Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 lawdawg, that sounds like something that would happen to me...did you end up buying the pin again on ebay for $50?
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i get annoyed with those parents too! many a time i have seen parents trying to force their children on a ride while they are crying and sreaming or look like they are about to pass out from hypervanilating, i don't think i spelled that right but anyway, we are told us cast members on attractions if there is a kid to scared to go on, even if the parent says they are fine, we are not allowed to let the child ride for their safety. I always try to come the kids down and what not, sometimes it works and others it doesn't.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie I felt horrible the first time my son rode Splash Mtn. He was fine until we sat in the log and then he went hysterical. The CM told us that he really wasn't allowed to let us ride with DS crying which I was in complete agreement with. I was about to stand up and get him off the ride and they pushed the button and launched the ride. I thought DS was going to have a stroke his heart was beating so fast and I felt like the candidate for the worst mother of the year award. Of course as soon as we got off the ride, he asked if we could ride it again.
Originally Posted By lawdawg "did you end up buying the pin again on ebay for $50? " NO it wasn't an expensive pin. It was the MT Rushmore one and they had just visted there. I didn't end up buying for him again either?
Originally Posted By teddibubbles teddi needs to go sit in the bad corner! I admit it! I am the pin groupie siting there every year. I myself don't understand my obsesion (sp?) but out of being rasied with Disney. this is the first real THING. out of my pile of disney my family buys me. that I LIKE! My hubby and I talk about it. and I think for (me anyway) its sort of going for the kill. like a hunter! when I find THE PIN! like.... I started this bubble pin collecting. but disney put out the > SET< at Limited Edition to 1000 yet the last dumb pin TO THE SET! was a Limited Edition to 500 it as took me over two years of bugging everyone! and looking everywhere to complete this set. now .. if you wonder WHY I sat there. THAT is why! hey. in my everyday life. I am disabled and live out in the desert. DREAMING of being able to get down to the parks ..to.. trade pins! that IS my happy place! and my happy entertainment! you like music? .. I like pins.. you like rides?.. been there ALL my life.. I like pins!.. I grab food.. take in things with hubby.. but I like tradeing last years stuff. and seeing what exiting new Limited pin I can find this time! here is my keepers. <a href="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b363/teddibubbles/013.jpg" target="_blank">http://i23.photobucket.com/alb.../013.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By gadzuux If your pin trading brings you joy teddi, then have at it. If your family can give you things that you make you happy, all the better. I like your sparkly gold 50th mouse ears.
Originally Posted By danyoung >Probably those guests who don't want to follow the flow set up during parade or firework times...but it seems like guests don't realize we set up these routes for their convenience. usually...< I would agree with this, up to a point. I do think some CM's attempt to enforce THE RULES when there's a clear case of an exception to them. During the crunch after the early Fantasmic! show, and you're being directed out through Adventureland, you should be able to tell the CM that "my family is right there, 10 feet behind you - can I go join them?" without being yelled at to keep moving, and have to go out of Adventureland and all the way around through Frontierland to join the family that was just 10 feet away. A little discretion and judgement on the part of CM's is always in order!
Originally Posted By Walter Elias This one probably doesn't annoy CM's, but it annoys me: People on their cell phones while visiting an attraction. I was going through the treehouse with my kids, it was really busy, and a woman followed one step behind us the whole way talking on her cell phone. I thought, "why are you even going through the treehouse? You do realize that THIS is the attraction? This isn't the line to something better."
Originally Posted By danyoung Same thing goes for cell phone usage EVERYWHERE! It's just rude for me to have to wait in line at the grocery store while someone who should be digging money out of her purse is yapping away about NOTHING! Very irritating!!!
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I had a woman riding behind me on Small World talking on her cell phone through most of the ride. I was surprised she had reception in there (must have been Verizon!!!). What a memory for her kids too.
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney MMM..DyGDisney- She is lucky she had you in front. I would have said somthing to her about trying to enjoy the ride without hearing her yapping..lol
Originally Posted By lesmisfan omg this reminds of a story. There was a lady i noticed waiting in line for screamin on her cell phone, she got into the car and was still on her cell phone when we dispatched the car. the moment it came back, she was still on her cell phone! some people are so addicted to cell phones.
Originally Posted By 73baloo Totally know how you feel about cell phones. I always figired Walt was turning over in his grave since he wanted Disneyland to shut out the real world. I know they are a necessary evil. I have mine on but only speak when I am sitting out of the way. Only answer calls from my kids or if i am meting up with someone and we have not made connections.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i find it pretty incredible when i hear a family about possibly splitting up for a couple hours so that older kids can do what they can do while the parents take the younger ones only they want to do since they are not tall enough for the other attractions. but then i hear oh wait we can't split up, we all didn't bring cell phones! Then i think to myself wondering what happend in the good ole days without a cell phone! I remember if my parents gave me permission to take off with a friend when i was 12 or 13, this before we all had cellphones, we were told to meet at a certain place and time and omg! we showed up!
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains I will say I have been guilty of being on a phone when on a ride... Not intentionally - but I have had my phone ring right at the beginning of pirates and IASW to where I had to answer it as it was one of my kids that I did not bring on the trip. They are teen boys and don't usually call just to chat! But if it's before loading I will let others go ahead of us - but otherwise I make sure it's not an emergency and then call them back.
Originally Posted By danyoung I'd just like to say that while I'm tethered to my cell phone in normal life just like everyone else, my phone does not accompany me into a Disney park, EVER. There's just nobody that needs me that much and that quickly - they can wait till I hit my hotel room in a few hours!
Originally Posted By gadzuux I'd like to be high-minded and holier than thou on this one, but I too have had my cell phone go off in an attraction - 'tough to be a bug'. In my own defense, my cell phone doesn't ring very often, and I frequently don't even carry it. But in this case, I was travelling out of town and was using it more frequently. And my visit to the parks happened to be on that weird day when paris hilton was being hauled back to jail screaming and crying after getting an early release. I had friends calling me to talk about the story of the day and didn't know where I was. So before I point any fingers at others for cell phone abuse I remember that it can happen to the best of us.
Originally Posted By 73baloo lesmisfan - Yes, when I was growing up we always met at the right time. My kids are all adults. One of my daughters has a pacemaker at 27 years old and if something happens I do not want to not get a call.
Originally Posted By danyoung >...but I too have had my cell phone go off in an attraction...< I think it should be stated that there's a HUGE difference between getting an infrequent call and sitting there talking all the way through an attraction. Everyone's had their cell phone ring at a bad time. But there's absolutely no excuse to be on your phone yapping away while riding through Pirates or iasw or any other attraction. Emergencies are one thing. But ongoing chatting is just wrong.
