Rude Behavior At Disney

[rudetreehill]

With the kind permission of our host, webmaster Pete, I'm working on a piece for my site (which can be found in my signature) about people's rude behavior at Disney World. You know... those folks out there who not only rain on our parade but then poke us in the eye with their umbrella.

The person who smokes in line, or in a non-designated area.

The loud guy (or gal!) with a foul mouth who doesn't care about the bad words your children are learning from him.

The person who takes the entire tray of treats from the concierge lounge back to their room. "I have a big family," they say, if they bother to explain their actions at all.

So let me here it. Give me your worst tales of rudeness at Disney. Don't worry, I won't be using names or even nicknames. (If I happen to come across something I'd really like to use with a name/nickname cited, I will contact the person via private message before even considering doing so.)

Okay, on the count of three, vent.

One...

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Three!

 

[allshookup]

To me the rudest behavior is when I've planted myself for over an hour on the sidewalk on Main Street, along the rope line at DHS or the railing along the lagoon at Epcot, etc. to view a parade or Illuminations and people come up at the last minute & shove their kids in front of me or even on top of my feet. It drives me insane!

 

[lugnut33]

Wifey got in an argument one evening under Spaceship Earth with a young drunk couple who decided to yell at my kids. I was sitting off to the side waiting for them when I heard a commotion and looked back to see my wife rather animated yelling at this obviously drunk lady and her boyfriend/husband who was in a wheelchair. My wife can hold her own and the drunk lady walked away.

Later that night as we waited for a bus back to POFQ I see a group of people coming and there's the guy in the wheelchair and the drunk lady. Suddenly the guy in the wheelchair comes flying out of the group at full speed with one of his friends pushing him. He loses control, slams into the curb and both of them go flying into the bushes. After a second both of them get up and walk away leaving the wheelchair in the bushes.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

A few years ago my Dad and I were going on the Magic Carpets of Aladdin as we were steping into the vechicle this father tells his little girl that this one is free and cut right into front of us as we were about to step in. Since that was the last one we had to wait for the ride to finish so we could get on. I was also shocked that he basically told his daugther it's ok to cut into front of people and I wanted to tell a Cast Member about this, however my Dad said to forget about it.

Also one time when we were waiting at rope drop in Frontierland we started talking to this family and for some reason their father said there are a lot of foreign people here, which I think he meant in a negative way. Well later on my dad told me what if we said we were foreign since we are from Canada, because there was no way for him to tell that about us.

 

[bamagirl@hrt]

This is one that we can laugh about now, but it was annoying as heck at the time. DD & I love Spectromagic - it's our favorite parade. We were in front of the castle, eagerly anticipating our last chance to see the parade on that trip. Once it starts, this lady (and I use that term loosely) starts yelling at EVERY SINGLE character that come by, whether walking or on a float. It's constantly stuff like, "Over here!! Flauna, over here!!!!" If a character acknowledged her, she yelled at her daughter, "Blow a kiss!!! Blow a kiss!!! WOOHOOOO!!!!" It was so loud and so obnoxious that everyone around was just looking at her like, "Would you please shut up?!" DD & I did our best to ignore it & enjoy the parade. I knew that saying something to the lady was useless and could turn into something unpleasant.

DD got the Spectromagic CD for Christmas this year. As we listened to it, we were both yelling, "Over here! Over here!! Blow her a kiss!! WOOHOO!" Oh well, it takes all kinds, I guess.

 

[ktlm]

We were at MVMCP on December 16 and attempting to see the early Christmas parade with our 34 month old daughter. It was miserably crowded and we were having trouble finding any spot at all even though it was almost an hour before parade time. A very nice family saw our daughter and said they would squeeze over and make room to give us a spot so that she could see the parade. They moved over and we were climbing over the rope from the sidewalk. As we were climbing over parents with 2 teenage kids jumped from the street over the people in the front row and took the spot I know they saw us climbing to. They refused to move even when the people told them they had moved to give us a spot so our little girl could see the parade. I couldn't believe how rude they were. After looking a while for another spot we finally gave up trying to see the parade.

