Rude Behavior At Disney

[CampbellScot]

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO TRUE!!!

 

[BethA]

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!

At the WL pool we saw a mother tell her child-maybe 3 or 4 yr old- it was okay to go to the potty where they were. Doesn't the child squat down and poop right along the walk way. We moved, so I can't say if she ever cleaned it up, but who does that???

 

[inaminute]

One more. I wasn't going to mention this, but it really annoyed me this past week.

When I'm not renting an ECV, I have a cane to help me along a bit. My DH and I were walking--albeit, a little slowly--toward the boat ride in "The Land" pavilion. It was pretty much a walk-on. Everyone else seemed to be in line for Soarin. Out of the blue, this woman comes around me on my left and literally pushed me out of her way to get to the ride.

DH didn't see it and kept walking with this woman walking in between us. I yelled to DH "Hey! Would you hold up a bit, please? I was just pushed out of the way because that woman thinks the ride is going to disappear before she gets there."

She turned around and looked completely taken by surprise. DH gave her "the look" and she looked embarrassed. Never said a word of apology or anything. Hopefully, she'll be more careful next time. DH suggested I whack people across the back of their legs with my cane when they're rude! From then on, we stopped when someone was rushing past us to get to a ride. We'd look at each other and make a comment about the ride disappearing before they got there.

Oh! And, if you insist on reaching behind you to smack your child in the head, please look first to be sure that there is no one else in the line of fire. Better yet--don't hit your kid in the head. What is wrong with people? I was stunned that any parent would do that. Add to it the fact that this "mother" just missed MY head when she swung around, that I was truly speechless. I ducked, her pre-teen didn't. All I could say was "Hey!"

The woman did have the good grace to look embarrassed, but sheesh! Don't hit your kid! I'm ashamed that I was caught off guard and didn't really do anything. You can be assured though, that if I see it again, the perpetrator will be going down. I think that's one time that being in an ECV might actually be fun!

O.k. I think that's it for the rude behavior from this past trip. We had a great time, otherwise and didn't let the rudeness ruin our days. Granted, these two encounters do still bother me a bit, but more because I wasn't comfortable with how I handled the situations. I wish I'd been more assertive--especially with the kid. That was just wrong and I feel really sorry for the girl.

 

[starbox]

We were at EPCOT the week before Christmas and went to wait for Illuminations in the best viewing spot - behind the little shop at the entrance to WS. We were there 45 minutes before the show was set to start. There was a very large older woman (50's) laying on the concrete in front of the fence - spread eagle to take up as much space as humanly possible.

Fine - so she wanted a good spot, that's no problem. I sat down behind her with the kids. She kept GLARING at us. I mean, if looks could kill........ It was like, how dare anyone sit within 10 feet of her. We ended up just leaving and not even watching the fireworks because she was so rude.

What's funny is that every time we tell the stoy - we ended up giving her the voice of Roz from Monsters INC. We have a whole running monologue we do for her talking in the Roz voice "Get out of my way you brats - I'm trying to watch the show about peace, love, sharing, and joining together with other people and this is MY firework SPOT......I've got to lie down here because I want the WHOLE FENCE just for MYSELF when they talk about sharing with my neighbor. Merry Chritsmas - now SCRAM"

 

[CampbellScot]

At the WL pool we saw a mother tell her child-maybe 3 or 4 yr old- it was okay to go to the potty where they were. Doesn't the child squat down and poop right along the walk way. We moved, so I can't say if she ever cleaned it up, but who does that???

ew!

 

[toocherie]

Ok--maybe I've got too big a mouth but I just don't understand--when people are rude like this why don't more people say something? My feeling is that if someone allows these types of things to occur it just (i) empowers the bad actor to keep doing it, and (ii) makes other people think it must be ok (so they can repeat the behavior some other time). Not to get political (and I don't mean it in that context) but it really does "take a village"--and if decent people don't stand up and point out incorrect behaviors things will never get better--and, in fact, might get worse.

