Things that gross you out in WDW!

[Absolutely Disney]

For me it is when people let there kids play in the fountains at Epcot

Why exactly does this gross you out? I,myself, am a personal fountain player. (No, i'm not an adult. I'm eleven)

 

[mommy2_3]

People who cough and don't cover their mouth. Once this adult man coughed right in my face as we were passing each other in a close crowd. I felt the wet mist of his cough hit my face......DISGUSTING. I had to go directtly to the restroom and wash my face. I mean a small child might not know better...but an adult

yes thats gross and so is the diaper changing in public. my 3yr old and 2yr old know better than to cough without covering their mouth.

i haveent been to WDW yet but this happened at six flags. after getting off a ride i just happen to look down and see a huge pile of puke! GROSS!!

 

[mommy2_3]

LOL at this thread but I got one I haven't read:

You're eating at a restaurant, you see the buser come over & wipe down the table THEN use the same cloth to wipe down the seats.

Then the next table, they are wiping down the table with the same cloth they just wiped the last table's seats. So all the butts, diapers & who knows what germs are on the seats are now being SPREAD on the next table they wipe down...EEEWWWW

My 80-something grandma has pointed this out so often my husband & I now notice it. But every buser to manager we've ever pointed this out to looks at us like we are germophobics. Maybe we are.

But unless there is a clean tablecloth or paper placemat on the table, I'm grabbing extra napkins using them for placemats at every restaurant I eat at - I've even trained DS to do this!

lol! me and hubby get those antibatrical wipes and wipe down the table before we eat. my kids like to lay their food on the table.

 

[jfulcer]

Sorry but in a wide open arena such as the parks 2nd hand smoke is not an issue. smoke travels up and disapates faster. So unless your in the designated area and 9 feet tall and deformed to a 45 degree angle and facing me, you have no threat to second hand smoke...

SHS=Second Hand Smoke

The California Air Resources Board study (CARB, 2006), measured OTS [outdoor tobacco smoke] nicotine concentrations outside an airport, college, government center, office complex, and amusement park. CARB found that at these typical outdoor locations, Californians may be exposed to OTS levels as high as indoor SHS concentrations. …

Klepeis, et al. (2007) measured OTS respirable particle concentrations in outdoor patios, on airport and city sidewalks, and in parks. They also conducted controlled experiments of SHS indoors and OTS outdoors. Klepeis et al. (2007) found that mean SHS particle concentrations outdoors can be comparable to SHS indoors.

 

[goofy4prez]

I don't remember which counter service restaurant it was, but a family ate their complete meal on top of a garbage can!! GROSS!!

I can tell you which counter serve restaurant I went to where my entire family's meal found it's way "inside" the garbage can.

Hint: it is located at DHS, next to the American Idol Experience, and the letters preceed DEF in the alphabet.



Something else I find gross is when women breastfeed while their husbands who are 100 pounds overweight swim in speedo's, while their kids are peeing in the pool, wearing diapers in public, who also pick their nose and wipe it on a rail so that some other persons kid will soon lick the rail, all the while the kid licking the rails mother is constantly sniffling her nose while breast feeding, while her husband is in the same pool in a speedo with the other guy and publicly adjusting his ummm never mind. And lets not forget the family of 5 sitting poolside all eating turkey legs while chewing their gum with the mouths open and wearing bathing suits 6 sizes too small while all looking like the Michelin Man wearing bikini's and speedo's.

 

[jfulcer]

LOL at this thread but I got one I haven't read:

You're eating at a restaurant, you see the buser come over & wipe down the table THEN use the same cloth to wipe down the seats.

Then the next table, they are wiping down the table with the same cloth they just wiped the last table's seats. So all the butts, diapers & who knows what germs are on the seats are now being SPREAD on the next table they wipe down...EEEWWWW

My 80-something grandma has pointed this out so often my husband & I now notice it. But every buser to manager we've ever pointed this out to looks at us like we are germophobics. Maybe we are.

But unless there is a clean tablecloth or paper placemat on the table, I'm grabbing extra napkins using them for placemats at every restaurant I eat at - I've even trained DS to do this!

Most restraunts that I've seen either use a bleach solution on that rag or a antibacterial solution of some sort. It's probably food handling requirements.

 

[arcurioa]

Not much grosses me out, but why do people leave pee on the seat. This isn't just a Disney thing, it bothers me everywhere. Especially places that provide a paper cover, but why in the world would anyone think that someone else wants to clean up your mess. Yuck!!!!!

 

[bwilcox]

Why exactly does this gross you out? I,myself, am a personal fountain player. (No, i'm not an adult. I'm eleven)

I don't get that one, either. Are the posters who said that planning on drinking our of the fountains?
I say, play away!

