The dead water parks at the heart of Disney World Florida

bbc.co.uk Newsbeat ^ | March 20, 2016 | staff

[Tijeras_Slim]

Nature has a seven year rule. Stay away for seven years and it reverts back to nature.

Takes longer out west, here is one of the Apple II houses at the Nevada Test Site. It was still like this in 2001 when I did some work out there.

[Salamander]

LOL

[SamAdams76]

All this yapping about theme parks. I hate theme parks. Overpriced tourist traps. Long lines. Blazing sun. Surrounded by spoiled and fussing children. Aggravated and harried parents. $3.50 for a drink and $6 for a hot dog. I don't like the rides. I don't like heights. All those tourists taking pictures. Does anybody even look at them when they get home? Who wants to look at pictures from Disneyland? I want to forget about Disneyland. The best part about Disneyland for me was the plane ride home.

I was so happy when my kids grew up and we never had to go to a theme park again. Much rather go to Las Vegas. Las Vegas is better. I spend a few thousand dollars and maybe win some of it back. Sometimes I win all of it back. Everything is air conditioned. You can walk for miles and never have to go outdoors. You get to walk around with 64oz margaritas and funny looking hats. Nobody hassles you except time share people. Sometimes in Las Vegas you think it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon but it's actually 3 o'clock in the morning. When you find out, you don't care. You then get a steak dinner. Then you sleep for 10 hours and have eggs and bacon in the afternoon. Then you go for a swim at the hotel pool and have more margaritas. Maybe some blackjack and slot machines and then you go to a real show, not some cheesy parade with a bunch of adults dressed up like mice and dogs.

Maybe it's just me but I hate Disneyland and I hate theme parks.

[Twinkie]

You know, thing is that most everyone has so much junk
they’ve collected over several years that nobody needs
much of anything. Fang’s mother was a hoarder & it was a
lifetime of hoarding for her that almost became a sickness.
I *think* we have had a few uninvited “visitors” that came
in our house over the past 30 yrs. & helped themselves
to whatever they wanted. Honestly, we have so many clothes
& junk that I may not miss something for years & then I
don’t really miss it. If anyone has to steal to get stuff;
I pity them. - Fang’s mother was SO afraid I was going to
get something of hers that it became funny. She was an
Injun giver (I can say that because I’m Cherokee on both
sides of my family). His mother would “give” us an item;
then a couple of years or so later; she would take a tour
of my house and go around reclaiming all of the junk. I
just finally carted all her stuff down there & piled it on
her enclosed porch. - Fang & I gave & gave & gave to that
woman; but you’d think we NEVER gave her a dime or an item.
(She didn’t have to get old & senile to get like that
either.) I think I’ll just leave a will that states just
sell it ALL & tell our son the money’s his & not to
dishonor us with his choices on what to do with it. I do
not want my husband to sign it all over to his brother &
the Kraut SIL. I don’t hold it against her she’s a German;
but my dad was terribly shell-shocked from the war & I
can’t stomach any flak from her, nor do I want her to snap
up what I’ve worked hard for.

[oldvirginian]

I’m kind of lucky that my in-laws are all deceased.

I told my mom to sell the house and find a smaller place.
She could rent a nice apartment and live off the proceeds from the property sale.
She doesn’t want to though, she loves that place.

I had an aunt who was a real Indian giver type.
We finally stopped taking Christmas and birthday gifts from her.

Sounds like you’ve had a tough time with the in-laws.
Have you ever considered setting up some kind of trust to be administered by your son for the grand kids?
Might work.
Pass it by a lawyer.

[rktman]

LOL! Kinda sounds like a good time. When we were in pre-retirement positions (we both had good payin’ jobs) LV, that was our disney even though we lived an hour from disney world. When someone would visit and talk about going we’d tell them to head west on the ‘Beeline’ and follow the signs and we’d leave a light on for them. If disney does anything, it does great marketing to kids who make it hard for some parents to not take them. But, I do know some who have season passes and go at least once a week. Um, no. But, I gotta say their security is pretty tight especially back lot. We had a band gig for some sort of NCAA/Cingular 1 football thing and had to go back lot. Pop-up barricades at the security gate and if your name wasn’t on the list, make a u-turn. It was tighter than getting in to the space center. Of course more money was at stake. :>)

[Twinkie]

Just ceasing accepting gifts from “Indian Givers” is the
best solution. My FIL was pretty much OK & not like that
at all. - I know what your mom means by loving a place.
We’ve lived in this house almost 30 years. It’s on several
acres in the counry - rugged country land.

We have no grandchildren. Son is 50 & not married; so I
doubt he’s gonna marry, but I’ve kept hoping. (I suppose
our marriage wasn’t the greatest example in the world.)