We were "that" family

OP here.
I saw this thread as one of the "Recommended threads" at the bottom of the page, and re-read it. I had some great laughs.

And I'm happy to say that my now almost-18-year-old is heading off to college this fall, unafraid of Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. In fact, starting our trip at Chef Mickey's has become a tradition, and each time we eat there we reminisce about that memorable tantrum that started our 2008 trip. We've managed not to lose our youngest on any of our subsequent trips. And my now 16 year old older daughter still sometimes wants things, but the difference is that she now has a job and it's her own money that pays for it.

Things have a way of working out.

Love this!

We recently retold this story of a trip when our boys were 6 and 3. They kept running ahead of us to the elevators, and once when they were about to get on one when the grownups weren't going to get on, my husband, who has a potty mouth, called out, "Don't get on that bleep elevator." Later in the trip, the 3-year-old was sitting in the stroller while I was talking to the guest services guy at Wilderness Lodge. The kid in the stroller looked up at the guy who was next in line and repeated that phrase to him, word for word.

I was so embarrassed. Still get uncomfortable thinking about it.

That kid is now 7. On our trip last month, he melted down in Epcot after we had only been there about an hour. DH got him a stroller, even though I insisted that I was NOT getting a stroller for my spoiled 7-year-old. So yeah--once again we were THAT family. The one that gets a stroller for their 7-year-old.
 
OH yes, magical Disney moments we have had -

- large crowd at Epcot Character Spot, our 4 year old boy having his picture taken with Pluto. Pluto leans down to take a picture and the 4 year old screams out "Pluto touched my private place". You could have heard a pin drop. Poor Pluto.

- Same trip, same 4 year old at the Port Orleans French Quarter bus stop at night. It was our first family trip with an ECV , first time getting it off the bus, so DH was watching me to make sure I got the ECV off the bus okay, he gets off, 4 year old doesn't get off the bus. Bus pulls away to stop at all the Riverside stops. Parents get hysterical.

- 2 year old grandbaby loves the elevator. Loves to randomly push the buttons if not stopped. Every time an elevator door opens, he runs on. Lost him twice when get he runs onto an empty elevator and pushes the buttons. Everybody freaks out.

- Family rule #1 is no whining at Disney. We are waiting for the ferry at the close of Magic Kingdom one night. Everyone is tired and cranky. I have reminded the group about Disney rule 1 a few times already. One grandson begins the whine I turn around and say, Rule 1 and 3 year old grandson says "That means stop the freaking whining"! Except he uses the real F word at the top of his lungs. Unfortunately, people laugh, so 3 year old files that one away to repeat many more times throughout the trip.

- Same potty mouth 3 year old grandson at Epcot begins the potty dance. I ask him if he needs to go potty, he says okay and whips it out. I scream, no not here. Hold it until we can get to a bathroom. So he literally is holding "it" and I have to tell him to put it back in his pants.

- Same 3 year old while stuck on the monorail finally screams "I need a drink, dammit". A fellow passenger screams back "Me too".
 
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OH yes, magical Disney moments we have had -

- large crowd at Epcot Character Spot, our 4 year old boy having his picture taken with Pluto. Pluto leans down to take a picture and the 4 year old screams out "Pluto touched my private place". You could have heard a pin drop. Poor Pluto.

- Same trip, same 4 year old at the Port Orleans French Quarter bus stop at night. It was our first family trip with an ECV , first time getting it off the bus, so DH was watching me to make sure I got the EVC off the bus okay, he gets off, 4 year old doesn't get off the bus. Bus pulls away to stop at all the Riverside stops. Parents get hysterical.

- 2 year old grandbaby loves the elevator. Loves to randomly push the buttons if not stopped. Every time an elevator door opens, he runs on. Lost him twice when get he runs onto an empty elevator and pushes the buttons. Everybody freaks out.

- Family rule #1 is no whining at Disney. We are waiting for the ferry at the close of Magic Kingdom one night. Everyone is tired and cranky. I have reminded the group about Disney rule 1 a few times already. One grandson begins the whine I turn around and say, Rule 1 and 3 year old grandson says "That means stop the freaking whining"! Except he uses the real F word at the top of his lungs. Unfortunately, people laugh, so 3 year old files that one away to repeat many more times throughout the trip.

