Jules~Marie said:I agree that the World was full of extremely rude people this past week!!! We stayed at Pop on Wed and Thurs and encountered just rude families everywhere. I always make sure to say please and thank you when appropriate, I don't know how many doors I held open for people and I got only 2 thank you's
Whenever I hold a door for someone and they dont say thank you, I say a pretty loud "Oh,you're welcome" in the most sickly sweet voice I can muster up. They always have the most confused look on their face and usually give a meek thank you then. Some people really suck.
I'm with you, but I might have added that we had been waiting since before we left our room that morning or since before we left our house for vacation since apparently all that matters is that you are thinking of getting in line to hold your place.
By the way -- I am getting in line for all the rides for our next trip right now, so I am sure you all will forgive me if I walk straight to the front of each line when we get there.
Jules~Marie said:Yes, I do that too. For some reason, that's a pet peeve of mine. I just don't understand why someone can't just even murmur a thank you??!!
We had a family try and cut in front of a whole group of people that had been siiting on the ground and standing around waiting for Illuminations one night. Everybody was behaving wonderfully and then the announcement came...and now GE proudly presents (i know GE dates me)... and then this family tries to get right in front of a row of kids. One dad beat me to the punch as he stood up, raised his voice and said...Ladies and Gentlemen...Please welcome the Butt family from somewhere that doesn't have any common sense then something about trying to get right in front of kids that have been waiting 45 minutes and that every one should take out their cameras, take a picture of them and let em know how you feel with a big long Booooo. I couldn't Boo because I was laughing so hard. The butters moved away as quick as they could. Would have bought the dad a beer later if it wasn't so crowded and late.
oohhh I see a trending hashtag on twitter with pics. it could go viral and be picked up by news. hehe
smallworldnh said:You've got that right! We were on Spaceship Earth and there was a little girl sitting with her mother about 3 cars behind us and the little girl was shining a flashlight on all the exhibits while her mother pointed things out for her to shine it on. This was through the entire ride and she kept it up even though people were starting to get loud yelling at her to shut it off. I mentioned it to the CM as I got off and all I got was a shrug.
Don't get me started on the rudeness of the staff at Universal Studios. In 2010 it was so bad that I wound up getting 40 fast passes for free. Universal makes you pay for those suckers.
Oh and while at WDW for my honeymoon in March, NOT one cast member acknowledged us in our wedding ears. After a long day we left. I had a blast but was a little let down that nobody even said congratulations.
At Epcot it was all different. We went to the show in America. The mi ute we walked in the door we were brought to a room. The dialed the phone it was Mickey and Minnie (are cording) wishing us well. In the show the same man di glee us out to the packed room and we got a standing "O".
When we went to the Character Spot, Minnie Mouse was about to leave. My husband said something to the photographer, Minnie promptly came back. I now have a soft spot in my heart for Epcot.
This happened to us at the opening of Magic Kingdom. We were waiting outside for the opening show just like everyone else, and right when the train pulled up, a lady came from out of nowhere and jumped up on the wall surrounding a tree and blocked not only my kids view, but also the family behind us. I walked up to her asked her nicely if she could get down, as the kids could not see anymore.
She said "tell them to move then". I came back to my family with a look of disbelief on my face, and the mom behind us asked what she said to me. She then marched right up to the woman and told her to get down, with our two husbands yelling really loud "down in front!!". Slowly she got herself down while her two kids turned around and laughed at us all.
We did not let it out a damper on our day, and we were thankful that another family helped out.
jennyjinx3 said:
And to the smoker who blew smoke into my face or if I had kids face, she would have been eating that cigarette or watching it fly across the sidewalk. SERIOUSLY!!?!?!? That's beyond rude. And I'm allergic to cigarette smoke, which would have meant me going back to the room to take my meds to keep my reaction to a minimum. Yep, if I'm going to be inconvenienced so is she.