Teenagers/Adults Screaming on Rides

[livinintexas]

We were at DLR June 2-8 and I commented to my husband that the only thing I didn't enjoy about the trip was the large groups of teens! The screaming, line cutting, running and pushing past crowds, and in general the "pack mentality" was the only negative from the trip! My ride nervous 10 year old was very freaked out by the screaming in HM! I'm sure there were plenty of well behaved teens in the park too, but you only remember the bad ones! In general we had a wonderful trip, the weather was so perfect it was hard to be grumpy about teens being teens!

 

[Sleepless Knight]

Disneylvrforever, you (and any like you) are not a part of the problem. It's those who repeatedly screech and scream like their lives are in danger that the great majority of us are frustrated with.

I will note here that I've also often been in line behind and in front of very well behaved teens. They were in a big group, clearly having fun, and aware and considerate of those around them.

 

[phisigprincess]

We were on the HM in WDW last year and there was a group of teenagers screaming and being generally inappropriate. It was getting really old for everyone and really ruined the ride (I'm talking constant screaming and inappropriate comments throughout the entire ride). It must have been getting old for the CMs too, because when we got off the ride Disney Security was waiting for the group. I don't know what happened (because there was no place to inconspiciously listen ), but the last I heard Security was asking who they were there with and if there was an adult in their party Security could contact.

 

[toocherie]

That bolded part is probably soooo true, well, for an adult. I think a skittish kid would still appreciate that over the random screaming.


I'm trying to remember if I was THAT obnoxious during my preteen and teen years going to Great American a million times. I know that even in college (and now) my friends and I can talk a million miles an hour, and I'm sure there was much giggling. But screaming for no reason? I just don't know.

It was my kiddo that spurred that discussion, b/c he was just fine until everyone shrieked in the overlayed HM. He could not be calmed down, and we ended up taking the chicken exit. By the way, that's not recommended by me...now that I've seen the overlay version I don't know that I agree, but at the time I had the strong feeling that we would have been less scared by just going on the ride, rather than walk those halls. Maybe it's changed since October of '06, but back then the walls were painted black, there were very few signs, and the halls just went on and on. By the time we got out (it lets you out back by the holiday-time FP machines) we were BOTH in tears.


I wonder if the CMs would let a parent and skittish kid in to the accessible entrance where you don't take the stretching room? Is there such a think at Disneyland? I thought I read there was. Seems a little naughty, and they might think "if the kid is that scared of screams he shouldn't go on", but I dunno, my kid was fine until the shrieking started...seems it was the screams that got to him.


All that said, once I saw the HMH version, I was glad E hadn't gone on it. Especially b/c I was freaked out by it, and would have had a hard time containing my "bleah I hate this" reaction.



People scream on Pirates?????? That's just sad.

Molly: you still go in the stretching room for the accessible entrance too. The only real difference is that you go in it twice--because that is the way you have to come back up too! and it's spookier the second time because you (and a CM) are the only ones in it!

 

[crashbb]

as for the screaming. . . we were in line with a bunch of young girls and my husband commented that he just knew they were going to scream and scream. . they must have heard them because they were AWESOME, did not scream at all!

Or it is possible that they had no intention of screaming in the first place.

Not all groups of teenagers are annoying.

 

[audrabolster]

I agree that the screaming in the HM elevator is a bit annoying, but it has become a regular thing.

I also agree that many people are just getting old and cranky. They probably acted in a similar way when they were younger. I know I did when I visited the park with my friends.

Screaming teens are one thing. How come nobody is complaining about all the crying babies and younger children that parents aren't able to control. Or what about the self-proclaimed tour guides on POTC who point out everything. "Okay, Okay, Look at the well. A man is going to get pulled up and spit out water." "Now look at the woman chasing the man."

If we are going to complain about screaming teens, then maybe we need to complain about all the ones I mentioned and ruin everyone's fun. If you want peace and quiet, go to a library. It's cheaper too.

