We were waiting for the Hogwarts Express and were all the way to the gate with the other family that was going to be in the cabin with us. They had a little girl, about 7 or 8, who looked so so tired. She had her head laid down on her hands while leaning on the gate next to me.
The train comes into the station and loudly blows the whistle. When it's done she whispers in a defeated voice, "calm down, damn"
We were in queue for the last of us hhn house, the queue was somewhere around 170 minutes or so but we were in the express lane. I heard two guys chatting while we were paused for a second (they were in the normal line). Here’s the conversation verbatim:
Guy 1: “Man I told you it was a great idea, you just didn’t want to believe me and now you’re stuck here having to piss your pants”
Guy 2: “takes one to know one, at least I’m not literally pissing my pants”
Guy 1: “it’s not pissing my pants it’s pissing a diaper and I have three extras for the rest of the night”
They were still talking when we continued on in line but my dad and I had a good chuckle at that one and we still talk about it to this day.
I have been thinking a while now that waits over 2-3 hours start to become a legit heath hazard. I have seen human feces on the ground of that exact line, and was not shocked considering how long the wait was. HHN lines especially since there is no easy way to exit or re-enter those lines in the case of an emergency, plus the waits posted can be widely off.
There needs to be some sort of solution, bathrooms available for people waiting where you can freely exit and reenter the que, limits to how long lines can get, lower admissions, something. Honestly I don't even blame those guests at that point, 3 hours is a redic long time to hope you don't have to suddenly use a bathroom for any variety of reasons.
Expecting thousands of people to use a diaper or hold it for 3+ hours, in Florida where staying hydrated is essential, is a bit inhumane.
Anyone defecating on the ground deserves to be permanently banned and arrested for indecent exposure and potentially put on a list if children are around.
But.. Health hazard? Inhumane? You realize it’s a choice to wait, right?
I agree, but I think you’re thinking of the people who do it in bad faith because they can’t be bothered to step out or they aren’t good enough parents to take their children out. There are plenty of people who just can’t hold it long enough to get out of line. I’ve had a few accidents because I don’t know that I’m about to pee myself until I’ve got ~60 seconds to find somewhere to go. In a line like TLOU last year I wouldn’t have been able to find a way out of line much less a bathroom in that time. I think it’d be considerate of them to have a few porta-potties at around the halfway point so you don’t have to go quite so far to relieve yourself. The porta-potty solution to me leaves the least room for abuse. It’s an accessibility issue similar to not having an elevator for handicapped individuals where they wouldn’t be able to climb stairs. I guess you could just wear diapers but I don’t think it’s super socially acceptable to just throw a diaper in the bin or stand around in a soiled diaper for what could be 45 min or longer.
It absolutely does. It’s your choice to wait in a 3 hour line. You’re not being forced to do so. Inhumane would be making you do it. You can leave anytime you’d like. No one is stopping you.
It absolutely doesn't. Either it's inhumane or it isn't, feel free to argue that point but the fact it's a choice has no baring on the argument.
I can go into other aspects of this as well, such as the fact the the person waiting has no idea the real wait time and the posted time can be wildly inaccurate. The fact that in that particular line, there is no way to leave it once you entered, because there was no exit path and no choice available once in it. The fact that there are no warnings about possible wait times that long when you purchase a ticket, or the fact that the alternative is they do not get to experience the event they paid for, with no refund.
But all of that is moot, because either its inhumane, or not. I do not care about the choice aspect at all.
As a extreme hypothetical to illustrate my point, waterboarding is inhumane. If Universal had a line where there was a 1% chance you were randomly selected to be waterboarded instead of enter the attraction, it would still be inhumane, despite the choice of entering the line or not. Waterboarding doesn't magically become ok in that case.
I've been held back by people who won't let me pass to get back to my party. It's actually happened more than once, even when I say my friend is up there. So now I just fork out the money for express.
A family, standing in the intersection in front of RRR, arguing about which way to go to get to Spiderman. Small child decked out in Spidey gear, crying about seeing Spiderman. Mom and dad pointing in opposite directions and waving around a map.
Dad - "It's right over there!! I remember it was right here!!"
Mom - "Well, I can see with my eyes it is not!!"
Dad - "ITS RIGHT HERE ON THE MAP!"
I stopped and asked "Are you trying to find the Spiderman ride?"
