My Biggest Pet Peeve is....

[bytheblood]

Not Disney related:

When people change their persona around different people to try to relate to people they would otherwise have nothing in common with.

Ones who change lanes and cut you off to go the same speed they were going in the other lane. Or going 50 in the fast lane on the highway when they can see everybody is going around them.

Disney related:

Those people who are walking and stop suddenly in the middle of a walkway to look at the sky.

Cursing in front of children.

Waving stoggies while walking through the park. No need to burn anybody's eyes out.

Big families walking elbow to elbow so nobody else can get through.

 

[bytheblood]

My biggest pet peeve has to do with lines for attractions...

3) when you're going around the bend of a line and it opens up a little bit, the people behind you might try and sneak up alongside of you to cut you


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That is so truthful. And when you get back in front of them, they look at you like you cut in front of them.

 

[MagicKingdom05]

My biggest one is people who get to parades and decided that the spot you have been sitting in for any hour should be theres.

I get WDW parades about an hour ahead to get a good spot, with food and drink, and by the time it starts, I'm usually no longer in front. I even had one lady come up about 5 minutes or so before a parade started demanding that I move so her and her kid could sit where I was. When it didn't happen she first went and tried to get a CM to move me and when that didn't happen she yelled at me saying that I ruined her whole trip and stomped off. It wasn't even the case where she wanted me to move over, since there was no space to do that either. I guess she decided that she deserved that spot regardless of who was already sitting there.

 

[kjm4]

Kids on a leash is a good one.
People who cut in front of you while you're waiting for the monorail. More so when you are nice enough to leave room in front of your stroller so you don't mow anyone down.

 

[henrylovespooh]

Just happened to me three days ago: When you are pushing your stroller and a tray of food to a table you see that's open in a restaurant area (Flame Tree Barbecue), and a person who can see where you are headed intentionally runs ahead of you and grabs the last table in that section. Then refuses to look up so they can't see you fume and have to turn around with food and children in tow. The only consolation was a kindly CM who witnessed it and just looked on in disgust. He was an older janitorial guy who couldn't really do anything about it, but it was nice to know it wasn't just us who were shocked by the experience.

 

[3DisneyNUTS]

Wow after reading this entire thread I have never noticed any of these things. When I am on vacation I am in happy mode. Unless it affects me directly I don't notice it. I have saved a spot for our family before and had others children join us we enjoy it. The only reason I save a spot is to be together but if parents have their kids sit with us I am fine with that Kids are cute especially watching a parade. We once had chocolate milk spilled all over us by another family's kid. They were mortified and apologized but who cares it is Disney. My son will probably make a mistake there too. They are just kids. Little kids also don't understand why they can't squeeze in to see the parade but will remember the nice adults that let them see. That is part of the magic for me.

The leash thing? Who cares as long as the child is safe. My son was never on one but looking back it would have made things alot safer for him he was a runner.
Breastfeeding in public? Who cares? It is better to see a happy baby than one screaming while mom is trying to get to a baby station or bathroom.
Kids standing too close in line. What's the big deal they are excited!

Don't sweat the small stuff.

 

[Loves Disney]

well, sometimes all this stuff can irritate a person especially on a really hot day. Consider this, since everyone is very excited to get on rides, they would all pile up and that isn't a line. lol. I hate it when people start pushing me and shoving me to get in front. I don't know but that bothers me since we are in disney and we shouldn't have to deal with that. I get your point though, I don't get bothered by much of all this stuff unless it is physical like what I just described.

 

[LaLa]

I'm sure I can think of more than this, but for now, here goes:

1. People who butt in line. Stand there and wait your darn turn like everyone else. We actually had a middle age couple pass our family and everyone else's up at lightning speed in line for Kilamanjaro Safari saying "Let's just get ahead of these babies."

2 The cell phone thing during rides. A couple of years ago, we were on the Backlot Tour at MGM and there was a guy in the very back YELLING into his cell phone the entire time. What makes it worse was he was yelling in what sounded like Arabic. Everybody on the ride was glaring and telling him he needed to be quiet, but he just kept right on until the last 5 minutes or so of the ride. His family looked like they wanted to dig a hole to hide in.

