Rude Behavior At Disney

[BradyBz12]

We were in It's Tough to be a Bug and not one, but TWO men in our row (one on either end) had video cameras. One was right next to me. They both whipped them out pretty much as soon as we all sat down and immediately a CM came and asked them both to put them away. They did - for about 30 seconds. The man next to me shut the video screen off on his and resumed filming, until his child needed his attention and then he put it away. The guy at the other end just whipped his out again as soon as the CM was back at the end of the row. I know, because his video screen was VERY bright.

I know there are people who miss, don't know or don't understand the rules and I'm more than happy to cut those folks some slack. But clearly this was a case of someone that had been told what the rules were and understood them in that moment (he put the camera away when asked). And then decided that not only did the rules not apply to him, it didn't matter one iota if what HE wanted (to tape the show illegally) would interfere with the viewing by all those people behind him.

Wanna bet that video ended up on YouTube? <ugh>

 

[Talking Hands]

Maybe this is the wrong way to think, but it is my opinion. We are all there to have a vacation. We are all tired, hot, cranky whatever. We should all use our inside voices when speaking to our group and we should be courteous to everyone. That being said if you are in a wheelchair or a scooter or if you are overburdened with your kids stroller, backpack or crib don't expect anyone else to care. Sometimes if you can't do something then don't. If you have 4 kids in strollers and can't get them on the tram, then you need to walk to the gate. If you have a scooter and I walk in front of you, you needed to stop. You are moving twice as fast as me and I don't know you are coming. If you realize the 3'o clock parade just started, then you are not getting a good spot for either you or your kids. Just let is go and chalk it to experience for next time. There have been plenty of times we could not do something or go somewhere because of our kids or other reasons. Waiting for a few buses to pass if you must sit is OK. If you are in a hurry wait your turn and be prepared to stand. If you got 2 kids hanging on you, that is your pblm not mine. You should have done the shore vacation. Like I said before, I am not mean or rude to anyone, but if you have special needs then YOU have them, not the rest of us. We are all spending the same amount of crazy money on these vacations. This board and others will help you out and give advice before you go to help you plan. Use it.

If you are walking in front of my wheelchair you know I am there. You need to watch where you are walking. I'm not coming around you. You are crossing my path. And unless you are coming toward me I don't see or hear you so I have no clue that you are cutting across my path until you actually step in front of me. I will release my controller to stop the chair but that is not a guarantee that you won't be hit. It isn't like a car where you can slam on the brakes. My advice to you is to open your eyes and not cut off people in PWC and ECVs. And I am not an amateur in my PWC. I've been using one for close to 10 year and a scooter before that.

 

[honugirl]

no good deed goes unpunished . . . . .

See, that's where Iwould have said to her "sweetie: do you mind putting your doodad down so the people behind you can see the parade too?" and I would have said it loud enough for the parents to hear too.

Unfortunately, I did say it, but they apparently spoke no English. They started speaking in some foreign language after that. Oh well. Now I know, if I get there early, my space will be my space and unfortunately, I'm probably not going to share anymore.

I had forgotten - the same thing happened to me. We staked out a great spot for Spectromagic because I wanted to videotape it on our last night. At the last minute a family came up and crammed in next to us, pushing their daughter in front of us. We didn't say anything because we were taller than her, so we figured it really wouldn't matter if she stood there. Once the parade got to us, she lit up her spinning thing and held it up as high as she could - right in from of our video camera. I asked them several times to have her put it away but they refused because she was enjoying it so much, and after all "Disney is for kids". I was so irritated! All you can see on the video is the toy waving wildly back and forth. Some people just don't consider anyone but themselves.

I totally sympathize with you. It's so frustrating! I was trying to get pics of the parade too and none of them came out at all. They all have spinning, flashing lights in front of the floats.


I also had a rough time on my last trip because I had to use an ECV. The amount of people that would walk between me and my friends was astounding. You could tell we were all together because we were trying to carry on a conversation, yet we'd get spread out time and time again with me being pushed back because I can only drive as fast as people are walking, so when they squeeze in front of me, I have to stop and wait, then start again. A little common courtesy could go a long way. We're all going to get where we're going, if it takes you an extra 30 seconds because of me and my ECV, it's OK. Be glad you're not in one. It's not much fun staring at everyone's behinds all day long and trying to navigate in crowds. I'll gladly give any of you my ECV, but with it, you get my rare disease and my brain tumor.

