Just how rude can WDW guests be?

[Twinprincesses]

We had a lady actually trying to reserve a whole wow for the fantasmic show for her fmaily that was still riding rides. It was 20 minutes before the show started and shw got angry when others just started sitting in "her row"

 

[Pedler]

Oh come on now...I wasn't even really inconvenienced. I'm from the Keys, I live on Island time. Looking for a table for a few minutes was more stress than I care for but, whatever. But your math I don't get. People were holding tables for the enire 20 minutes, then eating leisurly (I assume) meaning some of these tables were being occupied for a minimus of 35 minutes. Since there are not enough tables to accomodate the constant traffic out of the food lines this certainly causes problems.

As for the me, me, me thing, I am idealistic and I hate to see society barrelling down this road to ruin. Money, selfishness and materialistic things are nice and to be sure I have my share but I do not worship the material nor idolize or respect those who do. Me, me, me is for losers.

Actually the math does make sense. If the line takes 20 minutes to go through and it takes 15 minutes to find a table then if the person that is holding the table starts looking at the same time the person ordering the food enters the line then the person looking for the table will take 15 minutes to find an empty table and 5 minutes later the person with the food will come out of the line. So the they are only occupying a table for 5 minutes without engaging in eating at the table.

And... if it does take 15 minutes to find a table I would want to split my party to find one so that when we came out with the food we were able to eat it while it is still hot.

This is based on the premis that the table holder takes the same amount of time, 15 minutes in your case, to find a table as someone coming out of the food line.

Personally I don't have a problem with this. This is a common and accepted practice in just about any food court at a mall during lunch time.

 

[Pedler]

As for the me, me, me thing, I am idealistic and I hate to see society barrelling down this road to ruin. Money, selfishness and materialistic things are nice and to be sure I have my share but I do not worship the material nor idolize or respect those who do. Me, me, me is for losers.

I don't think that people wanting to take a break from the heat and get a rest at WDW while waiting for thier food to arrive is going to be the downfall of western civilization. Reality TV, maybe, saving tables in a food court not so much.

 

[Alicnwondrln]

we do this all the time
i get the food while DH and ds6 and ds2 get the table
i dont think there is anything wrong with this

 

[GEM]

I don't think that people wanting to take a break from the heat and get a rest at WDW while waiting for thier food to arrive is going to be the downfall of western civilization. Reality TV, maybe, saving tables in a food court not so much.

 

[heaven2dc]

First come, first serve...I want my family to have a place to sit...We're hot and tired...Me, me, me, me, me...Never worry about anyone else. I payed my money, I have the right to hog this table for an hour and a half, screww the grandma and grandpa, heck with the family with 2 babies and a toddler, so what if that man and his daughter don't have a place to sit for 15 minutes...I got my place! Oh yeah, oink, oink, oink.

 

[MermaidsMom]

First come, first serve...I want my family to have a place to sit...We're hot and tired...Me, me, me, me, me...Never worry about anyone else. I payed my money, I have the right to hog this table for an hour and a half, screww the grandma and grandpa, heck with the family with 2 babies and a toddler, so what if that man and his daughter don't have a place to sit for 15 minutes...I got my place! Oh yeah, oink, oink, oink.

Is this a joke post?

 

[eeyore45]

First come, first serve...I want my family to have a place to sit...We're hot and tired...Me, me, me, me, me...Never worry about anyone else. I payed my money, I have the right to hog this table for an hour and a half, screww the grandma and grandpa, heck with the family with 2 babies and a toddler, so what if that man and his daughter don't have a place to sit for 15 minutes...I got my place! Oh yeah, oink, oink, oink.

Its time for another Peter Pirate Trip Report!!!

 

[MermaidsMom]

know the rude people are out there and it amuses me how significant the self centered people, me, me, me folk think their little insignificant lives really are. Hahaha, there I made myself laugh at the oinking sounds of all the little people hogging that most desired window view table at Tusker House! What a coup!

Yikes! I can't even find an icon that makes this OK.

 

[maddhatir]

DH and I do it all the time- -- and will continue to do it...

WHY should be BOTH stand in line, that makes no sense at all. so what if one of us gets a seat-- its not like we are not going to eat there......

what? it makes MORE sense for BOTH of you to have trays in your hands walking around aimlessly looking for a table??

actually I dont understand WHY people dont get a table first-- THAT makes more sense.

 

[lclark0621]

Yep, we save tables.

Usually DH goes & orders the food, while DS (2.5) & I go & find a table. I take the stroller, diaper bag & whatever else we are schelping around, with DS & I.

It just makes more sense.