 

[Pakey]

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.

No way, those two boys were still hanging onto Tigger as he was making his way from our table onto the next one. The CM tried to get them to leave, the woman kept telling the CM they were leaving and couldn't wait but yet they spent a good 5 minutes with Tigger between our table and the next one. I'm sure we could have gotten Tigger to return but it was late, our little guy was not upset by it, we just chalked it up to experience.

 

[toocherie]

No way, those two boys were still hanging onto Tigger as he was making his way from our table onto the next one. The CM tried to get them to leave, the woman kept telling the CM they were leaving and couldn't wait but yet they spent a good 5 minutes with Tigger between our table and the next one. I'm sure we could have gotten Tigger to return but it was late, our little guy was not upset by it, we just chalked it up to experience.

Well that just stinks! and good for your little guy for not getting upset.

 

[mayesq]

I'm still getting through the thread, but I needed to add my two biggest annoyances:

1. People who step over my child in the stroller. You see him there, he is a person not an obstacle. Don't step over him and then complain when you get hit in the ankles.

2. Line cutters. Nuff said.

 

[Tat2ddisneymom]

I know a lot of people say they've never experienced any rude behavior at Disney. I'm not really much of a "people person," so I don't know if I just notice it more or if things just bother me more.

That being said, I experienced the single most vile public display of child abuse I have ever seen anywhere in the ladies' room at the Magic Kingdom last year.

My friend and I had to take our girls to the bathroom. When we got in there, we heard cursing, crying, screaming, and beating. There was a woman in a stall beating the ever loving hell out of her child, apparently either for pooping her pants or not pooping fast enough in the bathroom. It was never really clear as to why she was doing it.

The woman was calling this poor child every foul name in the book and we could hear her just hauling off and hitting that child. My friend took the girls outside, we sent another woman out to get security, and I yelled at the woman, along with several other women who were in the restroom with me. I don't even remember what we said. There were some women who were pounding on the door to the stall.

Security came in and took the woman and child out. I don't know what happened to them, but I hope they hauled her away in handcuffs.

 

[jamstew]

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.

I'll probably give you 15 seconds. Sorry, but I'm not going to stand around and wait while you fritz around with the camera or take multiple shots.

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

I'll probably give you 15 seconds. Sorry, but I'm not going to stand around and wait while you fritz around with the camera or take multiple shots.

The multiple shots is what gets me. Take your photo and then let the crowd pass. If you need to take another picture, wait a minute to let the crowd die down. Don't say, "Hold on a minute. Just one more." THAT is rude to me too. Some people lose all common sense once they walk through the turnstile. I know we're suppose to revert to being children at the "Happiest Place on Earth". However, even children have common sense "sometimes".

Jennifer

 

[azdizzymom]

Line cutters
Parade cutters at last minute..standing in front of us.
Getting rammed with strollers...especially those full of kids who are old enought to walk (6 on up).
Smelly non-deoderant wearing people---please put it on.
People who STOP short in front of you or walk 5-6 wide as slow as they can taking up the entire sidewalk.
People not keeping up with the line in front of them...kids hanging on the railing or "walking on them".
Flash pictures in rides where they aren't supposed to be taken.
Pool hoppers...


Oh well we aren't alll perfect...we can put up with the behavior we don't agree with and have fun. Can't believe some of the things people do.

 

[Juanaiguana]

Hi! I was reading thinking that I really never had any rude people encounters at disney, mostly people go out of their way to be accomodating to those around us.

the only one I can think of was when we were standing in line to send a virtual postcard to our parents at Epcot, and a younger couple was sending their postcards, and decided it seemed to send one to every person they had ever met!! Now, I can understand one or two but there were literally NO ONE else there besides us, they could have done one or two and let us send the one we wanted to send, and got back in line behind us!

Oh well, we survived!

 

[MommaluvsDis]

I am normally just a lurker on these threads but decided I could not hold back any more.

