Pet peeves I saw today at Magic Kingdom

[Equidae]

Standing in a long line and having to listen to teenage girls chanting something very loudly. Sadly, I was one of those girls once and now I realize that I probably drove people CRAZY!

Also, people who think the rules don't pertain to them. I was on the HM once and I realized that flashes of light I was seeing wasn't some new special effect -- it was someone taking flash pictures!

 

[Sylvester McBean]

I agree with your points. but soon the "smokers rights" people will invade this thread.

I'm always amazed the 'whip out the map' people. the whole family will suddenly come to a halt in the middle of a busy area so they can 'whip out the map' and figure out where they are.

no matter what you do or say to anyone who is discourteous, they turn it back onto you.

 

[birdiesunshine]

I like this thread as some of you probably have guessed by now. It is a good place to vent. How about at the buffet lines where people just stare at the eggs like they never seen them before. Please just put food on the plate and keep moving.

 

[iwishiwerethere]

I completly agree with 1, 2, and 3. They're horribly rude and cruel, but what's up with 4 & 5? When does that happen?

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I like eggs just as much as the next guy, but those people are idiots!

 

[TXMommy]

Equidae - I LOVE your picture!!!!!

I, too, am losing my tolerance for rude people. What is with society nowadays? Why do people think the rules don't apply to them?

Here's another BIG Disney pet peeve - people who walk up to watch a parade 5 minutes before it starts and expect to get up to the front! Or they just send their child up to the front with the "Can she just sit in front of you? She's only 3!" line. Hey, if ya'll wanted to see the parade, you should have been here an hour ago like the rest of us!

 

[TXMommy]

LOL - I just had a good thought after seeing the title of another post - all these rude people should be sent to Disney Jail!

 

[birdiesunshine]

Equidae - I LOVE your picture!!!!!

I, too, am losing my tolerance for rude people. What is with society nowadays? Why do people think the rules don't apply to them?

Here's another BIG Disney pet peeve - people who walk up to watch a parade 5 minutes before it starts and expect to get up to the front! Or they just send their child up to the front with the "Can she just sit in front of you? She's only 3!" line. Hey, if ya'll wanted to see the parade, you should have been here an hour ago like the rest of us!

I wish I thought of that. That burns me to. How about the people who send there families to buy the food while they hold a table for 30 minutes and you are holding your tray and would have been done eating by the time their family was done ordering

 

[Equidae]

Equidae - I LOVE your picture!!!!!

I, too, am losing my tolerance for rude people. What is with society nowadays? Why do people think the rules don't apply to them?

Here's another BIG Disney pet peeve - people who walk up to watch a parade 5 minutes before it starts and expect to get up to the front! Or they just send their child up to the front with the "Can she just sit in front of you? She's only 3!" line. Hey, if ya'll wanted to see the parade, you should have been here an hour ago like the rest of us!

Thanks!

I was thinking the same thing about the parades. I always do let the kids in front of me, but that doesn't mean I like it. Around Christmas, my DH and I were sitting on the curb on Main Street just waiting for the parade to begin. Front row seats, whoohoo! As the parade started a woman behind me almost fell over me trying to push in. I'm sure I've been guilty of it, since I usually forget to grab a spot or decide at the last second I want to see a parade though. Hopefully I haven't pushed someone or whatever.

 

[AlmostApril]

As much as I hate negative posts about WDW, I feel I have to chip in my 2 cents too. My pet peeves i saw in WDW last year were:

Parents holding up the line to see a character because the kid is scared of the character and the parent just stands there, nudging their kid forward, ready with the camera, saying, "go on, honey....go on.... go ahead..." and everyone is waiting.

The weed-wacker outside my hotel window at 7:00 AM.

All food carts seemed to close an hour before the parks close.

Grown-ups not offering their seats on the bus to tired kids.

People rushing and cutting right through families, seperating kids from their parents.

Picking out a good spot on the sidewalk, a half-hour early, before the parade, and then 2 minutes before it starts, some family decides to stand on the street directly in front of you.

But now I have to step in here though:

I was so annoyed with people on their phones when I was there. I couldn't believe that someone would bring their child to "the most magical place on earth" and then talk the whole time on their phones!

I have to question why these people had children in the first place.

(I even saw one dad get OUT of line for an attraction to talk on the phone...leaving his wife and daughter in line.)

As much as we'd all love for WDW to be reality, it's not. There's always stuff going on at home that we can't ignore.

How do you know that guy on the phone wasn't talking to someone about the condition of a very ill relative back home? It's quite possible. I know, because I WAS that guy once. And if someone ever talked down to me for being on the phone, I'd a flipped at ya.

