For Gosh Sakes...Act Like You Got Some Sense!!!

[akaDaddy]

We just returned from 10 wonderful days at Walt Disney World.



During our stay it became apparent that the experiment in humanity is alive and well within the confines of lands that Walt built. As the week progressed, it seemed the “Love Bug” were screaming the words of my saintly grandmother; “Act like you got some sense”. To assist those socially challenged individuals who may be attending the park in the future, I feel obligated to give you some advice. I am fully aware that some may be offended with these suggestions and if you find yourself to be one of the guilty parties, I mean, offended, feel free to open the box of matches and strike the flames.



Here are my suggestions:

• When the CM (that’s Cast Member or the person with a name-tag to those this post is meant for) informs you there is a problem with your ticket and you need to go to guest services, you need to proceed to guest services. The CM nor the numerous people behind you in line don’t care what store you bought your tickets at, how long you been visiting the park without a problem, that your uncle hand-carved the dolls in It’s a Small World or that your grandfather is the next door neighbor of Walt Disney at the cryogenics lab. There is a problem with your ticket and you need to get it corrected.
• While standing in line, any line, whether for a ride, food, a bus or at the checkout, give the person in front of you some room. I can’t count the number of times I reached for my wallet to pay for something and was afraid I put my hand in someone else’s pocket. As a general rule of thumb, you are too close if you step on my heels or if you can count the threads on my shirt. And by all means, if your belly meets my backside while standing still, be fully prepared to buy my dinner with optional cuddling afterwards.
• If you have a stroller, wheelchair or scooter, rule #2 applies to you as well. Trust me a shoe on my heel is far more pleasurable than a piece of steel plowing into my ankle.
• And while I’m on the subject of scooters, don’t use WDW as your test track. If you’ve never driven one before, take a little time in a quiet corner of the park to practice. I say this after I witnessed a lady plow down a family standing\waiting for the evening parade. She then backed into backed into a building on Main Street. After which, she cussed like a sailor about how she couldn’t drive the scooter.
• Continuing on the subject of the Queen’s English, please watch you language while at WDW. While I am fully aware we live America, freedom of speech and all those excuses that come from those who will disagree, WDW is a family environment. The vast majority of the visitors have children and although the many of the offenders of the language were mere children themselves, please watch your tongue. The language you use in your local pub is inappropriate, rude and down-right vulgar.
• Lines are there for a reason. When you see a group of people, standing front to back in a somewhat uniformed fashion, that is a sign to you they are waiting on something. More than likely they are waiting to see the character you just discovered. Or maybe they are all waiting on the concierge you just walked up to.
• Now if a group of people are standing in a formation that has them standing side by side, this is not a line, it is a barrier. It is inappropriate for you to walk around them, squeeze in between them and fully unacceptable to crawl in-under them. While everyone is aware you paid good money to see the show or parade, those who have showed up early and staked out position have seniority, no matter how loud you are or how hard you can push. By the way, the ropes are there for a reason as well. That’s where the barrier begins.
• When at an exhibit, those people in front of you are there for a reason, they are looking at the exhibit too. Be patient, when they move away from the exhibit is when you move forward to view, not before. Disney is pretty good about not closing down exhibits in the middle of the day without notice. If you’ve waited three minutes to see the snake behind the glass at Animal Kingdom, I’ll be it will still be there when the couple from Ohio move.
• The fish in the Coral Reef restaurant look the same as they do from the Living Seas. It is not necessary to crowd between the tables while others are eating to get a look at the fish from six inches from the glass, you can walk 50 feet from the entrance of the restaurant to the other exhibit and see it all there too. If you must see the fish that close only in the Coral Reef, please be so kind as to gently slide between the chairs to get up against the glass and not push the children onto their table (as happened to our three year old…yes, I about lost it) just so you can touch the glass.
• Just because there is no “wrangler” around the strollers, doesn’t give your children permission to turn it into their private playground. I witnessed a couple of kids crash a half dozen stroller together in front of Tony’s one evening before the fireworks. Their parents looked on for a couple of minutes until a couple of CM’s finally broke them up and asked for their parents.
• Make your food choices wisely. If you take food from the buffet or a muffin from the counter, DON’T PUT IT BACK! I don’t want to eat your rejects and I don’t want your rejects touching the food I might eat.
• Animal calls on the Safari or at the Animal Kingdom Lodge are annoying. I don’t care if you have a scout badge in Ostrich calling, the animals at WDW must speak a different dialect, because they are ignoring you.
• The hallways and terraces are not playgrounds, especially late at night. A game of Marco Polo in the hotel at 11:00 pm is really a downer for those not involved.

I hope this will help those who are manners inept. Other suggestions are welcomed. Have fun at Walt Disney World.

 

[goofymania101]

another rule and thing i noticed was character hogging!

people spend 5 minutes with one character! they film a whole movie with them. When it's finally your turn they have to go on. I think the CMs with the character greeters should make a limit!

Courtney

ps- i just do the quick autograph, picture, thank you thing!

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

 

[ChickieToo]

I say this from an experience we had last year while we were waiting in line for Test Track (which was broken down so it was a good long wait):

If you are on your Honeymoon, please don't make-out like you are the only two in the room. Don't touch in inappropriate places, don't stand so close that you could be sharing the same pair of shorts, and don't hold one another's derriere. The general rule of thumb is that if you wouldn't be mauling each other like this in front of New Bride's dad, then you shouldn't be doing it in front of us.

