Have YOU ever had or witnessed a rude incident in the park? Tell me about it!

[alvernon90]

Last trip there we were next on line to have a photo pass photographer take our picture near The little Mermaid ride. The Photographer was taking pictures of the group in front of us. A mother, Father two 2 kids and grandparents. Then the Mother asked the photographer if she could now just get a picture of the family (meaning her and her husband and two children) the mother -in-law started mumbling as she and her husband got out of the picture and the mother said "I just mean ..." then the Mother in-law yelled "I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN!!" it was so incredibly awkward. The husband was so embarrassed and did not know what to do because he was in between his mother and wife and the mother-in-law would not let it go. The four of them were doing these strained smiles for the photographer.

You could tell the rest of the trip was not going to be so magical for this group.

OMG, I love this story so much. The only thing that can make it better is a back story for all of that hostility, so I'm going to make one up. The "Mother-in-law" is actually a former mistress turned second wife, and the real mother-in-law is home alone crying. Hubby is torn because he wants to tell off Mother-in-law/Evil Stepmother, but he's afraid of making his father angry. Not out of concern for his father's feelings, but because his father is paying for the whole trip so he can't afford to have his dad pack up Wife #2 and leave. So just smile for the camera!

We should ask for a separate board dedicated to Rude Encounter Fanfic . . .

 

[Candleshoe]

I'm just waiting for a small argument that DH and I had in Epcot, that resulted in him throwing his Fez from Morocco over the fence near the backwards fountain to end up as a story here . We fondly named this area "Blowout Alley" because the year before my DD4 (at the time) had a major tantrum in the same exact spot.

Honestly, I've seen a lot at the parks. Some is just inconsiderate rudeness that is who that person is everyday, and some is just a result of the overtiredness of going non-stop for days on end.

We had one or two high stress moments that I keep expecting to show up in one of these threads.

 

[CampbellzSoup]

2 yrs ago my mom broke 3 of her toes right before our trip. like the day before.. lol

So I had to frantically get her an ECV rental cause no way could she walk miles a day with broken swollen toes..

now she has used the motorized grocery carts at wally world before but never drove an ECV.

Her first attempt to load the machine onto the bus was awkward and she just couldn't get the controls down. And a nasty bitty woman in line said loudly oh she must be one of those people who does what ever is needed for a GAC card. And other nasty comments about interfering with their park time..
had my mom in tears and my son who is a gma's boy and 8 yrs old (and has aspergers) turned around and in a mean voice said..

"Didn't your momma ever teach you, if you have nothing nice to say then just sAy nothing at all" she has broken feet.. do you want broken feet to? Leave her alone!

To which got a few chuckles and a clap from the other peeps that were waiting. And a high 5 on the bus from an older gentleman for looking out for his gma.

At that point the driver loaded the cart for my mom.

The rest of the trip I would drive and load the ecv on and off the busses for her.

Wow excellent story I loved the part about your son - always great to see family stick up for each other.

Thanks for sharing and send my best wishes to mom

P.S. your daughter is SUPER cute in that photo.

 

[goopysolelady]

At the end of the evening my husband and I were waiting at the bus lines for the bus back to All Star Movies. Once the bus arrived the bus driver was assisting a lady in a motorized scooter, this lady was having issues getting her scooter loaded and the bus driver was telling her what she should do. She then started yelling and screaming at him that "She had done this before" and "she wasn't a moron", but whatever she was trying to do wasn't working. The family members with her were also feaking out at the driver who was just trying to assist her in loading. Once she got her scooter inside she continued to yell and even started swearing at the driver as he secured her in the bus. It was horrific how she acted towards someone who was trying to help her. Then on the bus she ride she tried to laugh and joke with others riding the bus acting as though we didn't just see her act like a complete imbecile.

