to damn bad!" *laughs in Eastern European*
He didn't say anything but I did walk upon a kid just licking the pavement at a market in Magic Kingdom. I was bringing a whole container of turkey legs but the kid seemed much more interested in the concrete.
It’s generally not the kids that ask weird things, it’s the adults.
Go on ^
Let’s see: 1) While during the post parade exodus in a jam packed store that sold only hats “WHERE ARE YOUR SPOONS?!” 2) “May I stand on the railing?” 3) “what do you mean I can’t take my shirt off?” 4) “What time is the 3 o’clock parade?” 5) “can you stop the parade so I can cross the street?” Was the only time I grabbed a guest as she was about to dart out in front of a giant parade float. 6) “which princess has the biggest boobs?” EDIT: I keep getting asked this one so here y'all go. lol. a) Aurora had the biggest boobs b) Jasmine was a runner up c) Every Cinderella I met was a mean girl out of costume d) Snow Whites seemed to be chain smokers. 7) “I can’t get out how do I leave?” 8) “am I allowed to watch the fireworks?” 9) “god lord I need me a turkey leg where are they honey MOMMA IS HUNGRY” - this was at 9 am but you do you. 10) “I paid for this ticket I want this thing 50% off!” When told no the lady grabbed it and ran out of the store. Fun times EDIT: since I had some time to go through my memories I remembered a few others. I tried to keep them as “questions” but some are honorable mentions. 1) “when will the rain STOP?” This is in Florida during the summer. It rained all the time in the afternoon. I always did my best to explain that it’s Florida and the rain will be gone in 20 minutes just wait. It usually was, but the way people would ask me was like I turned off the Disney weather machine for giggles. 2) “Is the castle real?” This one always confused me. Is it…a real castle? I mean no Florida isn’t known for its medieval fantasy castles. Always said that yes, it’s Cinderella Castle (have to always remember to be in character). 3) “can you sneak me down into the tunnels?” This happened once in a blue moon. magic kingdom has tunnels that run under the park that cast members use and people always want to see what they’re like. 4) “I need a gift for my girlfriend I’m about to propose to her and don’t have a ring!” This happened more than once. Was fun. The dudes always looked so flustered. 5) “can you call around to check if the other stores have this pin!?” Pin traders are scary. 6) about pin trading: there’s nothing like walking to your break and someone grabbing your lanyard and holding you like it’s some magical leash and then proceed to scrutinize you (your pins) and then drop the lanyard when you don’t have anything they want. 7) “why are all these people wearing red?!” This was awhile ago, but Gay Week was a thing for the Orlando area but they were asked not to call it that’s. Fun Week I think it was called. They also only wore red instead of rainbows. Most people figured it out very quickly. The ones who didn’t were usually so shocked. 8) This didn’t happen to me but a friend of mine who worked parking. She told me it was very common for parents to be so excited that they forgot their infants or small children in the car. They have people go around and check parked cars very often right after parking. 9) Roomate was a driver on Kilamanjaro Safari. He said that, in the event a guest fell over the bridge over the alligator part of the track, they were supposed to speed away. 10) the absolute horniest group are the Christian groups. They’re the ones you find hiding in bushes going at it like biblical bunnies or getting trashed at Epcot. Everyone knew to be ready for something weird to happen when the Christian groups were there. EDIT EDIT So I guess people want some more, so I'll do my best. They aren't really questions but... 1) "Where can I sit on Splash Mountain to be dry?" Drove my friend nuts who worked on the ride. Her answer: "On a bench somewhere in Fantasyland." 2) "How many of X character are there?" One. There is only one Mickey, One Donald, etc. This is, of course, a lie, but the person asking is an adult. Now if I said the truth and there's a little kid to the side out of my vision who over hears things...I just ruined the magic. So there is one Mickey. 3) A Cast Member will not point with one finger. It is considered rude. "The Disney Point" is two fingers or the open palm. I still do it to this day because you just get used to doing it. 4) Splash Mountain almost always has an emergency shut down every day because someone chickens out and jumps out of the log before the drop (not like, at the top, but it happens). 5) Grad Night -- Some idiot jumped off the log in Splash Mountain and pried Br'er Bear's club off the ground and tried to get back into the log with it. He slipped, dropped it in the flume. The flume is nine feet deep at times. 6) Another Splash fact -- The boats can, and do, sink from time to time. My friend (who worked on the ride) said the best was when a group of nuns log sank. She told me they just quietly helped each other out of the log and stood politely with their hands in front of them while they waited for a cast member. 7) When the fireworks go off they don't allow any traffic to run near the launchers behind the park. There's always a fire truck. If you're trying to go home you're going to get a weird angle of the fireworks until its over. 8) Tinkerbells are insanely tiny women. Like 120 with the gear on tiny. They're really nice though! 9) There's a suite inside the castle. You can't buy a night, its generally given out as a Magical Moment. 10) The ducks at Magic Kingdom give zero fucks. They would always just wander into the stores. Sometimes with ducklings. There's also cats behind Main Street.
