Oh how I hate the Disney Entitled

[shalom]

Why this woman thought it was OK to lean right up against my door, smoking, and yelling at her boyfriend, keeping me up, just because she didn't want to disturb her mother I never did figure out.

If her mom bullied her into a trip that she didn't want to go on (at least according to the tale she was telling her S.O.), then she probably knew she'd get grief bugging her mother, but hoped she could get away with it scot free when driving some stranger up the wall.

She also could be an "out of sight, out of mind" kind of person, like the people who moved away from their daughter's room but never imagined there might be other patients there they'd distrurb.

Although I can't say too much. We had a cousin's reunion once, people we hadn't seen in a decade or so, a bunch of us happened to first run across each other in this alcove in the hotel where there were a bunch of sofas and stuff to sit on, got to chatting, settled in, and totally lost track of time. It didn't get outrageously late -- between nine and ten p.m. -- but apparently some guy was pounding on the wall behind us for a bit before he came out to inform us we were keeping him up.

 

[chimilady]

My daughter says silly things all the time. She's 4,and I don't know where she gets some of it from. I would hope people don't think I'm a bad parent because of it:/

As for the rest of it,ridiculous! This is Disney, not the KOA!

My 4 year old says silly things all the time too, but she would never say something like that to a stranger. I could see her saying "That's my mom and my dad and my sister and and and and..." until she annoyed them away.

 

[ilovefh]

hey at least they are staying at POR - are you sure they are?

stayed at CBR back when it was new - and these same type were in the pool next to my room. When I tried to get in - they say it was a private party and I would have to go elsewhere.

Say I was going to call the front desk - because was not told - they all left - about 10 people - got in their cars and left.

yes some people will definitely take advantageous - or push as hard as they can push.

so sorry you are being put thru this - maybe POR can move you. You know they won't move the trouble makers - but you might be happier some place else.

This is nuts to me! I've never snuck into a pool when I wasn't staying there but if I did I think I'd want to blend in as much as possible! I'm such a rule follower that I'd be too scared to be caught.

 

[ppony]

I've had it happen too. The days prior to smoking areas and they'd be Puffing up a cloud in front of your door and not move to let you by.

 

[TDC Nala]

No sooner did we get situated when we were asked to leave because "they were enjoying their adult time without the kids".

Obviously you didn't have kids, so what they were really saying was "Go away, we want our private hot tub."

I get going to guest services sort of - although the resort isn't responsible for the jerky behavior of other guests and probably can't control it. What I would have done is said "No kids here" and stayed where I was. Let them be nasty, it won't get them what they wanted.

 

[ppony]

I will admit....I had problems with the "entitleds" on our last trip to POR.

Because of a blood-pressure issue, I cannot fully immerse in a hot tub; however, I am allowed to dangle my legs in and hubby enjoys going in. Well, we went to Ol' Man Island on our day off. After swimming a bit in the big pool, hubby and I wandered over to the hot tub area. There were two couples who seemed to know each other and plenty of room for hubby & myself as I would just be perching on the edge.

From the looks we received, you would have thought we ran over their cat or something. The bad vibe was palpable. No sooner did we get situated when we were asked to leave because "they were enjoying their adult time without the kids". Hubby & I looked at each other and then at the couples and said "so are we" in unison.

The looks got nasty and then the comments started. My hubby is pretty body-conscious and I could tell his anxiety was ratcheting up. So, we left. But before we went back to the room I did say something at guest services. I let them know that I was appalled by the behaviour and souldn't have to deal with that while I'm on vacation, much less expect that from a Disney resort.

Part of the fun of our vacations has been talking and making friends with people from different areas of the States or from overseas.

I are with the poster who made the "shallow head" comment....the entitlement attitude so deserves a smack in the head. It's our vacation, too.

Simply appauling and disgusting! It's not a private hot tub. We've walked by the hot tubs serval times and seen couples making out in them which made us super uncomfortable and we did want to get in at the time. We should have just to "break it up". Want a private hot tub? Pay for one! Otherwise, expect others to join you. UGH. So sorry for your experience!! People can be such immense jerks!

