Oh how I hate the Disney Entitled

[TDC Nala]

Sorry folks, I know you want to use the laundry, but can't you just sit in a lounge chair?

I don't like lounge chairs.

If I'm at the pool, by myself, and there is a a table open with chairs, I'm taking it. No matter how many chairs there are. No reason I should defer because someone else who doesn't like lounge chairs might feel they deserve to have the regular chairs more than I do.

That'd be for pool, not laundry - if I were doing laundry at OKW I'd be waiting for it in the bar, not at a table by the pool.

 

[wendylovesdisney]

Now, I am going to add a disclaimer here. Nobody who knows me in real life would ever call me entitled. To the contrary, I have been told I am too much of a rule follower, need to be more...assertive, etc.

I do not understand some of the examples..

Love this

 

[kanderson89]

Fascinating stories. We all have our pet peeves. Things that bother me are things my partner just shrugs off and vice versa. I know when we go to Disney we are going to have far less personal space than we do in our daily lives, so I prepare mentally. I also know that people are excited and looking around, so there will be some oops along the way...unintended knocks and bumps and just a sense of oblivion. I just try to practice "civil inattention"....not getting riled up at every perceived slight or inconvenience and keeping my eyes and comments to myself. But I admit, by the end of the week, I am really OVER children and crowds. So, we try to build in some quiet time and space each day....even if it's just finding a bench a having soda for a while.

Now, my own personal rude person peeve??? Why is it whenever I seem to be sitting next to a guy (at a ballgame, a concert) they have to spread their knees apart as far as they will go and take both armrests, encroaching into my seat space??? I'm about 5'8" and have long legs and need my space, too! So, I have gotten to the point where I just sit normally and have them deal with it. But it's stupid. EVery darned time!

 

[lylone]

I will never forget our one trip to Epcot on the bus a few years ago. A woman with two tired sunburned kids got on the bus. She sat down next to me and then held the one little boy on her shoulder. I guess I should have gotten up and given the seats to her children because the boy started barfing on my shoulder. I jumped up screaming while she sat there just letting the boy barf all over the row of seats. Bus driver pulled over and asked her to take him outside and she said "he's fine" while he continued to barf on the bus. The bus driver offered to take the family back to their stop....but NOOOO... the woman and the kids had to meet daddy at Epcot.
So on we went to Epcot in a barfy bus. Never did she offer me a wipe or even a "sorry" or anything. Didn't even acknowledge my inconvenience. I guess I was a peasant and her family were entitled. I RAN to the bathroom when we arrived at Epcot and good thing I had two tank tops on. I rinsed the barfed one in the sink since we had ADRs in 20 minutes.
I guess I should have known better and given up my seat!

 

[mommyrosa2]

I will never forget our one trip to Epcot on the bus a few years ago. A woman with two tired sunburned kids got on the bus. She sat down next to me and then held the one little boy on her shoulder. I guess I should have gotten up and given the seats to her children because the boy started barfing on my shoulder. I jumped up screaming while she sat there just letting the boy barf all over the row of seats. Bus driver pulled over and asked her to take him outside and she said "he's fine" while he continued to barf on the bus. The bus driver offered to take the family back to their stop....but NOOOO... the woman and the kids had to meet daddy at Epcot.
So on we went to Epcot in a barfy bus. Never did she offer me a wipe or even a "sorry" or anything. Didn't even acknowledge my inconvenience. I guess I was a peasant and her family were entitled. I RAN to the bathroom when we arrived at Epcot and good thing I had two tank tops on. I rinsed the barfed one in the sink since we had ADRs in 20 minutes.
I guess I should have known better and given up my seat!

OMG...now that's a gross story...you poor thing!

 

[patsal]

MK first day of vacation this July. It is July crowded of course and the first electric parade had just finished. As we all know the crowds are wall to wall and this will take time. Behind me is a woman pushing a stroller and she keeps pushing it into my legs. Like seriously, if I can't go any further pushing me is not going to help. The fourth time she hits me I say if the stroller stops and you can't move it it is becasue it is already pushed up against my legs pushing harder is not going to get us out of this any faster and you are hurting me. The reply, this is Disney World you should be happy even if it hurts...***...I then switched from nice and calm to super witch and shared if the stroller hit me one more time I was going to be pushing it backwards.

