Have you ever had a shock?

[Tigge50447]

So far I've spent 2 days reading the post and every time I read one about a parent hitting their kid it makes me want to go pick up my son from daycare and just hug him. I can't imagine what these people are thinking.

I was on a plane once sitting across from a mom and her son and her son was hitting her so she as she's yelling at him to stop hitting her, she was smacking him.

 

[DizBelle]

Originally posted by Tigge50447
I was on a plane once sitting across from a mom and her son and her son was hitting her so she as she's yelling at him to stop hitting her, she was smacking him.

Yeah, that makes sense.

 

[tink2]

Well, here is my story. Back in 1999, we were in line to look at our photos at MK. My niece, then 3 or 4, was pitching a major- MAJOR- fit. She was on the floor about to be out of control. My brother reached down and gave her 3 spanks on her bottom and then put her in a stroller. Problem solved- not. This woman came from nowhere- got in my brother's face and started yelling hysterically about child abuse and calling DHR b/c he spanked his child. Now, he spanked her, not abuse. He hit her on her bottom, nowhere else. Anyway, this lady was out of control! My dad got my niece outside and away from the scene immediatley. My brother kept his cool- which I would have had a hard time. He kept shaking his head, not speaking, and stepping back. She was so close she was spitting in his face as she yelled. Finally, her husband was able to get her away. I thought for a minute she was going to hit my brother. A CM saw the whole incident and apoligized- she said these things happen a lot. The woman's husband was very embarrassed and his face was red- he wouldn't even look us in the eye. You could hear him fussing at her the whole way out of the building. I don't want to start a debate here about spanking or not- everyone has different beliefs about this. But this woman went crazy on my brother. This was just before a character meal- it was so disturbing it took us a while to enjoy the meal.
The next story is about a woman and a stroller. It was Thanksgiving night that same year. We had waited on the curb for an hour and a half for Spectrol. The crowd behind us was at least 5 rows thick. This large lady with at least 4 kids starts yelling for everyone to get out of her way. A cm showed her the areas roped off for walkways. After the cm leaves, she started cursing at everyone. Someone went to get a cm again- she is told to use the walkways and calm down or she would be escorted out. 10 minutes later, she shows up again. THis time- she pushes people out of her way to get through and actually ran over a small child's foot behind me- cursing the whole time! A man ran to get another cm and she was escorted out of the park with applause from the crowd!
Anyway, WDW does bring out the best and worst in people.
A good one- a nice elderly woman gave up her bench seat for a parade so I could bottle feed my 6 month old. I was happily standing- propping up on the stroller- but she insisted!

 

[MELSMICE]

Originally posted by tink2
My brother reached down and gave her 3 spanks on her bottom and then put her in a stroller. Problem solved- not. This woman came from nowhere- got in my brother's face and started yelling hysterically about child abuse and calling DHR b/c he spanked his child. Now, he spanked her, not abuse. He hit her on her bottom, nowhere else. Anyway, this lady was out of control!

I don't think I would have gotten involved like that woman did, however, I don't agree with spanking so I probably would have been disturbed by this event myself.

Hitting is hitting, regardless of where it is. If my DD "spanked" me on the behind I would certainly consider it hitting and the wrong thing to do. I would reprimand them for it so I don't feel it's right for an adult to do it to a child. There are other ways to solve the tantrum of a toddler. JMO.

 

[daystar]

My family was there just over Christmas, our first time....We went to Animal Kingdom to see it's Tough to Be a Bug....When they open the doors to go in this family spilt my family up and when i tried to get back to my family this grandmother turns to me and says your splitting up my family, mean while she is the one who split our family up....People are so rude she was pushing her way through us and thought that we were going to move....I don't think so...People have no manners you think they would wait and not push the small children, my son was holding on to me with all his might and he still was getting pushed around....They acted like animals...

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Shocks to report last week :

Clothing shocks (aside from the usual bikini tops on women and short shorts on men) :

1. What appeared to be a 10 year old boy wearing a shirt with a half naked biker woman on it with his parents.

2. Grown man wearing a shirt with the word sh*t on it being picked to be an audience participation member at Universal

3. What appeared to be a 13 (14?) year old boy wearing a shirt that said "I Like Sl*ts" with his parents

These were all at Universal though. I can't recall many Disney clothing shocks but I really can't belive any parent would allow their young boy to wear such disgusting, degrading shirts anywhere, let alone to family parks with them. Or that a grown man would select that shirt to wear and then stand up on a stage in front of a lot of families and not even attempt to cover up the shirt.