 

[jvptravels]

Update: So last night, after I returned to POR from Epcot EMH, I saw the original pool chairs in the same location as before. I went up to my room and wrote a note for the people in one of the rooms saying "this is a resort. NOT your home! Please respect other guests." I then took the two chairs back to the quiet pool, and returned to the building to attach the note to the room number sign next to their door.

As I was heading to the car this morning with my rolling suitcase, two of these people were sitting on the steps that lead to the cement path, blocking most of the walkway. I plowed right past them, pulling my suitcase behind. Having noticed my note was gone, I loudly said "I see you got my note", as I walked away. They said nothing back. They are someone else's problem now.

 

[stindall]

Update: So last night, after I returned to POR from Epcot EMH, I saw the original pool chairs in the same location as before. I went up to my room and wrote a note for the people in one of the rooms saying "this is a resort. NOT your home! Please respect other guests." I then took the two chairs back to the quiet pool, and returned to the building to attach the note to the room number sign next to their door.

As I was heading to the car this morning with my rolling suitcase, two of these people were sitting on the steps that lead to the cement path, blocking most of the walkway. I plowed right past them, pulling my suitcase behind. Having noticed my note was gone, I loudly said "I see you got my note", as I walked away. They said nothing back. They are someone else's problem now.

I hope it didn't ruin your entire vacation and you had fun! You handled it nicely

 

[bumbershoot]

From the looks we received, you would have thought we ran over their cat or something. The bad vibe was palpable. No sooner did we get situated when we were asked to leave because "they were enjoying their adult time without the kids". Hubby & I looked at each other and then at the couples and said "so are we" in unison.

I see that hot tub stuff whenever I see a public hot tub. We were recently at a timeshare resort in Phoenix (rock bottom prices in July! then again, you have to be in Phoenix in July, LOL) and there was a couple in the hot tub acting like they were alllll alone. Nasty.

Don't care who says it. You can't block the pool off to other guests unless you have permission to do so (usually with a hefty payment to Disney.) No matter who says it, it's getting checked.

I'm not saying to believe them and leave. I'm saying I wouldn't waste any emotion on that sort of thing. Just go on in, or go check it out, whatever, but I wouldn't waste time being upset just b/c a child said something.

Any child that would do that, you just know what type of parent they have.

No you don't. Holy carp, kids say ALL sorts of things!

When my son was 2 going on 3, we were moving to a new apartment. He had been fully engaged in the apartment hunt, we took him into account all the way, we talked about where his room would be (ha! his room was a toy room), how much fun the 3 of us would have, etc etc etc. The week before the move, he sadly asked if we would be leaving some of his toys at the old place. No, we said, why? So that he could have something to play with when DH and I moved and left him there.



We hadn't said a word about leaving him, we had been careful to say "the three of us" instead of "we", specifically so he knew that he was part of it! We'd never left him alone, or on his own, there's just no way he got that from what DH and I said. It came from his own head.

I've heard him say other doozies, too, based on things in his own noggin. He's 8 now, and still picks up the strangest conclusions based on things I said very clearly to him that had nothing to do with what he came up with.


I've heard other kids do it too, it's not just my kid, LOL. I have 4 younger sibs and I was babysitting from pre-teenhood, and kids just say weird stuff sometimes.


It's possible the parents are jerks and told the child to say that. But it's also entirely possible the parents had been talking about their group being together and how much fun it would be, etc etc, and the child simply decided that it was THEIR group and no one else's. From my knowledge of kids, I'm going with the latter.

 

[FancyNancy]

On my trip last April I had cheerleaders cheering at the top of their lungs outside my door until 1:00 in the morning. I was not a happy camper. Thank goodness they left two days after I arrived!

