Rude Behavior At Disney

[toocherie]

Ah there are two sides to this argument. I had to use an ECV one time at christmas because I had dislocated my knee. I was sick and tired after about the third day of being in a busy park and people cutting infront of me and diving round me to get ahead of me. I continually had to slam the brakes on, which drove me insane. So in the end i took the attitude that if people were going to be so stupid as to cut infront of me like that, I wasn't going to stop and they would get their ankles rammed. Its their fault for being so rediculous. It happened wiht one woman and she looked at me like 'what the hell are you doing?!' I said 'you shouldnt have just jumped infront of me then!' - she didnt have a response!

I now am very tolerant of people in wheelchairs at Disney because I know how frustrating it is from their point of view, but I guess you have to be in that situation to understand.

Yeah, it's hard to explain unless you've ridden an ECV/wheelchair (or pushed a stroller) how difficult it can be.

 

[lovetoscrap]

People who invade my Personal Space are rude!

What is about lines that make people think that SOMEHOW they will get there faster if they stand right on top of the person in front of them????? Like that extra 2 feet of space is only thing standing between them and actually getting to the front??

Everything we rode was pretty much walk on, or a 5 min. wait. The que lines were EMPTY!! But if there was even a momentary delay, the person behind me would be standing on my heels--WHY??? It was hot and sticky--I know I had to smell pretty bad--I sweat a lot in the heat. Could they not take a step back and allow some air flow???



THE WORST was in line at the food court at POP our last day. My dd10 all the sudden yelled "OW". Then she whispered to me, "That lady just hit me in the back with her tray." Sure enough the lady was standing as close as she could get and had the corner of her tray jammed in DD's back.

Since I had space between us and the couple in front of us I took a step forward and had DD move up a tiny bit. YEP--Lady moved forward and stuck the tray in DD's back. So I pullled DD in front of me and switched places thining that with a bigger person to see maybe she would notice that we were in that space she was trying to occupy. NOPE--now the tray was in my fanny--

WHO WANTS TO EAT FOOD THAT HAS BEEN THAT CLOSE TO SOMEONES BACKEND????? (lucky for her I didn't have gas!)

At this point we already closer to the people in front of us than I am comfortable with so we couldn't move until the line moved. When it moved I took a small step forward to preserve the space in front of us. Lady moves and shoves the tray in my hip (I had turned to the side). I am totally not a confrontational person but it was our last day and I was tired and cranky!!! I HAD HAD IT!!!

I took another step forward to get away from the tray and as soon as I saw her start to move I said (in as pleasant an annoyed voice that I could!) "Could you please stay where you are? You keep crowding us and shoving your tray into us."

Well, you would have thought I had just insulted her entire family and called her nasty names. Instead of just a polite, oh I am so sorry, she got all huffy and attitudy and said "Well, I am just trying to keep the line moving".

I said to her, " THE LINE ISN'T MOVING, WE ARE!!! We are trying to get away from you and your tray!"

We were next to check out and so she was then being unreasonable and when we moved up to pay she stayed where she was so while we were checking out she was about 6 ft away!!! Fine with me, but it would have been even funnier if someone had cut in front of her while she was making her "statement".

PERSONAL SPACE PEOPLE!!! You do not have to stand on top of the person in front of you--it doesn't get you there any faster!!!

 

[iradi8]

This past weekend I witnessed some rude behavior that I've never seen before. It was at a bus stop in the morning -- an older lady wearing socks (no shoes) appeared to be intoxicated. A bus pulled up but it was not the bus she wanted. She ran up to the bus driver and started ranting to him to turn the engine off because of the fumes. She said that she had asthma.

Are you ready for this? She was smoking a cigarette at the time...lol.

 

[thatgrrl]

the line police are callling in reinforcements....

orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-disney-battery-020209,0,7242547.story

OrlandoSentinel.com
Person reports alleged battery at Disney's Small World ride
Walter Pacheco

Sentinel Staff Writer

11:20 AM EST, February 2, 2009

A person at Magic Kingdom called deputies Sunday to report a battery, but later declined to prosecute, reports show.

Jim Solomons at the Orange County Sheriff's Office said the person called 911 dispatch operators at 3 p.m. alleging a battery at the It's a Small World ride at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom theme park.

Reports show one guest elbowed another because he thought the man was trying to cut in line.

The victim told the deputy who arrived at the scene that they did not want to press charges, Solomons said.

Although nothing violent happened in this incident, it's not the first time tempers heat up between guests at a Magic Kingdom ride.

On May 27, 2007, Aimee Krause, her two children, and some family friends visited the Magic Kingdom. Alabama resident Victoria Walker and a group from her church in Anniston, Ala., also were at the theme park.

At some point, both parties were waiting in line at the Mad Tea Party ride -- a Disney staple in which guests sit in oversized teacups.

