Pet peeves I saw today at Magic Kingdom

[maddhatir]

Never mind Crocs-jammers, someone needs to invent a cheerleader-jammer, or at least a mute button.

oooooo- now THAT i would pay good money for!

that would be a great gift for DH-- you should see how he reacts to the screaming- he gets this PAINFUL look in his face ........he squints his eyes....and then he starts rubbing his head! poor guy!

 

[Holly&Joesmommy]

Amen, AFC!!! Reading this entire thread, I am thinking...

nobody ever goes to a mall, any other theme park, ever takes public transportation, ever goes to a holiday parade, ever dines out at counter service or buffets....???

Has ever had a child - or adult "meltdown"?

There are only a precious few in this thread who seem to have grown up enough to live and let live and let go of peeves on such a glorious vacation. While I feel for those whose shins have been battered by a stroller - every complaint here is a minor annoyance that occurs everyday in the "real" imperfect world out there...

A bit of gratitude for health and wealthy enough to BE in WDW could help....

JMHO....

melomouse

IMHO I think the OP was just trying to start a fun thread that we all can relate to in some way. I'm sure we are all greatful to have health and the chance to enjoy such a great vacation. I think you can have a maigcal time and still look back and think of the funny things that annoy us.

 

[JoiseyMom]

And if you DO see someone smoking outside of their area, tell a CM! They may not have noticed - we have a LOT of things to be looking out for. And if they are just trying to avoid confruntation, then they will usually buck up and say something. I'd really advise you from saying anything (espeically something mean) to them - let us handle it! I don't want YOU to get kicked out of the park for trying to stand up for the rights of your lungs! Personally, my trainer played a game with us, if we smelled smoke, whoever found the smoker and advised them of the closest smoking area wins.

I totally agree with you. That is what my DH and I do when we see it. On our last trip the CM went right over and asked the guy to please put it out, and that there were designated areas. He said yes, and then continued on his way. The CM saw he didn't put it out, and followed him to make him put it out. He did eventually comply. And my DH has been a smoker on several trips, on some he was a non smoker. My DH always went to the designated areas.

 

[CheshireVal]

Is there a Crocs-jammer available? Of course this would only apply for use when Crocs-wearers are covering cute painted tootsies and toe rings.

Ah, Crocs. I think they are like the jelly shoes from the 80s. Give it time-- I bet they'll be completely out of style next year. In the meantime, we'll just have to grin and bear the site of them (and the 80 million threads they've inspired!)

 

[VacationDad]

This applies anywhere....Please do not stand so close behind me in line that I can feel your breath on the back of my neck. You will surely receive an elbow jab that otherwise would not have happened had you not invaded my personal space. Thank you!

Unless you are pretty and you smell nice.

 

[goofy47]

Yea, and I'm allergic to dust....can someone clean up that haunted mansion...

;; Yeah and more thing.. don't you hate the way those Disney CM's are always smiling and being nice.... Geez....

 

[apostolic4life]

What to do with all those non-cell using obnoxious people? <--- this is an illustration of the "Personal Jammer" I'm inventing. My BIL has requested a device that will teleport all people he deems obnoxious to some other dimension so they won't bug him during his WDW vacation.

Where can I get one???? Any price would be well worth it!!!

 

[Kick Save]

I lurk here way more than I post, but feel the need to comment on this thread...IT'S AWESOME!

Somewhere way back on page 6 or so I even dropped in a pet peeve story, but since then...wow...the things I've learned.

Cell phone calls are FORCED on people around them. And when such a FORCING happens, it is in the victim's best interest to go vigilante justice on them with a jammer. But wait, if you jam somebody's phone you're violating their 1st amendment rights!

But wait, there's more!

If you DON'T jam the offenders cell phone then THE TERROISTS HAVE WON!!

Ah, much better. The premise of this thread was to blow off some steam with the whole pet peeve thing in crowds at Disney...which, ironically, blowing off the the steam is somebody else's pet peeve. It's been enjoyable so far.

 

[richard_andmel]

This thread is hysterical.

For the people who can't understand how some of us want to go to WDW when we have so many pet peeves, while we might notice something that bugs us for like 30 seconds, the next thing we see will be something completely different and it is forgotten. I don't let pet peeves ruin my vacation, my day, or even my hour. That would be silly. I'm also not wearing my official WDW rose colored glasses where I am only allowed to see the magic and nothing that interfers with it. That would be unrealistic.

My personal pet peeve, and this is for every place I go is people who have too much perfume on. If I am more than 12 inches from you and I can clearly smell it, you need to reign it in. I am luckily not one of them, but there are a load of people who are alergic to perfume. I'd almost rather smell BO.

 

[Lil_Missy]

They're designed to "knock out" the loudmouth businessman who is next to you (screaming into his phone in the cab line at the airport), or the gum-snapping woman behind you (the one with the screechy, whiny voice) who is talking to her sister in law about American Idol in the supermarket checkout line...not everybody on the block.

