You Won’t Believe These Wild Inside Stories From Disney Employees
“This woman was about to leave a little girl alone in a jacuzzi…”
As a lifeguard at the Contemporary Resort, one worker reported that children enjoyed playing “dead man floating” in the pool, making their job quite difficult to decipher whether anyone was actually drowning. Apparently, two rescues a day was normal for children struggling or inattentive parents. Only ocassionally, though, would a parent get wasted and pass out in the pool, at which point they would simply fish them out without getting wet as they would always be on their backs. In one frightening instance, the guard happened to hear a screech from the hot tub, which was not guarded, and noticed a little girl, 7 or 8 years old, alone in the pool. At that point, the guard politely asked the girl to bring her mother to supervise her, only to get barrated by a heavy set woman who yelled at me that they had “kicked their child out of the pool” angrily. To add insult to injury, the worker then heard the woman say “Honey, you can go ahead and use that, and don’t listen to him if he tells you to get out,” and the young man replied that they would have to leave the park if she would not supervise her child. He understandably expected to get slapped but, instead, she continued yelling and they eventually got kicked out. What an odyssey.
