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Orlando Accomplice
Orlando Anonymous | We unleash your darkest secrets
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In this episode, we're playing Agony Aunt with nearly 50 of YOUR anonymous Orlando stories - the wildest, funniest, and most unhinged things you've witnessed (or done 👀) at Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, and beyond.
From questionable behaviour in the Space Mountain queue to karma striking on Tower of Terror, entitled guests, baffling questions, and one hotel room incident at the Rosen Inn! This one gets rowdy.
Grab a drink (maybe not a £1.50 Co-op margarita though 🍹🤢) and settle in.
🎢 What we cover in this episode
🙊 Your Anonymous Orlando Stories
- The Space Mountain queue crime against humanity
- Karma on Tower of Terror
- The Planet Hollywood toilet disaster
- Chafing, baby powder, and an open window at the Rosen Inn
- The nanny whose bosses tried to ruin her Disney holiday
- The dad who wanted to "risk" the ride height requirement
- Guests who mixed up Universal and Disney entirely
- "When is Disney stopping the rain?"
- The monorail that never existed
- Foam sword pricing outrage (a very British complaint)
- Sushi scammers, toilet reservers, and Dole Whip drama
- TSA chaos, taxi driver standoffs, and more
🎙️ Housekeeping & New Toys
- Our new Supreme collab microphones
- Thermos Disney collection unboxing (full breakdown on Instagram)
- Colour grading this episode with Dehancer - discount link on our website & Instagram bio
📌 Why this episode is worth your time
If you love theme park guest stories, entitled tourist tales, or just want to feel better about your own most embarrassing Orlando moment, this episode has:
- Real anonymous stories from people who visit Disney World & Universal Orlando
- Cast member and team member heroes keeping their cool
- Karma. So much karma.
Want to submit YOUR story for the next one? The anonymous form is still open on our website - no names, no judgement (some judgement).
Thank you for watching / listening 🧡
Hello you glorious people and welcome to Orlando Accomplice. I'm Becca.
SPEAKER_04And I'm Jake, and today we are playing Agony Ant and we're doing Orlando Anonymous, which I've written the word anonymous about a hundred times.
SPEAKER_00Anon anonymous. I still can't say.
SPEAKER_04So we asked you guys on Instagram for your stories anonymously. So we forward you.
SPEAKER_00We're not gonna out you basically.
SPEAKER_04We forward you to forward you to a form on his website, and then you submitted your stories anonymously. We have 47 to go through, so we're probably not gonna go through them all.
SPEAKER_00But we this depends how long and short they are. I've not seen a single thing.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I kinda had a a not a little read, but I was looking through and trying not to read them at the same time whilst I was copying and pasting them into this duck that we read from. Um so yeah, the nature of this one it is going to be pretty rowdy based on some of the ones that I did see. Okay. So disclaimer alert. We do swear all these opinions on this podcast are our own and now they are other people who've submitted stories. So don't get offended. And we put this podcast out on YouTube and audio platforms. So if you're watching on YouTube, hello. And if you want to come and have a look at this nice, shiny setup, if you're an audio only listener, you can find us on YouTube, or vice versa, you can listen to us in the car on audio platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, all that good stuff. And whilst you're on them platforms, if you would give us a like, subscribe, follow, star rating, whatever it is on them platforms, it'd be very, very highly appreciated. We start all our podcasts with a beverage. We've been quite boring this week because we've been super busy, so we've not really had time to get a drink. So I picked up a £1.50 margarita from the co-op. So I'm gonna crack that open now.
SPEAKER_00And I super boring. I had some drinks last night, so I'm just I'm not hungover, I just don't quite fancy it. So I've got a coconut water for them electrolytes. Um I don't need to taste test this because I already know what it's like. It's nice.
SPEAKER_04It's warm, but it's it's warm.
SPEAKER_00You got it out of a fridge.
SPEAKER_04I know, but it's been sat there for a bit. Is that your belly? That's my belly, yeah. Wow. Um it's warm. It tastes like San Pellegrino, but it didn't even really taste like a margarita. Klag Central.
SPEAKER_00Here he goes again with the word clag. Smells very limey.
SPEAKER_04It didn't taste like a margarita.
SPEAKER_00That is the worst margarita I've ever tasted. That is like piss water.
SPEAKER_04It does taste like does it think it just tastes like a like a lemon drink?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it t yeah. Like um lemon cordial.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's yeah. Yeah, so yeah, that's co-op, sort your pre-mix cans out.
SPEAKER_04£1.50 for you've got to compete with the likes of MS.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, very good. And you that and that's what you bring into the table.
SPEAKER_04Also, on the topic of drinks, I'd like to give us a little shout out to Thermos for sending these over.
SPEAKER_00I went for the child's one.
SPEAKER_04I absolutely love this one. Like, I've been try we've been trying to keep that one in a box, but Becky lost a Yeti.
SPEAKER_00I know, I've lost my Yeti. Absolutely devastated. But anyway, this is about Thermos, not yet.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Um so we will do a full breakdown on Thermos on Instagram. So if you're not following us over there.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, this is the Disney collection.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Which I'm really really like the I know this episode isn't about Thermos, but I really like the design on this. I thought like, because we are quite like, we don't really like over-the-top Disney stuff, and I did think it was quite subtle.
SPEAKER_00Well, I picked this one just because I thought it fits in my park bag nicely. But we won't go into this too much because those of you that are listening will be highly annoyed at the fact that you can't see it.
SPEAKER_04So very true.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. But on that, we've got new microphones.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. We've got a lot of new stuff, so yeah, we'll kind of we'll just go in that a little bit. So new microphones. Yeah. So I've had these mics before, um, back in the day, um, in my past life, and I found that they were really hard to get the volume right, so I'm putting I mean I am kind of pushing them, so hopefully we sound superb.