 

[Amy_Callaghan]

With the kind permission of our host, webmaster Pete, I'm working on a piece for my site (which can be found in my signature) about people's rude behavior at Disney World. You know... those folks out there who not only rain on our parade but then poke us in the eye with their umbrella.

The person who smokes in line, or in a non-designated area.

The loud guy (or gal!) with a foul mouth who doesn't care about the bad words your children are learning from him.

The person who takes the entire tray of treats from the concierge lounge back to their room. "I have a big family," they say, if they bother to explain their actions at all.

So let me here it. Give me your worst tales of rudeness at Disney. Don't worry, I won't be using names or even nicknames. (If I happen to come across something I'd really like to use with a name/nickname cited, I will contact the person via private message before even considering doing so.)

Okay, on the count of three, vent.

One...

Two...

Three!

I had a bad experience on my birthday the 24th of this month, this rude man behind me was trying to get past me in line for ice cream over at Main Street, he actually exhaled quite loudly and in disgust, I didn't even notice him until he did that, but I sure made a point of calling him out on it, and letting everyone there know that some people should brush up on their manners.
Had he actually done the normal thing and said excuse me I would have been more than happy to let him by.
Geez, some people!

 

[Praying Colonel]

We seem to encounter a lot less of this than most folks apparently do. We never see the line-cutters, the non-smoking-area-smokers, the roving packs of tour groups, etc. But we do seem to have one event every trip that makes us go "Wow."

Like during our '07 trip, we happened to catch Micky's Judge's Tent on a slow day, so we got in line to meet Mickey. There was a family in front of us and a Dad who didn't seem to be feeling the magic right then. He has 2 of his kids up there to get their pic taken with Mickey, but the 3rd kid wasn't moving fast enough for him, so he encouraged the child to move a little faster with a strategically placed "F" bomb. Yikes...

During our trip last August we made the mistake of leaving right after Illuminations and trying to get up the monorail ramp. People were jam-packed. Well, up comes this lady with 3 men following behind her, and she's just blatantly pushing people out of the way left and right. She gets to us and tries to push past, and DW (who's normally very easy-going, but at that moment didn't have much magic left) just turned around and gave her the stink-eye. The lady says "I'm claustrophic and I can't stand to be penned up like this." Well, the lady finds a CM and the CM agrees to let the lady and her group wait outside the bars. The next monorail comes, and it's jam-packed--there's no room in there. The lady says "Hold that monorail!" and she and her group force their way onto the monorail. Someone in the crowd yells, "I thought you were claustrophobic!" and the lady just shrugs her shoulders and blows us a kiss as the doors close. Classy...

 

[old lady]

I remember a time someone threw a finger while we were on a speedway ride at his friend.

 

[leeh1530]

The biggest thing for me is when people who rent the strollers use them as weapons to get me to move faster by banging against my ankles / shins. When my mom was around, she moved kind of slowly due to chemo treatments and such, so we just moved to the side and let the rude ones blast by. Sometimes, I would say to Mom, "Gee, I guess we weren't fast enough for them," but loud enough so all could hear.

Another thing that gets me, although I have never had it happen to me, is when someone thinks it's funny to give the bird on rides like Splash or EE when they know the camera will take the picture. Really now, for the others on the ride, what if they wanted to see the picture?

 

[BenA81]

pushing a double stroller around the parks isn't easy and I think I'm pretty good at staying in a straight line. I got annoyed with people who walk sideways, so by the end of vacation I would let them walk into me. This amused me slightly. I guess there is some gray area here, was I the rude one?

 

[glenpreece]

The biggest thing for me is when people who rent the strollers use them as weapons to get me to move faster by banging against my ankles / shins. When my mom was around, she moved kind of slowly due to chemo treatments and such, so we just moved to the side and let the rude ones blast by. Sometimes, I would say to Mom, "Gee, I guess we weren't fast enough for them," but loud enough so all could hear.

