Kids sometimes rule :)

[tabacco]

Okay, I have a stupid guest trick that happened to me while I was a guest as well. We took my grandparents to the resort for a weekend, and went to see Aladdin over at the Hyperion. Neither of my grandparents can walk well, so both were in ECVs and were using SAPs. We showed up at the Hyperion a good 30 mins. before showtime and since this was back whent he show was just a couple months old there were massive lines. The CMs decided it would be best to seat us in the rochestra section they keep reserved for WDTC guests, since they wanted all the capacity they could get.

The usher showed us some specific seats to sit in, in the second row from the back of the front section, stage left, in front of another family. Now, after watching my grandfather limp his way into his seat with the aid of a cane and my mother on his other arm, the woman behind leans forward and asks if he could move to another seat, because her daughter couldn't see. At this point, her daughter (I would guess ~8 yrs. old) says "Mom, it's okay, I can see just fine." The mother, though, then proceeds to make a huge deal about how these seats are for WDTC guests only and we shouldn't be sitting there. She even called over an usher to try to get us thrown out. He told her, in politer terms, to shut up because he'd put us there. She then just sat there sulking. Right about then, the daughter leaned forward and said to my grandfather: "It's okay, she doesn't know what she's talking about."

I think our whole family almost fell out of the seats laughing :)

And the funny thing is, through the whole incident, this woman never thought of switching seats with her own daughter to give her a better view, since she was sitting behind my sister, who's pretty short.

[Dante101]

I guess when kids rebel against their parents, it can take many forms.

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where we find out Flanders was the child of beatnicks...

[Max Fischer]

It is amazing how people can get ona rant and stick with it, and go down with it like the Titanic. People need to learn to chill the F out and relax, and most importantly take into consideration other people, and their needs. It would have been sweet to get on mic and have the spot light on that person and announce to the entire crowd how that lady wants to displace a whole family (including some with mobility issues) so her kid can get a better seat. And oh yah, her kid can see just fine....

Eesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And we wonder why some kids act like jackasses.... when they have parents like that, it is no wonder..

[coffeegirl9]

Yeah, I love it when kids are obviously so much better than their scummy parents. My favorite example of this is when you ask them how old their child is, and the parent replies "Oh, they're 7" (to get them in at the child's price) and the child then tugs on their parents' leg and goes "No Mom, I'm 11". The parent then usually either gives an embarassed laugh or overrides the kid, like they think they can get away with it if they talk loud enough.

[Polar33]

I will never forget the time where I met what was hands down the most well mannered child I have met to date. I was working a stadium vending cart that we had in the Fantasyland Theatre when Anamazement was playing (that was the best shift vendor imaginable BTW...in an entire eight hour shift you were onstage selling for maybe 2 hours including time it takes to walk to lunch. The rest of the shift was spent chillin' backstage).

It was a typical scene, guest control let in the mob, everybody fought to get a seat and then shortly after the families got settled people would start rushing the cart. Most kids just screamed their order over and over and waved money at me until I give them what they wanted. I was trying to help as many people as possible when I heard a little girl say in the sweetest voice, "Excuse me Mister, I would like one cotton candy please and that will be all." She handed me the money and I gave her the largest cotton candy I could find and then thanked her and told her to enjoy the show. Although I usually told everyone "Thank you, enjoy the show." as a standard courtesy, this was one of the few times I actually meant it.

Looking back I wish I would have just given her the cotton candy for free and had her go to her parents and tell them to keep doing a good job. We reward so much bad behavior, so why not reward the exceptional?

[tourbunny]

that reminds me of 2 very funny incidences:
1) this family came into dca lobby, mom, dad and the kids (maybe 7 &11)
dad asked for an sap. i gave it to him and while he was looking at it he spouted of some lame excuse about his knee hurting and stuff. on the way out one of the kids turned around and yelled " dad just got it because he does not want to stand in the 3 hour grizzly line. he lied to you" i told the kid that he can go to his parent and teach them something about honesty. dad turned around and boldly flipped my off. i yelled "same to you" and they left...

2) just happened today...
mom and child (maybe 9) came into the lobby. mom seriously asked for security concerning shoplifting. while we were waiting for the officer i got the reason for the delemma: the kid had taken something in the store, lied about it to the mom, mom found out and wanted to teach the kid a lesson. security came out, i explained and the officer did a good job in scaring the kid to pieces. GOOD PARENTING! i say

so we have good kids and good parents

[Guest Relations King]

That reminds me of a time when I was out at East Info in the Esplanade. A man returned a pair of new childrens sunglasses. He said: "We found them in the pocket of the jacket we bought for our daughter." I called stores, and those glasses set out at Info East for 4 days.

[tourbunny]

hey hey king. you're still alive... how the hell are ya???

[Space Man K7]

One thing I liked about working Greeter at Space or Thunder... The parents would argue with you that their child that was an inch too short for the 40" requirement rode Splash, or one of the other 40" rides.
That's when I'd usually get down on the kids level and ask, "did you like Splash mountain, and did you get wet?" Usually the kids would look me square in the eye and respond: "I didn't go on __________, I wasn't tall enought, but next year I will be!"

Interesting... I always loved those little snot nosed kids, they were the best!

[Thatguy]

reminds me of a precocious brittish child on the JC who asked it everything was real to which I asked what she thought... her response "I don't think so because those men on the pole would be awfully tired by now..." another one of those kids that make you enjoy working at DisCo