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AIBU?

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To think that if you're an adult in Disney World... You really don't need to queue for autographs?

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MaryPoppinsPenguins · 30/01/2016 21:38

I had a conversation with a friend earlier about her upcoming holiday to Disney world. I've been a few times (with my young children and without) and she asked if she (a 30 year old!) should buy an autograph book... I laughed as I thought she was joking and said that there's so much more to do, and that it would be a waste of her time. I also said that although I would never dream of saying anything, when I've got in the queue for Mickey Mouse with my four year old, I always think it's a bit bizarre that there are at least ten childless adults in front of her.

My friend got offended... Which was not my intention!

AIBU?

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itsbetterthanabox · 31/01/2016 11:04

Yes ridiculous. The children believe it is the character they love, the real life one! So an autograph is special. Adults know it's a person dressed up. Why make kids wait so you can have something useless to you. It's like jointing the queue to meet Santa as an adult.
Tbh I find adults going to Disney without kids weird too but up to them.

DamedifYouDo · 31/01/2016 11:34

I really don't understand why adults do this. We went to Disney last year with dd 10 and ds 8. I didn't know anything about collecting autographs until a friend asked if we had bought books for the kids. DS has learning difficulties and wouldn't understand autographs at all but I asked dd if she wanted to take one to collect autographs and she looked at me as if I had gone mad and said "why would I want to do that it's not as if they are real!". I love my daughter!!!!

I think it's nice for little kids who want to do it and join in the fun but I find it an odd thing for adults to do especially the ones who push in front of the kids!!!

notonyurjellybellynelly · 31/01/2016 12:11

I'd love to go back to Disney World Florida but I have nobody to go with.

You can come with us. It me, my brother and sister in law, and my friend who lost both her mum and dad in the same week last year. Im hoping the magic will work wonders on her broken heart the way it did on mine. We'll be there in the second week of September and I mean it, you can tag along with us. We do self catering off site in a lovely apartment complex thats minutes from the parks. My sister in law is a bit of a Disney buff but the rest of us aren't so its not non stop disney talk.

And please dont think Im some kind of axe murderer offering you a holiday. The friend coming with us this year is a woman I met on an autism forum years ago, she was giving up smoking and wanted to spend her fag money on something so I said come and visit me in the ME. She did. And the day I picked her up at the airport 8 months later was the first time I'd set eyes on her (and her daughter). We'v been very close friends for about 14 years now.

As for the rides, my sister in law wont go on the scary ones and neither will my friend so they'll sit in the sun whilst me and my brother go on them. So you could do the same if you don't like the rides.

notonyurjellybellynelly · 31/01/2016 12:16

The pin badge collecting is cult like too. confusedblushbiscuit

Oh oh I have a lanyard with pins. But I don't do swaps or anything. Its just something thats very personal to me and the pins I have are mostly related to my late mum and the films we saw together when I was a wee girl and she'd take me and my sister to the pictures. Other ones are relevant to my children and grandchildren. I wear them in Disney, take them out of the drawer and enjoy them a couple of times between visits, and thats it.

notonyurjellybellynelly · 31/01/2016 12:21

I think it's nice for little kids who want to do it and join in the fun but I find it an odd thing for adults to do especially the ones who push in front of the kids!!!

Whats even worse is your 12 year old severely autistic son being pushed off a wall alongside a ride where he was having a rest because an able bodied bastard in the queue didn't like the grunting noises he was making due to his Tourette's. I was horrified and close to tears when it happened but so were other people and the next time I saw the guy he was in a bundle at the bottom of 5 stairs having been tripped up by someone in the crowd quite deliberately. People around him were cheering.

limitedperiodonly · 31/01/2016 13:46

What's the harm in getting an autograph? I wouldn't want one but I don't think people are weird or selfish for doing it.

I wouldn't be interested in a picture with a Disney character but I'd pose and smile if my friends or family wanted me to. It's a souvenir of the holiday.

And people talking about how the bloke in the Mickey suit is probably a sweaty, oppressed and resentful teenager. Well, maybe he's in the wrong job. I couldn't understand why people volunteered to be guides at the London Olympics, but when I went, all the guides were really proud to have been chosen and seemed genuinely to be having a great time.

I'd probably enjoy Disney but I don't like queueing for hours.

limitedperiodonly · 31/01/2016 13:50

Why make kids wait so you can have something useless to you.

It's a life lesson, not the last lifeboat off the Titanic.