Another thing that gets me, although I have never had it happen to me, is when someone thinks it's funny to give the bird on rides like Splash or EE when they know the camera will take the picture. Really now, for the others on the ride, what if they wanted to see the picture?

Yeah the strollers and ECV's drive me nuts when people smash into youe legs constantly while trying ti leave the parks. Get over it people we are all trying to get home!!

 

[BethA]

Line jumpers kill me. We were in line for Soaring. It was very busy and we'd been waiting 45 minutes and were close to the top. The entire time the woman in front was talking to her family on her cell. They were on test track and she was holding their place in line. At the last minute they pushed all the way to the front of the Soaring line. To push through an entire crowd who has waited close to an hour is RUDE. Later that day we watched another family yelling "SUE, Sue" "our mother is up there" They pushed to the front and just jumped in line--there was no Sue there.

I agree with those who said waiting for the parade or fireworks can be frustrating. I just don't get why people find it necessary to be so rude.

 

[ntsammy5]

Well later on my dad told me what if we said we were foreign since we are from Canada, because there was no way for him to tell that about us.

Isn't Canada the 51st state?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I can see Ft Erie from my office and I never think of Canadian as foreigners - now people from Ohio are a different story!


I'vw never ever had anything happen at Disney that upset me. I guess I'm too mellow when I'm there.

 

[rabx5]

When I smoked (will be smoke free 2years on 2/16 ) I was in the designated smoking area in DHS over by Star Tours. It was actually a nice area all in the shade and set back from the hustle bustle of everything. There were probably 5 of us smoking. This lady pushes her stroller with a tot in it in the smoking area and after a few minutes she starts coughing and fanning herself and proceeds to lecture us all about smoking around her toddler We all told her she was in the smoking area and she said she didn't care, we should have extinguished our cigarettes when she entered the area and she was going to tell a CM.

We never saw her or a CM

 

[freepixie]

Going to WDW as a family of adults (I'm 28, mama is 48, and auntie is 58) we have experienced our share of rudeness - several times at character meals we've recieved the snide comment "huh, I thought Disney World is for kids." We just brush it off, no use getting into it with idiots.

The rudest was at the Little Mermaid show, oh gosh I think it was in 2006? Anyhow, that year I was pushing auntie in a wheelchair, her knees are too bad for all the walking, and after a difficult (medically speaking) spring, she was not up to using a ECV, so I had been pushing. So, at the Little Mermaid we get seated in the last row for wheelchairs and take our seats and so does the rest of the audience. After the lights go down and the Mermaid takes the stage, this 13-year-old boy in front of us decides to sit on the back of his seat - keep in mind this kid is already taller than I am - and is now blocking my entire view. I lean up and ask very nicely to please sit down I can't see. He ignores me, so I ask again a little louder. With that his mother turns around and yells "SO? He likes the Mermaid! If you want to see, you can just stand up!!" I yell back at her "I've been pushing a wheelchair in 90 degrees heat outside, I need to sit and so does your son!" She then says "Its not my problem your family is too fat to walk around the park, stand up or shut up!" I was in tears at this point, and my mama wanted to get a CM, and I told her not to, but in hindsight I should have let her. But near the finale, I did give the chair a good swift kick and the kid finally sat down. As they were exiting the kid says "Your really mean you know?" and I said "Yeah, and you're really rude!!!" Needless to say that was our last time in the MGM park, we had more rude encounters there than at any other Disney park, and that one took the cake for sure.

 

[figmentfan2009]

People who are actually in need of scooters are always polite... that is great... people who get them because they want to get to the front of the line and they take turns getting off an letting each other riding the scooter... not so much.

Last trip, I was walking by the castle and was apparently not walking fast enough and this lady (who by size was three times as big as the rent-a-scooter) ran straight into the backs of my legs over and over to get me out of her way. She couldn't like... drive around me... that would have been too polite. I have to admit after the third time, I humiliated my husband when I turned around and told her (rather loudly) to knock it off and that having a scooter didn't preclude her from having manners. She called me a B-word, told me to shut up and get the He-- out of her way she was in a hurry and scooted off.

