I remember E tickets!
My mom is glued to the TV watching MASH too.....
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I remember E tickets!
My mom is glued to the TV watching MASH too.....
Of course we remember "E" tickets! What? They don't use those anymore?
Nope, don't remember an e-ticket.
Am glad she got to come home, though, and that everything was fine.
Karen
I have no idea what an e ticket is. I'm the same age as you guys, so please tell.
E-ticket: the ticket needed for the "good" rides at Disneyland. Back before there were all-over-park passes, you'd get a ticket book with tickets A-E, different rides needed different level tickets. Space Mountain was an E ticket. Seems the Mad Hatter's Tea Cups was an A-Ticket. So big kids would grumble about being stuck with tickets for "baby rides", and not enough tickets for the good rides. Seems you could buy more E-tickets once in the park. At the entry gate, you could buy ticket booklets according to your budget and family age group. I suppose this was when Disneyland had most of their visitors coming from the immediate area. When I was a University student (late 1970's), they were phasing out the ticket books and phasing in the all-over park pass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
That explains it. I am a freak of American nature in that I hate theme parks. I lived in Florida when Disney World opened and went a couple of times. Took my older son to Disneyland in like, maybe 1986? Then, in the 90s my DH had a company meeting in Orlando, during our February school break. We all went, and my kids got to see Disney World for the first time at ages 13 and 15. They figured they were the only 2 kids in MA that had not been there...
I did visit Disneyland once.
But I think "E-ticket ride" is one of those phrases that survives in the culture long after the reference is gone, like "dialing" a phone - oh, I can't think of any others right now, but I know they're out there.
I hadn't even thought about the "dailing" the phone. We DO still say that at times. Although I think I mostly say "call so & so" or " I was just calling you" (not "just dailing your number").
That brings me to music....so when a band has a new release of an ...ok, it is not an album, so it is a CD. But I usually just buy/down load it. So I have "So & So's newest donwload"? I still slip and say album/cd. It just doesn't flow.
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Originally Posted by bmccasland
Even though my first Disney trip was 1983, I knew about these from Disney trivia. :p Tell your mom to take it is easy, it is 80 degrees before the sun comes up and no end in sight. Maybe she needs a DVD of M*A*S*H?
An album is the proper term for any collection like a recording or book. I imagine it comes from the same root as albino, which means white or blank.
Karen
Never been to Disneyland, and never want to go. ;)
Never heard of "E tickets" until this thread. :D
Albums? I still catch myself saying "LP's" sometimes!!! :eek: (most people don't even know what LP stood for anymore.)
It was only a few years ago that I finally stopped saying "ice box" instead of "refrigerator". :eek:
I miss the round metal dials on the heavy old black phones. Dialing was satisfying and made such nice sounds.
I hate theme parks too, but we took the kids to Disney World once at dh's insistence. My son was young and wouldn't go on any of the rides, so I just hung out with him while daughter and dh did the rides, though it was very hot and very crowded and not at all pleasant. Then we went to Epcot instead, and it was full of gardens and not crowded and my son would do the "rides", which were mostly Disney's version of the present future as envisioned in 1950. I will admit it was worth seeing Ellen Degeneres and Bill Nye the Science Guy together in the prehistory exhibit.
BSG, my family tried hard to break me from saying "ice box", and they mostly succeeded eventually. But "ice box" just flows off the tongue so much easier than "refrigerator". I still enjoy it when my grandmother calls it "the box".
Lisa and Deb, I knew there was a reason we were friends :)!
I could never believe the amount of money people around here spent on taking their kids to Disney. I mean, people who couldn't afford other things, spent it there. I know, it's a choice, but with so much cultural stuff to do around here, you choose to go to Disney World? I even knew some who had some type of monthly/yearly pass that cost a fortune and they flew down there several times a year. Well, I think that the $ spent sending my kids to Audubon camp, where they slept in a tent for 6 weeks and learned about the environment and did sports of their own choosing was better spent. Yea, this is a sore subject with me.
It's thundering and raining AGAIN... just came back from another rainy run. had my cycling clothes on, but then it started raining. Changed to running stuff and quickly did 2.5 miles before any lightning started.
Yep, still raining and thundering here too. But the guys came anyway today and brought in my two huge dumptruck loads of topsoil for my new veggie garden. Got soil? :D
I didn't go to Disneyworld until this decade! :)
I enjoyed it, because the three of us enjoy rides, but I never have to go back. I would enjoy another trip to Epcot, though.
Karen
I've been to Disneyland a number of times, I love it. The rides, the parades, the whole fantasy. I took my nephew when he turned 5, then my niece for her 5th birthday. There is nothing better than Disneyland through the eyes of a 5 year old. Even if niece made me go through "It's a Small World" at least 10 times :rolleyes:
Disney movies are another story -- they bore me to tears.
