FWD: Overheard on the Animal Kingdom {Lodge} Balcony

[Big Wallaby]

http://www.talkdisney.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35683

This is another board I have mentioned here. Probably has some SG's but they don't come out of the woodwork as such all that often. I responded in that thread with my alternate (original) moniker, not tough to figure out who I am there. But I want to give more of a story to my post, so you can just disregard it there. However, the first post is awesome, the second post by the owner of the site tells me he would probably like it here. The third post is mine, so you can skip it, or read my stuff here before you read anything I say there.

Today, I was working Check-In (that's FastPass return for those of you who don't work KSR) and a girl and her boyfriend came walking up, having returned from the safari. She came up with a question:

Her: Are all the animals on the Safari real?
Me: Of course. This isn't the Jungle Cruise, we deal in all real animals.
Her: (Turns to boyfriend) See, I told you!
Him: You know, here at Disney World they have to keep the storyline, so he may not be telling you the truth.
Me: Sure, there's a storyline we have to keep, but it's the truth that all the animals are real.
Him: Yeah, right.
Her: Why won't you believe the guy?
Him: I just don't think they're all real.
Me: I can fully assure you all the animals are real.
Him: No way, dude, they can't all be real.
Me: Well, which animals are you wondering about?

At this point, I'm thinking he'll answer that it's the crocs or something. If he says the crocs, I have an easy answer for him, so I'm getting it ready in my mind. His answer actually managed to surprise me.

Him: Those giraffes looked fake. All they did was walk in circles.
Me: Uh, well, I guess I am probably not going to convince you they are real. But seeing them repeatedly myself, I am convinced that they are fully alive.


I guess I didn't give a very good answer. I have a whole conversation playing in the hindsight of my mind that would have been fun (for me).

As they walked away, I was thinking to myself how she was really cute and could probably find a boyfriend with at least three quarters of a brain.

Ah, well. I figure it was better to just let him do his thing.

[darph nader]

Just file it away and use it next time. By the way,congrats on your new 'job'.

[Whazzup]

Now that's got to be one of the stupidest guests ever. He can't tell real animals from animatronics? Obviously he hasn't been on the Jungle Cruise yet.

[Cheshire Figment]

Actually I think you can still see "Little Red" in the truck, so there is one animatronic (or at least pseudo animal) on the tour.

[Big Wallaby]

Okay, true enough. But his issue was not with the baby elephant formerly known as Little Red. It was with the giraffes.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Ahh come on, if that guy refused to believe his own eyes, and the assurances of a CM, then he made the defination of a SG!

Tooo funny!!

[Randy B]

SG: Are all the animals on the safari real?

SGTer: Well, the ones outside the truck are, but I am not so sure about some of the animals driving and riding in the trucks. :D:

(and that also gets you off the hook for Little Red as he is "riding" in a truck.)

Randy

[mechurchlady]

Next time hand him some meat and tell him to go "here kitty kitty" let him see if the carnivours are real, lol.

[Princess Susi]

Or tell him to take a swim with the crocs to see if they are real and then drive far enough away til the rest of the guests don't hear him scream anymore! :twisted:
susi
oh and Wallaby, tell them about the *other*thread there too, that I found! ;)
That is a great board....especially if Big Wallaby endorses it!

[drcorey]

Next time hand him some meat and tell him to go "here kitty kitty" let him see if the carnivours are real, lol.

aren't zebras herbvivores? and giraffes?
hmm, and some girl I knew once too.