Originally Posted By MPierce I want to feel that little white glove taking money out of my wallet, and think he deserves it. As I've stated before WDW is not cheap, but I want to gladly hand over my money. I love WDW to much to have the bitter feeling I now have about some of the prices there.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <That's exactly how I use to feel. This time felt different. I still can't describe it, and I still hope that feeling goes away. Epcot was truly my refuge from the boredom of everyday life. I really missed that feeling I would get every time I went. < maybe,just maybe it's because our everyday world is in the freakin' ditch right now - and it gets harder and harder to escape it - even for short periods of time. Cost of items immediately brings to mind how expensive everyday life has become - seemingly overnight just a thought - I know itbothers me more than everbefore. 54 soon andno way to evenconsider retirement in the next 15 years due to pension being stolenafter 24 years with company - $10 / year high school tuition - grad school costs for oldest - etc etc... those places of refuge harder to escape to
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Paragraphs are your friends. Use them wisely. << Will you lower my grade if I refuse?
Originally Posted By MPierce >> maybe,just maybe it's because our everyday world is in the freakin' ditch right now - and it gets harder and harder to escape it - even for short periods of time. Cost of items immediately brings to mind how expensive everyday life has become - seemingly overnight just a thought - I know itbothers me more than everbefore. 54 soon andno way to evenconsider retirement in the next 15 years due to pension being stolenafter 24 years with company - $10 / year high school tuition - grad school costs for oldest - etc etc... those places of refuge harder to escape to << I understand what you are saying VBDAD, but I don't really think that played a part in my feelings. While I am concerned about my Country I am forever the optimist when it comes to the American People. I know in my heart that we will come out of this. My finances are in order, and while no one can predict my future. I never lay awake, and worry about it. While I certainly wish my health was better, I am confident that one day it will be. I am truly happy with my life for the most part. WDW has always been an escape from the ordinary for me. While I didn't ever dislike my life I sometimes needed a break from it. An escape into fantasy if you will. This time I felt no such escape. I truly felt I was spending time in a facade of what WDW use to be like. I felt like my time was being spent in a place devoted to getting my money. When I go to a Casino I expect it. Not when I enter the gates of WDW. We all know that the Mouse is greedy. This time I felt it in my bones, and I don't like that feeling at all. This trip definetly impacted me in a very negative way. Please pardon my lack of proper spacing in paragraph form. For those needing an interpreter...well you're just out of luck!
Originally Posted By MPierce >> MP, I'd vote for you if you ran for Governor of the State of EPCOT. << Thanks Dave, I think Jim MacPhee is a find man, and doing the best he can. I just think that decisions made higher up are negatively impacting the Parks. I know I'm not a business man, and that all corporations have spredsheets, and profit margins, and stock holders to answer to. I'm just of the opinion that in the long run you turn people off when the value far exceeds the product, and I truly believe WDW is headed down that road right now. If they can turn a WDW lover like me sour on their product, I hate to think what a normal person is thinking after a visit.
Originally Posted By dshyates I can't vouch for normal people, but I haven't been back since 2006, and am not really interested in retuning until they build something cool (Bay Lake Tower isn't what I'm talking about).
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt << I hate to think what a normal person is thinking after a visit.>> Yeah, how they are going to pay for it!!
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt << 2nd mortgage, DUH!!!!>> Well, they should have planned the trip before the housing market crash, now they have neg. equity & can't refinance!
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I can't vouch for normal people, but I haven't been back since 2006, and am not really interested in retuning until they build something cool (Bay Lake Tower isn't what I'm talking about). << You mean even the new Treehouse condos at SS isn't enough for you?
Originally Posted By MPierce >> << I hate to think what a normal person is thinking after a visit.>> << >> Yeah, how they are going to pay for it!! << >> 2nd mortgage, DUH!!!! << Now that I'm retired I find panhandling is a very lucrative enterprise. I found me a nice little spot at the intersection of I-45, and FM 1960. I'm knocking down 300 non-taxable dollars a day when I choose to work a 4 hour shift. You would be surprised how effective an American Flag, and a sign that saids "God Bless You" is.
Originally Posted By dshyates "You mean even the new Treehouse condos at SS isn't enough for you? " Those are CLOSE to cool enough. "Missed it by this much"-Maxwell Smart
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt <<Now that I'm retired I find panhandling is a very lucrative enterprise. I found me a nice little spot at the intersection of I-45, and FM 1960. I'm knocking down 300 non-taxable dollars a day when I choose to work a 4 hour shift. You would be surprised how effective an American Flag, and a sign that saids "God Bless You" is.>> THAT'S YOU!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I may have mentioned this before, but when I was a Magic Kingdom Guest Relations Host in the late 90s, Jim McPhee was my Supervisor. Very nice man, great sense of humor, had the right balance of being a company man, and a realist. I learned a lot from him. Haven't seen him in years, but if I were in EPCOT tomorrow, I could walk up to him, introduce myself, and he'd remember me.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey << >> Paragraphs are your friends. Use them wisely. << Will you lower my grade if I refuse? >> I WILL! And don't get smart with me, young man, otherwise you'll find yourself in the principal's office - and you DON'T want to go to the principal's office!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<I may have mentioned this before, but when I was a Magic Kingdom Guest Relations Host in the late 90s, Jim McPhee was my Supervisor. Very nice man, great sense of humor, had the right balance of being a company man, and a realist.>> I kinda think I've heard that, yes! And I don't think he'd even mind you leaving a letter out of his name. <<I learned a lot from him. Haven't seen him in years, but if I were in EPCOT tomorrow, I could walk up to him, introduce myself, and he'd remember me.>> The people I know who know him far better than I really like him a lot. Out of the current four WDW park VPs, one is outright hated by most of the cast, another is headed down the same path, one is relatively new and the jury is still out, but Jim ... I haven't heard one person utter a single bad word about him. At WDW that speaks volumes to me. I'm just afraid he'll give in and walk away with a buyout leaving someone who doesn't share the passion he does to look after my favorite WDW park. Jim's the first man in a long time to hold the position who is both a decent human being and really gets and cares about the product he puts out.