 

[Princess Pudding Pop]

I was in toon town Saturday evening and someone was changing their baby on one of the food carts (by Pete's garage). The bathroom is like what 20 steps behind them. ewww

BTW I caught my own child with her mouth on the rails on a few rides of course she is at that height right now, I found that to be grody lol

 

[mommy2_3]

Ok...first of all, I keep a very tight leash on my germophobia but this thread is going to send me to therapy!! Anything having to do with snot/buggars (gagging while typing) makes me want to hurl!

But I have to say one of the most disgusting/disturbing things I have ever seen I saw at WDW in 2007. DH, 2 DDs and I were on the bus to DTD and the bus was really crowded. All four of us had to sit in two seats with our umbrella stroller laid across our double laps. In front of us are two guys in their early 20s. Upon closer inspection I notice that they are slightly unkempt and dirty (looked like they hadn't showered in a day or five) but that's fine, whatever. Then I see "them". About 10-15 live lice crawling all over the head and neck of the guy directly in front of me. Anyone that has ever had a kid come home with lice and has spent HOURS picking nits out of long hair while that child cries because they have to sit still for so long and then spend more hours delousing your home and car knows exactly what I mean when I say that was the longest bus ride of my life. I must have done 4 head checks that night on my family! It was absolutely nasty.

my poor DD1 got lice and i had no idea how she got it.low and behold it was from my sister who i said could stay with us, but thats a different story. anyway DD was scratching her head real bad and i check and there it is! she is 2 and i tried and tried so hard for her to sit still so i could get them out. no use. so to get rid of it i had to shave her beautiful hair off!! i cried the whole time! my sister asked me to check her (guess she was trying to not be quilty) and when i look she has eggs EVERYWHERE! i tell her and she fights with me telling me its dandrif. uh NO! so i tell her to leave. she had this long beautiful golden blond hair! i miss it! putting her hair in pigtails and everything but i HAD to get rid of it! im hoping it grows back by the time we go to WDW in april 2011.

 

[hkeller27]

I CANNOT stand sweaty, gross stranger skin touching mine!! In line, on the monorail/bus, on a ride, whatever - PLEASE - DO - NOT - TOUCH - ME!!! Ick ick ick.

And it's always the gross sweaty ones that are all creeping up into you....I am getting all grossed out just thinking about it!

 

[tiggergirlinMI]

Oh yes, sweaty people....or better yet, the woman or esp the man who always seems to sit next to me on the bus, or shall I say ON me....they see an empty seat between me and someone else and they sit down and sorry but they aren't fitting, well they are because half his leg is on me and the other is on the other persons leg. And they are always sweaty...sorry but I get up, that is beyond invasion of private space.

 

[KellyNY]

Oh yes, sweaty people....or better yet, the woman or esp the man who always seems to sit next to me on the bus, or shall I say ON me....they see an empty seat between me and someone else and they sit down and sorry but they aren't fitting, well they are because half his leg is on me and the other is on the other persons leg. And they are always sweaty...sorry but I get up, that is beyond invasion of private space.

Agree, happens all the time. It reminds me NYC subway in a summer at 5PM.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

I read some people are grossed out by non-toilet flushing,

Well... when I was younger, I was afraid of the toilet flushing. I wasn't the one at home because it wasn't as strong or loud but a lot of public ones are. So I would try to get away with flushing them as much as I could. If there was even a chance of someone walking in the stall I was just in, knowing I was just in there I would usually just wait in the stall until it was less busy. Or, I would run out of the bathroom before anyone could tell it was me.

It was VERY rare that I would ever flush the toilet... I want to say this lasted until I was around 10. My mom never knew about this either.

So sorry all... I promise I don't do it anymore

 

[castaway3]

The turkey legs

They are NOT turkey

 

[pickles]

They are NOT turkey

yes they are

http://www.diningindisney.com/disne...e-real-secret-behind-this-tasty-disney-treat/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upOme9z2E4E

 

[2005s4]

As already mentioned, dirty toilets.. seriously what the heck?

I wonder how many people are reading this thread saying "i do that all of the time"

 

[Princess Pudding Pop]

When there is a major line for the bathroom & you notice the one stall not being used.. Isnt that what your shoe is for, kick open the stall door close your eyes and hope you kick that button to flush? lol And use the toliet while everyone is still doing the potty dance in line.

What grosses me out on whats lurking under the tables, when crayons go rolling off the table & you have to retrieve them, bleh, or worse even whats on the underside of the table. My dd is always happy to report there is gum. At Sci Fi drive in there was mayo under my dash eww.

