Rude Behavior At Disney

[ShannonMB]

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

Oh no you di-int, as my wanna-be-tween 8 year old would say!! Then you would say, oh yeah, uh-huh, I went there! Ohio is a beautiful state, and I'm certain none of these rude people were Ohioans! hehehe

We were at the parks, and this out-of-control, probably 4 year old came up to DD (6 at the time) out of nowhere, and swatted her in the face, scratching her cheek. Well, kids will be kids, but my mom semi-politely told the mom (who of course was paying no attention whatsoever to her little brat), your son just hit and scratched my granddaughter. Her reply, "Ohhh, I think she'll live!" I thought my mom was going to have a stroke, there was smoke coming out her ears. We had to get out of the area pronto before her head blew off. What's wrong with some people?

 

[dougsmom98]

Our first trip was the week between Christmas and New Years. Our boys were 2,2, and a just turned 4 year old. It was my DH and I with the kids and a double stroller, an umbrella stroller and a back pack. Even though we were "first" in line for the parking lot tram, we had to wait for three trams because we would be two steps from getting on and adults and teenagers would jump in front of us onto the tram. We finally got onto a tram and over to the monorail, only to have the same thing happen to us there. I was so irritated, because my DH had the two strollers, I had one of the twins in each of my arms and my four year old holding onto my pinky so that we all could stay together. People could clearly see that we were there before them and they didn't care that we had our hands full.

 

[Corjack]

We arrived at MK before my DD BBB appt and stopped at Casey's for some quick lunch. While we were eating this family was sitting about a table away from us with Mother, Father, 2 daughers and a son. The little boy was probably 4 or 5. He was running all in between the chairs and feeding the birds and ducks(there is a BIG sign there saying NOT to do that). He was pushing people out of the way and yelling. I was about to SCREAM. They were obviously foreign and their daughters were quietly eating. This father was just letting this boy terrorize the birds and be RUDE to everyone eating. I was about to say something when my DH piped up wiht "I guess if the sign is not in YOUR language then it does not apply to you!"

I must say I was embarassed but he guy seems to NOT CARE and several other people said things before the Dad got all huffy and left.

 

[sneadae]

I didn't take the time to read through all the threads...but here's mine:

The rude people that annoy me are the ones that put their children in my photos with characters - completely disregarding the line. Do they not see the line that has formed behind me? Do they not realize that everyone wants their photo taken with Cinderella, so therefore, they must wait their turn?

Here's my other one...

The people who push their way through to the front of the line - especially in places where there isn't really a line, but a room that must be filled (like in Tower of Terror, or Haunted Mansion, or Dinosaur). As soon as the doors open, the rude people are the ones that force their way to the opening as fast as they can, not even taking into account the people (and children) they knock over on their way there. Do they not understand that we are all going the same place, and we will all get to ride within about 2-3 minutes of each other?

 

[DisDarling]

I didn't take the time to read through all the threads...but here's mine:

The rude people that annoy me are the ones that put their children in my photos with characters - completely disregarding the line. Do they not see the line that has formed behind me? Do they not realize that everyone wants their photo taken with Cinderella, so therefore, they must wait their turn?

Here's my other one...

The people who push their way through to the front of the line - especially in places where there isn't really a line, but a room that must be filled (like in Tower of Terror, or Haunted Mansion, or Dinosaur). As soon as the doors open, the rude people are the ones that force their way to the opening as fast as they can, not even taking into account the people (and children) they knock over on their way there. Do they not understand that we are all going the same place, and we will all get to ride within about 2-3 minutes of each other?

AMEN!!!!

We saw this happen on Dinosaur last trip... we were first in line to the room and MANY people pushed past us as the doors opened. I always stand back in the "prep rooms" for the very reason to have my own space and let the looneys run in on their own.

Same thing happens with the shows... people... if you hang back, let others go ahead.and if they atually FOLLOW the rules about going all the way down their row, you can usually find a great seat in the center. Now for those of you who decide time and time again that you are "too good" to move all the way over... well, I will be happy to remind you when you do it again.

Rude behavior seems to be more and more at the parades... I am also the one who sits with my family an hour before time, on Main Street, and gets the family who comes up behind us right when the parade is starting with the kids who SCREAM every character's name in my ear! Now come on PEOPLE, learn how to show your kids some manners!

Also, leave your flash OFF in the dark rides and shows! When you are sitting behind someone on a dark ride, or during a show, and you are taking pics with your bright flash over and over again, it is distracting and rude. Same thing with camcorders, the screens are VERY bright and VERY annoying.