DH & I always offer others to join us if there are no tables to.

But please dont get me started on the people who "share" a table with us & then leave it in such a disgusting state, I dont even want to sit there anymore!

If all the parents waited online for food, with strollers, kids, diaper bags, & everything else, I bet we would see a lot of threads complaining about "why the WHOLE family needs to wait online for food".

 

[Allison]

OK...This has gotten a bit out of hand (my fault, I'm sure)

I'm sure everyone can agree with this just as we all agree it's not rude.

 

[magicmouse2]

Yes DH waits with the kids at the table. There is no way I am going to take my kids with me in line for food and risk hot food or drink getting knocked on the kids and scalding them.

 

[JoeSam]

As far as I am concerned, if we can't get a table, we don't get in line for food, we will go somewhere else. This just makes sense to me. I too cannot see the logic of walking around with tray-fulls of food, desparately hoping for an opening!

 

[scanne]

I think it's necessity for us - we have two little kids and it's much easier if DH sits at a table with DS and DD while I wait in line for food. It's common practice as many posters have said. Something we all have to come to accept.

 

[patsal]

I really never considered this rude as we do it all the time in food courts, etc. The area to que up and purchase food is so very limited in space I actually thought that it was preferred to do this. I have even had CM's at the order spot tell me to send one or both children along with DH to find a table as it would make the line for order and pick up shorter. I find people who stick their children in front of me when a parade starts, people who allow their children to pee in the trees and bushes, people who yell at CM's for doing their jobs rude, but settling at a table not really--unless they are hogging it for hours.
I have always avoided eating during the traditional lunch and dinner hour at CS, I know it is going to be crazy crowded so I either plan to eat early or after 1pm.

 

[jarestel]

Funny how the rudeness factor does seem to go up when it's ME that gets inconvenienced by something. I guess "when in Rome", "survival of the fittest", and "he who hesitates" have some applicable value here.

I'm of the thinking that a table can be in use both before and after dining. Some folks wolf down their meals in 5 minutes and flee to the next attraction, while others eat at a more leisurely pace and linger over their beverages afterward.

Granted, walking around and around carrying food trays can be a bit frustrating, but, as they say in the guidebooks, one needs to go to WDW with a plan. Our plan is to have DW grab a table while I get the food so we don't become "nomadic food tray wanderers".

 

[Peter Pirate]

Thanks to eeyore and heaven and to twinprincesses for pointing out yet another example of the same thing, but oddly I think the Fantasmic situation would somehow be seen differently by this 'table saving is fine group' we have here!

eeyore45, a new trip report, hmmm. I've been mulling that over as I 've had some, ummm, interesting experiences but based on the responses here I'm not sure the current DIS crowd is really going to appreciate it. What do you think?...But keep a look out.

Allison, thanks for taking the high road.

scanne, the folks doing it out of a necessity is fine, it's merely the rudeness involved that bugged me but it appears I'm preaching to the wrong side so, in the words of the immortal Emily Litella, "nevermind".

 

[Jessmela]

The trouble with this is table capacity is figured into wait in line time. If everyone would wait in line then sit by the time they were done the next group of people that were in line would be ready to sit down.

How do you know this? It would seem that if this was really the case the queuing area would need to be 2 or 3 times larger....

I think Disney is fairly good about observing human behavior and if there's enough people saving tables in advance to merit this post, perhaps they plan for that secenario in the first place

There's no logic in assuming the group who stood in line has more right to a table than a group who split up to save a table. You don't know how long they've been waiting, it could be the exact same 20 minutes you waited in line and the person with their food could be right behind you.

Besides what's the next leap in logic....those slow eaters need to hurry, they're occupying space that the fast eaters could be using more effeciently?

It's WDW calm down... you know how the crowds work. If you don't choose to split up your group, that's your own decision. Just like you can choose not to show up at rope drop, not to use FP, and to eat lunch at 12 noon.

 

[Allison]

Thanks to eeyore and heaven and to twinprincesses for pointing out yet another example of the same thing, but oddly I think the Fantasmic situation would somehow be seen differently by this 'table saving is fine group' we have here!

eeyore45, a new trip report, hmmm. I've been mulling that over as I 've had some, ummm, interesting experiences but based on the responses here I'm not sure the current DIS crowd is really going to appreciate it. What do you think?...But keep a look out.

Allison, thanks for taking the high road.

scanne, the folks doing it out of a necessity is fine, it's merely the rudeness involved that bugged me but it appears I'm preaching to the wrong side so, in the words of the immortal Emily Litella, "nevermind".

Thanks! I appreciate the compliment.