Pet peeves I saw today at Magic Kingdom

[Talking Hands]

My pet peeves;
1. People who walk in front of the interpreters while they are interpreting.
2. People who walk between people have a conversation in SL. Please you wouldn't do it to a talking person so why are you doing it to signing person.
3. People who play chicken with wheelchairs. Hey they don't stop on a dime. And it hurts when you are jerked to a stop to avoid you.
4. People walking in the HC walkway at the Land. You complained about us using the regular walkway so they put in a separate walkway for wheelchairs and ecvs. Now stay out of it or you are at your own risk. Bowwling for people anyone
5. People who talk to my back. Yes I know you are talking. No I can't understand what you are saying. Yes it is usually too crowded to turn safely to find out what you are saying. And don't bother to yell. It only distorts speech and makes you harder to understand

 

[BlindTyldak]

I have to chip in my two cents from a smoker . . . people who harrass smokers who ARE in a designated smoking area and ask them to stop. I don't care if it's raining and the smoking area is the closest covered spot, or your kid is tired RIGHT THERE, or (I swear this happened) you want to breast-feed your baby and can't go to the empty bench 20 feet down outside of the smoking section. There are a lot of us who do cross a park and go way out of our way to use the smoking sections - not ALL smokers are rude - but there always seems to be someone who feels that they are only smoking sections if a non-smoker doesn't want to use the area for themselves.

 

[cavepig]

The whole idea of people being expected to give up their sit on the bus to someone elderly, small kids, or whater is ridiculous. I go with my niece and nephew when they were tiny babys to now 2 &4 and I never expect someone to give up their sit. If someone offers a sit to me when I'm holding the kid I'll take it but never expect it.

If the small kids can't sit then more often than not we stand aside and wait for the next bus so they can sit -- everyone can do that too (whether elderly, pregnant, or whatnot).

Just my two cents.

As for Pet Peeves - I agree with the changing your kids on CS tables is gross - as well is in line or doing a show. Also the smoking thing is not enforced - many times we see people smoking and a CM sees them and does nothing. I think CMs like to avoid confrontation.

 

[Meezers]

Just gotta stick up for the "not moving to the center of the row" crowd.

DB has no left hip. I have PTSD....

No way can we sit in the middle of a crowd of people and the GAC states that...that doesn't give everyone the right to make nasty comments about us.

DB is an ex-smoker and even he says that people who are smoking where they shouldn't be are ruining it for everyone...really....must you light up 2 steps off the monorail? and it REALLY bugs me when the CM's ask you not to and people just ignore them....nope...not a job I could do!

 

[MommyPoppins]

1. Why do you think it is ok to just stop in the middle of a moving crowd of 1000 people?

Should they get brake lights and a blinker implanted? Would that help? I serious don't get why people get so bent out of shape over this. It's a crowded place, not everyone knows where they are at and where they are going at all times, and sometimes you just have to stop. It doesn't bother me at all if I'm behind someone who stops short, or if someone bangs my heels with a stroller(unless the same person KEEPS doing it). These things should be expected and they sure as heck don't ruin my day. That being said, my DH is a "stop short, cut in front of you kind of person" in the worst way...I'm always getting on him for that. It's because he doesn't think ahead about where he's going and when he sees what he's looking for he just goes without thinking.

 

[Talking Hands]

I have to chip in my two cents from a smoker . . . people who harrass smokers who ARE in a designated smoking area and ask them to stop. I don't care if it's raining and the smoking area is the closest covered spot, or your kid is tired RIGHT THERE, or (I swear this happened) you want to breast-feed your baby and can't go to the empty bench 20 feet down outside of the smoking section. There are a lot of us who do cross a park and go way out of our way to use the smoking sections - not ALL smokers are rude - but there always seems to be someone who feels that they are only smoking sections if a non-smoker doesn't want to use the area for themselves.

Totally agree with this. While I don't smaoke my daughters do. We were in a designated smoking area with a friend and this woman comes with a baby tells them to put their cigarettes out because she needed to change the baby's diaper. My daughter told her that it was a smoking area and they were there first. Boy did we get the evil eye.

 

[TheBellhop]

My long list:

- People who harass others for smoking in DESIGNATED smoking places. I'm not a smoker, and never will be, but they have the right to smoke there. Likewise, people who smoke OUTSIDE the designated smoking places.

- People who very well could give their seats up for the older, pregnant, and those with whining children. I do it in a heartbeat because I know that if I was in that same situation I would definately like to have a place to sit.

- People who fumble in their pockets for money when they get to the counter.

- People who don't know where a trash can is.

