Inspired by the "Can I cut in line..etc " thread

[Suellen]

I use 1 to fill the dogs water dish. The rest I cycle through for coffee.

And oh ~ not worried about the CM ~ it's other disers I think I might have to prove it to. I just don't want to be at SAB refilling my mug from March of last year all faded and have a scene.

DH said we should bring one of the old POR and one of the All Star Music mugs.

 

[tiggergirlinMI]

I would so love a DISer to come up to me while Im refilling my mug from last visit there...I would laugh ......and then walk away
Life is too short for confrontation.....Ive been thru alot in my life and I'm not about to worry about someone else's opinion of what I'm doing ,esp. on my vacation so there! lol
I think it would be a riot to bring ones that are so outdated anyone would notice. But as I've said if people are paying that much attention to what I'm doing on my vacation, have at it.....I'm at Disney.I plan to enjoy myself...

 

[pearlieq]

The ways I "stick it to the mouse"

1.) If I make more than one trip in a year, you bet your cookies I bring my mugs back.
2.) I send DH to get a table while I order. Not only do I not want to clog up the counter area with another body, I don't want to wander around with a full tray looking for somewhere to sit.
3.) I will continue using my Fastpasses after they expire until they tell me I can't.
4.) If we're in a giant "cattle chute" queue, you're moving slow, and I have room to pass you, I will. Why do people think they own all 8 feet of airspace?
5.) Unless you're 98 years old, or obviously sick or injured, dynamite isn't going to move me out of my seat on the boat/monorail.

Things I still can't stand:

1.) Pool hopping. I'm cool with being an elitist. If you want a $300 pool, cough up $300.
2.) People using the handicap and companion stalls to change into princess dresses. Disabled people have to pee too!
3.) Using your old Big Gulp cup to fill up at the drink station
4.) People who plunk down in the middle or the row in a crowded theater. Oops? Did I step on your foot there?
5.) Cell phones and flash pictures on rides!

 

[pearlieq]

Sorry, my fat butt is staying put. They can go around me and slide down into a cramped and middle seat among the pile of humanity. Call me selfish, self centered, unreasonable, pathetic, or simply evil, so be it; I'm still not moving.

YES! I forgot about this one, but I absolutely 100% agree!

 

[pickyprincess]

Aren't we going to the "happiest place on earth"? What's the big whoop if someone wants to swim in the pool? Who cares if you want to use your mug from 1998? I don't care about moving for a child to sit down. I don't mind scooting down to the end of the row because the screen is HUGE I can see it from anywhere in the room, and if someone wants to waste a bunch of time jumping resort transportation to save a few bucks why should I care? I'm really at Disney to share happiness with my family and that's pretty much it. Don't sweat the small stuff.

 

[JillRenee1213]

I just finished reading this thread....there are alot of amazing opinions out there

Yawn. Does it really take 11 pages to harp on 2-3 subjects? This thread seems to be arguing itself in circles.

 

[smidgy]

There are rules-stickers and rules-breakers . There are pot-stirrers and wave-breakers . There are clowns and frowns and upside-downers .

But in the end,

I gotta bite! (sorry). rule breakers and smokers are NOT synonymous!!

 

[luvthemouse71]

The ways I "stick it to the mouse"

1.) If I make more than one trip in a year, you bet your cookies I bring my mugs back.
2.) I send DH to get a table while I order. Not only do I not want to clog up the counter area with another body, I don't want to wander around with a full tray looking for somewhere to sit.
3.) I will continue using my Fastpasses after they expire until they tell me I can't.
4.) If we're in a giant "cattle chute" queue, you're moving slow, and I have room to pass you, I will. Why do people think they own all 8 feet of airspace?
5.) Unless you're 98 years old, or obviously sick or injured, dynamite isn't going to move me out of my seat on the boat/monorail.

Things I still can't stand:

1.) Pool hopping. I'm cool with being an elitist. If you want a $300 pool, cough up $300.
2.) People using the handicap and companion stalls to change into princess dresses. Disabled people have to pee too!
3.) Using your old Big Gulp cup to fill up at the drink station
4.) People who plunk down in the middle or the row in a crowded theater. Oops? Did I step on your foot there?
5.) Cell phones and flash pictures on rides!

