Have you ever had a shock?

[d r e s s u p *]

Last year at Animal Kingdom we were in line for that Dinosaur ride which is like Dumbo, but with dinosaurs (What is the name?) And there was a little boy chewing on the metal chain handrail that draws out the line! And the mom was just looking at him, talking. Then she goes "Don't do that." And he kept on chewing, and she just kept on talking, watching him chew! So many people touch that thing a day... I used to, but after seeing that kid, I won't!

 

[tecdavidt]

We just got home from a week at the Parks. The worst incident was at the covered food and beverage place near Backlot Tours at MGM. A huge overweight woman (and I do mean huge) on one of those motorized carts ran into a severely handicaped young boy in a wheelchair. The overweight woman (age mid 50's I would guess) was irrate at the boy for being in her way! The boy had no control of his body.Thankfully he was not hurt. My 13 yr. old daughter just asked "what is wrong with that woman?"

It appeared we saw more than the usual number of these motorized carts with "large" people and these people thought nothing of running into the people who were walking. One mother was using one at Animal Kingdom close to closing time and was running into people. She had her two young children in tow on her lap as she was speeding through the crowd toward the gate. Picture a car doing 45 mph in a 10 mph zone.As my husband stated, "when the parks are crowded you get to see the true personality of people." All I could think of was just because a person has a handicap it doesn't give them the right to be rude--something I learned from my cousin who has a son with Spinabifada (sp?) and he is in a wheel chair for life.

Kathy

 

[Costumesaremylife]

Your story reminded me of something that happened with my dad. Although mine is funny (I think) and yours was sad.

My dad has had a stroke,not the funny part, so we rented him scooters in the parks. One day we got a scooter that was acting fine for the morning. Around 2 it started having problems stopping. We started to head back to the front of The Magic Kingdom to return it, then it wouldn't stop at all. It wasn't to crowded, but enough so that people were walking past my dad and he just couldn't stop the scooter. He tried putting his foot down on the side and all that did was wear down his highly effective, scooter-stopping sandals. So here's my dad tootling along on this scooter, trying to make a Fred Flintstone stop with his good leg. Those things can go pretty fast when all you want them to do is stop!
He yelled to me, and I ran over to him and tried holding pulling on him so it would stop. That wasn't working. My friend also came over and started holding it steady with me. That held it in position long enough,that he could pull out the key. It looked like some bad car movie. We had spinning wheels but, thankfully no burnt rubber. He was afraid of doing this when it was moving in case it would jerk or topple or something. So he hopped off and we went over to get a CM and tell him. The CM came over hopped on put the key in and drove it back to the pile when he realized it wouldn't stop. DUH, I just told you that! He finally pulled out the key and pushed it.

Ok maybe it was only funny if you were there.

 

[d r e s s u p *]

We just got home from a week at the Parks. The worst incident was at the covered food and beverage place near Backlot Tours at MGM. A huge overweight woman (and I do mean huge) on one of those motorized carts ran into a severely handicaped young boy in a wheelchair. The overweight woman (age mid 50's I would guess) was irrate at the boy for being in her way! The boy had no control of his body.Thankfully he was not hurt. My 13 yr. old daughter just asked "what is wrong with that woman?"

It appeared we saw more than the usual number of these motorized carts with "large" people and these people thought nothing of running into the people who were walking. One mother was using one at Animal Kingdom close to closing time and was running into people. She had her two young children in tow on her lap as she was speeding through the crowd toward the gate. Picture a car doing 45 mph in a 10 mph zone.As my husband stated, "when the parks are crowded you get to see the true personality of people." All I could think of was just because a person has a handicap it doesn't give them the right to be rude--something I learned from my cousin who has a son with Spinabifada (sp?) and he is in a wheel chair for life.

Kathy

That's horrible! They shoudln't run into people. Yes, I know they must have a reason to be in the wheelchair/motor cart thing. They get to go infront for all the lines, am I correct?? That is deffinatley a privelage, but that doesn't mean they can also have the right to run into innocent people too, especially a handicaped boy in a wheelchair! That's so sad.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

They get to go infront for all the lines, am I correct??

NO, they don't. That's a BIG misconception.

 

[athenna]

Don't want to start ANOTHER debate about this, but being in a wheelchair or ECV is never a ''privilege'', who cares if they get to get in front of you in a line?

 

[disneyaggie]

We were in line for Body Wars (yes, it was open over Christmas) The people in front of us in line didn't speak English. The CM asked how many. They just walked into the next part of the queue. He stopped them and said Number. They ignored him. He asked if they speak English, they said NO. He said you can't ride this ride if you can't tell me how many people.

