Stupid Guest Tricks

hobie16 wrote:The mothers deserve a...

What kind of cookies, Hobie??
If they're dark chocolate, I'm there!

Whazzup wrote:What kind of cookies, Hobie??
If they're dark chocolate, I'm there!

I'm a sucker for Mrs. Fields.

Christine, sounds like you know how to handle your children and their disabilities.
Don't let people like the woman rolling her eyes bother you, their opinion doesn't matter. Also, many people have no idea at all what autism is so don't know what it entails.

Christine43 wrote:We'll try and figure out if any of our drivers are you while we're there.

There's no chance of riding with BW unless you go on the Safari at DAK. BW has left buses and now drives a safari truck.

hobie16 wrote:The mothers deserve a...

Awwwww, Hobie, so nice!
Mmmmmmmm, cookies!!!!!

Thank you for that info. I appreciate it. Everything makes more sense now.

Thank you, Hobie and I did actually show your avatar to my kids who have the same sense of humor as me and we thought it was hysterical.
Disneymom, if that woman can't spell rain man, maybe she's the one with the real issues.
I used to have this thing that I put on peoples' cars when they parked to close to me. It had an insulting message about their parking abilities but it also had Mickey Mouse with a big smile on his face flipping the bird. Now, I love Mickey as much as anyone but I still thought this was pretty funny. I would love to have that picture now but with a message defending my autistic children. Maybe I'll design one. I constantly try to educate people about autism but when that fails and they're still griping, out comes Mickey.

By the way, I probably am going to try to play guess the driver based on people I've talked to here when I am there in December. I'm also sure I'll be way off. However, we plan on doing something small but nice for CMs while we're there so if a child hands you a candy cane sometime from Dec. 17- 27 then you'll know it's my family. We really do appreciate the CMs and we're handing these out as a small thank you to any CM that so much as smiles at us.

I've never not taken candy from kids when they offer it. I take that back. I did once, and the little girl of about four years old looked like she was going to cry. I agree with not taking gifts from guests (most of the time), but little kids don't understand that "no" can also mean "thank you". Plus, I've never had kids come up on their own and try to give me money.

Christine43 wrote: I constantly try to educate people about autism but when that fails and they're still griping, out comes Mickey.

That's a lovely idea. :) We were on the bus from Epcot to Coronado Springs when I was seated next to a very enthusiastic young adult who I believe was mentally handicapped (I'm not a medical professional, so I'm guessing.) He was very happy to be at Disney and expressed himself loudly. The mother was a special education teacher and I believe an absolute SAINT... He was interacting with his brothers and people kept giving him the worst looks. Sometimes I wish I could sprinkle a little Pixie Dust and make them spend a day in an mentally handicapped person's head so they could see how it feels when the brain and the will sometimes don't work together as planned.

DH and I were thinking that honestly, the mentally handicapped person was probably a better person than 90 percent of the people on the bus because at that moment, he was gifted with experiencing pure joy without the mental and emotional entanglements that neurotypicals carry around.

Today, at my gate (DHS) we had a group of at least 20 people from Minnesota of varying ages who, to put it politely, might have qualified for Densa (the opposite of Mensa). They were all very well-behaved. Some were wearing Special Olympic shirts. I did overrides for almost all of them on the finger scans as I could easily tell they were having real problems with the scanner.

I had a nice conversation with one of the chaperones; the one who was handling the tickets. I did not find out much about the group, but did suggest to her that she look up the disABILITIES Forum on Disboards.

I'm sure that this group (and I estimated ages up to in the 40s) were all having a fantastic time.