Guests behaving badly (aka we need a round of pixie dust over here!)

[Tiffer]

I would say the rude and inappropriate things I saw this vaction certainly topped anything I had ever seen. BTW I was wondering where the other thread went! In any event I'm thinking that the numbers of guests are just greater than they were for a while and now I'm seeing more because there are more people--in other words it is the same percentage of people behaving poorly, but since there are more people I'm seeing more. I think the one that took the prize for us was the guy peeing in the Epcot parking lot and then carrying an open container through the lot and on the tram, once we got off the tram I don't know what happened to him. I was most shocked because there were several attendants in the parking lot and no one said a thing. Unusual, well I found someone flossing on a park bench, the usual line cutters and tour group annoyances, bathing suits in restaurants, and no shoes in the park. Let's not even talk about the heely's or the usual parade faux pas.

I agree with the rest, although I find PDA's the most offensive even my DD9 says "get a rrom", not that she reaaly knows what that means, but what's wrong with heely's? I mean, if you can put up with electric wheel chairs bumping you in the Achilles, what bothers you about heely's as long as they are used with manners?

 

[mickeymousemom]

On page 20, we're going to get a story from some woman who talks about this crazy lady who screeched at her in WoD one day.

...Yes...I thought about that too. I wish she WERE here...I'd tell her just how childish I thought she acted...I'm thinking she must've been on the edge of a meltdown anyway..

 

[KimberlyC]

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we'd like to remind you that Kings Island is a family park, not a park for making families. Thank you."

Ah, that needs to be in a handbook somewhere! Its by far and away one of the wittiest ways of getting the point across that I've ever heard of.

 

[CindyAnn]

Some parents seem to get confused. You're at Walt Disney World taking a vacation WITH your children, not a vacation FROM your children. Unless you decided to leave the kids at home with a responsible adult, it's still YOUR job to keep them safe and ensure that they don't engage in behaviour that's utterly annoying to everyone around them. So many complaints arise from parents that just couldn't be bothered.

 

[HappyDznyCamper]

I agree with the rest, although I find PDA's the most offensive even my DD9 says "get a rrom", not that she reaaly knows what that means, but what's wrong with heely's? I mean, if you can put up with electric wheel chairs bumping you in the Achilles, what bothers you about heely's as long as they are used with manners?

What's wrong with heely's is that Disney has said they don'y allow them in the park. ECV are a necessity for some, and if you've never tried driving them, they don't exactly stop on a dime when someone in the crowd infront of you does.

 

[delilah]

We just got back from WDW Sunday night. I actually encountered fewer rude people than usual, but, I normally try to ignore them, anyway. There was one lady who was kind of scary, though. It was at Splash Mountain. I had arrived about 5 min berfore my fast-pass time, and stood over to the side. Apparently, she was with a group where some had one time and others had a later time, which coincidentally was the same time as mine. The ones with an earlier time had already entered the fast pass line. The CM at Splash Mountain was patiently explaining to her that she couldn't get in line until the clock above the attraction showed the time on her fast pass. This woman was so persistant that she argued with the CM all the way up until the time the fast pass was valid. The CM was very nice, and went up to get those who entered earlier--some older teens. When they got back to the entrance, the family used some really vulgar language to describe the CM. During this entire time of the arguing, nobody else was able to enter the line. When my time came, I was allowed to go in, although I stood back to allow some others to get between myself and the crazy lady. Then, when I was standing in line, the person behind me was complaining that people with later times had gotten in before they had. I was inclined to let him go ahead of me, also, but, I figured he wouldn't be happy just getting ahead of one person.

Then, upon leaving the park after the Spectomagic parade, a woman ran over my foot with a wheelchair, then stared at me dumbfounded because I said "Oww, that hurt". My shoe wasn't damaged, so, I just went on my way.

 

[FigmentGuy]

UGh, some people. What poor behaviors. I love our CM's who bear it all! I wish all guests had to wear shock collars....and give CM's little remotes to them. :::BUZZZ::: Or "zipidy-do-dah-Tazers" or something or just a wad of duck-tape to wrap around the mouth of evil guests. Or maybe tranquilizers...haha "Fantasyland Juice".

