Rude Disney Guests

[teh fish]

I had a run in with some rude kids last week. While waiting in line for test track a group of high schoolers were being extremely obnoxious. There was a certain clip on the video monitors in the line that caused them all to laugh EXTREMELY LOUD. And they did it repeatedly. Everyone in line was staring at them.

Then, during the pre board video, they talked loudly the entire time.

Just because you're on vacation doesn't mean you leave behind your manners.

 

[tw1nsmom]

I agree with those that state that nationality has little/nothing to do with rudeness. I think what happens is that when people travel in large groups (particularly teen groups) they develop a group mentality. They do and say things that they wouldn't normally do when they were alone.

When it comes to people from Brazil I've seen both ends of the spectrum of behavior. When we went to WDW when our twins were 9 months old we tried to see a parade at the MK. A group of Brazilian teenagers (emphasis on group) crowded us out of our space and were leaning on our stroller. My DH was very angry, and quite loudly told them to back off. They made it appear that they didn't know how to speak English (we had heard them speaking English earlier). Either way DH's body language made his message obvious. Luckily, some people further down the parade route offered some of their space to us, thus avoiding a bigger scene.

Jump ahead to later that night. We were leaving MK and we got onto a packed bus. DH was holding bags and stroller and I was holding both babies. There were no seats and DH had gotten seperated from me by a few people. Only one person offered their seat to me...a very kind Brazilian man. I sat next to his wife who spoke to me through her daughter interpreting. We had a lovely conversations. About half way back to our hotel the wife offered to hold one of my babies for me (they had both fallen asleep and were becoming difficult to hold). I accepted knowing that I was in the outer seat and DH would tackled anyone who tried to take/hurt one of our babies. This family really brought us a big dose of Disney magic when we were tired and truly in need of help and a pick-me-up.

Sorry for the length. I'm sure the OP wasn't really trying to malign a particular nationality. If my second experience hadn't happened to me I probably would have felt the same way.

 

[Laura]

Originally posted by disneydragon
Oooh, if we are talking about rude guests, I have a group of people that I would like to add to the list of rude guests. My vote goes for the people who use their strollers as battering rams to get through the crowds! I'm starting to think I should wear some sort of protective device around my shins and ankles.

Oh, but the worst are the people who let the older kid push the younger kid in the stroller--the older kid can barely see over the handle and hits everyone!

 

[Shugardrawers]

I know smoking is a nasty habit but I try very hard not to impose my bad choices on others. I only smoke in the designated areas and always make sure my butt goes in the ashtray so let's not make this into a discussion about messy smokers please. I'm sitting quietly by myself in a designated area having a smoke (directly behind an ashtray so there wasn't any mistaking the area) when a lady and her I dd of about 5ish sit down. She has the nerve to ask me to leave because the smoke bothers her dd. I politely said I understood the dangers of smoking around children but that I was in a designated smoking area and I was seated there first. I suggested perhaps she find another place to rest that wasn't a smoking area. She starts loudly complaining about how there isn't another empty bench in the entire park and she has a right to rest and breathe anywhere she wants. I just sat there and finished my smoke. I was following the rules, so what...I don't have any rights???

 

[we3luvdisney]

Originally posted by Shugardrawers
I know smoking is a nasty habit but I try very hard not to impose my bad choices on others. I only smoke in the designated areas and always make sure my butt goes in the ashtray so let's not make this into a discussion about messy smokers please. I'm sitting quietly by myself in a designated area having a smoke (directly behind an ashtray so there wasn't any mistaking the area) when a lady and her I dd of about 5ish sit down. She has the nerve to ask me to leave because the smoke bothers her dd. I politely said I understood the dangers of smoking around children but that I was in a designated smoking area and I was seated there first. I suggested perhaps she find another place to rest that wasn't a smoking area. She starts loudly complaining about how there isn't another empty bench in the entire park and she has a right to rest and breathe anywhere she wants. I just sat there and finished my smoke. I was following the rules, so what...I don't have any rights???

