Stupid Guest Tricks

This is actually a bit sad, but also quite funny.

A family comes up to the counter and orders a Kids Meal. Another CM mentions to them that the Kids Meals are meant for little kids. They say that they are ordering it for their daughter:

(Not an exact word for word quote, but a good paraphrase)

Father: She's right here *points*....er, honey, where is she?

Mother: I thought you had her.

Father: No, you had her.

Mother: OMG!

They proceeded to run around the restaurant looking for her. They eventually find her off in the seating area.

Makes you wonder what's it's like at home.

LOL! Speaking solely from a CM's perspective I find it a little funny when parents immediately demand you call the police because someone has "abducted" their child. While I understand it is that paternal instinct, I always have to calm them down a little before we send in the marines. But I am also the first one to call security after the 5-10 minute mark.

Keep track of your kids, people!

I know the kid's meals are meant for little kids but I thought anyone could get them. Both my brother and I got kid's meals a few times when I was last down there when we didn't feel like eating an entire adult meal. A couple of times the kid's meal is enough for me and it is better than wasting a bunch of food I couldn't eat.

I'm surprised the CM said something, how did he know the kid wasn't with someone else in the family who is already seated? I'm glad he did, of course, since it made the parents realize their kid was missing and to go look for him.

If I had a kid and I was at WDW I'd be keeping a VERY close eye on him. I'd know exactly where he is and if not with me who he was with at all times.

I don't like kids meals very much, every kid I got was tough and chewy.

Shorty82 wrote:I know the kid's meals are meant for little kids but I thought anyone could get them. Both my brother and I got kid's meals a few times when I was last down there when we didn't feel like eating an entire adult meal. A couple of times the kid's meal is enough for me and it is better than wasting a bunch of food I couldn't eat.

I'm surprised the CM said something, how did he know the kid wasn't with someone else in the family who is already seated? I'm glad he did, of course, since it made the parents realize their kid was missing and to go look for him.

Actually, this is part CM Trick, also. The other CM is new, just hired in 2 weeks ago, I believe. He still thought that the Kids Meals were exclusively limited to little kids (for the record, they're not).

Talk about Beginner's Luck, eh?

drcorey wrote:I don't like kids meals very much, every kid I got was tough and chewy.

LOL!

hey, I can laugh.. but I've seen this happen too... And in a Foreign Country!

Mom, dad and their little ones were hanging out on a German street just waiting for the bus. A Military family, out to see the sights. You know how it is. With several little ones wandering it may have been tough to keep track.

Well, the bus comes. Parents enter via separate doors each thinking their son is with the other parent. Mom gets on with two kids in front to pay for them all. Dad gets on with two kids in back. (one in a stroller, the other helping to lift the stroller up the step.) :strolatt:

And as the bus starts rolling off, a little four year old boy realizes he's been left and starts chasing the bus!! :bart:

Mom happens to notice him. Realizes she's missed one, and desperately searching for a German phrase, points dramatically out the window shouting, "Halt! Mine Kindt!" (forgive the spelling.. I'm an American *grin*)

Of course the bus stops. The abandoned little one is retrieved. And the other inhabitants of the bus begin counting.. "one, two, three, four... Five!? No wonder she lost one!" :p:

I can relate to the story above. when I was in Las Vegas. I was waiting for my sister to get out of a nursing convention. A family lost their 2 young kids in the casino some home. These kids took off running. I did see a sign saying no kids allowed in the gambling areas. Please keep an eye on them. Security looked for 1 hour and hound them at the snack bar. :twisted:

Back in the 80s, I worked as a security guard--rent-a-cop type, they send you to their contract places--and once I was working in the now-defunct Gemco store in the San Fernando Valley. One day, this guy comes around, upset, and asks if I've seen his kids. He described them, and since I hadn't seen them, I said no. Since this was around the time Adam Walsh went missing and was found dead, some parents were really wary of their kids going off. Anyway, this guy says, "Well, they better be here, or I'm going to go home and get my gun and settle this right here" --meaning if he found a stranger with his kids, he was going to take the law into his own hands. Luckily, his wife was in the store, and she had the kids. I later saw them walking out of the store together. I was never so glad to see a family leave the store!

Those guys can move FAST. I now don't blame the parents, with their kids, who have the "wrist leash" on.