Rude Behavior At Disney

[dyna]

1 The ppl who just has to take pics on dark rides an shows FANTASMIC being about the worst for ppl to do this.

2.Those ppl who don't watch where they are going DH an I learned to walk close together holding hands we stop let them run into us an it's like hittin a brick wall. The brazilians was most famous for this NEVER EVER said EXCUSE ME in a week of it there was 2 kids about 8 or 9 that ran into us an said excuse me that was it.

3.Those groups of 3 an 4 ppl an more who stop suddenly in middle of walkway an stand there lookin at map.

4. PPL who stand in main walkway 10 ft from person or persons they want to take a picture of that expects others to walk around them.

5.The big huge groups of Brazilians in general....

6. those that gets on a full bus an expects to sit. Even better gets on the full bus with a huge stroller an a young child to hang onto an mom has a sleeping toddlee in her arms...step aside ppl wait for next bus be 1st on instead of complaining about having to stand so that someone might give you a seat.

7.Those in ECV or Wheelchairs that don't need them....1 night at closing of the MK I walked around a young teen in a wheelchair who was busy playing doing wheelies etc I was already convinced he was playing....I get around him go do my buisness come back out all the way down the ramp I follow this kid in the wheelchair still playing he gets to bottom of ramp does another wheelie falls over backwards right in front of me almost hitting me as he falls. I wanted to kick him in the head for being so STUPID! The kid gets up laughing I was right he did not need the chair!......It's disney we are all tired at the end of the day but to have some brat playing in a disney wheelchair that does not need it getting in ppls way was just a bit much.

8. Disney moving the smoking areas an not updatin it on map OR posting a sign where the smoking area has been moved to. Which is why sometimes you will find a group of ppl smoking in a nonsmoking area.

9.Those that do not remove hat for shows.

10. The ppl that continues to feed the birds even tho there are many signs that says not to an continues to feed birds after CM tells them not to. Yes birds sometimes steals food right out from your hand common sense tells me NOT TRY TO EAT OUTSIDE IN AREAS WHERE THERE IS LOTS OF BIRDS! All the parks seems to have an area where birds are worse than others maybe disney needs to move some popcorn stands to help stop of the birds stealing food fry stands too.

 

[anewvance]

On our last trip we were watching Spectromagic at the very end of the route in Fronteirland. We were in kind of a triangle area with a fence directly behind us... and I was as far over as I could go. Or so I thought. In the middle of the parade I feel knees in my back and turn around to find a girl about 12 scaling the fence to come into the itty bitty area in the angle of the triangle. Ok fine enough, it's a kid.. didn't bother me. But 2 minutes later here comes her mother and she "missed" the ground in this tiny area and stepped right on my thumb. Holy moly it hurt! I couldn't move and i'm yelling ow ow that hurts. She finally heard me got off my thumb. She was apologetic asking if I was ok but all I could say in my pain was how I was more surprised then anything because I never expected someone would try to even get back there... making her feel really bad ya know? But she just didn't get it. SIGH.

 

[shellybaxter]

With the kind permission of our host, webmaster Pete, I'm working on a piece for my site (which can be found in my signature) about people's rude behavior at Disney World. You know... those folks out there who not only rain on our parade but then poke us in the eye with their umbrella.

The person who smokes in line, or in a non-designated area.

The loud guy (or gal!) with a foul mouth who doesn't care about the bad words your children are learning from him.

The person who takes the entire tray of treats from the concierge lounge back to their room. "I have a big family," they say, if they bother to explain their actions at all.

So let me here it. Give me your worst tales of rudeness at Disney. Don't worry, I won't be using names or even nicknames. (If I happen to come across something I'd really like to use with a name/nickname cited, I will contact the person via private message before even considering doing so.)

Okay, on the count of three, vent.

One...

Two...

Three!

Hi,

I don't have any stories, but I have a sincere question. Why would you want to collect all of these negitive stories and put them in one place. They are such a downer and - to me - the anti-Disney. The opposite of Disney magic

 

[Disneyfan71]

I haven't been to WDW since 1995..but I have encountered rude people there. Can't really remember a specific time. However, people (not all) are just plain rude. They have no manners whatsoever. And it's sad too. Here they are spending upwards of $10,000 more or less and can't even have a good time. It's just so very sad that some folks don't have manners.

