Poll: Bubbles in line (inspired by HappyMommy2's "worried" thread)

[MosMom]

If you do bubbles, I highly suggest the no-spill bubble containers too! They are great! They have a portable kind that can clip onto a backpack and a bigger bottle (about the size of a twinkie). I get mine at Target.

 

[C.Ann]

Originally posted by DMRick
I don't like it, when the kids are spilling all over the place and my sneaker sticks to the ground and on the ride, until I can rinse off. And I hate touching where the kids touched after they got the bubbles/sticky yicky all over the handrails of the rides. But it's Disney, and I just step aside when I can.

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Wow! sounds like you've been exposed to a lot of klutzy, uncoordinated kids - LOL..

As I posted on this thread (or maybe it was the other bubbles thread) if someone asked POLITELY (as I'm sure you would) I would take the bubbles away from my granddaughter with a reasonable explanation (in kid language) that she could understand..

However, if it was a rude DEMAND - sorry - all bets are off!

 

[DMRick]

Wow! sounds like you've been exposed to a lot of klutzy, uncoordinated kids - LOL..

I think it's because we go so often and tend to stick to the "child" rides LOL.

if someone asked POLITELY (as I'm sure you would) I would take the bubbles away from my granddaughter with a reasonable explanation (in kid language) that she could understand..

However, if it was a rude DEMAND - sorry - all bets are off!

I wouldn't say anything, rude or otherwise. I'll just leave them to their fun (and mess). However, I'm sure if someone was getting bubbles spilled all over them, the request might come out a little curt. Especially if the parents aren't paying attention. Once thing I do notice at Disney..parents are tired by the end of the trip. I can almost tell if they are at the begining or the end of the vacation. I've been in their shoes (messy kids and all), so I understand, that sometimes stuff happens.

 

[C.Ann]

Originally posted by DMRick
I wouldn't say anything, rude or otherwise. I'll just leave them to their fun (and mess). However, I'm sure if someone was getting bubbles spilled all over them, the request might come out a little curt. Especially if the parents aren't paying attention. Once thing I do notice at Disney..parents are tired by the end of the trip. I can almost tell if they are at the begining or the end of the vacation. I've been in their shoes (messy kids and all), so I understand, that sometimes stuff happens.

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Agreed - however, tired or not, there really isn't any acceptable reason to be "rude" - especially when a child is standing right there.. I saw two parents going at it in AK with their children standing right there and I just wanted to grab those kids and RUN.. The kids were crying their eyes out - but the parents continued to SCREAM at each other and hurl all sorts of insults..

 

[katerkat]

Originally posted by MosMom
What do you do in the rides and attractions that have bubbles? Do you not go on the bubble rides?

Uh, what rides have bubbles? All I can think of is Muppets. And I don't mind that because I have those lovely glasses to cover my eyes. Plus, I know it's happening - I'm talking more the surprise bubble that I wasn't expecting to get in my eyes.

I'm not saying I'll die, or that I'd even ask the kid(s) to stop doing it. But it *would* bother me. But, screaming kids in line is why I avoid Fantasyland.

 

[MosMom]

Playhouse Disney, Muppets, Little Mermaid, Great Movie Ride are ones off the top of my head.

 

[katerkat]

Originally posted by MosMom
Playhouse Disney, Muppets, Little Mermaid, Great Movie Ride are ones off the top of my head.

There's bubbles on the GMR?? I honestly can't remember them....thinking, thinking.... Were they in the Land of Oz? Oh, no, wait, I remember - in the water musical era. I close my eyes there. And the Alien part, but that doesn't have anything to do with "water" dripping down.

And I don't mind Muppets because I have the glasses, and I've never once been on Playhouse and the Little Mermaid, so...

Like I said, it's the unexpected bubbles that bug me because I don't know to protect myself from them. And not enough that I would tell the kid to stop - but this is the DIS and the question was asked, so I answered.

 

[Pete's Mom]

I think Bubbles should have to stand in line like everyone else! Just because he knows Michael Jackson doesn't mean he should get the VIP treatment.

 

[02bBarbie]

the only issue I have is I wear contacts, and have had a bubble pop right in my eyes and that can really burn.

