Originally Posted By crazycroc I think I was the guy who asked for a maxi pad. My daughter got her "first" at Disneyland. Being that I don't frequent women's restrooms I had no idea that they had them for sale inside. Ah, to be a single custodial dad of a daughter...
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "A man asks for a maxi pad." I made my husband ask for tampons at the little kiosk store in DTD before. I couldn't make myself go do it when I took a look at the guy working there. He just didn't look like the type you could go up and ask to buy tampons from.
Originally Posted By believe Maxi pad. I had no clue when asked. So I had to ask my fellow CMs. I think the final answer was that it could be in the women's room. To this day I don't know for sure (it was 30 years ago..). Therefore, I suggest asking a female CM if anyone ever asks. "Rubber" and "till" - yes, British type accent, so I knew it was a cultural thing. So I had to ask him to describe the "rubber". Didn't mean it to be stupid, it was just interesting. Amazing what you learn as a CM.
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Originally Posted By Yookeroo "If being needlessly delayed while dining in Germany. I highly recommend yelling AUSCHWITZ. It apparently works everytime." I can't imagine I'll ever be in that much of a rush. I could be having a heart attack and still not be in that much of a hurry to get my check.
Originally Posted By dizneed Well the topic is indeed "Stupid" Guest Tricks! Not much of a joke to the millions who perished.
Originally Posted By crazycroc If Jim found it offensive, it must have been waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over the line. I wish I knew what it said.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Yes -- I asked that it be removed. It was offensive and disgusting.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 What was supposed to be a fun topic has really turned into a mess of offensive and disgusting discussions. If we can't have a few laughs about guest encounters then maybe LP should just shut the topic down.
Originally Posted By magic0214 I'll bring it back...My mother and I were on the monorail loop going from Epcot to the TTC. Once we arrived at the TTC, the lady sitting across from us looked at her map and went "This doesn't seem like Mexico, something is wrong." She thought that the monorail took you around World Showcase. I can't even.
Originally Posted By danyoung In a similar vein, I was walking behind a couple on a recent visit as we were entering Epcot. The lady said to the man, while pointing at Spaceship Earth, "What is that - is it a ride?" Now, I don't expect everybody to be uber-Disney nerds like us, but wouldn't you at least want to know a few major facts about the place you're visiting?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros While it seems pretty obvious to anybody who has visited before, I can forgive somebody for not knowing that there's a ride in SSE. The castle, hat, and Tree of Life don't have rides inside, so why should Epcot's icon be any different, right? My odd story comes from the WDW Marathon in 2012. The course between the Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom follows Bear Island Rd (a backstage road that passes by the water treatment plant and tree farm) from around mile 13 to 17. It's about as isolated as you can get in WDW, with dense forest on either side. At one point, I rounded a bend in the road, and about 10 runners (men and women) were coming out of the woods, pulling their pants up. Now, I recognize that nature calls at the most inconvenient times (I've stopped in the woods during races myself), but what were they *all* doing there at the same time? And one of the best benefits to Disney's races is that (in addition to the port-a-potties at the regularly-spaced water stations) the real bathrooms in all the parks are open for runners to use as they pass through. Maybe they didn't realize that we were relatively close to a water station, but I still can't imagine why there were that many people in one spot
Originally Posted By danyoung >While it seems pretty obvious to anybody who has visited before, I can forgive somebody for not knowing that there's a ride in SSE.< It just hit me that anyone who had done even the slightest bit of research on their vacation destination would know that SSE is indeed an attraction. It's hard to imagine someone coming to such a complicated place as WDW and not being at all familiar with the most basic things.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 Well Dan, let me relate this story. When I was a manager at EPCOT I got called down to Earth Station (thats how long ago it was) to talk to a guest. They wanted a refund because there weren't any rides in the park. Thinking that they were looking for Six Flags type rides I proceeded to ask if they were looking for a roller coaster or something similar, figuring that I would send them to the MK. But they weren't thinking those types of rides. They had walked around Future World but couldn't find any rides. I proceeded to explain to them that the rides were inside the buildings and so on, but they had very confused looks on their faces. So I took them up the exit ramp and put them on Spaceship Earth. When they got off of SE we walked over to Journey Into Imagination. When they got off of JII I asked them if they had enjoyed the rides and they were astounded. I then gave them a map that I written in with a schedule to kind of follow and highlighted "rides" they should see. I ran into them by chance later in the night and they thanked me over and over again saying what a great time they were having. They truly did not understand that the rides were inside the building. Several weeks later I got called into the vp's office because they had written a very nice letter to Disney about me. My point is that amazing as it sounds, people can be pretty clueless to what is going on inside the parks.
