say my name...say my name

I'll set the scene:

After a long day of riding rides, eating good food, and walking what seemed like miles us girls were tired and worn out. We sat along a wall near the New Orleans Square, killing time before the fireworks show started, and just got ready to people watch. I was looking at the hords of people walking past us and spotted a group of teenage girls with matching sweatshirts with their names on the back. The girls started to walk away and I yelled "becca!" and then looked forward nonchalantly sipping my hot cocoa. The girl spun around, confused, wondering who had said her name, and spotted michelle and emily staring at her wide-eyed...like a deer in headlights. The girl turned around and just continued walking away. I started laughing hysterically.

Emily: "did you know her?"
me: "no, i just saw her name on her sweatshirt".....

and thus the shouting name game was born!

Luckily Disneyland offers any souvenir buyer the chance to put their name in those crazy characters hats, and thus makes it easy for us to find a unknowing participant. I love the look of confusion on a persons face when they look around frantically trying to figure out who and why someone called their name. When no personalized hats or sweatshirts could be found we would just wait for a big group of people to walk by and call out common names like Mike, Amy, Matt, or Aaron/Erin and see if somebody turned around.

hilarious.

sometimes, if you say the name with enough conviction people will actually turn around with a look on their face like "I didn't know my name was mike, but maybe it is..."

hours of fun.

We also noticed some annoying fashion trends (boots with the fur, hollister tee's, abercrombie tee's, college or state pride sweatshirts) and started calling them out whenever we saw them...even mid-sentence. such as...

"okay after this ride we will head over to (BOOTS) thunder mountain".

that can get crazy.