I've complained about all the groups that ruin my disneyland experience.

However, I know that a lot of kids are acting intentionally, while the teenagers are. Of course not all teenagers do this, but the ones that do really ruin things for me.

I am not looking for peace and quiet by any means, but I would like to be able to ENJOY my experience without my ears ringing, or having every aspect of the ride commented to. I don't limit my frustrations to just teenagers. To me, anyone who ruins the ride for me will be on my bad side!

Or the people that try to cut in lines, bang into as they run around the park like crazy people, etc.

 

[jenjersnap]

I also agree that many people are just getting old and cranky. They probably acted in a similar way when they were younger. I know I did when I visited the park with my friends.

I am 100% certain I never screamed on any ride as a teenager, not even the big coasters that actually merit screaming. It's not my personality to do such a thing.

It will be interesting to see if my boys lose all sense of propriety when the teen years hit. I hadn't even gotten a chance to discuss the situation with them before the oldest said how "dumb" the screamers were being. I don't see it being part of their temperament either though right now. (Also, I reinforced the idea of appropriate behavior and, of course, will continue to do so ...)

 

[quest4dl]

Although we met some horribly rude teenagers we also met some great ones. Unfortunately, there are enough of these selfish groups to make an impact on the parks at this time of year.

I also have to mention that DL probably gets alot more AP holders and since they often come to the parks, they seem to think nothing of continuing their conversations through the ride. I politely turned around to the women behind and apologized that I had ADD and could not separate the soundtracks but they continued talking throughout the ride. These people seem to be clueless to the fact that this type of vacation is once-in-a-lifetime for many families (and I came across a few of these families in the lines).

I wish that in addition to the incessant no flash photography announcement they would add an annoucement similar to the movie theatres - please don't add your own soundtrack!

And sorry, one more example of teen rudeness was the constant chatter of the teen group behind us during our Fantasmic Premium Seating experience. They weren't being obnoxious but I don't think they realized how annoying the constant commentary was (they were obviously locals and had seen it many times before). My 7 yo ds even commented later on about how rude the teens were behind us. While my two sons may perhaps not be always exemplary once they hit their teens, I am quite confident that I have ingrained in them the necessity of behaving well in public. I knew better as a teen and I know they will too - we are not cranky and old - we are just not selfish!

 

[JenM]

I think this happens at any park. I was at Universal Orlando and some woman screamed at every scene of the ET ride. And I have to say...the ride itself was so lame that we thought it was hilarious (no, there weren't any kids in our car). She was really funny.

I was on the standby line for Space Mountain at DL last month, and we had a high school group behind us. Another group from their school suddenly showed up at the fastpass line, and when they saw it each other they started screaming at each other. It went on so long and so loud that I actually feel my eardrums vibrating.

Then we got inside the building and they tried to yell again so their fastpass friends would hear them. I'm guessing someone told them to shut it, because they suddenly stopped and I heard the person behind me say "Well I guess we're not the only ones they're (ticking) off!"

 

[quest4dl]

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Just tell them nicely, "Hey, I got little kids here... could you scream a little quieter please? (insert sarcasm and a bit of a chuckle)!" I would guess that MOST teens would get the hint quickly. They are not heartless... just clueless!

This DID NOT work with the teens being super obnoxious on the Splash ride. I understand being oblivious but when someone calls it to their attention, they should make an attempt to rein themselves in - I asked them three times to stop and they still didn't.

 

[cccdisney]

I take offense to this just because teens and adults have the capacity to know what is right and what is wrong. They have the ability to act appropriately while babies and little kids don't. Babies only way of communicating is through crying. As for little kids that parents aren't able to control.... I am the parent of an autistic child and another with ADHD. They usually are good BUT when they get excited about something all bets are off to get the both under control at the same time. Yeah its frustrating but I am not going to shield my kids from people but I am considerate enough to others around me that if they act that way, we leave.

