Stupid Guest Tricks

I've been lurking for a short time, mainly just reading about all you CMs have to put up with. I put in 3 years at Sea World so I can really relate. I am now on the other side of the fence, a dreaded AP!!! Not the "dreaded" kind though...

Anyway, I took my son to DL yesterday. What was up with all the people??? I haven't seen crowds like that since I went one year during Spring Break! Is ther something going on? I am planning on taking one of my other kids next week but, if it's still going to be crowded like it was yesterday, maybe we'll reconsider!!!

yeah i took my little sister to DL that day too, (minus the snow white show of course ) and all i saw were crowds. couldn't understand why it was so crowded it was a tuesday!
she was getting a little grumpy from waiting so long so i went and bought her one of those starter lanyard pin thingys. she's shy so it was a way to bring her out more, and also to pass the time while walking around. she loves it now, and i told my mom i got her started on an expensive new hobby :twisted: .
i usually try to wear the lanyards while working, because it helps pass the time and i love interacting with the kids...sometimes it's the adults that weird me out though. whaddaya' guys think about those?

Wubbo wrote:i usually try to wear the lanyards while working, because it helps pass the time and i love interacting with the kids...sometimes it's the adults that weird me out though. whaddaya' guys think about those?

I think I'm very glad there are also green lanyards, which can only trade with kids. That's almost as much fun as watching the pin shark adults go ballistic when I tell them they're too old to trade with me! :twisted:

Wubbo wrote:i usually try to wear the lanyards while working, because it helps pass the time and i love interacting with the kids...sometimes it's the adults that weird me out though. whaddaya' guys think about those?

YES. GOD YES. :shock: I have worn a lanyard before.. we use to have a few for our department. The kids were great to trade with.. but the adults seriously freaked me out. I am sorry, but some of them are in serious need of a new hobby and a life.

Zazu wrote:

Wubbo wrote:i usually try to wear the lanyards while working, because it helps pass the time and i love interacting with the kids...sometimes it's the adults that weird me out though. whaddaya' guys think about those?

I think I'm very glad there are also green lanyards, which can only trade with kids. That's almost as much fun as watching the pin shark adults go ballistic when I tell them they're too old to trade with me! :twisted:

Me too. If I don't feel like dealing with the adults on a particular day, I'll wear a green lanyard.

Oh god. I wore a lanyard ONE DAY, and it drove me nutz! I never wore one again. Damn pin traders.

Adult Pin Traders = SCARY.

They scare me to death. One started talking to me one day in line for a ride, all they talked about were pins, and trivial Disney crap only a Passhole would care about. I was hoping for a big rock for fall upon me and put me out of my misery...

Didn't happen. So I got to spend 45 minutes hearing this person blab on about crap I didn't care about. I think I got about 4 words in the entire conversation.

Well, as an adult pin trader, I can vouch that I am not scary. I bought a dreaded lanyard last year for our weeklong vacation at Disneyland to buy pins as a souvenier of our trip, not to get involved in the trading aspect and I haven't worn it since, its a really nice souvenier, hanging in my office.

But, since I was wearing my lanyard (with the four free pins) I had CMs approach me to trade and I did a few times, but those who are really into it can get really scary! I mean they like to comment on the pins you have and proceed to tell you how invaluable the pins you have are and how valuable their pins are.

If you ask me, the weight from the pin laden lanyard puts so much pressure on the back of the neck, I think it cuts off the blood supply to the brain, maybe that is why they are so, swo weird!

Okay, I admit it...I'm an adult pin trader
But I don't go looking to trade pins except with my niece and nephew. (Mostly, I buy 2 or 3 of the same pin in the shops and put one on my lanyard, so if my favorite munchkins make a trade, I can help keep them stocked.) If a cast member or a young guest approaches me, then I'm willing to trade and I prefer to try and keep it as fair as possible. Any pins I see that I have to have are either sold in the shops or on eBay by the cast members. It's not worth ruining someone's day over it. Besides, I seem to have gotten my hubby so hooked on these pins (and he doesn't even trade) that we got stopped by Customs because of them when we came home from our honeymoon.

Actually, sine I have display my Employee ID at work, my favorite thing to buy on eBay right now are the cast member ID lanyards with the characters. They drive the General Manager where I work nuts because he can't stop me from wearing them (since he's the one who instituted the ID policy) and they make it easier to deal with lost kids. 8)

Freak wrote:Didn't happen. So I got to spend 45 minutes hearing this person blab on about crap I didn't care about. I think I got about 4 words in the entire conversation.

those kind of people are everywhere...I don't know if I had a sympathetic face or what, but while in Merchandise, I used to get the guests who would come up to me and talk my ear off for 45 minutes because they had no one else to talk to...if I had to help another guest or there was a line, they'd continue the monologue anyway. I even had that as recently as a few years ago working at Macy's - this little old man telling me about his WWII experiences - his nurse finally came and dragged him away (!). Jeeze, sometimes these people would talk past the end of my shift and I'd be trying to find a polite way to say "um, I have to go home now" and they still wouldn't shut up...

oh well...guess those yakkers will be around long after I'm dust!