So we're at the Magic Kingdom yesterday when the skies open up. Aside from being somewhat of an inconvenience - rides close, people aggregate in doorways and other covered areas, etc. - it's no real big deal (until it starts to stick around...). We brought $1 ponchos we keep on hand while camping with us for just such an emergency - they're small, light, work well, and can be disposed of in a pinch when no longer needed. Sure beats dropping $8-$10 on an "official Disney" poncho, that's for sure.
Many other people had brought ponchos, including numerous members of some FLA-based group (I assume) who had made an extremely unfortunately choice in raingear. The ponchos they had chosen were all white, with the group name in small, light font across the back and front pocket. In ones or twos it wouldn't be a problem; however in a group setting (there had to be 20 or more in one large gathering), it looked like something else.
It looked like a gathering of the Ku Klux Klan right on Main Street Disney...
That is all.
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BWAHAHAHA!!!! :)
The first time I went to Disney it rained buckets. I was horrified at the sea of yellow Disney ponchos; if little Sally or Bobby let go of Momma's hand for a moment they'd be lost forever.
I still (I think) have a Mickey Mouse poncho from about 10 years ago. Just packed it up and brought it with me... and I bring it back whenever I go back. Saves a lot of $$ in buying new ones... and it seems that they don't sell the yellow ones any more, Lissa. The new ones are clear.
Oh man... that is priceless... :-) I STILL have one of those @$&* $10 ponchos stuck in a bag in the trunk...
So, a family trip to the top vacation destination in the fucking world, and your comments about the host state and its people amount to:
1. A crappy rest stop at an interstate exit (what a rarity!) equals a shithole of a city...never mind that you're five minutes inside the state and you've not even seen or been in said shithole city.
2. Traffic is heavy on the main interstate route into that number one tourist trap (shocking, innit, on the number one crowd day of the week for that tourist trap), and from that, the wholly logical conclusion that these must be the worst drivers in the world...never mind that a huge percentage of the crazies on the road there are from everywhere *except* the host state (like fucking Massachusetts, fer instance).
3. A group of folks with white ponchos must certainly be the FLA contingent of the KKK, 'cause, you know, this is da souf, and pretty much everybody is a Klan kook, yes?...never mind that the folks in question were far more likely to be a bunch of damn Jehovahs or a French tour group, especially since residents wouldn't go near that damn place on a Saturday if the tickets were free and Mickey & Minnie were performing a reenactment of Deep Throat in the middle of Magic Kingdom's Main Street.
Y'know, JayG, I've checked out your writings and your opinions a few times because others whose views I respect seem to hold you in some regard. And anyone who's seen much of my commentary knows I'm no apologist for all things Florida; in fact after fifty years, I'm pretty much sick of the place, though that's largely because so much that's wrong with it is related to the dregs of everywhere else choosing this as their Promised Land.
But after this shallow, asinine lazy man's series of pot shots at the ten-foot targets, I would never take seriously anything you might have to say about anything.
I'd say enjoy the rest of your stay, but that wouldn't suit your preconception now would it? Probably prewritten, too. Huh, where have I seen that method of writing/reporting before? New media, my ass. Pathetic, man.
Al Terego
Hey AL, lighten up, its just someguy's opinion on the intarwebs
Al: I've got a suggestion for you.
Reach down, and pull that bug out of your ass.
Jay wasn't insinuating that Florida was full of racists, or that the people who were wearing the white rain ponchos were racist, just that they unintentionally kind of looked like the KKK, and therefor the situation was somewhat amusing. It's funny precisely because that WASN'T their intention.
He'd have probably made the same observation if he came across a group of people wearing white rain ponchos on the streets of Boston.
It's always good to see that the Internets is still SRS BIZNS
"especially since residents wouldn't go near that damn place on a Saturday if the tickets were free and Mickey & Minnie were performing a reenactment of Deep Throat in the middle of Magic Kingdom's Main Street."
I have to admit, I would go there on a Saturday just to see that!!
But then, as Jay knows, I have a sense of humor that's not merely twisted, it's sprained.
You know...I wish Jay had taken a quick picture with his phone's camera, just so we could all see the little white ponchos standing around looking like Klansmen with Cinderella's Castle in t he background, so that we could let guys like Al see just how it looked at that very moment, and how funny it is to us Yanks to see white hooded ponchos milling around on Main Street USA.
Is it racist? Fuck no it ain't. Is it funny? Damned straight its funny. I also gave Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase their props when they did the SNL skit with a job interview and word association. That was hysterically funny.
And I'm sure that if Richard Pryor were alive today, he would appreciate Jay's sense of humor at seeing the juxtaposition of white hoodies at Cindy's Castle.
That right there is FUUUUHHHH-NEEEEEEEE!!!!!
And I agree with Roberts suggestion...get the bug outta yer ass.
Patriot
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