First, the elephant. While dumping trash with a fellow Cast Member at the train station during the fireworks show I see a small girl with her hands clasped firmly over her ears and a very disgruntledlook on her face. During a lull in the show she removed her hands long enough to express her concern as far as to the volume control of the pyrotechnics for the evening. I shared my condolences with her with something to think about. I told her "I know its really loud huh princess? And if we think its loud, can you imagine how loud these things are to Dumbo back in FantasyLand!?"
With this seed planted in her head I saw gears starting to turn and wires connecting and she quickly agreed that they weren't as bad as they could be. It was towards the end of the night so the parents were tired and were glad to see her being distracted by something while they took a moment to themselves while I was having the conversation with the child. That was short lived however for shortly after the fireworks ended the little girl came over and informed me she wished she could take a picture with Dumbo. So promptly I told her that Dumbo was in FantasyLand right next to his ride where she could take a picture riding him.
She was so excited to hear this and quickly turned to her parents with that hopeful look in her eye. The mom (who looked like she was going to fall asleep standing up waiting for the train) said to me jokingly "What's your name? Im gonna go complain about you" So I informed her my name was my partners name with a laugh from everyone I headed off to complete my 12 hour shift for that day.
It was a fun little experience all around. The parents got a laugh, I helped make the fireworks a little less stressful for the little girl and it lightened up my mood from the crazy day I was having. Nothing ground breaking but I thought it was fun enough to share
Second, the artist. This one, I still can't believe I saw. It was the last thing I had expected and something I shan't soon forget. While cleaning a restroom stall a small boy walked into the stall I had just finished cleaning and his mom took the stall directly across from him. I went about my business cleaning. I heard the flush, signaling the finishing of the boy's endeavors. Without thinking too much of it I don't pay him much mind.
His mom walks out of her stall and I hear him say "Mommy! Look what I made!" I looked at the mother and she had this look of pure horror on her face at what ever was directly behind me in the stall the child had just been in. At her expression I half jokingly said "Do I want to look?" Still with the look of horror she just shook her head and mouthed the word 'no'. Far too intrigued and worried at this point I slowly turn around to look and to my amazement there sat a happy face made of the boys very own poo taking up about half of the inside of the stall door.
I sat there gaping at it for a few seconds and then started to laugh. The mom apologized numerous times, but as gross as it was, it was the funniest circumstance I have had to deal with in awhile and strangely enough it made my night that night.
This was my first Christmas with Disney and my first Christmas away from home. It was a lot harder emotionally than I was expecting. But I am way beyond thankful for my Cast Member family that were there for me when I was falling apart this last week or so. And as we go into this new year, I am trying to put everything back together. The 13th of next month will be my year anniversary with the company and I am planning a video and a blog for that occasion so I won't put too much insight on that subject just yet but know it is coming soon! Thanks for reading and thanks for your support!
"My name is Meghan!" Real funny asshole!
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