Excuse me?
vacation from civility and manners? Uh yeah...

 

[divawife]

I think crowds always brings out the worst in some people. The worst example of rudeness is when people complain loudly when the driver of a Disney bus needs to assist a passenger in a wheelchair and help them board or exit. The sighs, tsking and sometimes nasty comments are truly horrible. People don't like to wait when they are tired but I doubt they would prefer being in that wheelchair or having their child be in that wheelchair.

 

[melancholywings]

We saw some moments of rude and lack of common sense behavior.

At AK on one of the animal treks (I'm too cold to remember the name of it right now) - but the one that has the papers for bird watching and the tigers. I was off to the side taking pictures of my daughter when I heard a loud bang - then another loud bang. I looked up to see an older couple driving a pair of rental scooters and they were at one of the wooden doors you have to open to progress to the next section. Well instead of asking for help from one of the guest, or taking turns opening the door for each other, the woman was backing her scooter all the way up then running into the door over and over again in an attempt to force it open. I ran over there and held it open for them - and got a glare for it. But really you wouldn't do that to a door in your home.

People who sit in the handicap section of shows who are not handicap. I get the show is crowded and they want a good view. But how hard is it to walk up the stairs to a different seat.

Over our 9 days at the world we only got seats on the bus 3 times - that we kept. Usually all 3 of us had to stand, or DH and I would give up our seats for the elderly or small children if we saw parents struggling. But one morning we had just missed the bus and we were near the front of the line for the next one. We stood there waiting for it, and we were all very tired that day, then when it finally arrived we loaded on. The bus (true to course) filled up and people filled into the standing spots. Including this large family of grandma, grandbabies, aunts and uncles. Well the young mom was standing with a sleeping baby and smiled at me. So I was just about to offer her my seat when the 'grandma' goes on - in a loud passive aggressive tone how 'magical' that THEY had to stand on the bus, and how HARD it was going to be for the mom to STAND on the MOVING bus with a sleeping baby. So we didn't offer up our seats because DH and I don't support grown up temper tantrums, but saddly another man did offer his to her. Then after he gave his seat to the mom with the sleeping baby - the grandma goes on about how HARD it was for the little girl to stand. Serious lady? If you can't handle taking public transportation then don't take the bus. And don't demand something that you yourself wouldn't be willing to give up.

We had so many cast members tell us in earnest what nice people we were. Which struck me as sad as we didn't do anything but treat them like fellow humans.

When we ate at Japan TS we were sat with this other family that although they were nice to us - they we're bossy to the help and not very worldly (I'm such a snob.) But they weren't very open minded to trying new experiences. They then tried to order food that wasn't on the menu, demanded to pay out of pocket for it and became pushy when the server told them that they didn't have that type of food in the kitchen. Then when the chef came out to cook our meal in front of us they asked him if anyone ever told him that he looked like Jackie Chan - the only thing the poor guy had in common with Jackie Chan is that neither one of them is white.

 

[MsPoppinsTX]

We were in Epcot one night for dinner at Akershus in Norway in Sept. 08 and of course its crowded and there is this line that leads up to the podium to "check in" or put your name on the list. Well I'm next in line and then this woman comes up behind me and asks the lady behind us if she has a "reservation" and she said no, so she walks past her and asks me and I said yes so she stops behind me but cut in front of the lady that was originally behind me. The person who was cut in front of said that there was only one line and it didn't matter if you had ADR, but that woman would have nothing of that and said that she had a reservation so she should go first. Well, when I was done checking in I turned slightly and motioned for the person who was cut off to go ahead to the podium, blocking the mean woman who cut in front of her. I wanted to say that just because on paper she would be in front of those without a reservation doesn't mean that she should be able to go to the head of the line. Just wait your turn. It wasn't even a long line.