Messy shocks :

A bathroom in Epcot where only one toilet had been flushed , and we're talking the others were SERIOUSLY not flushed and someone had used the floor as a toilet. GROSS. I alerted a CM and they took care of it right away.

Other various shocks :

Children with no shoes on or very light clothing on a day when it was 42 degrees.

Children running through the Epcot fountains getting soaked on these days. *I* was in a hooded sweatshirt freezing!

Parents openly talking about how they make their kids walk around in platform shoes all day to make them taller to get on thrill rides. I mean, I felt bad when my neice was too little but really, the height restrictions are there for the childs safety. I can't imagine why any parent would rather take that risk than have their kid be a little sad that they missed a thrill ride. One lady in particular was arguing with a CM (I forget which ride) about how she makes her 5 year old walk around in heels all day so she can get on rides. Not only a risk on the ride, but can you imagine the pain on the little girls feet from walking around in those all day? I just don't get it.

Smokers being oblivious. My boyfriend who was with me smokes. He smokes probably a pack a day. He ONLY smokes outside and in designated areas. He gets really MAD when other smokers don't follow the rules. He gets FURIOUS when smokers smoke around babies and kids (and even pets...he won't smoke outside near our dog)...

Anyway...he was in a designated smoking area over by Indiana Jones. Anyway, a small boy ran up to look at something nearby and my BF moved away to the far end of the smoking area. The boys mother ran up and said...no no you're in a designated area it's ok. So Chris, my BF, says "I know but he wants to see the {whatever it was} (I forget) and I don't want to get smoke near him.

The lady was shocked that he was being so nice. It's sad that being polite and corteous is a shock to some people.

Thats all I can think of for now.

 

[Disney Doll]

A few pages back (and yes, I HAVE read all 34 pages!!!!!! ) someone mentioned something about the people who stop halfway down the row. DH and I have a great way to combat that. We just climb over them and step on their feet! And both of us are "Pooh sized" if you know what I mean, so they know their feet are being stepped on. If someone makes a comment, I smile and say "That's probably why they tell you to proceed all the way to the end of the row!"

 

[musicalSaranader]

That ought to do it, Disney Doll!

 

[DizBelle]

Originally posted by EsmeraldaX
Smokers being oblivious. My boyfriend who was with me smokes. He smokes probably a pack a day. He ONLY smokes outside and in designated areas. He gets really MAD when other smokers don't follow the rules. He gets FURIOUS when smokers smoke around babies and kids (and even pets...he won't smoke outside near our dog)...

Anyway...he was in a designated smoking area over by Indiana Jones. Anyway, a small boy ran up to look at something nearby and my BF moved away to the far end of the smoking area. The boys mother ran up and said...no no you're in a designated area it's ok. So Chris, my BF, says "I know but he wants to see the {whatever it was} (I forget) and I don't want to get smoke near him.

The lady was shocked that he was being so nice. It's sad that being polite and corteous is a shock to some people.

Thats all I can think of for now.

I think that this is the first courteous smoker I've ever heard of. Do you think he can spread it to all the other smokers? Tell him that I appreciate his efforts.

 

[DizBelle]

Originally posted by Disney Doll
A few pages back (and yes, I HAVE read all 34 pages!!!!!! ) someone mentioned something about the people who stop halfway down the row. DH and I have a great way to combat that. We just climb over them and step on their feet! And both of us are "Pooh sized" if you know what I mean, so they know their feet are being stepped on. If someone makes a comment, I smile and say "That's probably why they tell you to proceed all the way to the end of the row!"

Hee Hee!!!

You're great Disney Doll! I love how you refer to yourself as "Pooh sized."

 

[RickinNYC]

Originally posted by lfontaine
I think that this is the first courteous smoker I've ever heard of. Do you think he can spread it to all the other smokers? Tell him that I appreciate his efforts.

Actually, not to steal any thunder, but both my partner and I are smokers and it enrages us to see folks walking about, smoking without a care in the world, completely ignoring the designate areas.

Although I smoke, I don't like to smell or see it in any area that is not allowed. It's rude, inconsiderate and disgusting.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Originally posted by lfontaine
I think that this is the first courteous smoker I've ever heard of. Do you think he can spread it to all the other smokers? Tell him that I appreciate his efforts.

He has actually said stuff to other smokers. He was pretty mad one day at one of the parks (I forget which one) when he saw a woman holding a cigarette in one hand and a newborn baby in the other. I think he said something to her. This baby was tiny! Of course, he was told where to go Some people...

That poor baby.

