No gum on
the ground. No muddy footprints, even
after rain. We notice that the trashcans
gleam in their own freshly-Windexed splendor.
I turn to
The Husband—it is obvious from the look on his face that he is thinking the
same exact thing I am.
He exclaims,
“We could move here! We could work at
Disney World and everything will be clean and shiny forever!”
Actually, I
was thinking of getting the name and phone number for their cleaning service,
but his idea might be a lot easier.
Walking
around Disney makes us want to be neater and cleaner, too. We see someone drop their receipt on the
ground, and instead of handing it back to them or stopping to examine it and
try to memorize their credit card number like I might normally do, I throw it
in the trashcan. When my younger son “accidentally”
kicks mulch onto the sidewalk, we make him put it back in a neatly patterned
formation, the way God and Disney intended.
When I feel beads of sweat threaten to drip down my face from the
nuclear-melting powers of the Florida sun, I reach to wipe them off with a
tissue before they can get on anything, anything that might make Disney World
less than perfect.
Because that
is what Disney is, right? Perfect? The workers are friendly to a fault, and just
when we think it is all fiction, one of them will say that he is also from San
Diego and where did I go to high school, or another will say that her oldest
son is also named Tall. These people
want to be our friends, and I suddenly feel compelled to invite them over for dinner
next week.
But that
would require cleaning the house …
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| Mosaics at EPCOT that I saw a worker scrubbing with a toothbrush ... I can't compete with that |
MOV
YES, a thousand times.
ReplyDeleteI love the cleanliness at Disney, and all the friendly smiling people. It would be fun to live there. I could be Cruella or the wicked witch from any fairy tale.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
ha! you would not be Cruella, you would be Cinderella! :)
DeleteDid they ask you to take off your shoes before entering?
ReplyDeleteChristian !!! Come one, this is Disney we are talking about!!!! Of course they did. Duh.
Delete(and then they polished them and gave them back when we left. ended up giving my sons new pairs because the old ones were an embarrassment.)
... so you can imagine my shock the first time I went to the ACTUAL New Orleans, and not the Disneyland version. Because they have active fish markets and lots of drunk partiers in the French Quarter. It kind of smelled like he opposite of Disney, but with more bile.
ReplyDeleteWow. I hadn't thought of that in a while.
sorry to make you think of that
DeleteCleaning a mural with a toothbrush? Wow. They are welcome to come to my home and clean things any time. Really.
ReplyDeleteI meant mosaic. Sorry. :-(
DeleteI knew what you meant. :) mural/ mosaic/ art. it is all good.
DeleteWe went to Disney world in December once. They had a rare freeze and all the grass went yellow. We actually saw them spray painting the grass green.
ReplyDeletego Disney!!!!! (they might spray paint the sky blue and the sun yellow, you never know)
DeleteI had the same experience when I went to Jamaica. The workers at the resort we stayed at were extremely accommodating and friendly.
ReplyDeleteThen again, I had a drink in my hands 24/7 during that vacation, so they actually might have all been awful.