Have you ever had a shock?

[MelanieRI]

This is sort of a pet peeve of mine.....

Several years ago, on DD's first trip to Disney, we were waiting in line for a ride and it was a busy time so the rides were long. Well, we almost get to the top of the line when the person in front of us gets on his walkie-talkie cell phone and announces to his family that he's pretty far up in line - they'd better come. And then came a group of people cutting everyone and right in front of us. All that time waiting only to be cut-off at the last second. I have kept seeing stuff like that happen all the time - ok, I understand if your child has to go potty or something and one of the adults leave w/ said child and then comes back, but one person should not be standing in line for the whole family, the whole time. I'm shocked that Disney lets people do this time and time again. Sometimes, I curse that Magic Gatherings theme b/c of this. And what am I supposed to do throw a fit in every line I stand in b/c people are always cutting? Is it just me that gets annoyed at this?? yeah, wouldn't life be great if you could pay someone to stand in line for you and give you a call when they were almost to the front, but that's not the way it works!

 

[minijeanie]

This is sort of a pet peeve of mine.....

Several years ago, on DD's first trip to Disney, we were waiting in line for a ride and it was a busy time so the rides were long. Well, we almost get to the top of the line when the person in front of us gets on his walkie-talkie cell phone and announces to his family that he's pretty far up in line - they'd better come. And then came a group of people cutting everyone and right in front of us. All that time waiting only to be cut-off at the last second. I have kept seeing stuff like that happen all the time - ok, I understand if your child has to go potty or something and one of the adults leave w/ said child and then comes back, but one person should not be standing in line for the whole family, the whole time. I'm shocked that Disney lets people do this time and time again. Sometimes, I curse that Magic Gatherings theme b/c of this. And what am I supposed to do throw a fit in every line I stand in b/c people are always cutting? Is it just me that gets annoyed at this?? yeah, wouldn't life be great if you could pay someone to stand in line for you and give you a call when they were almost to the front, but that's not the way it works!

You are 100% right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I totally agree. yes if your child has to go to the bathroom or your party of 2 were shopping ...really not a big deal..but when 5 or more people show up who were not waiting the 30 mintues or so..it is a big deal....

don't know how you can prevent it,,but It is a major pet peeve with me as well

 

[Dislifer]

There has to be a way that this is avoided! It simply is not right AND....if it is allowed to continue, naturally more and more people will begin to save a place for their 10 or so friends and then cut the others off. I see many arguements, issues, etc. in the future!!!

 

[Uuaww]

see thats when its great for people like me to exist. if someone is trying to go in front of me, like a big group i will just say, "Um, No" followed by "i will stab your jaw if you try anything" j/k on the that. anyways i use benefit of the doubt, if they have really youngins with them, I'll let it slide, if everyone is over say 8, or its a giant group, i just say no. oh and you see this works really well b/c the last time i went, i went with my 2 best friends, and one of them is 6'8" muscular build; so we can do this stuff, and if people are breaking the rules they won't challenge us. now if they have a legit reason (bathroom) then we are like alright, unless they are being d-bags.

 

[Angelrose]

AMEN Uuaww! I ALWAYS say no when 20 people try to get ahead of me because their group is up there. I always politely say, "Oh you want to be with your group? Well then, have them come back here with you. That way you will all be together." Somehow this doesn't please them. I am a short, tubby, mean old lady with a cane. Nobody messes with me.

 

[cornflkgrl]

Well we just got back and I had a couple shocks.
Mostly the way people interact with their children that was shocking.

1. Coming out of Dinasour ride at Animal Kingdom a lady with a 2 year old (not even sure she was that old) saying "I don't feel like going on that ride...." kind of in a very hard to understand whine and the mother turned around and yelled "Want to know what I feel like doing, I feel like spitting in your face." and walked off with this tiny little kid trying to catch up in a hot crowded place she never should have been in to begin with. My husband and I looked at eachother in utter amazement.

And while I'm on this subject. We have a young child we left at home while on our trip but we were shocked at the number of people yelling at tiny 1, 2 and 3 year olds to stop crying, whining etc. when they had them out from opening until park close. What did they expect? That is just mean. Also we saw a lot of parents yelling at little kids for being scared on ADULT rides. There are so many nice age-appropriate things for the little kids, that is nothing but selfishness to put your own desires to go on certain rides/do certain things above your child's.