 

[mrsksomeday]

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

 

[ckenlady]

We were waiting for the 3PM parade. We were a group of about 12. We picked our spot 2 full hours before the parade and were having a great time with all the people around us. About 1 min before the parade starts a women with 2 kids starts pushing from the back of us and yells really LOUD... "YOU NEED TO MOVE I HAVE KIDS THAT NEED TO SEE THE PARADE!". Now, normally, I would let the kids in front of me, but her pushing and screaming just pushed me over the edge. I turned to her and said excuse me, but we have been here for over two hours and you can't just push your way in front of everyone here just because you have kids. She proceeds to tell me, Disney is for kids and I had no right to stop her kids from getting in front of our group. I said well thats amazing because if Disney is for kids, they shouldn't have charged me over 300 bucks for my ticket. I was about to start on another comment when a CM who heard what she said stepped in and told her she couldn't just push her way in front of all "these nice people who have been sitting here for hours.' She said well what am I supposed to do, MY KIDS NEED TO SEE THE PARADE! He politely pointed out an area wayyyyyy down the street, and behind about 10 rows of people.
She was screaming she was going to tell his boss and get him fired and how ridiculous this all was. We all just laughed as she went ranting down the street.

Last trip in Oct, a woman in a scooter came rolling down after Wishes. now the street is packed and she was laying on the horn and was not stopping and running into everyone. I heard a few people telling her to slow down and quit running into them. I turned when I heard a few of the comments and she was heading my way. I turned completely around and she was right there, I said LADY if you don't slow down I am going to slow you down! She kept moving forward and I literally put my hands on the front of her scooter and yelled, STOP BEFORE YOU HURT SOMEONE! A CM came running over and told her to move to the side because she was putting people in danger. He followed her the whole way to the gate. She didn't use the horn anymore while he was there.

 

[SusanDK]

A couple of years ago, DH and I took his parents (in their mid-70's, from Denmark) to MK and decided to go in to see the Country Bears. We'd arrived when the waiting area was empty, so were able to take a seat to wait for the next show.

The lobby area was filling up and finally, the doors opened to let the crowd in. We are never in a hurry to push our way into things, and we knew from experience that the CMs would only allow enough people into the lobby area as would fit in the theater. So we held back and joined the queue near the back, as the last people were entering the theater.

It quickly became evident that there were not enough seats for everyone who had been let into the theater, that the counting devices (or whatever the CMs use to determine the right number of people to let in) had failed. People started pushing and shoving in an absolute frenzy to find empty seats as if their life depended on it. As we calmly looked for seats, we found a row with space in the middle for the four of us, so we started to head that way.

A woman came up from behind, pushed my husband in the small of his back, and shoved him out of the way and said that she needed those seats so her family could sit together, and there was no more space for all of them.

My goodness -- this is not a WHO concert people, these are puppet bears! We ended up splitting up our group, including partly sitting in the handicapped area (having been instructed to do so by the CMs) after it became evident that the entire section wasn't needed for those entitled to it.

Susan

 

[SusanDK]

One of my biggest pet peeves at WDW, or any crowded place where a lot of people are trying to enjoy some form of entertainment, is when people speak or shout at the top of their voices, as if they are the only people in the area and they aren't ruining an experience for others.

Once on POTC, a man was sitting in the row behind us with his small daughter (maybe 5 years old). Throughout the entire ride, he said to her in a very loud voice, "see the pirate," "see the lady," "see the dog," -- he felt it necessary to point out every prop on the entire ride and ask if she sees it. Why not just let the poor child enjoy the experience and take in whatever she sees? Not to mention that he was shouting in our ears for the entire ride.

