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Won't go to THAT eye doctor again...you'll never believe what she said to me...
"How often can you *really* go to Disney World, after all?"
I walked in and she commented on my AKL t-shirt and asked if we just got back. "Actually", says I, "we own Vacation Club points there." "Oh, you mean a timeshare?" she asks. "Wellllll, yes", I said (I don't like lumping DVC in with "timeshares" as they are very different than the public perception). Then she said it. I almost passed out right there in the chair. The whole response was something like, "It's is OK for a few times, but how often can you *really* go to Disney World, after all?" "Oh, you'd be surprised, I'm going back in November!" She was very by the passion.
Then, during the exam she was going on about how nothing is real there (isn't that the POINT???), the safari isn't real b/c "there's no elephant dung lying around". The countries in Epcot are all "Disney-fied" and "prettied up". Thanks, but I'd prefer NOT to see the real streets of Paris, thank you.
Seriously. I needed the t-shirt that I just saw that had a little monster holding a club and it said: I wish you were a pinata.
A lot of people don't get it and never will. That's the beauty of WDW - if you get it, the place is a magical land, not just a place to spend your vacation time
Some get it, some don't. We've only gone to Disney 3 times but I can totally see how people want to go back over and over again. It's the magic, the escape from "real life" and promises of childhood joy that draws me and my family there... those who don't get it, simply never will. Too bad for them, more Magic for us!
You should have asked her how long she's been a judgmental =BLEEP=! Would she have given you that much grief if you went skiing every year at the same place? Probably not. People just astound me. Didn't her Mother teach her that if you haven't got anything nice to say don't say anything at all? How rude.
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Some people just don't get it and never will. That's okay, though because that means less people in the park. I just got back from my trip and my DD and BFF. My friend told me about how her sister wants to wait until her DD was a little older before they went(her DD is 5yrs old right now) and that she couldn't understand why people brought babies to DW. DD and I tried to explain that ever though the baby wouldn't remember the trip the parents would and in most cases there were other kids in the family. I've always felt that DW was for all ages.
Liz
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