Idiot bus driver!

[February]

I just wanted to thank all the great bus drivers for their hard work.

I know it's no fun securing my wheelchair aboard your bus. But I sure appreciate you doing it, and so does my entire family.

We also appreciate it when you don't used the canned speil and actually interact with us. We are a good audience, I promise you.

Don't let the people who don't respond or seem to care that you are doing your job properly get you down. We non-stupid guests (some of us even Traditions trained in years gone by) do notice and appreciate it and some of us even write really kick-@ss (can I say that on this board? LOL) letters about you when we get home, naming you by name saying how awesome you are.

Cast members rule. Period, end of sentence.

I think I'm gonna like it here.

CoPilot

[BRWombat]

I just wanted to thank all the great bus drivers for their hard work.

I know it's no fun securing my wheelchair aboard your bus. But I sure appreciate you doing it, and so does my entire family.

We also appreciate it when you don't used the canned speil and actually interact with us. We are a good audience, I promise you.

Don't let the people who don't respond or seem to care that you are doing your job properly get you down. We non-stupid guests (some of us even Traditions trained in years gone by) do notice and appreciate it and some of us even write really kick-@ss (can I say that on this board? LOL) letters about you when we get home, naming you by name saying how awesome you are.

Cast members rule. Period, end of sentence.

I think I'm gonna like it here.

CoPilot

You're a monorail co-pilot? Me too! I still have the certificate! (What are the odds??? :D: )

Welcome to SGT, MonorailCoPilot!!!
from and :wallaby: !!!

[February]

Why thank you Mr. Wombat sir!

I know, it's such a rare honor to receive one of those, what are the odds two of us here would have one??? :D:

I'm also, as of our last trip and Honorary Jammitor, Dapper Dan, and Ding-a-ling (don't say it. you can think it but don't say it) Okay, so I'll say it. That last one was well earned LOL and NO I did not actually play the bells they day that I got it. I am going to frame it though! :)

Thanks again for the welcome I can tell I'm going to feel at home. Hopefully I'll add another interesting color to the box of crayons around here. If I were a color I think I'd be bubblegum pink. Or pepto pink. Depending on the day I'm having.

[BRWombat]

I'm also, as of our last trip and Honorary Jammitor, Dapper Dan, and Ding-a-ling ...

Wow. I'm just an Honorary World Showcase Player. Now I have something to aspire to. :D:

[Princess Susi]

But never, ever, ever on the bus does my cell phone become visible. And even less often than never, ever, ever do I talk on it when in guest view.

The sad part is that that makes me one of a dying breed...

I am part of the dying breed as well.....
I only see phones as an instrument to be used to either get information or give information. I had a room mate years ago who would sit with the phone attached to her ear for hours talking to friends about nothing. People she had just seen minutes before would call and they would gab away. I am amazed it did not permanently attach iteself to her head! I can't stand it. I get on the phone , do what I have to do and get off. Hubby and I finally broke down and got cell phones last year. I told him we needed one for when one or the other of us was out running errands. If something came up we needed to talk about, it was convenient. He got two. Mine sits in the office on the charger 24/7. I never use it unless we are going to Disney or some event that if we were to go separate places and needed to met up we could call. Since public pay phones are rarer than the dodo bird anymore, it is actually neccessary to have one of the things. It troubles me to see people gabbing away EVERYWHERE about everything, LOUDLY in front of EVERYONE! I am just not interested in their conversations, but try to get away from them on a metro bus or BART in the Bay Area. or any public transport. People got along fine for years without the darn things and now it is as if we cannot live without them. My parents keep theirs in the glovebox when on the road for emergencies, (when it is not being charged) otherwise like me, they do not ever use it. You cannot drive anywhere anymore without seeing multiple cell phone talkers on the road. An aquaintance hit another car while talking on her phone.
I don't like them, while I admit they are useful. Some people just need to be schooled in how and when to use them.
susi

[February]

Wow. I'm just an Honorary World Showcase Player. Now I have something to aspire to. :D:

*LOL* Well the Dapper Dans won't ever forget me that's for sure. I started crying in the middle of our number together.

