Saving Tables....A Complaint

[KCMiller]

I dont know who said it but NO I wouldn't have rathered be sitting at a table with my cranky almost 2 yr old.. i would have liked to be able to just go sit down and eat with our food instead of walking around for 10 min looking at other ppl just sitting there doing nothing but waiting for their food... rude just rude.. I could have had my 6 & 4 yr olds sit at a table while me daddy and baby went to order (Okay I would have been crazy to do this!) but I could have.. OR I guess I could have just put down the diaper bag on the table along with other personal items and just had everyone go up.. but again RUDE... I know EVERYONE is there on vacation not just me.. I'm glad its not like this at other amusement parks I go to almost weekly... Rude.. It's just rude.. We had a great time anyway... Hope ya'll enjoyed walking us walk around with no play to sit I'm sure most of you laughed at us if you were there.. or snickered (stupid people shoud have found a seat before they ordered) but that's okay! What goes around comes around! I hope I can teach my children better!

Oh and if Daddy was holding the cranky child at the table ya'll would have been complaining about the kid screaming his lungs off at Tusker House on 5-31... that would have been rude right? Its no win I guess...

Well, Daddy could have waited at the table with the smaller children, and you and the 6 year old could have waited on line to get food. Children that age love helping Mommy, and they could have helped carry the food back to the table. I know you said earlier that the 4 year old had just woken up from a nap - perhaps taking a few moments to calm the child down before getting in line to order food would have made the situation calmer and more pleasant for you. I found with my children that when Mommy was hot, tired and cranky, and the kids were hot, tired and cranky, the world sure looked like a grumpy place! Getting all of us cooled down and calm and smiling helped smooth out a lot of rough spots in their growing up years.

I seriously doubt anyone either snickered or outright laughed at you walking about looking for a table - unless you were doing something amusing. Normal people (and I don't think I'm out of line saying that MOST people are normal) don't ordinarily sneer and snicker at other people in public. They do on soap operas, of course, but not in real life. You do seem very aggravated about this, though - did someone actually point at you during your search for a table, call attention to your distress and laugh? That would be very strange behavior, indeed.

KC

 

[heavenleigh412]

I dont know who said it but NO I wouldn't have rathered be sitting at a table with my cranky almost 2 yr old.. i would have liked to be able to just go sit down and eat with our food instead of walking around for 10 min looking at other ppl just sitting there doing nothing but waiting for their food... rude just rude.. I could have had my 6 & 4 yr olds sit at a table while me daddy and baby went to order (Okay I would have been crazy to do this!) but I could have.. OR I guess I could have just put down the diaper bag on the table along with other personal items and just had everyone go up.. but again RUDE... I know EVERYONE is there on vacation not just me.. I'm glad its not like this at other amusement parks I go to almost weekly... Rude.. It's just rude.. We had a great time anyway... Hope ya'll enjoyed walking us walk around with no play to sit I'm sure most of you laughed at us if you were there.. or snickered (stupid people shoud have found a seat before they ordered) but that's okay! What goes around comes around! I hope I can teach my children better!

Oh and if Daddy was holding the cranky child at the table ya'll would have been complaining about the kid screaming his lungs off at Tusker House on 5-31... that would have been rude right? Its no win I guess...

1)I highly doubt anyone was laughing at you...

2)Again you call other people rude... different circumstances call for different ways of dealing with things...

3)My child is VERY polite, thank you VERY much... I set a good example, and I always point out inappropriate behavior from the people around us.

4)your way obviously didn't work out too well for your family... maybe you should think about trying a different way, instead of insulting the people who do it differently than YOU

 

[Mkrop]

I dont know who said it but NO I wouldn't have rathered be sitting at a table with my cranky almost 2 yr old.. i would have liked to be able to just go sit down and eat with our food instead of walking around for 10 min looking at other ppl just sitting there doing nothing but waiting for their food... rude just rude.. I could have had my 6 & 4 yr olds sit at a table while me daddy and baby went to order (Okay I would have been crazy to do this!) but I could have.. OR I guess I could have just put down the diaper bag on the table along with other personal items and just had everyone go up.. but again RUDE... I know EVERYONE is there on vacation not just me.. I'm glad its not like this at other amusement parks I go to almost weekly... Rude.. It's just rude.. We had a great time anyway... Hope ya'll enjoyed walking us walk around with no play to sit I'm sure most of you laughed at us if you were there.. or snickered (stupid people shoud have found a seat before they ordered) but that's okay! What goes around comes around! I hope I can teach my children better!

Oh and if Daddy was holding the cranky child at the table ya'll would have been complaining about the kid screaming his lungs off at Tusker House on 5-31... that would have been rude right? Its no win I guess...

Well I go to several amusement parks as well, probably many of the same ones as you since I live in PA and we always save seats so this is not as you claim a WDW thing! We have done this at Dutch Wonderland and Hershey Park just to name a few and most people around us there are doing it too

And I think you are on the rude side by casting aspersions on the rest of us -"what goes around comes around" That is rude! Just because I choose to save my table does not mean I am sitting there laughing at you.