Wow, I agree with everything you posted, especially about the pool hopping-although I don't get offended really. i just think it's stupid to spend hundreds(if not thousands) of dollars on a trip and then be so fixated on finding the perfect pool. I maybe use the pool at the resort twice the whole time we're there-we have a really nice beach 30 minutes from me and a nice pool at my local YMCA-much rather do other stuff while at WDW.

 

[doconeill]

I gotta bite! (sorry). rule breakers and smokers are NOT synonymous!!

It was the best icon I could find at the moment, and represent those who smoke in rooms or outside designated areas

 

[diberry]

The ways I "stick it to the mouse"

1.) If I make more than one trip in a year, you bet your cookies I bring my mugs back.
2.) I send DH to get a table while I order. Not only do I not want to clog up the counter area with another body, I don't want to wander around with a full tray looking for somewhere to sit.
3.) I will continue using my Fastpasses after they expire until they tell me I can't.
4.) If we're in a giant "cattle chute" queue, you're moving slow, and I have room to pass you, I will. Why do people think they own all 8 feet of airspace?
5.) Unless you're 98 years old, or obviously sick or injured, dynamite isn't going to move me out of my seat on the boat/monorail.

Things I still can't stand:

1.) Pool hopping. I'm cool with being an elitist. If you want a $300 pool, cough up $300.
2.) People using the handicap and companion stalls to change into princess dresses. Disabled people have to pee too!
3.) Using your old Big Gulp cup to fill up at the drink station
4.) People who plunk down in the middle or the row in a crowded theater. Oops? Did I step on your foot there?
5.) Cell phones and flash pictures on rides!

I love it!!!!

 

[MidgeD79]

As far as I can tell, our family obeys all of the "official" rules.


Rules that aren't "official" that we do anyway: one person getting fastpasses for everyone, filling our cooler with ice from the hotel, saving a table while someone else gets the food, saving a spot for ourselves for a parade ( we rarely watch parades), minimizing seats we use on a full bus. I'm sure there are more, I just can't think of anymore right now.

 

[corrinna]

I don't personally want to pack up my pool stuff just to go to another pool, when I am usually a stone's throw to one at my resort. I guess all pools look the same to me. I think I could write a book on the culture and rituals of the pool goers...LOL

I love the Beer mug idea!!! They have that at my local waterpark, refills are 2 dollars. Most of the season pass holders have one.

My favorite is when you see the melting down child at midnight in line for another ride in combination with equally exhausted parents. I get a good laugh from this!!

 

[Suellen]

I love all the people that bring their old mugs back ~ but get upset to see someone using a non-disney mug.

So do you think one is stealing and one is not? (I'm not saying I think either is ~ just trying to understand the logic)

I personally could care less what someone else does. I've never brought a mug back as we always have it included in dining.

And to the lady who gets irritated if people sit in the middle of the row (oops did I step on a toe there?) but also states she is going to sit in the middle and not move? I don't get it. Okay for you but not others?

Perhaps I am misunderstanding the double talk.

 

[LadySiren]

Just a thought on the whole saving the table thing: we're traveling with a group of 12 in June for a family reunion. Six of those 12 are kids.

I'd much rather have two of the adults take the six kids to a table and wait for the rest of us so that A) we don't have to sit separately and B) I don't subject my fellow diners waiting in line to the whining, shoving, poking, prodding, goosing, nyah-nyahing of six hungry children. Trust me, you'll thank me.

We don't want to prevent anyone from finding a table to sit and eat, but neither do we want to not have the option of sitting and eating together ourselves. So apologies to anyone who might think it's selfish, but yep - we'll be saving one or more tables any time we do CS meals.

 

[Suellen]

When DD's and I were there in February (just the three of us) we couldn't save a table (obviously) So I had a tray with three meals, drinks and desserts on it and both my girls ages 2.5 and 4.5 so balancing the tray and holding the little one's hand. I couldn't find a table anywhere ~ there was a dad sitting alone (no kids) holding THREE tables for his party.

