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

[NemoMOm]

The only thing that really shocked me or got me miffed during my last trip in May was when I was at the TTC after leaving MK and headed to MGM. The first bus arrived and filled quickly. An elderly couple and I (I was by myself) decided to wait for the next bus, which arrived only a few minutes later. By then, the line had filled up again. I got on and had a seat right by the door, the elderly couple next to me, across from me were three adult men who I had seen running up to catch the bus. Right before we leave a family of four gets on, father, son and mother with a baby about six months old. There are no more seats. The father is carrying their stroller, the son is about nine, the mother is trying to hold on to the bar while juggling the baby. I watched the three able bodied men sitting across from me as they looked at her and shifted uncomfortably in their seats before I decided to be a "gentleman" and gave up my seat for her (I am a very small female). The mother was so grateful as was her husband. The "men" wouldn't even look at me for the ride as I was standing right in front of them. I'm only in my 30's but whatever happened to chivalry? I saw this so many times on my trip and it is really my pet peeve. If there is a small child who can't even reach the hand rail, a person with a baby, an elderly person or a person who is obviously having trouble standing and you are able-bodied, no matter what your sex - give up your dang seat!! (Off of soapbox. Thanks, I feel better.)

I see this all the time! It makes me so mad My husband always gives up his seat. I look around and there are so many little ones are elder folks and no one else gives up their seat! Who raised these people

 

[GrumpyC.Hook]

My mom and I had just finished riding space mountain and were on the moving sidewalk to get out of the ride. My mom had a spinal fusion and lamenectory and if she were to fall or get knocked over she would have a real problem if she landed wrong or couldn't get up before the pathway ended. We were standing all the way to the right side enough room that a person could *WALK* by us or if need be we could turn and give more room. Well a group of 4 teenagers 13-15 yo boys came up from behind us running full sprint towards the exit and bumped me into the side and then my mom. I was furious as i had to hold her up and keep her from falling. Well I yelled at them "slow down and say excuse me next time" we would have gladly let them by just dont' run by like a bull in a china shop.

Well their chaperone (mom/aunt/other) adult in her late 30's or 40's comes up and looks at me and tells me "they are just kids and excited don't have to be such a b**** well i looked at her and said "i wasn't my mom has a back problem and they almost knocked her flat over all they had to say was excuse me and just not run by us" she got totally enraged!

She waited at the exit and asked me if i wanted to learn a lesson and have her take me out right then. Well a CM heard her and called security and she and the boys were removed from the park. We ended up with free fastpasses and Disney couldn't stop apologizing for us having to have that happen.

THey didn't have to do that. I didn't get angry or rude i just said that they could have said excuse me and slowed down for people's safety.

I hope they learned manners matter or you get kicked out of my happy place!

 

[dbenlee]

My mom and I had just finished riding space mountain and were on the moving sidewalk to get out of the ride. My mom had a spinal fusion and lamenectory and if she were to fall or get knocked over she would have a real problem if she landed wrong or couldn't get up before the pathway ended. We were standing all the way to the right side enough room that a person could *WALK* by us or if need be we could turn and give more room. Well a group of 4 teenagers 13-15 yo boys came up from behind us running full sprint towards the exit and bumped me into the side and then my mom. I was furious as i had to hold her up and keep her from falling. Well I yelled at them "slow down and say excuse me next time" we would have gladly let them by just dont' run by like a bull in a china shop.

Well their chaperone (mom/aunt/other) adult in her late 30's or 40's comes up and looks at me and tells me "they are just kids and excited don't have to be such a b**** well i looked at her and said "i wasn't my mom has a back problem and they almost knocked her flat over all they had to say was excuse me and just not run by us" she got totally enraged!

She waited at the exit and asked me if i wanted to learn a lesson and have her take me out right then. Well a CM heard her and called security and she and the boys were removed from the park. We ended up with free fastpasses and Disney couldn't stop apologizing for us having to have that happen.

