My issue is those who think WDW is only about the kids. When I spend thousands to take my 1 hard earned vacation a year, no, I'm not going to give up my spot because you were to busy to arrive early and wait an hour like I did even though you claim it means so much to your child. Sorry, got carried away.
I agree with this. As an AP holder I go to WDW 4-6 times a year. I may take one of my grandkids with me, or my elderly mom, sometimes I go solo and sometimes my husband and I go together (he is not as big a WDW fan as I am, so will only go once or twice a year). However, I work in a high stress job and need my WDW trips to decompress and relax every few months. I don't know how many times, I have found the perfect parade spot so that I can get good pictures with both the castle and the floats in them, just to have some parent push their kids in front of me at the last minute and then grin and say "I know you won't mind, since WDW is for the kids after all".
Actually I don't mind if it's just the kids they push up there, but invariably it's the parents themselves that then push themselves up there too, with the excuse that they have to see their kids faces when they see the parade and since I am by myself they know I won't care.
At that point is when I say, 'yes I do care. Your child is welcome to stand in front where he can see, but I will not give up the place I've been reserving for the last hour, just so you can see. You should have got here an hour ago, like I did.'
Back when Tusker House used to be a CS restaurant, I was solo and finally found an open table for four in the back, so walked to it and was standing there taking my food off the tray. Just as I finished and was about to sit down, some lady suddenly rammed the back of my legs with her stroller and loudly demanded I give the table to her because she had kids and needed the table. I told her she better not try to hit me again unless she wanted that stroller around her head and motioning with my arm, asked her exactly where she wanted me to sit as all the tables were full and I'd gotten there well before her. Perfectly serious she said, that since I was by myself that I could just take my food outside and eat sitting on the wall, but she had to have that table for her family. When I laughed at her and told her it wasn't happening, she threatened to get a CM to make me move. I told her to go ahead and try, everyone saw that I was at that table unloading my food, before she even walked up. About that time, I saw an elderly couple walking by looking for a table and asked them if they'd like to share my table. They took me up on my offer and the other lady stalked off, after making a comment about people without kids shouldn't even be at WDW, since WDW was just for the kids.
I don't normally wait in lines to take character pictures, but one afternoon when I was leaving MK, they had Clarabelle the Cow out. It was the first time I'd ever seen her out, so I got in line to grab a picture. Right after I got in line, the handler said that she'd be going in, in five minutes and I'd be the last person she saw. A family just walking up, stepped in front of me and when I asked what they thought they were doing, they laughed and said they knew I wouldn't mind if they cut in front of me, since otherwise their child would not be able to get a picture with Clarabelle. When I said it wasn't happening they got mad and called me a b--ch and said WDW was for the kids and they couldn't believe I wouldn't give up my spot for them. Heck, that kid didn't even know who Clarabelle was and didn't even want to be in line. She was whining to go ride a ride.
I love watching the kids enjoying WDW. I do not enjoy their pushy, obnoxious parents that think their little snowflakes should get priority over everyone else. I don't like parents who let their kids run wild disturbing other guests' vacations and then use the excuse that kids will be kids and WDW is for the kids afterall, so it's OK to let them run wild. I take my GKs down there. We have a great time, but no way would I let them disturb other guests or expect other guests to let them cut in front of them.
We all pay good money and deserve to enjoy our vacations. The 70 y/o has just as much right to be there as the 7 y/o. My parents never took vacations, so my mom never got to go to WDW (or anywhere else, except to see family), until I took her after we had to put my dad in the nursing home a few years ago. She was like 74 y/o her very first trip and my favorite picture of that trip was her on Dumbo grinning from ear to ear. Yeah, to get that picture we took up two Dumbos (me in front and her in an elephant just behind me). But we had just as much right to stand in that line as any 7 y/o. I've read posts on here about how adults shouldn't be allowed in the Dumbo line without a kid, because it loads so slow and their kids shouldn't have to wait too long. Sorry, don't agree! I had that picture blown up into a 5"x7" and it still sits on a shelf in my computer room. Out of all the pictures I have taken at WDW I treasure that one the most. That 74 y/o grinning from ear to ear, loved riding Dumbo for the first time just as much as any kid there and probably appreciated it more as it took her 74 years to get there.
But, hey, I don't see the point of boxing matches or country music concerts either but if that's your thing I would never say you shouldn't go
Hehehe. Just sayin'! 
