eavesdropping in parks

[binny]

OK I for me its one thing to "over hear" someone needing help and to offer it but when you just listen to their conversation I have a bit of an issue with it.

case in point at DL a couple of weeks ago we were standing in line at the Matterhorn. DS had already been on it with DH but wanted to me to go too. We stood in line for a long time then they decided to close that line and move us over somewhere else ( still dont know what that was about) but it looked to be a good half hour at least before we would get on, we'd already been in line for 20 minutes).
I told DS that it wasnt that big of a deal to me and that we could do something else, that the line was just too long. This woman pipes up to her dh "I just dont get that. I mean waiting is what these parks are all about. She needs to learn to live with it or she will be really disapointed for the rest of her stay" Now, she didnt say this quietly or anything it was pretty blatant. I turned to DS and said " Dont you agree? We've been here 2 days already and need to get on the road to the next stop in a little bit" He said "yeah thats fine, I'd rather go over to BTMRR anyway"

See? I knew what my son wanted to do. I knew that if we could get on Matterhorn it was great but it was gravy as far as he was concerned. He want throwing a fit or anything he was just fine with that decision.


Why do some people ASSUME so much when the overhear a conversation?

 

[VSL]

This woman pipes up to her dh "I just dont get that. I mean waiting is what these parks are all about. She needs to learn to live with it or she will be really disapointed for the rest of her stay" Now, she didnt say this quietly or anything it was pretty blatant.

What an idiot. More fool her for thinking that the only way to do Disney is to wait in long lines I say!

 

[Planogirl]

I think worse than her listening in is her talking about you like you're not even there. It's hard not to eavesdrop when everyone is so jammed together but the polite thing is to pretend like you don't hear a thing. It's definitely rude to comment on what someone else is doing or saying!

 

[cardaway]

Maybe they were just trying to drive people away, one family at a time, to make the line shorter for them.

I've certainly tried to help people, but that's certainly not what they were doing.

I've also had the opppsite happen. We'll be talking about our plans in line and people will ask questions after overhearing us.