the stop and stares or the go too slows

[Julylady]

My pet peeve is the Counter Service Slow Deciders! I find it unfathomable that you can wait in a line in front of a huge menu board and not decide what you are going to order until you get to the cash register. I have heard some say that they can't see the menu until they get up there. In that case, you should walk up front and study the menu BEFORE you get in line.

This particular peeve stems from an experience on New Years Eve 2003 at the Electric Umbrella in EPCOT. Around lunch we wait in horrendous lines to order food. Directly in front of me was a Dad with two tweener children. After waiting in line 30 minutes he was next to order. He then sent one of the kids to "get Mom and see what she wants for lunch." He then just stood there and waited. After 3-4 minutes the kid comes back with Mom. As a family they study the menu for several minutes and then decide they don't want to eat there and all leave.

They waited in line a total of 45 minutes and then left without food. It was unbelievable!!

Now I also had issue with the cast member taking orders. Instead of asking the guy to stand aside, he just kept taking orders from the other side for the entire 15 minutes this took. I tried to get his attention, but he wasn't having it. When I finally got up there was no word of apology or anything! I looked around for a supervisor to complain but no one to be found.

 

[sugarpie]

You know what bothers me the most?

The people who think everything should be the way they like it & the heck with everyone else.

Have a little patience, please.

 

[i<3Disney]

You know what bothers me the most?

The people who think everything should be the way they like it & the heck with everyone else.

Glad you agree with me

 

[Karnak]

While I tend to agree with those who have posted about not liking it when someone in front of them walks slowly, let me just say this about that.

As a solo traveler, I experience the following every time I get in line for the "It's Tough to be a Bug!" show ...

The line for this show winds through many of the 325 animal images carved into the "Tree of Life," which is 14 stories tall and is considered an attraction in itself. I always walk slowly and enjoy the artwork, and always seem to bother people behind me who tend to be in an all-fired hurry to get into the "lobby," where they must then wait until they are admitted into the theater.

Why, I wonder, are these people in such a rush to "hurry up and wait?"

Just a thought from an old timer.

 

[DepCor0311]

Why, I wonder, are these people in such a rush to "hurry up and wait?"

ITA

 

[deltachi8]

You know what bothers me the most?

The people who think everything should be the way they like it & the heck with everyone else.

Have a little patience, please.

I show patience when its met with common sense.

 

[SnwflkCts]

These threads are always funny because each of us does have pet peeves. I must admit, I was not run over by any strollers while at WDW. Nor was I bothered by the stop and stares - like The Mick, I figure they are in such awe!! -- maybe I was even one of them ... I can't remember.

Now if people take up my space coming at me, it does bother me. The non-make-up-their-minds at counter service isn't too bad for me unless I am totally starved. Then I am a little bit peeved. I think because I drive in WALL TO WALL traffic every day in the DC area and because I have many family members who can't decide what foot to put in front of the other ... seeing these quirks in others doesn't bother me.

Just breathe deep, in slowly ... out slowly. Patience is a virtue. A day behind the stop-and-stares in WDW is better than a day behind the stop-and-beeps (or stop-and-crash) on the Capital Beltway ANYDAY!

 

[Bill From PA]

Before this degenerates into a riot and there's nothing left but teeth, hair and eyeballs littering the forum, allow me to insert my pet peeve. The 'Family of Four Taking Up the Entire Walkway' is annoying enough when they're in front of you and MAYBE unaware for the congestion they're causing. What frosts my raisins is that same group coming toward you, studiously ignoring you, silently expecting you to hug the wall so they can pass undisturbed. I've developed a special tactic to deal with these louts. I have no need for a park map, but I carry one anyway. When we find ourselves in the path of such a group, we move to 'our side' of the walkway, turn 90 degrees away from their approach, open the map and study it. They always part like the Red Sea and pass by without comment, but I hope for the day when a member of this tribe makes a comment so I can ask them, 'How much of this sidewalk do you precious folks feel entitled to?'. Someday.

Bill From PA

 

[DepCor0311]

I agree with Bill From PA...I view people walking on-line, 8 abreast, as a direct challenge to my sovereign right to half of the walkway.

 

[HMHunters]

What frosts my raisins is that same group coming toward you, studiously ignoring you, silently expecting you to hug the wall so they can pass undisturbed.

They get my vote too!

 

[i<3Disney]

Before this degenerates into a riot and there's nothing left but teeth, hair and eyeballs littering the forum, allow me to insert my pet peeve. The 'Family of Four Taking Up the Entire Walkway' is annoying enough when they're in front of you and MAYBE unaware for the congestion they're causing. What frosts my raisins is that same group coming toward you, studiously ignoring you, silently expecting you to hug the wall so they can pass undisturbed. I've developed a special tactic to deal with these louts. I have no need for a park map, but I carry one anyway. When we find ourselves in the path of such a group, we move to 'our side' of the walkway, turn 90 degrees away from their approach, open the map and study it. They always part like the Red Sea and pass by without comment, but I hope for the day when a member of this tribe makes a comment so I can ask them, 'How much of this sidewalk do you precious folks feel entitled to?'. Someday.

