Strangest Interactions With Other Guests?

[Howellsy]

I remember being sat next to a southern American lady while waiting for Fantasmic to start. She asked me if we had grass in England!!!!:

These two southern American guys asked my parents if we had electricity and television in Wales! Sadly, I've had many similar conversations to this in WDW

 

[TLinden16]

This thread would be a better fit on the theme parks community board, so I'm going to move it there now.

 

[glassslipper2004]

Well..................three of the original Swan Dolphin cheerleaders managed to lose their children on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad................We were a bit tuckered out. I think it was open until 1am & it was around 12:45. The kids of course were still bouncing off the sides of buildings & trash cans & any other inanimate object they could find. So off they go into BTMRR. We, as GOOD MOTHERS, waited by the exit. And waited by the exit. And waited by the exit............(See we are the GOOD mothers). Finally about 1:10 we started to go in through the exit. And low & behold, here come Danny, Sierra & Kendra. No one else was coming in (or only a few stragglers), so the CMs just let them keep going around, and around, and around, and around, and around. They rode it for like 25 minutes straight.

BUT WE DID WAIT FOR THE KIDS!!!!!! But we probably looked like idiots standing there saying, 'Do you think we should be worried?'. And should anyone else have seen them riding that many times, they would probably have figured we abandoned them!

Wow - this same exact thing just happened to us a few weeks ago at Busch Gardens. My friend and I were waiting for our girls to get off a roller coaster, very late at night, the park was officially already closed, and we waited and waited... finally I said you know, I don't mean to be paranoid or anything, but what if someone just walked off with them? Because it had been forever and for goodness sakes, where on earth were they? We were stuck between being embarrassed that we hadn't gotten worried sooner... of course, after a while, they turned up, having ridden the coaster about a million times without having to come out in between.

By the way, this thread is fantastic! Thanks for all the posts.

 

[act1980]

These two southern American guys asked my parents if we had electricity and television in Wales! Sadly, I've had many similar conversations to this in WDW

Gees!!!! I dont know which is worse!!

 

[Babbletrish]

These two southern American guys asked my parents if we had electricity and television in Wales! Sadly, I've had many similar conversations to this in WDW

Honestly, the misconceptions different cultures have about one-another are fascinating. I suppose this kind of thing is gradually dying out in the Age of Information ("Now mom and dad and junior...") but who knows?

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And since this thread is too good to be buried under all the Alphabet Game posts (don't we have a game board?)

(Ahem)

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Move! Slide your rump!
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Can't touch this.

 

[a*lil*bit*goofy]

strangest interaction: in 2001 on the way home (booooo) we were at MCO, and had just found our gate. The washroom was nearby, so off I went. As I am washing my hands, this lady who was at the sink by me says something along the lines of how flying makes her have to poop more often. Um....???? She then asked me if I have the same issues. ACK! strange!

 

[teresajoy]

My goodness, could it have been the Crazy Lonely Aunt from this Awkward Family Photos post? Because I'd be very sad if there were more than one sad lonely person with a pet teddy bear/child substitute/beaver puppet.

Hmmmm... makes you wonder if it is! That girl was a good sport though, posing with her "cousin" like that on her wedding day!!!

 

[Babbletrish]

strangest interaction: in 2001 on the way home (booooo) we were at MCO, and had just found our gate. The washroom was nearby, so off I went. As I am washing my hands, this lady who was at the sink by me says something along the lines of how flying makes her have to poop more often. Um....???? She then asked me if I have the same issues. ACK! strange!

You know... I do, let's say, digest better in the air. Must be something they put in the little ginger snap things.

Not at Disney, but I had a weird encounter at a local wild animal rehabilitation center (a park that houses and cares for injured animals and runs educational programs). There was a dude trying to "communicate" with the birds of prey:

Weird Guy: "CUCK-CUH-CUCK-CUH-CUCK-CUH-COOOORR!"
Birds: " "