 

[peel]

I once had a first floor corner room at CSR. I was asleep one night, when I heard a lady right outside my door arguing with her boyfriend on the phone. It went on for about 45 minutes and I was getting ready to call the front desk to complain, when she finally left. The next morning I saw several cigarette butts right outside my door where she's been standing. That night I again heard her right outside my door yelling at the boyfriend, saying she'd had no choice about the trip. Her mother insisted she come if she wanted her to pay her bills, and she'd rather be home with him too. After about 15 minutes of this, I'd had enough and yanked my door open. She had been leaning against it and almost fell into my room. She glared at me and said "Do you mind! I'm on the phone". I was flabbergasted and told her I knew that as I'd heard her the last two nights when I was trying to get some sleep and would she mind going to her own room, so she didnt disturb others. She showed me her lit cigarette and said she couldn't because her mom and the mom's friend were trying to sleep and she didn't want to disturb them, plus her mom couldn't stand cigarette smoke, so she had to walk down the end of the walkway and my room just happened to be there. It wasn't her fault. I almost lost it. I informed her I didn't appreciated being disturbed either and also did not like cigarette smoke and reminded her that smokers were supposed to smoke only in the smoking areas anyway. I told her that if she didn't get away from my door, I'd call security. Why this woman thought it was OK to lean right up against my door, smoking, and yelling at her boyfriend, keeping me up, just because she didn't want to disturb her mother I never did figure out.

Just reading this made my insides all knotted up! There is an inexcusable sense of entitlement in more and more people these days, it's disgusting.

 

[kylmac]

We have a son who is autistic and says all sorts of things-how many times I wish I had been able to cover his mouth before the words came out! That little girl probably thought it was a party for them maybe because she was with extended family and it was a large turnout. Not enough to make me leave, but the things that come out of kids mouths!
Elizabeth

 

[*Fantasia*]

Update: So last night, after I returned to POR from Epcot EMH, I saw the original pool chairs in the same location as before. I went up to my room and wrote a note for the people in one of the rooms saying "this is a resort. NOT your home! Please respect other guests." I then took the two chairs back to the quiet pool, and returned to the building to attach the note to the room number sign next to their door.

As I was heading to the car this morning with my rolling suitcase, two of these people were sitting on the steps that lead to the cement path, blocking most of the walkway. I plowed right past them, pulling my suitcase behind. Having noticed my note was gone, I loudly said "I see you got my note", as I walked away. They said nothing back. They are someone else's problem now.

They don't care about the note.. They probably didn't even read it. They probably just tossed it. I would have taken a picture of them sitting on the pool chair blocking the walkway and showed it to the general manager.

 

[noahdove]

I was at AOA 2 weeks ago and I took my 5 year old DGD to the "Nemo Fountain" every afternoon to play in the water. Most days I was able to find a spot in the shade. However, the hotest day we were there, there were 2 tables with chairs in the shade and no one around. There were items on the tables so I thought since there were several little ones in the fountains that those items belonged to them. Well, after pondering this, I noticed that were no other adults with these children..after about 1/2 hour a man came along and picked up a few refillable mugs along with him were a couple of children. In the end, there were several children with him as well as his wife and they NEVER used the fountain area!! They saved their spot while they were in the big pool...I didn't have the energy to steam or get angry as it was hot. I did have a small spot of shade and I was ok, but, that irked me to no end..Thanks for letting me vent...sorry tho you had to deal with rude people and their behavior..

 

[Deb & Bill]

Simply appauling and disgusting! It's not a private hot tub. We've walked by the hot tubs serval times and seen couples making out in them which made us super uncomfortable and we did want to get in at the time. We should have just to "break it up". Want a private hot tub? Pay for one! Otherwise, expect others to join you. UGH. So sorry for your experience!! People can be such immense jerks!

That's when you grab a cup of water from the pool and accidently spill it on them. That should cool them down.

 

[spiceycat]

And about calling the police, to be honest, I was hurting so bad I did not think about it and he left real fast anyway. Not sure they could have done anything. Disney was great after it happened. I just had to deal with my foot for over a month. And it still aches from time to time.

that was horrible - Disney has camera are all over the place - so if this ever happens again - demand security fine this person so you can sue him.

since it was on private property - really think that Disney is also responsible.

If someone gets hurt on your property you are responsible - the same for Disney.

the hot tub - boy - you need to learn stare the ---- down....

If Disney allowed the hot tub, pool or any of these things - there would be Disney Security guards to make sure the guests were not distributed. Since there wasn't .......