THey didn't have to do that. I didn't get angry or rude i just said that they could have said excuse me and slowed down for people's safety.

I hope they learned manners matter or you get kicked out of my happy place!

Unfortunately, people like that don't ever seem to learn manners. By the time they reach that age, its to late. I'm glad your Mom wasn't hurt and I'm glad a CM heard what was going on and took the appropriate action.

 

[BeautyNBeast]

Some of your stories are a lot worse than anything that happened to me (knock on wood). The worse was when we went in May, we were waiting for Peter Pan, and had been standing in line for about 40 minutes, and a guy steps over the rope, and says, my wife told me to meet her here, do you mind if I want in line here with you. We told him that we do mind, as we had been waiting in line for a long time. The nerve of some people though.

Also, when we went in December last year, on Christmas Eve, there was a family that rented a wheelchair so they could get on rides that much faster.

 

[Lizzybee]

Boy, I'll bet your son was pretty ticked off that you made him move.

Not really it wasn't a pretty picture.

 

[ilovejack02]

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

Thank goodness you were calm about it. WDW would have been throwing me and that woman out after i had beat the snot of her LOL. Tripping a kid WTH is wrong with people.

 

[Hanover]

We've been to WDW dozens of times and usually have not witnessed anything out of the ordinary.

However...When we were at MK last month on 7/15, I heard a guy in front of me at the check in area of the Crystal Palace getting irate with the cm because he couldn't get in as a walk up. He said he couldn't believe people knew where they wanted to eat in advance of trips and that people actually called months in advance. I noticed a bit later there were 4 Disney security guards called to help calm down the husband and wife since as the one CM put it they were getting "too bubbly."

That same evening, I went in to Casey's to buy some bottles of water before Wishes. It was rather crowded and the lines weren't really moving fast. There were several lines with 5 to 7 customers in each in front of "enter" signs near cash registers. A man comes in pushing his son in a wheelchair,behind him are his wife and daughter and heads right to the only line with no CM at the register and no one else waiting. He looks at a CM and asks when he'll be served. The CM tells him that line is closed. The man says, "no, it says enter and I did and I will be served." A few other customers begin telling him to wait his turn, etc. He starts swearing including several whopping F words. A CM quickly came over and took his order. I guess they just wanted this guy out as quickly as possible. I felt so bad for his kids and wife who didn't say one word the entire time.

 

[Disneymaniacs]

We didn't maintain our composure!!

We had been watching her antics for quite some time (it's a long, long, long ride to anywhere from the AKL) and it had gotten to the point where we were having to hide our faces with our packages we were laughing so hard.

BUT...when she licked the shoe, that was it. At first it was just gross, but when she kept doing it it just got hilarious. She'd lick a while, then flip it over and play it like a ukelele, then back to licking. Apparently her parents were oblivious to everything, because everyone on the bus was commenting on it. You had to be there, but I tell you we literally fell off the bus laughing.

The rest of the trip, the running joke was for one of us to grab a shoe, run up to someone else (in our group of course) and ask them if they wanted a snack.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

What's with that???

Someone else had a story similar to that earlier in the thread and I thought, "Who would do something like that?" And then just this week I went to an outlet mall and was shopping for shoes. I was standing in a narrow aisle and this elderly woman wanted to get through, so I straightened up and pressed myself against the shoe rack. She stopped directly behind me and leaned back into me! If she'd been younger and in better shape, I would have just moved and let her lose her balance, but I didn't want to do it to an older woman who might get hurt.

I do NOT like to be touched by strangers.

I totally understand. Stay out of my personal space.

 

[Dolce27]

We've been to WDW dozens of times and usually have not witnessed anything out of the ordinary.

However...When we were at MK last month on 7/15, I heard a guy in front of me at the check in area of the Crystal Palace getting irate with the cm because he couldn't get in as a walk up. He said he couldn't believe people knew where they wanted to eat in advance of trips and that people actually called months in advance. I noticed a bit later there were 4 Disney security guards called to help calm down the husband and wife since as the one CM put it they were getting "too bubbly."