Krause testified in April 2008 that Walker knocked her to the ground with a kick to the knee, beat her about the head and pulled the lanyards around her neck so tightly that Krause began to black out -- all because Walker thought that Krause had cut in line.

The jury convicted Walker of battery.

Copyright © 2009, Orlando Sentinel

 

[Mrs.Toad]

People who invade my Personal Space are rude!

What is about lines that make people think that SOMEHOW they will get there faster if they stand right on top of the person in front of them????? Like that extra 2 feet of space is only thing standing between them and actually getting to the front??

[[snip]]

PERSONAL SPACE PEOPLE!!! You do not have to stand on top of the person in front of you--it doesn't get you there any faster!!!

That is so funny!

That reminds me of this guy behind us waiting for Kilimanjaro Safari one time. dd was 2 - almost 3yo, and enjoying looking at the park map. Since KS has one of those lines where you're absolutely still for about 5 minutes, then move up 20 feet, then still again for 5 minutes, dd kept laying the map on the ground to look at it. Each time the line moved forward, dh and dd8 would walk forward, and it would take me and dd2 about 3 seconds to pick up the map and join them. Each and every time, this idiot behind us would sigh loudly and squeeze past us and stand behind dh and older dd. Each time, dd2 and I would pass him again and join the other half of our family. Did this guy really think a 3 second pause when we were still 30 minutes from the front of the line was going to make a difference in when he'd ride? duh.

 

[mom2meiko]

this happened quite a few years ago so my exact details are sketchy but dh and i had fastpass tickets for the safari at AK. we got to the front of the FP line and as the cast member went to let us go the woman at the front of the regular line starting yelling (literally) at the poor CM about how she'd been waiting so long and the CM didn't have the right to let others go in front of her, etc. the CM tried several times to explain about FP but eventually the woman told the CM to "f-off", pushed her aside and stormed into the queue dragging her poor (i assume) embarrassed husband along behind her. totally ruined the ride for me i was so angry that anyone would behave that way in WDW. it was awful!

also - i still see quite a few people smoking wherever they want regardless of the rules regarding smoking in designated areas only. that really makes me angry. i work very hard to keep myself and my family out of smoke filled environments to the point that i haven't been to my mothers house since 1995 because she refuses to not smoke in the house when we are there. how dare some rude person decide they are above the rules set forth by disney and smoke where ever they please..

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

In December 2006 at the Animal Kingdom I was waiting in line to get a picture with Winnie The Pooh and Tigger when I overheard a Cast Member tell this woman she needed to wait in the back of line and I heard her say as she walked away "you got to be (insert swear word there) kidding me". The funny thing was there was like one or two guests behind me and this was after the Animal Kingdom just opened, so at the most her kids had to wait 2 minutes which is nothing compared to other lines to see the characters. So I guess she thought her kids were to important to wait in what was the shortest line ever when meeting the Disney characters.

 

[fallen_angel727]

I don't know if i would call it rude, but it's my biggest pet peeve at any amusement park, people who don't move a head when the line begins to move. Now I don't mean begin walking immidiately, but those (especially large groups) that stay put for longer than say 5 or 6 minutes then oh so slowly inch their way up the huge space they have created.

Now there is no logical reason for this pet peeve, as I realize that in reality we will still get to the end and the time difference isn't really an issue. It just bugs me when people don't pay attention, and can't continue their conversation while moving forward and there's like 100ft of space a head of them while others behind them are trying to move forward. Like I said no real reason for this pet peeve...just something at annoys me for no logical reason (as my DBF poits out every time I get annoyed lol).

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

People who invade my Personal Space are rude!

I agree 100%

My #1 pet peeve is when people invade my personal space. I don't need someone right on my heels in line. We are all going to get in "eventually". I can't stand stranger's bodies pushing against me. Gross!!!!!

Jennifer

 

[kardut]

Last year on the POTC the girl in the boat behind us was shrieking -- I mean, ear-splitting, deafening shrieking -- everytime we passed by a scene with Jack Sparrow. I think she really thought that was Johnny Depp sitting there. And of course she was taking flash pictures the entire way through.

We had some line cutters on BTMR...squeezed in front of us at the end where you queue up for seat rows, so that they ended up being on the train in front of us. If they had stayed in line, they would have gotten the Dream Fastpasses that we got instead for being on the designated train. Funny how karma works.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

We had some line cutters on BTMR...squeezed in front of us at the end where you queue up for seat rows, so that they ended up being on the train in front of us. If they had stayed in line, they would have gotten the Dream Fastpasses that we got instead for being on the designated train. Funny how karma works.

That's a great example of karma working out.