Just as long as one didn't hit me by surprise I'd be ok

 

[CEDmom]

Gee, I never realized bubbles could offend so many people. When DD was younger I always had a bottle of bubbles (the kind with the wand inside that have been around for 100 years) in the diaper bag. I'd blow them towards her while waiting on line in the grocery store, at the doctors office etc. I took a bottle with us to WDW last time and kept many children in many lines entertained. I always did the blowing because I didn't want them spilled.

 

[Nutsy]

It wouldn't bother me at all, I quite like bubbles

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

Originally posted by Saffron
Oh my gosh! I just posted on another thread that this subject could become a heated debate! LOL! I honestly had NO idea that someone started a poll/debate already! Too funny!

Bubble, schmubbles! I can't believe people would get annoyed at a child entertaining themself or a parent entertaining their child with bubbles! That's just so weird to me! Have we really become that much of an uptight society that something as silly as BUBBLES! bother people! They're meant to entertain and amuse, not antagonize or hurt anyone!

Let the flames begin! I'll put them out by blowing bubbles on them!

I have 3 children who love bubbles also... but I have more consideration for others than to have my children blowing them in a tight queue because that's invading OTHER people's personal space and could very easily get them wet/soapy from those bubbles. We don't have a RIGHT to put anything on other people- not water, soap, soda (for example) or anything else... if they wanted it on them, they'd put it on them themselves. And honestly I'm surprised that so many people think it's wrong to not want others to put stuff on you! Just because you don't mind soap/bubbles on you -doesn't mean you get to decide that for others. Soap/bubbles doesn't bother me- but I wouldn't ever DARE blow bubbles with my kids when I'm standing inches from others in a line at Disney World or anywhere else... I think that's just rude!
Okay so maybe if you really want to- ask those around you in line before pulling it out and starting to blow bubbles. But don't get all "you're so uptight" if they say no... they have the RIGHT to not want your soap/bubbles on them!

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

Originally posted by MosMom
Playhouse Disney, Muppets, Little Mermaid, Great Movie Ride are ones off the top of my head.

They warn you on those don't they? I tought at the very LEAST you know when you see 4-D... that it's going to include things like air, water, etc. made for you to FEEl it. That's the difference between 3-D and 4-D, right?
Still, just because some rides include water, bubbles, etc. doesn't give everyone in line the right to blow bubbles on others in line.

 

[C.Ann]

Originally posted by BibbidyBobbidyBoo
I have 3 children who love bubbles also... but I have more consideration for others than to have my children blowing them in a tight queue because that's invading OTHER people's personal space and could very easily get them wet/soapy from those bubbles. We don't have a RIGHT to put anything on other people- not water, soap, soda (for example) or anything else... if they wanted it on them, they'd put it on them themselves. And honestly I'm surprised that so many people think it's wrong to not want others to put stuff on you! Just because you don't mind soap/bubbles on you -doesn't mean you get to decide that for others. Soap/bubbles doesn't bother me- but I wouldn't ever DARE blow bubbles with my kids when I'm standing inches from others in a line at Disney World or anywhere else... I think that's just rude!
Okay so maybe if you really want to- ask those around you in line before pulling it out and starting to blow bubbles. But don't get all "you're so uptight" if they say no... they have the RIGHT to not want your soap/bubbles on them!

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I think anyone with an ounce of sense would have their children blowing the bubbles AWAY from others and if they saw that they were landing on folks standing in line they would have the common sense to take them away..

Also I would not get "uptight" if I asked someone if it was okay and they said no......BUT if they were rude and obnoxious about it (you know - like the non-smoking folks who go and sit in the designated smoking areas and then throw a hissy fit because people are actually smoking where they're supposed to be smoking) - well - then there would be a REAL problem.. Courtesy is a two-way street..

 

[DMRick]

Agreed - however, tired or not, there really isn't any acceptable reason to be "rude"

I understand people being curt, if they are having bubble juice spilled on them and they don't want to have it there. Especially at the end of along day or vacation. I'm meaning it more like "short" "abrupt", not rude. Doesn't mean a drag down and out fight or argument like you are talking about. If bubbles are going into someones face, they may not feel like sugar coating it. It's something special to be a person who has never been curt...I have been curt on a few occasions...and I have to say, when tired, I'm more apt to be curt. So it may not be much of an excuse, but it's mine and I"m sticking with it LOL.

