Showstoppers

[SRT_GB]

Anyone parkside have problems with the Showstoppers? For those who don't know they're a dance competition for young girls, mostly age 12 and under. Most of these girls are insanely spoiled and snobbish. They've already been at DLH twice this year, including this past weekend, and man did they wreak havoc. I was told that they weren't invited back for next year because of some of the things they did. Here's what they've done at DLH:

-Order room service and then flash the person delivering the order. Most of these girls were 12 and under. I heard that room service would just take the order back downstairs and still charge it to their room.

-Change in our service elevators. I actually saw this one. I specifically told them that it wasn't a very private area and that the restrooms weren't far, but they insisted on changing there.

-I mortally offended one of their parents when I told him we didn't carry headphones in our stores.

-One girl started ranting about how rude everyone at Disneyland is because we didn't have something in her size.

-Steal expensive DLH exclusive 50th anniversary merchandise.

For these reasons and many more, I have labeled this group the "Future Gold-diggers of America."

[SoarWhoreCoCo]

You should be down at WDW when the cheerleading or Dance Team Competitions are here (was once a year, now the little bitches are here constantly it seems). OH and their parents (CLosest to the Ramsey's as you can get)
THey compete, then come and terroirize the parks, dressed in horrible outfits and make-up that makes them all look like 8 year old hookers. I could go on for days about them.

Im sure Indy and Marion could back me up on the orrors of competition weeks

[SRT_GB]

Yep, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I worked in the park when they would have those cheerleading competitions at Anaheim Convention Center. Seeing those girls as well as Showstoppers makes me wonder if our society is regressing to a Middle Ages mentality of women being useful for nothing but sex.

The worst part is, since I am male I have to constantly watch what I say around these girls. Someone I worked with years back on Main Street got fired because some 12 year old girl (unrelated to cheerleaders/dancers) FALSELY accused him of making inappropriate sexual comments towards them. The company believed the girls over him and he now has difficulty finding a decent job because he has something to the effect of "made sexual advances towards underage girls" as the reason why he was fired.

[BirdMom]

Ugh, I can't stand those kinds of girls. Back in the 80's they used to hold the kiddie beauty pagents at the DL Hotel. Same sort of self-important overmade up girls with wicked witch moms. Becky, this other gal who used to work in the hat shops, described and acted out a conniption fit one of the girls threw when her mom wouldn't buy her one of the Mary Poppins foo-foo number hats, and she was screaming she needed it for the pagent...

They do look like little hookers, don't they? It's so damn unnatural. And it's all the parents - they're the ones who start them down that road when the kids are teeny, so the kid is thinking "this is fun, this is what I want to do" only because it pleases Mommy and Daddy. I hate show kids. My husband used to talk about the kids in the old Peter Pan and Mary Poppins units when he worked in the parade department, how they were like 8 years old, and swearing like little sailors and bratty beyond belief.

If I were master (mistress) of the universe, I'd poke every one of the parents that puts their kids in show business or pagents with a cosmic cattle prod.

[Stduck]

Oh I so agree with you Birdmom. I did theater as a small kid but...I wanted to do it my parents never pushed me (only once they paid for the dance lessons I had insisted on did they push me to go when I didn't want to).

Sorry kids should get to choose what they want to do within reason. I saw tap dancers and all I could talk about was wanting to dance with the noisy shoes so my mother (who had hoped I'd give it up) enrolled me in tap lessons which I did for 7 or 8 years. Never forced me to do it.

[coldfire409]

I hated the dance/cheer competitions that Disney has at the Studios. The last for I think 2 or 3 months. The children, 12 at the oldest, act like they own the place. They don't sit down on the rides, and take flash pictures more than the Brazilians. When they do all of this dangerous stuff the parents are encouraging them to do it. Then you kick them off the ride for putting safety in jepordy and the manager gives the group a NSA card and gives you a reprimand. Those weekends when the cheerleaders are there are pure hell.

[Dack48]

Remember, most of these girls were raised through MTV, which taught them that being on the cheerleader squad is the most important thing that they can do with their life. Once you are one, you can do anything you want and get away with it. Only look at Paris Hilton for examples...

(I will not this does not apply to ALL cheerleaders, just a good majority of them.)

Also, does anyone else notice how none of them are at Epcot? Not that I am complaining.

[dannydp]

Ugh. I used to get these types of girls on the indoor rides at PFP. Especially the space oddysey (a centrifugal ride, spins around in big dome, lots of lights and sounds). They'd be completely bitchy the entire time I dealt with them, then they'd end up flashing me as I was operating the ride (Didn't mind it with the 18-30yr olds). Some were defintely pre-teen. More than once when running the ride I'd find a bikini top or bottom (we were on the beach) wondering if one of the girls who just came off my ride with white t-shirts over them were now naked.

[IndyandMarion]

I'm sorry, I saw my name but I was sleepin in class, what'd I miss?

Oh, yeah, I've moved up the ladder so that I rarely have to deal with these ankle bitters anymore. When they have their conventions at the Studios, my happy little self can be found at home, working on remixes (Seriously) or like sleeping. Oh but when I had to deal with them for one convention I was over in the G-Force lobby area and I just left the door on auto, stood in the corner and let the little brats go at it for who got the "front row" despite my constant reminders THAT IT DIDN'T MATTER RIGHT NOW!

More flash pictures than the brazilians coldfire?

If I may barrow a line from Jack Sparrow and change it around: Clearly you've never been to coaster lately.

Oh....myGod. When Im in Studio C giving a tour, thank God Im not photosensetive or anything because I wouldn't be talking to you guys simply because I'd be DEAD!

Few people at coaster wonder why I always have my sunglasses on going from postion to position sometimes...NOW YOU FREAKIN GET IT! Listen, next time your city has a wide power outtage, hook the brazilians up to the power grid and tell them to take photos of the grid...

Back to our in-flight movie:

With some of these girls, I'm glad that eventually, they'll be on the pyramid, someone on the bottom will fall, and they'll hit their head and realize "Maybe I'm wrong" and never give us a problem. But when they start their cheers in the line, I tell them "In a nice way" STOP IT! OK! STOP IT! If we want to see you cheer, we'll go to your competition ok?

In my final note: The gang at Coaster are always saying that I'll be the one on top of Tower with a rifle looking for people...And my dog (A carin terrier with no fear) will be walking through the crowd nipping at their shoes...