MarineVet
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This is just a mild rant- but I am just going to dump it here and hope to forget it. As the title says, I may be just getting old and impatient instead of like so many of the posters here who say these things never bother them.
We got back home yesterday after a quick 4 night stay at WDW; two nights were spent doing the MNSSHP, our first experience with that event. It was also our first time staying at the AoA resort.
Most everything was good, the hotel was beautiful, our room in the Cars area was nicer than expected, and even Hurricane Sandy didn't give us any rain, just some wind.
We slowed down this trip and attended more shows than normal. In total, we must have attended 6 or 7, and the seating was just a mess each and every time. When the doors open to a theater, the ushers ask people to move all the way across the row they enter, but we always saw people stop in the center of the row, and refuse to budge any further. The CMs let in enough people to fill most of the seats, which means that between a third and a half of the rest of the people have to either climb over 25 people or, if possible, walk around and fill in the other side. I've seen this before on a small scale, but it seems like its getting worse each time I go. I'm a plus sized woman, and its frustrating to have those people who plunked down in the middle of the row complain when I have to crawl over them. If they insist on claiming the middle, it would be so much easier to just stand up and allow people to pass on by, wouldn't it?
At Fantasmic, we saw numerous people duck under the white rope which marked off the reserved seating from the dining packages and just sit down and laugh about it. At the Little Mermaid live show, I had a man and his wife verbally attack me because I asked him to remove his hat as I could not see through it. At the Hallo-wishes fireworks, a man crawled up on a concrete bench to stand in front of my husband, pushing him backwards then acting like he did not understand the request that he not do that. A woman sat next to us at the Boo to You parade and proceeded to change her child's poo-dee diaper while balancing the baby on her lap, then left said diaper on the ground. A teenager sat down on my stuff in my chair at the pool - I had a towel and a cover on the chair, he didn't even bother to push them aside first (there were PLENTY of open chairs).
These events did nor ruin or spoil our overall trip, but every day we experienced some new behavior we were just not expecting. Maybe that means I am getting old and intolerant. Or people's behavior overall is declining. We also met a very nice, sweet young couple at HS with their adorable daughter and a number of other pleasant people. But they were the exception this time, sadly.
We got back home yesterday after a quick 4 night stay at WDW; two nights were spent doing the MNSSHP, our first experience with that event. It was also our first time staying at the AoA resort.
Most everything was good, the hotel was beautiful, our room in the Cars area was nicer than expected, and even Hurricane Sandy didn't give us any rain, just some wind.
We slowed down this trip and attended more shows than normal. In total, we must have attended 6 or 7, and the seating was just a mess each and every time. When the doors open to a theater, the ushers ask people to move all the way across the row they enter, but we always saw people stop in the center of the row, and refuse to budge any further. The CMs let in enough people to fill most of the seats, which means that between a third and a half of the rest of the people have to either climb over 25 people or, if possible, walk around and fill in the other side. I've seen this before on a small scale, but it seems like its getting worse each time I go. I'm a plus sized woman, and its frustrating to have those people who plunked down in the middle of the row complain when I have to crawl over them. If they insist on claiming the middle, it would be so much easier to just stand up and allow people to pass on by, wouldn't it?
At Fantasmic, we saw numerous people duck under the white rope which marked off the reserved seating from the dining packages and just sit down and laugh about it. At the Little Mermaid live show, I had a man and his wife verbally attack me because I asked him to remove his hat as I could not see through it. At the Hallo-wishes fireworks, a man crawled up on a concrete bench to stand in front of my husband, pushing him backwards then acting like he did not understand the request that he not do that. A woman sat next to us at the Boo to You parade and proceeded to change her child's poo-dee diaper while balancing the baby on her lap, then left said diaper on the ground. A teenager sat down on my stuff in my chair at the pool - I had a towel and a cover on the chair, he didn't even bother to push them aside first (there were PLENTY of open chairs).
These events did nor ruin or spoil our overall trip, but every day we experienced some new behavior we were just not expecting. Maybe that means I am getting old and intolerant. Or people's behavior overall is declining. We also met a very nice, sweet young couple at HS with their adorable daughter and a number of other pleasant people. But they were the exception this time, sadly.
. Seems like I keep reading about how attendance is growing every year so I guess that it stands to reason that the % of jerks would increase as well. Sorry you had to deal with so much of it!
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the CM's bicycle and screaming about racism! Meanwhile his sari-clad wife and small children are just standing there, staring.