 

[Stacerita]

I see this thread being closed within the next 24 hours, probably 12 .

Its still going.

 

[mrsksomeday]

Its still going.

It's a miracle .

 

[rudetreehill]

I'm curious... was there a reason you thought it would be closed?

 

[christa112]

Good for you!!!

I will second this post, I am not in a wheelchair or a scooter, but you if you walk in front of me while I am pushing a stroller, you WILL get run over!!!

If you are walking in front of my wheelchair you know I am there. You need to watch where you are walking. I'm not coming around you. You are crossing my path. And unless you are coming toward me I don't see or hear you so I have no clue that you are cutting across my path until you actually step in front of me. I will release my controller to stop the chair but that is not a guarantee that you won't be hit. It isn't like a car where you can slam on the brakes. My advice to you is to open your eyes and not cut off people in PWC and ECVs. And I am not an amateur in my PWC. I've been using one for close to 10 year and a scooter before that.

 

[christa112]

Most likely because they thought this thread would get heated fast. Things can be taken the wrong way and blow up pretty fast on here.

I'm curious... was there a reason you thought it would be closed?

 

[jpeka65844]

I've thought about doing that too, but what if they won't move ... how long would you keep standing there waiting?

I don't stand and wait. I just climb over them and step on as many toes as possible.

 

[DisneyFed]

Rude / Criminal....

My wife and I were in Animal Kingdom in late 2006. She was hanging out "cooling her heels" While I had been dispatched to get a drink and a Pretzel...

I was waiting in line a few people back from, what I could figure, was a teenage girl and her boyfriend who were having a "disagreement".....He was apparently ready to go back to the resort, she was not. She told him several times she wasn't going back until her parents left, but he kept getting more and more angry, and started getting really loud about.

Well, this dude decided he / they were leaving and grabbed her arm and yanked her out of line...she pulled away, and he pushed her back intot he half wall behind her...this happened so fast no one really had time to react before it happened

Well, several people started yelling at the guy, and he turned around and started to run off...Unfortunately, he ran right at me....and after 16 years of law enforcement, 8 of those (and counting) on the SWAT team, well, let's just say he picked the wrong guy to try and shove....::cop: ::cop:

He ended up face first on the ground, with me on top of him, and he didn't have enough time to put his hands out to break his fall. He hit so hard, I felt the breath come right out of him, and he just laid there.....out of reflex, I moved him into the "handcuff" position.

About that time, her dad comes running up and starts accosting me until the nearby people and a couple of CM's relate the story to him. Security, and later OCSO, took him away after I gave a statement, and the father put him on a plane home (I later found out)...

Turns out they were staying in the same resort we were, and the father bought us dinner one night...

I don't know the story between those two, but I sure hope that relationship did not continue when she got home---Dad wasn't as big (or probably as mean) as I am, but he did not look happy...

 

[disneynewbee]

did you get a picture?

I didn't, I should have but the mom was kinda crazy she probably would have assulted me.

 

[amykay9377]

When I smoked (will be smoke free 2years on 2/16 ) ......

I just started reading this thread, but I just had to jump in and congratulate you on your Quit! I just celebrated mine yesterday--Groundhog's Day!




And now....

I return you to your regulary scheduled topic.

 

[mrsksomeday]

I'm curious... was there a reason you thought it would be closed?

If you are here for any amount of time you would see that there are stoller - wheelchair/ECV - line cutter threads shut down every week here, seriously every week.

 

[Markstudy]

Now for the all time worst- The mom who puts her needs before her kids.

From a Disney Employee-
I work at the Kids Club at xxxxx. We had all of two kids just a litle bit ago and two more were coming in the door. I was glad it was getting slow. So I welcome the mom and the two kids. Before I could ask the questions to check them in, the mom sticks out her dining card and says to me- "Neither of them has had breakfast nor lunch. If I give you my dining card can you send someone to get them a counter service meal?" Mind you, this was ONE O'CLOCK in the afternoon. And the kids hadnt eaten anything??? I politely told her no, that we could not do that. But that if she wanted to postpone her tour, she could go up to the restaurant and get them food. She declined. I told her I would give them juice and cookies (the only thing we have). The little boy took cookies. The girl did not. We all just shook our heads at that mom. And she acted like it was our fault that they had not eaten. Grrr

 

[hitthebids]

If you are walking in front of my wheelchair you know I am there. .