- Same potty mouth 3 year old grandson at Epcot begins the potty dance. I ask him if he needs to go potty, he says okay and whips it out. I scream, no not here. Hold it until we can get to a bathroom. So he literally is holding "it" and I have to tell him to put it back in his pants.

- Same 3 year old while stuck on the monorail finally screams "I need a drink, dammit". A fellow passenger screams back "Me too".

Thank you for the laughs! I am still laughing aloud and wiping away my tears as I type my response. Your three year old is certainly feisty! I can just picture you telling him to put it back in his pants instead of literally holding "it".
 
OP here.
I saw this thread as one of the "Recommended threads" at the bottom of the page, and re-read it. I had some great laughs.

And I'm happy to say that my now almost-18-year-old is heading off to college this fall, unafraid of Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. In fact, starting our trip at Chef Mickey's has become a tradition, and each time we eat there we reminisce about that memorable tantrum that started our 2008 trip. We've managed not to lose our youngest on any of our subsequent trips. And my now 16 year old older daughter still sometimes wants things, but the difference is that she now has a job and it's her own money that pays for it.

Things have a way of working out.


:flower1:Thank you so much for starting this thread WAY BACK in 2008 and for giving us an update and bumping it up! It really does help to commiserate with each other here. We DIS planners can plan out the perfect trip, ADR's, FastPasses, but unfortunately we cannot control our own family's actions, thoughts and our reactions there! But they all do make funny stories! :P
 
OP here.
I saw this thread as one of the "Recommended threads" at the bottom of the page, and re-read it. I had some great laughs.

And I'm happy to say that my now almost-18-year-old is heading off to college this fall, unafraid of Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. In fact, starting our trip at Chef Mickey's has become a tradition, and each time we eat there we reminisce about that memorable tantrum that started our 2008 trip. We've managed not to lose our youngest on any of our subsequent trips. And my now 16 year old older daughter still sometimes wants things, but the difference is that she now has a job and it's her own money that pays for it.

Things have a way of working out.
This thread has been awesome. DH had a rough day, so I shot him a link to this, even though it was so old and he had a good laugh. We don't have kids, but can certainly relate to some of the grown-up tantrums. We had a couple this past November, mostly to do with his lack of ability to steer or stop the wheelchair I was in for most of our trip..

However, tonight we had a mini Disney meltdown moment at home over his much prized Food and Wine shot glass. He put a glass of wine up on the cupboard next to his side of the bed where he had a couple of other glasses piled that I'd been after him for a couple of days to take downstairs. He knocks his prized shot glass and it gets pushed near the edge. I tell him that the next time he goes downstairs they EVERYTHING he has stored up there goes down.

1/2 hour later he goes down, but nothing goes with him. He comes back up, reaches up without looking at what he's doing to get his wine glass and down comes the shot glass, hitting three times against hard surfaces and making sounds like it's shattering with each hit.

I shot him the 'angry eyes' that someone else referred to earlier in the thread, but didn't say anything mean. He picks up the shot glass and miraculously its in one piece! He immediately looks very sheepish, takes everything off the cupboard and takes it all downstairs wipaiting for the angry 'I told you so'. I think the only reason it didn't become a serious domestic was because we'd been reading this thread, and now had our own current Disney 'moment' even though we weren't currently there. Seriously what is it about men that they just can't put things away?

Anyway, it's always nice to hear back from the OP (and others) after following an older thread like this. You should get your DD to read through. Wonder what her take on it would be LOL.
 
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Thank you for the laughs! I am still laughing aloud and wiping away my tears as I type my response. Your three year old is certainly feisty! I can just picture you telling him to put it back in his pants instead of literally holding "it".
I'm glad you got a chuckle. Yes, that grandchild has always been a real pistol. Now he loves the attention he receives as class clown, but he spends a fair amount of time in trouble because of his mouth. We think he's either going to be a comedian or a politician.
 
Will anyone else admit to being "THAT" family or was it just us??

When our daughter (10 yo) sat at Yachtsman and had to be taken out to the hall way when she threw a fit. It wasn't that part that made us "that" family. As soon as she became disruptive we removed her as to not disrupt the other diners. What made us "that" family was when she had calmed down enough to be brought back in. She sat at the table, looked at the menu and said "FINE!!!! I guess I'll have the filet!".

After I picked my jaw up off the floor we addressed that post haste. I may make more in 4.8 days than my father made in a month (adjusted for inflation!) but I refuse to have a child of mine come up with "fine I'll have the filet!"