My biggest pet peeves are the people that have that sense of entitlement. You know, I spent a lot of money so I/my kid can do whatever I/they want. Guess what, we're all at Disney and trust me, we all spent a lot of money to be there.

One time, my friends and I were first at the doors as they opened them to take our seats at Country Bear. We didn't rush or push to get there, just happened to walk in as they had just closed for a show. When the doors opened, wewalked in and a family behind us shoved their way to get to the seats in front of us. Not a problem, I've conditioned myself to just wait and let them go. However, the little boy who was about 8 or 9 yo ran right smack into my elbow. I stopped and asked him if he was alright and the mother started screaming that I had hit her baby and what a B I was that I had to run over her family to get a seat.

I pointed out to her that our entire group of four was still in front of all of her family except this little boy that had shoved ahead. He was the line cutter. After mutiple nasty things she said to me I looked at her and asked her was this really the example she wanted to set for her children?

Another time, a family of 4 boys and 6 adults thought they would sneak their way in front of us while we were in line for Soarin'. Didn't work though as I saw what they were doing and my husband of 25 years and I linked arms standing side by side blocking their way. To anyone looking at us, we looked like sweeties!

But my number 1 pet peeve is someone who thinks they're above the rules of the parks.

 

[Tracyplus5]

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?

I have twins and can soooooooo relate to this. What is WITH these people? They cut you off and walk right in front of you causing you to
A: stop short or
B: run 'em over.

Sometimes they cut it so close that they have actually fallen into/on top of my twins!
So far I go with choice "A" and if I'm feeling awnry I chase it with and audible "Excuse you!" Maybe I'll give "B" a try.

 

[Tracyplus5]

I'll probably give you 15 seconds. Sorry, but I'm not going to stand around and wait while you fritz around with the camera or take multiple shots.

Maybe I'm not understanding it right, but couldn't you just walk behind the picture taker? Thus elimintaing the need to wait at all? I'm thinking of larger places like in front of Cinderella's castle where there's plenty of sidewalk left over. Maybe your thinking of tighter spaces?
Sometimes, it's hard to get all the kids smiling at the same time and not everyone gets to go to Disney every year. JMHO.

 

[kadesha]

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.

We had this problem at LTT in November. Except the child was about 8 or 9 years old and came to our table for EVERY character. We were the first table right above some steps, so when characters made their way to our section our table was first. The family was seated only a few tables away from us so I have no idea why this little boy got up and came to our table EVERY time. When I would ask him to move out of our pictures his family could hear me but never said anything to him. He would stay around our table until the character left and then he'd go back to his own table and get to re-visit with the characters. It made me pretty mad that the family allowed this to go on, I think they may have even been encouraging it.

Also on the boat ride in Mexico a little boy sitting in front of us took pictures the whole time, one right after another. The occassional flash never really bothers me but the whole ride was ruined. Flash after flash after flash! I eventually said "flash photography isn't allowed on rides" and the older lady he was with turned around and told me "oh, it's fine." I refused to argue. We just got back in line and rode again.

 

[GovieMom]

Ok--maybe I've got too big a mouth but I just don't understand--when people are rude like this why don't more people say something?

Probably because saying something to the offender might make matters worse, if the offender doesn't take the message well; and most of the time they don't. Lots of nasty verbal confrontations begin this way, making matters even worse than before.

 

[jamstew]

Maybe I'm not understanding it right, but couldn't you just walk behind the picture taker? Thus elimintaing the need to wait at all? I'm thinking of larger places like in front of Cinderella's castle where there's plenty of sidewalk left over. Maybe your thinking of tighter spaces?
Sometimes, it's hard to get all the kids smiling at the same time and not everyone gets to go to Disney every year. JMHO.

Believe me, I'll go out of my way to avoid messing up someone's pictures, but if they're standing on one side of the walkway and their subject is posing on the opposite side of the walkway, they're essentially blocking the entire walkway, I'll wait a bit, but not long.