San Francisco Giants win their first World Series Championship reminds me of one of the team's previous tours of the series, this time in 1989, when I was working on Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.The Giants play the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship series, the right to go to the world series, I drag the Cowboys as a recent Northwestern graduate, but it was a family of Giants fans who walked to the turnstiles on Pirates of the Caribbean today.
I will now take a moment to remind our younger readers on the background.Back in 1989 was the Internet has yet to become a sparkle in Tim Berners-Lee eye. mobile phones were car phones-big, bulky and spent quite simply by estate agents, doctors and lawyers. If you wanted to know a sports score, you either found a TV set and waiting for an update, or if you were a Degenerate gambler, you found a pay phone, which would let you make a call to a "976" line and fed in coins until the message has been recorded so far got to score you want.
Giants fans in my queue would have liked to have observed the game day, but they had planned their Walt Disney World visits for months. They had not expected the Giants make it this far-heck, history had taught them good October belonged to other fans teams.So the game for their missed theme park vacation.
But they still wanted to know the score.There are no televisions in the Magic Kingdom, but I assume that you have guessed that perhaps there was some pause in the premises surrounding the park so that they took. a chance and asked me.
"Hey, would you happen to know the score to the game's Giants-Cowboys, would you?"
I was about to say no, when I remembered my Disney University education: Disney cast members react never, that they are not the answer to a question.They find out.
But how do I find out the score to a baseball playoff system game, standing at the entrance to the Pirates of the Caribbean?
Like any good corporate employee, I decided to kick up this issue corporate ladder.So I called the park control.
Investment cast members don't normally, call control, unless they require an attraction. But hey, I had to get these guests answer.Disney told me I could not say no, so a person on the Disney owe me an answer.
"Hello, this is Robert on Pirates of the Caribbean. This will sound a little unusual, but I have a guest here would like to know the score of the game's Giants-Cowboys and will not tell him that I don't have an answer.Do you know where can I get to score for him? "
To this day I am so proud of the way, I formulated the issue, which I by something else I have ever written.I completely inoculated himself and put the control in a position where they could tell me to buzz.Guest had a question and Disney policy was that he will get the answer.
"Ummmm ... hold on a second."
I could tell that the operator control trying to think of a place where he could kick this question. one-minute passed, but I was not hanging up the phone. While I waited, I chatted up the Giants fans, learn about how they had planned their trip and record them, that I, as a Northwestern Grad rooting for the Cowboys. father was surprised to hear I was from Northwestern, and told me about a colleague, who had gone to NOW, too.
Finally got the control up back on the line. regardless of what he had done to find the answer, it had worked.
"The Giants won: 6-4."
I thanked up, then told the family they were ecstatic.. Father shook my hand and thanked me, as the son of the air pumped with his fist and threw down the entrance hall.
Will, of course, today you are probably just hop on your mobile phone to get a response to a question as. but should Interwebs ever fails to deliver you, it is nice to remember that for large amusement parks such as Disney's when you have a question, they are always someone around who knows the score.
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