You weren't by any chance going back to Animal Kingdom Kidani? If you were, I had the "pleasure" of having to ride an elevator with her daughter! This "lady" started chewing ME out about "rude" bus drivers; I just stood there with my mouth open! I finally had enough and in my VERY "controlled", "talking to a 3 year old voice" explained to her that I'd just returned from spending 6 hours of my last day at the DTD Walk In Medical Clinic with a VERY infected finger; missed my last night at DW with my family who spent the evening in the MK; faced a 17 hour drive home and I didn't appreciate the fact that she was screaming at ME over something I had no control over. I was so flustered I got off the elevator on the wrong floor and took the stairs! She SCARED me!

 

[POOHsie]

2 yrs ago my mom broke 3 of her toes right before our trip. like the day before.. lol

So I had to frantically get her an ECV rental cause no way could she walk miles a day with broken swollen toes..

now she has used the motorized grocery carts at wally world before but never drove an ECV.

Her first attempt to load the machine onto the bus was awkward and she just couldn't get the controls down. And a nasty bitty woman in line said loudly oh she must be one of those people who does what ever is needed for a GAC card. And other nasty comments about interfering with their park time..
had my mom in tears and my son who is a gma's boy and 8 yrs old (and has aspergers) turned around and in a mean voice said..

"Didn't your momma ever teach you, if you have nothing nice to say then just say nothing at all" she has broken feet.. do you want broken feet to? Leave her alone!

To which got a few chuckles and a clap from the other peeps that were waiting. And a high 5 on the bus from an older gentleman for looking out for his gma.

At that point the driver loaded the cart for my mom.

The rest of the trip I would drive and load the ecv on and off the busses for her.

Great story! Congrats to your son for just the perfect response to that horrible person. I use a scooter every time at WDW and I dread encountering a "heckler." Happy to say I haven't encountered one yet (within earshot, anyways).

 

[kyleandconnorsmom]

My last trip, in July 2011, we experienced a few interesting situations. On our first park day, at Epcot, my ODS, brother, SIL, and myself were in the standby line for Soarin'. There was a very large group of South American tourists about 5 families in front of us and the rest of their large group was directly behind us. We noticed that the people behind us were communicating with the group in front of us and trying to get up to where they were. There were about 12 of them in the group behind us, and when the que widened, 4 of them managed to weasel their way up to the group in front. Each of us 6 families between the two large groups decided to form a barrier by holding hands so that they couldn't get by us. When we got to the point where the CM asks you how many are in your party and then assigns you a number, the guy behind us said he had 8, and that they needed to be with the large group that had already been assigned their seats. The CM said that wasn't going to be possible and the whole group started to get loud. The guy told the CM he wasn't going to listen to him and told his whole group to get in line at the end of the rows, so each row literally had at least 2 extra people. Everyone else who had witnessed these people throughout our long wait, as well as the CMs, were pretty amused when the doors opened and we loaded the ride, and they all realized there was nowhere for them to sit. At that point they had no choice but to exit the ride.

On this same trip, we were eating breakfast at the POFQ before our MK day and overheard a man berating his wife, very loudly He was telling her if she didn't want to be with him just leave. He had this really nasally, whiny voice, and he just kept going on and on to his wife about how things just weren't working out and he wishes she would end it if she were so unhappy, all the while his wife sat there and never said a word...along with their 2 children. We finished breakfast and went to the bus stop, where we witnessed them wheeling a suitcase through the parking lot and the man was still telling his wife to leave him and that he wished he didn't have to be around her because she was so irritating and he couldn't stand her. Once again, he was LOUD, and she never said a word, but looked meek and embarrassed. My brother commented that at least they were leaving so we wouldn't have to hear the guy's voice again. Fast forward a few hours later, we had just entered the line for IASW, when we hear someone scream loudly "Whhhyy are you sooo irritatinggg??! If you think I'm so bad then just leave!" Sure enough, the lovely couple was just a few groups in front of us and we got to spend the entire line listening to his frequent outbursts. What are the odds? lol

 

[tinkerbella16]

The rude guests increase each year I visit WDW. It just keeps getting worse. I try to just stay to myself but sometimes I am just mind boggled.