I couldn't agree with you more and also take offense to this. There is a HUGE difference between an infant or young child screaming and an adult or teen screaming. Even toddlers and young children that can communicate with words can get overwhelmed and tired at DL which can lead to tantrums. This is really a totally different situation than the screaming teens and adults that like to annoy people on rides.

scooter15: I also have a child with autism. He is almost five. When we took him to DL last year it did not go well. He screamed through many rides that we hoped he would enjoy. Unfortunately we also received not so nice looks from people who probably felt we needed to control him better. Oh, if it were only so easy! But we were also courteous to others and decided after a couple of rides that we were not going to take him on kicking and screaming because it wasn't fair to the others who were on the ride. He was happy sitting in the stroller and watching everything so that is what we let him do.

 

[bumbershoot]

Molly: you still go in the stretching room for the accessible entrance too. The only real difference is that you go in it twice--because that is the way you have to come back up too! and it's spookier the second time because you (and a CM) are the only ones in it!

Oh dern!

I keep trying to find a solution, b/c you're never going to get every single person at disneyland to agree to something, and even if the Dis came to a consensus (for instance, screaming in the HM stretching room is ridiculous UNLESS you are actually frightened when the lights go out, but in that case you are going to naturally scream ONCE, and it will not become any sort of tradition) it doesn't mean much to the rest of the universe.

My solution would be for the CMs to help people with kids, especially kids already being carried, to be in the stretching room with, maybe, only other parents with little kids? Might make for a bit of a line-up though. I'm thinkin' of something like a "family friendly" stretching room experience, and that way no one is impacting each other. The kids get to ride without being scared for absolutely no good reason, and the people (I continue to NOT single out teenagers) who wish to scream can go in the room without small children (or at least, with small children who won't be bothered by it) and everyone can scream to their heart's content (just don't come asking ME to buy you hearing aids in 20 years!).

I mean, I have my own little sillinesses at the park. I have *tried* to scream on CA Screamin' to try to let out a bit of the actual fear I feel, but I sort of let out little chirps instead, it seems. But on the other rides I'll get silly and say, quietly, "oh noes, yikes", to my hubby and/or son. I'm not normally a person who likes to have a big impact on others, at festivals, themeparks, restaurants, etc (never have been...I've never much liked to be noticed by strangers), so I keep my own little sillinesses quiet. I still get the fun, but I'm not bugging anyone or worsening a hearing loss (sustained by living their 20s in the Seattle Tacoma area and hearing all the music around here).

 

[JadeDarkstar]

i sware some ppl are just mean i think its rediculos the screaming bloody murder or right in some ones ears. come on get a life. i do the ghost sounds playfull with my ds whoooohoo when we are going on haunted mansion but i also dont do it loud just for us. I think its mean when that stuff happens and then i hear a baby or a child crying.

 

[DSNY4ever]

I hear ya! My husband and I once got stuck in a TOT elevator with a huge group of teenagers. As soon as we realized this we were almost in a panic! And of course they did just what we expected- they screamed through the entire ride for no reason. We couldn't hear any of the little story before the drops and our ears were ringing when it was all over. We felt like we wasted 30 minutes in line because we didn't even get to enjoy it.

I have definitely also come across this problem on the Haunted Mansion- very annoying.

 

[saffy]

We had one group shove us to cut in front of us. Of course their other 14 friends had to catch up to their friends and shove past us too.

That exact thing happened to us on CA Screaming, too!

It was ridiculous because there was NO line - literally, we walked right on, but they felt the need to shove us out of the way first. When the friend tried to pass to get with the other friend, we told him "no. Your friend shoved us to get in front, you don't deserve to be there with him. He can come back and wait with you until we get to the front."

They were like "geez, lady, it's not like there's a line or anything" and didn't get it when we said "Exactly. So there was no reason for you to be as rude as you were!"

Makes you wonder where people learn manners nowadays!

 

[daisy_77]

They don't. That is the problem. A lot of people think that they can treat other's anyway they like because they have gotten away with it for so long. It is good that people are able to stand up against them. I don't think I could ever say anything rude to someone who is rude to me...I am unconfrontational and I don't like drama. I think anyone who can stand up to these people are very brave!

