SGT Action from our April Trip: Concentrated just like. . .

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

You know that is true. Murphy's Law and when you are disabled at DL or WDW, you tend to notice more idiots because they tend to pretend you are not there in your chair or on your ECV or crutch. SGs get stupider around the disabled. I dion't know why, they just do. Or maybe we have to be so much more aware of our surroundings, we just see more of it!

sues

That might be it. DW and I did notice three or four trips ago that there was several types of people in ECV's! The ones that we were afarid of were the ones that sneak up on you (they should plays JAWS music over a speaker!!)
or put a bike bell on them!! once we saw them, we got out of the way to let them pass.

The funniest one was when a lady was trying to back up, and people were doing the"look over there and I can't see you" bit. Several people standing around started imitating the "Beep Beep" of a truck bcking up, and everyone gave her some room!! She apologized, saying it was a rental and she was still learning!

got a chuckle from everyone!!

[February]

I forgot one! LOL

The guy who, when people in his party asked him what a companion restroom was, replied "Those are the conjugal visit rooms." :autoslap: especially after our experience on our last trip, that really frosted my cookies!

And a bonus SG from my daughter's trip (she was down there with her 'other' family, the week after DH and I were there- they were elsewhere in FL while the pair of us were at WDW) she said there was a woman who was so angry that she had to wait 45 minutes for a bus from Typhoon Lagoon back to the AS Resorts that she literally ran into the street and blocked the path of an oncoming bus, waving her hands. She did not realize (sign in the front didn't say) that it was the correct bus she'd been waiting for, she was screaming at the driver, and my daughter said her family was just looking the other way really quietly and finally after the poor driver finished telling her that she could NOT stand in the street- and that if she wanted to speak to a manager he'd be happy to call one for her and the manager would arrive in about 20 minutes. She said she didn't want to wait any longer, and they driver finally called for a manager to meet her at the resort.

Ultimate SG trick- run into the street to stop bus. I'm sure if she'd have gotten herself killed, her family would have sued! *smacks forehead*

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I forgot one! LOL

The guy who, when people in his party asked him what a companion restroom was, replied "Those are the conjugal visit rooms." :autoslap: especially after our experience on our last trip, that really frosted my cookies!

And a bonus SG from my daughter's trip (she was down there with her 'other' family, the week after DH and I were there- they were elsewhere in FL while the pair of us were at WDW) she said there was a woman who was so angry that she had to wait 45 minutes for a bus from Typhoon Lagoon back to the AS Resorts that she literally ran into the street and blocked the path of an oncoming bus, waving her hands. She did not realize (sign in the front didn't say) that it was the correct bus she'd been waiting for, she was screaming at the driver, and my daughter said her family was just looking the other way really quietly and finally after the poor driver finished telling her that she could NOT stand in the street- and that if she wanted to speak to a manager he'd be happy to call one for her and the manager would arrive in about 20 minutes. She said she didn't want to wait any longer, and they driver finally called for a manager to meet her at the resort.

Ultimate SG trick- run into the street to stop bus. I'm sure if she'd have gotten herself killed, her family would have sued! *smacks forehead*

That almost sounded like the scene from soapdish, when she tries to get hit by a bus, but it stops at the bus stop she is standing front of!!

hehehe

What a total SG!!

We were on the bus to MGM (now DHS) and stopped by to drop off pick up at one of the water parks, and some lady began to complain to OUR driver that they had been waiting "forever" for their bus. The drive asked where she was going, (couldn't here her reply) and then told her. "Its the bus stop, two spaces down, and at least three busses an hour drop off and pick up!!"

Didn't hear her reply , as her and her family were moving toward the stop, where a bus was waiting!!

[joanna71985]

I'd love to meet Tink's friends, it looks like a neat job though I could never help with it, the height would kill me.

Me too!! I'm scared stiff of heights!

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

SGT: Woman tells me during bus ride that another woman in their Grand Gatherings party made her kid um, relieve himself, into a cup in front of the castle because the fireworks were just about to start and the woman refused to take the child because the 'timing was bad'.

I had a similar experience, but on an airplane. First flight of the morning a few years back Albany to Orlando via Pitsburgh. Announcement was made several times that the bathroom was not operating correctly on the plane and due to the short duration of the flight everyone should take care of business before they board. I happened to be sitting near a family of 3 Mom, Dad and Jr. about 6 y/o. Jr. wants to go to the bathroom just in case but Mom is too involved with her gossip rag and Dad is too busy stuffing his face with an egg McMuffin. Fast forward 30 minutes and 20,000 feet, Jr. finally gets relief into 2 airline cups (the clear plastic kind) and Mom is indignant to the stewardess who winds up having to dispose of the biohazard. And that is why I will never fly American Airlines again.

Sean

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I had a similar experience, but on an airplane. First flight of the morning a few years back Albany to Orlando via Pitsburgh. Announcement was made several times that the bathroom was not operating correctly on the plane and due to the short duration of the flight everyone should take care of business before they board. I happened to be sitting near a family of 3 Mom, Dad and Jr. about 6 y/o. Jr. wants to go to the bathroom just in case but Mom is too involved with her gossip rag and Dad is too busy stuffing his face with an egg McMuffin. Fast forward 30 minutes and 20,000 feet, Jr. finally gets relief into 2 airline cups (the clear plastic kind) and Mom is indignant to the stewardess who winds up having to dispose of the biohazard. And that is why I will never fly American Airlines again.

Sean

One incident is not indicative of an airline. I have flown on AA for hundreds of thousands of miles and no incident like that. Most planes have more than one restroom.

However, That would put me off of being seated next to children!

[hobie16]

And that is why I will never fly American Airlines again.

I don't understand why it's AA's fault? Should the F/A have made the mother hold the cups until landing? Mechanicals happen. That's why Disney had 101s.

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

And that is why I will never fly American Airlines again.

That probably should have read [sarcasm] And that is why I will never fly American Airlines again. [/sarcasm]

I guess it was one of those things you had to witness to see the irony in (A child trying to be responsible and the parents being anything but). That and admitedly I am a horrible story teller.

Sean

[Zazu]

Me too!! I'm scared stiff of heights!

That's because you're young. When you're my age, you tend to be more afraid of widths. Especially your own.

[joanna71985]

That's because you're young. When you're my age, you tend to be more afraid of widths. Especially your own.

I'm worrying about that now.