2. A family coming out of one of the World Showcase areas the 10 year old boy was griping about something and the mother yelled at the father about the son and then the father turned to the son and yelled "You just want to ruin the trip for everyone!!!"

3. At fantasmic 2 little 3-4 year olds fighting with those stupid light sabers that the mother had recently purchased for them and the second they started hitting anyone/anything with them she grabbed one of them by the HAIR!!! and started yelling at him. Not just a lock of his hair, I mean she grabbed his darn scalp!

4. A man running for his dear life with 3 small kids trying their hardest to keep up through the crowds and he turns around and yells "come on now.....I need you to run NOW! Come on!" We think he was trying to get in line for Space Mountain or something, I don't know.

5. Indiana Jones stunt show--man sits in row across from us and removes his tennis shoes and sets them aside and then his socks and sets them aside and just puts his feet out to rest them as though he is in his living room. At the same show we are waiting for it to start and I hear a loud clank and turn to see a man picking up a silver butter knife. He has some sort of bread, a real napkin (not paper) and like 2 other utensils (real) and he has them on his lap and he is spreading something on the bread. Who carries silverware in their bag???

6. Also at Indiana Jones, the stunt guy fell from one of the roofs and busted his knee. Not sure this was scripted. Pretty sure it was not. They iced it and called up his understudy and we had to wait for him and then they finished the show.

7. Saw many 8,9,10 year-old girls with short shorts with various provocative messages written on the rear-end of them (ie. "Hottie") as well as many small girls with bikini tops and such on. I'm sure there are lots of predators at Disney why would anyone allow this.

8. At fantasmic 3 older (like 30-50) business men sit down around a group of highschool marching band students (14-17) and start hitting on them!!

Disney was pretty shocking to us just because we are not used to people punishing their children, yelling at their children, beating their kids, in public. My parents always just made us leave if we started acting up when we were little but I guess these people feel like they paid so much they would rather act like fools in front of everyone than waste even a half hour so their kid can get it together. I don't care how people punish their kids I just would rather not have it all in my face. I think that is kind of personal and if it is something awful like #1 then they should not ever do that in public or private.

 

[hollyb]

On our honeymoon we were in a shop. I felt a hand on my hiney, I thought it was my new DH. NOPE IT WAS A COMPLETE STRANGER!!! His face got bright red, he said "oh my God I thought you were my wife!!!

 

[disneyaggie]

I am a short, tubby, mean old lady with a cane. Nobody messes with me.

 

[SplashLover93]

ok so our family went to WDW yesterday 4 my bros b-day. While i was getting fastpasses 4 BTM i found a disney ticket on the fastpass machine so i went to the nearest cm who was getting told off by a guest. So im standing there listening to this woman complain that she had only been on 4 rides and if there was a limit to the parks and when the cm said yes she sceamed at him what is the limit *pointing to the crowd of people* and he kindly told her that MK was busy but not as busy as it has been at Christmas etc... Next she goes on saying she wants a refund! She wants a refund because the park was too crowded i was in shock i mean really a refund?!? wonder what guest services told her.....
Moving on....
We had fastpasses 4 Splash and we were in the line and this woman and her group of 5 come huffing and puffing down the line and they stop at a party of 6 and the mother says "Can you let us get in here we THOUGHT we had fastpasses and now they want us to go to the end of the line" and bypasses a 40 minute line behind her if it was me I would of told her to keep moving i mean really thats not fair to the 100+ guest behind her

 

[dustysky]

Well we just got back and I had a couple shocks.
Mostly the way people interact with their children that was shocking.

1. Coming out of Dinasour ride at Animal Kingdom a lady with a 2 year old (not even sure she was that old) saying "I don't feel like going on that ride...." kind of in a very hard to understand whine and the mother turned around and yelled "Want to know what I feel like doing, I feel like spitting in your face." and walked off with this tiny little kid trying to catch up in a hot crowded place she never should have been in to begin with. My husband and I looked at eachother in utter amazement.

And while I'm on this subject. We have a young child we left at home while on our trip but we were shocked at the number of people yelling at tiny 1, 2 and 3 year olds to stop crying, whining etc. when they had them out from opening until park close. What did they expect? That is just mean. Also we saw a lot of parents yelling at little kids for being scared on ADULT rides. There are so many nice age-appropriate things for the little kids, that is nothing but selfishness to put your own desires to go on certain rides/do certain things above your child's.