Even Pixar movies? I loved Up. Loved Ratatouille. Loved Toy Story. Loved Finding Nemo. Missed Wall-E, but it got nothing but rave reviews.Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
I've got to find some kids to take to the movies... :rolleyes:
We spent a day at Universal Studios this year and had a good time. First time I'd been to a theme park since Disneyland when I was 12. Disney World seemed more oriented toward the little kids.
Having grown up relatively "deprived," my parents never took us to theme parks. Instead, we went to amusement parks---mostly local, Kennywood & Idylwild---and once, we went on a three day vacation to Cedar Point and SeaWorld (Sandusky, OH)!
As an adult, I don't really find them appealing but then again, my three kids have four paws and big fluffy tails. :D
I TDYed to Orlando for training a few years ago and saw all that madness from a distance. That was more than enough for me!!!
I love Disneyworld! We went just a couple years ago in a slow week after Thanksgiving with my parents. The youngest of the 4 of us was 26! We had a great time but I guess we are simple folk. There was Christmas decorations, my favorite holiday and short lines. Because my favorite ride as a child was Dumbo, we all rode it! I also love the zoo, the aquarium, museums, historical sites, outdoor sculpture gradens and parks. I usually get Pixar movies from my MIL, I love them.:p
My Mammaw still calls it an icebox, why correct a 92 year old woman? She has the best stories to tell about real ice boxes and an amazing vinyl collection put complains the record player broke. :D
I like the zoo, historical sites, and botanical gardens, also. But, they are *real* places, not some corporate entity's idea of what my *fantasy* is. I don't like rides, my DH and one of my kids have motion sickness, and yes, I've been called a fun hater. My DH took my kids to Sea World when they were young, while my mom and I went on a shopping spree and out to lunch (they live in San Diego). And Epcot is just a recreation of what Disney thinks those places really are. I got a really bad feeling when I was there, like this is America's view point of the rest of the world? I can't really explain it. Theme parks are not an American phenomena, but it is just hard for to understand the intrigue they hold for anyone.
The best example of all of this I can give is that on that trip we took to Orlando in the 90's, my husband and I went out for a nice dinner at a Cuban restaurant that had been recommended by the hotel. It was in that planned community that Disney built... I can't remember the name of it. Anyway, after dinner, we went out and walked along the "main street." We both got this terrible, sickening feeling, and we left pretty quickly. It was like they tried to recreate a real town, with a real town center; in the word's of the promotional literature we had read it said something like "this is the way life used to be, when people knew their neighbors, shopped at local stores, etc, etc." At the same time both DH and I said, "it's like they tried to recreate Concord center (or really many other New England towns) with this fake stuff." And I am sure there are plenty of other places where this still exists, for real.
Just my opinion, but it was a scary feeling.
My family went to disneyland wayyyyyyy back in the late 70's. I don't like theme parks, rides & will def never go back to disneyland etc. Then again, I don't like disney films as they're booooring & the social aspect of disney bothers me....I'm not interested in big budget animation films & certainly don't want to watch a film by a company selling " happy world" stories..:mad:
I would much rather watch a foriegn film (hopefully this year's Perth film fest has an Iranian film as they're so cool!).
I do enjoy museums, galleries & beaches.
I did love Ratatouille, Toy Story was OK. Much to my best friend's dismay, I couldn't make it through the first ten minutes of Finding Nemo. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
:eek: My co-worker showed up at work this morning.. drunk :eek:. I'm glad I rang head office as she was swaying etc & thought..this doesn't look good on our Co image! The director was quite happy that I rang as it would be baaaad news if they lost a particular client..
*shakes head*
Well...that may not have been my first thought. This person needs help.Hopefully a leave of absence and treatment is in order instead of a firing which would only make things worse for said person.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
Well, I have no idea how many times this has happened as i'm covering at the particular building.. The Co director came & spoke to her but am unsure what happens next.
Coming to work drunk on a MOnday??? :confused:
I mean I do DREAD Monday's...returning to work and all. But I think showing up drunk is just not the best way to handle it.
I just crank up the java and hope for an easy transition back into work.
Wow!:eek:
It's a leftover/continued drunk from Sunday night, perhaps with maintenance 'booster shots'.
not uncommon at all for an alcoholic to still be drunk monday morning. Very sad. She needs to want to get herself some help.
Yesterday at a picnic, a massage therapist friend of mine, who owns her own spa, was grumbling that she had to send one of her employees home to bathe and put on clean clothes - and this isn't the first time she's had to do this with the gal. Employee is putting new meaning to "roll out of bed, go to work," with absolutely nothing else in the middle! :eek: My friend would love to fire some of her employees for poor work habits, but when she posts ads (paper, Craig's List, on-line lists, schools), she gets very little results.
