Remember "It's a Bugs Life" in Animal Kingdom? There is a whole lot of "Ick" in that attraction, from ideas to stinks. PEW!

Angie had an interesting comment on yesterday's blog. Here it is!:

OK... FINE!...
When I was visiting DW in March, I was in the lady's room, I went into the handicap stall with Alice to help her with the potty. I noticed the cleaner's stuff was left out, I also heard my Mom saying to someone... "be careful, if you leave it all out long enough, she may end up scrubbing everything for you!"
I realized she meant me... being a cleaning lady. So when I came out, it was a cleaning lady, and I told her that I was a cleaning lady as well back home. I told her how I would love to have her job in Tomorrowland.

She laughed and told me "The filth she has to clean up here in the Magic Kingdom is no more magical than the filth I clean up back home!"

I had convinced myself that my "cinderella" job was only respected and tolerable if it was somewhere like Disney... I am glad she reminded me that crap is crap, filth is filth, no matter who made it and where it was made.
... I'd still rather clean up crap there...



Posted Yesterday at 10:39 PM by A.Daley

(Me again)

My response was:


Words to live by!

I don't know why, but that story reminded me of a student. The assignment was to draw holiday wishes on a card for his parents. He drew a BIG poo, then told me it was a plastic poo. I felt bad about it, but when I told his Mom as I apologized for the card, she informed me that he was aspiring to be a comedian and, in fact, plastic poo was on top of his holiday wish list.

If I'd known that, I'd have slapped some glitter on it and let him finish the card in peace!



Posted Yesterday at 10:47 PM by Sandra Bostwick

Here I am in real life again.:

Sometimes you have to face the "ick" in your life. Sometimes you have to face the "ick" in someone else's life. Sometimes what looks like "ick" to you is really the plastic poo on someone else's wish list.


I'm not real sure where this is going, but I'm going to forge ahead here.

I think the "ick" factor is that part of any job or process that makes you feel, well, ICKY! There are plenty of different forms of "ick", but they all involve something that we'd rather not deal with.

I try to imagine the Magic Kingdom, though, if people like Angie's cleaning lady were not doing their job. I have to say that the resulting mess would certainly take the sparkle off of the pixie dust for everyone.

And, certainly, Walt's intention was to assure that the "ick" factor was managed and, when possible, hidden away. You'll never see a Disney Dumpster. In fact, we discussed how carefully all the themes were planned to keep only the magic on the surface here at the parts of the project at these six links.

But, the fact is, even if you can't see them, just like the beatles rolling along in It's a bug's life , there are important people taking care of the drudgery side of the dream.

You CAN'T manage without taking care of it.

Unfortunately, in our daily lives, MOST of us don't have dedicated support staff who will work after closing on those necessary jobs.

And, from what I hear, it seems like it is the part of a project that challenges us in some way that stops us. Maybe it is the part that is not so much fun, not so easy, or that makes us afraid.

There are a million possible emotions, but they all pretty much equal "ick!"

Is the "ick" factor in something you'd like to accomplish holding you back in some way? Can you think of some way to overcome that?