2. A family coming out of one of the World Showcase areas the 10 year old boy was griping about something and the mother yelled at the father about the son and then the father turned to the son and yelled "You just want to ruin the trip for everyone!!!"

3. At fantasmic 2 little 3-4 year olds fighting with those stupid light sabers that the mother had recently purchased for them and the second they started hitting anyone/anything with them she grabbed one of them by the HAIR!!! and started yelling at him. Not just a lock of his hair, I mean she grabbed his darn scalp!

4. A man running for his dear life with 3 small kids trying their hardest to keep up through the crowds and he turns around and yells "come on now.....I need you to run NOW! Come on!" We think he was trying to get in line for Space Mountain or something, I don't know.

5. Indiana Jones stunt show--man sits in row across from us and removes his tennis shoes and sets them aside and then his socks and sets them aside and just puts his feet out to rest them as though he is in his living room. At the same show we are waiting for it to start and I hear a loud clank and turn to see a man picking up a silver butter knife. He has some sort of bread, a real napkin (not paper) and like 2 other utensils (real) and he has them on his lap and he is spreading something on the bread. Who carries silverware in their bag???

6. Also at Indiana Jones, the stunt guy fell from one of the roofs and busted his knee. Not sure this was scripted. Pretty sure it was not. They iced it and called up his understudy and we had to wait for him and then they finished the show.

7. Saw many 8,9,10 year-old girls with short shorts with various provocative messages written on the rear-end of them (ie. "Hottie") as well as many small girls with bikini tops and such on. I'm sure there are lots of predators at Disney why would anyone allow this.

8. At fantasmic 3 older (like 30-50) business men sit down around a group of highschool marching band students (14-17) and start hitting on them!!

Disney was pretty shocking to us just because we are not used to people punishing their children, yelling at their children, beating their kids, in public. My parents always just made us leave if we started acting up when we were little but I guess these people feel like they paid so much they would rather act like fools in front of everyone than waste even a half hour so their kid can get it together. I don't care how people punish their kids I just would rather not have it all in my face. I think that is kind of personal and if it is something awful like #1 then they should not ever do that in public or private.

I dont beat my kids, or pull their hair but I have to say that if they need to be disaplined I am going to do it where I am whom ever likes it or not.
This could be a wole new topic but I hate when others think they can tell people how to parent.

 

[a*lil*bit*goofy]

2. A family coming out of one of the World Showcase areas the 10 year old boy was griping about something and the mother yelled at the father about the son and then the father turned to the son and yelled "You just want to ruin the trip for everyone!!!"

Keep in mind that you are only seeing 1 part of of what has been going on in this familys vacation. For all you know, he had been complaining that it was babyish to be there that he wanted to go off on his own that he was going to do nothign and complain until he was allowed blah blah blah. Its like listening to 1 end of a phone converstation.

4. A man running for his dear life with 3 small kids trying their hardest to keep up through the crowds and he turns around and yells "come on now.....I need you to run NOW! Come on!" We think he was trying to get in line for Space Mountain or something, I don't know.

maybe they were running to the bathroom. whether it be for dad of the kids, lord knows i have made the kids run when i ..er...had to. you know what they say about assume....!!!

5. Indiana Jones stunt show--man sits in row across from us and removes his tennis shoes and sets them aside and then his socks and sets them aside and just puts his feet out to rest them as though he is in his living room. At the same show we are waiting for it to start and I hear a loud clank and turn to see a man picking up a silver butter knife. He has some sort of bread, a real napkin (not paper) and like 2 other utensils (real) and he has them on his lap and he is spreading something on the bread. Who carries silverware in their bag???

6. Also at Indiana Jones, the stunt guy fell from one of the roofs and busted his knee. Not sure this was scripted. Pretty sure it was not. They iced it and called up his understudy and we had to wait for him and then they finished the show.

this is definately all shocking! poor guy!

7. Saw many 8,9,10 year-old girls with short shorts with various provocative messages written on the rear-end of them (ie. "Hottie") as well as many small girls with bikini tops and such on. I'm sure there are lots of predators at Disney why would anyone allow this.

i just find this rude. not on my girl!