SPEAKER_00Sound good.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. A nice little upgrade from those old mics. And if you are watching, they are the Supreme Collab, which we saw them rumoured maybe like two months ago, three months ago.
SPEAKER_00It was around the time that the Scream stuff was rumoured.
SPEAKER_04I think it was start of Feb, I think. So, yeah, longer than that. So I thought, well, what we're gonna upgrade anyway, so let's just wait for these. We managed to secure them.
SPEAKER_00They're just obviously Supreme colours, and they're not our brand colours, but they are sick, so yeah, really happy with them.
SPEAKER_04And then we got little hair hair from Alde. Yeah, £10 from Alde, middle aisle section.
SPEAKER_00So Yeah. My friend, my friend Maria came around last night and she was like, Oh, is this for the dog or for Sorry?
SPEAKER_04I think the alarm's going off of the unit.
SPEAKER_00Great. Pause, be able. Okay, we're back. Alarm sorted out.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I don't know what happened there.
SPEAKER_00That's the th the only issue with filming in like a a shed shed space. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Uh what was we talking about? Hey here. Oh, hey here, yeah. Middle aisle. Yeah. Pitches.
SPEAKER_00I think that's everything. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And then we are filming this in log, so we're gonna have to colour grade afterwards. So if it looks bab, it's our fault. But we'll be using Dehancer, which we did an Instagram video on to colour correct and colour grade. So if you want to go check them out, we have a discount link in our on our website and in our bio on Instagram. Yeah, so go check them guys out if you fancy learning about colour grading or if you're colour grading is cool. Wanna do some cool, cool like film simulation stuff. Um yeah, go check them guys out. They've got like a phone app as well, so you can use uh you can do it on like your stuff that you shoot on your phone. So you don't have to go super fancy with it. And then with that said, I think that is everything. All the pleasantries sorted.
SPEAKER_00Housekeeping done.
SPEAKER_04Housekeeping done.
SPEAKER_00Okay, right. So we asked you to give us your wildest, funniest, craziest, obscene stories that you've witnessed or been part of while you've been in Orlando. You have given us code names, we don't know who is who. So we don't know who submitted what.
SPEAKER_04So I say we because we've got 48 of them, I say we pick a number and then we'll go in.
SPEAKER_00No, because then we'll lose track of the number. So I just say we're going chronological order.
SPEAKER_04Chronological order.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, because if I say ten and then half an hour later you say ten.
SPEAKER_04Do I write you? Let's do it that way. Okay. Chronological order.
SPEAKER_00Or you can go in reverse order and go from the back.
SPEAKER_04Let's go. Let's go from the back. Okay. Yeah, from the bottom. Because the bottom one is a good thing.
SPEAKER_00The bottom one's crop dusting.
SPEAKER_04Right, so I did have to format these, so I did use AI to format them. And they've given like weird names for each of the stories, so we're just gonna have to. Oh, I thought that was the code name that people No, no, that's just that's just the random stuff that's come from the formatting.
SPEAKER_00Oh right, okay.
SPEAKER_04So but it does kind of give you an insight in the story, I guess. So should we Are you sure?
SPEAKER_00Because there was a box on the There was a box for code. It might I think it is.
SPEAKER_04It might be.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04But some of them I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Right, we're gonna read them out anyway.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. So this one.
SPEAKER_01I once cropped No No, you've already read it wrong.
SPEAKER_04Right. I can't read for a start. I once crop dusted.
SPEAKER_01There's no eye in that.
SPEAKER_04Okay. But it'd make sense if I drop a.
SPEAKER_00Once crop dusted a few times in the queue of Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom and turned around to see a little kid stood behind me horrified and looking at me in disgust.
SPEAKER_04So I didn't actually know what crop dusted and borders me until until uh this question. So I had to Google it and I was What did Google say? It was like passing wind while someone is following you or something. But yeah, that's that's a nice uh nice start.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god, you you savage. That's an enclosed space.
SPEAKER_04Do you want to read the next one?
SPEAKER_00No, I read that when you go.
SPEAKER_04On the way into my hotel, the security asked the taxi driver for his reg.
SPEAKER_00The driver I've not read the title. This guy, man, taxi driver versus security.
SPEAKER_04Alright, oh you want me to read them out? Yeah, alright, I will. So on the way to my hotel, the security asked me, asked the taxi driver for his reg. The driver point blank refused and told him to take his ass. This is c in quotes, take his ass to the back of the car, read the reg yourself. This went on for legitimately five minutes and they were nearly fighting. Security ended up just reading the reg like a good boy.
SPEAKER_00Well, that taxi driver had uh his Nicazina twist that day.
SPEAKER_04I mean it does don't help the fact that they're only on the back. The registration.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, I like that though, it makes the cars look a lot cleaner. It does. Okay, then the next one is Sushi Scamba. I'm convinced these are the names people have put in for the title of the story.
SPEAKER_04Maybe then you.
SPEAKER_00God, he's the one that coded this and he doesn't even know. Right. I used to work in a hotel and this one still makes me laugh. Three women came into the sushi restaurant saying they'd had food poisoning from a roll they'd eaten the day before. Their solution? They wanted another one for free. The funniest bit was that they ate every single bite without any problems, didn't even leave a tip, and walked straight out. If your scam involves ordering the exact same thing that supposedly made you ill, maybe have another think.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER_00They're balls of some people. Well, I'm guessing did they get one for free?
SPEAKER_04Well, yeah, it said they ate every single bite without any problems. Was that the night before, maybe? Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Maybe.
