Lies and Deceit - It's What This Trip Was Built On (A CLT Report) - UPDATED 3/9 - Page 8 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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OMG, sock granades, upgrades, no video, paintbrushes on TSI, friends and laughter! You know, this would make a great movie!! Since you live in CA don't you have some contacts in the entertainment industry???
Ok Karen....I think I need to start traveling with you. Private planes, DME bus all to yourself...and you are a giver...I am sure you made Calder's day )
Whiskey-tango-foxtrot. I'm totally stealing that one.
I'm gonna start calling you a celebutante, what with all the VIP treatmeant you receive!
I can't believe people would get freaked out by a pair of socks. I've seen folks doing everything besides getting a bikini wax in airport bathrooms - socks are nothin'!
What a wonderful morning at the MK. The weather did indeedy look beautiful. I really am going to have to adventure back to Tom Sawyer's Island one of these days. Way to go to Calder for finding the paintbrush.
Oh, and this?
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Personally, my vacation junk to healthy food ratio is an irrational number (as in junk food unlimited / healthy food zero,) but whatever.
I feel like a total nerd for squealing with laughter over it, but TOO FUNNY.
Ok the sock grenade had me rolling. After your personal flight into MCO, it was only right for you to have a DME bus to yourself as well. What a wonderful day spent in MK with the Two Chips and a Dip. Looking forward to more!!!
Nice way to start a Monday morning - with a Karen TR update! I didn't know about the private DME bus - you really are a celebrity! I'm proud of your flexibility with Calder. Although I know you have a soft spot for young boys (OMG - that doesn't sound good does it ), I meant for your best friends son (that almost sounds worse ). You all know what I mean. Can't wait for another update.
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Very, very good updates Karen! I'm so glad you've posted them!! I laughed reading about your stall escapades. The nerve of those women to not send the socks back under the door! harumph!
congrats you guys on the updage to concierge! I believe since it happened to us also, but at the Poly, it's so much easier to upgrade someone who's only there for a night than it is someone who is there longer! Either way, it's a great feeling, isn't it?
I want you to travel with us in June. Maybe you can get us all into the first class section of the plane!
More please!!(same goes for you Eileen and Sharon!!! )
congrats you guys on the updage to concierge! I believe since it happened to us also, but at the Poly, it's so much easier to upgrade someone who's only there for a night than it is someone who is there longer! Either way, it's a great feeling, isn't it?
Yeppers! I learned something about this as we checked in to the Wilderness Lodge -- I'll post about that once Karen gets "there"...
I will add my POV tonight (when I have access to my notes and my pictures!)
'specially as I cannot remember off-hand what Karen is referring to with her "soft ball pitch" of a fun detail that I guess *I'm* to write about. Sheesh... where's my notebook?!
I do remember the "duck butt" lady with the coffee mug, but I'll wait to snark on that until I get everything else together.
Eileen
Day 0, Part 3(Seriously. This is getting ridiculous. Even I want me to get there already, and I'm writing the bloody thing.)
And you make fun of ME for making so many "parts" to my WDW days...
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And, the knife would only dig deeper for my fellow passengers. As we were boarding the plane, the cockpit door was open and I greeted my pilot, Van. He waved back with a, "Hey Karen!" In response to the whiskey-tango-foxtrot looks on the new flight crew's faces, he explained, "I'm her personal pilot." Hee!
Beyond the HUGE guffaw that I only barely smothered at work at the WTFoxtrot quip, the rest of this plane story has given me the giggles today. There's nothing that can make Karen happier than having other people recognize and VERBALIZE her superiority in front of the unwashed masses. Heeee! Such delight!
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I headed into the nearby bathroom to do the morning beauty rituals ... when an extra pair of socks rolled out from my bag and out into the middle of the bathroom. And, seriously, the group of ladies talking outside went deathly silent, like I'd just rolled a freakin' grenade out there.
You never told me this story! FAB-u-lous! (Reminds me of the time I was standing in the lobby of a famous and very chi-chi theatre and talking to the Creative Director of the Performing Arts Center with a friend. After a lovely conversation, I pulled my hand out of my pocket to shake the Director's hand and a tampon came out of my pocket with it, skittered across the parquet floor and came to a halt against the marble walls. It would've been survivable if my friend hadn't yelled "GRENADE" and pretended to throw herself onto it...)
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Right then Eileen called me up to ask "Where you at?"
As if!! "Where you at" is a personal pet peeve of mine. As a card-carrying member of The Grammacracy, you'll never hear me saying "Where you at."
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I think the conversation went a little something like this...
Karen: "I'm so sorry. They lost my luggage, and I'm just now checking into Magical Express."
Eileen: "No problem! {Giggle, giggle.} I can wait here {Spontaneous laughter} Take your time {Wild guffaw}"
Karen: "Seriously, Eileen, knock it off with the cocktails, it's not even eight AM. It's embarassing."
Eileen: "No. No. No. I was going to wait..." {giggle} "until..." {snort} "you got here..." {giggle.} We got upgraded to CONCIERGE!"
Karen: "SHUT UPPPPP!"
Seriously, if she'd been standing in front of me, she would've pushed me back a few feet like Elaine Benes. And I soooo wanted to let her find out for herself -- or... at least to take her into the elevator and put my little card (albeit, my blue card) in the slot and press a Concierge floor ... and just let her figure it out. But... blast it... I can't keep a secret (as you all know), so I just blabbed it all out on the phone!
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The woman helping me found my information in the system and put a special Magical Express tracer on the missing luggage, as per Eileen's suggestion.
What Karen isn't telling you is that she was being all whiney and cranky about the lost luggage and had been pouting and complaining and dragging her feet. I told her to suck it up and just give them a description of the bags and get on a danged bus already. (I wasn't very patient and any delay on seeing my gal pal was just KILLING me....)
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In a flash, we were arriving at the Grand Floridian, and I saw a sight that warmed me down to my pinky toes: Eileen sitting on a bench outside waiting for me to arrive.
I think I stood up and did a little dance for about 6 DME buses that pulled up in that time frame. When it wasn't *Karen's bus, I'd sit back down again, put my head in my hands and pout. The whole joint thought I was a nut...
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For all you Doubting Thomases out there, I think Eileen has a picture that shows the totally empty DME bus that maybe she'll post for you.
Your wish is my command!
My responses are getting ridiculously long here and I'd planned on TRing this morning as part of the Two Chips TR... so... I think I'll stop now while a few of you are still awake...
Eileen
Can you get any better? Private plane, private DME, empty middle seat (bty, I always prefer the aisle seat, because 1 coffee (or drink) = gazillion trips to bathroom!), and resort upgrade. OMG!
This is the first time I've heard of the hidden paint brush. They hide it anywhere on the island?
I'll be sure to look while I'm there.
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I'm totally stealing that one. 
What a wonderful day spent in MK with the Two Chips and a Dip. 
I'm proud of your flexibility with Calder. Although I know you have a soft spot for young boys (OMG - that doesn't sound good does it 
), I meant for your best friends son (that almost sounds worse 
). You all know what I mean. 
Can't wait for another update.
It would've been survivable if my friend hadn't yelled "GRENADE" and pretended to throw herself onto it...)
"Where you at" is a personal pet peeve of mine. As a card-carrying member of The Grammacracy, you'll never hear me saying "Where you at." 
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