That same evening, I went in to Casey's to buy some bottles of water before Wishes. It was rather crowded and the lines weren't really moving fast. There were several lines with 5 to 7 customers in each in front of "enter" signs near cash registers. A man comes in pushing his son in a wheelchair,behind him are his wife and daughter and heads right to the only line with no CM at the register and no one else waiting. He looks at a CM and asks when he'll be served. The CM tells him that line is closed. The man says, "no, it says enter and I did and I will be served." A few other customers begin telling him to wait his turn, etc. He starts swearing including several whopping F words. A CM quickly came over and took his order. I guess they just wanted this guy out as quickly as possible. I felt so bad for his kids and wife who didn't say one word the entire time.

The bad thing about this - the CM just rewarded his bad behavior. He will learn that he can continue to behave like this and get what he wants. Our society has learned to scream loud enough so that they can have their way. It's very sad... and childish.

 

[kirsangel]

I also hate the parade pushers. My mom, brother and I got to the park early on Christmas to stake out good spots for the Christmas morning parade. The thing finally starts and some old lady walks up and starts pushing and says "I NEED to get in front of you, I can't see" I said "We have been waiting here for 2 hours to see the parade." She looks at me like I'm crazy and wanders down the line, looking for some other sucker.

 

[BeautyNBeast]

I also love the people who use their kids strollers (with the kids in them), to ram into people to try to leave as fast as they can after Wishes. This happens more when the parks are crowded, like on CHristmas Eve.

 

[taximomfor4]

I also love the people who use their kids strollers (with the kids in them), to ram into people to try to leave as fast as they can after Wishes. This happens more when the parks are crowded, like on CHristmas Eve.

On this last trip, we stayed to the right of the walkway and aimed straight down the walkway with our family (and stroller). VERY often, people would come alongside and force us off the walkway. So after a few days, we began holding our ground. We walked 2 by 2 to take up less walkway width, aimed the stroller straight down the walkway, and if people came alongside we just kept walking straight. More than one diagonalled into the front corner of the stroller. Their fault not mine. We were not quick, but tried to be as out of the way as possible. I can honestly say that the ONLY feet we struck with the stroller were people who came alongside and then diagonalled in front.

Oh, and I have been lucky so far...never been clipped by a stroller yet. Knock on wood! Although the kid on heelies pushing the stroller down the bridge at Epcot's World Showcase nearly took dd out completely.

 

[RSoxFan]

I hate parade pushers too. Last month, my family and I snagged a curbside spot for Spectro about two hours ahead of time. A nice family with two little kids sat behind us. My mom and I squeezed together so the two little kids could sit in front. Then, just as the parade started, this lady came by and shoved her three kids in front of us. She told them, "It's okay, they're adults. They don't need to see." We were sitting on the curb, so it's not like they couldn't see over our heads. Then, on the bus the next day I overheard two families talking about how much they hate it when adults watch the parades. They thought that nobody over the age of 18 should be able to line up to see the parade unless they have kids with them. I couldn't believe it. If I get there early and am not bothering anyone or blocking anyone's view, why shouldn't I get to see the parade?

The rudest thing that ever happened to me was a couple of years ago in the line for Splash Mountain. It was a 45 minute wait, and there was a little boy behind me who was probably about 8 or 9. The whole wait, he kept grabbing my butt. Not brushing or bumping against me, but grabbing and holding on. I couldn't believe it. I didn't say anything. I think I was too shocked.

 

[BeautyNBeast]

On this last trip, we stayed to the right of the walkway and aimed straight down the walkway with our family (and stroller). VERY often, people would come alongside and force us off the walkway. So after a few days, we began holding our ground. We walked 2 by 2 to take up less walkway width, aimed the stroller straight down the walkway, and if people came alongside we just kept walking straight. More than one diagonalled into the front corner of the stroller. Their fault not mine. We were not quick, but tried to be as out of the way as possible. I can honestly say that the ONLY feet we struck with the stroller were people who came alongside and then diagonalled in front.

