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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This Disney story is pure gold.  Whenever I think my mom gets the medal for playing the victim, I hear about someone's mom feigning a heart attack to get the attention back on her, etc.  Please give more details about what this 'hand-off' entails.  It puts my mom in perspective and that's helpful for improving our relationship.[/quote]

PP here. I am not sure what the technical term is for Disney, but I call it a hand off.  Basically, it was my MIL, my DD, and I (just us 3) at Disney.  By sure luck the ride attendant declared that my DD and I were the last people to be in that round for the ride, and stopped the line so my MIL would be the first in the next group.  So my MIL said to me, at the end of the ride give DD to me (hand her off) and she can ride with me in the next round, essentially DD gets to ride twice back to back with two different family members.  Apparently there is actually a Disney policy on this, and it is permitted on most rides.  So my DD and I ride the Dumbo ride for like 45 seconds (after waiting about an hour in the line), and we get off and as we walk by the people waiting I give DD to my MIL.  The ride attendant has a fit.  But my MIL says I am alone, I can bring another person with me onto the ride, so I pick my granddaughter, we are doing a hand off.  NO ONE ELSE COMPLAINED.  None of the other people in line cared, and I suspect a few were planning on the same thing.  Ride attendant was a real ahole, and said my MIL would be forced instead to ride alone or with another single rider/stranger.  WHY???? So now my MIL won't back down.  I mean, my MIL is right, and all the other people just wanted to ride the damn ride, but this ride attendant wouldn't cave.  So my MIL laid down on the pavement underneath one of the Dumbos in protest.  Security came, they threatened to kick her out. of the entire park  Eventually my MIL won and my DD rode with her and the people in line were like Praise baby jesus.  It was 15 minutes of hell.  Disney is NOT the happiest place on earth.  My DD was 3, she didn't care whether she rode the Dumbo ride again. But come hell or high water my MIL was not going to back down.  It was insane.

Before we had kids, she once got made at my DH and I for getting a ride back to her house with my DH's uncle and we stopped to get gas and for a beer at this diner place.  When we got back to MIL's house, where we were staying, she said we had deliberately tried to get rid of her so we could go and party, she locked us out of her apartment, took the clothes out of our suitcase, and threw them out the window, landing 4 stories below.  She's a lunatic.

So next time you think your MIL is batshit crazy, remember me, the Disney DIL.[/quote]

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