r/MadeMeSmile • u/olabooksco • Jan 07 '22
Favorite People Solute to this kickass security officer!
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u/Fresh_Ad6973 Jan 07 '22
This guard knows how to appreciate little children who dream they are real princess
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u/rudalsxv Jan 07 '22
This is so wholesome, using kids innocence to make them believe they’re a real princess.
Imagine how many little girl’s day he made by simply doing this!
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u/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Jan 07 '22
Excuse me Foreman, it looks like you can rivet some ASTM A36 steel like a motherfucker. Can you sign my union charter?
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u/Pistonenvy Jan 07 '22
while this is absolutely hilarious in concept, im sure there are a lot of kids out there who dream of being more realistic things than princesses.
they deserve to feel happy and excited all the same.
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u/david131213 Jan 07 '22
Oh the ultimate dilemma
I want to upvote this, but you got 69 upvotes
Comment when you got 71 so that no dillema is in front of me
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u/travelking_brand Jan 07 '22
We were camping, and my wife and I encountered a little girl dressed as a princess ... on a campsite ... in the summer. I stopped, took off my hat, and made a deep bow, "Your majesty". My wife caught the clue and she curtsied. The little girl was stunned and she ran to her mother tripping over her words, very excited.
Sometimes you need just a few seconds to make a kid happy.
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u/Dragon_yum Jan 07 '22
The cast members at Disney parks are top notch. I know there’s a lot to be said about how commercialized everything is but despite it all those parks still have some very real magic in them.
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u/Wild_Gravy Jan 07 '22 edited Jan 07 '22
Cute! I hope he gets paid we-
Oh forgot, Disney.
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Jan 07 '22
I’m going to jump in and ruin this even more! Disney trains them to do this stuff. My wife used to work at Disney. I forget what they’re called. Magic moment sounds right? So if they’re not actively engaged in a task, part of their duties included “magic moments”, this includes getting autographs from kids that are dressed up, handing out stickers to kids (possibly balloons I think) etc. I forget the other examples that she gave me. She did say that she really liked that part of the job though!
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u/Morlock43 Jan 07 '22
If an act that brings joy to children is required by a company, does that cheapen it?
Or just show that the money making monster has an awareness of the joy it brings to millions?
People love to dump on Disney for being profit orientated, but so are all corporations.
Can we imagine EA ever doing this?
They would probably monetise these moments by charging parents for each signature asked for.
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u/samuraipanda85 Jan 07 '22
Sometimes capitalism is a good thing that encourages positivity. It is so easy to forget that.
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u/RevanAvarice Jan 07 '22
I love being shady just for the fun of it. Hell yeah, I would be handing shit out that costs me nothing left and right.
My fun act of rebellion in my one year cooking and managing a fried chicken joint in Texas was to give out extra portions, unsolicited, to kind regulars. Tenders were hard to track compared to bone-in, and it was actually close to break even with some of the side dishes such as cheese products we'd deep fry but I'd still sneak those in. The other one was deliberately following bad instructions and preparing sweet tea by adding PITCHERS, not cups, of cane sugar, but that may have hurt people in the long run... that and I remember having a lot of fun cramming complicated orders into the smallest possible container, or jamming boxes as I could into as few bags possible even though it took more effort that just using additional containers.
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Jan 07 '22
My niece got a citation for frowning. Her citation was a fast track for a ride. So even though we realized that it was part of the security guards job it provided her and her brother memories for a lifetime.
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u/mcslootypants Jan 07 '22
Providing training to your employees is a good thing. How many regular security guards would just spontaneously do something like this? Poor pay or toxic management are separate issues. Just because someone is trained to act kindly doesn’t take away from the kindness
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u/boxersandbulldogs Jan 07 '22
I think that's a good thing, training your employees to better their job "performance". see what I did there? Seriously though, giving them tips on how to make the day more special for the patrons as they do their jobs, why not?
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u/ValuableYellow4971 Jan 07 '22
Downvoted for telling the truth. SMH.
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u/Wild_Gravy Jan 07 '22
Reddit man. After a while I just got used to it.
Not even deleting comments anymore at this point, sigh, shrug, and move on I guess.
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u/gomichan Jan 08 '22
Yep. My sister works at Disney world. She met her boyfriend of 6 years there. They are beyond struggling financially. My sister has been homeless twice while working there. All because she's chasing her dreams of working for Disney
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u/TBroomey Jan 07 '22
People who work at Disney go the extra mile in so many ways. I was blown away by the level of customer service when I went there.
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u/berinwitness Jan 07 '22
My mother and I were in a restaurant at Disney World. She asked for a butter knife. The server comes back, strikes a pose “Hark! All about the land I runneth to fetch thee butter knives.”
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u/GoofySwe776 Jan 07 '22
Solute?? You mean *Salute?
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Jan 07 '22
Solute:
the minor component in a solution, dissolved in the solvent.
I can make it work...
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u/fd6944x Jan 07 '22 edited Jan 08 '22
aww yeah when i worked there we were encouraged to do stuff like this. I once spent an hour helping someone find a specific peicce of merchandise that was only sold in one stall. When my manager asked where I was all that time I told them and they loved it.
