Rude Behavior At Disney

[hitthebids]

In response to the part I bolded, etc:

I was talking about the scooters or ECVs. They are moving twice as fast as a walking person, especially a child. Those people need to be more mindful of walkers, not wheelchairs or strollers.

 

[AndyMcV]

It kinda seems like this thread is heading in the wrong direction. This was suppose to be people sharing stories of rudeness and now it is had turned into a battle ground. Geez, lets keep it to the stories and not critize and degrade each other.

Feeling a little down from this thread? Why not check out the "Nice Behaviour At Disney" thread for a change. It'll lift your spirits.

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2078398

 

[cdrn1]

How about this... loved this.

We brought pool toys with us from home for our LO's.


So for some reason all the kids thought it was their right to come take these toys from my kid. Note the girl in the picture with the watering can.. not my kid. That kid took the toy out of my baby's hands. Often they would take all three pieces and leave my infant crying.

The WORST part was not ONE parent said a stinking thing. I spent the entire week retrieving toys for the girls. I would normally make them share... but geez! And the worst of the worst was a Dad who watched his kid come take all three pieces from my baby, she cried hysterically and the child took the toys over and plopped down with dad and he played with them with his kid!!!! While mine sat there crying. Like it was their RIGHT!

One mom after I went and got them back said "That's fine! We'll just go buy our OWN toys from the gift shop!" Of course she came back empty handed.

Anyway... I thought it was rude of the kids and the parents!!!

We noticed this too last time we were at the Poly! Every time we turned around some other kid had glommed on to my grandkids toys! It didn't seem to bother them so we didn't say anything unless they tried to carry them off, but I had to wonder if maybe the parents thought they were just random toys provided by the resort? Although no way should the parents let it slide if they took it away from another child.
It amazes me some of the stuff parents let their kids do and they don't say a word.

 

[tinkandonaldfans]

me and my dbf were sitting getting ready to watch fantasmic when a spanish family behind us let their little girl pee in a drinks cup! then they just left it on the floor

i was so worried someone would walk past and knock it all over us we had to move seats!

 

[smcabee]

I really haven't noticed too much rude behavior in general during our many trips. The only thing that irks me is parade line cutters. My wife and I choose not to have children and we dutifully wait sometimes an hour and a half or more to get a prime viewing location for parades or fireworks and low and behold 5 minutes before they start some family tries to jump in front of us. Now if I notice a bunch of kids behind us and they are nice we gladly tell the parents their children can stand in front of us to see but if they are pushy forget it they get to stand in the back. Sorry but you should of gotten their earlier.

 

[christa112]

eeewwwww!!!! That is discusting

me and my dbf were sitting getting ready to watch fantasmic when a spanish family behind us let their little girl pee in a drinks cup! then they just left it on the floor

i was so worried someone would walk past and knock it all over us we had to move seats!

 

[honugirl]

I was talking about the scooters or ECVs. They are moving twice as fast as a walking person, especially a child. Those people need to be more mindful of walkers, not wheelchairs or strollers.

Um, just so you know, I'm not going twice as fast as a walking person on my ECV, in fact, I'm generally going as SLOW or SLOWER than the walking public. The only time I went faster was on the completely empty boardwalk in the middle of the afternoon. Most ECV drivers I've seen are going the same speed as I am. We're not holy terrors that fly around the parks with no regard for anyone else.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

How about this... loved this.

We brought pool toys with us from home for our LO's.

So for some reason all the kids thought it was their right to come take these toys from my kid. Note the girl in the picture with the watering can.. not my kid. That kid took the toy out of my baby's hands. Often they would take all three pieces and leave my infant crying.

The WORST part was not ONE parent said a stinking thing. I spent the entire week retrieving toys for the girls. I would normally make them share... but geez! And the worst of the worst was a Dad who watched his kid come take all three pieces from my baby, she cried hysterically and the child took the toys over and plopped down with dad and he played with them with his kid!!!! While mine sat there crying. Like it was their RIGHT!

One mom after I went and got them back said "That's fine! We'll just go buy our OWN toys from the gift shop!" Of course she came back empty handed.

Anyway... I thought it was rude of the kids and the parents!!!

Oh, I hear you on this one! It hasn't happened to us at WDW, but it happens at the rec center pool in my community. It's sort of an unwritten rule that toys left at the side of the pool can be played with by anyone, just put them back where you found them when you are done, or when the owner is leaving and asks for them back. Most of the little ones are good about following this rule, but occasionally, kids will grab them right out of the owner's hand, or take them out of a pool bag on a lounge chair 20 feet from the pool, with parents seemingly nowhere to be found.

One time, a little girl was playing with some of my dd's toys, which was fine, but then her mom got up to leave and started putting our toys in her bag! I went over and asked for the toys, and she acted like she didn't remember which toys were theirs and which weren't, and like I was the weird one for caring about some cheap little pool toys. Yanno, I know they're cheap, but if I had to replace 2 or 3 of them every time we went to the pool, it would start getting pretty pricey, and besides, so what? You don't just take other people's stuff, no matter how cheap it is!

 

[M-I-C-K-E-Y]

Well I wasn't angry or anything. It was more of a what would his reaction be if he found out we were from Canada because it's still a different country, even though it's in North America.

Agreed - some folks seem to be "Geographically Challenged."

 

[Talking Hands]

I was talking about the scooters or ECVs. They are moving twice as fast as a walking person, especially a child. Those people need to be more mindful of walkers, not wheelchairs or strollers.

