Attn: DLR/DCA Castmembers -- we have a (small) gift for you.
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:50 am
Attn: DLR/DCA Castmembers -- we have a (small) gift for you...
Hello.
This is my first post, and my sincerest apologies if I've chosen the wrong location or category for it.
If so, please let me know where to post this, and/or move it for me - we really want to get these gifts out :)
My wife and I do our very best not to be SG's, and hope we succeed more often than we fail (though we can't, of course, know).
We do cause a bit more work for you guys as we are both disabled (I'm in a powerchair, she has a walker because her legs stop working and collapse with no warning, and we have a small poodle/terrier service dog who alerts her for falling and seizures, and helps me with safety and wheelchair-things).
We are also both a little bit young for our actual ages - we were both in Special Ed as kids, and we both manage to really still see and feel the magic all around us, especially in your parks. I might have a plus hie on my walker. My wife is an excellent hugger. We are *intelligent*, just a bit - young in spirit?
This is our first year with AP's, possible because of the payment plan.
We live in Northern Cal, but are working out how to move down here in July when our lease is up, because the weather and positivity are very good for my wife's health.
Last summer, my wife got *very* sick! and spent many days in the hospital.
Right afterward, we were in SoCal to see a friend, and for "yay, you didn't die!", and stopped at DL for a day.
The overwhelming kindness, happiness, and sheer JOY of that visit cannot be put into words.
We signed up for AP's, and have come down as often as possible since then, not because of riding rides or watching shows (though those things can be amazing too, and we do one or two a day as health permits), but just for the wonderful positive interactions with kind people throughout the day.
Little five minute conversations and smiles here and there, at a shop or in the street. Even a minute. With a white shirt or a plaid, a costume or a character or a hug. Just all the *smiles*, guests too!
And we try to help, too.
I found a quiver for my powerchair to hold a reacher/grabber so I can pick up trash when I see it on the ground. She clears an extra table or two, when we eat.
We give directions and suggestions to other guests, when we can.
She offers to take pictures for groups, so everyone can be in.
We get together lists of people, and every month or two, fill out for sat City Hall for our thank you lists, as best we can manage. There are delays, but we get round to it (complicated by having to stay off MainStreet til after 4, as the dog is afraid of horses -- they are 25x his size!, and after 8, as the fireworks set off my wife's motion disorder...).
Anyhow, we keep trying to think of ways to give a small something *back*.
At Halloween, we had stickers for everybody, but were clumsy handing them out.
For Valentine's, my wife has made hundreds and hundreds of little cloth hearts, in all different fabrics and patterns.
We have been in the parks at random the past two weeks, trying to give them to as many Cast Members as possible, one at a time.
She has dropped off fistfuls at City Hall and it's DCA equal, and at several of the restaurants to send back to kitchen staff.
We have tried to catch parking staff at different times of day, different shifts.
Gone to the Ranch, stood in line for various Meet and Greets (even though lines actually do cause her legs to cramp, and can mean that we are done for the day or at least for several hours afterwards - walking stretches her legs, but standing or sitting *still* is painful, it's why she has a walker instead of a chair even though her legs collapse).
The reason for this long post, is -- we are in town until March 3rd. We have a red powerchair and a blue walker, with a small tan Terrier/poodle between us. We are both short.
**Please, if you see us - My wife wants to give you your Valentine** :-)
And to any of you "friends" out there - how can she politely ask if she has already given *you* your Valentine, or how many friends you might have that day? -- don't know how to ask this.
If anyone has trouble finding us, please PM and I will check nightly (we don't have a smartphone or wifi), and we will work to find you to deliver your heart.
We are camping (we do that so we can stay in SoCal longer), so net access is limited.
Virtual Hugs from both of us.
(and if he should happen to have someone read this to him, a very special Thank You to Peter Pan on Sunday afternoon, for patiently waiting even on his way back off to Neverland, as she sorted out his gift from the strange cardboard thingy it was in for safekeeping -- and for understanding that gum was NOT his gift. He made my wife's entire _month_, as she had very much longed to thank him! and had nearly given up the hunt to find him.)
