Our culture is increasingly bent upon insulating ourselves from our fellow neighbors and friends (for example, we build decks out back not porches out front anymore)
Sort of OT, but you can't always blame the "deck builders" for this trend, I mean you have to also ask WHY are people building their decks in the back? My sister and her DH had a beautiful front porch, but built a deck off the back because they live on a corner and were constantly disturbed while trying to enjoy their porch by incredibly loud music and bass coming from cars at the stop sign or by people walking by with blasting loud music or using foul language. So, maybe our culture isn't trying to necessarily insulate ourselves from our fellow neighbors and friends, but their increasingly selfish actions.
The first quote is mine and I still stand by the gist of what I meant; however, it is undeniably true that a large part of the reason we build decks vice porches (or whatever other actions we take to keep our distance from others) is because the world has become an increasingly noisy, selfish, and insensitive to the common courtesies we once took for granted. But more than that, we don't as a whole in society, seek to nurture close ties to neighbors or our communities, often because we live in such large metropolitan areas and our jobs, hobbies, schools, and sports activities are spread out huge distances apart. So, our immediate neighbors may be nice folks (or maybe not), but none may share our religious beliefs, political stances, avocations, or interests. This is not a condemnation of such insular behavior, just a comment on how less neighborly we've become, in general. We may each individually be really nice people, but as neighbors, sometimes the connection with others just isn't there.
As such, this observation is relevant to Aidensmom's original post--when we have an opportunity to vent about those who aren't courteous or thoughtful or polite, it's hard to resist not relating a "horror" story of our own. That being said, I have found that the likelihood of meeting kind-hearted, generous people in WDW is in much greater than in most cities. Yes, there are definitely those we run across each trip whose actions cry "look at me, I'm important!" Thankfully, they are in the minority. So, Aidensmom, go and enjoy all that WDW has to offer, and when I whack into you with my stroller, step back onto your foot in line, or crowd next to you on a bus because we really have to get DD4 back to the room before her head starts spinning around, I promise to apologize.

And right after that, I'm heading over to Artist Point for a bottle of Amavi Syrah! Cheers!
