awesome report Rebecca!!
The fire Marshall story was interesting to say the least. First off let me do a little background info. There were 653 people there as well as 653 peoples worth of stuff. I swear to you some people brought their entire rooms! I know I say this but you really have to see it in person to get an idea of the amount of stuff. Some ladies had 3 or 4 XXL bags.
I'm trying to upload pics but photobucket is acting weird right now.
Anyway, as you can imagine with that much stuff in 1 place it tends to spread. Well it got to the point that you could not even walk down some of the aisles. Of course the fire marshall was going to come in and take a peek. She was beyond not happy. She said that the totes and shelves and even the cup holders had to be under the edge of the tables. Nothing could protrude out into the aisle, they could turn the cup holders towards the chairs but nothing could stick out beyond your chair on that side.
This is when chaos ensued! I felt really bad for Nancy, the event coordinator, some of her "guests" made her feel like total crap! They were yelling that it was unfair, and if under their tables were filled how were they going to work, blah blah blah. FM lady was not taking any crap, she finally went from table to table and pinged anyone who was not following the rules. (she was pleased a punch with
all of our girls!!!
I am not kidding when we saw women come in with 1-2 bell carts completely filled with stuff. Do you really need that much???
I would say the FM was there at least 2 hours, as well as at least a half dozen Disney employees.
What concerned me the most was how rude everyone was about it, hello it's a safety issue. What would have happened if someone's Cricut caught on fire, the room is filled with paper, people!!!! I guarantee that the same people who complained about the fact that they shouldn't have to move their stuff would have had family members complain if they died in a fire because they couldn't get out. Maybe because it's Florida and most of the people were locals but the Rhode Island Night club fire came to mind, maybe they are just to far removed from that story for it to sink in. (Do y'all see now why I requested to sit next to the groovy chicks? They always get the seats up front! ) We had great seats!
so anyway, we finally got it squared away and the people with the most stuff were moved, they had to take the walls of the Die Cut Room down but they got about 8 or 12 tables with extra wide aisles for all their stuff.
and to smooth things over they brought out Mickey Mouse!!!!!!