My experience with Wishes..Guarding your spot

[sandygirl]

Ahhhh, that's what I like to hear. There are many nice people out there. There is one more everytime I decide to be nice in a situation. And I take one away everytime I pass up the opportunity to be nice.

 

[Talking Hands]

Originally posted by Teri Zolman
After just returning from Christmas day in the MK masses may I offer one more suggestion. If you are sitting in the Handicapped area please don't have your party of 12 sitting with you. This is for wheelchairs and one or two people with you. I almost saw a fight between a man that was definately in need of a handicapped spot and a man and his family of 8 that took up three wheel chair spots. This just needs to be a common sense thing. I realize everyone wants to watch the parade together, but that isn't possible in this situation. My husband and two children went to the area an hour before the afternoon parade, they sat behind me with my son in front at the foot of my chair. There were so many people that came up a few minutes before the parade started with large families that my husband offered to take my son and find another spot. I felt really bad for the Castmembers.

Teri,
My husband and/ot kids usually leave me in the wheelchair seating for parades and go somewhere else so more can use the area. I am normally the person closest to the bell since I also use the interpreters as well. If there are other deaf they will normally surround the back of my wheelchair since they can see over me. If there is a child we plop them in front of my wheelchair. Seems to work most of the time. Did have one time that a woman in a wheelchair was admant about not moving until CM marked of a square area for the deaf and made her move over.

 

[madscrapper]

For many people who visit WDW it is probably their first (and maybe last trip) trip or they haven't been in years. I honestly don't believe most of them have a clue that people wait 30, 60 + minutes for a parade spot. Thus they most likely don't realize how special that spot is to you and can't understand why you won't make room for them too since in their eyes you probably just got there too. I remember how clueless I was my first trip to WDW (we went without a plan to the MK on a Saturday at 11:00am...much has changed). There is no assigned seating for the parade, no aisle of chairs in exact spacing and proportions (and no one to plop in the middle of the row). I hope that most people are simply clueless and not rude. We have seen the parades and fireworks many times. Yes, sometimes people are jerks and lean out with their cameras, etc. But we like to give people the benefit of the doubt and realize that having "perfect" experience,while nice, is not going to make or break our vacation and we are glad we have the time to be together as a family.
Jeannine

 

[goofy4tink]

I have to share this story with you guys. We were at MVMCP on 12/14. My dd, 10 and pretty tall for her age, and I were at Mickey's Night Before Christmas show. We took seats about 2/3 of the way back, over to the side. No one near/around us. Well, about 5 minutes before the show started, a family of four sat in front of us. No problem. But when the mom picked up her son and lifted him in front of me and my dd, we couldn't see a thing. There were people behind us who couldn't see if my dd moved over a bit. I finally tapped the mom in front of us on the shoulder and asked her if she could lower her son as none of us behind her/him could see anything except a wall of her family. She shot me a somewhat dirty look but made her son move over a bit. All is now fine, we watch the show (which was great fun!) and leave. Later on that evening we go over to the rose garden area, with the tree in the middle of it to watch Wishes. Well, how many people do you think were in MK that night?? Thousands right? Who should sit down, right next to me? Yep, the family from the earlier show. They asked if they could share our area on the wall. I said of course they could. And then said that I was sorry if I had seemed rude earlier. The husband looked more closely at us and told me that, no, we hadn't been rude. In fact we had actually been quite nice, compared to some people they had run into that evening!!! I was so glad they told me that. I very seldom ask someone to move over but when we couldn't see a thing, I just had to. Just goes to show....politeness never hurts and you can never tell when it will pay off.

 

[jann1033]

Thanks to those posters from "The Edge" down who actually are being courteous and no doubt getting courtesy in return. this tread was really turning very unmagical.

 

[lindamg]

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[jann1033]

lindamg read the last line of goofy4tink's comment. I was replying in agreement to what she said. not sure why you are so defensive. the edge was the first new post I read and they all seemed to say about the same thing and the thread appeared to be taking a more positive turn

 

[lindamg]

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