Stacy
 
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I get along great with my MIL - she comes on all of our WDW trips with us. When we were there for F&W in 2014 we also brought FIL, and him I don't get along with so well. He's very acerbic and has what I consider a kind of mean sense of humor. We were walking away from TT towards the lagoon at Epcot when my husband did something that annoys the crap out of me - he tried talking to me while he was walking ahead of me. I can never hear him when he does that! I was probably a little testy because I'd reminded him a hundred times that I can't hear him when his back is turned to me so I'm sure when I said it again it came out rough. My FIL turned to me and meanly said "Are you deaf? Do you need a hearing aid?" The whole group froze and my MIL turned around and said "Jeffrey, don't be a d***." He stared at me for a moment with a very "What are you gonna do about it?" look, but I had a sudden moment of brilliance. I smiled and said "No big deal, I'm not offended. And to prove it, let me get you a drink - I know a great place." And that's how my FIL got his first taste of Beverly.
 
I get along great with my MIL - she comes on all of our WDW trips with us. When we were there for F&W in 2014 we also brought FIL, and him I don't get along with so well. He's very acerbic and has what I consider a kind of mean sense of humor. We were walking away from TT towards the lagoon at Epcot when my husband did something that annoys the crap out of me - he tried talking to me while he was walking ahead of me. I can never hear him when he does that! I was probably a little testy because I'd reminded him a hundred times that I can't hear him when his back is turned to me so I'm sure when I said it again it came out rough. My FIL turned to me and meanly said "Are you deaf? Do you need a hearing aid?" The whole group froze and my MIL turned around and said "Jeffrey, don't be a d***." He stared at me for a moment with a very "What are you gonna do about it?" look, but I had a sudden moment of brilliance. I smiled and said "No big deal, I'm not offended. And to prove it, let me get you a drink - I know a great place." And that's how my FIL got his first taste of Beverly.
Absolutely brilliant!!

And my DH does the same to me, but in top of that he mumbles! I'm forever getting frustrated by it, and I, too, had a friend who asked if I might need my hearing checked. This same friend couldn't understand him even more than me, but she put it down to it just being his accent (Liverpool, she's American) rather than being both his mumbling and his accent.
 
I get along great with my MIL - she comes on all of our WDW trips with us. When we were there for F&W in 2014 we also brought FIL, and him I don't get along with so well. He's very acerbic and has what I consider a kind of mean sense of humor. We were walking away from TT towards the lagoon at Epcot when my husband did something that annoys the crap out of me - he tried talking to me while he was walking ahead of me. I can never hear him when he does that! I was probably a little testy because I'd reminded him a hundred times that I can't hear him when his back is turned to me so I'm sure when I said it again it came out rough. My FIL turned to me and meanly said "Are you deaf? Do you need a hearing aid?" The whole group froze and my MIL turned around and said "Jeffrey, don't be a d***." He stared at me for a moment with a very "What are you gonna do about it?" look, but I had a sudden moment of brilliance. I smiled and said "No big deal, I'm not offended. And to prove it, let me get you a drink - I know a great place." And that's how my FIL got his first taste of Beverly.
FIL????
 
My favorite one to tell is my son's first visit. he was 4 and it was just the two of us. He watched videos and studied WDW and told me the first thing he wanted to do was Haunted Mansion.

I asked him again on the plane, and he said HM. No Problem. he's fickle, so I asked when we landed and he said he wanted to go straight to HM. We check in at the hotel and I ask if he wants to go to the room first. Nope - HM. We go to the park, and I ask if he wants lunch. After all, it's 1pm and he hasn't had a bite to eat. NOPE. HM he says. Bathroom? NO! HM! So we go right to HM and get in line.

The doors open and he plants his feet and goes "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO". After all that, I wasn't having any of it. i was hungry and this was all he kept saying not letting me eat or rest before. I picked him up and threw him over my shoulder like a sack of potatoes with his head sobbing quietly in my shoulder. I'm sure everyone around me must have been thinking I was a nomination for worst father of the year, LOL.

After the stretching room, he was completely okay. It became his favorite ride after that. So no - he was not traumatized for life.
Don't know why, but this one made me HOWL!
 