Is there an acceptable day?Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
You did the right thing by reporting her. Yes, she needs help. She won't get it if all her colleagues play the enabler role by pretending not to notice. Now it's her boss's responsibility to offer her the help she needs and pressure her to take the offer. As a fellow employee you would have no authority to do either of those things, so alerting the boss is the right thing to do, also for your troubled colleague's sake.
Drunk or diabetic/hypoglycemic?
The two (three) can be frighteningly similar. Ketoacidosis (with crazy high blood sugar) can even make a person smell drunk. Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) can really mess with balance and cognition and emotional stability, which I know all too well.
I'm in the process of getting a medic alert anklet made that says clearly "Feed Me Sugar!" (I'll also modify my RoadIDs) Someone encountering me in a hypoglycemic state would assume I was drunk, which could lead to me biting the big one.
When I was in EMT training we were told to give sublingual glucose to anyone acting oddly. It could save the life of someone with low blood sugar (diabetic insulin reaction or just plain ol' hypoglycemic) and would only mildly discomfit someone with normal or high blood sugar until they get to the ER.
Whatever the cause, someone showing up to work Monday swaying and acting oddly needs to see the doc asap. Either for health management or for detox... You did good, CC!
Knotted, my youth baseball park is surrounded by a walking trail, and there's a big shady playground right between a couple of my fields. When we were out working on Saturday, we saw an ambulance come flying through the parking lot and the EMTs ran out to the playground. Since it's "my" ballpark, I ran out to see if I could help.
A man had apparently been sitting in the shade under the playground tarp after his walk, and passed out. EMTs immediately found his medical alert bracelet. Diabetic. Blood sugar, 26! If there had been any other circumstances, like if it had been in the evening or in a big city, and if he had not been dressed neatly in Harley-Davidson t-shirt, I would have thought he was drunk, too.
I shudder to think what would have happened if a little girl in a stroller with her mama walking on the trail had not wanted to stop at the playground and her mother had not found the gentleman lying there. There were 25 of us working on the fields getting ready for a tournament, and none of us saw him out there. That would have disturbed me for ages if he had died.
I am very happy that our EMTs and police in our small town are so good at their jobs. No one we found knew who he was, but the police went straight to work, found his car in the lot, and went straight to his home to find his family. Their heroism makes me feel safe. And proud.
Karen
Thank you EMT's and health types everywhere, and good night!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
CC, you done good :D
Aack, working on the form to apply (not transfer, it's like a new job application) to the company I already work for. They want references. Yikes, I'd better ask some folks. :cool:
I have no idea what's happening with the woman now. I've never encountered something like this before & just thought..odd..
All I know is, i'm doing my job & having an interesting time reaching things :o I'll have to attempt to rearrange some items so i can actually get to them!!! Poor coffe drinkers won't have any sugar if i can't reach it!! :eek:
Great ride today..no rain!!! Weeeeharr!!!
That was exactly what my first thought was - Monday morning is also a good time to have screwed up blood sugar levels due to eating that piece of cake the night before.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
I have a coworker who has twice just left my office in the middle of a conversation and re-appeared a few minutes later with a candy bar. I have glucose tablets in my desk, but the candy bar tastes so much better :cool:
He says I start to slur my words.
Drunk is also possible, as has been noted, my Uncle used to seem drunk mostly just on Monday mornings. He handled the alcohol in such a way that Friday-Sunday night he didn't seem that bad. He seemed worse when he was coming off of the binge.
I didn't get a bee in my bonnet!
no, what i got was a yellowjacket who thwacked right into my forehead. Then he crawled onto the bridge of my glasses. At this point, i grabbed my glasses and threw them on the grassy strip along the side of the road. End result?
No one got hurt. Then I stopped my bike turned around and picked up my sunglasses, none the worst for the wear.
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Originally Posted by Biciclista
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fast thinking, Mimi.
I got a bee in my helmet once while riding. Happily, it didn't sting me while I screeched to a halt and removed my helmet posthaste. I'll never forget that buzzing all over my scalp while riding 20 mph. :eek:
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Talk about an adrenaline rush!Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Yikes.
When DH and I first started dating, I was riding my motorcycle one day, flipped up my visor at a stoplight and a bee flew in underneath my sunglasses. I tried to get it out of there, and it did fly away, but not before it stung the corner of my eye.
For the next week, wherever I went with DH, people would see my swollen eye and give him the dirtiest looks! :p
Just this Saturday, a sweat bee landed on my water bottle to try to suck up a little Heed. Naturally when I wanted a swig, it stung the inside of my lip. :eek: Luckily it was only a sweat bee... although I suppose if it was something bigger, I might have noticed it before I tried to take a drink, too!
are sweat bees little?
never heard of them. But ouch, that had to have hurt... both times!