We went to watch Wishes from the beach at the Poly one time. There were hardly any people anywhere that evening, and we were able to sit in a couple of lounge chairs to await Wishes. Just as it was starting, a man with his child came and sat on some chairs quite close to us. As Wishes was taking place, the man had to exclaim at the top of his voice "Wow" each and every time a firework exploded. As you know, this is constant. So we were sitting there listening to "Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow . . . wow, wow, wow. . . " Well, except for the moments that he answered his cell phone and spent a minute or more in full voice describing to his wife where to find him on the beach.

While he was drowning out the Wishes soundtrack with his exclamations of "wow," we left our chairs and moved up to the walkway near some speakers to try to hear the soundtrack with the remaining performance. Two women then came onto the walkway, and proceeded to carry on a conversation in normal, full voices. They were chit-chatting as if they were in the privacy of their home, with no regard for the performance that was taking place in front of them. Why stand there and ruin Wishes for everyone else if you have no interest in seeing it, and want to talk?

We have also experienced - twice - being in performances when parents felt it necessary to translate every word to their non-English speaking child. Once was in the Circle of Life film (the second time was at Universal in the Horror Make-up Show). Both times, the parent and child were sitting either directly behind us or beside us, and drowned out the performance for us so we could not hear what was being said. Both times we asked them to stop, or quiet down as we could not hear the performance, and both times they just continued in the same volume right up through the very end of the show.

I think a lot of this type of public behavior is within the culture today. It's nearly impossible to go to the cinema today without listening to people carrying on conversations. I remember when I was a child, we were taught that one must remain absolutely quiet in a performance, whether it is the cinema, concert, theme park show, etc. in order to not spoil other's enjoyment. I remember I was mortified if I couldn't hold back a sneeze in those days, LOL!

I don't expect to hear a pin drop at a theme park show, but I also think it is common courtesy to not drown out the performance with one's own voice, as if you are the only spectator.

Susan

 

[Mickey_for_President]

A few years ago my Dad and I were going on the Magic Carpets of Aladdin as we were steping into the vechicle this father tells his little girl that this one is free and cut right into front of us as we were about to step in. Since that was the last one we had to wait for the ride to finish so we could get on. I was also shocked that he basically told his daugther it's ok to cut into front of people and I wanted to tell a Cast Member about this, however my Dad said to forget about it.

Some lady did the same thing with her child when we were there at the beginning of January. You know what we did... we said to them "OH NO you aren't... THAT is your carpet, THIS one is OURS... sorry." She looked at us like WE were the rude ones. We didn't care. NOT ONE BIT.

 

[Mickey_for_President]

I think crowds always brings out the worst in some people. The worst example of rudeness is when people complain loudly when the driver of a Disney bus needs to assist a passenger in a wheelchair and help them board or exit. The sighs, tsking and sometimes nasty comments are truly horrible. People don't like to wait when they are tired but I doubt they would prefer being in that wheelchair or having their child be in that wheelchair.

The ONLY time I have had a problem with the busses assisting those in wheelchairs was the time that we were all waiting the normal 20-25 minutes for a bus. OK... we figured that we must have just missed the last one and were one of the first people in line. Well, there are about 50+ people in the queue waiting. There is one woman in an ECV. Fine. She gets loaded up with her family of about 10. Fine. The bus driver puts the bus ramp back up and closes the door.

Just then another group of ten RUNS up to the bus with a wheelchair. They JUST got there. The bus driver KNOWS this... he sees it himself. The queue of people now goes all the way into the common area... all waiting to get on this bus. The bus driver decides to get back in, put the key in, lower the bus and ramp AGAIN... and lets all of them in. They didn't wait for the bus, not one second. How is it that they get priority because they show up with a wheelchair? It does not make sense to me.

Now, I found this particular incident to be rude. Couldn't he have just told them that there would be another bus shortly? Or maybe he could have given them a choice and said... "she can come on the bus with ONE member of her party to help her get around and the rest of you guys can wait for the next bus." I can tell you that I did a bit of eye rolling and huffing.