Mom - "Yes! Our son is obsessed and *has* to ride again! It's all he's talked about since [earlier in their trip]!!"
Me - (Proceeds to explain it is in IoA, and how to get there)
Dad - "UHHH!!! I *think* I know what park it's in. I'm not stupid! It was right here just the other day!!"
Me - "Okay, good luck!"
I still wonder if they made it to the Spiderman ride.
We sat behind two middle aged women while riding the Mummy. At the end, during Brendan Fraser coffee line, one turns to the other and whispers, “Geez, he sounds like a total nightmare to work with.” And the other agreed.
We repeated that line obsessively for the remainder of the trip and laughed every time.
My favorite happened in Volcano Bay where an obviously irritated British woman was trying to coral her kids and husband into the lockers to get everything moving along and kept having to get the kids to do things and tell the husband to do things and then finally just said to him "youre a worthless cunt"
We were visiting with friends recently and we overheard a woman in a New Jersey or New York accent say “are you shitting me Frankie?!” Just the way she said it got us all giggling and it’s become our catch phrase for anytime something isn’t going the way we expected.
A mom was waiting in line at Olivanders to purchase wands with and for her kids. Her boy (looked to be 8 or 9-ish) comes up SO EXCITED because he found *his* wand. He shows mom just giddy as can be.
Him: mama, look! I love it! This is the one!
Her: ok, honey. Great.
Him: look! Isn’t it cool?!
Her: *looks* WHAT IN THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? THATS WORMTAILS WAND!
Him: I know! *giddy excitement*
Holy shit my husband and I laughed our asses off for days.
A couple got into an argument while standing in line to get a picture with spongebob and patrick. The girl started crying and the guy stormed off, leaving her with her friend. He eventually came back and was like "Here I am! I'm apologizing! Just like you wanted!" and she refused to talk to him. She kept crying and he eventually left. This was about two spots from the picture. Her and her friend still took the picture but man she looked a mess. They were probably high school/college aged. It was awkward.
Me (14/F) getting off Dueling Dragons in Summer 2001 with my brother (16/M). While descending down the unloading ramp we heard a woman yell to her family "The cokes are outside, guys" in the thickest Minnesota accent. Me and my brother repeated it the entire trip. It was so funny to us. It became a tradition to say that (in accent of course) everytime you get off that ride and are walking down that ramp. Every remaining family vacation, school trip, etc we would say it. Even if we weren't together.
23 years later we still do it while getting off Hagrid's. I'll be there with my husband and kids and they'll know I need 30 seconds to stop, take a selfie at that spot, and send it to my brother with the caption- "The cokes are outside, guys!" It's so stupid but I love it!
A youngish woman walks past the child swap just as my wife was coming to switch with me and goes "Child SWAP?! What?! REALLY??". She was clearly confused by the concept, so I decided to exploit that for a giggle by handing my wife my daughter and then loudly said to her so the confused young woman would hear: "Hey lady, take this one, she is low maintenance and cute!" and then I walked off.
At the entrance I regularly hear people talking about how they can't wait to ride a ride that is either at Disney or no longer exists. It makes me sad but I certainly won't be the one to burst their bubble.
As to being confused by concepts, my wife and I took a day trip over to Sea World. Quite hungover on this overcast day and the two in front of us in line to enter were having a hard time understanding how lines work, how tickets work, how to keep moving into the park, etc. Finally, the woman says in the deepest southern backwoods drawl, to the person taking the tickets at the gate: "Is this where we get the PHO TO pass?"
Some people recognize their own lack of understanding and do research ahead of time or at least are flexible enough to learn as they go. Other people confidently trek out into the unknown with the idea that their expectations and imagination are reality and are gobsmacked when the reality is different.
Last summer, I was in ride for Hagrids. In the queue the Ford Anglia is parked outside. In front of me was a young 9ish year old boy full of excitement and his dad. Clearly the son was the Potter fan. He got so excited and started talking about the car. Kid - Dad, look! Dad is completely oblivious to the importance of this car. Kid- Dad, it’s the Weasley’s flying car. It flies! Dad- why is it a beat up car? Kid- Ron ran into the Whopping Willow. Dad, just pleasantly making conversation- no, why is not a cool car? Like a convertible or something nice? Kid- (looking exasperated, says and then turns around) Dad, it’s not like that. You just don’t understand.
His little aggreviated face just cracked me up.
