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

[Luv2Run]

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.

Ugh, this drives me absolutely batty. It's just so deceitful. And the fact that he's teaching his child that this is "what you do" when you're tired of waiting your turn is just despicable parenting.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

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.

Disney guests here always say they expect more out of other Disney guests then they do the rude folks they encounter at home. Stepping into the park doesn't make them different people. There's also MORE of them at WDW. Disneyland is the "happiest place on earth," though. There's no offical tagline for all of WDW, but the Magic Kingdom goes by "the most magical place on earth."

 

[tjevans]

I'm just wondering what people fight or can become rude about in the happiest place on earth...

Let's see... you're hot, crowded, stressed because you have to use your FP+ during it's window and don't know if you have time for this other ride--and what's worse--you're with your family. What's not to understand?

 

[tjevans]

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

Oh, thank goodness I'm not the only one who feels that way!

 

[RogueKnits]

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

So have I, although my hubby is worse than me. What's funny is that many people in the parks don't even realize that they are being rude, and then when they are on the receiving end of our actions they probably think we're the rude ones. I will be the one commenting sotto voce that people are pushing in front of us (I absolutely HATE theater attractions where the doors just swing open and everyone pushes and shoves to get into the theater and then plops themselves in the middle of a row). My husband, on the other hand, will casually extend an elbow followed by "Oh, excuse me," when someone is intent on invading our personal space. I love orderly queues...I do not like every man for himself, the pushiest person wins, free-for-alls.

 

[Bullseye]

That reminds me of an event that was almost too funny to be considered rude. We had our normal lunch reservation at Biergarten and after checking in and picking up our pager, I saw a possibly intoxicated man have a brief exchange with the host. The gist must have been that there was a wait to be seated of about an hour because them man just started bellowing "come back in an hour" over and over to the crowd of people milling about around Biergarten/Somerfest. Mostly people just shot him *** looks and tried to avoid eye contact. We got moved inside before I saw what happened to him.

That's so funny we've seen similar behavior at the Sci-Fi diner for lunch. The entrance is completely mobbed with people waiting for their reservation and person after person comes walking up to see if there are any openings only to get turned away. Finally one guy comes up, gets turned away, goes back and tells his wife and immediately she storms the host station railing about "how can anyone find a decent meal in this place when all you do is keep turning everyone away...!!"
We and a few other families in the vicinity just had to bite our lip

 

[whitney250]

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.

Good for your DS! We had a couple of rude remarks from people about my grandma's ECV. I also loaded her ECV for her on the busses and stuff just to keep her from dealing with those kinds of remarks. The worst we really dealt with was people not giving her room to move around them, even though we said excuse me multiple times, or they would push their way right in front of her making her almost run them over. She was a nervous wreck, since this was her first time, too.

 

[W.E.D.]

We arrived for a prepark ADR at crystal palace. When CM directed us to go around the group of rope droppers to a CM at entrance to get in, we did so explaining to anyone we could why we were going past(for an dining not to get ahead for the park opening.)
As we neared the entrance, a woman started cursing and saying things to us then to her kids as to how they would have longer wait times for A&E over the rude people... I was trying to explain we were trying to reach the CM who stood a few feet away bc we had a reservation for CP. One lady said yea right, we all do.
At that point, no one would allow us to pass and couldn't get CM attention. We then had to just wait until park opened and the trampling(I mean entering) subsided. We were late to the ADR after it all. Moral of the story, arrive really early if you have an ADR anytime near rope drop. I assumed like when we went to AK, we could walk to a cast member to the side and get directed around it to the restaurant. I hadnt factored how early people would be there.

Your problems started when you attempted to explain your actions. The rude people don't worry about that stuff.
I arrived early one morning last trip to get in for the KTTK tour. I just set my shoulders and marched straight to the CM checking people in. Of course I am 6'2", 250 with what my wife calls a "stern" expression. Oddly enough, no one gave me any grief.

 

[Gracie09]

There was the guy who backed into my daughters stroller (it was stopped_. I was actually waiting for him to take a picture. He kept backing up. I even said excuse me. He was not happy and started yelling about stupid strollers. It wasn't worth explaining.

 

[kamik86]

I have probably been the person a few times. The times I was getting so frustrated with the other 7 people (I was ok with DH) that were on our big family trip because they didn't understand that sometimes we dont' have to have a plan of where exactly to do next. My plan was to go "That way" if you WANT to do something more specific let me know... otherwise we will go 'that way' until someone sees something they want to do! Or becasue they didn't want to split up but all had different interests...

Yeah I probably wasn't very disney like a few times on that trip.