Oh, and I have been lucky so far...never been clipped by a stroller yet. Knock on wood! Although the kid on heelies pushing the stroller down the bridge at Epcot's World Showcase nearly took dd out completely.

That is different. On Christmas Eve, people were literally ramming the stroller into people to get them to move because it was so crowded after Wishes. They were doing it on purpose to people. I got rammed and I was moving straight, and it was not on accident either.

 

[seven dwarfs]

Last Dec we were at the Christmas Party (forgot which date, it was a Thursday), we got seats for the parade two hours ahead of start time. It was a very busy night. We also ate Casey's hotdogs to make time go by. Anyway this older women stands behind me and continues to push me. Then the daughter and hubby park the stroller right in front of me. This women keeps kicking me and I tell my sis if she does not stop I am saying something. Then the women who spoke little english tells her daughter I was talking trash about her. This mess goes on and on. The grandmom contiues to push me and then the daughter starts using "bad words". I was done. There are small kids everywhere. I was like look you need to stop with the "bad words' and the daughter goes what you think you are a better Mom then me. It was so crazy. After the parade they all started yeeling at us. I did go get a CM and they watched them continue to fight and cuss and they did nothing (they were even yelling at my parents). I was so upset. If the CM had stepped in then the behavior would have stopped. Sad thing is, one of her kids never woke up for the parade. I was blown away at what people are willing to do 10 mins before the parade. It is scarey out there.

 

[phillybeth]

Also, when we went in December last year, on Christmas Eve, there was a family that rented a wheelchair so they could get on rides that much faster.

Boy I bet they got a rude surprise The only guests that get front of the line access are kids on Make-A-Wish trips. Most queues are mainstreamed, so those in wheelchairs wait just as long as everyone else.

 

[Fitswimmer]

Then, on the bus the next day I overheard two families talking about how much they hate it when adults watch the parades. They thought that nobody over the age of 18 should be able to line up to see the parade unless they have kids with them. I couldn't believe it. If I get there early and am not bothering anyone or blocking anyone's view, why shouldn't I get to see the parade?

Well, my friends and I think that there should be EMH's for over 21 only!! We should be able to be in the parks for at least a couple of hours w/o having strollers rammed into us, screaming tantrums and obnoxious parents.

I've had more than one experience at parades with parents pushing in front of us because "you don't have any kids". It really makes it unpleasant and makes me consider skipping the parades altogether.

 

[madalex]

This does not rise to the level of many of the stories on this thread, but here's one anyway: Couple years back, we were staying at YC and were out at the pool one afternoon. Some guy is sitting by the pool, eating his lunch (burger and fries). For some reason, he started tossing fries to the birds in the area. Apparently, he was so pleased by the response he got (the birds ate the fries, duh!), he kept doing this for several minutes. As a result, the area was inundated by birds for quite some time. As if those birds aren't aggressive enough, this guy was adding fuel to the fire. It just seemed such a stupid thing for an adult to do.

 

[lyzziesmom]

I am always surprised by the sheer amount of stories on threads like these. It's amazing how a few kind words could have changed the attitude of so many of the folks featured here. I have been guilty of sitting my kids & myself in front of people at parades, but never without asking, "Do you mind if we sit here?" Sometimes the answer is no, and then we move on. More often than not, we find that people are more than willing to make room if we just ask nicely and try not to squeeze in where we could never possibly fit.

Whenever we see people acting rudely or even just misbehaving children, I always try to point them out to my kids, and I'll say loudly, "See that (insert bad behavior here)? How does it look when someone does that?" and the answer is invariably, "Not good!" This way my kids get a lesson in how NOT to behave, and the offenders get a little bit of second-hand embarrassment.