8. At fantasmic 3 older (like 30-50) business men sit down around a group of highschool marching band students (14-17) and start hitting on them!!

ewwwwwwww!

Disney was pretty shocking to us just because we are not used to people punishing their children, yelling at their children, beating their kids, in public.

When kids need punishing, imo (and in my practice ) its best to do it at the scene of the crime. Whether it be in public or not. just my opinion tho!

 

[KatheeME]

bumping to keep reading!

 

[jann1033]

Keep in mind that you are only seeing 1 part of of what has been going on in this familys vacation.
When kids need punishing, imo (and in my practice ) its best to do it at the scene of the crime. Whether it be in public or not. just my opinion tho!

ita you have no idea what has gone on before you wandered up...

never beat my kids either but also agree about the discipline, how kind would it to wait till you are back at the hotel that night to discipline for something they did 6 hrs earlier? if possible we headed to the nearest restoom but that was not always possible...and sorry but a lot of bratty kids come from "non disciplining ".....discipline doesn't always mean a swat ( imo alot depends on the kids temperment)but you have to train your kids, whether you are at disney or home or they( and you) will have a really tough time later

and i don't mean hair pulling stuff but unfortunately some people have gone to the other end of the spectrum and feel no discipline is good discipline.

and i don't feel i was the perfect parent so if anyone wants to start comments about the thread locking parent police junk...save it! or write it in code cause this thread has been open too long to mess up now. ixney on the parentay

 

[cornflkgrl]

I dont beat my kids, or pull their hair but I have to say that if they need to be disaplined I am going to do it where I am whom ever likes it or not.
This could be a wole new topic but I hate when others think they can tell people how to parent.

I'm not trying to tell someone how to parent but I do think that if people are in the practice of beating their children or pulling their hair they would not want to do that in public where some people may consider that abuse (and yes, I consider pulling a 3 year old's scalp roughly and screaming at him abuse. And while I cannot classify yelling at your 2 year old that you want to spit in their face as abuse, I can certainly say that it shows poor parenting skills to yell back at your 2 year old as though you are 2 yourself.) Obviously everyone has their own parenting style and some people believe in coporal discipline and some do not. I think if you are going to do something that might be viewed as abusive by others in a public place you are going to have to be prepared for any looks or comments people may make. I have the same reaction to parents beating (not spanking, BEATING) their children in public as I do to boyfriends/husbands yelling profanity and/or striking a spouse in public. If I think it is abuse I will say something and/or stop and stare until I feel the abused party is safe and if that is not enough and i feel it is dangerous or escalating I will go get an authority such as security. I think most of us can agree on the difference between spanking/punishing your child/yelling at your child and beating/kicking/punching/pulling hair/verbal abuse of a child. If someone does not say something they are allowing the abuse to continue. I don't think we should just accept abuse as a "form of parenting" and none of our business. Please understand I am not dogging people for spanking their kids. That is one's personal decision to make. I am talking about hurting kids here.

 

[dustysky]

Oh I do understand and agree that when a child is being hurt that is a differnt story. When I say I displine my kids in public it is normaly a stern voice in a not so soft tone. Yes people look at me like I am "mean" but I would rather be "mean" with good kids then politicaly correct with brats.
I dont think that spanking is right or wrong either way but I dont spank because it makes me feel bad in the end and honestly has no effect on my chiildren.

 

[a*lil*bit*goofy]

spanking:

now. anyone else have a shock? Here is one: it hasnt' happened to me but hey, I am trying to lighten the mood and get back on topic.

Has anyone had a character sign the name 'wrong' ie maybe Alice was Aurora earlier in the day and 'forgot' to switch the signatures! or maybe someone was distracted and out of character? now THAT would be shocking! LOL

 

[Goobergal99]

Ok guys I have one.

On our last trip to Disney my DH and I brought his sister along with us because she has always been such a big help and loves our daughter to pieces. So she really wanted to try TOT being it was her first trip. I went along with her the first time but she wanted to ride once more as there was barely a line, but I wasn't up for it again (I had just ate for petes sake ) So, she asked my DH but he was feeling a lil queasy as well and gets sick to his stomach kind of easily. So DH, me and DD waited inside the gift shop on the benches right around the corner from the ride exit for her to come off. All of a sudden we see this mother (had to be in her mid to late 30's at least, this will be important later in the story) dragging her kid to the bench next to us, yelling expletives at the kid for not wanting to ride. Here is how it goes so some of you can imagine our horror.