I can rarely go as fast as my PWC is capable of going. Too many people in the way. Maybe late at night after getting back to the resort but certainly not in the parks. Most of us in ECV or PWC are going no faster than a person that is walking. If we were going faster then how could our family members keep up with us.
I will say this
1. Don't cut across my path with less than 3 feet clearance or you risk being clipped.
2. Don't walk so close to me that you are almost touching my arm rest. Your feet are at risk.
3. Watch your backpack and bags. You hit the controller, I have no control over what the chair will do. It is not where you expect it. My PWC is left hand controlled.
4. Don't walk into me. It has happened where people have walked right into me after I stopped to avoid hitting the person.
5. Don't use any part of my PWC as a catapult or a leaning spot. It is my personal space so stay out of it.

 

[DisDarling]

I also consider you "neighbors"



See--this is what scares me. Presumably the parents are in their 20-30's and they have an attitude that whatever they do is fine, and they are passing this same attitude on to their kids. I can't imagine the future of our country with attitudes like this--and it seems to be rampant!

I am a parent, age 34, and you will NEVER find me EVER allowing my kids to take some one else's items. In fact, I am one of the more responsible parents usually at the pools who is playing with their kids and not sitting on the sidelines sunbathing. Had my daughter done that, taken the toys, I would have told her how we do not take others things and handed them back to the child. So please, dont categorize the 20-30 year old parents.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

On the buses, I sit down [as I am a child .. now teen]and I am a woman.
When it gets crowded, I personally think it is the mans job [the ones in good health!] to let a standing woman take his seat, no matter how tired he is. I find it to be the chivalrous thing to do.

I will, of course, stand for a mother with a child. It is cute watching the kids listen to the music on the bus such as pirates of the caribbean..

 

[ntsammy5]

Chivalry is dead or dying.

 

[LaurenLC]

1. People who push their ways into a show, and then stop in the middle of the row instead of going all the way down... Ummm, if you want to sit in the middle, don't push to get it first.
2. People who just stop walking in the middle of a pathway.... If you want to stop, move to the side.
3. Brazilian tour groups... There are rude people in every country, but this I have now witnessed myself.
4. People who think everything their kids do are so cute... I don't have kids, I want them, and I love them, but I don't think I get the same joy as you do when your kid is being loud during a show, running around a restaurant etc. Oh and I don't appreciate seeing people change their kid’s diapers in the middle of a park either... I know Disney is for kids, but they take my adult money too.
5. People who feel Disney owes them something….. Sometimes in life, you get what you pay for and nothing more.. Make your own magic.

Regardless of anything anyone does, I love my Disney World trips!

 

[Teacher03]

People who change their toddler's diaper on top of a table in a restaurant are pretty rude. Yep, it actually happened. Right beside us.

 

[toocherie]

I am a parent, age 34, and you will NEVER find me EVER allowing my kids to take some one else's items. In fact, I am one of the more responsible parents usually at the pools who is playing with their kids and not sitting on the sidelines sunbathing. Had my daughter done that, taken the toys, I would have told her how we do not take others things and handed them back to the child. So please, dont categorize the 20-30 year old parents.

I didn't mean to indict all parents in that age-range--so no offense meant and I'm sorry if it sounded that way. Just was observing that with children that young most likely the parents were in the 20-30 age range--and should know better.

 

[toocherie]

I don't appreciate seeing people change their kid’s diapers in the middle of a park either... I know Disney is for kids, but they take my adult money too.

Omigosh--I can't believe how many times I have seen this. What had to take the cake was the lady in the row behind me who changed the diaper in the Carousel of Progress--then dropped it on the floor. I didn't confront her (should have) but did tell the CM on the way out.

 

[Suellen]

I think the PP just meant a parent of 20-30 should know better. I also am a mommy in her 30's.

Yeah ~ I also noticed lots of parents who seemed to think the kiddie pool was some kind of babysitter for them. Sunbathing and assuming that the other parents would watch out for their kids. *Sigh* Which I do ~ since I am a good person and it isn't the child's fault they have parents who don't care.

Anyway ~ that isn't really rude... just bad behavior!

 

[Markstudy]

On the buses, I sit down [as I am a child .. now teen]and I am a woman.
When it gets crowded, I personally think it is the mans job [the ones in good health!] to let a standing woman take his seat, no matter how tired he is. I find it to be the chivalrous thing to do.

You are sooooo cute

I hope one-day a man on a white horse, buys you a big house and takes care of your needs

Not sure if its the sweetest thing I've read today or the saddest?

Maybe we all long for the 1970's when men and women had defined roles. Boy the world has changed in the last 40 years... Remember when it was rare to see someone being rude in public? Disney takes me back to a simpler time... maybe that's why the rudeness is more shocking when it happens.

 

[Scurvy]

On the buses, the people I find rude are the ones who expect someone else to give up their seat. Some women are perfectly capable of standing on the bus, some are not. Some men are perfectly capable of standing on the bus, some are not. Sometimes you can tell just by looking whether a person can stand or not, and sometimes you can't. The only person who is entitled to sit on the bus is the person who gets to the seat first. If they want to be nice and give their seat to someone who they think needs it more, that's very kind of them. If they don't choose to give up their seat, that doesn't mean they are rude.

My husband and I sometimes give up our seats, but sometimes one or both of us can not. I find it rude when a girl shoots glares at him on the bus because she seems to think she's more entitled to a seat than he is.