 

[potzie2]

My wife and I went to WDW last Labour Day weekend. We were at Epcot on the Friday night and waiting for Illuminations. Along the path coming into the world showcase we see a woman with what appeared to be about a 6 year old daughter. The daughter was certainly old enough that she should have enough control of her bladder. The washrooms are right there as you enter by Canada. Instead of waiting in line for the bathroom she has the girl squating in the bushes doing her business. I was so disgusted I followed her trying to find a CM at the same time while sharing with her my displeasure with the behaviour. She certainly appeared to not care, or she couldn't understand me, but it was beyond shocking to me that someone would think the bushes in an amusement park would be an acceptable place to do your business.

 

[Gitts2008]

I have seen this and I am sure that I am guilty of it at one time or another:

People who do not move from the flow of "people" traffic to deal with a problem, look at the map, give their children a drink, answer their cell phone....

I always remind my DH and DD to move to the side.

 

[Danauk]

Last trip DH, myself and our 2 friends were walking out of Epcot via the international gateway back to the Beach Club Villas. We were walking along next to a family which looked like mum, dad, teenage daughters and young daughter in a pushchair (she looked maybe 3 or 4.) The teenage daughter was pushing the pushchair and she was pushing it hard so it rain in front of her, then when she caught up with it she pushed it hard again. As we got out of the international gateway we were then walking in front of this family. Suddenly as I was walking down the slope I felt the pushchair slam into the back of my legs. The daughter has pushed the pushchair too hard again and it had taken off down the slope. I guess it was lucky that it did ram into me or the child would have been slammed into the railings. Anyway as I had been hit with quite a force it scraped the skin off the back of my legs and ankles which obviously hurt. Once the family had caught up with the child (they had to have seen what happened) they just grabbed the pushchair handles and walked off. No, sorry are you OK. No, thanks for stopping my child from being hurt as she would have slammed into metal railings! Just grabbed the handles and walked off, they didn't even check to see if the young child was OK.

Also on the same trip we were walking out of the turnstyles at MGM (as it was then), DH and my 2 friends had already had their hand stamped and I was next in line behind DH. As I was about to step forwards and extend my hand to have it stamped a boy (looked about 12/13) jumped in front of me, shoved his hand out to be stamped and in the process hit me in the nose!! The CM was lovely and asked if I was OK. The boy ran off and his mother (who was stood behind me and had obviously seen what happened and heard the CM ask if I was OK) didn't say a word to him. I though that was fairly rude!

 

[goofyernmost]

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

Now that would be rude of them.

Just then another group of ten RUNS up to the bus with a wheelchair. They JUST got there. The bus driver KNOWS this... he sees it himself. The queue of people now goes all the way into the common area... all waiting to get on this bus. The bus driver decides to get back in, put the key in, lower the bus and ramp AGAIN... and lets all of them in. They didn't wait for the bus, not one second. How is it that they get priority because they show up with a wheelchair? It does not make sense to me.

Now, I found this particular incident to be rude. Couldn't he have just told them that there would be another bus shortly? Or maybe he could have given them a choice and said... "she can come on the bus with ONE member of her party to help her get around and the rest of you guys can wait for the next bus." I can tell you that I did a bit of eye rolling and huffing.

Unfortunately, the way ADA laws are written if he had a space still remaining on the bus for another chair he HAD to pick them up. If he had fully loaded the bus before hand, he would have had to ask people to get off the bus to accommodate the person in need. When it comes to stuff like that, we as a nation have no say. A group of well meaning, but sometimes stupid, bureaucrats, make laws that are anything but equal and almost never laden with common sense. They are just enacted to force a noble cause regardless of safety, fairness or equality.

 

[Katieinwonderland]

I have a few, we live near Disney and sometimes just go for a day to hang out - not even ride many rides, just people watch, have a glass of wine and enjoy the atmosphere. Some people seem totally determined to ruin this for us!!!

It drives me crazy when people line jump...I'm fairly laid back and never want to enter confrontation, but DH is a New Yorker and is not afraid to say what he thinks. He is the guy that will say "NO, I don't care if your family is up there, we have all waited in line and you need to do the same." Last week at Epcot on Soarin' , this resulted in a woman telling him that if he didn't let her past, she would physically push him aside...so he let her past, assuming it must be an emergency or maybe she had kids in front by themselves...nope, the woman pushed past to stand with a man three people in front of us, then turned round to DH and yelled "SUCKER!!!" Lovely.

