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Why Everyone Hates Strollers at the Disney Parks

Ask anyone their Disney parks pet peeves and stroller users will come up every time. From space-hogging to bus-stalling to ambience-ruining, strollers seem to annoy everybody that doesn’t use them. They can even trigger a “This Is What’s Wrong With America Nowadays” rant from the angriest of us in the anti-stroller brigade. And I get it – if you’re a parent of small children, a stroller can really come in handy during long days walking back and forth across massive parks. But just like anything else in life, there are respectful ways and disrespectful ways to use a stroller.   First, there’s those who use strollers to hog up walking space. Or those that use a stroller is a traffic-battery-ramer and not something holding a small child. I once had the pleasure of seeing a mommy slam her stroller into someone who was walking on the complete opposite side of the pathway as her and then start screaming at her victim for endangering her child. Those are the kind of stroller users everyone ha

Women in Disney History

When people think of the Walt  Disney company, they probably think of Michael Eisner, the Nine Old Men, or Walt and Roy themselves. These men may be the most famous in Disney history, but a lot of women have also helped paved the path towards  success for the company. Here are some Disney women that deserve to be recognized:  Unnamed Ink and Painters Due to stereotypes about women, originally they could only be found in secretarial roles or in the ink and paint department at the Walt Disney Studios. Women were believed to be detail-oriented (but not smart or creative enough for animating jobs) which is why they seemed like a perfect fit for ink and paint. Animators would draw the characters, but the ink and paint girls will fill in the colors. It was a very methodical job. The company even hired other employees to stand over the shoulders of the painters and time them to keep track of their progress. Even though the ink and paint ladies were often overlooked, they deserve credit for he