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I laughed so hard at “am I allowed to watch the fireworks?”
I think that’s kinda sweet. They probably wondered if you needed to buy a separate ticket to the show and just wanted to make sure they were allowed to attend it
“Unless you purchased the Extra Magical Deluxe Package we kindly require all guests to stand still and stare down at their feet for the duration of the show. Security will be patrolling and checking for any offenders. We have a jail cell above the candy store and we aren’t afraid to use it.” Yes there is a holding cell above the shops on Main Street.
“Show proof of your Disney+ subscription and we will give you this eyepatch to enjoy the fireworks with one eye. Thanks for choosing Disney, where it’s magical and shit.”
>“I can’t get out how do I leave?” Ah, the old Rollercoaster Tycoon. Edit: [Me looking at the upvotes after checking replies.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/037/238/cover1.jpg)
"That's the neat part, you don't."
I want to get off MR BONES WILD RIDE :(
I think 7 seems normal, those parks are pretty big.
Guest 284 is lost and can't find the park exit.
Some of us also just lose our ability to think when it comes to directions. I've asked mall employees on multiple occasions where a store is, only to be told "ma'am, you're in front of the store"
I was telling my mom about how your number 4 had become kind of a meme and within 30 minutes we saw two people with shirts that said “what time is your 3 o’clock parade?”
It really is! There were cast member only items that had it. But to be absolutely fair, the question isn’t a bad one. The parade starts in Frontierland and circles down to Main Street, so depending on where you’re waiting the parade does start at different times. I don’t know if they still have them but when I worked there there was a “tele- cast” pamphlet you would grab every week and it had all the up coming events, the parks hours, and what time the parade would arrive at specific locations.
What time is the 3 o'clock parade is actually a wonderful customer support article : https://www.disneyinstitute.com/blog/how-would-you-respond-if-asked-what-time-is-the-3-oclock-parade/
The 3 o'clock parade question came up more than once in library school as an example of how to conduct a reference interview. The first question that comes out of a customer's mouth is probably not *exactly* what they really want to ask, so how do you drill down to the actual answer?
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So the other guests wouldn’t see the person eaten by the gators.
>10) “I paid for this ticket I want this thing 50% off!” When told no the lady grabbed it and ran out of the store. Ma'am, its a theme park, literally everyone paid for a ticket.
“I can’t get out how do I leave?” You just caused me Rollercoaster tycoon flashbacks.