 

[johnvree]

LOL - I just had a good thought after seeing the title of another post - all these rude people should be sent to Disney Jail!

...or Universal.

[Just kidding. I love UO.]

 

[AlmostApril]

...or Universal.

[Just kidding. I love UO.]

That made me chuckle. Thank you.

 

[rogerram]

Grown-ups not offering their seats on the bus to tired kids.

I agree that this is just rude. I am in my 40's and I have given my seat many times to a mother and a small child who is trying to hold the hand rail and the kid, or as I was taught to give the seat to an elderly person. That is just courtesy. My daughter has leg braces and had a hard time standing without a moving bus knocking her over and I often need to have her near me to hold her up, when there are teens or some guy looking at her and just sitting there, never thinking to offer her a seat. If you capable of standing, it would not kill you too try being nice to someone. I have done this many times over.

I also don't get people not holding a door for someone who has a kid in a stroller or wheelchair(again my daughter in the parks) or carrying a full food tray. They just enter and let it shut on them. It takes all of 10 seconds to be nice to someone.

I also love the ones who walk right in front of the wheelchair I am pushing straight ahead and they get hit and look at me. I usually tell them "your the idiot that walked in front of it". It kinda makes my day, because the metal legs are very solid and it must hurt. They might not try that one again.

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

I agree with your points. but soon the "smokers rights" people will invade this thread.

I'm always amazed the 'whip out the map' people. the whole family will suddenly come to a halt in the middle of a busy area so they can 'whip out the map' and figure out where they are.

no matter what you do or say to anyone who is discourteous, they turn it back onto you.

in all honesty i think that smoking should just be banned all together at the parks. this park is mainly for kids in the first place and you know they're getting all of that second hand smoke that's just as harmful. and being allergic to tobacco smoke for one doesn't help either.

 

[NOLAminnie]

WDW is not mainly for kids, it is for everyone, and a lot of childless adults love just as much if not more than the kids do. I'm a non-smoker and I hate the smell of smoke, but I it think it's OK for people to smoke as long as they stick to the designated areas. That's the key to it and the CM's need to enforce this rule.

 

[Sylvester McBean]

in all honesty i think that smoking should just be banned all together at the parks. this park is mainly for kids in the first place and you know they're getting all of that second hand smoke that's just as harmful. and being allergic to tobacco smoke for one doesn't help either.

if we weren't both married I'd propose to you on the spot. for some reason, the vastly overall smoking minority still gets it's way inside the parks. you can't smoke in a restaurant in florida, but you can hold a cigarette at toddler height in a premium place like WDW. I'll never understand it.

 

[TSM1993]

I have told people who have smoked in non designated areas. That there are designated areas for that and dont let a CM cath you or another park employee catch you they can/may throw you out of the park. (Maybe not at WDW they will throw you out) but I have been to other parks that state on their park maps on the back in fine print if you are caught breaking the rules mgmt has the right to escort you out of the park and no refund will be given. I dont think they would do it for smoking but it is a rule that they had printed on the map and I show this to people and the quick put their cigarette out and ask me to point out on the map the designated smoking area (not all people but some do and others tell me to ---- off.

 

[LadyZolt]

My answer to the smoking problem is to have all smokers start using smokeless tobacco. It should still be in a "designated tobacco area" because who wants to see people spitting everywhere, but this way, the person using the tobacco really does keep it all to him/herself. There's just no way to contain the smoke when one smokes. I'm really tempted to just vomit on someone who is smoking near me and is not in a designated smoking area. If they can foul my personal space, I think I'm entitled to do likewise.

-Dorothy (LadyZolt)

 

[jlovesee]

I agree... I wanted to add a few...

Parents who scream at their kids for wasting their money
(I was at Mission Space this January and heard a parent quite
loudly proclaim to their child that they where wasting their money)

Brazilian Tour Groups (GRRRRRR)

People who can't see to follow directions, please move ALL the way down the row.

Jennifer

 

[birdiesunshine]

I agree... I wanted to add a few...

Parents who scream at their kids for wasting their money
(I was at Mission Space this January and heard a parent quite
loudly proclaim to their child that they where wasting their money)

Brazilian Tour Groups (GRRRRRR)

People who can't see to follow directions, please move ALL the way down the row.

Jennifer

I'll go one step further about the people who don't folow directions are the same people you hear speaking english until a cast member asks them something then they answer in a foriegn language or look at them like they don't know what is being said to them In other words they play dumb

 

[Crazy4mandms]

People who talk through a show (or ride for that matter), esp if they have ridden it before, saying things like "ooooo...this is a good part! ooooo.....look out for such and such next!")