Escape2Disney
Friendly Neighborhood Disney Fanatic!
- Joined
- Feb 24, 2009
I thought someone here might get the humor in this story....
We just got back from a long trip to Disneyland (8 days in the parks). I travel with a scooter and a service dog, so I'm not exactly inconspicuous.
We fielded questions about the dog gracefully, and met a lot of nice people. Sure, there were a few idiots who would grab at the dog or try to pull his attention away, but thankfully not too many.
There were others though that were a little rude. The 'theme' this year was for them to 1) stand over me with their friends and talk loudly about me and the dog like we weren't there or (my favorite) 2) come up behind me and yell in my ear - usually "WHAT'S THAT DOG FOR???"
No big deal though...I know it's not all that commonplace to see a dog in Disneyland.
Then there was the mom 'teaching' her kids about us. This lady followed us down main street, through adventureland, and into New Orleans and talked loudly about us to her kids for at least 20 minutes. I applauded her attempts to inform her kids, but a lot of what she said was assumption and flat-out wrong. When we stopped in NOS, I considered politely correcting her, until.....
She got about 5 feet from my face, pointed, and yelled "SEE KIDS, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! THE GUIDE DOG HELPS THE BLIND LADY DRIVE THE SCOOTER."
DD and I couldn't stop laughing long enough to correct her. That's one talented dog to help a blind person drive!
Honestly it just goes to show that the biggest problem is mis-information and assumptions.
We just got back from a long trip to Disneyland (8 days in the parks). I travel with a scooter and a service dog, so I'm not exactly inconspicuous.
We fielded questions about the dog gracefully, and met a lot of nice people. Sure, there were a few idiots who would grab at the dog or try to pull his attention away, but thankfully not too many.
There were others though that were a little rude. The 'theme' this year was for them to 1) stand over me with their friends and talk loudly about me and the dog like we weren't there or (my favorite) 2) come up behind me and yell in my ear - usually "WHAT'S THAT DOG FOR???"
No big deal though...I know it's not all that commonplace to see a dog in Disneyland.
Then there was the mom 'teaching' her kids about us. This lady followed us down main street, through adventureland, and into New Orleans and talked loudly about us to her kids for at least 20 minutes. I applauded her attempts to inform her kids, but a lot of what she said was assumption and flat-out wrong. When we stopped in NOS, I considered politely correcting her, until.....
She got about 5 feet from my face, pointed, and yelled "SEE KIDS, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! THE GUIDE DOG HELPS THE BLIND LADY DRIVE THE SCOOTER."
DD and I couldn't stop laughing long enough to correct her. That's one talented dog to help a blind person drive!
Honestly it just goes to show that the biggest problem is mis-information and assumptions.