OrangeCountyCommuter
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2010
I watched a man get escorted out of OKW by the local police after threatening to break the CMs legs because someone was in HIS villa and the CM would not evict them!
Near the que for Peter Pan, a woman laid her daughter down on the cement, in front of God and Disney guests and started changing her diaper. On the cement. In the sun. The little girl started crying that it was hot. Her mother, term used loosely here, was yelling at her, saying "if you would have started using the toilet at home, you wouldn't be lying in front of these people showing off your privates".
A cast member went up, directing her to the nearest bathroom. The woman completely lost it. Yelling, swearing, throwing the dirty diaper at the cast member. She said something about doing what she wanted, stood her daughter up and walked away with her diaperless.
A few minutes later, the woman and her daughter were being escorted by two security cast members toward the exit. Poor little princess was crying and her mom was too busy arguing to pay attention to her daughter.
This one goes back at least 11 or 12 years, before I had kids. My family always went back then during the very crowded week between Christmas and New Years due to my younger siblings only common break being that one. I was at MK with my husband, brother and his now wife. We had had dinner at GF then headed into the park for rides after. A parade had ended so it was a mess of people up front. We were crossing main street from the side with Casey's and all took a hard right toward Tomorrowland Terrace to get through a break we saw before the next throng of people. Well my brother, the last of us, barely made it with the rest of us, sort of cutting off a man on a scooter, which were more unusual to see back then. The man becomes livid. My brother just sped up and really did not make this man stop, but it was close enough the man probably felt he had to slow down. He starts yelling and screaming, we didn't know what to do. My brother politely said, sorry I just didn't want to get separated from my family, and left it at that. The man keeps yelling about being cut off all day, and then gets out of his scooter, picks it up, at least chest high and yells "Ahhhhh" in a roaring tone before slamming it down hard enough I'm surprised he didn't pop a tire. We just walked away, but honestly, for a split second I thought he was going to throw it at my brother!
I was a little too competitive playing that game too. We are from Wisconsin, where the weather is 20 degrees or colder in Wisconsin and when you get to California, it can be 70-80 degrees. We hit our 3 day wall-and it was extremely warm while we were there. I thought it would be fun, so I joined the game a few months before we got there. Anyhow, it was my melt down. I was reading a clue, and my dh just walks off in a different direction. I continue to walk and didn't notice he went a different direction. I do not see him anywhere. I go back and he always tells me, if you get lost, stay put. So that lasted 15 minutes. I walk in the direction that I think that he may have went, and there he was, just standing, didn't care. I was so furious by then, I screamed at him, "You are the worst team player-EVER! I told him, what kind of partner just leaves the other person and doesn't event look." He was so baffled by what I was saying and started apologizing. Blah, Blah Blah! It was then I noticed people were staring at us. My only consolation, was I would never see those people again.I have two- both at Disneyland.
The first, my Dad had taken us to DL and we stayed in Garden Grove at the Embassy Suites. It was back when most hotels still had shuttles. We were on the shuttle one morning and this mom was really giving it to her tween daughter about eating breakfast. Now that I am a mom, I get it. The kid was probably giving her mom attitude and the mom knew if she didn't eat- things would get worse. But the whole ten minute ride, the mom was yelling at the kid to eat her muffin. She kept saying, "If you don't eat your muffin, we can not go to Disneyland." We still tell each other that more than 10 years later!
The second... my sister, husband and I were doing Mouse Adventure at DCA. Mouse Adventure is a scavenger hunt meets Amazing Race thing that Mouse Planet puts on a couple times a year. Well- I was feeling uber competitive and wouldn't agree to stop for a decent meal- just granola bars on the run. My sister got a "tad" bit hangry and screamed at us that she was quitting and this was not fun and she was going back to the hotel. I am pretty sure everyone within 50 feet heard her! We had to go back to the official check in area so we could declare her done and change our number to two people. She was fuming the whole time. Needless to say..... we didn't place!
I think we were staying at POP when about 2:00AM I woke up to hear our next door neighbor having...
I think most people understand meltdowns by children. It is the adult meltdowns that shock people. Or, well, make them laugh.Whew. Is anyone else glad that no one comments are about their family . . .
My daughter had a couple epic meltdowns during our last trip. The heat index was over 100 degrees several days in Sept of 2014. Add that in to a child who hasn't been diagnosed yet - so no treatment yet -who has OCD and GAD and she had a couple huge meltdowns. The thing is, she had meltdowns like that or worse at home. I hate it when people judge parents thinking they're pushing their kids not realizing that the child's meltdowns aren't any smaller at home.
While not total epic-I have to confess I had my own meltdown of sorts. It was the 1st (and only) MK RD we did. None of us are am people, but I just "had" to have us do RD as our welcome. DD & DH woke on the grumpy side, & I woke on the drill sergeant side; determined we'd make good time. We did, we were super close to the gate when there. The next hour as the masses kept showing & body space shrunk, our moods just naturally brightened, we were overjoyed with magic, and it started a blissful morning...um not (lol) We hated standing there getting shoved & packed like sardines. (I don't even remember much from the Welcome Show). We hated the mad dash down Mainstreet, we hated the fun of the rides we did being cast over by a "we gotta hurry" shadow. And I hated how I had planned for over a year to give DD the most awesome trip ever for her to be a grumpy, snippy, unimpressed pre-teen (12). We were bickering back & forth all through Fantasyland. DH just tried to keep his head low & stay out of it (ha). As we took a break in silence over cinnamon rolls at Gastons, DD glaring, me tearing up, & DH dazed/confused being stuck in the middle (lol). He busted out with how glad he was to "meet the 2 new dwarfs... p!ssy and b!tchy". All of a sudden, we all broke out in hysterical laughter. DD & I had our come to Jesus moment w/each other, and we all decided to leave and call a re-do later that night. We took naps, woke up refreshed, & went back later to the most magic filled night! Over the next 2wks, we had the best time everyday (which from then on out included sleeping in and closing down the park's night owl style). We still joke about that morning. If either of us get cranky, DH calls us by our "dwarf names" and we've coined the phrase "MK RD" when describing the level of other people's real world meltdowns to each other lol!