Going through some old emails over the weekend, I found this one to my office staff. I wrote it roughly 10 years ago, during a family trip to Disneyland.
While waiting to get in this morning we passed a lady yelling at a
park employee outside a ticket booth. She was quite upset
that the "special Disneyland admissions" she'd bought for a few $100 bills wasn't
going to get her into the park. Or anywhere.
Lady: "I demand you honor these tickets! They say they're official tickets, and I paid good money for them."
Employee: "Ma'am, I'm sorry, but these aren't tickets. Did you get them at your hotel desk?"
Lady: "NO! The desk was ridiculously expensive. These were much cheaper.
I got them from a man selling them at the bus stop in front of my
hotel."
Employee: "I think you've been scammed. I can call the police if you
wish. He wasn't a Disney employee, and these aren't real tickets."
Lady: "Of course they're real! They have a picture of Mickey Mouse on them."
Employee: "Yes, but that doesn't make them real tickets. In fact, that's
a decal of Mickey stuck to them. It looks like they were made on a home
computer."
Lady: "Well, he SAID he was an authorized Disney ticket sales person,
and was wearing a hat with Goofy on it. Why would he lie about
that?"