3. People who don't use deodorant.

4. The fact that EVCs are loaded onto buses first and take up about 6 seats per ECV. Believe me, this is a big deal when you have already been waiting in line for a bus to get out of Epcot EMH for an hour with exhausted 7 and 4 year old children. Not trying to flame the people that use these, Disney just needs to have a separate bus for them.

 

[3DisneyNUTS]

I admit I also get pretty tired of the motorized scooters, and often people who use them explain to me why they themselves use them (for which I feel shame at having complained in the first place). And I think most of us who get annoyed at the scooters realize that there are indeed people like yourself for whom they are a necessity.

But the sheer quantity of scooters in the parks really begs the question, is every single person who uses one in need of it??? I would love to see some kind of statistics on the reasons why people rent the scooters. Although I doubt Disney records that kind of information before lending them out.

And even if every single scooter-user DOES have a legit reason... Are we as a society getting sicker? Why are more people in need of them now, more than ever before? Or is it simply that people who needed them in the past just didn't come to the parks because they were previously unable to?

Not trying to "attack the handicapped", but I'm just trying to explain the annoyance... It has more to do with the quantity of them than anything else... at least, for me.

20% of the US population lives with a disability. I am at WDW frequently and have never even seen 5% of the attendants at the park on ECV. So I would guess the stats are probably quite low.

 

[phamton]

4. The fact that EVCs are loaded onto buses first and take up about 6 seats per ECV. Believe me, this is a big deal when you have already been waiting in line for a bus to get out of Epcot EMH for an hour with exhausted 7 and 4 year old children. Not trying to flame the people that use these, Disney just needs to have a separate bus for them.

I just thank God that I am not confined to a wheelchair or ECV and am happy that those with disabilities are able to enjoy the themeparks. Surely you're not advocating segregation.

 

[AnaheimGirl]

Wow after reading this entire thread I have never noticed any of these things. When I am on vacation I am in happy mode. Unless it affects me directly I don't notice it. I have saved a spot for our family before and had others children join us we enjoy it. The only reason I save a spot is to be together but if parents have their kids sit with us I am fine with that Kids are cute especially watching a parade. We once had chocolate milk spilled all over us by another family's kid. They were mortified and apologized but who cares it is Disney. My son will probably make a mistake there too. They are just kids. Little kids also don't understand why they can't squeeze in to see the parade but will remember the nice adults that let them see. That is part of the magic for me.

The leash thing? Who cares as long as the child is safe. My son was never on one but looking back it would have made things alot safer for him he was a runner.
Breastfeeding in public? Who cares? It is better to see a happy baby than one screaming while mom is trying to get to a baby station or bathroom.
Kids standing too close in line. What's the big deal they are excited!

Don't sweat the small stuff.

LOL about the chocolate milk! That reminds me of the time I was flying on business and a little baby on the lap of the woman next to me spit up on my arm. Luckily I had a short-sleeved shirt on, so it was easy to wash off, but I wouldn't have cared even if it had got my clothes. She was also mortified and apologetic, but really it was no big deal. Like the bib says, "spit happens"!

Anyway, you said it about not sweating the small stuff! I find it annoying when someone else's actions actually diminish my experience, like being pushed or leaned on, being subjected to some gross smell or sound, or my wait time being increased because of idiots that cut in line. But how another person's parenting choices can be annoying to a stranger, I'll never understand. :

 

[3DisneyNUTS]

LOL about the chocolate milk! That reminds me of the time I was flying on business and a little baby on the lap of the woman next to me spit up on my arm. Luckily I had a short-sleeved shirt on, so it was easy to wash off, but I wouldn't have cared even if it had got my clothes. She was also mortified and apologetic, but really it was no big deal. Like the bib says, "spit happens"!