Amy

 

[darwyn]

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.

hey now ohio...isnt all THAT bad (most of the time)

 

[fires_grumpy]

DW and I collect pins and I have always been patience and wait till the CM is though with the person in front of me. I was in the shops on Main Street in the Magic Kingdom. I was waiting till the CM was done ringing up her sales with a customer. A lady pushing a guy in a wheelchair cuts right in front of me and ask the CM to see her pins. She was still ringing up her customer. She said I`m busy with this customer,the woman said I want to see your pins. I looked at the guy in the wheel chair. He gave me a dirty look and said it`s the only way we afford to came to Disney is to sale pins. I just shook my head. The CM put the pins on the counter they took 2 pins and left 2. Not that I wanted them but to have to cut in front of people and demand to see them while a CM is ring a person up. There is many time when kids will come up to me or DW and ask to trade and I and DW most of the time give them the pin and ask for nothing in return. DW and I enjoy spreading the MAGIC with giving away a few pins to kids.

 

[1001 Ghosts]

How much time do you have?

In no particular order, I'm about to start talking about Brazilian tour groups, Pop Warner Football teams and 6 am Cheer Squads.....

 

[leeh1530]

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?

Oh, trust me, I know those things tend to have a mind of their own! But when I just looked back to see what had happened, thinking that maybe it was a mistake and I'd get some sort of apology, the pusher just GLARED at me.
And I let people just walk into me too. That'll teach 'em!

 

[blkhwks55]

I have 2 DD (2 and 3), and both are very talkative. I must say that almost all the characters that can speak, always continue on with them, asking questions, and seeing what they have to say. We were waiting for Snow White to come back and were 2nd in line. When she arrived, my 2 girls ran up to her, hugged and started asking questions about the movies. She was very nice and kept them going and asking them questions. Now usually I try and hurry them along because I know people are waiting to see them too. I started to get my girls out of there, and as we were walking away the people behind us said, It's about frickin time. Other than that it was a very good trip.

Tony

 

[Blueyed Girl]

Last May we had a family who pushed their children in front of us at Playhouse Disney when the doors opened. We ended up on the 2nd row even though we were only 2nd in line. The entire family then takes off their shoes and the mom proceeds to rub her bare stinky foot on my leg throughout the entire show. I turned and asked her to stop several times and finally had to get sort of stern with her. When the show was over she told her children as loud as she could, to "stay away from the mean lady". She said this in front of my child too. My DH started to step in and her DH drug her away. She never did "GET IT".


As for the stroller issue.....I'm one who pushes a rental stroller every trip. My complaint is about people who don't look 2 feet in front of them and realize there is a stroller there, then trip over it, fall ON MY CHILD then proceed to blame me!! This happens several times per trip. I just don't get it. Look around.....be aware of your surroundings. The other issue is when I am walking in a straight line pushing the stroller and someone decides to just walk across right in front of me KNOWING that I'm there!! Of course you get your ankles bumped. Don't get mad because YOU ran into ME.
I am not one to bump or ram people intentionally with the stroller because I would not want it done to me. I do not like getting blamed for this when it is clearly their mistake. Especially when they land on my kid!

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

One thing that can get frustrating is when others walk in front of you when you are trying to take pictures. I know there are others on here who say they are having to much fun to notice, but sometimes it's clearly obvious when someone is taking a picture and they have time to stop or walk in another direction. I have also read on here that others who do stop will give the person 10 seconds to take the picture and if they have not they will walk in front of them no matter what, which I find to be very rude. Anway this has happened to my family and I which is frustrating, although at least with digital cameras pictures can be erased. However that is still no excuse for not noticing or saying I am sorry.

 

[goofyernmost]

One thing that can get frustrating is when others walk in front of you when you are trying to take pictures. I know there are others on here who say they are having to much fun to notice, but sometimes it's clearly obvious when someone is taking a picture and they have time to stop or walk in another direction. I have also read on here that others who do stop will give the person 10 seconds to take the picture and if they have not they will walk in front of them no matter what, which I find to be very rude. Anway this has happened to my family and I which is frustrating, although at least with digital cameras pictures can be erased. However that is still no excuse for not noticing or saying I am sorry.

Well I think I have to disagree with you on the highlighted part. If you are holding up people to take a picture, you owe it to them to do it as quickly as possible. You would be inconveniencing everyone for your desires. That could be classified as rude behavior. I have seen that happen. The person taking the photograph is fiddling around with the camera. Get's ready to take it and then finds another problem. People make a false start only to have the person raise the camera again and then the crowd stops again. After the second delay folks will rightfully move on.