People who line jump should be thrown out the park. I don't care how much they paid to get in, manners seem to mean less and less and it makes me so mad.

 

[ScarletFire]

A camera flashed in my eyes while riding in the Haunted Mansion. I saw blue spots that seemed to last and last. It totally took me by surprise.

It happened in the room with the fortune teller. The doom buggies wrap around the scene and at one point, you are face to face with other passengers. The guest opposite me, took a pictue with a flash. My red eyes are in that picture.

 

[goofyernmost]

I have a few, we live near Disney and sometimes just go for a day to hang out - not even ride many rides, just people watch, have a glass of wine and enjoy the atmosphere. Some people seem totally determined to ruin this for us!!!

It drives me crazy when people line jump...I'm fairly laid back and never want to enter confrontation, but DH is a New Yorker and is not afraid to say what he thinks. He is the guy that will say "NO, I don't care if your family is up there, we have all waited in line and you need to do the same." Last week at Epcot on Soarin' , this resulted in a woman telling him that if he didn't let her past, she would physically push him aside...so he let her past, assuming it must be an emergency or maybe she had kids in front by themselves...nope, the woman pushed past to stand with a man three people in front of us, then turned round to DH and yelled "SUCKER!!!" Lovely.

People who line jump should be thrown out the park. I don't care how much they paid to get in, manners seem to mean less and less and it makes me so mad.

This is apparently becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Disney needs to step up to the plate on this matter and aggressively remove those offenders. I don't understand how Disney thinks that people will just keep coming no matter how frustrated and upset they feel. There will be a time when it will no longer be a Magic experience.

I hate to be a soothsayer, but it will happen. Even if, Disney did everything they could, it will happen. The best they can do is delay it, by really making sure that those that love the place and potentially will return and return, are cared enough about to protect their rights instead of the jerks that surround them.

 

[CarolA]

Maybe it's just me...

But isn't it just as rude to talk about folks.

Did any of you go to his site? And if you did,do you really want to be a part of that?

 

[jennipooh]

Yeah the strollers and ECV's drive me nuts when people smash into youe legs constantly while trying ti leave the parks. Get over it people we are all trying to get home!!

Yes, we try to avoid the exiting crowds for just this reason. So we dawdle our way out of the parks. My son is a world class dawdler anyway so this works for us. Once we get outside to the Disney Transportation, though....We are always afraid we are just about to miss our boat or monorail or bus...we just lose our minds. I don't know what gets into us then, but we get our hustle on. Thankfully, the meanies that were just pushing everyone to get through are all gone and we are the nuts left running up to the end of the line, saying "we made it!" I hope that just makes us look silly...and not rude.

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?

Hey, if you are considerate enough to wonder if you were being rude then (even though you were kinda hoping for the people to walk into you!) it's probably them!!!

What is "walking sideways", anyway? (does this mean across the street?) We do sometimes walk across the street and sometimes we suddenly find ourselves against the traffic...I don't know....we must kinda wander. Sorry, if it's rude. We do try to watch out for people though. Also, when ds was still in a stroller a ran into people a few times, but it was never because we were in a hurry, maybe when I would be paying attention to him and not to where I was going!!! and those Disney strollers are huge.

What I really think is rude is when people blatenly break a Disney rule just because they feel they are more entitled than the rest of us. A very big one in my opinion, is not going all the way across your row in a show. How many times do they tell you to move all the way down? How brilliant do you have to be to realize that if you push your way to the FRONT of the line then you will not end up in the MIDDLE of your row!? Simple mathematics people
Another big one is when the kids will be trying to explain to the adults in the group that they are breaking a rule and the parent will quiet them down or tell them that they are doing it anyway. In my head I'm always thinking "good luck with that when the kid decides that they no longer have to follow your rules....idiot" I think that is our revenge on these clowns

 

[meatball77]

People who stop in the middle of busy or narrow walkways drive me nuts when everyone is trying to leave, like at the end of a ride, or when everyone is leaving the park.