- Just stupid people in general who believe that because they paid for WDW they can do anything they want. And not have consequences.

 

[makinorlando]

Just like the mom who drags her child to the front of the line looking right at you as if she has a special pass to do so. Her child looking embarrassed and won't look up from the floor.

Wow! That felt good to put out there.

I agree with this one, some people think their child(ren) is/are more entitled then other children (or adults for that matter in the park.) Just because my DD is not 5, blond and in her Cinderella dress, does not mean that she does not have the right to have the spot on the curb that we have been standing in for 45 min for a good view of the parade! People see a little space, and try and make room for a family of five. I have had this happen several times, and I tell DD to just "dig in" and not move!

Stopping in the middle of the walkway is another big one for me - move over to the side if you need to find something, adjust something or discuss something.

I agree with Feralpeg on the Heelies - they should not be allowedl Many kids just don't think about about what they are doing, and I have seen several near misses. DD wants them and I keep saying NO!

 

[disneyjunkie]

What are Heelies?

 

[Feralpeg]

What are Heelies?

They are shoes with rollers built in the bottom. You just lean back a little and roll as if you were on skates.

 

[MagCynic]

They are shoes with rollers built in the bottom. You just lean back a little and roll as if you were on skates.

I've been tempted to stick my arm out as a little, annoying kid with these on goes zooming by me. So, so tempting. Anyways here are some of mine in no particular order.

1. Guests walking in one direction and looking in another
2. Guests hitting the back of my heels with their stroller.
3. After parades when the custodians are sweeping up with those big power vacs, some guests have a tendency to be oblivious to the big loud noise coming right at their feet.
4. Guests asking me where Disney World is. I swear I get asked this at least once a day.

I have so many other general pet peeves it would require someone starting a new general thread about little annoyances other people do at WDW.

 

[TDC Nala]

My personal give up the bus seat rules:

Elderly, yes.
Pregnant, yes.
Obviously disabled, yes.
Carrying an infant or small child, yes.
Child who can stand on their own, no.

 

[teacher31]

Love the comparison between a stroller and a battering ram! Someone literally stopped in the middle of toon town, picked her child up out of the stroller, then left it in the middle of the way for me to trip over while her child went into Minnie's House. They have parking places for those things. I didn't help with my comment, and I will watch it in the future. No swears, just shouldn't have said anything because it didn't matter to her.

 

[MareQ]

I thought of one more. When you are in an attraction where you have to sit in rows of seats, for ex. Country Bear Jamboree or Muppets, and the CM asks people to please move down and take up all available space or seats so that other may fit and people don't move down or budge a bit! Very rude!!!! Just move down a couple of seats people!

My personal pet peeve is regarding attractions with benches. People - YOUR BENCH is yours - mine is for me - not your feet! I sat through the entire Lights, Motor, Action show with kids behind me putting their feet on either side of my rump - on either side of my kids etc. I don't need your feet next to my rear - put them on the floor where they belong!

 

[cinmell]

My personal pet peeve is regarding attractions with benches. People - YOUR BENCH is yours - mine is for me - not your feet! I sat through the entire Lights, Motor, Action show with kids behind me putting their feet on either side of my rump - on either side of my kids etc. I don't need your feet next to my rear - put them on the floor where they belong!

Oooh, I've never had that happen. I would have been so annoyed.

 

[Hannathy]

I also hate those people who wait in the food line forever and then decide and then seem surprised they have to pay for it. These people also wait until they order to ask the kids what they want ughh. Oh and by the way I am very short barely 5 ft and I can figure out a way to see the menu in line so that is a lame excuse if I can't see something I'll ask my DH or DD to read it to me.

Add to my list the people that save a table forever and I don't mean I gave my choices and DH is ordering and I leave then to find a table I mean save a table from the moment someone gets in line. I was told by someone in the industry that the table numbers are designed to handle those who order and then sit down and then get up and leave by the time the line has gone through another cycle. If everyone did this there would be very few problems.

another peeve- we have waited in this line for a character for 10 minutes and when your kid gets to the character you suddenly think about getting out the camera or book. And after your child has had their turn it is not cute or adorable that they keep running back to give them another hug or kiss etc it is now my child's turn and you have ruined 2 pictures and the people behind think I'm just taking too long 'cause they can't see your brat doing this.

 

[WorldlyWise]

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.

CM had to actually force a couple to put out their cigs in the line for Rocking Rollercoaster. Is it just me, or have you noticed that people smoking always hold their cigarette out and blow the smoke away from themselves?