 

[buffettgirl]

I just thought of another - this might be classified as rude behavior...or maybe not. but for the love of Mike - if you're in disney, in july,

WEAR DEODORANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Halloweenqueen]

I've been amazed at the number of nasty comments we get from the standby lines when we use fastpass. We've had people stand on the rail and block the line with their legs (K safari). People shouting and cursing as my family goes in front of them (TSM). I have dozens of these stories.

I used to try to explain that it's open to everyone, but now I don't bother. People just don't get it. How many times have I tried to pass along FP and people look at me like I'm trying to pass them a bag of drugs.

 

[buffettgirl]

I've been amazed at the number of nasty comments we get from the standby lines when we use fastpass. We've had people stand on the rail and block the line with their legs (K safari). People shouting and cursing as my family goes in front of them (TSM). I have dozens of these stories.

I used to try to explain that it's open to everyone, but now I don't bother. People just don't get it. How many times have I tried to pass along FP and people look at me like I'm trying to pass them a bag of drugs.

I totally agree with you - FP has been around for a long time now, and it's highly publicized so if people are so stupid that they can't figure it out then I'm done trying to explain it. And the dirty looks are just priceless.

 

[Pakey]

We just returned yesterday from another week at the world and had one rude encounter. We had dinner at CP, our 3 year old waited patiently for his turn with the characters even though we were all finished eating already. When Tigger got to our table, another family with 2 children, older and larger than our 3 year old, came to our table to meet Tigger. We told them to please move out of our pics but the mother told us that they were leaving and hadn't met Tigger. The CM told them they needed to go back to their table and wait for Tigger but they would not leave and proceeded to take pics, get out their autograph books, etc. Sadly, we have no pics of our little guy alone with Tigger; each shot has those 2 other boys in it. I guess the other family decided that they could meet all of the characters without putting in the entire hour needed at CP in order to do so.

 

[mrsksomeday]

Hi Pakey!! That would have really upset me, some people are just so selfish.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

We just returned yesterday from another week at the world and had one rude encounter. We had dinner at CP, our 3 year old waited patiently for his turn with the characters even though we were all finished eating already. When Tigger got to our table, another family with 2 children, older and larger than our 3 year old, came to our table to meet Tigger. We told them to please move out of our pics but the mother told us that they were leaving and hadn't met Tigger. The CM told them they needed to go back to their table and wait for Tigger but they would not leave and proceeded to take pics, get out their autograph books, etc. Sadly, we have no pics of our little guy alone with Tigger; each shot has those 2 other boys in it. I guess the other family decided that they could meet all of the characters without putting in the entire hour needed at CP in order to do so.

 

[Pakey]

Hi Pakey!! That would have really upset me, some people are just so selfish.

Hi Tracy. What really irked me is I knew the reason they were in a hurry to get out of CP was to watch Wishes. Some people just think they deserve to have it all.

 

[toocherie]

We just returned yesterday from another week at the world and had one rude encounter. We had dinner at CP, our 3 year old waited patiently for his turn with the characters even though we were all finished eating already. When Tigger got to our table, another family with 2 children, older and larger than our 3 year old, came to our table to meet Tigger. We told them to please move out of our pics but the mother told us that they were leaving and hadn't met Tigger. The CM told them they needed to go back to their table and wait for Tigger but they would not leave and proceeded to take pics, get out their autograph books, etc. Sadly, we have no pics of our little guy alone with Tigger; each shot has those 2 other boys in it. I guess the other family decided that they could meet all of the characters without putting in the entire hour needed at CP in order to do so.

Hi Tracy. What really irked me is I knew the reason they were in a hurry to get out of CP was to watch Wishes. Some people just think they deserve to have it all.

Unfortunately, some people do think that. But, I don't understand--didn't they eventually leave? Couldn't you have taken pics of your little boy with Tigger when they were done? If I had been the CM I would have made sure that happened.

 

[CampbellScot]

Oh I've got a good one...

I was standing in line with my young step kids and husband waiting for the Nemo and Friends ride. A couple of boys ahead of us...along with their dad...starting having a burping contest. Loudly. That escalated to a pooting contest...LOUDLY. Between the rude bodily noises there was a lot of cursing...as in "Smells like something DIED up your a**..." It went on and on. When the cursing got even more explicit I asked the boys to please stop cursing and reminded them that they were in a family environment with young children around. I was promptly told to mind my own effing business...this from the 12 year old.

The good part of the story is that about five men who were within earshot responded with "You do NOT talk to women that way!" Including my husband!

After that the rude crew decided to leave the line as they didn't come to "stupid Disney World to get effing preached at by prudes..."

leaves you tingly all over doesn't it?

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second one...just b/c I found it so shocking...

I was waiting in line w/ my family for thunder mountain railroad...about halfway up the hill. A woman with a small boy was a ways in front of us. The little boy announced he had to go potty. So the mom pulled his pants down in front of the entire line and let him wee on the ground right where he was standing! People had to step out of the way to avoid getting wee'd on.

gross and rude!