Sometimes its better that we keep our mouths shut and let others/CMs handle it. And sometimes its best we open our mouths and remind others that this is "Disney,,, now just enjoy yourself!"

 

[sorul82?]

She failed to understand the meaning of "toe jam"?

I think you just won the award for the most DISgusting thing said on the DIS!

 

[PatriciaH]

This reminds me of a story someone told on the boards. It didn't happen to me. They were eating at CRT, and the people nearby had an argument and were about to throw things. According to the poster, a bunch of CMs came over and removed them. Breaking rules doesn't pay.

That was me We were in the castle eating when it was King Stephans. This couple started yelling at each other and she picked up a glass and threw it at him! He ducked and it hit someone at a table nearby. Then some CM's in suits came over to the tables. It all happened so fast.

 

[poohguys]

OK, you know someone was going to reply to this...lol. My 2nd dd crawled at 4 months, and so did a friend's dd. They were both early walkers too (10 months and 9 months, respectively).

Anyway, I had an incident last December where my dd accidently bumped into a woman (probably in her 50's) standing in line in front of us. DD apologized, but this woman was so full of rage. She ended up getting behind us and proceeded to trip dd (who is 7) repeatedly. I couldn't figure out why dd was walking so "funny", I thought she was being silly and purposely trying to trip herself. She told me, "no mommy, someone keeps on tripping me." I turn around and this woman was giving us such a nasty look...it's was really scary and creepy. She creeped me out so much that we got away from her quickly. I wasn't about to confront her, it could have turned really ugly.

Why would someone come to WDW if they get so enraged if someone bumps them???

Mary

I give you a lot of credit if someone was tripping or pushing my DS I would definitally say something to them, and I would tell a cm too. There is no reason adults should be picking on children.

My DS was an early crawler-I think about 5 months and was walking by 9 1/2 months.

 

[PatriciaH]

Anyway - after about five minutes I'd had enough - and I'm a teacher, I'm used to it! So I turned around and gave these kids "the face". They knew what it was, what it meant (even if their parents didn't use it) and STOPPED! Clearly, they knew right from wrong - only not from their parents.
Ok - rant over.

A few days ago we were at AK in the gift shop. There were 5 or 6 little boys with toy swords from a display in both hands going nuts! They were hitting each other and beating up on this little kid (who just kept yelling "OWWW THAT HURT" but stayed right with them.) They were wacking into to other people and no one could even get by them. After about 5 minutes+ and no parents in sight I said to them "hey, do you want to calm down- this is not your living room!" They all looked shocked and ran to put the swords away.

 

[Friendly Frog]

Out of control kids-No wait, oblivious parents, can't really blame the kids.
Out of control teens.
People who stop in the middle of the road to talk, look at maps or just point at things.
Line cutters
Kids in diapers in the pool (= potty water.)
Those who wait in the food court line for 10 mins and don't bother to read the menu till it is time for them to order..
The people in the room above who allow their kids to jump off the bed onto the floor (our ceiling)

and to think we STILL want to go to this place!

 

[MermaidMommy]

I was riding BTMRR with DD, 3.5 yrs old, on her first trip to Disney World. DD loved it, no problems the entire ride. The car behind us had a man and a woman, both 40ish, and the woman SCREAMED the entire ride like it was TT, and not just screaming but "OMG, OMG, S****, F****, OMG." She was ducking her head against the man's shoulder/chest as she screamed -- it almost seemed like she thought she was being "cute." Could she not see the 3-year old in front of her, or all the thousands of other kids around while she was swearing up a blue streak? Besides, who can get that scared on BTMRR??

 

[JPN4265]

If the CM's would just start enforcing the rules, instead of not wanting to confront the problem, I believe you would see and experience a much more pleasant WDW.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Just to add some thoughts about the child licking the shoes having possible autism...let's not diagnose without ever having met the child.

THANK YOU!! It's gets so old to see kids automatically diagnosed with something just because of their behavior. Believe it or not, there are just some brats out there with no excuse.