SPEAKER_04Right, next one. So you can plan, but sometimes the universe screws with you anyway.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04I'd organised a moving van weeks in advance because we were uh relocating. Turned up on the date and I got told that I was banned from renting because my husband supposedly owned money from years ago. Except it wasn't even him. They suggested I paid someone else's They suggested I just paid someone else's debt to make it easier. I refused, booked with another company instead when I got and when I got there, they admitted they didn't actually have a van for me. To top it off, they later charged me for no show fee. Honestly, if I haven't lived through it myself, I wouldn't have believed it. That is crazy. And I don't think that is well, it could just be down to Orlando showing.
SPEAKER_00Well I've yeah, like I've heard other things about removal companies in Orlando and you've got to be really.
SPEAKER_04I can't remember who was who it was that we were.
SPEAKER_00It was a YouTube video of somebody that relocated to Orlando from the the UK and they'd moved house while they got in there and then they used the a rental company and yeah, because the first one was shocking, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_03And they wouldn't even bring stuff inside. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So if you're moving into Orlando, maybe be a bit um picky with your rental company.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Behind every wrong customer is a long-suffering wife. Okay. I was waiting at the ticket window while this bloke tried getting a replacement annual pass for his son. The employer kept asking the pass holder's name, but the guy kept giving the name of whoever had paid for it instead. They went around in circles for what felt like ages until his wife eventually stepped in from the back and gave the correct name. The cast member looked so relieved you could tell she'd dealt with this sort of thing a hundred times before.
SPEAKER_04This feels like me and you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I was as I was reading that, I was thinking that, why why are you like this?
SPEAKER_04I don't know, especially when you're from England and you go into the state, and especially when you've got such a broad Yorkshire accent like me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but I'm the one misinterpreting what they're saying. And we're all stood in the background going, this is a simple question.
SPEAKER_04Because you panic, and I I always have about a million things going round my head at once, anyway. So yeah, I fully understand that story.
SPEAKER_00Alright.
SPEAKER_04What number are we?
SPEAKER_0042.
SPEAKER_0442. Not quite the ride you were expecting. My uncle's a veteran, and I was pushing his wheelchair through the longer queues when a woman behind me suddenly offered to push him instead. Buzzing. We thanked her, but we said we were fine. She kept insisting because she wanted the honour of helping the veteran and actually re and actually reached for the wheelchair handles. In the end I had to say, That's my uncle, I don't even know you. She looked really embarrassed and quietly disappeared back into the queue. Still one of the strangest interactions I've ever had. Yeah, that's quite odd.
SPEAKER_00That's quite odd, I'll give you that.
SPEAKER_04But to be fair, you American guys love the armed forces, don't you? Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And like the veterans are, you know, celebrated a lot more over there. Um, but still you'd just say thank you for your your service.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I don't think I'd be like, Let me push you and need to push you. Okay, next one. Knowing how tick tickets work is the ticket. I was d stood behind this woman at the will call window. Is that what they're called?
SPEAKER_04We s we always say what is will call, don't we?
SPEAKER_00No. I've never heard that.
SPEAKER_04You know in Islands of Adventure, they're on the right hand side, and they always say, What is will call? And I still don't know what it is. So if you guys know what will call is, let me know.
SPEAKER_00I think that's just what these windows are called. You know the window that they sit behind and you talk to them and get your tickets. Well you used to do.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but I f I feel like the will call I don't know. Anyway.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. I was stood behind this woman at the will call window, and the whole conversation felt like watching someone argue with Google Maps. She held her phone up and asked, This is my ticket. And the cast member smiled and said, Yes. Then she asked, What she was supposed to do next. He said, You can head into the park.
SPEAKER_04That's what you think it does.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. For some reason, that really annoyed her, and she started accusing him of being rude. She walked off muttering to herself while the rest of us just looked at each other, wondering what we'd missed.
SPEAKER_04That is bonkers. But like some of the we're talking about today actually. Some of the questions like on YouTube on the Facebook groups are absolutely crazy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Like, is it hot in Orlando?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's the question I see.
SPEAKER_04Someone said that they saw one earlier and it was like Um my son has got some illness or whatever. He could die if he's too hot. So why is it? She's booked to go to the house. In August, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_04Crazy. Right, uh next one. From I'm being nice to something very different.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04I was having breakfast on holiday when my husband popped up to get another coffee. A random bloke sat himself in his chair and started chatting to me despite loads of empty tables. I told him I wasn't interested, but he kept going. Another guest stepped in and told him to leave me alone, at which point she's he started shouting abuse and wandered off. Later the staff told us that he was well known for doing it and had been causing problems for ages. I wonder where that is.
SPEAKER_00Probably on iDrive.
SPEAKER_04Probably, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I've had incidents on iDrive with strange men.
SPEAKER_04Which seems to be the common consensus.
SPEAKER_00I'm quite scared of iDrive. Like I don't I don't feel safe. If if I was on my own on iDrive, I don't think I'd feel safe. Um that's quite odd, and why is he not being banned from the hotel if he if he's known for doing it?
SPEAKER_04That's why I reckon it's an iDrive thing. Yeah. Just wandering up the street. And that's the beauty of the parks, getting it, because like they are so safe.
SPEAKER_00Well, the safety precautions are a lot better. Uh next one then. A lot to unpack about her packing methods. Is this gonna expose somebody's partner? Right. I always load the conveyor belt in order of what I want things packing because it just makes life easier. Oh, right, when you're at the supermarket. Okay. The cashier clearly had other ideas. Every time I tried helping, she practically snatched the bags back off me. I got home to discover frozen food packed with cleaning products, bread underneath bottles, wow, shampoo mixed with fruit. I know it's not exactly life-changing, but it really wound me up. I'm with you.
