So I work at Walt Disney World. LOVE IT! As you can imagine, it takes a certain type of person to work here. It's true, a large majority of male cast members are gay, which to me, is not at all surprising (most fit the stereotype of happy, caring, and understanding and accepting of everyone, which...um, duh. Disney cast member). Many of the people who work in Entertainment (i can't say a majority, because I've really only seen/been around cast members from Magic Kingdom), seem to be pretty...okay, I'm not gonna be mean, truly. They're just...well, let's just say they act somewhat similar to high school diva "actresses."
Then there are all the people who just need a job. They're the ones that claim to love Disney oh-so-very much but know as much about it as the average person. They're average people...they're okay I guess.
And then there are the completely over the top Disney historian/geek/nerd/whatever you wanna call them. I knew they existed before I came here, but I've never actually met them. It's very weird, and definitely something I'm still having a hard time getting used to. All the ones I've met happened to be boys, I'm not sure why that is but there ya go.
The first one I met was during training at the very beginning of my program. WOW, he was annoying! As our quaint little group walked down Main Street and our tour guide asked questions, he answered every single one with this smug look on his face like he owned Magic Kingdom. It was sick. And then he took it upon himself to walk right next to me (or try to) during the rest of the tour and tried to impress me with his knowledge. Ew. He was a history major. I'm not saying that comes with a stereotype, but if history majors had a stereotype, he was it. Of course, I wasn't mean or rude or anything, but wow, I've never met someone who knew about Disney that much in such a make-me-mad kind of way. Goodness, if you are yelling the safety spiel to your peers in the stretching room of the Haunted Mansion (which he did before the cast member could: "Please drag your bodies away from the walls and into the dead center of the room please!" ), you have gone way too far. No one wants to hear that much geekness and that much sass at the same time. Me and my roommate spent much of our time hiding from him for the rest of the tour haha.
Second boy geek I've met was less annoying, but just as much uncomfortable. This guy seemed normal enough until he drove me home from West Clock (aka Magic Kingdom cast parking lot/bus stop). During our conversation, he told me about his love for the Disney Parks and how it came about and what he wants to do within the company and his career goal at the parks, etc. Well, you can only say "wow, me too" so many times before you sound like a broken record or something. But, for realsies, he sounded exaaactly like me. It was weird. No, it was not attractive (his smoking in the car didn't help the lack of attractiveness either). It was just weird. I kinda felt stupid because I didn't know how to contribute to the conversation. It wasn't like we had similar stories and I could share them because I could relate. Our stories were EXACTLY the same! Gosh, it was the most bizarre thing! But I didn't want to sound too excited or put any unecessary excitement in my voice as I talked to him because I didn't want him to think I was interested in continuing our knowing each other (he was very much hitting on me from the very beginning, and I was terribly uninterested). However, interestingly enough, he cooled off a ton once he found out I was from BYU. He likes a good alcoholic beverage every once in awhile, apparently, and he knew from past roommates what "those BYU kids" are like. Wow, that was a weird night.
Those were the two first main encounters I've had this summer with Disney geeks. The last one is kind of exciting because it's the VERY first time I've met someone who tried to challenge my Disney bank of knowledge and NOT annoy me tremeeendously or annoy me or just weird me out or make me want to punch them in the face. This would be my roomie's new boy toy. It's also very curious because he can pull off the Disney geek thing in a masculine way, and I don't think I've seen that done before. It's possible, people!!! To him, I say, good on ya, mate! Now, my opinion of the last guy may be tainted by the fact that although he challenged me, I totally beat him at the Disney quiz-off we had all day yesterday. But still...
I've had a lot of people tell me that I'm gonna meet my future husband out here in Florida. That I'm gonna marry a total Disney fanatic like me and he's gonna get me an engagement ring shaped like Mickey and have Disney children named Huey, Dewey, Louie, April, May, and June. Ew. No. That is not what I want at all. I don't know if I'd be able to stomach dating a Disney geek, let alone marry one. My opinion is that if there is someone out there that I can love more than Disney, then that's a huge achievement. That's true love, right there.
So yeah, my opinion on Disney nerds: they're out there, they exist, but I am very content on keeping my distance from them.
p.s. April, May, and June are Daisy Duck's nieces, just fyi :)
No comments:
Post a Comment