 

[makinorlando]

I think that common sense is on the list of things prohibited by the TSA.

I am none to do dumb things sometimes (like the day we went to EPCOT and I brought our NEW APs instead of the ones that had not yet expired - and the CM had trouble with them - but instead of sending us to Guest Relations she stood there trying to figure it out and finally just let us in as I was getting embarrassed 'cause I'm sure those behind us were annoyed) but I always try to make sure that DD and I both respect others around us!

I thought maybe I was the only one with the "personal space" issue... glad to hear that I am not alone!

 

[CarolA]

It's not just the scotters. I was run over by a man in a wheelchair. (who then proceeded to curse like a sailor at his wife for "losing control' If he had been my hubby he would have been figuring out how to wheel his own chair back to the gate and then find a ride home, the car and I would have been long gone. . He also cursed at me for standing there... Yeah, I was just watching this show and you plowed over me! This was not a rental chair and he seemed to have excellent upper body strength so if you don't like the pusher learn to do it your self!)

 

[Lynne M]

Not to turn this into another 'shocking things' thread, but the comment about watching one's language just reminded me of something I need to vent about.

I was in the Fastpass line at Soarin' on Tuesday night, and there was a mother, father and son around 12 yrs old right behind me. The father was like a case study in verbal spouse abuse. Condescending, horrid little man. He was picking on her mercilessly over the fact that she thought FW closed at 7PM, and here there were some rides open. That's something to get on someone's case over? At one point, she said something like "oh, so that's the game now, is it?", and he said "no the game is that you shut the f*** up". And proceeded to really tear her apart, quietly and in a very sweet tone of voice, using really foul language. Right in front of the son (nice, the kid grows up thinking that's how you talk to women), and all of the rest of us in earshot, including several little kids.

Of course, the poor woman starts to cry, very quietly, which causes him to mock her even more. I'm a short 47-year-old woman, and I wanted SO badly to turn around and tell him off. Or just punch his lights out.

I didn't notice till we got off the ride that her leg was in a soft cast. I couldn't help but wonder how it was injured.

OK, done venting. Sorry.

 

[CleveRocks]

Animal calls on the Safari or at the Animal Kingdom Lodge are annoying. I don’t care if you have a scout badge in Ostrich calling, the animals at WDW must speak a different dialect, because they are ignoring you.

I VERY rarely laugh out loud when I read posts. This was indeed a very rare occasion.

 

[mattsdragon]

Animal calls on the Safari or at the Animal Kingdom Lodge are annoying. I don’t care if you have a scout badge in Ostrich calling, the animals at WDW must speak a different dialect, because they are ignoring you

It's like the cows on the side of the road, they never answer me when I "moo" at them either. But for some reason, I'm reminded of Dory speaking whale.

 

[Off2DisIGo]

And while I’m on the subject of scooters, don’t use WDW as your test track. If you’ve never driven one before, take a little time in a quiet corner of the park to practice. I say this after I witnessed a lady plow down a family standing\waiting for the evening parade. She then backed into backed into a building on Main Street. After which, she cussed like a sailor about how she couldn’t drive the scooter.

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

It's like the cows on the side of the road, they never answer me when I "moo" at them either.

And I thought it was just me they ignored
Bonny

 

[ChrisFL]

Agree, definitely about the scooter driving.

About 2 years ago my parents and I were at Epcot and sitting inside eating when we witnessed a lady in a scooter run over the foot of an asian lady who could not speak english. We rushed to help and got ice and things, and eventually some CM's came to take care of it....we came back in that area about 4 hours later the lady was still sitting there and still had a horribly mad look on her face.

I dont know if she broke anything but it wasnt a pretty site.

 

[lovetoscrap]

You must have been there with the same crowd that I was!!! Make sure you check out my thread on personal space here!

I still want to know who would want to eat food that they just shoved up my butt while crowding me in the line to pay????????

 

[akaDaddy]

I think that common sense is on the list of things prohibited by the TSA.

Unfortunately, Common Sense doesn’t seem to be so common anymore.

 

[saschab]

Thanks akaDaddy, I just shot coffee out my nose and onto my screen!

 

[sweetinmaine]

Here's another one that drives me

If you smoke, please don't walk around the World puffing away. Go to a designated smoking area. I can't tell you how many times last year someone in our party came to getting burned from lit cigarettes while strolling through the parks. Maybe Disney needs to post signs (in all languages) that states "smoking only in designated areas" and then enforce it.

 

[bleeps]

OK, may I please add one?

While you and your family are waiting in line, in front of me (as is your right, no beef here), PLEASE use the 10, 15, 20 minutes that you are waiting to decide what you would like to order, and who's going to do the ordering. Kindly do not wait until the moment you all crowd up to the CM to just start THINKING about what you want, with everyone shouting out and then changing orders, so that what could have been a 2-minute transaction turns into another 15-minute wait for me and everyone else behind you.

 

[bazzanoid]

Lovetoscrap - I love your signature!

 

[nolacindy]

I still want to know who would want to eat food that they just shoved up my butt while crowding me in the line to pay???????? [/QUOTE]


I think I just wet myself!!!!!!

 

[PhotobearSam]

Just cause you can put on the bathing suit that you wore when you were in your twenties now that you are in your 40's DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT STILL FITS!!!

I am a big girl and I always try to wear size appropriate clothes but I have seen more than a few SQUEEZE into suits that should have been long retired. I pitied those suits.