 

[ShayBells]

The only thing I can think of was when a CM was rude just cause it was so shocking. We were in the FP+ parade area and it started sprinkling so I asked the CMs standing there. It was two young kids. I said are they going to cancel the parade. He put his hand to his ear and said its started can't you hear it than rolled his eyes and started laughing with the other CM. The parade was cancelled. I guess it was a stupid question? but I was shocked. I just walked away with my bubble popped lol.

Other than that there has always been the line jumpers the parents that blantley don't watch their kids and the people who try to push you out of their way. I'm sure I'll think of other stories later. You just gotta keep rolling.

 

[Jing]

I had a trip a few years ago that was a-fight-a-day. Two were funny, two were not. The not funny was a husband quietly berating his wife in front of the kids at Columbia Harbor House and she started crying and then at Brown Derby where the wife was loosing it on her husband and what seemed to be her scapegoat child. The funny was a well-healed couple walking from swan to dolphin giving each other the business with all kinds of yelling in gesticulati - some folks took photos. I think the woman should have won by the sheer fact she was walking in 3+ inch heels at 7 miles an hour. The other funny was a couple at the sit-down patio in Itlay pavilion where the gf was trying to on once her bf not to go to a destination wedding because she wasn't invited to go down on the plane with the rest of the wedding party. He kept trying to bring her back to the present to enjoy the current vacation and offered all kinds of alternatives so she could meet him there, but she was fixated on him being spoiled and abandoning her to fly by herself. I kept wanting to call a time out and give her some "don't be crazy" pointers, but she went with wine, so I myob'ed.

 

[Missytara]

Nowadays, it'd be even better to tweet at the relevant company all the details you're hearing. I'm sure they'd be interested to know....

I sat across from a guy at a bar in a restaurant that talked on his cell phone and obviously he was a traveling consultant in town.

He was making plane reservations, hotel reservations, car rental reservations, everything under the sun. He had recently moved, so he had to change his address and land line number with each reservation. Some he gave his frequest flyer miles account number and credit card number. I wrote everything down and proceeded to go across the bar and hand the paper to him with all his personal information. He accussed me of everything under the sun, including somehow hacking into his accounts. I said, no I just sat across from you in a bar with only three other people in it - one was the owner and the other was the bartender - only one other guest. He apologized profusely and "didn't realize that he was talking so loud." Really, the fact that you were sitting in a crowded restaurant and almost empty bar, instead of taking care of this in your hotel room didn't tip you off? Some people are oblivious. It is is not unusual for a lot of people to sneak out of their job early and sit at a bar and do business - I get out of work early and it is amazing how many people boast about the fact that they can sit there and drink and still get their work done - but at my expense to just have a lovely time at my local watering hole. People will amaze me no matter where you go!

 

[larryz]

I'll admit it... I've been rude in the parks.

I've walked right through photos (although, to be fair, the photographer was 20 feet off to my left and I walked right by the subjects).

I've stepped right in front of people with strollers (they were stopped in the middle of Main Street, and I crossed in front of them, and they chose that moment to start moving again).

I've glared at people trying to pass me by in the single-width queues "to catch up with my wife/kids/son/friends/ailing grandmother/school group" (and actually commented to them about their entitled behavior).

I've reached over and picked up trash someone else thoughtlessly dropped literally feet from a trash can, and pointed out to them that they could have held it the second or so it would have taken to put it in the can.

And I've snickered, loudly, at the salad-makers who cruise the fixin's bars in the CS venues...

 

[Robo]

We should ask for a separate board dedicated to Rude Encounter Fanfic . . .

Isn't that one called the "Community Board?"

 

[Lovetherodent]

For a good chunk of the year, Florida is hot. People travel with small children who get cranky. Personally, my spouse and I don't always travel well together because I stick to plan, he wanders around like the philosophers trying to play soccer in the Monte Python movie. Makes me wanna push him off the monorail. I have one kid who's not neurotypical. Stress, even the kind caused by excitement, can make her snap at me sometimes. Stuff happens. You have to roll with it. When people are rude, I just tell myself that I am lucky to be having a better day than they are. Although the one thing that really grates me is when people let their kids pester other guests... keep your hands, feet, arms, elbows, abc gum to yourself.