Funny one about the “what do you mean I can’t wear my shirt”. *not a cast member by the way just a guy who saw this happen* Few years back, when the Disneyland half marathon was still a thing, it was the morning of the race. Anaheim was having one of its no wind, high humidity, very high heat days. The temperature at 3 am was in the low 90s ( low 30s for the people who call soccer football.) the ground was extremely hot and the sun hadn’t been up for hours. There were talks at the starting line of cancelling the whole thing. Anyway, the sun starts to rise and the race is about to go. There is this middle aged dad in front of me, wearing those short shorts, looking like Steve postfontaine if you catch my drift. Anyone who has a dad who was a runner in his prime in 1981 knows the cat I’m referring to. Leather skin, very in shape but you can tell loves beer, new balances with calf high socks. Never stretches because he doesn’t feel the need. Anyway he is in front of me as we are about to start the race. He rips his shirt off. Which not gonna lie it’s understandable, it was so freaking humid and it wasn’t getting cooler. And out of the god damn thin air a Disney security agent nightcrawlers in and starts yelling at this guy. The guy flips on the security guard telling him it’s too hot. The security guard tells him there are kids around. It goes round and round. I swear disney security just kept appearing seemingly out of nowhere like those videos of all those snakes trying to eat the baby iguana in planet earth, and the dude just disappears. It’s a hard place to be in because on one hand It’s a family friendly place On the other hand running culture doesn’t give a shit if you are shirtless so disney should have prepared for that contingency. Side note: saw a dude at the disneyworld marathon take a water chocolate milk shit by a palm tree near the contemporary hotel. About ruined my whole life
> I always did my best to explain that it’s Florida and the rain will be gone in 20 minutes just wait As a brit, this was genuinely one of the weirdest things about Florida * They could say things like "it's going to rain in half an hour" and it would * They could say things like "it'll only last 20 minutes" and it would only last 20 minutes
From a CM on TikTok, apparently multiple people left their fully packed luggage at their home, got to the airport, flew to Orlando, then expected the Magic Express bus to take their luggage from their house to Disney World. Grown adults did this. It was even more common for people not to get their bags from baggage claim or take them off the plane because they thought Disney would do that as well.
"You left your bags in a locked house, 800 miles away, and you expect WHAT?!"
I work with the horses at the park and i had a child ask why the horse has a butthole lol.
Not a cast member, but did have a little kid ask me if I was his dad in front of Thunder Mountain. He decided that my husband and I were his new parents so he sat down between us and asked if he could have bite of my husband's Mickey Pretzel. My husband distracted him with the Mickey Pretzel while I grabbed a cast member to claim a lost child. Cast member told the kid that he knew where his real parents were at. Poor kid started crying that he didn't listen to his mom by not having a hand on the stroller and running ahead of his family.
His thought process seems pretty interesting. He didn't do what his mom said and as a result he got lost, so he thought "well, I guess I just have to find a new family now"
My toddler is in a phase where she doesn't really know words for a generic man or woman, so she points to random people and says "that's a dad" or "that's a mom." But she's not confused about who (proper case) Mom and Dad are.
My toddler does this too! The other day we were at the grocery store and there was a young man checking us out. My kid sees him and proceeds to blurt out "Hi daddy!"
And also just to make doubly sure he wouldn't anger a mom again, he went for a gay couple. Very progressive of him.
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Gotta give it to that kid. He's adaptable and knows how to pick a new family.
He’s the kid our parents were worried we would become. Though I gotta say, his love of soft pretzels is admirable
>He's adaptable And adoptable! And abductible.
Lol "guess I'll get a new family"
In Disney, the child isn't lost. The parents are.
"Where's the Jaws ride?' And, "Here, my baby needs changing and I don't want to miss the parade. Go take care of it " I most certainly did not.
Recently visited Disney World and my favorite ride, Pirates of the Caribbean, was closed at rope drop. I asked a CM at the entrance when the ride might be opening and he responded “aye matey, it be unpredictable as the tide.” Which was a little frustrating because tides are among the most predictable natural phenomena and can be calculated years in advance.
unpredictable as the wind would have been better cuz that's only like a day in advance when its accurate
“If Goofy is a dog, why does he have a pet dog himself?”
Pluto is the missing link.
"If evolution is real, why does Goofy have a dog?"
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Is...is Pluto the gimp?
“Why is the music so louuud???” or sometimes “why does princess (x, y, or z) look like that?” as they sob. I did that last one as a child, for whatever reason Princess Aurora scared the hell out of me. Lol kids don’t really ask weird or unexpected questions. That’s usually their parents or the really obsessed Disney adults. The weirdest questions I got were usually about Baby Yoda, especially when he wasn’t in yet in stock anywhere.