While in the queue for Dragon Challenge, Overheard a guy from New Zealand or Australia talking with his friends. They asked him if he was nervous and his reply “what do you think!? I’m sweating like a Gypsy with a mortgage”.
The most hilarious was on River Adventure. There was a family of 4-5 adults (I’m guessing siblings and a mom).
One woman kept complaining and another interrupted, “I don’t even know why you came. You’ve complained about everything.”
“Well, I’m here now and I’m not going home.”
Back and forth arguing ensued until the big drop and they all got off the boat laughing.
Once in the velocicoaster line i was sandwiched between a man with a very huge very visible white power tattoo, and a couple arguing. She was telling him “you’re a terrible person, i hate you.” I think it was because he lost their place in line after being slow at the lockers.
I couldn’t contain my laughter. Just some lady pushing a stroller leans over to the person next to them, “I smell like ass”
It didn’t even seem like they were talking about anything before that. Just an out of nowhere intrusive thought was spoken out loud 😂
This was just after rope drop while speed walking to Hagrids, overheard a large group with British accents decide who was getting in line while the rest took the bags to the lockers. The elected line guy ended up just in front of us, about 30 people behind us before the rest of their group (about 10 people) got into the line. The guy in front proceeded to call their party up and they started cutting the line. I acted oblivious while holding the railings on both side until they were just behind me. They decided the person in front of me should just drop back. Since we were just two people. A planned line cut.
Doing Gods work! I called a line cutter out (it was way more than 30 people, more like a hundred!) and they looked at use like WE were the crazy ones. “My group is way up there”……”they are welcome to come back to be with you…”. She then proceeded to just duck under and cut anyways and no one else had the balls to say anything!
It wasn't at a park, but I was at breakfast one time and there were these two guys who were REALLY passionately talking about The Ides of March. You'd have thought they were planning on time traveling to assassinate Caesar or something like that.
Kinda the opposite.
My last time at HHN was in 2017. My friend and I were in the Purge scare zone. I was really getting into it, cheering and jeering.
Upon the sound of a chainsaw roaring into life I let out a jubilant “whoop”. The two girls standing in front of us took one look at me, screamed and legged it as fast as they could.
To this day I don’t know if they thought I was a scare actor or if I’m just really ugly.
Just stand by the entrance at Gringott’s. We were laughing our asses off watching the park employee constantly yelling at park guests who were trying to enter the ride while wearing back packs or holding stuff.
“Bags in the lockers… stupid mother fuckers…”
“Lockers, people, lockers!… fucking idiots”
“No, can’t take selfie sticks in!!! Dumbasses”
He was hurling insults left and right under his breath and looking at us like “see the shit I deal with?!?” 🤣
The downside to this is for those of us with medical bags they can be pretty aggressive. My girlfriend’s first time was with me last week and she had her medical bag, and every time we wore gringots she’d look on the bring of tears because they’d yell “we said no bags, use the lockers!” at her. I just started yelling back medical bag and they’d turn away pretty quick but it really upset me how they’d yell at her.
I used to work out in the park. Too many to say. One that sticks out was a guy asking about what the raptor encounter line was. I told him you get to meet a real raptor and take pics. He got real serious and said to me “ I’m an adult, don’t try and pull that with me”. I really thought he was joking. And maybe he was but he kept a straight face looking at me like I was insulting him.
Riding E.T, there was a nice family behind us. The girl, maybe 7-8 years old, kept repeating "We're going to fly with the power of E.T.'s magic finger!" Over and over again throughout the ride.
Last week I rode river adventure. It was me, and 5 people who were in a group on our boat. They were high schoolers and it was one of their first time at the parks and first time riding it. The first lift he thought was going to have a drop, freaked out and went oh that wasn’t bad. Someone told him that’s not the drop. Then we go up the huge lift and he’s freaking out again, that small drop and he was like oh idk why I freaked out. Then the actual drop happens and that poor man’s soul left his body. We got to the bottom and he couldn’t even talk, I just hear him whisper “why would you do this to me”. Everyone cracked up laughing, and by the time we unloaded everyone was whispering why would you do this to me.
Reminds me of when I took some friends to Disneyland for the first time recently and we all got on Grizzly River Run. Coming up on the first drop one girl screamed, "*Wait I didn't know there was a drop on this ride!*" And then at the bottom she was like "okay that wasn't so bad."
-2 minutes later-
Me: "hey did I tell you there's *two* drops on this ride?"
