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

[Dimap]

I understand that there are many people who need to use the electric wheelchair, but we experienced so many problems with groups of people walking 6 or 7 across with the wheelchair. It made it difficult for us to go around the group to walk at our pace. Manytimes the person sitting in the chair would have a child or small person (maybe a teenager) on their lap and tons of bags on the back. I think that this must slow the chair down so now we are "stuck" behind a very slow chair and the 7 dwarfs who are walking shoulder to shoulder. Really, they should try just to walk 2 or 3 or 4 across!

Pam

 

[camouseketeer]

When you're at a character meal, please be patient and keep your little ones with you at YOUR table, and don't let them wander over to the character visiting MY kids at MY table (when this is clearly the etiquette of the restaurant.)

We were in DL when Minnie finally made it over to our table. My kids started giving her hugs, but so did the child (around age 2) from the table NEXT to us! Her parents just laughed and took pictures as she climbed into a chair at MY table! Minnie assumed she was my DD and grouped her and my 2 kids together for a picture. Sorry, but I don't want your child taking away character time from my kids, and I don't want her in MY precious photo of Minnie and MY kids.

Ok, I feel better.

 

[KrisTX]

I don't think this has been mentioned yet. If you need to constantly pass gas maybe a trip to the bathroom wouldn't be a bad idea. I know it is hard to hold in but the rest of us would really appreciate it. Making folks eyes water is rude in case anyone does not have a clue.

I am in 100% agreement of this one!

My flight attendant friend told me they do this walking down the isle if a person is being a jerk. She told me they called it 'crop dusting.'

 

[kimnkel]

Ewww. Sorry, but this just really grosses me out.

And what about the people sitting nearby that are not being jerks? Do they have to suffer because they have the misfortune of sitting by a jerk? Aren't they probably already suffering enough?

Call me naive, but I didn't realize people could pass gas at will. A lower carb diet, more exercise...and gas will probably not be an issue.

Yukky.

 

[KrisTX]

Ewww. Sorry, but this just really grosses me out.

And what about the people sitting nearby that are not being jerks? Do they have to suffer because they have the misfortune of sitting by a jerk? Aren't they probably already suffering enough?

Call me naive, but I didn't realize people could pass gas at will. A lower carb diet, more exercise...and gas will probably not be an issue.

Yukky.

I forgot to add that I thought it was the most disgusting and uncouth behavior.

 

[Eeyore2003]

Amazingly, this is one list of Disney complaints that I find no offense to and actually agree with. While the one about standing in line is a little dependent on the pushing and shoving in the line itself and may not be the person behind you at fault, they too may be trying to "stake" their spot from intruders. Or being pushed or shoved from behind. I'm not extremely steady on my feet and if pushed or shoved might definitely fall your way unintentionally.

I'm not reading the rest of the thread as it usually turns into people complaining about many things that can't be helped in themselves or directly critizing a group of people, but yours are very legitimate. No matches here.

 

[TravelinGal]

Originally Posted by kimnkel

Ewww. Sorry, but this just really grosses me out.

And what about the people sitting nearby that are not being jerks? Do they have to suffer because they have the misfortune of sitting by a jerk? Aren't they probably already suffering enough?

Call me naive, but I didn't realize people could pass gas at will. A lower carb diet, more exercise...and gas will probably not be an issue.

Yukky.

I forgot to add that I thought it was the most disgusting and uncouth behavior.

I agree entirely. (I also wondered about passing gas at will... Didn't know it was possible. I'm lucky to make it to a more private place when the need arises. )

Not to mention it's not quiet in the least if you're moving - I don't know any women or many men that would be willing to risk the embarrasement of that even if it was to 'punish' a rude person.

 

[picantel]

We are at disney now. My wife and I laughed ourselves silly when some very old lady in an ecv thought the family in front of her was going too slowly and she started cursing at her. Nothing beats a little old white haired 80 year old lady cursing like a sailor. Also, 4 days ago we were at the contemporary arcade and I was giving out tickets and toys like I always do and the CM gave me the double tinkerbell pin- one for me and one to give to someone who did a good deed. I still have the pin. I wish people did not have the me first mentality at disney.

 

[supersuperwendy]

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.

Ha ha....I love it! I need to send this to my dad....I could swear that he wrote it!!!!! Thanks for the rule book!

 

[Fafolguy]

I understand that there are many people who need to use the electric wheelchair, but we experienced so many problems with groups of people walking 6 or 7 across with the wheelchair. It made it difficult for us to go around the group to walk at our pace. Manytimes the person sitting in the chair would have a child or small person (maybe a teenager) on their lap and tons of bags on the back. I think that this must slow the chair down so now we are "stuck" behind a very slow chair and the 7 dwarfs who are walking shoulder to shoulder. Really, they should try just to walk 2 or 3 or 4 across!

THANK YOU!
The "shoulder to shoulder march" is my BIGGEST peeve. If you want to walk slower than me, fine...have at it. But there is no need for your group to have their own little parade, bloking everybody else behind you!

 

[Becky_Boop]

What we really need our some wheelchair/ECV rules-

1. Use a wheelchair/ECV if you need one.
2. Don't use a wheelchair/ECV if you don't need one.
3. Try your best not to bump into anyone. Don't use your wheelchair/ECV as a battering ram. If for some reason you accidently do, apologize.

Unfortunately, not everyone knows these rules.

 

[ACDSNY]

I had a good laugh over the OP, almost as good as watching the Yankee's lose today. I'll try to watch my manners on our trip in three weeks.

