Shoulder pushing? Weird post...

[kaligal]

It's so hard when it is crowded.

You spend all your time navigating your way though the crowd and not bumping and trying not to get bumped...and you can't see all the great stuff there is to see.

 

[jekajekalynn]

, I'd had it with being bulldozed by people who feel they MUST walk in a row, like the freaking Monkees walking on the beach singing their theme song..

This made me laugh...

Also , don't you just LOVE when those people HAVE to stop right in the middle of the darn street/sidewalk to chit chat? Yeah, cause stepping off to the side to converse and being polite is beyond comprehension... heh

 

[disEAR]

non-disney related...

But this reminds me of a time last year. I live in Vancouver and during the 2010 Olympics (which made the busiest day at Disney look dead like a breeze). Anyways, getting on the skytrain (public transportation monorail style) it was intensely busy, everyone is pretty much shoulder to shoulder, this one guy decides to get all attitude and told me to "Watch it!" and I just turned right back to him and responded somewhat sarcastically "Yes it sure is crowded isn't it". He turned around and ignored me the rest of the ride on the train. Guess he didn't want to be my friend.

 

[pearlieq]

Add me to the crowd that gets sick of yielding. I used to play chicken on the streets of Chicago all the time because it irritated me how people (especially, in my experience, men) just expected you to get out of their way, even though they're on your side of the walk.

They always look so surprised when you don't move, and shocked when you collide with them. I'm a sturdy woman--I can take a hit. Some days I'd rather crash than let someone be obnoxious.

 

[goofyernmost]

I just need to say this here and then I will drop it...I promise.

What is the problem with so many people being indignant about someone stopping in the path way. This isn't an interstate highway, it's a theme park. Disney specifically designed it to be detailed and to be noticed. So to stop and look at something that was put there for exactly that purpose is what is supposed to happen, not to be avoided.

New visitors need to look up references and sometime need to stop to do that and get their barrings. There are no lines drawn on the ground that keep people in one lane or a designated shoulder to "pull over too".

I have been to WDW 28 times and I am conscious of my surroundings, but even I sometimes have to stop suddenly. You want to know what the real problem is? You, yea you, the person behind me who has not allowed enough space between me and yourselves to be able to stop. You are the people that are being rude (if that is indeed the proper word). Leave some space and you won't run into me. Or, heavens forbid, walk around me, it will not add any measurable time to your stay.

It's a theme park filled with people all of them with different destinations and interests. Understand that when you go there and make allowances. You will be happier and so will they. There is no way to stop people from stopping in front of you, it is not preventable, it should not even be expected. Allow for it. I'll bet that no one here that has posted about that can say that they never once did that. If they do say it I doubt it is true.

Now as for those that walk straight into you...they are fair game. I'm a big guy so it hardly ever happens to me, but it will depend on my mood how I react. Sometimes I will move, sometimes I won't but you have to remember that once you decide to "play chicken" you have become one of them. You're doing the same thing, exactly.

The moral of the story is that this is a theme park not an olympic event. Slow down, yea I know the window on your fastpass is about to open, but make it fun not frustrating and remember that for the most part, all those people you are getting upset with for getting in your way, don't even know you're there. That right...you are not all that special.

 

[seashoreCM]

I see it all the time at my high school. They're mad at you for playing chicken with them and you didn't conceed to them.

Learning for when their parents pull them from school to go to Disney?
What still stands out in my mind from school days is cutting in line at the cafeteris.

This happens to me all the time along with the stroller push. People push their strollers into me and will just pull it back and keep pushing it into me.

That's okay, though, I turn around and smile pleasantly!.

... and (I) bend down and pat the child's head.
"So you're the one banging into my legs!"

 

[mfd25wife]

This happens to me all the time along with the stroller push. People push their strollers into me and will just pull it back and keep pushing it into me.

That's okay, though, I turn around and smile pleasantly!

It's just the special snowflake-ness abounding.