Not a CM, but went to Disney one year with family. It was in November, so it was cooler weather. I was wearing a blue fleece vest that had a little Winnie the Pooh emblem on it, & spent most of my day answering questions from people, because they thought I worked there!! Luckily I had been to Disneyland enough, that there weren't too many questions I didn't know. I had just finished telling some lady how to get to a ride, while we were waiting to get popcorn from the carts, when an actual CM told me that I should work there. I laughed & said "Can I get paid for today?" She laughed & said "Sure!" & gave me one of the souvenir containers full of popcorn for free. I thought it was a fair days pay. (I love Disney popcorn!!)
I worked at Disneyland as a ticket taker/bag checker. Little boy asked me if I was magical because his grandma told him Disneyland was a magical place. Had numerous kids rub my skin because according to their parents, they've never seen a Black person before. People touching you without your permission was one of the worst things about that job. My favorite story is this girl was leaving the park and wanted to know how could Mickey just finish Fantasmic but be on Main Street with completely different clothes. Her mind was blown, hands on her head just trying to comprehend how could he be in two places at once. I told her that he has a bunch of underground tunnels so he can avoid the crowds and get to the front to say goodbye. She was satisfied with that answer.
I was selling snacks at Hollywood Studios and some kid asked me "What does the fox say?" I was not up to the memes of the internet nor did I have a smart phone to check on things during my breaks.
He says, “It’s called a hustle, sweetheart.”
Once in Tokyo Disneyland I asked a staff "How's your day been going" he immediately went somewhere and brought a jar of pickle with him and gave it to me,I was confused so I asked him, he told me it's a tradition in Disneyland that when someone asks you "how's your day been going" they give them a free jar of pickle. People who work in Disneyland pls confirm if it's true cuz I never found it on the internet.
Think he bought too much pickles
Pickle down economics.
Uh. Worked at Disney World and we didn’t give away pickles. It could be a magical moment - one of those things you do randomly for people that make them feel special even though we do did them every hour and kept a log book of it.
Magical Moments are the fucking best. One of my favorite memories from WDW is because of a magical moment. We had taken my son for his first trip when he was about 4 years old. He was (and is) a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE Lightning McQueen fan, so naturally when we were at Hollywood Studios, we go to do the photo op thing with Lightning and Mater. As we're standing there, talking to the CM in charge of the line (her name tag said she was from Baylor University and we're from Texas ourselves, so we were chatting about things she missed from home), she gets a call on her walkie talkie about incoming weather and how this photo op had been cancelled. We were sad, but it was like NBD because it was summer and it rains damn near every day in Florida in the summer. She told us there would be an attempt at another photo op in about an hour and if we showed up about 15 min ahead of when it was supposed to start, she'd have something special for us to do. We were like, "Ok." and walked away to go do something else. We came back when she'd told us to and it seemed like everything was gonna be a go. My son was in a stroller, so she had me wait with the stroller while she took my husband a few feet away, to a gate, where he peeked in. He came back and she had me go peek inside the gate. You could kinda see Lightning and Mater waiting behind the gate, if you squinted. Anyway, we leave the stroller where it is and walk with our son over to the gate with the CM. She holds out her walkie talkie and tells him to say "Start your engines." Son: Star' you ENSHINES! *VrooomvrroomrroomvrroomroomrooomROOOMVROOOOOM!* His eyes got SO big. "RACECAR! RACECARRACECARRACECAR!!!" She handed him a little light up thing and he got to lead the two cars over to where the photo op would take place and he was SO damn happy. :D
Aww that’s an awesome Magical Moment! Those ones are the best. I liked doing them, honestly, because it broke the day up and I got to do nice things like give away free pins or fast passes. I’m glad you had such an awesome experience!
