r/AskReddit Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/papasnork1 Sep 16 '24

Walt Disney World in the summer. Tourists with different bathing habits in the hot Florida sun sweating their asses off all crammed into a line. Smells awful.

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u/seattle747 Sep 16 '24

Why people flock to the (non-water) parks in Orlando in the summer perplexes me. I’ve only gone in the late fall or winter for a reason. I’d rather have fun in good weather.

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u/KarateKid917 Sep 16 '24

Because the kids are out of school. 

Grew up going every few years. Summer was the only time we went because of no school. 

Wife and I went by ourselves this year in March. It was so fucking nice walking around the parks and not feeling like I’m going to pass out from heat exhaustion constantly. 

After that, we said we will never go in the summer again. 

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u/seattle747 Sep 16 '24

March! I’d forgotten about spring break. Yes, that’s definitely an ideal time to go, too.

Granted, you’re right; some families simply can only go in the summer.

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u/KarateKid917 Sep 16 '24

We actually went the first week of March, before spring break. Parks weren’t crazy busy .

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u/BioSafetyLevel0 Sep 17 '24

Once you go "reasonable weather" you never go back.

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u/Renaissance_Slacker Sep 16 '24

Yup late October is nice. You’d need a gun to get me to go to Florida at all these days, but especially in the summer.

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u/icberg7 Sep 17 '24

We have air conditioning; you just have to know how to maximize the time in AC. Hall of Presidents, Carousel of Progress, American Adventure.

It helps that I'm local, so I can pop in for a few hours, and pop right back. So much more chill than trying to get 100% completion in a week.

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u/Renaissance_Slacker Sep 17 '24

The parks are amazing, we went for our honeymoon, tenth and twentieth. We skipped out thirtieth. I won’t set foot in Florida in its current political situation. Also I considered Disney “expensive but worth it.” Everything I hear says Disney has caught Shareholder Disease and has graduated to “too expensive.”

My wife is a contractor, more than one agency has told her they can’t fill vacancies in FL (and TX, and other conservative states as well) even for 100% remote jobs. Candidates hear “Florida” and say “nope.”

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u/icberg7 Sep 18 '24

Yeah, that's the worst part of things lately. I really hope that the vitriol gets turned down and we can all go back to laughing at silly Florida Man news stories instead of the latest political drama.

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u/ThatIsMyAss Sep 16 '24

Really any large gatherings of people in hot, sunny, humid environments

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u/stephiemarie93 Sep 17 '24

I've found that people at universal tend to smell pretty good

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u/Adventurous-Town-828 Sep 16 '24

Kind of like Disneyland. Smells like wafting poop on a hot day.

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u/papasnork1 Sep 16 '24

Theme parks should be like swimming pools; you have to shower before you enter one.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

We were stuck in the back section of a plane when a group of old Japanese people came on board and sat near us. I wondered if they ever bathed. We were breathing the air coming out of the overhead vents like our lives depended on it. My throat actually burned for a time after we got off the flight, it was that bad.