When I asked someone in a line to please stop smoking, I was "curt"....to the point, abrupt. No sense messing around, he was blowing it in my gradndaughters face and holding the cig at her eye level. If I hadn't put myself between him and her, her eye would have gotten it. I'm glad I noticed in time. I said (pretty firmly, you may have thought it was rude..I thought I was curt).. please put the cigarette out...there isn't suppose to be smoking in line. He didn't, and in fact his girlfriend then lit up...in any case I got a CM who asked him to leave the line. I knew before I asked, that it really didn't matter how I asked, and I was in my granny protction mode. We had already made eye contact and I just knew the cig wasn't going
anywhere.

Bubbles just don't bring out the curtness in me..but perhaps it's more bothersome to someone else. Again, I'm not talking about a drag down fight like you witnessed..and that was over bubbles?

 

[C.Ann]

Originally posted by DMRick

When I asked someone in a line to please stop smoking, I was "curt"....to the point, abrupt. No sense messing around, he was blowing it in my gradndaughters face and holding the cig at her eye level. If I hadn't put myself between him and her, her eye would have gotten it. I'm glad I noticed in time. I said (pretty firmly, you may have thought it was rude..I thought I was curt).. please put the cigarette out...there isn't suppose to be smoking in line. He didn't, and in fact his girlfriend then lit up...in any case I got a CM who asked him to leave the line. I knew before I asked, that it really didn't matter how I asked, and I was in my granny protction mode. We had already made eye contact and I just knew the cig wasn't going
anywhere.

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That's an ENTIRELY different scenario.. People have no business smoking in line and they know it - or should know it - seeings how it is cleared marked on the park maps and such that smoking is allowed ONLY in designated smoking areas.. I would have been just as straight forward as you were (nicely at first, not so nicely if I got grief in return- but we're comparing apples and oranges.. I haven't seen any signs forbidding the blowing of bubbles and until I do, I would expect anyone who had a problem with it to address me in a courteous manner..

 

[sunni]

Originally posted by C.Ann
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I think anyone with an ounce of sense would have their children blowing the bubbles AWAY from others

When the long lines snake back and forth and you are surrounded by people on all sides, how do you blow them away from others? I think blowing bubbles would be great when sitting on the curb waiting for a parade, or on a bench, etc., but in a line it doesn't seem like there is anywhere to blow them politely.

 

[peachgirl]

Agreed - however, tired or not, there really isn't any acceptable reason to be "rude" - especially when a child is standing right there.

It seems to me that if someone is letting their kid blow soap bubbles all over me, they're the ones being rude. In that case I don't see why I should worry too much if I'm polite enough when I tell them to knock it off.

If my attitude about their rudeness causes them to intentionally blow more my way I would think reporting them to a CM would most likely get them removed from the line or at the very least, I bet the bubble blowing would stop.

I just can't see where you could possibly blow bubbles in a crowded, tight space and not have them land on people.

 

[C.Ann]

Originally posted by sunni
When the long lines snake back and forth and you are surrounded by people on all sides, how do you blow them away from others? I think blowing bubbles would be great when sitting on the curb waiting for a parade, or on a bench, etc., but in a line it doesn't seem like there is anywhere to blow them politely.

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I've never been to WDW when there were "long lines that snake back and forth and have been surrounded by people on all sides".. I'm assuming that would be during the summer when the parks are overcrowded - in which case I wouldn't be there.. However, if I were there I would probably PAY some kid to spray bubbles, water or anything else WET on me.. LOL

I don't do well in humidity and would never subject myself to the parks and crowds during those time periods so no one would have to worry about my granddaughter blowing bubbles in the scenario you have described..

 

[C.Ann]

Originally posted by peachgirl

I just can't see where you could possibly blow bubbles in a crowded, tight space and not have them land on people.

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Have never been there when there was a "crowded, tight space" to worry about..