But in my own defense, it's cause I was thinking about how much seeing me sing with them would've meant to my grandmother.

They don't know that though, I have to try to write them to explain it.

I met up with them later in my trip and got a do-over with them and made it through the whole song :D They then gave me the ding-aling card cause I already had the other one. I was just happy that in the end, they found out that I could, in fact, actually sing LOL

Oh, to work at WDW someday, any day, singing for real on the payroll. . .were I but healthy enough!

[Princess Susi]

I replied to Sue Ellen. That was totally unacceptable. Because I was working that night and I do listen to the radio (a novel idea in bus ops) I do know that the bus was sent to FIW to be inspected and the driver was summoned to the coordinators office.

Unfortunately, nothing will happen to the driver.

Why won't anything happen? If they are doing something dangerous or rude, why doesn't Disney discipline them? I'm curious....That seems like something they should do something about.... I am a little naive about Disney management.
susi

[SRT_GB]

It troubles me to see people gabbing away EVERYWHERE about everything, LOUDLY in front of EVERYONE! I am just not interested in their conversations, but try to get away from them on a metro bus or BART in the Bay Area. or any public transport.

Funny you mention that. One afternoon I was on a transit bus and a guy in a suit said into his cell phone "Hello? This is Judge ___." A couple of minutes after he hung up the phone, another passenger asked him, "So you're a judge, huh?" His response: "How did you know I was a judge?"

Then in his hurry to get out of an awkward situation, the judge forgot to show his pass as he got off the bus and the driver had to call him back.

[wdwali]

SG's that I am going to the campground, not I am going to Fort Wilderness. SG's hear Wilderness and assume that I ment Wilderness Lodge. New signs won't help. SG's don't read signs!!!!! :twisted:

Oh my does that bring back memories. :D:

After a long day at MK, DH and I were heading back to the lodge, not paying attention we got on the first big boat not at all paying attention to the captains speil...one of the cm's came down to chat with us about how cold it was, we mentioned that it was not that bad in fact we had slept with the door open the night before he looked at us like he thought we had lost it. I laughed and said we were on the 5th floor so we felt safe doing this, he then told us we were on the wrong boat they were heading to the campgrounds.
He was terrific went up top and called ahead to hold the boat at the dock so we could get back to the lodge. Love WDW transportation !!

[BRWombat]

I am part of the dying breed as well.....
I only see phones as an instrument to be used to either get information or give information. I had a room mate years ago who would sit with the phone attached to her ear for hours talking to friends about nothing. People she had just seen minutes before would call and they would gab away. I am amazed it did not permanently attach iteself to her head! I can't stand it. I get on the phone , do what I have to do and get off. Hubby and I finally broke down and got cell phones last year. I told him we needed one for when one or the other of us was out running errands. If something came up we needed to talk about, it was convenient. He got two. Mine sits in the office on the charger 24/7. I never use it unless we are going to Disney or some event that if we were to go separate places and needed to met up we could call. Since public pay phones are rarer than the dodo bird anymore, it is actually neccessary to have one of the things. It troubles me to see people gabbing away EVERYWHERE about everything, LOUDLY in front of EVERYONE! I am just not interested in their conversations, but try to get away from them on a metro bus or BART in the Bay Area. or any public transport. People got along fine for years without the darn things and now it is as if we cannot live without them. My parents keep theirs in the glovebox when on the road for emergencies, (when it is not being charged) otherwise like me, they do not ever use it. You cannot drive anywhere anymore without seeing multiple cell phone talkers on the road. An aquaintance hit another car while talking on her phone.
I don't like them, while I admit they are useful. Some people just need to be schooled in how and when to use them.
susi

I'm right with you, Sooz... I didn't even like to use the phone when it came with wires attached. I do have a cell, but I try to avoid being on the phone as much as possible, and rarely in public.