 

[PaulaSB12]

Unfortunately, this doesn't work, either. On the left side (facing the building) of the Land is a lane for wheelchairs and scooters, seperated by railings, to go up/down the ramp to enter/exit the building. There are brass wheelchair emblems in the concrete. Pedestrians ignore them, and stroll leisurely in the confines of the area...then wonder why they may be hit by a chair or ECV on a down ramp.

ECVs have no brakes. Do not come to a full and complete stop directly in front of one.

I walked down the disabled ramp just to avoid the wheelchairs and ECVs that where all using the non disabled ramp! there where about 5 or 6 people using ECV's and non of them where using the disabled ramp otherwise I wouldn't have done that. I also got kicked by a child whose legs hanging out of a stroller and his parents did nothiing (I wasn't the only person kicked by that child) I saw more than one child try and kick a duck/squirrel in the head and one child who tried to stamp on one of these little lizards that you see all over the place. Worst was at Le Cellier where the family next to me had a screeming baby who screemedfor an hour non stop while they ate their food. They just left it screeming and expected everyone else to put up with it! As for the buses I asked people if they wanted my seats and most of the time they said they where fine standing so I stayed in my seat.

 

[MonkeyPants]

have to agree with most of the rules from the OP. As for people in wheelchairs, I understand that there are indeed plenty of people who require them and I have no problem with that, but some people who have them are insane and think they are entitled to special treatment. I am sure that is not sounding as intend it..so here is my example from last trip.


I was going through the world showcase to meet up with my family. Was justing Canada. Off Kilter had just wrapped up (yet another show I missed....I swear one of these days I shall catch their show! ) . Anyway the place was mobbed as people were just starting to leave the area. And when I say packed, I mean it was packed, like main street aqfter Wishes (ie you aint going anywhere fast so get over it and move slowly) This woman had her son in a wheelchair, he looked to be in his mid-teens. And she was angry as anything that there were crowds. She started slamming people with the chair...those walking as well as other people in scooters or wheelchairs. "Cant you see my son is in a wheelchair!?!?" The son looked mortified to say the least. Obviously her ranting didnt get her anywhere any faster, just dirty looks from those she ran into. I was behind them. When they got out of the crowded area she just stopped and parked the chair and sat down. She hadnt been even in a rush to actually get anywhere, she just felt (at least this was my interpretation of the events I witnessed) that she3 was special and that everyone should have just gotten out of her way.

 

[mommykds]

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:

• 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.

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  This one is soooooooo true!!! Love the way you phrased it! I don't know ho wmany times this happened to us but I always smile at the person behind me & say "You have to buy my dinner first if you are going to get that close." Sometimes they laugh & move back..sometimes they don't.

 

[hockeybabe]

"I'm so sorry!"

That's all it takes. I don't care if you bump into me, drop your food on me, step into my picture, stop suddenly in front of me etc. Just say you're sorry, we'll laugh and move on. And I'll do the same when I accidentally cause a problem for you. (I'll just ask for a tiny bit more caution for my elderly mom.)

It's amazing how effective just saying you're sorry really is.

I agree, sometimes things happen, but it is the non-apologetic attitude that makes me Like they had the right. Yes, you are on vacation, but if you are injuring someone, or obviously inconveniencing someone, you should be apologetic, and be genuine about it, not just "sorry kiddo" and off you go.

And just because you can walk faster or wheel faster than I can, it does not give you the right to make me leave the walkway to accomodate you. You need to find a way to move around me, just as I need to move around someone who is not up to my speed. That being said, it is amazing how quickly I make accomodations when the words "Excuse me" are spoken.

"Excuse me" and "Sorry", these two words alone can make a huge difference. Add "Please" and "Thank you", and the OP might not have had much to write about at all.

 

[Boncho]

I don't think this has been mentioned yet. If you need to constantly pass gas maybe a trip to the bathroom wouldn't be a bad idea. I know it is hard to hold in but the rest of us would really appreciate it. Making folks eyes water is rude in case anyone does not have a clue.

That is soooo gross. We happened to be close to someone like that in the Haunted Mansion. I thought one man was going to blow a hole in his pants.

 

[disyady]

I don't think this has been mentioned yet. If you need to constantly pass gas maybe a trip to the bathroom wouldn't be a bad idea. I know it is hard to hold in but the rest of us would really appreciate it. Making folks eyes water is rude in case anyone does not have a clue.

My dad had a colostomy bag after colon cancer surgery and he was embarassed to leave the house because he had no control over passing gas. He died from that cancer 15 years ago, and that was probably (for him) the most humiliating part of his 2 year battle. This problem is unavoidable for some and you can't see the bag so try to give the benefit of the doubt.

OP - Your original post was laugh out loud funny!

 

[Maps05]

I think WDW should have a DISers only day. Think how wonderful that would be!!!

 

[KrisTX]

My dad had a colostomy bag after colon cancer surgery and he was embarassed to leave the house because he had no control over passing gas. He died from that cancer 15 years ago, and that was probably (for him) the most humiliating part of his 2 year battle. This problem is unavoidable for some and you can't see the bag so try to give the benefit of the doubt.

OP - Your original post was laugh out loud funny!

I am sorry about your dad I had a friend in college that had a bag too. It really is not a fun way to go through life.

However, I have a 4 year old that has no known medical issues that stands in line and passes gas. it drives me crazy. He is just avoiding the potty. But when he gets called out, he is always quick to say he is sorry. Again, it all goes back to how much is acceptable when it is followed by an "I'm sorry".