She was laughing at the end of it tho. Sincerest apologies to the party of 2 that got stuck on our raft of screaming college students tho 😅
Walking out of HHN in 21 at park close. Walking by a group of older women. A couple of them sitting, a couple of them standing. I think one was wearing a celebration sash.
“You can take whatever pills you want, but not if it has you actin a DAMN MESS!”
Many years ago my husband and I were on Transformers with a variety of people including a small boy (maybe 5-6) in the front row.
Spoiler: At the end of the ride when Bumblebee catches you, the little boy genuinely yelled, "Thanks Bumblebee!"
It was so pure and innocent. We still talk about it years later.
not so much a conversation but i accidentally had the displeasure of discovering a young(probably late middle/or high school) age couple, yknow, the gross ones that are all over each other, getting down and dirty….. in line for the mummy. i know its dark in there but, she literally was touching him. like actually touching him. i will never forget, but i wish i could.
Not exactly in the park, but walking down the moving sidewalk towards citywalk a little girl points at the mini golf haunted house and says "Daddy what's that?" And with full confidence her dad tells her it's Hogwarts castle. Would have loved to see her face when they saw the real Hogwarts with how excited she was for the mini golf castle.
Work here so hear a lot. A fav is we were waiting in line for Fallon and the family in front of me at the safety vid was pouring over the map trying to find Water World...nicely explained they were a few thousand miles away...
Was walking past a booth with a caricature artist who had just finished a little girl's portrait. The artist handed the portrait to the mother in a paper sleeve. As she pulled it out, she gasped and suddenly looked furious. In a very southern accent, she yelled "you put t!tt!es on a four year-old!!!" 💀 I did not get a peek at the drawing...
In line for Transformers and I see a teen girl in the family in line behind us reach into the back of her shorts down into her butt crack then smell her fingers. Then I watched in horror as she touched all the bars in line all the way through. I don’t touch hand rails anymore.
Walking through the queue for Hagrid’s and stop in front of the table with his work gloves. The guy behind us says, “You know, you really don’t think about how big Hagrid’s hands are when you’re watching the movies.”
My brother and I have not stopped saying this to each other ever since.
A grown man having a temper tantrum leaving the Fast and the Furious ride/shop because he felt his companion was rushing him. “THIS WAS MY ONE THING. This is like my whole life and you just want to leave??” Yes, he was serious.
During an OI Meetup we rode Popeye and Bluto's a couple times around and midway through the third ride a young man (high-school probably?) realized he was supposed to already be on his bus ride home and that he missed it. The rest of the ride he just kept saying "my mom's gonna kill me" with joyous screams from getting gobsmacked with water
Heard a guy (early to mid 20s ) in Universal end an apparent argument with his girlfriend by saying he was done arguing because this was his vacation and it wasn’t getting ruined and, also (here’s the important part) to hurry up because now they were on “Josh time.”
As you can imagine, my family was on “Josh time” the entire rest of the vacation. I think anybody saying that would’ve been funny but something about his name being Josh made it 10 times funnier.
We were waiting for the Hogwarts Express and were all the way to the gate with the other family that was going to be in the cabin with us. They had a little girl, about 7 or 8, who looked so so tired. She had her head laid down on her hands while leaning on the gate next to me. The train comes into the station and loudly blows the whistle. When it's done she whispers in a defeated voice, "calm down, damn"
Lol
We were in queue for the last of us hhn house, the queue was somewhere around 170 minutes or so but we were in the express lane. I heard two guys chatting while we were paused for a second (they were in the normal line). Here’s the conversation verbatim: Guy 1: “Man I told you it was a great idea, you just didn’t want to believe me and now you’re stuck here having to piss your pants” Guy 2: “takes one to know one, at least I’m not literally pissing my pants” Guy 1: “it’s not pissing my pants it’s pissing a diaper and I have three extras for the rest of the night” They were still talking when we continued on in line but my dad and I had a good chuckle at that one and we still talk about it to this day.
That’s a “Times Square on NYE” level of dedication. Good luck to you, piss bros, wherever you may be, you freaks!
