Stupid Guest Tricks

BRWombat wrote:Okay, on with the show. I'm rather proud of this one...

Number 6. The morning of New Year's Eve at the Land pavilion in Epcot. It's packed, as you might expect, and I've been waiting in line almost ten minutes just to get a Fastpass for Soarin', but the machines are in sight -- in fact, I'm just about to where the single queue breaks into multiple lines, one for each FP machine.

Suddenly there's a preteen kid with a fistful of tickets trying to push his way through the line. Me and a guy in line ahead of me block his way. "There's a line," I say. "It starts back there," the guy adds.

The kid rather unconvincingly tries, "But my dad's up there!"

We're having none of it. "Sorry, but he should have had the tickets he needed when he got in line."

"See ya!" the guy ahead of me chimes in.

Score one for the good guys. :)

Wow and this kid actually just went to the back of the line, I was expecting you to say that he tried to force his way into a different line. You guys must have been the first ones to stand up to him that you shocked him so badly. If only more people wouldn't budge when someone tries to cut in line.

dancinghomer wrote:Wow and this kid actually just went to the back of the line, I was expecting you to say that he tried to force his way into a different line. You guys must have been the first ones to stand up to him that you shocked him so badly. If only more people wouldn't budge when someone tries to cut in line.

It has been a while but I remember a few trips when there was a spate of young people trying to walk past everyone in each line. I was very good at placing myself in the way and not being able to be moved. Occasionally they would try the excuse that they were trying to get to their party at the front. Since they haddn't passed me on the way out it was obviously not a rejoin. So I simply informed them that they will not be allowed to go forward. but if the rest of their party wished to move back to join them I would be willing to let the party pass me on the way back. Nobody ever took me up on the offer. On one trip I had so many of these "young people" (term used very loosely) I began carrying my walking stick. It is an expandable walking stick (4' to 6') that could be used as a monopod for the camera. But the reason for the stick that concerns this topic is the fact that the bottom foot could be removed (for walking on icy surfaces) to reveal a 4" steel spike. Some of the line cutters would retaliate when I would block their attempts to go around me by leaning against my back and bumping and pushing me. But I would simply unscrew the foot and hold the stick under my arm (like a swager stick). It's amazing how a steel spike right at eye level will induce a sudden reduction of bumping and pushing. :D:

Randy

And the tide of SG's keeps rolling...

Number 5. At the Grand Floridian, where we are admiring the large, amazing gingerbread house. I'd seen it on the Travel Channel, but it is even more impressive in person. The amount of work and detail in it is amazing.

Even more amazing is the two little kids, a boy and a girl around 4 or 5 years old, inside the ropes on the side of the house pulling things off of the house and eating them. And where's mom, you might ask, as we did? Standing not five feet away at the ropes, watching the sabotage with a completely disinterested expression on her face! (She must be distracted by the sound of the wind whistling in one ear and out the other.)

Thankfully my father-in-law chases them off. Is mom concerned at all? Apparently not. She just wanders off with the kids in tow, probably to look for some other work of art to destroy. :mad:

BRWombat wrote:She just wanders off with the kids in tow, probably to look for some other work of art to destroy. :mad:

Next stop... The Sistine Chapel with a side trip to the Louvre! Look out Mona Lisa!!

BRWombat wrote:Okay, on with the show. I'm rather proud of this one...

Number 6. The morning of New Year's Eve at the Land pavilion in Epcot. It's packed, as you might expect, and I've been waiting in line almost ten minutes just to get a Fastpass for Soarin', but the machines are in sight -- in fact, I'm just about to where the single queue breaks into multiple lines, one for each FP machine.

Suddenly there's a preteen kid with a fistful of tickets trying to push his way through the line. Me and a guy in line ahead of me block his way. "There's a line," I say. "It starts back there," the guy adds.

The kid rather unconvincingly tries, "But my dad's up there!"

We're having none of it. "Sorry, but he should have had the tickets he needed when he got in line."

"See ya!" the guy ahead of me chimes in.

Score one for the good guys. :)

Yes! You did good! See, I do this too, I stop the little jerks and they do not get past us. Other people in line just let them get their way and then cry when they finally get to the front of the Fast Pass line and discover, HORRORS! they are all gone from the teens cutting and grabbing a dozen with all their freinds passes. Will the SGs ever learn to stand their ground and allow NO CUTTING! It screws up everyone's opportunity to get what they waited in line for. And, it teaches the little SG linecutters that they are NOT going to get away with it all the time. There are some people who say NO!
I like to hear these stories! :p:
susi

BRWombat wrote:And the tide of SG's keeps rolling...

Number 5. At the Grand Floridian, where we are admiring the large, amazing gingerbread house. I'd seen it on the Travel Channel, but it is even more impressive in person. The amount of work and detail in it is amazing.

Even more amazing is the two little kids, a boy and a girl around 4 or 5 years old, inside the ropes on the side of the house pulling things off of the house and eating them. And where's mom, you might ask, as we did? Standing not five feet away at the ropes, watching the sabotage with a completely disinterested expression on her face! (She must be distracted by the sound of the wind whistling in one ear and out the other.)

Thankfully my father-in-law chases them off. Is mom concerned at all? Apparently not. She just wanders off with the kids in tow, probably to look for some other work of art to destroy. :mad:

Holy Gingerbread House Batman! That sucks! That mom and her kids should be removed from the resort. That is damaging property!
But I do have to ask, where in the world was a CM to stop it? They should have a CM watching just for that sort of thing, yes? Maybe it was too busy as happens and they could not have one there. I would have crawled under the ropes and grabbed the kid and took him to his mom and told her, "Stop your kid stop eating the display or I will call a CM over." But that's just me, old, loudmouth, gotta stop the SGs me.... :twisted:

They probably went off to suck on the *giant lollipop* Partners statue! :barf: Ecccchhhhhh!!!!! Demons! Total SG non parent!
susi :p:

BRWombat wrote:And the tide of SG's keeps rolling...

Number 5. At the Grand Floridian, where we are admiring the large, amazing gingerbread house. I'd seen it on the Travel Channel, but it is even more impressive in person. The amount of work and detail in it is amazing.

Even more amazing is the two little kids, a boy and a girl around 4 or 5 years old, inside the ropes on the side of the house pulling things off of the house and eating them. And where's mom, you might ask, as we did? Standing not five feet away at the ropes, watching the sabotage with a completely disinterested expression on her face! (She must be distracted by the sound of the wind whistling in one ear and out the other.)

Thankfully my father-in-law chases them off. Is mom concerned at all? Apparently not. She just wanders off with the kids in tow, probably to look for some other work of art to destroy. :mad:

Ewwwww. I would think that it is probably sprayed with something to help it "keep" for the season. CM's, do you know if it is? Regardless, that is just nasty, think of all the dust and yuck germs on it just from sitting out in the air for that time frame. blech!

vixen101485 wrote:Ewwwww. I would think that it is probably sprayed with something to help it "keep" for the season. CM's, do you know if it is? Regardless, that is just nasty, think of all the dust and yuck germs on it just from sitting out in the air for that time frame. blech!

I've wondered that myself -- but yes, besides the destruction aspect, yuck!

Thats probably their way of getting something!: "MY kids got sick eating gingerbread, I want my ENTIRE vacation FREE!!" Waaaaaaa!!!

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Thats probably their way of getting something!: "MY kids got sick eating gingerbread, I want my ENTIRE vacation FREE!!" Waaaaaaa!!!

LOL...I was kinda thinking the same thing after I posted.