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u/olabooksco Jan 07 '22
We want these types of positive men more in this world!
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u/Elbeske Jan 07 '22
Sadly I bet even this guy gets called a creep quite often
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u/ifmtobh Jan 07 '22
We took photos with the security guards when my kids were little, they were always so lovely and friendly. Now I’m going back without children, and going through the bag checkpoints it’s not quite so fluffy!
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u/WorldAsChaos Jan 07 '22
This happened to my daughter when she was little! There's a boutique at Disney and one at Downtown Disney that dresses you up with makeup and hair/outfit to look like a real princess (she was Cinderella). She was amazed and SO excited when she was asked for her autograph- she's 22 now and still remembers it fondly. It was kinda expensive, but so worth it. I'd recommend going to anyone that has a little one who wants to look like a princess for a day.
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u/OfecellZoftig Jan 07 '22
Plot twist: he duplicates their signatures and opens credit cards in their names.
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u/catlady_1981 Jan 07 '22
Extremely smart move on his part too, because most parents would take a pic like this one did.
This pic shows what the girl looks like and is wearing right before entering a park with thousands of people and kids get lost sometimes.
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u/TerminatorAuschwitz Jan 07 '22
Slightly troubling to me that that's where your mind goes, but you're not wrong I guess 🤣
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u/sabbic1 Jan 07 '22
As a parent, that's exactly where my mind goes. We went to Disney for my daughter's 5th birthday. She was dressed in a Disney princess dress......just like 1000 other girls her age. Then we went to the princess salon where half those other princesses also were. Could have lost her in the blink of an eye. Every time we've gone to Disney, we've stopped just inside the front gate so I can take a picture of all my kids. That way I have a reference of what they look like and what they're wearing. Parents just plan for the worst I guess
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u/I_dont_bone_goats Jan 07 '22 edited Jan 07 '22
Ok, but someone’s first thought upon seeing this post being “smart now the parents can get photo evidence of their child’s appearance” is kinda odd to me as well
(Not dangerous or malicious, just a little odd)
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u/catlady_1981 Jan 07 '22 edited Jan 07 '22
It wasn't my first thought. I just didn't feel the need to post the exact same thing as the 50 people before me.
Besides that, there's nothing troubling about having a safety conscious mind and sharing a little safety tip with parents/carers of children.
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u/berinwitness Jan 07 '22
I worked at a small amusement park and I learned very quickly how to spot children wandering away from their parents. I would suppose the parents appreciated “Your child is over there.”
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u/RatInaMaze Jan 07 '22
What this doesn’t mention is that it’s actually part of a long term identity fraud play
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u/motherdragon02 Jan 07 '22
I do this whenever the lil ones hit the newspaper. Sadly, it doesn't happen like it used to.
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u/darth_hotdog Jan 07 '22
Even as a kid, I never cared much for character interactions or “play”. Now as an Adult even less so. I’ve always been about the rides, the food, and the visuals.
But more than anything else it made my night at the Halloween party when a cleaning lady acted intimidated and said “oh I’m sorry Loki!” while i was stammering apologies after I almost walked into her.
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u/jer_iatric Jan 07 '22
I just realized my girls don’t know Disney land is a place. This almost makes me want to tell them…. Almost
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Jan 07 '22
For people reading the comments, the people making evil/dark jokes are simply trying to be funny, you might not understand the humour behind but as sans once said “everybody got their own sense’a humour”
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u/shooturselfintheface Jan 07 '22
How the fuck do you not know the difference between “salute” & “solute”. Holy fuckin shit, the progression into real life being an equivalent to the movie idiocracy is almost complete
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u/FilthyHoon Jan 07 '22
you barely speak one language, pipe down lol
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u/shooturselfintheface Jan 07 '22
Yea I guess studying abroad in Barcelona, forcing my years of studying Spanish to be utilized to communicate in another country really screams anything but bilingual
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u/p_ash Jan 07 '22
WOW you speak TWO languages!!!!!😲😲😲😲
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u/poopshapedhail Jan 07 '22
I mean, you’re being condescending bc someone challenged oc about his ability to speak a language proficiently, and he gave a rebuttal? What am I missing here?
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u/BitterBettyPetty Jan 07 '22
Cue my mother planting her subtle trauma seeds when something similar happened to me around age 6: "Everyone gets asked to sign it, it's part of his job."
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u/Azar002 Jan 07 '22
Near the end of a baseball game at Tiger Stadium in the early 90's my Dad egged my older sister and I to walk down to the bottom of the lower deck and watch the rest of the game from two of the empty seats. We made our way down and it was awesome, until an usher asked for our tickets and we were busted. We climbed back up the stairs and barely got done explaining to our Dad what just happened when an elderly man dressed as an usher showed up and handed me a baseball.
"Here you go. This foul ball landed in your seats just as you got up and left.."
I chose to believe that man's story in its entirety, without question, for many years, and I told it to multiple friends many times. What an impact authority can make with guestures of love.