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dunkderby
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Status: offline |  Posted - 24 Nov 2007 : 16:26:35  
| I'm Sure there are lots of families out there with funny florida stories - this is what happen to my family on our first visit to Orlando in 1998.
We were staying in a hotel on Internation Drive and decided to use the I-Trolley to visit all the shops on I-Drive. Myself, husband and 3 kids were sat on the highly polished wooden seats at the back of the I-Trolley, when another family boarded with their 2 small children and a helium balloon, we were travelling down I-Drive when the balloon went BANG, the lady driver did an emergency stop, we all slid off our seats onto the floor, we were picking ourselves up when the driver gets out of her seat and stands at the front shouting "Oh my god what was that", the other family are trying to explain the balloon has popped (and wishing the ground would open up and swallow them). The Driver then spends the next 10 minutes saying over and over again "Oh my God, it was a balloon, I thought someone had been shot".
Don't worry, this incident didn't put us off Florida, we have been back several times.
Has anybody else got a fun florida story to tell!
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ctgirlscout
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Status: offline | Posted - 24 Nov 2007 : 17:28:10
| Helium balloons are notorious for popping in heat! That's why I won't take them in my car.
The first time we went to the Animal Kingdom, we visited the petting zoo. There are signs posted everywhere not to feed the animals. My husband has a habit of putting papers in his back pocket. At some point he felt a tugging on his pocket, and thought our six year old daughter was pulling the park map out. Turns out it was a goat, who promptly started eating the map! To make matters worse, the park ranger started yelling at my husband for feeding the animals! |
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dunkderby
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Status: offline | Posted - 24 Nov 2007 : 19:03:48
| Here's another one
My husband bought some sunglasses and the sales assistant asked him his names for the guarantee, my husband told her his names was Duncan, later when we looked at the guarantee she had written Dunkin (as in do-nuts), well me and the kids thought it was hilarious
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Susan J
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Status: offline | Posted - 26 Nov 2007 : 09:27:59
| Before we had our own home, we rented a villa -went out to the parks leaving Heium balloons tied to headboards in the childrens rooms -when we got back, the Management company were there, in the lounge- bloke was sucking on his inhaler, and looked white as a sheet- the balloons had set the silent [where they notify the police] alarm off, and he was round the back of the home cutting the grass -when he came round the front, he had police with guns telling him to walk slowly forward with his hands on his head -they hadn't let him explain until he was in the police car - reckon it shaved 10 years off his life!
So for all folk renting homes, leave the helium balloons in a downstairs powder room or garage to stop them setting off the alarm  |
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Florida Joy
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Status: offline | Posted - 26 Nov 2007 : 09:50:55
| A few years ago we went into Walmart looking for a map of the Orlando area. My husband ask the assistant if she could help him find a map. "Follow me" she said and lead him to the back of the store. Somewhat perplexed he followed her up the aisle to find a large display of buckets and mops. She was so helpful he did not have the heart to tell her she'd got it wrong so he thanked her and looked at the mops until she went away.
Since then he has tried to tone down his accent as we still kid him on about this. |
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Jules
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Status: offline | Posted - 26 Nov 2007 : 13:07:25
| About 10 years ago we went to a buffet restaurant in Universal Studio's (sorry can't remember what it was called, it's gone now) and were shown to our table by our server. She explained how the buffet worked and went to get our drinks.
We went to get our food but when we got back to the table there were only 3 place settings although there were 4 of us. Our server brought the drinks and asked if there was anything else she could get for us. I asked for some cutlery, she smiled, said OK, nodded her head and left. A few minutes later she came back without the cutlery and asked again if there was anything else she could get for us, again I said yes could she get me some cutlery, she smiled, said OK, nodded and disappeared again.
She then re appeared with her supervisor who asked "is there anything else we can get for you" I repeated myself yet again at which point they both just stood there looking very confused, I then said, "cutlery, knife, fork, spoon?" At this point they both started laughing and said together, "she means silverware!" they walked off shaking their heads and laughing but this time they did bring back the "silverware"!
And they say we speak the same language. |
Julie
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jaff
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Status: offline | Posted - 28 Nov 2007 : 22:45:49
| on our first visit we stayed at vista del lago we went to reception after going through the security gates.The man at recpeption took our details and gave us directions to the villa.After unpacking we decided to get a pizza at dominos.When we got the pizza we headed back to the villa but this time there was no security gaurd the the gate but we forgot the pass to get back in so we buzzed the gaurd at reception.He said hello can i help you?Me being a scotsman i said hello it's the two scottish men that spoke to you earlier on we forgoten our passes to get in.He replies its WHAT?I replied the same again.He then replies its TEN SCOTSMAN COMING UP THE ROAD !!!?? can you imagine what he must of been thinking at the time??? lol
Another time we were at epcot fountain when we were sitting looking at the map and i started to take some pics when an american lady came up to me and said.Would you like me to take a family photo? my youngest son at the time was only 17months at the time and was abit unsetled at the time.I replied my son is unsetled its ok.she replied lol and her face wasshocked big time ( HE'S ON SALE ) i had tears with laughter streaming out of ma face it was so funny. lol
I've been told so many times about my accent being so strong by the americans.This visit i was in walmart and the lady at the checkout said to me evening sir how has your day been? i replied ye its been good really busy but loads of fun.She stared at me  and asked my wife what i jus said.Fiona told her and said my sir its hard to understand you your accent is so strong i said why is it SEXY??? she said i understood that word .lol with a smile on her face
i jus love florida when i'm there i have so much fun with them |
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brizzle
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Status: offline | Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 07:41:23
| We had a breakfast in the Castle when our youngest daughter was about 16 months old. Snow White visited the table and kissed her on the forehead leaving a big red lipstick print.
