Rude People at DISNEY???
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| Tue, 06-26-2007 - 12:28pm |
What would you do in this situation???
I am lucky enough to live in Central Florida. I have a friend who had some OLD tickets and wanted to know if they were still usable, so I took them to the guest relations booth at DTD to find out. Granted it was taking a while, but not my fault, and any time I had been there in the past, there's never been a line. Well, this guy gets in line behind me, and after a few minutes, he comes up to me, interrupts the cast member I'm talking to and says, "Lady, how long are you going to take?" I was speechless for a second, and then smiled sweetly and said, "Until I'm done." How would I know how long it's going to take the cast member to figure out if these tickets can still be used??? To me, being rude at Disney seems sacrilegious. I guess some people have experienced that before, but I never have, and I've spent an unusual amount of time there! Anyway, all turned out well, because my friend can still use her tickets!
Blessings,
Maria

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Good for you! you sound like you handled that very well - I would have been totally dumbfounded.
How did the CM react - and the rude guy too?
Carole
Carole
I too thought you were talking about Disney CM!!!! I actually did have to say that although I have never experienced a rude CM at WDW, some of the servers at the Ohana Restaurant inside the Polynesian Resort really need to be better educated. I actually had to step in to answer questions from other tourists b/c they were totally ignorant about the Orlando area and they just simply walked away from the question!
Ruth in FL
Unfortunately there are rude people everywhere. And extra unfortunate is that Disney seems to bring out some sense of entitlement in even those people who could otherwise be the nicest people because 'darn it we paid good money to be here!'. It's worse when you see this attitude being taken out on kids. I agree you handled it well and I'm glad it didn't spoil your day. Hopefully mr impatient calmed down for the rest of the day - can't enjoy yourself if you're in a big hurry!
As for tickets - I'm sure you discovered, but for anyone else wondering - ALL old tickets can still be used, even the old lettered ticket books - or they can be turned in towards the current price of tickets, but their value is only what you paid for them which could not be much (You just won $20!!! what are you doing?! I'm going to Disney!!) So they are far more valuable as trade in ticket for ticket - example if you have 1 day left on an old hopper ticket you'd get a 1 day hopper. With the new system upgrades tickets purchased before 2005ish will not read in the ticket scanner so you'll have to go to Guest relations and get a new ticket. This can take some time (as the OP and Mr. Impatient discovered) since they have to be looked up manually.
I thought chicken pox was eradicated? My kids were like the last ones in their schools to get it, because the vaccine was offered the following year (around 1995-ish).
(I also thought you meant the CM was rude.)
In peace,
Max
No, not eradicated. Actually, even though the vaccine is "required" in most (if not all) states, you don't have to get your children ANY of the required vaccines. All you have to do is write a note that says, "I refuse to have my children vaccinated because..." (the reasons can vary from religion, to allergies, to autism in the family and many more).
Also, even with the vaccine, there's still a chance to get it. I have a friend whose son has it last month and had had the vaccine. There's also studies suggesting that the vaccine only lasts 10 years now, and they will soon be implementing a booster. In fact, the very thing I asked the ped. when Aly had hers was....what do the studies say about long-term effectiveness. Unfortunately, at that time (9½ years ago), research was showing that it would be a long-term thing.
However, I thought that once the rash/blisters appeared, that the child was no longer contagious. But then again, I'm definitely not in the medical practice. I had pox at 14 and caught them from my stepbrother's friend who broke out 2 weeks before I did (he was sleeping over at our house the weekend before and he broke out on Monday...I broke out exactly 2 weeks later).
Alysha
Yes, the contagious time is BEFORE the blisters appear.
Shingles is related to Chicken Pox. Four years ago, my youngest, who was 11 at the time, kept coming to me complaining that the side of her torso felt funny. It was just around the waistband area and a little above it, and just behind the side seam of her clothing, so I kept thinking that even though it wasn't exactly where the seams of her panties and jeans lay, that the irritation of her clothing were what was bothering her. For about 2 to 3 weeks she kept complaining. The she gets these red bumps that itched, and because it was summertime, I thought they were mosquito bites. She had clusters of them in a kind of band between her spine and hip, all along the waist area, so I thought it was strange that all her mosquito bites were clustered like that, so we went to the doc. It was a good thing that was one of the years dd didn't go to camp, she would have been contagious the whole time there! Two years later, when I had my first "mosquito bite" in the same area, I remembered what they were, but of course, it was too late to have known I was previously contagious. Thank goodness then, too, that I wasn't working at the Senior Community Center where I am now!
But people think that it's contagious when they can see the rash, so we were due to go on our family vacation with our best family friends, and I double-checked & triple-checked with my doctor who verified it. You're contagious before the rash appears! Even though the rash is unsightly and makes you think otherwise, although I know schools won't let them back until no more new blisters erupt. So when we were on vacay, thank goodness she had tank-style swimsuits that summer to cover them up; that and they were well on the way to healing.
And thank goodness that when dd & I had Shingles, we suffered barely more than if it had just been clusters of mosquito bites! Shingles can go deep into the nerves and cause severe pain, from what I hear.
So that family who took their kids to Disney were probably so glad that no new blisters appeared that they didn't cancel their trip! Can you imagine what they went through in the weeks that preceded it? I'm sure they got many other comments, stares, etc., throughout their trip. Not many visitors might know all these other detals. I for one would never have recognized a rash as Chicken Pox, just thought it was some skin disorder, I am so clueless sometimes!
In peace,
Max
Oh, I've heard horror stories about shingles.
Do you know if that is a "one-time" thing for the most part like chicken pox? (I know some people get chicken pox twice...I've even known a girl who had it 4 years in a row--the last year she had it, her mom sent her outside to play--never had it again.)
I was hoping there would be a vaccine for those who have had pox to prevent them from getting shingles, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
A co-worker (teacher) had shingles year before last. Poor thing had to wear overalls because pants bothered him. And this is a guy who never wears a polo...always "dresses up" oxford shirts, often wears a tie.
Alysha
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