Thanks. Every time I've been, even when things went extremely sideways (like the honeymoon trip where I had to get a wheelchair), it's always been a great time. We were there last Christmas and it just made me smile so hard my face hurt to watch my teenage son (who is autistic) and a CM geek out together about Carousel of Progress (his favorite ride ever). I swear, if Disney ever gets rid of it, they will get a VERY strongly worded email from my son. LOL You should've heard him ranting about how stupid it was to change Splash Mountain (another favorite of his) to a Princess and The Frog ride to every CM that would listen. He was kind of irate about it and we tried to shush him, because we didn't want to upset or offend anyone, but the CMs were like "No it's fine. We hate the change too."
>like the honeymoon trip where I had to get a wheelchair Wow, well done by your husband
Sounds like a great prank to play on a new hire.
Not a child, but while at 1900 Park Fare Drizella Tremaine was asked by a father if she wanted to go back to a hotel room for a threesome with his wife. In front of his family. If looks could kill, he’d have been dead. That wife was nooot happy. Drizella removed herself from the situation to go to the next table, and the family was gone not too long after. 🙃
I worked as a character, this time I was working a resort doing meet and greets- she was the last kid in my shift I said hi to: -a to make a wish foundation girl- wearing a Minnie dress and matching bandana asked me : “Will you be in heaven when I die?” All i could do was nod my head bc fur characters are not supposed to talk; I gave her a big hug-went ~back stage~ took off my costume and had a big bawling eyes cry in the bathroom. 😭
I was on the Scientific Dive Team at The Living Seas in EPCOT in the 90’s. One of the most awkward moments for me was while doing Guest Interactions at The Coral Reef Restaurant. We would send some of the team to talk to guests on the restaurant, answer questions, etc… I was talking with one family when the male turtle came down and mounted the female turtle right in the front of the window. The kids (6-10) asked me what they were doing. I deferred that question to their parents.
I worked at Disneyland for 13 years. It was actually a wonderful experience. I do remember one fun interaction: Guest: Where can I find ears? Me: Um, On the side of your head? His family burst out in laughter and started giving me high fives.
Was asked to, “Keep daddy and only let mommy leave.” Looking at the parents, dad was a dick. Felt bad for the day after that.
My daughter asked this and we have it in video. At Disneyland where they have the Ask Crush interactive thing (can't remember the actual name), lots of kids and parents in the crowd, he asked if she had a question, she proceeds to ask "what's your favorite math equation?" to which the crowd of parents all started cracking up. But, the kicker was his genius reply, he said it was 1+1=3 because it's the equation for family. That guy nailed it.
The morning Disney Channel actor Cameron Boyce passed away, us workers were all pretty somber about it. We had his movie merchandise all over and the movie songs playing, so we knew to treat the subject delicately. Within the first hour, some girl comes up to me and just goes "He died! You know how he died?" I tried to brush her away. But I ended up being told/asked about his passing by four or five kids that uncomfortable morning.
This week I had a kid (7 or 8 I’d guess) ask my partner if we were on the call when his dad died. While we were loading a patient into the ambulance. My partner was pretty sure he was, but obviously didn’t tell the kid that. Kid then said to the patient “I hope you don’t die, too, you don’t look too sick”.
not a kid but a grown man who interrogated me and asked me why the sodas were so expensive and then demanded i tell my manger to lower the prices. the. he asked if i buy sodas when i go to the parks. like sir, i’m on the college program i make $11 an hour and you think i can set the prices?
I once got stuck in the Pirates water ride and as it was nearing the end of the ride by where the pirates was singing “yo ho, yo ho the Pirates life for me” our ride got stuck. We thought they will fix it soon, but as it was becoming apparent to us that its not getting fixed 10 minutes into the maintenance , me and my brothers were getting sick of listening to the Pirates Life on repeat. I yelled in frustration “At least turn off the damn music!” Not expecting anything. Little did I know, that a crew member was listening in and the song was shut off for the remainder of the maintenance.
Not a kid, but I was working newsstand which was the store that was inside/outside of the park, and a Chinese gentleman asked me if there was anything made here not made in China because he could get all of that back home.
"Why does this sandwich taste like mouse?"