Anyway, you said it about not sweating the small stuff! I find it annoying when someone else's actions actually diminish my experience, like being pushed or leaned on, being subjected to some gross smell or sound, or my wait time being increased because of idiots that cut in line. But how another person's parenting choices can be annoying to a stranger, I'll never understand. :

Speaking of airlines. I once sat next to a child psychologist and his flipping out almost 2 yr old lap child. He was trying everything to get the to kid calm down. I took out my keys and played with the child until he was calm then 15 minutes later he was out cold across MY LAP! Now this was before marriage and my son and I was probably 23 at the time. I could have got up demanded to be moved and freaked out about my flight. Instead playing with the kid and calming him down wound up to be the best solution. So what if a strangers kid fell asleep on me for the flight LOL. The dad was thanking me the entire flight for being so good about it. It made his life a little easier for those 2 hours.

 

[jojowentbyby]

I have not read the whole list but here are mine.

1. People who Take 18 pictures of the same thing and prohibit others from comfortably walking.

2. People who video entire shows such as Beauty and the Beast and stand up to do so because their really poor quality tape is more important then anyone behind them.

3. When at Epcot it never fails that there is some one in a wheel chair or a child watching a performance and some strapping large person stands in front of the and blocks their view.

4. large groups who prefer to walk with everyone side by side at a painfully slow pace.

5. Screaming parents and children.

6. People who have not made up their mind as what to order at a cart that only sells turkey legs.

7. People who space out in line and leave a gap (Bugs life style). I must admit we all have done this but it is still irritating.

8. People who let their kids use the que rails as a makeshift gymnastics arena.

9. The kid that tries to keep his/her hand on the que rails and ends up bumping it into everyone elses.

10. women who wear 6 inch heals to the parks.

11. people who leave the restroom with out washing their hands.

12. People who think waiting in line is for everyone except themselves.

13. People who do not clean up their table at the counter service places.

 

[Foxxie52]

I've got a good one, people who visit Disney and then complain loudly about how commercialised it is. In the words of our America cousins...like, hello?!

 

[dizkid85]

It has been almost nine years since I first posted this. Any other pet peeves out there that are different than the ones posted 9 years ago?

 

[noahdove]

My pet peeve is those people who get in line to go thru the turnstiles and once they get there, look for their tickets!!

 

[Kristina4109]

I've been laughing my butt off reading the older posts, and I think I can sum them ALL up with one statement. (Ooooh, look at me, I'm so efficient. LOL!)

BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS.

Sure, there are times when I have to stop to look at a map. So, I look around, spot a nice park bench, nook or cranny where I won't be in anyone's way, AND GO THERE BEFORE I OPEN THE MAP.

Kids aren't perfect and I don't expect my ADHD child to be perfectly behaved all the time. But when she DOES space out and do the wrong thing, I calmly explain that she needs to apologize to anyone she's inconvenienced. She learns a lesson, and the other person hopefully feels better.

I honestly think that after you pass through security, you should be taken to a small area where a CM says, "Look to the person on your left. Now look to the person to your right. THOSE PEOPLE ALSO SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON THIS VACATION." It's not just you, people.

Over the years, I've tried a strategy to deal with this. It doesn't always work (mostly because I am human and get angry just like anyone else) but it's this. When someone is obnoxious and rude to me at a theme park, I look for a way to help someone else.

Maybe it's picking up someone's park map that they didn't even know they dropped. Maybe it's calling that person over to my table when they are holding 2 trays and can't find a seat, and telling him, "There's plenty of room over here." Maybe it's finding a little girl with a birthday button and giving her my singing Mickey birthday balloon. (Oh, wait, that wasn't altruism. That was because the thing ANNOYED THE HECK OUT OF ME!)

Anyway, you can flame me all you want if you think it sounds corny, but it honest to goodness makes me feel better.

I can't remember who said it, but there's a lady who posts YouTube videos who talks about WDW and she says "Pack your patience, pack your kindness, pack your sense of humor." Trying. Honestly trying.

 

[ucfknight]

My biggest pet peeve is zombie threads.

 

[mesaboy2]

My biggest pet peeve is zombie threads.

 

[Kellykins1218]

Mine is people on the DIS calling other people's children "snowflakes" because they think they are better parents. They know nothing about what the other parents, and their children, may be going through but feel the need to be superior and put them down. I just don't understand it.