 

[tink_about_it]

Why didn't you or DH go scout out a table while the other ordered food? I really don't get what is to be offended about by people splitting up their party and half of them grabbing a table and the other half ordering.

I agree! We do it all the time! Why doesn't everyone do it? Doesn't that make sense?

I also think your poll makes it sound like everyone is evil if they choose YES...which I did...and most did.

Sounds like you are in the minority...better start scoutinig a table when you enter the restaurant.

 

[Princess Stitch]

OK, I just have one question to ask though. For all those who say your kids fuss in line and i wouldn't want to be standing beside them and they'd be screaming crying etc.... How in the heck do you manage to wait for rides? I'm not trying to be rude about this. Just really curious if all of you say your kids are awful with lines and would be torturing people around them, do you not take them on rides as well? Or is it ok to bother people in ride lines but just not food lines?

 

[wendy46001]

I dont know who said it but NO I wouldn't have rathered be sitting at a table with my cranky almost 2 yr old.. i would have liked to be able to just go sit down and eat with our food instead of walking around for 10 min looking at other ppl just sitting there doing nothing but waiting for their food... rude just rude.. I could have had my 6 & 4 yr olds sit at a table while me daddy and baby went to order (Okay I would have been crazy to do this!) but I could have.. OR I guess I could have just put down the diaper bag on the table along with other personal items and just had everyone go up.. but again RUDE... I know EVERYONE is there on vacation not just me.. I'm glad its not like this at other amusement parks I go to almost weekly... Rude.. It's just rude.. We had a great time anyway... Hope ya'll enjoyed walking us walk around with no play to sit I'm sure most of you laughed at us if you were there.. or snickered (stupid people shoud have found a seat before they ordered) but that's okay! What goes around comes around! I hope I can teach my children better!

Oh and if Daddy was holding the cranky child at the table ya'll would have been complaining about the kid screaming his lungs off at Tusker House on 5-31... that would have been rude right? Its no win I guess...

Why didn’t you just sit down with the kids and have him order?....
CM's know people do this....they will happily let you leave your drink tray on the counter while you drop off your food tray.....

I've also had them help carry stuff to a table when we ordered way too much food...

 

[HelenePA]

3)My child is VERY polite, thank you VERY much... I set a good example, and I always point out inappropriate behavior from the people around us.

My child will be 2 next week.. the other older ones are polite.. very polite.. and yes I made some assumptions but you all did too! I also point out inappropriate behavior around us I guess its just a difference in opionions...


NMW this was our first CS meal.. so he couldn't sit down and read it at a CS meal... I wish he would have paid more attention to me.. but he called me an "overplanner" but really ya'll dont feel a lil bad that your just sitting there sometimes and people are wandering around for awhile looking for a table?

So you all dont think a simple solution to this would be rope of the table areas and not let people enter until after they had their food? Remember everyone is on vacation and everyone wants to sit.. why wouldn't this work?

and at the place we go to almost weekly there are ALOT more tables at knoebles!! less people too thank god

 

[Mkrop]

OK, I just have one question to ask though. For all those who say your kids fuss in line and i wouldn't want to be standing beside them and they'd be screaming crying etc.... How in the heck do you manage to wait for rides? I'm not trying to be rude about this. Just really curious if all of you say your kids are awful with lines and would be torturing people around them, do you not take them on rides as well? Or is it ok to bother people in ride lines but just not food lines?

I can only answer for my kids, but if this is one less line my kids have to stand in then I am sooooo grateful, plus my kid too has a disability not viisble(low muscle tone) so if I can save up his endurance then I want to do that. And usually these are the rest points when the kids are tired and hungry so I would like them to chill while waiting for the food. If I get them fed and rested for even just a few minutes I hope they wont be the ones fussing later in line or at the 3-D show that would be bothering people.

 

[jcemom]

I think if tables were roped off and you weren't allowed to sit until after you had your tray, then they would need CMs to boot everyone out as soon as they'd eaten their last bite. We would then be complaining that we stood there with our tray and there wasn't anywhere to sit because of all the rude people lingering around even though they were through eating. Others of us would be complaining that they couldn't even get into line to get food because of all the families waiting instead of just one party ordering, the line would be out the door because each group would have three, four, five people on line instead of one person. It wouldn't necessarily make the wait longer, unless everyone kept changing their minds, but it would make the line a heck of a lot longer and more congested.

If everyone didn't wait on line together, yet they couldn't sit down either, then where would they wait? One person is getting food, the other three or four can't sit, so they wait... outside? The person with food is allowed to sit after getting their tray, but now they must go find the rest of their group?

I guess we mostly tour in the off season, but it's just never been a problem for us. Once or twice we may have eaten sitting on a wall or bench or something because there were no tables, but I don't recall it affecting me so much that I even have a clear recollection of it. At Kennywood Park one of us (usually me) orders while the other takes the kids to collect condiments, straws, napkins and finds a table. At the mall we do it that way, at Idlewild Park, and at McDonald's. It just seems the most efficient way to do it. Apparently a lot of people agree.

 

[Mkrop]

So you all dont think a simple solution to this would be rope of the table areas and not let people enter until after they had their food? Remember everyone is on vacation and everyone wants to sit.. why wouldn't this work?