SPEAKER_04My mum always used to have like a separate bag for our cleaning products. Yes, in case they leak. And every time the first thing she did, she'd come home, she'd bring all the shopping in, and she'd put the shop the bag at the bottom of the stairs because the cleaning stuff will go upstairs every time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and it's just easier. That's why like I put literally like this person, all the fridge stuff goes on and it goes in one bag, all the cupboard stuff goes in another bag. Your bread and your eggs go on top. This guy would be putting the bread at the bottom. When we are at the self-service, I'm just like, leave me alone.
SPEAKER_04I do, I do, I know my place now though.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but I I did work in customer service for like seven years, so like I don't know how to pack a bag.
SPEAKER_04You do. Yeah, you're very good at packing a bag. Which I did pick up some tips from you.
SPEAKER_00What? Like not putting the bread at the bottom.
SPEAKER_04Neatly put the bottles in the in the side, like in the corners of the bag.
SPEAKER_00To hold it up.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Do that every time now.
SPEAKER_00Depends on your bag, but anyway, we're not going into that.
SPEAKER_04Okay, this next one.
SPEAKER_00Boring.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, from one extreme to the other, really. Never pick a fight with an old Korean woman. Okay. I used to help an eld elderly Korean Korean lady with her shopping every week, so I'm guessing this person works out in Orlando at the supermarket.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_04One day some bloke bumped into our trolley, dropped a tin of soup, and somehow decided it was my fault.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_04Before I even had a chance to respond, this tiny grandmother grabbed him by the ear and started shouting at him in Korean. No idea what she said. But whatever it were whatever it was, it worked because he apologised and disappeared. I think that would have just been if a Korean lady was screaming at me in whatever language, I would have been scared.
SPEAKER_00If somebody's grabbing me by the ear, I'd be scared.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, very true. She then carried on reading her shopping list like nothing actually ever happened.
SPEAKER_00Wow. I mean, like, if somebody's grabbing you by the ear, that is very like grandmother behaviour.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, she told him. Okay. We hope none of that guy's dreams ever come true.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Okay. My fiance is my fiance's little brother is deaf, and we also have a service dog with us. A toddler tried stroking the dog, so I politely explained she was working. A few minutes later, the girl's dad came charging over, shouting abuse at me, then started having a go at my little brother-in-law, too. Security were there within minutes and it escorted the whole family out. I still can't believe how quickly something so small turned into such a massive scene.
SPEAKER_04Some people do just get super irate out there, don't they?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the weather, the dehydration, the you know, so much going on around you. But that is just like just compose yourself a little bit. One, it's a service dog. Yeah. Two, it's not your dog.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Not your dog.
SPEAKER_00Not your dog. Inside joke. Um yeah, yeah, just go up and touch somebody's dog, whether it's a service dog or not.
SPEAKER_04Like, yeah, very true. And the fact that this guy's this is this girl's dad's kicked off about that. She's not gonna learn the fact that she wasn't spinning.
SPEAKER_00Well, he uh clearly hasn't learned. The customer service soul sucking is universal. Is that a play on words?
SPEAKER_04Maybe. You you missed one. Oh, did I? Yeah. Which is also a play on words. Okay, I'll go for this one.
SPEAKER_00So giving the new meaning to taking the Mickey. I can do a surprisingly decent Mickey and Donald impression, which was probably a mistake. Every time we were near, waiting near a character meet, I would quietly quietly throw in the hi, pal.
SPEAKER_04We do that all the time, don't we, to be fair?
SPEAKER_00And watch all the kids start looking around to trying to find me. That's so mean. My own children thought it was the funniest thing ever and kept encouraging me. Looking back, I was probably the villain in someone else's.
SPEAKER_04There's gonna be some angry parent there, in there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's funny.
SPEAKER_04Planet's Hollywood toilet. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Oh dear.
SPEAKER_04The summer of 2018 or 2019. We were in Disney Springs and we went to Planet Hollywood for food. Meal was lovely, but afterwards I desperately needed the toilet. Being there. I used a bit too much toilet paper. OCD problems flushed, but the toilet started overflowing. Within seconds, the whole bathroom was flooded. I washed my hands and got out as quickly as I could. Walked out trying to look completely normal, grabbed my mum and whispered, We need to leave now. I've never left a restaurant so quickly in my life.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you'd be morlified. Oh my god. I hope you got out there unscathed.
SPEAKER_04I bet you're scarred every time you walk past Planet Hollywood.
SPEAKER_00I was going to say have you ever been back to Planet Hollywood since?
SPEAKER_04And I feel like even us listening to these stories, I feel like it's gonna put two and two together when we're out there.
SPEAKER_00What do you mean?
SPEAKER_04Like I feel like when I walk past Planet Hollywood, I'm gonna think. Oh yeah that's what I'm gonna do.
SPEAKER_00Um Wow, okay. Baby powder slash chafing. The time we had done the time we had done about 30k steps and my lad, naming no names, but it begins with a D and rhymes with bean had proper chub rub when his legs met his lower back.
SPEAKER_04This story sounds exactly like me since he doesn't have an ass.
SPEAKER_00Anyway, I had a fantastic idea to fix the chafing with some Johnson's baby talc. There's no dignifying way to do it, so he's laying on the bed with his legs a kimbo while stum talking his ass.
SPEAKER_01Only for us to realise we'd forgotten to show the blind. Everyone walking past the rooms and in got a full show. This still haunts me.
SPEAKER_04That is so funny.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, and if you're on a ground floor as well, oh that's hilarious. I do remember that stuck in his asshole!
SPEAKER_04Was the Tekka just like throwing the bottle this way? Oh that's funny.
SPEAKER_01That's great. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Alright, next one.
SPEAKER_01Moving on. Never gonna be able to look at the Rosen in the store.