Bill From PA

I've noticed this in the Rose Garden walk way. Mickey knows that it's crowded enough..but some think it's a one-way road.

 

[Narnian_Princess]

I personally don't like the "Not Looking In the Direction You're Walking" group, because during my last night at DLR last winter I was walking beside my dad, and this woman is walking straight towards us while looking off to the side and up into the sky, pointing, and talking to her friends! My dad managed to duck under her arm, and I tried to evade, but she ran into me and nearly knocked me flat! She apologized, but still... annoying.

And how about the "Go Too Slow Walls"? Those are really annoying; six people taking their own sweet time while blocking the WHOLE walkway. We've even had to duck into shops to go around them!

And don't even get me started on the "Walk Directly Towards Someone Else and Expect THEM to Move For YOU" group...

 

[nightowlky]

What about the "Barge out of a store" people? The type that assume there's no one walking down the sidewalk so they can come out of the store and *then* just stand around at the store entrance reviewing all of their purchases. I think it's the same people that come out of a grocery aisle at full-speed. Makes me wonder if they stop at stop signs on the road....

 

[Missy1961]

I agree with you on "The Wall" and the "Go Too Slow" but I will make my stand on the "Stop and Stare." Try as I have over the years to refine my Jedi/Ninja skills, I have not been able to perfect the "see directly behind me" trick. If I stop and you bump into me, that means that you are in one of two equally annoying groups...The "Follow Too Closely" group, or the "Not Looking In The Direction You Are Walking Group."

Amen to that! I try to go to the side when I want to stop & look, but some of the follow too closely crowd doesn't make that possible.

 

[loribeth]

How about the "cut in front of our stroller like we're invisible" folks.

No matter how careful and slow I go, several, not one or two, but several people cut in front of our stroller like we are invisible and then when I hit them because I just couldn't stop in time, they look back and give me a dirty look.

It happens all the time.

I hear you. We always have people walk into our stroller. Or they cut in front of us and stop. And like you said you hit them because you can't stop in time. One man threatened to hit my aunt because of that. One person almost fell on the child inside the stroller. She was not watching where she was going, walked into the stroller, and almost fell.

 

[disneyfansmandl]

The people coming at us bothers me the most. My wife is small and I don't know how many times people have just collided with her because she could not get out of the way fast enough! I am a big guy and most people get out of the way but I have completely stopped dead in my tracks and had two people end up bouncing off of me onto the ground. Then I get the angry stare which I usually ignore but sometimes have to say "watch where you are going" On the other hand, I have had many children crash into me because they are obviously in awe of their surroundings. Their parents ususally apologize and I always address them and the children saying "no problem" It is all in their attitude. I agree we must all exercise patience but at least we can vent here, right?

 

[GenTink]

People who stop in door ways or in front of cash registers to chat always aggrivate me. Also, folks who stand in front of the fast pass entrance, just kind of gawking, like "Hmm, what is this?". This seems to happen to me alot.

I know exactly what you mean. This happened to me alot on our last trip, we were standing there, for like ever and then all these other people came and went through. I have no idea what they were doing, but they were stil there when we got off the ride

 

[GenTink]

I've got a new one. The "everyone-is-trying-to-cheat-me" people. If you stand in front of them by accident and block their view they assume you are just obnoxious and will a-completly explode, b- huff behind you/make snide coments to the rest of their party till you turn around/leave or c-return the favor

I had one experience with a group of these where we were let in through the wheelchair entrance to Haunted Mansion and told to wait for someone. There were already people there (looked like somesort of VIP group of something). When we got there we were informed by one of the kids in the group (about 17 by looks of him) that this is the line for the 'poor wheelchair kids'. First off this is insulting to anyone in a wheelchair and secondly (as one of our pary members pointed out to them) we have everyreason to be here and it's really none of their bussiness. I get so many glares because of my GAC. Yes I can walk, but the long lines and hot sun do wierd things to my blood sugar.

Anyways, plz hold you judgement on weather or not someone should be in the assisted line.

 

[Dopey Sharon]

It never fails that my DH, at least once a day, walks into a "stop and stare" person, while in WDW.

A few weeks ago, we went to Atlantic City. The casino we went to has a moving sidewalk. My DH is in front of me and there's an older man in front of him. The older man gets to the end of the moving sidewalk and STOPS! My DH almost knocked him over.

 

[Mono~rail]

I saw a few comments about people standing in line for CS meals needing to decide what they want before they reach the ordering point. Last week at Columbia Harbour House in MK, I couldn't read the sandwich descriptions on the menu from the line. Even once I got up to the CM taking my order I had to step a little bit closer to see. The couple standing behind me were trying to read the sandwich descriptions, too. The people ahead of you may not be able to read the menu from that far away without binoculars. I'm just trying to give another perspective on this particular situation.