 

[luvthemouse71]

I read some people are grossed out by non-toilet flushing,

Well... when I was younger, I was afraid of the toilet flushing. I wasn't the one at home because it wasn't as strong or loud but a lot of public ones are. So I would try to get away with flushing them as much as I could. If there was even a chance of someone walking in the stall I was just in, knowing I was just in there I would usually just wait in the stall until it was less busy. Or, I would run out of the bathroom before anyone could tell it was me.

It was VERY rare that I would ever flush the toilet... I want to say this lasted until I was around 10. My mom never knew about this either.

So sorry all... I promise I don't do it anymore

Difference being, you were a kid at the time. So you're forgiven.. I know there are plenty of adults who don't flush and I want to smack them..ditto for the Pee Sprinklers. Fine, we get that you don't want to sit on the toilet seat, but wipe up after yourself!!

 

[BayouMickey]

SHS=Second Hand Smoke

The California Air Resources Board study (CARB, 2006), measured OTS [outdoor tobacco smoke] nicotine concentrations outside an airport, college, government center, office complex, and amusement park. CARB found that at these typical outdoor locations, Californians may be exposed to OTS levels as high as indoor SHS concentrations. …

Klepeis, et al. (2007) measured OTS respirable particle concentrations in outdoor patios, on airport and city sidewalks, and in parks. They also conducted controlled experiments of SHS indoors and OTS outdoors. Klepeis et al. (2007) found that mean SHS particle concentrations outdoors can be comparable to SHS indoors.

Might want to read the whole ARTICLE source (http://www.slate.com/id/2228681):

Both studies were done in California. Let's start with the CARB report. Here are some relevant passages:

1) It is difficult to measure ETS removal rates in outdoor settings since outdoor conditions are highly variable and change rapidly. (Page III-13)

2) [C]igars and cigarettes, the primary source of ETS [environmental tobacco smoke], are smaller sources that emit pollutants near people and thereby exposures to ETS are very localized. (Page II-4)

3) Overall, the results indicate that concentrations of nicotine correspond to the number of smokers in the smoking areas, although factors such as the size of the smoking area and wind speed affected the results. (Page II-3)

4) For each sampling period, two samplers were situated adjacent to the outdoor smoking area, with a third sampler located away from the smoking area as a background sampler in the expected upwind direction. … At most sites, the location of the background monitors, due to physical obstacles and/or meteorological conditions, were close to the smoking areas. … However, even at the background site locations, background concentrations were substantially lower than measured in the smoking areas. (Pages V-7 to V-8)

So Repace is correct that secondhand smoke has been studied outdoors. But the CARB study underscores what I wrote: "[T]hose studies aren't conducted in wide-open spaces. They can't cover the whole atmosphere." The passages quoted here confirm that 1) it's hard to measure smoke dynamics outdoors because conditions change rapidly; 2) exposure levels are "very localized"; 3) wind, area size, and number of smokers affect the degree of exposure; and 4) even close to a designated smoking area, you can avoid exposure by being upwind. At the amusement park, for example, the difference in exposure was a factor of 25.

Now let's look at the Klepeis study:

1) average OTS concentrations measured … during visits to outdoor patios that were enclosed by fences or walls … were 50% and 43% higher, respectively, than those observed in more open areas. … (Page 10)

2) We observed a clear reduction in OTS levels as the distance from a tobacco source increased. Generally, average levels within 0.5 m from a single cigarette source were quite high and comparable to indoor levels, and OTS levels at distances greater than 1 or 2m were much lower. (Page 12)

3) At distances larger than 2 m, levels near single cigarettes were generally close to background. … [If] one spends time downwind from a smoker, then moving to a distance of more than 2m can reduce the likelihood of experiencing elevated particle exposure due to OTS. (Page 14)

Again, the data confirm common sense. The more open the space and the farther away you are, the lower your smoke exposure. To get the kind of exposure you'd suffer indoors, you have to stand within two feet of the smoker. Move seven feet away, and you're "close to background," i.e., breathing normal air. I recommend greater distance than that, just to be safe. But you don't need to ban smoking throughout Central Park.

Repace offers additional arguments for outdoor smoking bans. He points out that "there are millions of asthmatics in this country" and says outdoor smoke levels can be "high enough to trigger an asthmatic attack in susceptible persons." He also contends that "most nonsmokers find SHS to be a nuisance. Just as noise and dog droppings are regulated in public spaces, governments have the right and the obligation to protect the susceptible from the stupid."

If you want to argue for parkwide smoking bans based on asthma or on an analogy to noise pollution, go ahead and make that case. But let's not cloud that debate by invoking the general harm of secondhand smoke. Studies of secondhand smoke have indeed moved outdoors. Their findings support restrictions on lighting up within a few feet of other people. But they don't warrant more than that.