 

[arliepooh68]

I have even had the rude TEENS at a concert, a motley crue concert where he had really really great seats. . . my son even said they ruined the concert for him, they did not belong in the seats, the had GA tickets, we, well I, kept telling the "security" but they did NOTHING about it. . . these kids kept trying to steal beer as the waiters would bring it to the tables that were near us. . . so it is not just amusement parks, the obnoxious ones are everywhere. . . and the language. .. let's not even go there.

 

[JenDisneylandlver]

I am 100% certain I never screamed on any ride as a teenager, not even the big coasters that actually merit screaming. It's not my personality to do such a thing.

It will be interesting to see if my boys lose all sense of propriety when the teen years hit. I hadn't even gotten a chance to discuss the situation with them before the oldest said how "dumb" the screamers were being. I don't see it being part of their temperament either though right now. (Also, I reinforced the idea of appropriate behavior and, of course, will continue to do so ...)

I agree that parenting has a lot do with that. I've seen a lot of teenagers behave appropriately to say it's just their age that makes them act that way. I think that's not having very high expectations of them. I know I never screamed like that on rides. We may have acted goofy at times as teens, but never some of the behavior I saw last week.

There are parents who don't teach their little ones right from wrong, and well those grow up in to teenagers, and even adults who can't behave appropriately.

It certainly isn't just a teenager thing. We had a lot of rides ruined by adults, and I saw a little kids not being supervised, that drove me bonkers. But because there were A LOT of teenagers there last week, they do stand out in my mind.

 

[bonofreak]

My mom blamed all of it on Elvis. And TV.

She said that before Elvis, people (not just teens, but people) didn't scream while listening to music, they listened to music. Then he showed up, he was on TV, and life as she knew it ended.

Drove her nuts.*



I do want to mention that I have NO idea if it was teenagers screaming or 80 year olds. All I know is that they acted as though they were being tortured, and it freaked out my little kid who didn't know that they were just being stupid, er, silly.

(and the title of the thread says "teenagers/adults" not just teenagers)



*I feel compelled to edit something in here. My mom was born in '44 and she got married and moved to San Francisco, by way of Boulder CO, at 17. She was a true hippie; I was born in 1969 in SF, and played with the daughter of Grace Slick and Paul Kantner a few times. My dad once met Neal Cassidy and gave him keys to a van that wasn't his, that ended up in a ditch (Neal was a buddy of Kerouac). She knew Grateful Dead before they were Grateful Dead. She wasn't a fuddy duddy (unlike my oldest friend's mom who was just a couple years older, but was waaaaay into Sinatra and everything else was just noise), she loved music, loved current music (even my brother's metal when he got into Megadeth and Queensryche, etc). She just hated that people SCREAMED over the music and about anything else. When she took me to see Billy Idol, Wham, and Duran Duran, as well as backstage to the last show of Jefferson Airplane, she loved the music, but disliked the fellow fans. She really didn't like screaming. And, as I mentioned, put it all in Elvis's lap. Beatles, too, but Elvis mainly.

Wow, Bumbershoot, this is completely off-topic for me but you have led an exciting life, haven't you? Just thought I'd comment on that! My Mom was also from S.F. but was more the opera music type (and a huge Disney fan).

Back to the topic at hand, I think we have all at one time or other been on a ride and had it spoiled by people being disrespectful to those around them. It's pretty sad. I mean, hey, have fun, we don't want you to NOT have a good time, but I just wish the people who did things like that would think of how that really effects others, it even scares the little ones and that is a real shame at Disneyland of all places.

 

[KitKat_Tink]

I'm sorry to hear that other teenagers scream for no reason. Not all of us do that though. I get quite annoyed with it myself. Last time i went on the HM it seemed more adults screaming then any teenagers in the stretching room. I guess some people just don't have manners.