SPEAKER_04Maybe that's why the rooms are so cheap, you get a show of it. To be fair, that's probably not the worst thing that someone's seeing at Rosenin.
SPEAKER_01Oh right, anywho.
SPEAKER_04Why have Why have kids I if you hate spending time with them? My mum works as a nanny and I had book time off so we could all go to Disney together. Complete by chance, the family that she works for turned up at the same park and expected her to take the kids for the day. Oh because they'd had something come up. That is so rank.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, rank? I've not heard that word in the world.
SPEAKER_04I was trying to think of another word that wasn't like very aggressive. She laughed because she thought she were joking, they weren't. She politely told them she was on holiday and they might actually have to spend time with their own children. I wonder if she got fired. Fair play to her. Yeah, fair play to her. She smudged it.
SPEAKER_00I mean, the theme park nannies are a thing.
SPEAKER_04I can't believe how much of a I've seen a fair few of them on Instagram, to be fair.
SPEAKER_00I mean, yeah, if you're working and your kids want to go to the theme park, like because there's like her pairs, obviously.
SPEAKER_04And they live in people's houses, don't they?
SPEAKER_00But still, it was that woman's holiday.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, exactly. That's entitlement. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00But very true about the title, Wive Kids if you don't want to spend time with them.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, exactly. Probably true.
SPEAKER_00What would like Or did they just locate where she was, drive there, dump the kids and then fuck off back home? Maybe. That's savage.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, maybe. Yeah, that's tight.
SPEAKER_00Right. About to start a food feud. It was absolute chaos at lunchtime, and the quick service place was packed. Give us details, people. What quick service was this? This bloke had only been waiting about five minutes before he started banging his fists on the counter, asking where his food was. Everyone just went quiet. The staff got his order out quickly as they could, and he stomped off looking well pleased with himself, only to realise there wasn't a single table free. Ah. He ended up standing in the middle of the restaurant eating his chips while everyone watched. Oh, I can just see his face going bright red. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04That's yeah, that's savage.
SPEAKER_00That's karma that.
SPEAKER_04Right, next one. Tower of Terror. In line for Tower of Terror. In line for Tower of Terror, really rowdy guy pushed his way through the little crowd in the lobby because he was desperate to get on first. He kept huffing because the ride loading was taking too long. Anyway, our group ended up in the same lift as him. Ride was incredible, one of the best sequences I ever had. Then halfway through, splat, the bloke had thrown up everywhere. We saw him later walking around looking absolutely green. Karma works in mysterious ways.
SPEAKER_00It does indeed. However, at what point in that ride did he throw up? Because he if he throws up, well, you're going down.
SPEAKER_04He's going up.
SPEAKER_00Oh, and I hope it were on the floor and not like just projectile vomited out in front of him.
SPEAKER_02Wow.
SPEAKER_00Wow. Yeah, karma again. Right. Security works best when you use your whole brain.
SPEAKER_04Very true.
SPEAKER_00I've always travelled using my middle name and never had a single issue. Then one trip, TSA I hate TSA. Only because I'm traumatized for the last time. Then one trip. Hold on, I can't read now. Then one trip a TSA agent suddenly decided my boarding pass didn't match my ID because my full name was on one but not the other. I got sent all the way back to the airline desk where they couldn't understand why I'd been sent there in the first place. Twenty minutes later I went back through and a different TSA officer waved me through without even blinking. Completely pointless.
SPEAKER_04It does baffle me sometimes how like in coming from England it's super strict to get over there, isn't it? But like flying domestically, is it?
SPEAKER_00Domestics like inside the country.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. So flying domestically from one state to the other.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04You guys seem to have a super easy ride, but that yeah, that's that's annoying that.
SPEAKER_00I mean the TSA in Orlando is in my opinion, way behind Manchester and Heathrow.
SPEAKER_04I think that's the case in America anyway, probably.
SPEAKER_00The fact that like, you know, we can leave everything in our bags now.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Because we've got that technology that just scans everything. But yeah, and it's just I know they're working to improve it and Terminal C is like huge.
SPEAKER_04I feel like it's a lot of manpower in America compared to we've got quite a lot of technology now that's does it for us, don't we?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Which I guess it's one of them like do you trust people's judgment more than technology. Right. The real superheroes have the power of extreme patience.
SPEAKER_00I am not one of them.
SPEAKER_04My cousin used to work in the parks and said this happened almost every single day. Someone would ask, what time does two two o'clock parade start? She'd tell them, two o'clock. And they'd just stare back looking confused. Apparently, some people generally think that that's just the name of the parade. I don't know how the keep the staff keeps a straight face.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, honestly, I ain't got the patience for that kind of yeah. I'd like to Are you is that a real question? Okay. Waving at someone who wasn't waving at you. You do this all the time. You do this all the time.
SPEAKER_04But wave at someone who won't wave at me.
SPEAKER_00Well, or you like think you've seen someone and you're like, oh no.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Yeah, I do that all the time too.
SPEAKER_00My wife's deaf, so we signed to each other all the time without really thinking about it. We were sitting having ice cream when I signed over asking what flavour she wanted next. A woman on the table next, on the next table, suddenly snapped at me, asking why I was talking to her. I pointed at my wife who gave her a little wave, and the woman just stood looked horrified and walked off without saying another word. This still makes us laugh now. So I'm guessing that she was riding your sign language. Another toilet one.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Another airport one. Airport toilet. I was having a piss in the toilets at the airport, and a man next to me was screaming in pain whilst forcing his piss out.
SPEAKER_01Oh. That's what you need. Probably go get that checked out.
SPEAKER_04The child is too short and the dad is too short. Oh, true. I had a Gideon's one night.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_04I had a Gideon's one night and aggressively shut the whole world out of my ass for several hours in the middle of the night in my apartment.