Asked the name to which we replied Libby, the look on her face implied she thought she was a boy. I think the standard procedure is to give boys this lipstick kiss on the forehead, I'm not sure.
Admittedly my two girls for some reason took ages to grow any significant amount of hair and she did have a Winnie the Pooh suit on so possibly our fault.
The same daughter proceeded to say in a very loud voice, because she had headphones on, on our return trip on the plane last April 'Are we there yet?' about 10 minutes into the flight. That got a few giggles in the cabin!!
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mizzy
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Status: offline | Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 10:27:14
| on our first visit we had a little embarrasing moment when the menfolk triggered the home alarm, we'd been to the pirate dinner show and with me not drinking and the sis in law the designated driver the men (my dh and his brother) had more than a few 
with the alarm wailing and us finally inside the phone rings and a woman asks for a passcode, we hadn't a clue what she was on about so she said i'm sorry we have alerted the sherrif, he's on his way 
so here we are with not only the 4 children to look after but two very drunk grown men slightly worse for wear, after a ten minute anxious wait with us sat thinking OMG we are in trouble, they are going to be furious with wasting their time
the sherrif knocks on the door and the oldest brother stumbles across only to be presented with the villa door keys that he'd only gone and left in the outside lock 
faced with a lecture about safety we braved it out and with the sis in law flirting like hell, the officer was much nicer than expected, he talked to my nephew about his tazer and explained how it works and then he posed for pictures and gave sis in law his email address for a copy
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dunkderby
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Status: offline | Posted - 29 Nov 2007 : 19:37:01
| And there's more
We had only been in Orlando a couple of days and after a busy day and feeling very jet lagged we went for dinner at the Rainforest Cafe, the waiter brought out drinks, my youngest son had a mud milkshake thingy, which he managed to knock over, we were frantically trying to mop (that's mop not map - sorry I couldn't resist) it up with serviettes when our waiter saw what had happened and helped us clear it up, he then went off to get fresh cutlery (oops silverware) and another drink for my son, only to return and find us frantically mopping up a glass of coke that my youngest son had managed to knock over (this child should come with some sort of a warning). Well the rest of the meal went smoothly and waiter got a good tip.
Then a few years later we were back at the Rainforest Cafe and the waiter came to take our drinks order he looked at my youngest son and said 'don't I know you', we were all saying no I don't think so, but the guy doesn't look convinced and keeps looking at my son, he then goes off to get our drinks and we remembered all the drinks he had knocked over previously, we were having a laugh saying maybe that's why he remembered you, when the waiter comes back with a colleague and there saying 'it is him isn't it.
Turns out my son is not famous for the most drinks knocked over in one sitting, but looks like a famous USA Snowboarder (Shaun White), we couldn't convince the guy it wasn't him and we spent the rest of the meal with waiters/waitresses walking pass to have a look and say hi.
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ShirleyD
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Status: online | Posted - 30 Nov 2007 : 01:27:16
| aww Colleen, I have met Shaun White and he is a real sweetie
On our first trip to Florida (and the USA) in November 1981 we went to an Italian restaurant somewhere on the 192 and after all the effort of ordering and choosing our salad dressing from the long list for the salad which was included with the main dish, it was brought to the table. So we sat politely waiting for our dinner to go with the salad and as we got more hungry, picked at the odd salad leaf, in hope the dinner would arrive soon. After what seemed like forever, the main dish arrived and they whipped away the salad we were so looking forward to. Being young then, we were too embarrased to say anything |
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Susan J
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Status: offline | Posted - 03 Dec 2007 : 00:21:45
| In Home Depot one time, we had my dear [now departed] FIL with us. He had to use every loo he could find,thanks to a finely tuned prostate, and as we mosied round, he wandered off to find the loo.
He came up a bit red in the face later. He had gone up to a home Depot employee [after ending up near to bursting, and needing the loo desparately] and said
" Excuse me Jack, can you tell me where the toilets are?"
" No problem, fella, Aisle 35"
So FIL had dashed off to see row after row of shining pots for sale :D
We implored him to use the words rest room after we finally guided him there!! LOL |
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dunkderby
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| Just read the following story in the Orlando Sentinel (on-line)
Deputy dressed up as Christmas Cartoon character the Grinch gave out 60 traffic tickets to unsuspecting motorists.
Each year deputies occasionally disquise themselves as holiday characters or construction workers to catch speeders and other traffic violators.
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