Originally Posted By vbdad55 If you're an athlete in our district, detentions cost you playing time in your sport at best and for worse offenders costs you your spot on the team. For kids who want to play school sports, that fixes most of that nonsense.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<For kids who want to play school sports, that fixes most of that nonsense.>> I'll have you know that I NEVER engaged in nonsense. Civil disobedience perhaps... pushing the boundaries in the name of freedom perhaps. But NEVER nonsense!!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 as a kid we viewed it as protest or poushing the boundaries -- as a parent the same stuff has now become nonsense -- amazing how one's perspective changes-LOL
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I have given alot of further thought to this topic, and no matter how I turn it over in my mind I can't help but think that a playground was easy, cheap, and a quick fix to answer the question of "DL got theirs back, when are we getting ours back?" about the 20K Leagues Lagoon. Playground.....psht....such an easy way out!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad What's more is the water feature there really at least added visual impact and real value, just by BEING there. Now we get some plastic leaves and a "Boo Boo n Barf Center."
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Playground.....psht....such an easy way out!< welcome to the congregation
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror Wait a minute... Like Pepsi is to Coke? VBDad... you had me until THAT. Where do you live, Atlanta?
Originally Posted By DVC_dad ^ ^ ^ It wasn't vbdad that said that, it was me. Yes I live in Atlanta so of course I prefer Coke over Pepsi.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror Ah, of course. Sorry VBDad... (and I'm sorry, DVC, about the whole peer pressure thing warping your taste buds...)
Originally Posted By vbdad55 That's OK - I don't live in Atlanta - but I am definitely a Coke over Pepsi guy --
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost You must also realize that the timing of filling in the lagoon and building the playground was conveniently timed so that it would be to late for WDW advocates to get the Nemo ride that Disneyland is building. No lagoon, no showbuilding, no pressure to build another sub ride in MK. What a coincidence.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 yep - I called this at the time and was roundly criticized for being negative, and told in sequence that a/ the filled in land was better than the rotting lagoon, b/ the playground was better than the filled in land c/ the playground was just a 'placeholder' for the next big attraction d/ the playground really isn't bad, a place for kids to blow off steam and parents to rest...... this was a snow job ( not like the flurries in Orlando) from Day 1, when we were all told about the refurb of 20K, then the ADA issues with loading, then the leaking into the tunnels...yada yada yada.... the playground will be here 5, maybe 10 years from now..no doubt in my mind. This was accounting management at it's best....
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Would you like Phil Holmes private 'confidential' voicemail number, so you register a personal complaint? It recently was given to me because a certain CM pal wants some spirit to regularly leave spirited messages ;-)
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Either way, it's better than my new name... Meth-Mart. I recently heard that some people were arrested in a Walmart, while buying items to make meth, with an actual shopping list for the ingredients. Of course this should not reflect badly on Wal-mart as I am told you can buy the stuff anywhere, but you would think drug makers would be more discreet...no wait...I guess you wouldn't.