I guarantee you that they understood the CM. They certainly knew to answer "no" when the CM asked if they spoke English! Not fooled by these folks at all. It happens a lot -- seen it posted on the threads many times over.

 

[Syrreal]

I guarantee you that they understood the CM. They certainly knew to answer "no" when the CM asked if they spoke English! Not fooled by these folks at all. It happens a lot -- seen it posted on the threads many times over.

Plus, I assure you that it was not the 1st time that day that they were asked how many were in their party. You are asked that at almost every attraction.

 

[disneyaggie]

Plus, I assure you that it was not the 1st time that day that they were asked how many were in their party. You are asked that at almost every attraction.

Yep!

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Don't want to start ANOTHER debate about this, but being in a wheelchair or ECV is never a ''privilege'', who cares if they get to get in front of you in a line?

THANK YOU!!!

 

[athenna]

THANK YOU!!!

you're quite welcome.

 

[asianmom]

Costumesaremylife, I wasn't there, but I still find your story hilarious.

 

[scrapbookworm]

I guarantee you that they understood the CM. They certainly knew to answer "no" when the CM asked if they spoke English! Not fooled by these folks at all. It happens a lot -- seen it posted on the threads many times over.

It could be that they understood that particular question, 'do you speak English', but not much else in English. When I took french, that's one of the first things I learned, 'Parlez-vous francais?' There are a lot of Spanish speaking people around here, and I know how to say 'No habla espanol' (sp).

Or yeah, it could be that they were just being obstinate, LOL.

 

[Philadisney]

It could be that they understood that particular question, 'do you speak English', but not much else in English. When I took french, that's one of the first things I learned, 'Parlez-vous francais?' There are a lot of Spanish speaking people around here, and I know how to say 'No habla espanol' (sp).

Or yeah, it could be that they were just being obstinate, LOL.

when i was a CP i worked in epcot for a while on illuminations - making sure nobody tried to jump in the lagoon while the show was going on or climb up on walls to get a better view, etc. one night there was a group of spanish-speaking people that had climbed over a rope to stand behind it in a dangerous area. i walked over to them and explained that they couldn't stand there. they claimed not to understand me. i tried several different hand motions, saying "no" while pointing where they were standing and motioning towards the rope and so forth, and they kept saying "espanol, espanol. no ingles" and giggling. it was very obvious that they were not supposed to be standing there.
a friend from puerto rico was working in one of the merchandise shops by the entrance to WS, so i went and found her and asked how to say "please do not stand behind the rope" in spanish. she wrote it down for me and i went back and recited it to the family. they stopped giggling at me and looked very surprised, and finally moved out of the roped off area i wish "stand" had been one of my vocabulary words in high school spanish class!

 

[jenniskinni]

a friend from puerto rico was working in one of the merchandise shops by the entrance to WS, so i went and found her and asked how to say "please do not stand behind the rope" in spanish. she wrote it down for me and i went back and recited it to the family. they stopped giggling at me and looked very surprised, and finally moved out of the roped off area i wish "stand" had been one of my vocabulary words in high school spanish class!

Way to Go! Don't get pushed around!

 

[Costumesaremylife]

Costumesaremylife, I wasn't there, but I still find your story hilarious.

Thanks! I am sure I will have crazy things to report after my family comes back from Disney in March.

 

[NotUrsula]

i wish "stand" had been one of my vocabulary words in high school spanish class!

My shock is that you would be given that job and not be taught how to give the warning in Spanish, and probably a couple of other languages, too. [Or at very least given a card with it written out phonetically.] If you are going to do a job like that properly, you need to be able to give the warnings to people who don't speak English.

 

[Just_Me_06]

WOW that does seem horrifing ! :0

 

[Syrreal]

My shock is that you would be given that job and not be taught how to give the warning in Spanish, and probably a couple of other languages, too. [Or at very least given a card with it written out phonetically.] If you are going to do a job like that properly, you need to be able to give the warnings to people who don't speak English.

It would be difficult to pick exactly what languages to teach/put on the card. And some languages sound similar but are actually extremely different *i.e. spanish and portuguese* You could think it was spanish and say our phrase in spanish and the brazilian/portuguese person wouldn't understand (and vice versa) Plus you run the risk of offending people with using diff languages or not having their language on the card. You know how touchy we guests can be.

 

[pampam]

Common sense tells us to stay behind the ropes. If I was in Sweden, and they had a place roped off, I wouldn't need to be told in English to stay behind it. And no, I do not speak Swedish. The rope is it own sign in all languages, as any barricade would be.