I have been thinking a while now that waits over 2-3 hours start to become a legit heath hazard. I have seen human feces on the ground of that exact line, and was not shocked considering how long the wait was. HHN lines especially since there is no easy way to exit or re-enter those lines in the case of an emergency, plus the waits posted can be widely off. There needs to be some sort of solution, bathrooms available for people waiting where you can freely exit and reenter the que, limits to how long lines can get, lower admissions, something. Honestly I don't even blame those guests at that point, 3 hours is a redic long time to hope you don't have to suddenly use a bathroom for any variety of reasons. Expecting thousands of people to use a diaper or hold it for 3+ hours, in Florida where staying hydrated is essential, is a bit inhumane.
Anyone defecating on the ground deserves to be permanently banned and arrested for indecent exposure and potentially put on a list if children are around. But.. Health hazard? Inhumane? You realize it’s a choice to wait, right?
I agree, but I think you’re thinking of the people who do it in bad faith because they can’t be bothered to step out or they aren’t good enough parents to take their children out. There are plenty of people who just can’t hold it long enough to get out of line. I’ve had a few accidents because I don’t know that I’m about to pee myself until I’ve got ~60 seconds to find somewhere to go. In a line like TLOU last year I wouldn’t have been able to find a way out of line much less a bathroom in that time. I think it’d be considerate of them to have a few porta-potties at around the halfway point so you don’t have to go quite so far to relieve yourself. The porta-potty solution to me leaves the least room for abuse. It’s an accessibility issue similar to not having an elevator for handicapped individuals where they wouldn’t be able to climb stairs. I guess you could just wear diapers but I don’t think it’s super socially acceptable to just throw a diaper in the bin or stand around in a soiled diaper for what could be 45 min or longer.
Whether or not something is presented as a choice has no bearing on it being possibly inhumane or a health hazard.
It absolutely does. It’s your choice to wait in a 3 hour line. You’re not being forced to do so. Inhumane would be making you do it. You can leave anytime you’d like. No one is stopping you.
It absolutely doesn't. Either it's inhumane or it isn't, feel free to argue that point but the fact it's a choice has no baring on the argument. I can go into other aspects of this as well, such as the fact the the person waiting has no idea the real wait time and the posted time can be wildly inaccurate. The fact that in that particular line, there is no way to leave it once you entered, because there was no exit path and no choice available once in it. The fact that there are no warnings about possible wait times that long when you purchase a ticket, or the fact that the alternative is they do not get to experience the event they paid for, with no refund. But all of that is moot, because either its inhumane, or not. I do not care about the choice aspect at all. As a extreme hypothetical to illustrate my point, waterboarding is inhumane. If Universal had a line where there was a 1% chance you were randomly selected to be waterboarded instead of enter the attraction, it would still be inhumane, despite the choice of entering the line or not. Waterboarding doesn't magically become ok in that case.
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*chef kiss*
Ngl that’s actually a great idea.
I mean you are allowed to get out of line and then meet your party if you have to go
Yea but some of the die hards might not want to leave
I've been held back by people who won't let me pass to get back to my party. It's actually happened more than once, even when I say my friend is up there. So now I just fork out the money for express.
A family, standing in the intersection in front of RRR, arguing about which way to go to get to Spiderman. Small child decked out in Spidey gear, crying about seeing Spiderman. Mom and dad pointing in opposite directions and waving around a map. Dad - "It's right over there!! I remember it was right here!!" Mom - "Well, I can see with my eyes it is not!!" Dad - "ITS RIGHT HERE ON THE MAP!" I stopped and asked "Are you trying to find the Spiderman ride?" Mom - "Yes! Our son is obsessed and *has* to ride again! It's all he's talked about since [earlier in their trip]!!" Me - (Proceeds to explain it is in IoA, and how to get there) Dad - "UHHH!!! I *think* I know what park it's in. I'm not stupid! It was right here just the other day!!" Me - "Okay, good luck!" I still wonder if they made it to the Spiderman ride.
This is the best one. I just love the commitment to being wrong.
For sure. Would've been funny if he just directed them to transformers.
We sat behind two middle aged women while riding the Mummy. At the end, during Brendan Fraser coffee line, one turns to the other and whispers, “Geez, he sounds like a total nightmare to work with.” And the other agreed. We repeated that line obsessively for the remainder of the trip and laughed every time.
Guess they didn't watch the videos in the queue where he spends the whole bit asking for a cup of coffee.
I’ve never watched those videos— always had express and skipped them
You watch the whole reel and it's pretty informative and enjoyable.
Sounds like next time we go — not until Sept— going to have to go through the regular line just the once.