I suffer from panic attacks and anxiety when out and about alone so sometimes I am on my mobile phone with my partner to just relax me and make me feel better. So yes maybe I am talking about totally inane things which I could just wait until I get home to talk to him about but for me I get more out of pushing myself to be out and about alone and still having the reassurance of him on the other end of a phone.

If it was not for my mobile I would probably not go anywhere.

So think of that before you go and cut off someone's call.

you never really know the whole story of what is going on.

 

[DisnyMama]

I just have to say in regards to people being on their cell phones out in public that they should not expect those of us not on cell phones to cease our conversation just because they are on the phone. My DS and I were in the supermarket in the canned vegetable isle having a conversation and this woman comes along on her cell phone and the three of us were browsing the same section at the same time and she gave me the dirtiest look and told the person on the other end of the phone to hold on and that she couldn't hear because these people were talking while she was on the phone!
I could not belive it. I just said "Lady, your in a grocery store, not at home-get real!" and went on my way just shaking my head.

 

[cinmell]

I just have to say in regards to people being on their cell phones out in public that they should not expect those of us not on cell phones to cease our conversation just because they are on the phone. My DS and I were in the supermarket in the canned vegetable isle having a conversation and this woman comes along on her cell phone and the three of us were browsing the same section at the same time and she gave me the dirtiest look and told the person on the other end of the phone to hold on and that she couldn't hear because these people were talking while she was on the phone!
I could not belive it. I just said "Lady, your in a grocery store, not at home-get real!" and went on my way just shaking my head.

So that woman expected you not to speak in a grocery store, which is a PUBLIC PLACE, because SHE was on the cell phone!?!?! Unbelievable!

 

[BethanyF]

I just have to say in regards to people being on their cell phones out in public that they should not expect those of us not on cell phones to cease our conversation just because they are on the phone.

Since we are talking about pet peeves and phones....if you are checking out in a store, dont expect us to not ask you questions when you put your merchandise on the counter. I have gotten to the point that I will contue to do my job properly, phone or no phone. I sometimess even ask a couple extra questions just because. I just pretend I dont see the phone.
And DONT stick your waving finger in my face telling me to wait because you are on the phone. I will send you to the end of the line so you have time to finish your call.

 

[CheshireVal]

Since we are talking about pet peeves and phones....if you are checking out in a store, dont expect us to not ask you questions when you put your merchandise on the counter. I have gotten to the point that I will contue to do my job properly, phone or no phone. I sometimess even ask a couple extra questions just because. I just pretend I dont see the phone.
And DONT stick your waving finger in my face telling me to wait because you are on the phone. I will send you to the end of the line so you have time to finish your call.

Some places actually have signs posted stating that customers should hang up their cells phones before they get to the counter. I like that!

 

[leighe]

Parents that let their 4 year old push the infant stroller right into the back of your legs then smile at you thinking how cute their 4 year old is.

ITA with this! When my sister and I were there in Dec. 2004 there was this cute little boy pushing his sister's stroller in the huge crowd on Main Street after Wishes. He couldn't even see over the top of the stroller and was bumping into people left and right. His mom was laughing and saying, "So you see why I won't let him push the cart at the grocery store."

Um - hello - you won't let your child push the cart around a grocery store but you will let him run over people with a stroller in a shoulder to shoulder crowd? Nice.

 

[dpuck1998]

By the way, I opened the thread to read because I thought it would be pet peeves about DISNEY (ie. rides, certain restaurants, shows, hotels etc.) and I am planning a trip there and we haven't been since before epcot and I was trying to see if there was anything about the park that I should know. I didn't know I was opening up an endless rant about other people visiting the parkl.
Don't worry. This is my last post on this useless topic.

Sorry....couldn't resist.

 

[dpuck1998]

oooooo- now THAT i would pay good money for!

that would be a great gift for DH-- you should see how he reacts to the screaming- he gets this PAINFUL look in his face ........he squints his eyes....and then he starts rubbing his head! poor guy!

How about that new remote control they are selling...in fact Adam Sandler is making a movie about it Hopefully I can get one soon....

 

[DizBelle]

I think I've found the perfect answer to the above complaint. When a group of people (or for that matter one person), is heading straight towards me and it looks like they are not going to veer off, I simply stop dead in my tracks, usually looking around as though I don't see them coming. This forces them to either stop, or go around me.

Works for me.

Enjoy.

You know, to the other person, you're the one that's heading straight toward them and not veering off.

 

[LoveWDW]

I am getting quite a laugh from this enjoyable thread. I don't see why there are so many who post in the thread that they don't like the thread. If some of us want to have a little get-together and mention things that annoyed us, why shouldn't we? We aren't saying these are catastrophic events that ruined our lives. It is just a little relaxed chat. We also aren't saying that annoying things don't happen in our everyday lives, or that the little annoyances that we are mentioning are earth-shattering- they aren't. It is just a fun thread.

 

[In a hurry]

You know, to the other person, you're the one that's heading straight toward them and not veering off.

We are a self-centered society!