Pet peeves I saw today at Magic Kingdom

[melomouse]

You can't just ignore it when they're doing it while waiting in line for an attraction. It totally ruins the ambiance of the queue and, in my opinion, is obnoxious.

"..the ambience of the queue.."???????????? RUINED????

You ARE kidding, right??

 

[Elysiannn]

I started to read this thread and noticed that many of points also bug me but then I thought how being in WDW shouldn't be a place where I see and experience things that bug me. Maybe it's just my Jimmny Cricket mood today but I want to focus on the magic and fun of WDW when I'm there and not reality of beefs, peeves and agrieves - that is what we all way too soon have to go back to.

Even tho all written is valid and legitimate maybe if more of us thought of the characters and what they would do might help "educate" those or even just keep us in the magical mode when they pop up there wouldn't be any pet peeves in Disney.

Like I said, I'm in a Jimmny Cricket sort of mood today so forgive if I offended - twas not the intention. I just think the world needs more the World of Disney daily. Hugs Ely wishing all plenty of pixie dust to help transform all the pet peeves popping up!

 

[taximomfor4]

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!

I have a vision-impaired child...(among other things). We are taken into the theater and sat befiore the general public, with front + center seating. When the general public gets in, and the cm's start announcing to move all the way down, we are told to stay put. We get horrible nasty looks, and I just wish the cm's would let people know in some general way that we were sat there on purpose for a reason, and it's ok to go around. We get MUCH verbal abuse. I know this is not always what is happening, but just wanted to point out that this situation DOES happen, and sometimes certain people are excluded from moving down the row to the end.

Beth

 

[maddhatir]

Those cheerleaders are there for nationals...aka the bigtime. So cheerleading in on their mind. If it puts them at ease to go throught their routines over and over while they're on line or waiting for stuff whats the big deal? It's not like they're hitting you...just don't look at them!

i agree with the others-- this is VERY annoying. if you had a crowd of kids that just started screaming that to me would be the same thing as cheering-- ITS ANNOYING AND PLEASE BE QUIET!! i dont feel like hearing it!

we were in disney in december for the annoying POP thing-a-magig (never again believe me!) but anyway-- me, DH and our 4yr niece were waiting in the bus line and a group of the cheerleaders were in line with us and started fighting- i mean fighting- F this and F that trying to get to each other, people had to hold them back. and my niece heard it all.......meaning all the F words! i have been to disney 10 times and i have NEVER seen a fight or heard those kind of words being yelled out.

"some" of the cheerleading groups are going to do to disney what the springbrakers have done to daytona/ft. lauderdale no one is going to want to go during that time of the year-- and i believe they are there several times throughout the year for different events.....correct me if i am wrong.

 

[CheshireVal]

"..the ambience of the queue.."???????????? RUINED????

You ARE kidding, right??

I would much rather hear queue music than cheerleaders.

Actually, I'd much rather do just about anything than listen to cheerleaders.

 

[taximomfor4]

How about people not knowing the words: PLEASE, THANK YOU and of course EXCUSE ME. C'mon people, I think most people recognize these words in any language. I amazes me that most people don't use them. What ever happened to common curtesy? One other thing, people on crowded buses, with little kids in their own seats while there are other people who really need to be seated. I always madeand 7yo dd my kids double up or sit on my lap, or stand. Again common curtesy. Are manners so bad? Doesn't anyone show or teach their kids to be respectful?

My kids get their own seats on the bus. This is the best way for us to keep them safer. We wait until a bus comes that has enough seats available for us to do this. I don't need to explain why to people, but I will say that DH and I each have 2 arms. We have 4 children, 3 of them need quick support from us pretty often along the drive. So I have one arm for each of 2 kids, dh has 1 arm to hold the stroller and 1 arm to help the 3rd child. Oldest dd is the only one who can fully support herself. We figured this out through trial and error and 7yo dd ending up on the bus floor more than once on our first trip) so this is how we will do it until it is no longer necessary to us.

Once again just pointing out why we don't all have children on our laps so someone can have the children's seats. Sometimes there are legitimage logical reasons, and each situation is unique. That said, I have NEVER lookeed at a small child on a bus seat and felt anger that the parent didn't put the child on their lap to free the seat up.

 

[willis37862]

I would much rather hear queue music than cheerleaders.

Actually, I'd much rather do just about anything than listen to cheerleaders.

Couldn't agree more. I don't like any group of screaming teenagers though. Ahhhhhhhhhhh

 

[maddhatir]

I would much rather hear queue music than cheerleaders.

Actually, I'd much rather do just about anything than listen to cheerleaders.

i think the cheerleaders ruin the ambiance of DISNEY period!

i would go as far as to say they would ruin the ambiance of the ladies room if they were in THERE cheering!

 

[willis37862]

I have two words for people:

USE DEODORANT!

Thank you.

A very reasonable request. But I am always shocked at how many people smell like they forgot theirs. I hate BO. Also smelly feet. Soap and deodorant are cheap use them if not for yourself for the sake of the rest of mankind.

 

[willis37862]

i think the cheerleaders ruin the ambiance of DISNEY period!

i would go as far as to say they would ruin the ambiance of the ladies room if they were in THERE cheering!

Yes. It is hard to feel the disney magic when there are dozens of screaming teenage girls everywhere(unless your a teenage boy ) That belongs at the sports game not in the line for It's a small world.

 

[Nimblethimble]

I'm wondering the same about the legality of this. I hate to think someone anywhere, not just WDW, would be on an emergency situation phone call and to have it be interupted or disconnected or whatever the gadget does.