 

[flortlebap]

The best one I have is last year on our Honeymoon, my DH & I were in line for 'It's a Small World' and the two teenage girls behind us were talking about how my husband had to be a child molester because I only looked 15 and he looked at least 30 and how they couldn't believe that some girls would do anything to get a free trip to anywhere and how my parents probably signed for us to get married, either that or we were 'SO TOTALLY faking it'... After listening to them for about 5 minutes (it took that long for me to hear the whole thing because it was riddled with 'you know?' 'like' and 'but yeah'), I turned around and said 'I'm 23, he's 25, we just got married and none of this is any of your business, but you two were soooo obnoxious during your little insult fest that I felt compelled to tell you both that you sound like complete idiots when you talk about people where they can hear you. Now, shouldn't you be running along to meet mommy?'

Normally, I would have let it go... But I was just tired of listening to it.

I know exactly how you feel. We had to endure snotty remarks from ignorant little brats lately about how we were both too young to have a child and only look around 15. The latter part may be true, but I am 21 and DH is 27!! Hardly 15!

Fortunately we've never encountered many rude people. The only incident I can think of is a crazy woman ramming us with her pushchair then glaring at us like we should have leapt out of the way to let her through if looks could kill...

 

[TenThousandVolts]

NO WAY is that to be blamed on ADHD. My son had severe ADHD and NEVER behaved like that in puiblic--even if I would have allowed it he wouldn't have, it's just not ADHD type behavior. Well, maybe the rolling but not the show licking. I have never met an ADHD kid who would have. ANd a LOT of my sons friends were ADHD--he went to a private school for motivated kids with learning disabilities, cognitive disorders, and emotional problems, so there's not much we haven't seen.

In all honesty if you told me the child was Autistic, that I might believe, but not ADHD.

Anne

We have 2 "off-the-charts" ADHD kids and 1 autistic toddler and I have to say none of them have ever licked a shoe (at least to my knowledge ) - but my most severe ADHD kid did used to lick things until about age 5 (like windows- which of course he would be corrected if he did this) He is one of those kids that had to touch everything-and it was just another way of experiencing the tactile qualities of things.

I am afraid that my family might end up in here someday. Our kids are nice and polite but sometimes bump into people and walk around as if they have blinders on (and the most hyper one walks really fast and kind erratically) They know they are supposed to be careful and considerate and aware of others but sometimes but they still bump into people.

PS: DebIreland- your post was very compassionate.

 

[Fitswimmer]

Most kids are clueless, and oblivious to other people-unless they are taught to behave better. I would NEVER have gotten away with the crap I've seen some of these kids pull in the malls or at WDW. I would have been back in the room! When I started taking care of my DN when she was 18 months old, that standard was passed on to her. I took her out of the local mall under my arm, her kicking and screaming-and she never acted up again! She's now 20, and we laugh at all the parents who say-"if you don't stop we're going back to the room" and never do it. We were in line for Buzz, and these two kids were really going nuts, whining, punching each other, bumping into other people in line-you name it. Dad kept saying, "one more whine and we're going back". Well, of course they never did go anywhere, and about the 10th time he said that, DN leaned over and stage whispered to me-"if that was me, you'd have taken me back to the room an hour ago!" She was right, I would have and because she knew that all of our Disney trips were wonderful.
I think the parents pay so much money that they don't want to go through on that threat, I can understand that-but you only have to do it once and you don't even have to stay at the room long. As soon as they know you're serious, behavior improves and I can say that from both sides-being the kid and being the grown-up!

 

[MushyMushy]

THANK YOU!! It's gets so old to see kids automatically diagnosed with something just because of their behavior. Believe it or not, there are just some brats out there with no excuse.

Amen!

 

[ducknturtle]

Basically what this all comes down to is the acceptance of personal responsibilty. When a person acknowledges his or her faults and takes the responsiblity for consequences for his or her (or their children's) actions, there would be less rude behavior (and crime for that matter) in the world. When a parent does this for their child that standard is passed on to the child. We need to stop making excuses in this world. We are responsible for our actions and or inactions.
I, too, am getting off my soapbox.
Be happy and enjoy life with more and WDW!