 

[maxiesmom]

My biggest pet peve is people who use their flash to take pictures on dark rides. It is impossible to ride Pirates anymore without having some bozo flash flashing away. I know the CMs used to make announcements during the ride if this happened, but apparently they have given up.

The last time I was on the Haunted Mansion there was some idiot a few doom buggies ahead of me who was taking flash pictures. Do people really think pictures in a totally dark room will turn out?

 

[Torgue]

We were waiting in line to see the Fairies at Pixie Hollow. We had been in line for over 45 min when a husband , wife , and 4 kids tried to cut in line after seeing the princess. Apparently they had been in line before we had arrived and were gone for over 30 min to see the princess. The family in front of us said " No you got out of line" they continued to cut into the line and acted like they did not understand english. The New Yorker got in there face and say NO! and said our kids have been waiting a long time and go to the back of the line. Thanks tough NY guy! You should never cut a line that long!

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

Well I think I have to disagree with you on the highlighted part. If you are holding up people to take a picture, you owe it to them to do it as quickly as possible. You would be inconveniencing everyone for your desires. That could be classified as rude behavior. I have seen that happen. The person taking the photograph is fiddling around with the camera. Get's ready to take it and then finds another problem. People make a false start only to have the person raise the camera again and then the crowd stops again. After the second delay folks will rightfully move on.

Well I guess in some cases both parties can be rude. I am also not saying it's right to hold up others when taking pictures however if those guests waiting have a way to get around those taking the picture should they not go that way, instead of waiting and then walking in front of them on purpose?

 

[broncopooh]

I was standing at Epcot waiting for my DD who was taking a picture. I was watching her when all of a sudden I felt something slam into my legs. I looked down and there was a 5 or 6 year old boy. He was screaming bloody murder (I'm pretty sure he was crying before he ran into me, his face was covered in tears). I squatted down to his level and asked if he was ok and reached into my back pocket to pull out a glow stick to give him. His dad walked up right then and grabbed his hand and yanked him away. As he grabbed him, he said "let's get away from the mean lady" and told me I needed to watch where I was going. I said "excuse me sir, but he ran into me, but I'd like to give him this". He told the boy that he would go buy him a toy to make him feel better and never acknowledged me or my comment. He ran into me so hard it brought tears to my eyes.

 

[toocherie]

Having ridden a scooter at both DL and WDW, it never ceases to amaze me that people will walk right in front of you. I have even had people look me in the eye (so I know they see me) and step right in front of me. I am very careful in operating the scooter--if they get hit it's only because they are trying to squeeze by in a way that I can't stop in time. I'm sure in many cases it is the same with people with strollers--people just dodge and dart in front of you and you can't stop the stroller in time and end up hitting them.

On the other hand, I have seen what I consider rude stroller and scooter users--whoever put those horns on the scooters should be shot. (Just kidding!) But one day I saw a lady trying to get through a crowd and she just kept hitting her horn all the way. Geesh!

I will say, however, that MOST people who see someone on a scooter are very nice and if you are trying to get by they will move out of the way and open doors, etc. There are all kinds of people in our world and I think when we are someplace like Disney we expect people to act like we would--and it's only magnified when they are rude because it is so unexpected in such a place.

 

[lynnebla]

A couple of years ago I was waiting in line for the bus after Wishes. Of course, everyone was tired and the line was long, but that doesn't mean you can do anything! The little boy behind me (maybe 6yo) kept stepping on the back of my shoe. Mind you, we were just standing in line at the time, not walking, so he was obviously doing it on purpose. After about the 4th time, I turned around and said "Please stop". The mother proceeded to yell at me for telling off her son and said that I shouldn't speak to someone else's child that way. She and her family continued to discuss this and complain how I just thought I was better than them, blah, blah, blah, until the bus finally came and we all got on. Maybe it's just me, but when my child does something to another person, I scold my child, not the other person. And, I even apologize to the other person instead!

 

[Yoshi]

The people who push their way through to the front of the line - especially in places where there isn't really a line, but a room that must be filled (like in Tower of Terror, or Haunted Mansion, or Dinosaur). As soon as the doors open, the rude people are the ones that force their way to the opening as fast as they can, not even taking into account the people (and children) they knock over on their way there. Do they not understand that we are all going the same place, and we will all get to ride within about 2-3 minutes of each other?

One thing I wish they would do is still have it be a formal line in the pre-show room. What I mean is the type of line that zig zags back and forth in the room that way when the doors open, no one pushes and tries to get ahead because they can't. My local Six Flags park does this at their Batman ride which has a pre-show which helps a lot.

At Disney, I now try to wait near the exit doors so I can be one of the first out so I don't get cut by everyone pushing.