SPEAKER_00I was not expecting that. Took a drink at the wrong time. No way. I've never heard of somebody shitting themselves from eating Gideon's.
SPEAKER_04Not Gideons, no. Like I've got that fucking stupid nasty bug off after Polite Pig.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but you didn't get it. You didn't get it because of Polite Pig.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, I didn't, but I thought I didn't.
SPEAKER_00There was an awful like bug were going round. Yeah, hotels and yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It wasn't because of no. You've ate Gideon's hundreds of times since then. Yeah. Right. The child is too short and the dad is too short-tempered. Er We were behind this family when their little one got stopped at the height check. The ride operator couldn't have been nicer about it and explained the child swap straight away. But the dad completely lost his head. He was swearing in front of his own kids and everyone else in the queue. We thought that was the end of it until he came back and actually tried to punch the ride operator. He missed, put his fist through the wall instead, then got wrestled to the to the floor by two guests before security arrived. Absolutely mental.
SPEAKER_04That's crazy.
SPEAKER_00Wow.
SPEAKER_04Like you do see them videos on YouTube, don't you?
SPEAKER_00I watch them all the time of like people being people being banned from Disney and Universal. It's like body cam police footage. Yes. I find them so entertaining.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um the heat gets to you, but like wow.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, just use your brain.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I think it like, especially in England, well, like we well, we watched that police cam thing that time, didn't we? And that guy, that British guy that got removed from Cabana Bay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04But like, if you get put on a register or something like that.
SPEAKER_00Well you're never going back in the country again. No. Oh, because he was being loud in the lobby and wouldn't leave, and then he assaulted an officer, I think.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_00Too many margaritas.
SPEAKER_04I just remember him telling his missus to fuck off. Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god.
SPEAKER_04Right, er really some that way.
SPEAKER_00Twenty.
SPEAKER_04One track mind. We were actually flying through these, to be fair. We were outside one of the Disney resorts when a woman marched over asking where the monorail was. The cast member politely explained that there was there wasn't one there. But she insisted she arrived on it.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04After a couple of minutes I'm guessing she I don't know anyway. After a couple of minutes he asked if she'd maybe come on the bus instead. But you literally couldn't you literally could see the penny drop. Instead of laughing it off, she just got angrier and walked away.
SPEAKER_00Right, so this woman's arrived at the resort on the bus, but called it the monorail. Yeah. Oh right, okay. I mean they look very different.
SPEAKER_04One is on a monorail.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Don't tell me that's the only reason that you it's called you think you didn't know that was because it's called the monorail.
unknownI didn't know that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. I didn't even it's just not like a Disney TM.
SPEAKER_00No, I know, I know, I know. But light bulb.
SPEAKER_04Everyone's learning on this box.
SPEAKER_00I know. Wow. Uh where are we now? 19. 19. When the locker area is wider than the roller coaster, there was a bloke at the ride lockers who kept leaving his backpack on top instead of putting it inside.
SPEAKER_02Wow.
SPEAKER_00Staff removed it for security reasons and explained why, but he went absolutely spare. Then he did exactly the same thing. How many times is he going on this ride? Exactly the same thing again. By the time he came off the ride, there were supervisors and security waiting for him because he'd not ignored every warning. You'd think he'd have learnt after the first time. So I'm guessing he got a scored out of the park for that. Because well, it's yeah, security risk, in it. But like, how many times is he going on this ride? And what ride is it?
SPEAKER_04I'm trying to think of where you could put your bag on.
SPEAKER_00I think Hulk. Can you put them on top of him in Hulk? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I always, there's always people booting off at Hulk. Because they're like, well, I I don't want to put it in a locker. Like it always seems to be outside Hulk.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. It's like they're just it's done, it takes two seconds to put it in the locker.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Right. Those imagineers have their work cut out for them. It started raining while we were buying tickets, and the woman next to us genuinely asked if it was raining inside the park as well. Okay. The guy on bo on the guy on the booth said yes, because it's outside. She then asked when Disney are planning on stopping the rain. When he explained they couldn't control the weather, she turned to her friend and said they should have gone to Disney instead. Should have gone to Disney instead. I don't think she realizes realised where she already was. What the heck?
SPEAKER_04Wow.
SPEAKER_00Maybe she'd been to like is it Tokyo or Japan where it's like built inside mainly?
SPEAKER_04Maybe. Yeah, she might have come from there, maybe.
SPEAKER_00Maybe.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_00Thermodynamics. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like, yeah, Chat GPT's done you there.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Uh the woman in front of me wanted a bottle of cold uh bottle of water ice cold. Guessing out of them buckets of ice cold.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04The employee reached right to the bottom of the fridge and gave her one that was basically frozen solid. She looked she looked at it and said, I can't drink this. He then shrugged and replied, Well, not while it's frozen. She immediately demanded a manager for me. I still think about that exchange more than I probably should. That is crazy.
SPEAKER_00Give it five seconds, babe.
SPEAKER_04Actually, walk outside for two seconds, it's it's in it.
SPEAKER_00I remember the first time I got a door whip and it was streaming down my hands within 30 seconds. No exaggeration.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Some people are so entitled and you you realise when you're in the park. Yeah, you do. Okay, where are we now? Shut up and save your money. My friend works as a travel agent and told me this one. A customer kept refusing a discount for absolutely no reason. Okay. So he asked her to repeat, I don't want you to save me money.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00She actually said it. Her partner overheard and basically asked if she'd lost the plot. Once she finally listened to the offer, she saved a few hundred quid. Funny how quickly she can change her mind. Why would you refuse?
SPEAKER_04That's crazy. Maybe she thought it was gonna be too complicated if she tried to get it.