PosieReturningParker · 31/01/2016 13:58

notonyurjellybellynelly Hey I'm not saying I didn't want one!!

LegoRuinedMyFinances · 31/01/2016 14:05

I can understand why adults go to Disney World without kids - its a good place to go and isn't all about the princesses (unless you want it to be).

I am not sure I'd queue four hours as an adult to meet another adult in a dress pretending to be a princess. I did queue with DD though but as a five year old she believes she met the real Cinderella.

BlueRaptor · 31/01/2016 14:21

notonyurjellybellynelly what a lovely offer to make, you sound like a great person.

Moving on, I absolutely adore Disney World DP and I went a couple of years ago just us, adults with no kids. Had the best holiday ever! I was very privileged to go often as a child and had incredible memories so really wanted to go as an adult before we have kids of our own and for DP to experience it. Loved it so much we're going back next year for three weeks as our honeymoon! We did queue for photos as that's part of the experience, as if we were going to fly all that way without a photo of Mickey Mouse! Autographs however were a step too far for me, I agree that's odd.

MetallicBeige · 31/01/2016 14:21

I know somebody who was a character at Disney. He is a trained dancer.
He loved it and has never said anything overly- negative about the 'customers'.
It's not just some teenager in a suit, it's quite a slick, tight organisation. They have to learn the autographs, signature moves etc. He told me some right stories, it sounds like a brilliant job to have when you're young, free and single.

Shakey15000 · 31/01/2016 14:36

sparkling I've been to Knotts Berry

Loved it. Ducked out of some of the scarier rides. Enjoyed the whole ambiance and our hotel was 10min walk away.

Elledouble · 31/01/2016 14:59

One of the first times I went to EuroDisney, we were queuing for Phantom Manor and there was a chap dressed up as the Grim Reaper . My dad said he reckoned that would be the best character to be because you wouldn't have to be nice to anyone!

AlpacaPicnic · 31/01/2016 15:07

Nobody 'needs' to queue for autographs but then nobody 'needs' to go on holiday at all.

I'm an adult who went to DW as a non parent. There are plenty of things you need to do as an adult - get jobs, pay bills and taxes, cook and clean - that are no fun at all, so once in a while it's nice to let your hair down and have fun. And everyone's idea of fun is different. So I'll have my fun, thank you.

PurplePotatoes · 31/01/2016 15:37

I guess it must have been an assistance dog although it didn't look like one, it was in Animal Kingdom. The character was a really random one that I didn't know, looked similar to Friar Tuck, not really dog related..

Sparklingbrook · 31/01/2016 15:46

yay Shakey Was it still Snoopy like when I went?

BolshierAryaStark · 31/01/2016 15:56

The 1st time we did DLP DD was 20 months, the amount of adults that met with my elbow as they attempted to push us out of the way for character photos/autographs was unbelievable, sad fuckers.

lilproblem · 31/01/2016 15:59

What? Is this even a thing?
A 30 year old?!

Is she known to be childish?

FlowersAndShit · 31/01/2016 16:09

notonyurjellybellynelly I would love to. Can I PM you?

NickiFury · 31/01/2016 16:17

I question the thought processes of a couple who spend more than £5k on a wedding.

People who go regularly for "beauty and spa treatments" befuddle me.

People who pay an absolute fortune to "get my colours done" then never stop going on about it are incomprehensible to me.

All things that are acceptable to many on here. Each to their own

Shakey15000 · 31/01/2016 17:17

sparkling Yes, still Snoopy themed and hideously priced beer

To think that if you're an adult in Disney World... You really don't need to queue for autographs?

Sparklingbrook · 31/01/2016 17:20

Oh Shakey that picture is fab.

Shakey15000 · 31/01/2016 17:28

Thanks

It was last Feb. DS was 7 so perfect age. We had a fantastic holiday all in all. Hoping to do Florida next year.

Sparklingbrook · 31/01/2016 17:30

There's not enough Snoopy in the world if you ask me. I was massively into him when I was little. I had a money box with him asleep on the top of his kennel.
We went to Mall of America and the indoor theme park was also Snoopy themed at the time.

Crazycatladynumber2 · 31/01/2016 18:06

I can't think of anything worse than Disney crap so Disney world is like my worst nightmare.
I know a couple who had their honeymoon at Disney. Every day they posted pics of themselves wearing bride & groom mouse ears and meeting the characters. It's not my kind of honeymoon at all, it's not romantic it's a holiday for kids. I think adults going on that type of holiday are weird.

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