 

[larryz]

Makes me wanna push him off the monorail.

This is why the windows don't open.

 

[RustManFan]

Most guests know how to handle themselves but some people with strollers seem like they try to run you over. Or suddenly stop in the middle of a walkway and block traffic.

 

[SirDuff]

How about this


Or let's try this: its a message board where people discuss different things. If you have nothing to add how about you don't come in my threads,and wonder what and what I can not discuss.

I ask because unlike "my house" Disney is labeled the happiest place on earth so I would expect some decorum and pleasantness to my fellow vacationers.

This board is also a venue where people can share stories and have a discussion which is actually interesting instead of another thread about fast pass plus.

So, you can discuss whatever you want (fair enough), but the person you quoted cannot? Interesting way of looking at things, I guess. Just because you started a thread, doesn't mean you "own it".

I'm with others - hot weather, crowded spaces, lot's of togetherness are all recipes for potential meltdowns. Hopefully (probably likely), most of the incidents (especially of families yelling at each other), are one off incidents and not reflections of how these families are in their 'real lives'.

 

[aaarcher86]

We were going through the FP line of Space when a dad and 8ish year old girl jumped in front of us from the stand still standby line. The dad tried to make it look natural "come on. Your mom is waiting up front." I just laughed with my husband because a) we know they don't do that and b) they wouldn't have a FP when they scan their bands.

Naturally, we get up to the scanner and there are 3 CMs that just happened to not be looking at the same time and the dad and kid just walked through without scanning their bands. I told the CM and they all looked terrified, like they'd lose their jobs or something. One of the workers went up and grabbed them out of the line saying they forgot to scan their bands. Of course the dad tried to play it off "oh, isn't this the normal line?"

Nice try, buddy. Nice try.

 

[adrienne21snow]

But people are people and you are putting thousands of people in a space, sometimes a small space and there are different comfort levels for things like personal space, volume, people pushing through crowds. People are tired, there are cranky kids, there are people whose feet hurt, are hot, are waiting for something etc. It is ripe for meltdowns of the adult and child variety. And what one person says is rude another, may just be normal for another.

When you post on a public board, you are going to get a variety of opinions, not all are what you may have expected or wanted to hear. Its part of a public message board.

Oh and Disney World is the most Magical Place and its primarily a marketing device. The paying guests don't have to pass a test to enter the park to see if they are in a jolly mood that day

I agree, sometimes you just have to adjust your expectations. For instance, I grew up in a fairly rural area in the US so what I consider my personal space bubble is relatively large. It makes me very uncomfortable when people stand too close to me in lines. When I'm at the World, I just have to get over it. The people who are standing "too close" to me are not being rude most of the time-they just have a very different idea of what constitutes a respectful distance.

 

[Jeremy Walling]

We experienced 2 this past December:
1. For some reason the FP+ line at Kilimanjaro Safaris was excessively long. We wandered around for a bit thinking it would thin out and then came back toward the end of our window. The line was just as long. As we finally approached the front of the line, a couple barged in front of us and I politely said "I'm sorry, the end of the line is back there..." The woman yelled back at me in a French accent that "We missed our Fastpass window, so we should already be on the ride. I don't think anyone will mind, OKAY?!" My family and I simply went to the other RFID reader and moved on. I looked back and another guest was physically blocking the path and explaining to the couple that we all mind and that they need to go to the end of the line. When this guy finally got up to us in line, we all cheered for him.

2. My 8yo boy was playing Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom and we were at one of the portals behind the castle. He was about an inch from touching his key card to the portal and an older kid pushed in front of him and before he could tap his key I said: "Hey pal, we're taking turns." He behaved as if we were invisible and had said nothing. Worse, his dad saw and heard the whole thing and acted the same way.

