Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Is there some state out there that is officially "The Yahoo state?"<< Texas of course.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA ssWEDguy, I'm just joking about the Yahoo! vs. Yahoo vs. Motley Fool. Ha-ha. Jimmy Funny!
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> ssWEDguy, I'm just joking about the Yahoo! vs. Yahoo vs. Motley Fool. << As am I. When you see my lips move, I'm usually joking.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad You know... I seem to recall an EXTREMELY similar thread about guests trampling on flowers in the MK a few months ago. I responded in jest to that thread, and received a fresh coat of tar and a bag full of feathers. I was all hurt and sour about it, and was a big baby. But now that I am no longer a young little LP'ster, and am all grown up...I am going to risk it again and say the following: (Let me have it, I am a big boy now and hey, Sticks and Stones love... While I wouldn't let my kids stand on anything like that for fear of injury (not out of respect for some poor CM's hard work making the thing) I would be inclined to allow a little bit of a breach of normal behaviour to get an extra special photo. I mean they can always make another one...right?
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^So you think it's OK to damage someone's property so you can get a better photo? That's not something I'd want to teach my children, although it will likely lead them to success in today's 'me' American society.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad And sadly, it's not like anyone DOES anything to control the YAHOOs in the parks these days! I take "breaking in line" into my OWN hands now. Some punk breaks in font of my kids, I get all loud and summon the nearest cast member and parents around me and get the chump thrown to the back. However, it's perfectly fine for MY kids to lean on some display or stand on a wall, or climb over something... Oh the double standard lives we lead.*sigh*
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I take great care to teach my kids that certain things are okay at Disney Parks but nowhere else...like school and that sort of thing...and certainly NOT CHURCH for heaven's sakes.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I am most certainly joking, but I will say that crowd control is not a forte of the current CM teams at the WDW parks. I recall my then 2 year old and I getting trampled in line to see Mickey one day. It was ugly, and had I been one of my redneck cousins (and I have a lot of em) there would have been a fist fight. "Look junior, watch daddy beat up the bad man!"
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> I recall my then 2 year old and I getting trampled in line to see Mickey one day. << Sorry to hear about this, but I have to say I've personally not seen such a thing happen in connection with characters. I have seen dumb things, but not this. They're usually pretty protective about such things.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I would be inclined to allow a little bit of a breach of normal behaviour to get an extra special photo. I mean they can always make another one...right? < so if your wife ha spent months preparing a beautiful garden in front of your house -- and the neighborhood yahoos came by and trampled the crap out if it in 3 seconds to get what they felt was a once if a llifetime photo cest le vie ? The flowers and items at WDW are supposed to be enjoyed by all -- everyone complains that maintenance isnt up to snuff at WDW - yet you would allow this and ruin it for everyonebehind you...DVCdad - you know I like ya-- but you deserved to be tarred for this one... this permissiveness that rules are made to be broken is why everything from museums to zoos to parks are so pigged up -- we all pay more to repair. Disney is not a bottom less lit of money to repair stuff all thetime-- then they raise pricees $4 and everyone soils themselves... think about this for a while-- for a stupid picture ?
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I take great care to teach my kids that certain things are okay at Disney Parks but nowhere else...like school and that sort of thing...and certainly NOT CHURCH for heaven's sakes.< and you think when faced wth other choices later in life they are going tobe able to always tell right from wrong with these mixed signals ? This is why we see kids running their parents at WDW, and in schools, and having no clue what is rigth or wrong at work as they grow older -- they spend al their time looking for the dispensation when it is 'OK' -- just IMHO
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I am most certainly joking, but I will say that crowd control is not a forte of the current CM teams at the WDW parks< I wish you'd have said this earlier on-- but for anyone who does believe thestuff you typed- then my posts are for them...and because so many yahoo's do allow their kids ( and themselves) to behave liek that..how many cast members are going to take on that rude yahoo guest while getting paid minimum wage and likeyl understanding that if they 'get into it' with a guest yahoo, it is probably them who loses their job...
Originally Posted By Socrates Why not just use a telephoto lens? Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>SECURITY!!!!!<< Sorry. They are busy checking granny's purse at the front of the park while she packs a rifle inside her bloomers.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<I would be inclined to allow a little bit of a breach of normal behaviour to get an extra special photo. I mean they can always make another one...right?>> DVC_Dad, you cloak your post with humor and with excuses. "Kids, we can do this at WDW but we can't do it at church! Ha, ha, ha!" "Hey, other punks in WDW break the rules and get away with it, so our little transgression doesn't matter." I hope you don't really believe these rationalizations, and I hope you're not really teaching your children that it's up to them to decide when they are more important than someone else's stupid rules, and I hope your family is not trampling flowers for the sake of getting a precious momento photograph. It doesn't matter that some punk kids broke some rules and got away with it. It doesn't matter that you've got the cutest family in the world. It doesn't matter that you spend your Xthousands of dollars to do this vacation. If the sign says, "Do no go beyond this point," it's directed toward you and your beautiful children.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Here's my question -- If a CM comes along and politely but firmly asks your kids to "Please get down from there -- you don't need to be there, and it's for your safety," what will you do? Will you back up the CM and say the same thing to your kids? Or will you tell the CM to backoff? That you "paid to get in here." Which will you do?
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy As a sample of just how cluelessly boorish some people can be -- When I did just this -- asked the kids to "please get down from there -- you don't need to be there," the mom did back me up "kind of." She did tell her kids to get down. But the reason she gave was "because this man said so." So instead of telling the kids that what they were doing was wrong, she was transferring the blame to me. Boorish.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy So when the cop stops you for speeding, it's not the speeding behavior all by itself that's wrong. It's the fact that this policeman says so.