SPEAKER_00Or maybe she thought it was like some scam. What are they called? Pyramid schemes, eh? Yeah, pyramid schemes. There's a term for them, isn't there? Is that?
SPEAKER_04Maybe not. Pyramid scheme, but just a the term.
SPEAKER_00Oh, we've got one of our small worlds.
SPEAKER_04It's a small world after all, an even smaller stall. I guess it's more toilet humour. I finally got to the front of the queue for the toilets after waiting for what felt like forever. I'd barely sat down when someone started hammering on the door saying she'd left the bag it her bag in there. Turns out she put the jacket and the handbag in the cubicle then wandered off because she thought that reserved it.
SPEAKER_01It's not a sun lounger.
SPEAKER_04I handed her stuff back and honestly couldn't be bothered arguing. But who reserves a public toilet?
SPEAKER_00In it? Wow. And what were you doing? Just go in and do your business. Like, why did you need to reserve it? Reserve it for what? Where were you going? Is that your private toilet for the day? A long time ago, in a restaurant far, far away, we were eating at Space 220 when my dad on the next table asked how they'd managed to keep the gravity working inside the restaurant. At first, the server played along, but then realised he was being completely serious. His teenage son looked absolutely mortified and asked him if he thought it thought Sleeping Beauty was actually sleeping as well. I've never seen someone go so quiet so quickly.
SPEAKER_04But then we've just heard like really bad reviews from it. Maybe we should try it.
SPEAKER_00There's so many places to eat though. Like, this is what I mean. I get very angry, not angry, I get so sad when I've had a bad meal or a bad snack because you only get so many snacks and meals in a two-week holiday. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. No Mickey here, but Groom might be free for a selfie. Right, I like where this is going. We literally just worked into Universal when walked into Universal when the family in matching Disney t-shirts asked a staff member, a team member, what time the Mickey parade was. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00How can you purchase tickets? Like, you're not on all the marketing, there's not a picture of a mouse anywhere.
SPEAKER_04Exactly. Unless they bought one of them combo tickets that's probably got like this will definitely have Mickey on it. He politely explained they were actually at Universal, but they still kept asking where Cinderella Castle was. Oh god. The dad even said, Are you basically the same place?
SPEAKER_00Just point them at Hogwarts and you're done.
SPEAKER_04It generally took them a few minutes before they realised they'd mixed the parks up. Some people don't even realise that they mix the parks up.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Wow. We charge extra for lasting impressions. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Very true.
SPEAKER_00I was in one of the gift shops when this book started kicking off over one of those foam swords. Right. Because it was about $20. He kept saying he could buy the same thing at the pound shop back home. Definitely British. The employee just smiled and said, You're paying for the memories without missing a beat. He replied, The only memory I'll have is ripping is being ripped off. Fair play, everyone nearby was trying not to laugh.
SPEAKER_04That is definitely a Yorkshire guy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely definitely an Orvener. Oh, that's funny.
SPEAKER_04Use your head over heels. As we walked into the park, the employer was telling everyone they probably end up doing 25 to 30k steps and that the shops sold comfy shoes if anyone needed them. I'm guessing like Crocs and stuff, aren't they, in Disney Parks. This woman wearing massive heels, oh my god, took it really personally. She kept insisting she walk more than that every day and waved her Apple Watch around like she was proving a point. We actually saw her later in the afternoon crying a shopping bag with a new pair of trainers.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, heels and heat, no.
SPEAKER_04We do say that though, and we when you do s you do sometimes see people in heels, but to be fair, they've been like probably been to the hotel and like it's probably in a few years.
SPEAKER_00A conference or something, yeah. Like at fairs, if you're having a nice, nice date night and you're going to Disney Springs, put your little heels on. But I am not going to Magic Kingdom in a pair of heels. Never mind kitten heels. Right. The multiverse of mild disapproval.
SPEAKER_02Nice.
SPEAKER_00I collect Funko Pops, so this really made me laugh. This guy asked the employ asked an employee if he was allowed to put Marvel and DC figures on the shit same show. At home. Oh bless it. Um, she laughed and said, Of course he could. Then he asked Ferva whether Star Wars and Star Trek could go together as well. She just looked at him for a second and went, Where are you? Or what are you? A monster. Fair play. I laughed. Oh, that's cute.
SPEAKER_04They can't go on the same shelf, though.
SPEAKER_00Well, you've put heihe next to the manor and oh yeah, I've done it, do you really? Yeah, you have.
SPEAKER_04I tried to keep the shelves all It needs to be uh one community.
SPEAKER_00Yes, it does.
SPEAKER_03So we've got his name, Nick Wilde and Mickey there.
SPEAKER_00You that's again your your stupid placement.
SPEAKER_03See, that's both Disney though, innit? Yeah, that's good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well we've got Harry Potter, Loki stuff here, then epic stuff was there, and now here he's infiltrated.
SPEAKER_04Where were we? Um We were at guest services and this bloke was absolutely unloading on this cast member because he'd been told he couldn't fit safely on a couple of rides. Fair enough. As in fair enough, you shouldn't be able to go on if you can't get on. Yeah. She stayed unbelievably calm the whole time. After he'd finally finished shouting, she smiled and said, Have a great day. My husband leaved over and whispered, Isn't it supposed to have a magical day?
SPEAKER_00And we both agreed she'd definitely chosen the words on purpose. Cast members are funny. But they do a good job at keeping the cool. I I just have to walk away.
SPEAKER_04I was listening to a podcast and they were saying about if you wanted to do the VIP tours at Disney and you've got to do like six years of being customer facing in like the other you gotta do the shitty jobs first.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04Which well.
