WDW Magazine December 2014 - Crowds at WDW | Page 118

SLAM!!! She'd smacked her little tray down hard right in front of me. Startled, my smile
disappeared as I recognized that was my cue. I slid my elbows off the table to allow my
menu a comical flip down in her direction, to see her face. Whoa. Either she's a great
actress, or she was really mad. Amber was staring me dead in the eyes and the lighting
in the room made her face look beat red. I actually had a case of stage-fright, thankfully
only 1/2 a second long.
"What did I just say?" "Um, 'How are you folks doing?'" "Before that!" "Um, 'Hi?'" Now
I could see her face light up under the acting that she'd found someone to play with,
someone to yell at, someone with which to entertain the other guests. "No, I mean
before I left." "Oh, that. ... 'No elbows on the table.'"
Everyone was watching us...and laughing...We were putting on a show!
Throughout dinner, we played like this. Each of us seeming to have natural comedic
timing, each of us coming up with our own lines on the spur of the moment. I felt like
we were the stars of the diner.
Another antic I remember was when my brother and I sang "Yppah Yadhtrib" for a man
in the next room, right after the traditional song. Amber stood there, watching us sing
this in a language completely unknown to her yet familiar, to the tune of Happy Birthday.
She looked so dumbfounded and scared that we might be crazy, that I'm surprised we
finished. [Yppah Yadhtrib is simply Happy Birthday, but you pronounce the words backwards, but the words in order. We call this language Sdrwkcab (Backwards).]
After dinner is when Amber made sure that she'd made my parents' and siblings' day,
too. She promised us that if we bore with her for about only 1/2 an hour, she'd have a
fabulous surprise for us; but she had to send another waitress or someone to get it.
Meanwhile, I showed off my backpack that contained my huge pin collection, of which
only two were like secret-rares: a Disney Club one that parents gave me and a
Graduation one for my 8th grade graduation a month before. She perused over my
whole collection with me, and then got excited, said, "I have a surprise for you.” She
came back with a pin that stumped everyone at the table and gave it to me. I said, “We
have a pin that we be you’ve never seen and gave her a WWWD pin, signed by
everyone in our family. She said, “Oh, I’ve heard about these but never thought I would
get one” and started to cry. It’s not every day that you get to put magic into a Cast
Member’s day but we felt pretty good that night!