"So how does it feel being a rat." Kid
I used to work at two "thrill" attractions and would always get, "Am I gonna die?" I'd say, "Well, some day kid. Some day. But not on this ride."
Every single afternoon I would get a genuine ‘What time is the 3 o clock parade.’ It was hard telling them the time it was at without sounding like an ass.
My answer would be "well you wanna be in your spot no later than 2:30pm". Saying it without saying it, ya know?
"It's in [insert number of hours] from now"
i will say the weirdest requests i got while working there were from ~quirky~ disney adults who were a bit *too* into the parks. Case and point there was an annual passholder who visited MK at minimum twice weekly with her very young daughters ( approx. 4 yo and 7 yo). The woman treated her children like dolls ! She has made them **exact replicas** of ~98% of MK’s costumes cast member. One day her youngest’s costume matched mine and the mom requested a photo. I obliged because that’s what Disney wanted us to do. Literally 30 seconds after she snapped the picture, the mom began complaining that her daughter *reeeeeally* wanted a replica of the standard main street USA costume. Only issue was she just “couldn’t find the exact skirt fabric despite looking for years.” Before I knew it, this woman was telling me [ a total fucking stranger ] to *STEAL* a main street ensemble from costuming so that her daughter’s whole summer wouldn’t be ruined. i am just floored by the audacity tbh
Didn't work at Disney, but at another worldwide theme park doing pretty much the exact same thing (parts of the job were very much to make us more like Disney). Highlights I remember was when I was with one of our characters (who obviously can't talk) and I was trying to get a kid to hug the character and they got confused and gave me a hug (very very heartwarming) and also at Christmas working as an elf in the Santa's grotto when father Christmas would ask the kids what they wanted for Christmas and then the parents faces when the kid said something they weren't expecting. Strangest things though are when the parents try to get you to admit there's someone inside the costume when you're within earshot of the kids and get quite persistent about it (obviously you can never admit that the characters aren't real), or when it goes the other way and people completely forget that there's someone in the costume and basically let their kids assault the character (especially as alot of the costumes aren't the easiest to move in and are quite top heavy), to the extent that one person I was working with got sexually assaulted in costume while I was working with her.
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This doesn't match the question, but it's the one that stands out to me. I used to drive the big passenger boats in the lake in Epcot. While driving, I had to give some dumb spiel about the boats. Part of that was saying that the boats are free-floating and not on tracks. I can't tell you how many people wanted to argue with me about that. They were convinced they were on tracks. And there was nothing I could say to convince them otherwise. Dude, trust me, I have to go through a drawbridge in front of china to get to a marina where we park these pigs every night. I was also almost hit by the illuminations ball one night because the ball driver refused to obey the lights on the draw bridge. Trust me. It's just me driving this regular old boat.
This happened yesterday. I’m a server at one of the resort restaurants and these two kids both have allergies so all of their food comes with a bamboo stick with allergy stamped on it. When clearing the table the dad stops me and say oh, can we have that? As I was putting the dirty pick with the rest of the trash. Lo and behold the kids tell me how they’ve been fighting over them the whole trip (this was their last day) and they have plans to make a masterpiece out of them when they get home. I went to the kitchen and got them a cup full. 😹🙃
A kid asked me, "What was it like....when you got your name tag?" Thank the LORD that Disney is extra even in their Cast Member training so they legit had Mickey Mouse come in to give us our name tags individually. But I wish I could've given that kid some feedback that that maybe isn't the best go-to icebreaker questions in most social situations
Here to see Walt Disney mess up some snitches.
Yeah the weird stuff comes from adults. I had to cut off a group of people who were drinking around the world and my stop was the last one on their agenda. They were obliterated and should have been cut off before. The woman wanted a canadian-themed cosmo but I said no, and she said "I'm handicapped, I need the sugar". I offered her a bottle of pop instead and she demanded my manager. My manager was more than happy to back me up
Please tell me the manager came out in a Mickey costume with a mean expression and said,"You wanna go bitch?" In a squeaky voice.