Later we did this again with just my mom. That was better. She understands the concept of just going "That way" and that she can sit and enjoy people watching on a bench if she doesn't want to ride Everest with us.

 

[TXAKDisneyFan]

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...

With as many people are in the parks, I think it's inevitable that we'll accidentally step in front of someone's photo or bump into another person. I try to be aware of my surroundings, and keep track of my family, but things happen. I'm always very apologetic when they do; and try to be understanding of others (though obviously getting bumped into once is much different than someone doing it repeatedly or letting their kid act up without consequence).

People do stupid, rude things all the time. We can't control others, but we can control our actions and try to teach our kids proper manners. Ultimately, rude people are doing themselves, and their children, the biggest disservice.

 

[Eldon_Brasche]

A woman accused me of cutting in line. This, i think, was at it's Tough to be a Bug. One of those shows where you wait in a big room and they keep telling you to MOVE UP. Well I moved up. The worst part was the embarrassment from her husband. I hate when men get overly embarrassed when their wives are less than perfect. I felt like telling him to RELAX, she just mumbled to him "They're cutting us." I just mumbled something back like, I'm just making room. Little things like this happen all the time when you go during Spring break. Pack some extra patience.

My wife had a woman that kept hitting her in the back of the legs with her baby basher while standing online to enter the park. She asked the lady why she was hitting her and she claimed that my wife had cut in front of her (in between her and her husband) My wife said she had no idea that they were together but that it was no excuse to resort to purposefully hitting someone.

 

[tjevans]

My wife said she had no idea that they were together but that it was no excuse to resort to purposefully hitting someone.

"USE YOUR WORDS!" That's what I would have told a three-year old acting that way, and that's what I would have told her.

 

[Eldon_Brasche]

We were at Cape May recently when a man that appeared to have been under the influence called out the manager and began berating him because the crab legs were not to his satisfaction. After several minutes, he stated, "I can do better that this and I'm not even a chef" and then walked away.
After a few minutes, the manager stopped at our table and asked if everything was alright. He could clearly see the pile of crab legs in front of me and wanted to get another opinion. I told him that the meat was not coming out as easily as hoped but that they were doing okay and tasted great. I told him I overheard the man berating him and that it was no way for an adult to act and hardly the correct way to try and get a resolution.
I then said to the manager "you should have told the guy that you don't come down to the jiffy lube and tell him how to do his job so don't come here and tell me how to do mine." He laughed out loud as he walked away, telling me thanks for the laugh.

 

[muenginerd]

This could be rude or just plain stupid....

We were at AK waiting on the safari this past September. It was an unusually hot day with temps over 100. A family right ahead of us in the FP+ line had a toddler who definitely wasn't doing well. She started screaming so mom put her on the ground. She was crying so hard with her face in the pavement you could see a river of tears flowing across the ground. Dad says' "oh she's just hot". Takes off her shirt and pours a bottle of water on her. Little girl keeps screaming. At this point line is delayed and we are looking at probably a 40 minute wait or so. Another member of the family suggests they really need to get out of there and get the little one in AC. The mom starts going off on how they had to get a fast pass for this ride and she's not going to waste it. Her little one can hang on a little longer.

By the time we reach the loading platform the little girl is so worked up and overly hot she starts throwing up right in line. Dad finally realizes his daughter isn't doing well and says they have to go, mom stands her ground and insists she'll be fine once she gets on the ride. Thankfully the CMs see what's going on and pull the family out of line. Mom continues to insist everything is fine. CMs tell her things are not ok and they need to get her daughter medical attention. The CM had to stand in front of mom to physically pervent her from loading the ride. They only got help when they told her to take daughter into the AC in a CM area and she can come back to her spot as soon as daughter is better. The whole situation made me sick to my stomach to watch.

 

[HopperFan]

To the OP: You are going to encounter rude people in the parks, in the shops, in the restaurants, in the queues, on the buses, at the resorts, at the pools ..... everywhere. The important thing to do is not let them ruin your vacation. Make them zero value to your experience.

 

[WhispyPixie]

My husband says the people who stop right in our path suffer with IIP....Indecision Induced Paralysis!! To this day..my kids cry out.."Move to the left..IIP ahead!"

 

[Squirlz]

I think the better question would be who hasn't?

We spent a total of 14 days there last year and I honestly can't think of a single instance!

 

[Squirlz]

Another double post.

 

[Luckybee]

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!

^^^This^^^ is a great story. Because of your constructive creativity you have likely saved this gentleman some future grief. I'll bet he is much more careful with his personal info now then he had been before