Originally Posted By sjhym333 Just for fun...I know that many of us have been to the parks a lot of times. Thought is might be fun to share some of the stupid things we have seen guests do. I worked at Disney for a long time so I have plenty. I will share a couple of my favorites. 1) Wedway - A young guy and a young woman are all alone on a Wedway train when I get a call from my CM to come to load. I see several CM's standing looking at the monitors at the unload/load area. Turns out the couple decided to get "romantic" during the dark areas of the ride leaving nothing to the imagination. When the train finally came into unload, the CM's pointed to the monitors and gave the couple a loud round of applause. The girl went beet red, the guy took a bow. I laughed so hard I didn't have the heart to yell at them. 2) Small World breaks down and the boats are backed up from the South America scene into Europe. The CM's keep spieling to remain seated. I walk into the back of the building to assess the issue and run into a family walking around the back of the attraction. When I asked them what they were doing they told me that they got tired of waiting. My response was: Despite being told to remain seated, you decided to get out of a boat and walk around inside an attraction with a lot of expensive, moving parts, not knowing how or where you would exit and endangering your family in the process and you thought that was a good idea because...? The guys just looked at me. I said follow me and put them back into their boat and told them not to move. When the man protested I told him the other option he had was for me to call security and remove him from the park. When the attraction started to run again I had security waiting at unload. The man just walked past me and said "Sorry." Last one: At EPCOT. I had the final say so in launching Illuminations. My CM's checked to make sure that there were no guests in restricted areas. I am standing near the American Adventure when I look up at the lighting towers for the American Garden Theater and see a family sitting on top of the catwalk. I walk up there and ask them very nicely to come down. The husbands response was that A) He wanted a good seat for Illuminations and B) He was a personal friend of Michael Eianer and what would Michael say if he called him and told him that I made them get down. My response was: Well Illuminations can't start until I say so and I won't say so until your down and b) Michael Eisner will thank me for protecting his stupid friend. The guy and his family got down and Illuminations started 5 minutes late.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Thank you for sharing those delicous stories, sjhym333, duckling. The first one reminds me of an experience I had with a gorgeous hunk on the very same attraction some years back--except we knew we were being filmed at the time. ORGOCH: Must be talkin' 'bout another dream she had, sjhym333, ducklin', 'cause there ain't no man alive that'd even ride nothin' with her--let alone git 'romantic' with such a theme park hag!!!
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 those are good story, it always surprise me when so guest think that nothing applies to them and they can do anything they want.
Originally Posted By dizneed Awesome stories. Thank you for sharing them with us. I'm sure you have more, don't be shy....
Originally Posted By RoadTrip When I first took Ann to WDW (she had never been there before), we were riding the People Mover at the Magic Kingdom. When we went into Space Mountain she TOTALLY FREAKED OUT. She thought I had tricked her into riding the coaster... a coaster without restraints!!
Originally Posted By Mr X This one is second hand, from a friend of mine who was one of the Epcot Jammitors... As a trash can trio sort of gig, they would occasionally find trash in their cans if they left them out between sets in guest areas, and sometimes they'd have some fun banter with kids who tried to throw away their lunch in the "instruments". But one day things went too far, as one of the guys lifted up his trashcan lid to discover a soiled diaper.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn I must have crossed at least six 3am "hot tub encounters" at various resorts over my lifetime
Originally Posted By FerretAfros ^^Now you have me wondering what you were doing at the hot tub at 3am ; ) I've definitely hopped in a hot tub with a couple making googly eyes at each other (on several occasions), but it didn't appear to be anything more than that. Then again, it seems like my trips to the hot tub have mostly been during daylight hours, so who knows what I'm missing! And I can't think of any stories off the top of my head, but I'm really enjoying these ones!
Originally Posted By wahooskipper While working on the Jungle Cruise we a gentleman videotaped (no cell phones back then) his wait in line. (Hard up for entertainment at home I guess.) So, he is walking along with his video camera running...moving through the maze...when he gets to load and steps into the boat. Only, there is no boat there and he goes head over heals into the lagoon. Needless to say he was fished out of there and someone arranged to have his clothes washed and dried.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 I was standing outside the MK at closing directing guest to the monorail, ferryboats and tram (yes we used to run trams from the MK to TTC) when a family came up to me and the mother said "Where is my car?" I explained that if they parked in the main parking lot the monorail, tram or boat would take them over there. She looked at me and said "NO, my car was right outside the park when we got here. Where is it?" A little confused I politely reminded her that in the excitement of going to Disney she probably forgot that she rode a monorail or boat to the front entrance. Well you would have thought I killed someone. She just stood there and yelled and yelled and yelled at me, calling me every name you could think of? Finally I said "You're right, while you were in the park we moved all the cars, dug a hole, filled it with water and NOW you are going to have to take a monorail, tram or boat to get to it. She looked at me and called me a terrible name. At that point her husband said "We took the monorail this morning, shut up Ellen and lets go." And he walked away with the kids.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Two sort of fun stories.... Jungle Cruise -- around 1987 -- long line, long wait. Suddenly a father has his child in tow, steps under the queue ropes, steps toward the river and allows the youngster to unzip his fly and take a leak into the river. We were all running over and telling him that he couldn't do it, but the kid had started and couldn't stop. He zipped up, and dad took him back in the line. Guests were just slack-jawed. Around the same year, I was working Halloween night at The Haunted Mansion. Because it was a special ticketed event, we had cast members stationed in the ride at various locations to make sure people behaved (maybe it was Grad Night). I was near the ballroom scene, when suddenly I hear squawking on the walkie-talkies. Apparently a young man was smoking a joint, and when a cast member turned a flashlight on him, the guy freaked out, jumped out of the Omni-Mover and started running. The guy was running in the darkness past me in the ballroom scene, through the attic and was finally caught him in the graveyard scene. Very dangerous for a guest to be running through those areas. We got him outside and he was pleading with us to let him go, when he broke lose from us and started running. We grabbed him again, and security arrived.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub This is a " family" joke that i wish was true but...When all my young nieces and nephews would meet me for my (frequent) visits , we would meet at the Disneyland Hotel. So they all wanted to live with me cause they thought I lived at DL. Unfortunately I am stuck in the middle of nowhere halfway to DL and WDW.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Anyway one night at Dl waiting for the fireworks the family in front of us happened to have a jerk for a father. He was smoking so I reported him to a castmember that walked past us. He was asked to extinquish the cigarette . When the fireworks started he forced his two small children to wear their Mickey Sorcerer hats to block our view. Stupid guy: the fireworks are in the sky...
Originally Posted By crazycroc Here's my stupid guest trick: At DCA, they used to have meet and greets under the dome which served as the entrance to the Whoopi Goldberg movie. The arranging of the guests to queue up to meet the characters was haphazard at best and you the crowd would mob up eventually between two or three tiers. I used to suffer from a condition in which my gas was especially pungent, but the pooting mechanism was always silent. I would dodge into the mob, pass gas, and walk away. The faces on the tourists, the cm's and even the characters was priceless. The Stepsisters even made comments about "what is that horrible smell?" one time. Ah, to be an AP at an empty DCA again.
Originally Posted By LuvsDsnyTrips At least you have to give him the credit for not making the "sound"....LOL