Yep, we are THAT family. The one who has a petite grandson with the loudest voice I've ever heard, who while waiting in line for Peter Pan said, ' That man in front of us smells like butt'.

Or, my older grandmunchkin who told Anna that she wasn't the real Anna because the real Anna was pretty.

Or when loud grandmunchkin was in Le Chefs De France and said, ' This food SUCKS!'.

Just

Just a sampling of the fun of being THAT family, lol.
 
Of yes, I was the one who uttered [edit] in Magic Kingdom, after a trying day. Hubby hadn't been interested in giving any input in the planning, even though he had been asked for months what he wanted to do, and all of a sudden, he starts making suggestions in the middle of our day at MK, and then 10 seconds later, he changes his mind, and then again, then 'or we could go here, or we could go all the way across the park to there'... So I threw my passporter book and plans at him and said the bad word, along with a long tirade of what he could do with his sudden ideas :rolleyes:
This is so going to be us in a couple of weeks.
 
Love this thread. It makes me feel so much better about when my little "angel" acts up. We have not gone to Disney yet but when she was 2 1/2, we took a cruise from H@ll with DD. She was such a pill that I swore off vacationing for a while. She was tired but would not sleep and just a general grouch. There were times when we were out walking around with her (because she was so loud we could not stay in the room for fear of having security called) that I seriously wanted to step away from the stroller and say "whose kid is that." Fortunately she is a better traveler now, but it did make us decide to wait a couple of years before doing a Disney trip, considering the expense involved. We are hoping to go within the next 1-2 years, when she is 6-7.
 
On our very first trip as a family of three we had a couple of family fun lol

We were in the Rainforest Café, enjoying a nice dinner, DDthen4 had to use the bathroom. I totally forgot about the self flush thing and it did it while she was on the pot. That kid came straight off the toilet, dropped her shorts and underwear, slithered under the door and proceeded to run out into the dining room screaming "The potty tried to eat me, the potty tried to eat me" at the top of her lungs. My DH saw her hauling naked butt thru the dining room and grabbed her. Meanwhile, I picked my jaw up, composed myself, grabbed those pants, was trying to get out there as quick as possible, people were like, what just happened??? Needless to say, we threw her clothes on her, and made a hasty exit with the sobbing kid. The whole boat ride back to the resort she sobbed and told her story to anyone she could see. Oy.
 
OH yes, magical Disney moments we have had -

- large crowd at Epcot Character Spot, our 4 year old boy having his picture taken with Pluto. Pluto leans down to take a picture and the 4 year old screams out "Pluto touched my private place". You could have heard a pin drop. Poor Pluto.

- Same trip, same 4 year old at the Port Orleans French Quarter bus stop at night. It was our first family trip with an ECV , first time getting it off the bus, so DH was watching me to make sure I got the ECV off the bus okay, he gets off, 4 year old doesn't get off the bus. Bus pulls away to stop at all the Riverside stops. Parents get hysterical.

- 2 year old grandbaby loves the elevator. Loves to randomly push the buttons if not stopped. Every time an elevator door opens, he runs on. Lost him twice when get he runs onto an empty elevator and pushes the buttons. Everybody freaks out.

- Family rule #1 is no whining at Disney. We are waiting for the ferry at the close of Magic Kingdom one night. Everyone is tired and cranky. I have reminded the group about Disney rule 1 a few times already. One grandson begins the whine I turn around and say, Rule 1 and 3 year old grandson says "That means stop the freaking whining"! Except he uses the real F word at the top of his lungs. Unfortunately, people laugh, so 3 year old files that one away to repeat many more times throughout the trip.

- Same potty mouth 3 year old grandson at Epcot begins the potty dance. I ask him if he needs to go potty, he says okay and whips it out. I scream, no not here. Hold it until we can get to a bathroom. So he literally is holding "it" and I have to tell him to put it back in his pants.

- Same 3 year old while stuck on the monorail finally screams "I need a drink, dammit". A fellow passenger screams back "Me too".
This made me laugh so hard I cried! It reminds me of my DS now 4. Kids say the darnedest things
 
This made me laugh so hard I cried! It reminds me of my DS now 4. Kids say the darnedest things
This made me laugh so hard I cried! It reminds me of my DS now 4. Kids say the darnedest things
Thanks! As a member of the "that family" club, we always tell ourselves "later this will be funny" as we are flushed with embarrassment during their antics.
 

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