Pushed Around.

[disneylandhunni]

Here's the beef, we were in DL last year and noticed we always moving out of the way of other people that were walking into us! Very rude people that could care less if they walked right into us. By the end of our trip, we decided we were sick and tired of moving for OTHER people all the time! So we stood our ground and we refused to move when so many people were running into us. Has this ever happened to anyone else? So many rude people in the happiest place on earth!

 

[bumbershoot]

We notice that everywhere, not just Disneyland. We're the type who will separate so that other families can stay together as a unit, who will go single file so others can go through as a clump. Sometimes it gets to us and we do what you did, just stand our ground... I don't know what on earth some people are thinking, the type who do that all the time!

 

[FamousPotatoes]

Yes, we've also noticed that. Like pp said, my family goes single file so other families can stay together. There are a lot of rude people everywhere. When you concentrate people in a place like DL it is tough not to notice how many rude ones there actually are.

 

[JenDisneylandlver]

We had a lot of people run in to us too, a lot them were running. But I also hate it when people stop suddenly in the middle of walk ways. Usually in a big group, blocking the whole walk way. Those people are asking to get bumped in to when they just stop like that! We always try to pull off to the side, and out of the way of traffic when we need to stop.

 

[pixiewings71]

Yup, but like Bumber said, it's everywhere, not just at Disney. We do the "train" thing. LOL When it gets crowded one of us hollers out "Train!!" and we go single file, the person in back is the caboose. LOL We will even do train whistles as we walk.

 

[audrabolster]

very much everywhere. I've noticed that the worst place for this at DL is Adventureland! Esp near Indy!

 

[DL4my2kids]

I get sick of being the one to always move for other so when I feel tired and fed up, I stand my ground.

 

[DebbieB]

It depends on why they bumped into you. I've seen cases where a family of 5 will walk straight across on a narrow walkway, it's hard to get around them without bumping. As a rule of thumb, you should stay to the right. If there are large groups walking the same direction all the way across a walkway, how does a person walking the other direction get by? You shouldn't bump others but sometimes it's unavoidable.

 

[Stardance]

Ugh what a pain in the bee-hind!

I experience that in parks here in Oz too...never been to DL..YET!

I would never push back to nudge back but i do get a point when im soo soo sick of it, ill make a statement! Hahaha, I'll usually turn around and say something to my friend loud enough for them to hear like "Oh yes excuse me!" One day they'll get the idea...

 

[Sy-]

Have the biggest member of your group walk in front and have everyone else follow behind. I usually walk in front and have my DW follow right behind me with the stroller. I'm 6'2" 280 and I have never been knocked down. I can't say the same for the idiot kids who like to run and not watch where they are going!

 

[NostalgicDad]

I agree with bumbershoot and the others who experience this at almost any public place. It's definitely gotten worse it seems lately. However, I was at DL last week solo. I managed to get run into a total of 3 times in 9 hours. Each time, it was from behind, so I had no option to apply a good, hard "block". I think the most annoying occurence was when I was standing in Town Square doing what I always do........taking pictures. It wasn't terribly crowded and was about 1pm. Mind you, I always make sure I'm not stopping in front of anyone. I had the camera to my eye. The next thing I knew, my arm was hit fairly hard which literally knocked the camera from in front of my face. The clueless, 55ish fellow was actually walking with his left hand on his hip which caused his elbow to be sticking out and that's what hit my arm. As he walked off it stayed in that position and couldn't figure out why in the world he would be walking like that. He was just chatting away with someone and seemed oblivious to everything and everybody. It angered me so much that I actually yelled at him to watch where the heck you're going. He never so much turned around or acknowleged me in the least.

When I'm with my family of 5 in all public places, I am constantly on my kids to "tighten up" so we don't take up the whole sidewalk, or piece of pavement we're currently occupying.

And, don't even get me started on this new problem/phenomenom of people going through the left door of a double-doorway! When the heck did that memo go out?

 

[DoomBugger]

very much everywhere. I've noticed that the worst place for this at DL is Adventureland! Esp near Indy!

True and true. Adventureland by Indy is usually a free-for-all. It is common wherever there are crowds these days but even bigger of an annoyance for me at DL are the people who just decide to stop and chat with their group right in the most crowded, busiest spot possible... that always kills me and then you can tell they have no idea of the havoc and chaos they have wrought upon everyone else.

 

[janc]

What bugs me the most in crowds is when people just stop walking. Like they are the only ones out...no one behind them, trying to get by. They just stop and expect everyone to go around them.