SPEAKER_00Um clear aisles clouded judgment. I've got a service dog and was waiting outside the toilets whilst my mum was inside. I took I was tucked right over to one side, but this woman pushed her trolley right up to me and just stopped. There was loads of room to go around. I even said, could she go around me? And she replied, Yes, I can, but still stood there staring. Some people man. Then she started telling me that she had a disability too before muttering something about me living off benefits as she finally walked away. I actually work full-time, but cheers. Some people like Wow. Yeah you do meet people from all lots of lives in these feedback.
SPEAKER_04Unrealistic demands have passed a tipping point. I watched a guy return a stroller because he said it kept tipping backwards all day. Turns out he'd hung about 50 shopping bags off the handles without anyone actually sitting in it. Fuck idiot. The employee explained why it had happened. Physics, my friend. The employee explained why this had happened and he started calling her useless. She just looked at him and asked if he wanted her to explain how a CISA worked. I nearly laughed out loud. No refund, surprisingly. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Well, well. Uh too tall in order. We were ne we were then we were next to a family at one of the bigger coasters, and their little boy was nowhere near the height requirement. Oh, he's got him when you do see the kids so excited, but it's safe, safety.
SPEAKER_04So when I used to work, we've put cardboard in his kids' shoes.
SPEAKER_00That's just dangerous, man. So they can actually fit in the restraint proper. Uh the ride operator was actually really nice about it and explained child swap, but the dad kept arguing. At one point, he genuinely said, We'll risk it. No. Your kid's life.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no.
SPEAKER_00Which is probably the worst thing you can say. His wife looked so embarrassed and eventually just took the child swap option, felt sorry for the staff member more than anyone. I feel sorry for the wife.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she would have been super embarrassed when you're not.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I'll risk it, you know.
SPEAKER_04As if they were just gonna be like, alright, yeah, sound.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Right. It's not the parents' discretion there.
SPEAKER_04No. Whipping up a problem. I was waiting for a dole whip. Wait, uh This is one that I read when I put it in the thing.
SPEAKER_00Oh, right, okay.
SPEAKER_04I was waiting for a dole whip when the woman in front of me started arguing because she wanted a pineapple one, but claimed that she was allergic to pineapple. The lad serving her kept explaining their premix and offered her vanilla instead.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04But she wasn't having any of it. Eventually someone else came over, handed her a vanilla one anyway, and suddenly that was acceptable. She woke she walked off glaring at everyone like she'd won some massive battle. Wow.
SPEAKER_00But hang on. She wanted a pineapple but she's allergic to pineapple. Yeah. Why is that the cast member's problem?
SPEAKER_04Exactly. So she obviously wasn't gonna get pineapple because why would you give something that they're allergic to?
SPEAKER_00Well, unless she'd dis well, because yes, she'd disclosed she was allergic, but like if you want it that bad and you're willing to go take your anti-allergy meds, just don't tell them you're allergic to it then. Uh not even room for improvement. My mate was telling us about an intern on a work trip who got so drunk he couldn't find his hotel room. Instead of asking for help, he apparently tried booking himself another room on a company card. Some of the others hid him in somebody else's room and he woke up convinced that they'd broken into his room, so he tried to fight them. He was fired the next morning. The weird part was later realizing it was the same guy who'd completely blanked me earlier that day.
SPEAKER_03Oh wow, that's that's karma.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, again, a lot of karma here.
SPEAKER_04Bibbidi bobbity nope. I was behind a woman in one of the gift shops who was trying every trick in the book to get money off a pusher. She kept saying she kept saying it'd make my son's holiday more magical if they could have discounted it. Everyone tries that, don't they? The manager came over and politely explained they couldn't do that and that no one was had promised him the toy. The poor kid looked completely confused because he wasn't even asking for it anymore. She stormed out without buying anything.
SPEAKER_00It probably wasn't even for the kid, it was probably for her.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it probably was.
SPEAKER_00Right, we've got one more.
SPEAKER_04Last one.
SPEAKER_00Thunderstruck by polo said. I was grabbing some food when lightning struck somewhere really close to one of the big rides, so they shut all the taller attractions down. Fair enough, safety first. The bloke in front of me absolutely kicked off at the cast member though, like she'd personally ordered the storm in. She kept trying to explain that the light the lightning police said, but he wasn't interested. He just kept shouting that they'd ruined his kids' day. Honestly, I'd rather wait half an hour than get struck by lightning. It's always the parents that boot it. The kids are just like, yeah, chilling.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Honestly. I know they're the ones that have paid the money, but like that you the the storm didn't ruin ruin your kids' day, it pissed you off and ruined your day.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but all of them.
SPEAKER_00There is a lot of entitled people in the theme.
SPEAKER_04I think that's the general consensus.
SPEAKER_00And a lot of karma that comes back to bite people in the ass. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04But yeah, it's been a very fun episode. This I've I loved hearing these stories.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so now we've done the first one. If stories come to mind for you and you think, damn it, I should have submitted one, we will happily do one of these again.
SPEAKER_04So I think the four yeah, the formal stay up, so we can you can just keep adding to it.
SPEAKER_00And then we'll probably do one in a couple of months' time.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00A couple of weeks' time or something to get um more of these stories in. But thank you to everyone that submitted, we really appreciate it and we enjoyed reading through those. What was your favourite one?
SPEAKER_04I think the talqu one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think the talc one at the Rosenin.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. The Talc one, all that guy that threw up on Tower of Terror.
SPEAKER_04Oh, I quite enjoyed the planet all over one as well.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, those three. Congrats to those three people. But we will keep you anonymous.
SPEAKER_04Yep.
SPEAKER_00Partly because we don't know who you are anyway. But yeah, thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for watching. We will catch you in the next one. Bye.