 

[Glendamax]

My pet peeve . . . it's a thousand degrees, you've been sweating ALL DAY, please go back to your resort, take a shower and put on CLEAN clothes AND underwear, so I don't have to smell you for the 40 mins I'm behind you in line!!!!!

Thank you.

 

[wdwfamilyinIL]

I also hate those people who wait in the food line forever and then decide and then seem surprised they have to pay for it. These people also wait until they order to ask the kids what they want ughh. Oh and by the way I am very short barely 5 ft and I can figure out a way to see the menu in line so that is a lame excuse if I can't see something I'll ask my DH or DD to read it to me.

Add to my list the people that save a table forever and I don't mean I gave my choices and DH is ordering and I leave then to find a table I mean save a table from the moment someone gets in line. I was told by someone in the industry that the table numbers are designed to handle those who order and then sit down and then get up and leave by the time the line has gone through another cycle. If everyone did this there would be very few problems.

another peeve- we have waited in this line for a character for 10 minutes and when your kid gets to the character you suddenly think about getting out the camera or book. And after your child has had their turn it is not cute or adorable that they keep running back to give them another hug or kiss etc it is now my child's turn and you have ruined 2 pictures and the people behind think I'm just taking too long 'cause they can't see your brat doing this.

Sometimes it just isn't that easy to see something if everyone around is taller! Can't ask when the dh is at the table the table with the kids, who are all little. I try to respect others, but sometimes it doesn't matter what you do you are on the losing end.

I have ofter wondered the same thing about smokers, why do they blow the smoke away from themselves?

 

[Enchanted]

Wow. So much to comment on, so little time.

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

I understand where you're coming from about this (i.e. workaholics who can't get off the phone long enough to enjoy a family vacation.), but I try my best not to come to that conclusion first. It could very well be about a sick family member, an emergency (My best friend was at Universal Studios when the neighbors called to announce that they had been robbed!), or something else very urgent. Sometimes it really IS a worthy phonecall. My dad has to bring his phone to speak with his employees once a day about how the store is running. It's important so that he doesn't come home to a disaster. If they're not bothering you by being loud or using the phone on an attraction, why the heck do you think you have any say about when and where they get to talk?

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.

Exactly! I don't smoke, but my dad does a bit, and he is very grateful for the designated smoking areas. I can understand the argument of smokers smoking in non-smoking areas. That is indeed wrong, and I can understand where you're coming from. No one wants to get hit with ashes while innocently climbing on Pooh! However, the smoking areas are a good idea. The park is indeed for everyone, and I'm sorry but cigarette smoke isn't going to kill you from 100 yards away. Don't go near the smoking areas, and you won't have a problem. And as other people have said, don't try to tell the smokers that they need to put out their cigarettes. If you don't like smoke, you need to move out of the smoking areas. Plain and simple.

About the whole "give up your seat" deal on the buses. My family is one that steps aside when a bus is full. We refuse to board it unless there is a seat for each and every one of us (there are typically seven of us on our trips). We don't like the sardine feeling of standing. Sometimes, we will wait for three or four buses to ensure this! We are all in good health, and so we can deal with the wait for a seat. However, if we are willing to wait that long (there have been nights where we have waited nearly an hour) to get a seat, we're going to STAY in those seats, darn it! If you're too impatient to wait for other buses, that's not our problem. If you have a pregnant woman or elderly person with you, it is also part of your OWN responsibility to get them a seat. If they can't stand to wait for a bus by using the "step aside" method, my advice would be get to the head of the line at the bus stop or relax on a bench in the park until the crowds have died down. We have done this several times, and CM's have never said a word. The one exception I have made to the rule, however, is small children whom I've held in my lap because their parents decided that it would be okay for a two to four year old child to STAND on a bus. The children can't help it if they're parents don't have patience.

However, so you don't think I'm a total witch, I'm a doorholder. Sometimes my family is already in line for food because I've been holding the door for so many people!

Should they get brake lights and a blinker implanted? Would that help? I serious don't get why people get so bent out of shape over this. It's a crowded place, not everyone knows where they are at and where they are going at all times, and sometimes you just have to stop.

HA! Exactly! Often, it's an accident and other times you just suddenly come to a stop. Like my mom when she thought she had left her wallet in the Emporium or me when my contact slipped and I couldn't see. Again, it's a case of don't judge people when you don't know the situation.

Wow, that was long. Okay, I'll shut up now.

ETA: Oh yeah, and our group of seven does the save the table thing while others go through line. However, we wait to eat during off times when there are plenty of tables to do this so that we're not keeping people from eating. It just doesn't make sense to send seven people through the line while some can be setting the table with napkins, ketchup, straws, etc.