Inspired by MsDisney: What is YOUR Pet Peeve at USF?

[Jon360]

Actually for the DD Express line you do have to kind of "cut" people in order to enter.


My biggest Pet Peeve is having to go through the dumb elevator on the MIB line when using your room key for Express. I know that sometimes you can try to go through the singles line and then use your room key, but there is one guy who works on MIB who gets pissed at you if you use the singles entrance and makes you walk out and go through the dumb elevator pre-show. For some reason that guy seems to be working there a lot when I go...


Another Pet Peeve is the fact that the fountain has very limited hours. It should be talking all day!


A big Pet Peeve is the Twister Pre-Show where Bill Paxton calls a Twister "The Finger of God".. Give me a break. He acts like the cast was in real danger when filming the movie. You know they weren't in any "real" danger. They show clips of the movie while he talks about how dangerous it was. I want to know how the special effects are done, not some BS about how you were in danger! I am quite sure that if there was the slightest amount of danger, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton had their stunt doubles do the work while they relaxed in their suite at the Ritz. I only suspend my disbelief when I am not confronted with a ridiculous story and horrible actors like Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt. She's eye candy and not much more. Her awful NBC show Mad About You wasn't cancelled soon enough!


And my final Pet Peeve is the limited hours of the Dippin Dots stands. They only seem to be open a few hours each afternoon.

-Jon

 

[MrNonacho]

Those Twister pre-shows are great, in a cheesy/crappy sort of way. "You start believing the twister is not just a weather condition. It takes on a life of its own, becoming an entity. A demon spirit, a devouring colossus bent on destruction." That might actually sound good if it was being said by someone else, but good ol' Monotonous Bill sucks out any hope that line had.

Perhaps that "exploding gasoline tanker" that they dropped "right in his face" somehow stunned him for life?

 

[BansheeBlue]

My partner and I have a term for all the people who don't move all the way to the end of the row in a theatre, or who smoke while on line (and boyfriend IS a smoker) who sit down in line even when they are told to keep moving, who jump on a parking lot tram even after no more boarding has been announced, who tap on the glass at aquariums and zoos, and all those like them...

They are the But Me's. They are the people who think "the rules of this park apply to everyone...but me!".

The But Me's are the biggest pet peeve of mine. My very close second pet peeve are the parents who drag their kids onto rides that the kid is very obviously and vocally opposed to going on because they are scared. Why oh WHY force a scared child onto a ride?? Especially those with warnings that say "May be too intense for small children" and the like?? I have seen SO many parents telling their kids to basically stop being a baby and that they were being stupid. I mean Geez Louise! Time and time again my heart was breaking for the kid and my hands want to strangle the parents as I hear a kid screaming and crying on the ride in front of me or behind me... can't wait to see those therapy bills, huh?

My third pet peeve is drunk people. Drunk and loud people who have no regard for anyone else in their environment. Now, I enjoy a tasty cold beverage. But why the hell are they serving alcohol at Halloween Horror Nights?? And I'm sorry, but it sure did look like there were a lot of way underage teens who were trashed at the HHN on Sunday 10/28. To make it worse, there were BEER CANS strewn on the floor inside the MIB attraction!!! I'm sorry but that is just beyond low-class. I thought I was as po'd as I could be about this while I was online for the ride, then the thought occurred to me that there were all these drunk people who were gonna be going to the cars and driving home... it's just plain stupid to have alcohol in HHN where it's dark and disorienting to begin with. Luckily there was plenty more pro's to HHN (it was my first time going), but you know, I would really like to have not been worried that someone was gonna puke on me before the night was over...

 

[Robinrs]

I'm going to remember that "Butme" term everytime I'm in the park!!

 

[Molokai Gram]

USF is too far away.

 

[MsDisney]

Yes, for you, USF is too far away...but for me...


Hawaii is too far away!!!!!!!




There's just no pleasin' some people, huh?

Karen

 

[BarryHom]

The "but me's" are also called tourons. They are basically tourists who think the rules are for everyone else, like to cut in line, argue about the heat, rain, and other stuff they can't control, and are all-around annoying. While waiting in the 60 minute Spiderman line, have fun playing "Spot the Touron!"

 

[MsDisney]

Oh yea, the tourons, they must be the ones who went through the single rider line on Spidey, avoided a 45 minute wait, and got annoyed when the Express pass people kept getting taken before us. So instead of waiting patiently, they stepped into the express line, and got to sit together to boot. I'm ok with it tho, it gives me a chance to point out to my children the importance of following rules, and common courtesy. It's not enough to avoid the line, they had to then be taken QUICKLY! Geesh!

Now, if only the guy had noticed what these kids did...tho I don't know if he would have done anything anyway, I guess sometimes they also have to just try to remain calm and just chalk them up as tourons! (I'm liking this new word!)

Karen

 

[MIB999999]

Does not take much to figure out the origins of TOURONS

 

[BansheeBlue]

I am officially adding "touron" to my vocabulary, to be used interchangeably with ButMe

 

[Robinrs]

I understand the ButMe's and the Tourons are the only ones paying FULL PRICE onsite, too...

 

[BarryHom]

Good, as long as it is not me.