You seemed to take this as a personal attack on you. If you have been using a chair for 10 years, then i am sure you are experienced enough for us non-observant walkers. The people I am directing my opinions at are the "day renters that have a older person with them and think it is a good idea to rent a scooter so they can get to the front of the lines and grandma wont slow down the rest of the group and we can throw all of our stuff in the basket and let a few grand kids ride" people. Believe me when i say that I have all respect for truly disabled people. But you have to agree with me that not all the people rolling around WDW really need to.

 

[KPeveler]

You seemed to take this as a personal attack on you. If you have been using a chair for 10 years, then i am sure you are experienced enough for us non-observant walkers. The people I am directing my opinions at are the "day renters that have a older person with them and think it is a good idea to rent a scooter so they can get to the front of the lines and grandma wont slow down the rest of the group and we can throw all of our stuff in the basket and let a few grand kids ride" people. Believe me when i say that I have all respect for truly disabled people. But you have to agree with me that not all the people rolling around WDW really need to.

Most of us in wheelchairs HAVE been personally attacked by people who think we should be able to stop on a dime.

For the record, you DO NOT GO TO THE FRONT OF A LINE with a wheelchair. In fact, I usually wait longer for the ride.

 

[hitthebids]

I can relate to some of the things in your post.

Be thankful you can tour the world unencumbered. It may not always be that way.

I think you missed a bit of what i said. There have been times that we could not do everything we wanted. I have an older son with special needs and a young one that is fine. I have relatives in a wheelchair. We knew that we couldn't do certain things with them with causing a problem for those around us. My older son could never stay in a long line quietly waiting for an attraction without annoying people around us. So we never went on a ride with a long line. We didn't have a small stroller one year so you know what we did? We carried the little one and rented one on the grounds when we parked too far to walk in. And some times we knew that a Disney vacation just was not the right thing to do sometimes and we did something else.

 

[Nik's Mom]

My little nephew was ran over by a lady on an ECV. She saw him and aimed right for him. He couldn't move out of the way because there were adults on either side of him. I guess she thought it would be easy to mow down a little boy. I know she saw him because she actually glared at him. My nephew collapsed on the floor and she just kept on going. She ran over his foot and he was bleeding. I had to whip out my first aid kit right there on Main Street (first and last time I had to).

I know that those of you who need ECV's do not typically behave this way. We just happened to run into a maniac on wheels that day.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

You seemed to take this as a personal attack on you. If you have been using a chair for 10 years, then i am sure you are experienced enough for us non-observant walkers. The people I am directing my opinions at are the "day renters that have a older person with them and think it is a good idea to rent a scooter so they can get to the front of the lines and grandma wont slow down the rest of the group and we can throw all of our stuff in the basket and let a few grand kids ride" people. Believe me when i say that I have all respect for truly disabled people. But you have to agree with me that not all the people rolling around WDW really need to.

In response to the part I bolded, the problem is, why should all the responsibility fall on her? If someone was walking and someone else cut in front of her so closely that she couldn't stop in time and bumped into him, would you also say she should be experienced enough at walking to avoid non-observant folks who cut her off?

Similarly, I'll assume that most "non-observant walkers" have been walking for more than 10 years and really should be experienced enough not to cut in front of a wheelchair, scooter, stroller or another walker.

 

[tink621]

Another bus story - happened too many times - we're sitting waiting for the bus, either we're the first on the bench or we've sat down in line on the bench, and groups of people come and stand to wait for the bus jumping on in front of us - what do they think? that's we're just sitting there waiting for nothing?

Well, I guess we could have been the people to do this. But I really don't understand people that keep sitting on the bench when quite a few parties walk up to wait on the same bus. Where are they supposed to go? When the bus pulls up does everyone standing back away and let everyone sitting on the benches get on? I have seen families sitting on the benches and the area start to get crowded and they just keep sitting. I just keep thinking to myself, why don't they get up and move forward since so many people are coming up. I guess some want to just keep sitting as long as they can, but they're also taking a risk at missing a bus or not having a seat on that bus.