We stood and waited for someone to finish and leave. Sat and ate our cold food and were done and gone before his party showed up. Yup ~ three tables for one guy the WHOLE time we were there.

I think a mom and two kids sitting at ONE table waiting for Dad is different than ONE ADULT holding three tables for his party.

This is ONE of the reasons we very rarely do QS.
JHMO!

 

[maxiesmom]

When DD's and I were there in February (just the three of us) we couldn't save a table (obviously) So I had a tray with three meals, drinks and desserts on it and both my girls ages 2.5 and 4.5 so balancing the tray and holding the little one's hand. I couldn't find a table anywhere ~ there was a dad sitting alone (no kids) holding THREE tables for his party.

We stood and waited for someone to finish and leave. Sat and ate our cold food and were done and gone before his party showed up. Yup ~ three tables for one guy the WHOLE time we were there.

I think a mom and two kids sitting at ONE table waiting for Dad is different than ONE ADULT holding three tables for his party.

This is ONE of the reasons we very rarely do QS.
JHMO!

That takes a lot of nerve, to hold onto 3 empty people while you watch someone else struggling with their food and kids. You should have just plunked down anyways. If he had a fit I'm sure a CM would have been more than happy to back you up.

 

[disneyjunkie]

When DD's and I were there in February (just the three of us) we couldn't save a table (obviously) So I had a tray with three meals, drinks and desserts on it and both my girls ages 2.5 and 4.5 so balancing the tray and holding the little one's hand. I couldn't find a table anywhere ~ there was a dad sitting alone (no kids) holding THREE tables for his party.

We stood and waited for someone to finish and leave. Sat and ate our cold food and were done and gone before his party showed up. Yup ~ three tables for one guy the WHOLE time we were there.

I think a mom and two kids sitting at ONE table waiting for Dad is different than ONE ADULT holding three tables for his party.

This is ONE of the reasons we very rarely do QS.
JHMO!

I'm all for sending someone to grab a table while I order. However, there's no way in hell I would have stood there while the guy held 3 tables.

 

[nilla]

Pool hopping. I don't do it, but honestly, what's the big deal?

Also the breastfeeding hang-up. There are plenty of adults that cause me to look away when they're eating, too. At least babies have an excuse.

 

[tiggergirlinMI]

Sorry but that made me laugh when someone said child meltdown, now that my boys are 22 1/2 and 21, when we go, we actually count the meltdowns....Maybe sick humor but having been thru meltdowns with my own yearssss ago, I smile when it's someone else's child because I know what they are going through.
To the poster who said this thread is arguing itself in circles? Actually for 12 pages of topics such as pool hopping and mug refilling, I think we are doing FANTASTIC in keeping it civil, lol...
The purpose of this thread was to pick something that really doesn't bother you that may have been debated before.
I stated pool hopping doesn't bother me , I never seem to see it happening at the deluxes I have stayed at.
I refill my mug from this year's previous trip, I give up my seat on a full bus to someone who needs it more. I've waited way too long for a 2nd bus to come at park closing, esp DStudios to not get on that one bus. But then I don't have young kids anymore.
I do find amusing the people who say, "im not giving my seat up, i got there first and I'm just as tired as the elderly and/or the mother with the baby", LOL..really? are you tired? or just lazy and don't want to get up? or have thrown manners to the wind.....
Enough on that...one more comment..on the saving tables thing.
I agree about one parent saving a table, esp at say Sunshine in the Land, I was solo in Jan and wandered for 10 minutes while my soup cooled and saw many saved tables, 8 tables of picnics being had, when it was beautiful outside, so I finally waited and took a table for 4.
Others were wandering around and I offered the other seats to others. I don't mind sharing a table when there are no others around.
TO me, it's the right thing to do.

 

[Suellen]

I'm all for sending someone to grab a table while I order. However, there's no way in hell I would have stood there while the guy held 3 tables.

I stood right there next to his three tables ~ hoping he would at least feel like a selfish moron. I am guessing that it never clicked how rude he was considering he let us stand there waiting.

I made sure to make stink eye contact with him as we were picking up our food to leave and he was still sitting there alone.

People are SO rude.