 

[jann1033]

Originally posted by EsmeraldaX
Children ...very light clothing on a day when it was 42 degrees.

it could be they listened to the WDW tv station before they left the resort..one day they called for 70 and it started out at mid 50 and went down, *way* down!...we had to go back to the resort and change it was so cold! I do think some especially first timers do not realize how cold it can be in FL during Dec-Jan. they figure it is 70 every day and do not account for it when packing.

 

[B'rer Karen]

Originally posted by jann1033
it could be they listened to the WDW tv station before they left the resort..one day they called for 70 and it started out at mid 50 and went down, *way* down!...we had to go back to the resort and change it was so cold! I do think some especially first timers do not realize how cold it can be in FL during Dec-Jan. they figure it is 70 every day and do not account for it when packing.

If the OP was talking about last Friday, I was there too and I was shocked by what people were wearing. The forecasters were only calling for a high of 60, so even if they had been right, it was not ever going to be THAT warm. And it was cold, cloudy, and windy all day long. My friends and I were bundled up and by 6pm we just couldn't take it anymore. We headed back to the resort to put more layers of clothing on before heading out for dinner. At that time the weather channel said it wass 46 degrees with a 38 degree windchill. It probably didn't even break 50 that day. Even if the parents had bad information in the morning, there isn't anything stopping them from going back to the resort to change and then come back or at the very least by the kid a sweatshirt. I couldn't believe the number of kids we saw in tank tops, shorts and sandals. I felt very bad for them.

 

[FatCow]

I just bought my daughter a Disney shirt and within the same day at the park, I found a tiny cigarette burn on her shoulder.

She was so disappointed that her new t-shirt has a hole. Even worse, it was the last shirt of that size so we can't even replace it for her.

 

[DizBelle]

Originally posted by FatCow
I just bought my daughter a Disney shirt and within the same day at the park, I found a tiny cigarette burn on her shoulder.

She was so disappointed that her new t-shirt has a hole. Even worse, it was the last shirt of that size so we can't even replace it for her.

OMG!!!! Who would be so careless with their cigarette that they would allow the hot end to go near a child and then not say anything when they damaged her shirt. Do you know how this happened? Was she ever in a smoking area where it could happen or was someone smoking where they shouldn't have been?

I'm really appalled at some people's behavior.

 

[FatCow]

We were never in the smoking area during the time between purchasing the shirt until I found out about the hole. We were walking from one of the stores along Main Street USA straight to Fantasyland and less than 3 hours after the purchase I found out about the hole.

I didn't know exactly when that happened but I recall there were many smokers along the way (I have asthma and I always cough everytime I inhale any kind of smoke). It was on the Thursday of President's Week when the park was so crowded we hardly could even walk.

 

[DizBelle]

Originally posted by FatCow
We were never in the smoking area during the time between purchasing the shirt until I found out about the hole. We were walking from one of the stores along Main Street USA straight to Fantasyland and less than 3 hours after the purchase I found out about the hole.

I didn't know exactly when that happened but I recall there were many smokers along the way (I have asthma and I always cough everytime I inhale any kind of smoke). It was on the Thursday of President's Week when the park was so crowded we hardly could even walk.

So, people were smoking where they shouldn't have been. And in a heavy crowd. Shame on them. What if the cigarette had burned her skin or her eye or something. Does anybody think about that?!?!?

I'm sorry you had that experience. It upsets me just hearing about it.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Originally posted by B'rer Karen
If the OP was talking about last Friday, I was there too and I was shocked by what people were wearing. The forecasters were only calling for a high of 60, so even if they had been right, it was not ever going to be THAT warm. And it was cold, cloudy, and windy all day long. My friends and I were bundled up and by 6pm we just couldn't take it anymore. We headed back to the resort to put more layers of clothing on before heading out for dinner. At that time the weather channel said it wass 46 degrees with a 38 degree windchill. It probably didn't even break 50 that day. Even if the parents had bad information in the morning, there isn't anything stopping them from going back to the resort to change and then come back or at the very least by the kid a sweatshirt. I couldn't believe the number of kids we saw in tank tops, shorts and sandals. I felt very bad for them.

That was the day in question. I saw kids in next to nothing soaking wet running through fountains. And then they were not heading out of the park but onto rides....

They are lucky if they didnt get sick.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Originally posted by lfontaine
OMG!!!! Who would be so careless with their cigarette that they would allow the hot end to go near a child and then not say anything when they damaged her shirt. Do you know how this happened? Was she ever in a smoking area where it could happen or was someone smoking where they shouldn't have been?

I'm really appalled at some people's behavior.

If my BF had seen anyone even smoking in a designated area THAT close to a child, he would probably have said something. That is just appaling. How could anyone be so careless. I'm glad your daughter did not get burned herself