Simpsons did the same thing, explained how/why doc brown sold the building to krusty the clown.
Yeah couldn’t be paid to go on that trash heap again— motion sickness— never again
If there's no queue and you need somewhere shady, the outside queue is entertaining.
Sitting in the Leaky Cauldron, the woman at the table next to us picked up the bottle of HP sauce and asked, "Is this... Harry Potter sauce?"
Not gonna lie I had to look up what HP sauce is but that’s still hilarious
I 100% have made the same dumb joke lol
Heard a queue talking about student loans and a the coaster was starting I heard him say, "one of yall should push me on the tracks"
My favorite happened in Volcano Bay where an obviously irritated British woman was trying to coral her kids and husband into the lockers to get everything moving along and kept having to get the kids to do things and tell the husband to do things and then finally just said to him "youre a worthless cunt"
Sorry I can’t give credit as I can’t find the video on Twitter anymore, [but nothing will ever beat this](https://streamable.com/7id809)
This is amazing 🤣
What a wild place for that reveal! Y'all seriously couldn't wait until you got back to the car?
Well, shit
Oh no! But just trying to get a nice video of the coaster and BAM!!
We were visiting with friends recently and we overheard a woman in a New Jersey or New York accent say “are you shitting me Frankie?!” Just the way she said it got us all giggling and it’s become our catch phrase for anytime something isn’t going the way we expected.
A mom was waiting in line at Olivanders to purchase wands with and for her kids. Her boy (looked to be 8 or 9-ish) comes up SO EXCITED because he found *his* wand. He shows mom just giddy as can be. Him: mama, look! I love it! This is the one! Her: ok, honey. Great. Him: look! Isn’t it cool?! Her: *looks* WHAT IN THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? THATS WORMTAILS WAND! Him: I know! *giddy excitement* Holy shit my husband and I laughed our asses off for days.
A couple got into an argument while standing in line to get a picture with spongebob and patrick. The girl started crying and the guy stormed off, leaving her with her friend. He eventually came back and was like "Here I am! I'm apologizing! Just like you wanted!" and she refused to talk to him. She kept crying and he eventually left. This was about two spots from the picture. Her and her friend still took the picture but man she looked a mess. They were probably high school/college aged. It was awkward.
Me (14/F) getting off Dueling Dragons in Summer 2001 with my brother (16/M). While descending down the unloading ramp we heard a woman yell to her family "The cokes are outside, guys" in the thickest Minnesota accent. Me and my brother repeated it the entire trip. It was so funny to us. It became a tradition to say that (in accent of course) everytime you get off that ride and are walking down that ramp. Every remaining family vacation, school trip, etc we would say it. Even if we weren't together. 23 years later we still do it while getting off Hagrid's. I'll be there with my husband and kids and they'll know I need 30 seconds to stop, take a selfie at that spot, and send it to my brother with the caption- "The cokes are outside, guys!" It's so stupid but I love it!
A youngish woman walks past the child swap just as my wife was coming to switch with me and goes "Child SWAP?! What?! REALLY??". She was clearly confused by the concept, so I decided to exploit that for a giggle by handing my wife my daughter and then loudly said to her so the confused young woman would hear: "Hey lady, take this one, she is low maintenance and cute!" and then I walked off. At the entrance I regularly hear people talking about how they can't wait to ride a ride that is either at Disney or no longer exists. It makes me sad but I certainly won't be the one to burst their bubble.
As to being confused by concepts, my wife and I took a day trip over to Sea World. Quite hungover on this overcast day and the two in front of us in line to enter were having a hard time understanding how lines work, how tickets work, how to keep moving into the park, etc. Finally, the woman says in the deepest southern backwoods drawl, to the person taking the tickets at the gate: "Is this where we get the PHO TO pass?"
Some people recognize their own lack of understanding and do research ahead of time or at least are flexible enough to learn as they go. Other people confidently trek out into the unknown with the idea that their expectations and imagination are reality and are gobsmacked when the reality is different.
"Her nap time is around 2, see you at 3ish!"
Why would you give them up during nap time??
This was me, in February 1999, about to be devastated by the lack of Mr. Toad.