Hello.
This is my first post, and my sincerest apologies if I've chosen the wrong location or category for it.
If so, please let me know where to post this, and/or move it for me - we really want to get these gifts out :)
My wife and I do our very best not to be SG's, and hope we succeed more often than we fail (though we can't, of course, know).
We do cause a bit more work for you guys as we are both disabled (I'm in a powerchair, she has a walker because her legs stop working and collapse with no warning, and we have a small poodle/terrier service dog who alerts her for falling and seizures, and helps me with safety and wheelchair-things).
We are also both a little bit young for our actual ages - we were both in Special Ed as kids, and we both manage to really still see and feel the magic all around us, especially in your parks. I might have a plus hie on my walker. My wife is an excellent hugger. We are *intelligent*, just a bit - young in spirit?
This is our first year with AP's, possible because of the payment plan.
We live in Northern Cal, but are working out how to move down here in July when our lease is up, because the weather and positivity are very good for my wife's health.
Last summer, my wife got *very* sick! and spent many days in the hospital.
Right afterward, we were in SoCal to see a friend, and for "yay, you didn't die!", and stopped at DL for a day.
The overwhelming kindness, happiness, and sheer JOY of that visit cannot be put into words.
We signed up for AP's, and have come down as often as possible since then, not because of riding rides or watching shows (though those things can be amazing too, and we do one or two a day as health permits), but just for the wonderful positive interactions with kind people throughout the day.
Little five minute conversations and smiles here and there, at a shop or in the street. Even a minute. With a white shirt or a plaid, a costume or a character or a hug. Just all the *smiles*, guests too!
And we try to help, too.
I found a quiver for my powerchair to hold a reacher/grabber so I can pick up trash when I see it on the ground. She clears an extra table or two, when we eat.
We give directions and suggestions to other guests, when we can.
She offers to take pictures for groups, so everyone can be in.
We get together lists of people, and every month or two, fill out for sat City Hall for our thank you lists, as best we can manage. There are delays, but we get round to it (complicated by having to stay off MainStreet til after 4, as the dog is afraid of horses -- they are 25x his size!, and after 8, as the fireworks set off my wife's motion disorder...).
Anyhow, we keep trying to think of ways to give a small something *back*.
At Halloween, we had stickers for everybody, but were clumsy handing them out.
For Valentine's, my wife has made hundreds and hundreds of little cloth hearts, in all different fabrics and patterns.
We have been in the parks at random the past two weeks, trying to give them to as many Cast Members as possible, one at a time.
She has dropped off fistfuls at City Hall and it's DCA equal, and at several of the restaurants to send back to kitchen staff.
We have tried to catch parking staff at different times of day, different shifts.
Gone to the Ranch, stood in line for various Meet and Greets (even though lines actually do cause her legs to cramp, and can mean that we are done for the day or at least for several hours afterwards - walking stretches her legs, but standing or sitting *still* is painful, it's why she has a walker instead of a chair even though her legs collapse).
The reason for this long post, is -- we are in town until March 3rd. We have a red powerchair and a blue walker, with a small tan Terrier/poodle between us. We are both short.
**Please, if you see us - My wife wants to give you your Valentine** :-)
And to any of you "friends" out there - how can she politely ask if she has already given *you* your Valentine, or how many friends you might have that day? -- don't know how to ask this.
If anyone has trouble finding us, please PM and I will check nightly (we don't have a smartphone or wifi), and we will work to find you to deliver your heart.
We are camping (we do that so we can stay in SoCal longer), so net access is limited.
Virtual Hugs from both of us.
(and if he should happen to have someone read this to him, a very special Thank You to Peter Pan on Sunday afternoon, for patiently waiting even on his way back off to Neverland, as she sorted out his gift from the strange cardboard thingy it was in for safekeeping -- and for understanding that gum was NOT his gift. He made my wife's entire _month_, as she had very much longed to thank him! and had nearly given up the hunt to find him.)