I'm not going to lie. It is a little hard to make a magical moment in Downtown Disney at a merchandise store. Maybe I have more of an impact than I realize. But here are moments I have been apart of and feel like had an impact, big or small.
One day, I was stocking in Adventure (boys), when a dad came up and asked if we had warm hats. Being in FL we don't have the biggest selection of stocking hats for obvious reasons. But we did have a few options. I pointed out the Star Wars hats in the next room over. When the mom wasn't thrilled about those, I showed them three more. One was pink and fluffy, another was a grumpy theme and the last was a simple stripped hat with a Mickey on it. The mom loved it, but her little boy screamed no.
I got down on his level and started talking with him. His name was Evan and he was 3 years old. He was shy but smiling. I asked him if he needed a warm hat for the parks tomorrow and he screamed excitedly, yeah! I asked him if he liked Mickey and he shook his head. I told him I did too and said look at this hat! It has all these colors and look! Its a Mickey with a silver outline! Do you want to try it on?
He slowly nodded with a smile on his face and his mom got at our level with us. She then asked him if I could put it on. He smiled and said ya. So I put it on and he looked so cute. I told him how awesome he looked and showed him the mirror. He just looked at himself for a minutes as his parents laughed exclaiming he was such a flirt and that they wished they had recorded it.
Evan and his parents got the hat to wear at Magic Kingdom the next day. I wouldn't have tried persuading him if I wasn't sure that his mom loved it.
I couldn't help smiling after I walked away.
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