 

[shocker]

Here's our "rude person" story, but not at WDW:

We are on summer vacation on an Amtrak train. We are seated in the 4 last seats on the last train car. We had been out and about but returned to our seats and saw a man standing at the back door looking out the glass. There was plenty of room for him and he wasn't bothering us, it's a great view with the tracks lingering in the distance. We began to play a family game and after about 20 minutes of standing there he left. Well in about 1 minute it was apparant why he just left. He let out THE worst stink bomb any human has ever endured. He obviously didn't want to do this in his own seating area and waited until the deed was done to make his timely exit. He didn't even stick around to endure the tearing up/coughing exit that we had to make. All I could do not to hunt down the offender and repay the favor! There is a restroom area for such activities

 

[justtobeme2]

Please let those entitled ones that don't speak my language be gone before we get there next month otherwise they won't understand if I need to give them a piece of my mind. If they start being a bullish then all bets are off. I will say anything to them but I want them to understand it.
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[TeamTilson]

I was at AOA 2 weeks ago and I took my 5 year old DGD to the "Nemo Fountain" every afternoon to play in the water. Most days I was able to find a spot in the shade. However, the hotest day we were there, there were 2 tables with chairs in the shade and no one around. There were items on the tables so I thought since there were several little ones in the fountains that those items belonged to them. Well, after pondering this, I noticed that were no other adults with these children..after about 1/2 hour a man came along and picked up a few refillable mugs along with him were a couple of children. In the end, there were several children with him as well as his wife and they NEVER used the fountain area!! They saved their spot while they were in the big pool...I didn't have the energy to steam or get angry as it was hot. I did have a small spot of shade and I was ok, but, that irked me to no end..Thanks for letting me vent...sorry tho you had to deal with rude people and their behavior..

This is my biggest pet peeve at any pool/water resort area - folks who leave 1... ONE item on a chair/lounger/table and are gone for a long time, either playing or elsewhere. I love to lounge by the pool while my kids (11 & 10) play in the water, so I can keep an eye on them and relax...but when it's a packed pool, it bothers me that people can't put their stinky flip flops or their one towel off to the side so others can relax and enjoy. What about the elderly or pregnant or disabled folks who need a place to sit and rest? I feel your pain!!

 

[Sammie]

I see that hot tub stuff whenever I see a public hot tub. We were recently at a timeshare resort in Phoenix (rock bottom prices in July! then again, you have to be in Phoenix in July, LOL) and there was a couple in the hot tub acting like they were alllll alone. Nasty.




I'm not saying to believe them and leave. I'm saying I wouldn't waste any emotion on that sort of thing. Just go on in, or go check it out, whatever, but I wouldn't waste time being upset just b/c a child said something.




No you don't. Holy carp, kids say ALL sorts of things!

When my son was 2 going on 3, we were moving to a new apartment. He had been fully engaged in the apartment hunt, we took him into account all the way, we talked about where his room would be (ha! his room was a toy room), how much fun the 3 of us would have, etc etc etc. The week before the move, he sadly asked if we would be leaving some of his toys at the old place. No, we said, why? So that he could have something to play with when DH and I moved and left him there.



We hadn't said a word about leaving him, we had been careful to say "the three of us" instead of "we", specifically so he knew that he was part of it! We'd never left him alone, or on his own, there's just no way he got that from what DH and I said. It came from his own head.

I've heard him say other doozies, too, based on things in his own noggin. He's 8 now, and still picks up the strangest conclusions based on things I said very clearly to him that had nothing to do with what he came up with.


I've heard other kids do it too, it's not just my kid, LOL. I have 4 younger sibs and I was babysitting from pre-teenhood, and kids just say weird stuff sometimes.


It's possible the parents are jerks and told the child to say that. But it's also entirely possible the parents had been talking about their group being together and how much fun it would be, etc etc, and the child simply decided that it was THEIR group and no one else's. From my knowledge of kids, I'm going with the latter.

I respectfully disagree, yes kids say the darnest things. I have them, and taught them for years, did Girls Scouts, was a youth group leader at church, took groups on trips to the beach and to Europe.

But any child that will confront an adult stranger at a public pool is not being a cutie pie they are being a brat.

I stand my original assessment.