 

[JenM]

I work in NYC, so I'm an expert at pushing people back.

But when I was at DL last month, I did have a run-in with a kid at Fantasmic. We had found a spot near New Orleans Square, and this lady dropped her 8/9ish year-old son off to the right of us to save a spot for them while she got food. No big deal.

Next thing I hear is the woman to the right of this kid saying "Excuse me!" I look over and see he was sliding his hands to right, trying to make her move over more and create more space for himself. She looked at me briefly because I think she though he was my kid, but I made it clear he wasn't and the kid eventually stopped (he had ignored all requests to stop).

Then I took a step backward, and I hear a loud "OWWWW!" I had barely stepped on the kid's foot. Barely. But he screeched like I'd chopped it off. I asked him if he was OK, and he glared at me. I thought...he's got to be joking.

"I'm holding a space for my MOM," is all he says to me. This is when I realize this boy has been spread-eagling himself across his spot in an effort to shove people on his sides over more to make room. That's why I wound up stepping on his foot--his legs were so split apart that I probably would have tripped over him if I'd gone any further back.

So I make it clear that we're not planning on moving. Not even for his mom. He goes quiet for a little while, then the sliding starts again. I plant my hand down on the railing so he can't go further.

Then my cell phone rings--it's my mom, returning a call from earlier. I start filling her in on our first day at DL, and then loudly add "We're waiting for Fantasmic now, but we've got this really annoying kid next to us who's going to be in BIG TROUBLE if he keeps sliding into people."

Suddenly all the shoving stops and he goes back to his place. Eventually his mom comes back and takes him to a better spot she found. It was definitely a better spot for all of us once they left.

 

[bumbershoot]

Oh, JenM that would have made us insane! Meanwhile, my hubby (5'10", 300 lbs) tries to make himself smaller so he's not impinging on other peoples' space.

On the other hand, HE is the one who tends to just stop in the middle of everything. I'm working on him to stop it, but for some reason he loses his brain! I apologize in advance for when he stops like that, he's just not thinking anyone is behind him (and it happens everywhere, not just Disneyland).

 

[DangerMouse]

Sometimes you can't help stopping because other people in front of you stop. A lady with a double stroller obviously didn't understand this phenomena because after she rammed into me with her stroller so hard that it knocked my sneaker off she gave me this evil glare like it was my fault. You know, we're all just trying to get places people, relax. . .

 

[Eeyore76]

Have the biggest member of your group walk in front and have everyone else follow behind. I usually walk in front and have my DW follow right behind me with the stroller. I'm 6'2" 280 and I have never been knocked down. I can't say the same for the idiot kids who like to run and not watch where they are going!

OMG...That was hilarious!


(Then again, that might be my after-work cocktail talking....)

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

We so single file too, even though there's two of us.

But I've noticed the more it's crowded, like trying to walk through the F! crowds or in Adventureland, it's WAY worse. When it's super tight closelikethiscrowded , I freak out and I get even MORE upset if somebody is stepping on the back of my shoes and breathing down my back or ramming me with their stroller.

I don't understand people. I understand you want to do as much as you can in a day and the excitement of being at DL gets to everyone, but it's just like driving, driving like a jerk and cutting everyone off isn't going to make you get where you're going any faster.

 

[stacymomof2]

My dd16 did the stop all of the sudden thing a couple of times. I had to be real quick about grabbing her out of peoples way. I get hyper-aware of not doing that to other people and tried to explain why it's rude to my dd, but I'm thinking she was either thinking about boys or trying to find Jack Sparrow again!

It is hard when there are tons of people, but I just wish that the rude ones would just think about other people once in a while...

I'm really working on my dd16...so if it was anyone from here, I apologize again!

 

[Silly Little Pixie]

But I've noticed the more it's crowded, like trying to walk through the F! crowds or in Adventureland, it's WAY worse. When it's super tight closelikethiscrowded , I freak out and I get even MORE upset if somebody is stepping on the back of my shoes and breathing down my back or ramming me with their stroller.

Just to show that it has been going on FOREVER at DL...

DH and I had APs for several years before we had kids. One of DH's jokes when I finally got pregnant was, "NOW I can have a stroller and seek revenge on all the people who have stabbed me in the ankles with their strollers! I want a custom, Grease-style stroller with the metal blades that come out the sides of the tires."

Of course, he was unable to find such a stroller...

The running kids annoy me the most, though.