Pardon, Are You Real?

Zazu · Post by **Zazu** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:26 pm

So I wasn't moving very fast. Okay, so I wasn't moving at all. It was late, and the last day of my week. I was just standing there in front of my attraction, watching a giggly toddler make a long game out of being taken out of his stroller. Dad kept trying to distract him, and kid kept putting arms and legs where they were least helpful.

Meanwhile:

"Let's ask him, Mom," pointing to me.

"Honey, he's just an animatronic figure."

"No Mom, he's real."

"Watch him, he's not moving," she observed, "You're not real, are you?"

"Hard to say ma'am," I replied, "My wife keeps asking me the very same question."

So if she thought I wasn't real, why did she bother to ask me?

Reminds me of another odd website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rmutt/sj/SJ-robots1.html.

tourbunny · Post by **tourbunny** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:17 pm

totally not disney related but i did that once at harrod's in london. this gorgious black man was standing there not realy moving and they have awesome looking maniquins. i turned to my friend and touching that man's biceps i go " damn those maniquins are lokking better and better these days. i wanne take this one home!"
he turned around and yelled at me that he was real and some other four letter words. i could not stop laughing for hours.
i just thought of that, totaly random...

cheshire · Post by **cheshire** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 3:38 pm

We get that all the time at Splash. Sitting at the base of c lift, guests ALWAYS ask "Are you real?" "Do you work here?" :shock: No we just jumped out of the log and are sitting here for fun.

se8472 · Post by **se8472** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 9:08 am

Man I love the "Do you work here" question...

No I just dress up in this costum and stand here for my health during my vacation!

Pschtyckque · Post by **Pschtyckque** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 9:26 am

I was working on Indy. A guest had dropped something in the beginning of the queue with the skeleton and the urns behind the bamboo gate. A coworker was looking from the entrance side, and I had scaled the wall and was looking through a small opening in the exit side. I'm sure it looked odd, a guy dressed like Indy clinging to a wall.

So a guest poked me (not in a good place, either). I jumped, and she ran screaming.

Same thing would happen on Subs all the time. I often caught people trying to tie my shoelaces together, too.

coldfire409 · Post by **coldfire409** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:12 pm

se8472 wrote:Man I love the "Do you work here" question...

I alwyas answer that question no, and walk away from the guests. I would say 95% of the time the guests belive me and just walk away. A few times the guests realize their stupidity and then ask the question anyways. I hate it when that happens

Dante101 · Post by **Dante101** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:25 pm

"Do you work here?"
"Yes I do." (then walk away quickly before they ask anything else)

Pschtyckque · Post by **Pschtyckque** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:53 pm

My favorite was:

"Can I ask you a question?"

"You just did."

Dante101 · Post by **Dante101** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 12:37 am

"Can I ask you a question?"

"yeah, I think you can handle that - you look pretty smart. Just start off slowly; form the question in your head; be careful with the big words, and remember to annunciate..."