I got sick of this last year. I had one woman ram me twice so I finally asked her to not hit me anymore. I noticed she didn't have a child in the stroller, just stuff. She hit me one more time. I didn't say anything, but I did happen to see a fire hydrant coming up in front of us. I sidestepped at the last moment and she rammed the hydrant.

 

[shalom]

I think they need to post "Go to the right and You'll never go wrong" signs. Most Americans tend to walk on the right side of the pathway and when coming head on to someone, sway right.

There might be something to that. I know in Korea, you go left. But even if there were signs, there'd still be confusion. I did a lot of inadvertent dancing approaching people in Korea, as habit and knowledge fought it out in my brain.

 

[mcd2745]

I will add this one more thing. I don't care if it is at WDW or anywhere else, if you are texting or reading emails on your blackberry while walking...then you are fair game to get steamrolled.

 

[mom2rtk]

I will add this one more thing. I don't care if it is at WDW or anywhere else, if you are texting or reading emails on your blackberry while walking...then you are fair game to get steamrolled.

Ain't that the TRUTH! I have never seen SO many people walking around with their heads down looking at a tiny screen!

 

[rubato]

Yeah....this happened to us in December. There are 3 of us and we usually don't walk 3 abreast, unless it's very uncrowded. Usually, we walk 2, with one behind, or even single file, with me in front, DD11 in the middle and DH in back. And we're to the right.

But over and over, we encountered groups who just had to walk 4, 5, 6, even 7 abreast....which meant that even if they started out on the left, they ended up on our side because they took up so much space. We got tired of having to dodge them, and I admit it, I am feisty. I refuse to move on principle. Many times I just stop and give them the hairy eyeball and they had to dodge me.

However, one day it was raining and we'd put on those flimsy ponchos. We were walking single file on the right, with me in the lead. I'm short, barely over 5 feet tall, so maybe they think they can blow past me, but that's an error in judgement on their part. Anyway, I had my arms up so I could hold the hoodie part of the poncho on my head (it was too loose to stay up on its own) so picture me walking around like I had chicken arms.....elbows sticking out in front of me up high, at an angle. I see 6 or 7 youngish men in their teens to early twenties heading toward us, and yes, they are 6-7 abreast, taking up almost the whole walkway. There really is no place for us to go. Maybe if I'd put down my elbows and made myself small I could have avoided a collision, but my head would have gotten wet and it was dang COLD.

So I just kept going. I mean, the one on the edge saw me. I guess he just expected I'd move for him as we got closer. But I didn't. And so, we collided. Or more to the point, my elbow jabbed the bejeezus out of his arm. As I passed him, he loudly yelled, "OOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!" DD11 said, "I think you hit him." DH just LHAO. He knows me well enough to know that by then, I'd had it with being bulldozed by people who feel they MUST walk in a row, like the freaking Monkees walking on the beach singing their theme song. He'd had it too. I told DD he could have moved, but he didn't, so he'd made his choice.

If our family of three can manage to not hog the walkways and we just want to get by without incident, it's not too much to ask that we not be forced aside by those who are too rude to share space. At some point, even normally polite people decide to stand their ground......and sometimes elbows are involved if it's raining.

I had this same type of experience on the walkway between MK and the Contemporary. Family with older teenage girl on the left coming towards me. I am by myself, not a large person and aware of them. They keep coming taking up the entire sidewalk. I braced for impact. I also said 'Move over next time' as loud as I could. I didn't bother stopping to see. This was only my 2nd day at Disney but I was already sick to death of the entitlement of others. I should at least get my one lane of the sidewalk. No need for your family to walk 4 abreast. Get out of my way!
We encountered rude, clueless and just downright mean people all 7 of our vacation days. The foreign vacationers just appeared clueless, but the Americans know that it's wrong, and do it anyway.

Oh, and I am a Packers fan, so that must be what's wrong with me. Go Pack!!!!!

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Wow... you guys wouldn't last a week on the Boston subways during rush hour...

I was just thinking that!

