Califstory #2

This is maybe my favorite Califstory.

In the middle of last week, we had a meeting on the Disney lot (oooh!). We were walking across the lot on the way back to our car when we passed a janitor, a big fellow in his 50s, wheeling a cart over to a dumpster that sat next to one of the soundstages. He looked grumpy and bored. We observed as the janitor started taking large ceramic Disney figurines out of his cart and placing them in the dumpster. They were Mickey, Goofy and Donald, all just dressed up in Star Wars costumes. Then the janitor took a huge hammer out of the cart and, with absolutely no change in his bored facial expression, started smashing Mickey, Goofy and Donald to pieces.

I think I can speak for the group when I say it was the funniest thing that any of us had ever seen. At least that day. But it was really fricking funny.

We surmised that the Star Wars Disney figures were probably unique models built for some special presentation or film shoot, and that it's part of this poor dude's job to destroy unique items before someone steals/ebays them. I just couldn't get over how bored he looked while he was wailing away at Donald Duck. I like it when people completely lose sight of how insane their jobs are.

Califstory #1

So, we went to Disneyland last Saturday, where we experienced magic and adventure for about 14 hours. Stefan has lots of pictures of this, which I assume will find their way here soon.

After about 10 hours of magic and adventure, we needed to refuel, which meant hitting the restaurants in Downtown Disney.

To get from Tomorrowland to Downtown Disney, you need to take the Disneyland Railroad, which looks like this:



The 6 of us approached the gate to board the train, and when I got to the gate, I looked down at my hands and noticed that, without even thinking about it, I had taken out my Metrocard.

I guess this kind of a New York story as well as a Califstory.

Don't worry, the others will be pure Califstories.