 

[fboy9287]

And they complain the they are spending so much money on this trip and when...

 

[jelly-beans]

Pet peeves:

1. Waiting in line to ride the Hulk or DD only to notice, when you get close enough, that many trains leave with two empty seats on the same row. How about a simple "Party of two" call to the line;

2. The astonishingly poor behavior of otherwise good people for the sole purpose of collecting worthless strings of beads thrown from the floats during the HHN parade. Living in NYC I have always been astonished that 9 out of 10 times on the subway when you see an elderly person or pregnant woman standing no one will give up their seat. Well I now know this behavior in not limited to New Yorkers. I am surprised more people don't get hurt; and

3. I don't know how widespread this last one is but I actually witnessed a woman (maybe 35yo), after riding the Hulk, quickly reboarding the train in an empty seat. She did this trick three times before I rode (maybe more after). I know she is not taking a seat from anyone as she waited to see if there was an empty one but it bothered me anyway. Anyone else witness this before?

jb

 

[BarryHom]

Originally posted by jelly-beans
Pet peeves:

3. I don't know how widespread this last one is but I actually witnessed a woman (maybe 35yo), after riding the Hulk, quickly reboarding the train in an empty seat. She did this trick three times before I rode (maybe more after). I know she is not taking a seat from anyone as she waited to see if there was an empty one but it bothered me anyway. Anyone else witness this before?

jb

This is called vultureing. It means that you look for an empty seat and if no one takes it, you take it. IMO, if the seat is empty and no one wants it, you might as well fill it. Now if she were taking away from a seat from a person who was patiently waiting, then I would be angry.

 

[minijeanie]

okay have not seen this pet peeve yet. While in US this past August, we stayed at HRH. Had FOTL but kept changing the entrance. In KK it was through the main doors but later on that day, I had to go to the left and take the elevator for wheelchair visitors.

We went to MIB 3x. Each time there was a different entrance. One time we wound up standing in the line for single riders. After 10 minutes of not moving, I asked a employee, she led us through some "Employee only" doors.

The worst was BTTF. God only knows where we went in. I still can't figure it out.

Other than that, my only other pet peeve, is when someone in line starts talking about the ride and what you see, how it works, etc. GIve me a break. THere are hundreds of people who are experiencing T2, Twister, and KK for the first time. Let them enjoy it.

We all know that the 1st time is the best!!

 

[loribell]

This is great. So many of these pet peeves fit right in there with mine.

People not putting their trash in the cans.

People stepping in front of kids waiting their turn to see a character or stepping over a stroller with a child in it.

Not having your ticket out and ready to go through the turnstile.

Smoking in line or walking through the streets. There is a reason there are smoking areas designated!

To add to this-the people who rent wheel chairs or ECV's for the purpose of getting to the front of the line. On my most recent trip a mother and father both rented an ECV and their children were complaining to them about doing it. They were afraid they were going to get in trouble AGAIN! What is this teaching their kids? Not to mention the fact that it keeps someone who really needs it from being able to get it.

Jon & MrNonacho-I must say I hated Twister. Felt like it really trevialized the whole thing. This may be because I live 5 miles from one of the towns that was destroyed by the May '99 tornado's. It was unbelievable to see what that monster did. They really do seem to take on a life of their own. Most times out here in the plains states they will skip houses, it can seem like it is targeting certain places. This particualr tornado stayed on the ground for hours. There was for as far as you could see a 1/2 mile wide strip of mud, the grass had been sucked out of the ground. The trees had their bark stripped off and there were pieces of mobile homes ( the metal pieces on the bottoms) twisted around trees.

I do believe that when they were filming this movie here in Oklahoma they did actually experience the weather to some degree. They were not in danger but the sky gets very erie, a strange color of green. Unfortunately we don't have a Ritz here so they definetly weren't in it. Alot of the places they filmed were out in the middle of nowhere so they did experience some of it.

 

[MrNonacho]

loribell, I certainly didn't mean to make light of the message that Twister's preshow is trying to convey. My beef is with the actors' performances, especially Bill Paxton's. It's hard to take him seriously as he describes a tornado as being an entity when just moments before he talked of the danger he was in when they "dropped a gasoline tanker in his face." Common sense tells us that in all likelihood, he probably wasn't close enough to the explosion to even feel its heat. That is of course, if he was even there at all. He may well have experienced storms firsthand, but his monotonous and seemingly uncaring tone kind of undermine the message.

 

[loribell]

Sorry, I didn't state my point very well. I agree with you. They were the ones that trevialized it. Sorry for the confusion. I to doubt they were anywhere near that tanker when it exploded, or how about the house they drove through. They weren't in the Ritz though, that's for sure. I don't know where they could have found nice enough for the stars to stay in.

 

[gothamknight777]

My only pet peeve was lack of good viewing space for those too chicken to ride the Dueling Dragons (guess who!!). While waiting the 45 minutes for my wife to ride both coasters, it would have been nice to see the full action of the ride (like w/ the Hulk). But I'm a Certified Coaster Chicken (I love the Woody Woodpecker magnet & keychain) so I shouldn't complain...just ride it, right?! That's what my wife thinks!

GK777