Continuing my rant on Disney World, every year I return I see more people there(generally large people too) on these:
http://www.electricmobility.com/
You've seen them on TV... now see larger Americans rolling through Disney World on them like an M-1 battle tank through downtown Baghdad!! America definitely has an obesity problem. And I will acknowledge some of that is genetic, and very hard to fight. But the volume of people I saw in Disney on these is a disgrace. If they thought about spending part of the day walking, hmmm....maybe they wouldn't be so fat! And these will be the same people who will run you over with that scooter when they see the turkey leg stand in Disney. A large woman on one actually honked at my brother! Americans need to get up. My girlfriend told me the average New Yorker walks 4-5 miles a day. How many overweight people do you see in NYC????
I was in Orlando, Florida last week for a conference near Walt Disney World. During the trip I got to spend some time with my younger brother, who is off to college in the fall. So we spent some time at the happiest place on Earth:
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/index
Disney World is obviously a very popular vacation spot, especially for people from the South. I heard some things I just could not believe while in the parks. But one definitely took the cake. In front of lots of kids near the Aerosmith Rock and Roller Coaster in MGM Studios, a very large and round woman said loudly with one of the thickest Southern accents I have ever heard:
"That was some gooood sh*t!!"
My brother and I looked at each other and tried not to burst out laughing in her face. So we have established two facts here: Disney is well attended by Southerners, and they are not always the sharpest (let's curse at the top of our lungs in the happiest place on Earth). I like the South-the food, the slower pace, the open spaces and most of the people. But sometimes I feel like the people there need to wake up. Stop watching NASCAR and start watching CNN.