To be honest I think this would be a nightmare. Everybody would be crowded into this space like cattle. No thanks.

I really dont get this. This is such common practice everywhere not just WDW. This happens all the time at the food court at the mall!!!!! If you go at peak time, this always occurs.

HeleneinPA, you have never encountered this practice anywhere excpet WDW? I find that hard to believe but let me know what malls you go to so I can eat at that food court!

 

[heavenleigh412]

My child will be 2 next week.. the other older ones are polite.. very polite.. and yes I made some assumptions but you all did too! I also point out inappropriate behavior around us I guess its just a difference in opionions...


NMW this was our first CS meal.. so he couldn't sit down and read it at a CS meal... I wish he would have paid more attention to me.. but he called me an "overplanner" but really ya'll dont feel a lil bad that your just sitting there sometimes and people are wandering around for awhile looking for a table?

So you all dont think a simple solution to this would be rope of the table areas and not let people enter until after they had their food? Remember everyone is on vacation and everyone wants to sit.. why wouldn't this work?

and at the place we go to almost weekly there are ALOT more tables at knoebles!! less people too thank god

I do not expect a 2 year old to have perfect manners, or a whole lot of patience.

Your idea of roping off the tables until people have food, may work for your situation... but what about mine? I don't wait in lines because I have a nervous system disorder, my blood pressure drops and I pass out if I am just standing there. I can walk and I can sit most of the time just fine.
I think that if I was lying there unconcious in the line... you might possibly be waiting QUITE a bit longer for your food

My point is again... no one KNOWS the situation of the people around them.
I look like a perfectly normal mother... you would NEVER know I am a cancer survivor or that I had a stroke at age 30, or that I have a rare medical condition.
I am on vacation, my daughter is on vacation... we don't want to dwell on my medical issues, and I am sure no one else does either.

Yes it would be convenient if there was always a table when you were looking for one... but then again when I go shopping they don't always have my size in what I want... I don't insist that the person on line in front of me who got the last one, let me "borrow" it. (oh and BTW DD13 waits in line when we are shopping if DH is not with us, while I go sit somewhere close by)

People need to learn to deal with things the way they are... even if they don't agree with them.

 

[tink_about_it]

So when we finally saw some folks leaving a table we walked over only to find another couple standing there (WITHOUT food) waiting to grab it for themselves. My husband had a very unpleasant standoff with these folks who didn't speak English apparently. He let them have the table and we found another one across the room (cursing them the whole way).

If someone wants to cuss me while on vacation because I'm sitting with my kids while DH is in line....I would just tell them to "Have a MAGICAL day!"

 

[disneyfav4ever]

Not this PA girl! If by logical you mean saving tables, than yes I am a very logical gal bc doing the OP's way is just foolish!

If you're logical, then I'm logical too.

 

[heavenleigh412]

If someone wants to cuss me while on vacation because I'm sitting with my kids while DH is in line....I would just tell them to "Have a MAGICAL day!"

I almost fell out of my chair, that is perfect!

 

[disneyfav4ever]

take that!!! PA people are more logical than some of the other states

I'm in PA too, so please don't speak for me. I would save tables if I had the chance too, (when I'm not solo,) so please don't say something like that. You'll offend more PA people then you think.

 

[madalex]

I am amazed this discussion is still going on. The vast majority of people (84%) think saving seats is okay. It happens everywhere and all the time. And yet the very small minroity of people who are opposed to seat saving (often for reasons which just as selfish as they accuse the seat savers of being) are still trying to come up with suggestions to address this "problem", which really isn't a problem at all. Gotta love the Disboards!

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I actually have many friends in Pa, and I honestly was not trying to offend other Pa people
I just wanted to point out how insulting it was to the other 49 states to make such a statement.

No offense taken. The only person I'm offended by is dalt01 for assuming everyone in the state felt the same way, and unfortunatly included me in his / her assumption.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

and at the place we go to almost weekly there are ALOT more tables at knoebles!! less people too thank god

My family has always saved tables at Knoebles, as well as Hershey and Dorney.

 

[Barbers2005]

My family has always saved tables at Knoebles, as well as Hershey and Dorney.

We save tables at Hershey and Dorney too, and WDW, and the foodcourt at the mall, and pretty much every McD's ever. It just makes sense to save tables when you can and avoid that unpleasant "CS nomad" situation.

 

[webshark3]

Hope ya'll enjoyed walking us walk around with no play to sit I'm sure most of you laughed at us if you were there.. or snickered (stupid people shoud have found a seat before they ordered) but that's okay! What goes around comes around! I hope I can teach my children better!
.

Is a smirk ok?

What you call rude, we call common sense. Rude is putting all your kids into the CS line, causing the long waits. TABLE HUNT is just one of the many exciting adventures in WDW. While you're teaching your kids "non-rudeness", mine will be learning problem-solving skills;

"divide and conquer",
"flanking",
"shielding",
"swarm",
"the fake out"
"scouting"
"hovering" (heck, even I find hovering rude, but it can be tastefully done with a buffer zone)