 

[bitohoney]

I have had to hold a toddler and help keep a 2-year-old upright while visibly 8-months pregnant (I was HUGE) on a Disney bus. I have also had to stand and hold my infant while (not so visibly) pregnant. Meanwhile, there are young children and their parents occupying individual seats, people with belongings sitting on otherwise empty seats and groups of teens and young adults just starting at me. That is what bugs me. I hold TWO children on my lap so that others can have a seat. I make any remaining children double up in one chair so that others can sit. If they are holding the last seat and there is a parent with a young child or a pregnant mom, I will make them stand instead. Heck, if I didn't have two young children on my lap, I would stand in that situation. When my sis went with us last year, she made her 10 and 11 year old stand so that adults (even without children) could sit. While those who arrived first have every right to have a seat, I just think common courteousy should be exercised in certain situations </rant>

Don't get on the bus if you have to stand. And just because someone sitting may LOOK like they can offer their seat and have you sit, doesn't mean they can. Never expect that. When I was 8 months pregnant I never expected anything from anyone. I could stand, no problem. Now I have IBD and sometimes I'm so darn tired that I can't stand, but you can't SEE that I am sick with 102 degree fever and about to poo all over myself.

 

[waynesgirl]

Perhaps you missed the ALWAYS part of my post? And the fact that I do make them apologize? Must've...

Anyway-I find it deplorable the amount of people who are getting injured/hurt by others with no apology!!! So sorry about your injury

Wasn't calling YOU out in general but there are a lot of people on the boards who assume that that kind of behavior is acceptable if it is their child- it was more of a general YOU and not you. Should've been a little more detailed in the response...but you also don't strike me as a parent that would let their child just wander up to random strangers with you being nowhere in sight, either. That child obviously was.

And yes, it seems more and more people are being hurt/injured with no excuse me or sorry or kiss my fanny- nothing. Regardless of what country I have been to, it seems that the word Excuse- even though it comes out Scuse, Scuzay, etc- is used by people. Not so at Disney. A simple apology would have gone a long way for me- I do my best to apologize but it is getting to the point that I just want to do unto others as they do unto me instead of the right way...shame really. Disneyworld is supposed to be about children and happiness and harmony and a lot of people forget that these little ones are soaking it up like a sponge...I ain't perfect but I do try to remember that their are little ones all around me as well as people with disabilities as well as people who are working hard to keep the park clean so I can enjoy myself there...it's a tough job to be courteous for some folks in this world I guess.

 

[waynesgirl]

Why is it whenever I seem to be sitting next to a guy (at a ballgame, a concert) they have to spread their knees apart as far as they will go and take both armrests, encroaching into my seat space???

Ahhhh- had someone do that to my DH's seat at a hockey game. DH got up to get a beer and homeskillet behind us put his feet on my DH's armrests and seat- needless to say, I went bananas. 10 minutes later, when my DH came back, and I was still letting dude have it, he decided that he was wrong and took his feet out of the chair. My DH looked at the guy and basically told him he was lucky that he came back because when I get on a roll, I never shut up...

Don't get on the bus if you have to stand. And just because someone sitting may LOOK like they can offer their seat and have you sit, doesn't mean they can. Never expect that. When I was 8 months pregnant I never expected anything from anyone. I could stand, no problem. Now I have IBD and sometimes I'm so darn tired that I can't stand, but you can't SEE that I am sick with 102 degree fever and about to poo all over myself.

You are currently my new best friend- not to make light of your situation or condition because I feel the same way (but having had 4 children in all different times of the year, I do give my seat to a pregnant woman without question but my DH always beats me to it) but the words "pooing all over yourself" gave me a giggle. Again, not to make light, but I have used those same words to describe things too, both literally and figuratively....thank you for the giggle at a very stressful day at work. Sorry you felt bad though.

 

[mccreel]

I had a bus situation happen one night leaving MK. it did not happen to me but it made most everyone waiting mad. The bus lowered and was loading handicapped. Loaded someone in a wheelchair, completely unable to walk. The bus started raising and when it was raised all the way, this lady shows up on a scooter wanting on. She lowered the bus to help her on, ended up having to unsecured and move the woman they had loaded in the wheelchair down a couple of spots. She road the lift, on the scooter and drove it to the spot they had moved the other lady from, then stood up and started to walk around until the bus was pulling out. Everyone could not be-leave she made a woman move that was permanently in a wheelchair to get her scooter on. If nothing else, waited until the next bus. She arrived late, blew to the front of the line and drove straight to the bus. Did not even get in the line. The one funny part was there was this hispanic lady behind us that just went off. We heard, "Can you believe that?" and then everything else that came from her mouth was spanish and very, very fast. People can be so inconsiderate.

 

[luvthemouse71]

I know I am gonna get into trouble for this...but anyway

A. define kid
B. You do know you are in Disney right and they (kids) are ALL over the place
C. Now this is my opinion, just like you gave yours, which I hope you were kidding about, but not really sure I value the opinions of children, which doesn't mean I allow them to boss me around but I do value and take into consideration their input.

A) Anyone under the age of 18 or slightly older if they aren't supporting themselves(ie have a job of some sort)
B) yes, I know there are kids. I like kids. But they should know their place.
C) I take children's opinions into consideration on small things. They don't get a vote on how money is spent, where to stay, what time to go to bed, and how to behave. If it is a child I'm not taking care of, related to etc then I don't give a crap about their opinion or what they have to say.