 

[coloredimage]

Sometimes I love these stories. Hindsight, y'know? They make me laugh later one.

I don't notice it as much in WDW mostly because the line jumpers and rudeness I encountered in DLP a few years ago so I tend to just brush it off.

The rudest incident....woof. Actually, every time I get to tell this story I love it, it's probably my favorite "Disney drama" story I have and it says something that it's now around thirteen years old. Well, I was probably 14 and it was the first (and only) time I've ever been to DisneyQuest. We were on an extended trip - we used to take these every other year when I was younger, my parents' closest friends are also Disney fanatics so they'd go and one couple would take their two kids who I'm very close with. Now, when I was younger I had very long dirty blonde hair and I no matter how I change my look I look exactly like my mother. My friends both look like their mother as well, with thick, curly, black hair and tanner skin than I have. Since we were all fairly young and it was a rainy night our parents decided it'd be a great time to use our DisneyQuest vouchers.

I don't know if it's still there, but there used to be a virtual reality version of Aladdin's carpets that was really, really popular. The wait was about an hour long (which wasn't bad for a rainy evening in July) but each little pod thing only sat four people, so your group couldn't be larger than four. My friends' parents and another family friend who doesn't have kids decided to sit it out, letting my mother go with with us three kids since she had never done it before and they had all done it over February break.

One thing you should know was that there was no food or drink allowed in this area. There was a big sign about it. It was a very small space with a lot of congestion and expensive equipment and they had a lot of CMs standing around telling people to get out of line and come back when they were done with their food if they were caught out.

There was a woman and her two kids. The kids were around my age - the son may have been a little older, the daughter a little younger. We noticed them when the line turned so that it was facing the entrance again. They were bobbing up and down, looking around like they were looking for something or someone so we brought them to the attention of the CM closest to us (he looked like Mr. Cobra Bubbles and we had been just talking about the vintage arcade games with him or something to that effect) and he said he'd keep an eye on them. We thought they'd be trying to get to other family members.

Well about twenty minutes later, after the line had moved a little bit more, the son ducked into line and stopped maybe one or two families in front of us. He had no interactions with them and he was quickly told to leave because he had a giant thing of soda. He got out of line and came back, no more soda. Then the sister. Then the mother, and at this point we realized that they were just cutting in front of a family who didn't speak English and couldn't complain to a CM.

The family that had been cut looked quite upset and were talking loudly but were getting ignored by the family. My mother spoke up to them but the mother just told her she was picking on them because they were Hispanic. My mother was livid (she is not the most laid back person in the world) but didn't want to continue the scene with a 14-year-old, an 11-year-old, and a 9-year-old with her so she did not press the matter, but she didn't have to. The CM who we had been speaking to earlier, who had stopped the boy from coming in with a soda, had been watching them since we had called his attention to them. Because the queue was so compact he had to wait until we had come around another bend and they were basically up front before he could pull them out of the line and tell them that if they wanted to wait they had to wait in the back of the line like everyone else. The mother went ballistic and tried to use the race card again once he assured them that he knew they weren't with the family they had cut and if they continued to act in this manner they were going to be asked to leave DisneyQuest. We heard her yelling about discrimination and how unfair it was to make her children wait in line as she left.

What makes this my favorite Disney story is the absurd ending. We had a lovely virtual reality flight and came back out of the area to a seating area where my friends' mother and the family friend were sitting on the couches waiting for us to get out and our friends' father to come back from the restroom. The woman who had cut the line was standing there, children nowhere to be seen, giving her sob story about an awful woman kicking her out of line to my friends' poor, shell-shocked mother who had no idea what was going on (this was before everyone had cellphones so we couldn't give her a blow by blow while in line). My mother walked away the moment we had reached the couches to use the restroom as well and the woman, who had obviously not paid any attention to who had told her to get out of line, looked at my friend and I (don't know why not at her brother) and said "Oh, you two have such beautiful girls. They look just like you!" My friend's mother just kind of gave a confused thank you as the woman walked away before bursting out laughing.