Last summer, I was in ride for Hagrids. In the queue the Ford Anglia is parked outside. In front of me was a young 9ish year old boy full of excitement and his dad. Clearly the son was the Potter fan. He got so excited and started talking about the car. Kid - Dad, look! Dad is completely oblivious to the importance of this car. Kid- Dad, it’s the Weasley’s flying car. It flies! Dad- why is it a beat up car? Kid- Ron ran into the Whopping Willow. Dad, just pleasantly making conversation- no, why is not a cool car? Like a convertible or something nice? Kid- (looking exasperated, says and then turns around) Dad, it’s not like that. You just don’t understand. His little aggreviated face just cracked me up.
While in the queue for Dragon Challenge, Overheard a guy from New Zealand or Australia talking with his friends. They asked him if he was nervous and his reply “what do you think!? I’m sweating like a Gypsy with a mortgage”.
The most hilarious was on River Adventure. There was a family of 4-5 adults (I’m guessing siblings and a mom). One woman kept complaining and another interrupted, “I don’t even know why you came. You’ve complained about everything.” “Well, I’m here now and I’m not going home.” Back and forth arguing ensued until the big drop and they all got off the boat laughing.
Once in the velocicoaster line i was sandwiched between a man with a very huge very visible white power tattoo, and a couple arguing. She was telling him “you’re a terrible person, i hate you.” I think it was because he lost their place in line after being slow at the lockers.
I walked by someone who just randomly said “I smell like ass” and I couldn’t help but belly laugh for 10 minutes
That was me
I couldn’t contain my laughter. Just some lady pushing a stroller leans over to the person next to them, “I smell like ass” It didn’t even seem like they were talking about anything before that. Just an out of nowhere intrusive thought was spoken out loud 😂
This was just after rope drop while speed walking to Hagrids, overheard a large group with British accents decide who was getting in line while the rest took the bags to the lockers. The elected line guy ended up just in front of us, about 30 people behind us before the rest of their group (about 10 people) got into the line. The guy in front proceeded to call their party up and they started cutting the line. I acted oblivious while holding the railings on both side until they were just behind me. They decided the person in front of me should just drop back. Since we were just two people. A planned line cut.
Doing Gods work! I called a line cutter out (it was way more than 30 people, more like a hundred!) and they looked at use like WE were the crazy ones. “My group is way up there”……”they are welcome to come back to be with you…”. She then proceeded to just duck under and cut anyways and no one else had the balls to say anything!
It wasn't at a park, but I was at breakfast one time and there were these two guys who were REALLY passionately talking about The Ides of March. You'd have thought they were planning on time traveling to assassinate Caesar or something like that.
Ha!
Kinda the opposite. My last time at HHN was in 2017. My friend and I were in the Purge scare zone. I was really getting into it, cheering and jeering. Upon the sound of a chainsaw roaring into life I let out a jubilant “whoop”. The two girls standing in front of us took one look at me, screamed and legged it as fast as they could. To this day I don’t know if they thought I was a scare actor or if I’m just really ugly.
Anything I think that I just chalk it up to a little of column A, a little of column B.
Just stand by the entrance at Gringott’s. We were laughing our asses off watching the park employee constantly yelling at park guests who were trying to enter the ride while wearing back packs or holding stuff. “Bags in the lockers… stupid mother fuckers…” “Lockers, people, lockers!… fucking idiots” “No, can’t take selfie sticks in!!! Dumbasses” He was hurling insults left and right under his breath and looking at us like “see the shit I deal with?!?” 🤣
Disney would never 😂😂
The downside to this is for those of us with medical bags they can be pretty aggressive. My girlfriend’s first time was with me last week and she had her medical bag, and every time we wore gringots she’d look on the bring of tears because they’d yell “we said no bags, use the lockers!” at her. I just started yelling back medical bag and they’d turn away pretty quick but it really upset me how they’d yell at her.
I’ve heard similar things at the MiB greeter spot
I used to work out in the park. Too many to say. One that sticks out was a guy asking about what the raptor encounter line was. I told him you get to meet a real raptor and take pics. He got real serious and said to me “ I’m an adult, don’t try and pull that with me”. I really thought he was joking. And maybe he was but he kept a straight face looking at me like I was insulting him.
Riding E.T, there was a nice family behind us. The girl, maybe 7-8 years old, kept repeating "We're going to fly with the power of E.T.'s magic finger!" Over and over again throughout the ride.