 

[pearlieq]

What is the problem with so many people being indignant about someone stopping in the path way. This isn't an interstate highway, it's a theme park. Disney specifically designed it to be detailed and to be noticed. So to stop and look at something that was put there for exactly that purpose is what is supposed to happen, not to be avoided.

New visitors need to look up references and sometime need to stop to do that and get their barrings. There are no lines drawn on the ground that keep people in one lane or a designated shoulder to "pull over too".

Sorry, but I just can't get behind that. Walkways are thoroughfares. They are meant as a path to move from one point to the other. If you need to stop, you simply move over to the edge. It's not difficult to figure out and it's considerate.

It takes a special kind of self-centeredness (or perhaps dimness) to just stop in the middle of a path of moving people to pull out your map or admire something shiny. The whole world is supposed to detour around you so that you don't have to trouble yourself moving to the side? No.

 

[disneyjunkie]

Rubato you were the rude one, not the teen. You're lucky her parents didn't confront you. I sure would have. After reading how some DISers deal with "rude" people,I think I need to add bail money to our packing list.

 

[rubato]

Rubato you were the rude one, not the teen. You're lucky her parents didn't confront you. I sure would have. After reading how some DISers deal with "rude" people,I think I need to add bail money to our packing list.

Could you please explain to me how it's rude to have a little tiny piece of the huge sidewalk and refuse to move from it? Why should a family of 4 have the whole sidewalk and I have to step into the bushes? Seriously? I don't think I was being rude at all, I think I was fighting rudeness. Sorry if it seems that way to you. I was just trying to wake some people up. The girl in question was at least 17 years old and it's not like I knocked her on her butt, I just didn't sway.

 

[luvthemouse71]

I will add this one more thing. I don't care if it is at WDW or anywhere else, if you are texting or reading emails on your blackberry while walking...then you are fair game to get steamrolled.

Or fall into a fountain like that lady on YouTube, lol.

 

[luvthemouse71]

Could you please explain to me how it's rude to have a little tiny piece of the huge sidewalk and refuse to move from it? Why should a family of 4 have the whole sidewalk and I have to step into the bushes? Seriously? I don't think I was being rude at all, I think I was fighting rudeness. Sorry if it seems that way to you. I was just trying to wake some people up. The girl in question was at least 17 years old and it's not like I knocked her on her butt, I just didn't sway.

yeah, you did nothing wrong.. The girl should have moved over- and her parents are probably rude as well.

 

[Love Tink]

It sounds to me like a lot of people on here are mistaking obliviousness for rudeness.

I doubt this teenage girl was trying to knock you off the path. She was just preoccupied by everything to see around her, or maybe trying to hear something someone in her family was saying, or trying to keep up with them.

Yes, we've all been annoyed many times by people who don't seem to notice that they are not the only people on the planet. But it happens everywhere - on the freeway, in school, at the mall. It's not a purposeful attack against your personal space, it's just that people don't always pay attention. Haven't you ever been distracted?

I think we all have every right to use our voices to get the attention of those who aren't paying attention, and to ask them to share the walkway, or be careful, or stop bumping into us. Most people will apologize if called on thoughtless behavior. Some won't. But at least give them that chance before you hip check them to the ground. Geez.

 

[rubato]

It sounds to me like a lot of people on here are mistaking obliviousness for rudeness.

I understand what you are saying, but, in my opinion, being oblivious is being rude. And, I agree that she probably wasn't trying to knock me off the sidewalk, she just didn't care that her actions were causing others problems. Not a big deal. Just a lot of it this trip. Every park, every day, all day long. I was actually glad to be home.

 

[Mrs. Charming]

Add me to the crowd that gets sick of yielding. I used to play chicken on the streets of Chicago all the time because it irritated me how people (especially, in my experience, men) just expected you to get out of their way, even though they're on your side of the walk.

They always look so surprised when you don't move, and shocked when you collide with them. I'm a sturdy woman--I can take a hit. Some days I'd rather crash than let someone be obnoxious.

Yep, same here. Go ahead, try me!