Mother: "you little "expletive" I can't believe you would act like that over a "expletive" ride, it aint any more scary then our street at home now joey and daddy have to ride all by themselves.

So the lil girl is in tears, poor thing and then the mother smacks her

So now my DH is getting really upset and turns to woman and gives her the nastiest look ever, my poor DD was staring in awe and I am just trying to stop myself from knocking this chick out.

So then this woman turns to my DH and says, "What the expletive are you looking at, if you had been better disciplined you may not have knocked her up (pointing to me) and ended up with a baby before you learned how to properly wipe your behind.

It took every ounce of me not to beat this woman and DH knew it and so did the guy standing next to us, as he was shaking his head.

My response was a nice calm, passive agressive smile and a loud response in my DD's direction. "Sweety, one day you too will be upset at all the tax money being withdrawn from your checks because Miss uneducated over here wanted to go to Disney, but didn't have the manners, nor intellect to fund the trip herself" Now I turn to DH and respond

"Ahh, just think honey if it weren't for all the ppl who take advantage of the welfare system, we might have stayed at the POLY"

The woman finally got up and walked away, but I have to admit I felt so horrible for her DD, that I contemplated kidnapping her and taking her home with me. Some ppl are just beyond comprehension aren't they?

 

[Stitch65]

Ok, just thought of one. I must have been about 18 at the time, and my bro, his wife and I were in "line" for BTMRR and the CM said "move up and fill in all the available space", well my brother did that and I tried to follow but this "gentelmen" accused us of budding and refused to let me by. I mean he physically blocked me. I was so freaked out I didn't know what to do. I mean it looked like he was going to deck me! His wife was mortified, and my brother just kept saying, "Come on man, they told us to move up, don't me such a jerk!" and he still refused. Now just to clarify this was in the queue up line that is about 9 people wide and it's before you truly get in the "line". I'll never forget that. My bro had to come back and stand by me since that guy was being so pleasant. Ugh. And in the mean time of this man arguing with us, about 20-30 people got in front of us. Way to pick the battles man.

 

[Harrylover]

I was at typhoon Lagoon with DH, DD9, and DD5 and we were in the wave pool when all of a sudden we saw this teenage boy and we're guessing his friend. His friend said,"OK, they're ready!" He then stripped off his swim trunks and was shacking all over. The CMs didn't see him and he ran away. I remember the "moon" and "stars" we got. My DDs are going to be scared for life.

 

[Kath2003]

I gotta say that I'm not a parent, but I have NO problems with parents disciplining their kids in public. My parents, however, had a much more simple method: you got three warnings. 1. "Please stop this NOW." 2. "Stop this now, or you will come and sit in the car with me." 3. "Right, you cannot behave, so we are going to sit in the car for an hour". They literally took us to the car (or, if we were in WDW and it was too hot to sit in the car, a boring bench somewhere in the shade outside of the park). They left the other siblings with the other parent and rejoined them an hour later. IMO this is the most effective way of dealing with a child who simply is misbehaving (if they are tired obviously this is different).

The number of people who continually warn their kids to behave but never actually DO anything about it in WDW is quite shocking. Yes, it's your vacation, but I wouldn't want to spend the whole day constantly telling off a misbehaving child. Take them away from the fun, make them appreciate what they had in the park and reflect on their behaviour and then go back in.

I do this with the kids I babysit for. If they cannot play the game nicely, they can come and sit on the stairs with me whilst everyone else plays. If they cannot join in with the bedtime story nicely, they get put to bed and then I go back and read to the other children etc. If they don't want to behave out in public, they can come and sit on the park bench with me while the other kids play. I used to do "community service" at college where I did homeroom with 30 6th graders for 20 minutes each morning. The most effective form of discipline (detention as a threat never worked) was making them come sit at the desk with me. If they couldn't behave when they were sat at the desk still (yes, they pushed it), they had to hold my hand throughout homeroom It worked so well - I don't think ANY kid ever held my hand twice!

That's just my two cents: I'm shocked by the people who continually say "NO lil Jimmy don't do that!" but then never follow up the warning with anything. They've FAR more patience than me!