Good points. In response:

From what I've read, handheld jammers have very limited range (15-20 feet). 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.

So is it possible they could conflict with an emergency call? Yes, but unlikely, since the user is in range of the person using the cell and uses the jammer because they are painfully aware of the call content. No, it's not perfect (jamming could conceivably block an "important" incoming call), but I think this context is important to understand.

Now, get into the legalities, and you enter a massive grey area. At minimum, U.S. law allows people to block cell phone signals on their own property (which is why plenty of restaurants and theatres already do this).

And while the FCC states that manufacturing, selling or owning a portable jammer is illegal, the agency admits it has never seized a single jammer or prosecuted an operator . This is likely due to the fact that (a) catching someone with/using a small portable one is virtually impossible and (b) cell phone service is still so spotty that when a cell phone doesn't work, the first thing people think isn't "I'm being jammed."' In other words, there's no public outcry, no CNN investigation, so this sneaky and obscure "don't get mad, get even" practice is still way, way under the radar screen - and may likely stay there forever.

 

[Fredd's Girl]

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

OK, I'm only 8 pages in, but I had to comment on this one. These are the people that I always say must have paid more than me to get into the parks. Whenever I see people doing something just rude or stupid, I turn to my family, and say, "No really it's OK, they must have paid more than us to get in, that's why they are allowed to act like that."

 

[maddhatir]

How about people not knowing the words: PLEASE, THANK YOU and of course EXCUSE ME. C'mon people, I think most people recognize these words in any language. I amazes me that most people don't use them. What ever happened to common curtesy?

i use these words ALL OF THE TIME-- and what amazes me is, one day i was at a produce stand and said to someone- excuse me- do you mind if i take your cart (becasue she was through loading her car with her purchases) she said sure- and i said thank you very much!

this woman -who was in her car and i have no idea how she even heard me having this conversation- pulled over to me just to comment how nice it was to hear someone use the words excuse me and thank you! she said i was the most polite person she has heard all day.

its sad that you would have to point that out. i agree, this should be in everyones vocabulary...on a daily basis!

 

[Joanna71985]

i use these words ALL OF THE TIME-- and what amazes me is, one day i was at a produce stand and said to someone- excuse me- do you mind if i take your cart (becasue she was through loading her car with her purchases) she said sure- and i said thank you very much!

this woman -who was in her car and i have no idea how she even heard me having this conversation- pulled over to me just to comment how nice it was to hear someone use the words excuse me and thank you! she said i was the most polite person she has heard all day.

its sad that you would have to point that out. i agree, this should be in everyones vocabulary...on a daily basis!

That is such a nice story. It was really sweet.

 

[dani0622]

Good points. In response:

From what I've read, handheld jammers have very limited range (15-20 feet). 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.

So is it possible they could conflict with an emergency call? Yes, but unlikely, since the user is in range of the person using the cell and uses the jammer because they are painfully aware of the call content. No, it's not perfect (jamming could conceivably block an "important" incoming call), but I think this context is important to understand.

Now, get into the legalities, and you enter a massive grey area. At minimum, U.S. law allows people to block cell phone signals on their own property (which is why plenty of restaurants and theatres already do this).

And while the FCC states that manufacturing, selling or owning a portable jammer is illegal, the agency admits it has never seized a single jammer or prosecuted an operator . This is likely due to the fact that (a) catching someone with/using a small portable one is virtually impossible and (b) cell phone service is still so spotty that when a cell phone doesn't work, the first thing people think isn't "I'm being jammed."' In other words, there's no public outcry, no CNN investigation, so this sneaky and obscure "don't get mad, get even" practice is still way, way under the radar screen - and may likely stay there forever.

Thanks for explaination!

 

[Tarheel Tink]

I apologize, I didn't mean to say that I would smoke anywhere at WDW, what I meant is anywhere that it is legal...in my car or outside in the open. I was referring to the women who got sick in her car at the drive through. I understand the rules at WDW, I only smoke in the designated areas.

Gee, I wasn't complaining about the smoke from the car in front of me! I even mentioned that I hadn't noticed in time and had my window open.

I was pointing out how little smoke it can take to trigger a reaction from someone so some of the people who think it is no big deal to walk through a crowd with the cigarette at the hip position can maybe understand the dismay of myself and family members who now have to deal with an asthma attack and the possible hours long recovery from it (instead of the usual rude gesture and remark). I THOUGHT a fellow human would actually care that their decision to avoid the smoking designated area can harm someone.

 

[Sylvester McBean]

you can pick up a small cell phone jammer for less than $150.00

 

[Kimberly815]

I think that people have just stopped using common courtesy nowadays.

I wish it would come back in style though. I try to shake off any bad comment/vibes/actions I encounter at WDW. I don't want it to ruin my vacation!

 

[MermaidsMom]

IMO anyone who uses a cell phone jammer has serious passive/aggressive/anger issues that are completely separate from listening to someone else talk on a phone. Getting a thrill by shutting off someones phone without them even knowing it was you is just plain weird. What's next, a little button to shut off cars driven by ugly people or houses with too many lights on? MYOB
This is a general comment, not focused towards anyone on this board.

 

[Marseeya]

IMO anyone who uses a cell phone jammer has serious passive/aggressive/anger issues that are completely separate from listening to someone else talk on a phone. Getting a thrill by shutting off someones phone without them even knowing it was you is just plain weird. What's next, a little button to shut off cars driven by ugly people or houses with too many lights on? MYOB
This is a general comment, not focused towards anyone on this board.

Amen, Sistah!