Bus Driver Announcement (Reader's Digest)

HocusPocus · Post by **HocusPocus** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:41 pm

I don't know if this has been posted before but I found this in the Sept 2007 issue of Reader's Digest and thought of you guys here...

"A warning called out by a bus driver at Disney World: "Don't forget your kids. If we find them, we drop them off at the 'It's A Small World' ride, were they'll learn the song in 30 languages and sing it to you over and over."

This is great. Is it one our erstwhile drivers here??

;)

darph nader · Post by **darph nader** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:31 pm

From what I understand (which is very little :D: ), The Jungle Cruise Captains at DL do the same thing.

mechurchlady · Post by **mechurchlady** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:47 pm

It started with kids left behind would be put to work in Small World and has has many variations. That is a good version and one I have not heard of before.

HocusPocus · Post by **HocusPocus** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:04 pm

Cool...Given the amount of yo-yos out there, just hearing the song "It's a Small World" in English over and over again would be enough to make sure you take Junior with you. :-) I sing it just to torment those around me. When I was in high school, I sung this song (all three stanzas, mind you!) at a friend of my mom's initiation as some muckety-muck in, I think, the Eastern Star lodge. I still can sing the first two stanzas...

I love to say things like this to the general public. I grew up at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri (my folks had a resort) and when Jaws, the movie came out, I used to tell people to watch out for fresh water sharks (aka gar). Most believed me... :p: In fact, people would argue with me that a fish (aka perch or sunfish) had bit their toes. Uh huh..

ktulu · Post by **ktulu** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:11 pm

Bah, my wife can sing it in latin :D:

Big Wallaby · Post by **Big Wallaby** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:09 am

I actually use a very (very) similar closing spiel to this. Did the Readers Digest have any more detail in the story? If so, there is a chance I could pinpoint the person who was noted. While everything I say in my closing spiel is stolen except for one thing (and that part stolen from me, see: Cranbiz :D: . By the way, if you use it on your bus, do many of your people see it as an invitation for applause?), the combination of things I say is rather unique.

Cranbiz · Post by **Cranbiz** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:48 am

Thats not my Small World spiel but I do like it. The problem with it for me is it's too long. I barely have enough time to spit out my version, then the manditory Watch your step/language thing etc before I get to a resort. Now I've added either a stern "Now get out" or a "Make like a tree and leave" ending at the resort after the Mine, Mine, Mine bit. The timing is the tricky part.

It's getting to the point that I need runs off property just to get enough time to spiel everything I want to.

Big Wallaby · Post by **Big Wallaby** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:28 am

Cranbiz wrote:It's getting to the point that I need runs off property just to get enough time to spiel everything I want to.

:hysteria: :hysteria: :hysteria:

Yeah, I usually start about a quarter of a mile from the load zones, myself.

BRWombat · Post by **BRWombat** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:34 am

ktulu wrote:Bah, my wife can sing it in latin :D:

Dude, you have to post the Latin lyrics!!! I need another bit of arcane and useless information to fill my (mostly unused) cranial cavity.

Cranbiz · Post by **Cranbiz** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:58 am

BRWombat wrote:I need another bit of arcane and useless information to fill my (mostly unused) cranial cavity.

Why does a statement like this not surprise me coming from a lawyer. :D: :D:

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