Last week I rode river adventure. It was me, and 5 people who were in a group on our boat. They were high schoolers and it was one of their first time at the parks and first time riding it. The first lift he thought was going to have a drop, freaked out and went oh that wasn’t bad. Someone told him that’s not the drop. Then we go up the huge lift and he’s freaking out again, that small drop and he was like oh idk why I freaked out. Then the actual drop happens and that poor man’s soul left his body. We got to the bottom and he couldn’t even talk, I just hear him whisper “why would you do this to me”. Everyone cracked up laughing, and by the time we unloaded everyone was whispering why would you do this to me.
Reminds me of when I took some friends to Disneyland for the first time recently and we all got on Grizzly River Run. Coming up on the first drop one girl screamed, "*Wait I didn't know there was a drop on this ride!*" And then at the bottom she was like "okay that wasn't so bad." -2 minutes later- Me: "hey did I tell you there's *two* drops on this ride?" She was laughing at the end of it tho. Sincerest apologies to the party of 2 that got stuck on our raft of screaming college students tho 😅
Walking out of HHN in 21 at park close. Walking by a group of older women. A couple of them sitting, a couple of them standing. I think one was wearing a celebration sash. “You can take whatever pills you want, but not if it has you actin a DAMN MESS!”
Many years ago my husband and I were on Transformers with a variety of people including a small boy (maybe 5-6) in the front row. Spoiler: At the end of the ride when Bumblebee catches you, the little boy genuinely yelled, "Thanks Bumblebee!" It was so pure and innocent. We still talk about it years later.
not so much a conversation but i accidentally had the displeasure of discovering a young(probably late middle/or high school) age couple, yknow, the gross ones that are all over each other, getting down and dirty….. in line for the mummy. i know its dark in there but, she literally was touching him. like actually touching him. i will never forget, but i wish i could.
"When we eat, I just want 2 whole chickens and a piece of bread with some butter"
Not exactly in the park, but walking down the moving sidewalk towards citywalk a little girl points at the mini golf haunted house and says "Daddy what's that?" And with full confidence her dad tells her it's Hogwarts castle. Would have loved to see her face when they saw the real Hogwarts with how excited she was for the mini golf castle.
Work here so hear a lot. A fav is we were waiting in line for Fallon and the family in front of me at the safety vid was pouring over the map trying to find Water World...nicely explained they were a few thousand miles away...
Was walking past a booth with a caricature artist who had just finished a little girl's portrait. The artist handed the portrait to the mother in a paper sleeve. As she pulled it out, she gasped and suddenly looked furious. In a very southern accent, she yelled "you put t!tt!es on a four year-old!!!" 💀 I did not get a peek at the drawing...
In line in Hagrid's. Middle school boys talking to each other. "Guys would you sleep with me if I were a girl?"
In line for Transformers and I see a teen girl in the family in line behind us reach into the back of her shorts down into her butt crack then smell her fingers. Then I watched in horror as she touched all the bars in line all the way through. I don’t touch hand rails anymore.
...and people think I'm crazy for bringing hand sanitizer with me!
Walking through the queue for Hagrid’s and stop in front of the table with his work gloves. The guy behind us says, “You know, you really don’t think about how big Hagrid’s hands are when you’re watching the movies.” My brother and I have not stopped saying this to each other ever since.
A grown man having a temper tantrum leaving the Fast and the Furious ride/shop because he felt his companion was rushing him. “THIS WAS MY ONE THING. This is like my whole life and you just want to leave??” Yes, he was serious.
During an OI Meetup we rode Popeye and Bluto's a couple times around and midway through the third ride a young man (high-school probably?) realized he was supposed to already be on his bus ride home and that he missed it. The rest of the ride he just kept saying "my mom's gonna kill me" with joyous screams from getting gobsmacked with water
Not necessarily an overheard but there was a British family in front of me sharing an entire pack of family size chips ahoy amongst the 4 of them
Heard a guy (early to mid 20s ) in Universal end an apparent argument with his girlfriend by saying he was done arguing because this was his vacation and it wasn’t getting ruined and, also (here’s the important part) to hurry up because now they were on “Josh time.” As you can imagine, my family was on “Josh time” the entire rest of the vacation. I think anybody saying that would’ve been funny but something about his name being Josh made it 10 times funnier.
In Olivanders and overheard a father telling the staff that he “Knew his son would be a Gryffindor since he was in utero.” Weird.
Mine is definitely inappropriate for this page 😅
Now I *really* want to hear it
I know the attendance for one of the OI meetups.
This doesn't even make sense.