You have every right to smoke as much as you want in the designated areas. Luckily I wasn't there and still a smoker, because I would have chained-smoked until she left!

 

[momof3disneyholics]

I guess the heat gets to people sometimes. Last May, I witnessed 2 women getting into a yelling fight in front of Crystal Palace. I'm talking the soccer mom types with back packs and strollers. I heard one call the other a selfish B-word, and the other one was yelling about they had done what that woman had wanted all day. I was thinking, you know, when it ceases to be fun, it's time to go.
Then last month I saw a girl probably early 20's slap the guy she was with in the face. His nose started bleeding! I don't know what led up to that, I just walked up on the actually hit. When we were walking away I hurt someone say "boy, she smacked him hard", and "why is he running after her"
All the fighting is just a little more entertainment to enjoy while you are there.

 

[Zuzu03]

I LOVED reading this thread! It' so funny how "the happiest place on Earth" brings out the worst in people sometimes! I must admit, I've done my share of cursing out the "busty Brazilians", and I am in NO way ethnocentric (I'm from Quebec but my husband is an American and, well, okay, he IS ethnocentric). What's really funny though is one year we were having a sort of family reunion at WDW with 11 of us. My brother and sister-in-law (she's from England) got into the most enormous argument at MGM studios, I mean SCREAMING at each other and swearing - not good in front of the children who were crying hysterically and wailing, "Is Mummy really going back to England?" You can imagine...

People were edging away from us, looking at us as if we had escaped from the local institution, and somehow our group managed to swallow up a poor, innocent older gentleman who somehow ended up in the middle of the melee of English/French insults flying through the air. I actually have a photo of this and of course, now it's hilarious, but then it was horrendous. Maybe it's something they put in the water...

 

[faithinkarma]

Hi Zuzu03
from one transplanted Quebec woman to another

 

[Zuzu03]

Salut Faith! Depuis quand t'es la?

 

[ohanafamily]

I was on my way to Cindy's Castle for a PS, and we were against the flow of a parade end. It was the first time I ever saw a double wide wheel chair, and it found my foot. (and stopped there for a few seconds that seemed like an eternity)

I have never been fortunate enough to have a group of people cut in line in front of me at WDW, but once at Six Flags 2 teenagers tried it, I turned to my DW and started explaining in a very loud tone how line jumpers would be detained for several hours and then ejected from the park. It didn't phase them, and the operator did nothing when I pointed it out to him.

Now I have heard some stories about Teenagers picking up characters and throwing them into the water...but have never witnessed any conduct that bad...

 

[momof3disneyholics]

Originally posted by ohanafamily
Now I have heard some stories about Teenagers picking up characters and throwing them into the water...but have never witnessed any conduct that bad...

WHAT!!!????

 

[barbeml]

Our Keys to the Kingdom Tour Guide told us that teenagers had assaulted characters and yes, had actually dumped one into the water. Not too hard to imagine how someone could drown in one of those heavy costumes.

We've had a couple of negative experiences in WDW with foreigners, and the pretending not to understand English bit is common. We've been shoved out of the way while waiting to see Illuminations. On Alien Encounter, a group of 5 women who did not speak English apparently decided to chatter (loudly) like magpies through the whole thing because they did not know what was being said. People kept shushing them, but they kept right on. Unreal.

We've been seated next to a couple of really nasty French fellows at the Biergarten. I know just enough French to know how insulting they were.

Also, many Europeans seem to think the world is their ashtray and the more smoke they can introduce into the atmosphere, the better.

 

[Zuzu03]

HOWEVER, when I lived in France and in Wales, the American tourists behaved worse than any "foreigners" that I've encountered at WDW, talk about LOUD. I really don't think it's a cultural thing, really - it's just human behaviour and there are just some nasty people out there, but there are also tons more nice people, just look at these boards!