This is a Vent! You've Been Warned!

[Feralpeg]

I go to WDW parks and DTD a lot so maybe I tend to see repeated behaviors and this just seems to be getting worse and worse. I don't understand why people can't clean up after themselves in the fast food restaurants. I see it over and over. If this doesn't apply to you, please accept my apologies.

People finish eating and just get up and waltz away. Now, we could debate until the cows come home over whether Disney should have enough CMs working to pick up after people and make sure the tables are clean. The fact of the matter is that they don't. If you don't clean up after yourself, the next guest to use the table has to do it. During busy times, tables are very much in demand. Even if Disney had the people to clean tables, they wouldn't get a chance to do it before someone sat down at the table.

It just doesn't take that much effort to put your trash on a tray and dump it. Cleaning off the table with a napkin would be even better, but I'm not expecting miracles. No where on your ticket does it say that by purchasing this ticket you have the right to be inconsiderate of others.

If you don't want to clean up after yourself, go to a full service restaurant!

Sorry, vent over!

 

[oogieboogie]

I understand your frustration Feralpeg, but in a lot of countries, you really don't clean up after yourself in a fast food restaurant, because they actually employ people to do that. Cheap and plentiful labor, they're employing people who otherwise won't have a job.

Could it be that these people are foreigners and they don't know that in America you clean up after yourself? Just a thought.

 

[shatzjsl]

I agree Peg. Unfortunately, it isn't just a problem at WDW. It happens all over. I see it a lot at the food courts at the mall even though there are plenty of trash cans on the way out of the food court. Heck, I even see it in the lunchroom here at work and we know there is nobody hired to do it there. Rant on!

 

[NCombs]

I was just on a 6th grade field trip yesterday with my son.

His class rode around town to 4 different restaurants to learn how to handle money and to calculate the calories they took in at the restaurants vs the calories they used on the bike ride.

Anyway, one of the things the teacher and chaperoning parents made sure of is that none of the kids left the table without cleaning up after themselves. Some would just get up and walk away without thinking about it-until we made them go back.

I never let my kids leave behind trash. But, one of my daughter's best friends was over at our house for dinner the other night. After they were done eating I made them rinse their plates and put them in the sink. Her friend was fascinated because she had never done this before. Mom always does it for her. She didn't know any different and she is a really good kid.

People need to clean up after themselves and teach their kids how to do it, too.

I agree with you.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

It's also really not a new phenomenon, either. It is appalling but I remember as a kid seeing people not cleaning up after themselves at WDW. Don't let it bother you too much, feralpig, it's not worth the energy!!

 

[Aidensmom]

It's also really not a new phenomenon, either.

It sure isn't. I worked at a fast food restaurant 20 years ago when in high school, and there were people who left all kinds of messes.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

It's all over the place these days. And it's not mostly foreigners that aren't used to the system. It's mostly Americans who should know better.
Makes you wonder what their houses look like if they show such sloth in public.

It's just another example of the me first eff everyone else myopia that's sweeping the country these days.

You also see it manifest in my city. Not one major road out of the place isn't full of litter, cigarette butts and the like. Even in my neighborhood, houses on the main road simply find a bunch of litter in the yard every time they mow. And it isn't because the city doesn't clean. They'd have to clean every road, every day to keep up with it.


Mental note. Bring extra clorox wipes. Bring plenty of clorox wipes.

 

[Lynn4Mel]

It's funny that this thread came up. I make sure I leave the table cleaner then when I sit down at it out of respect and common decency for the next person.

This weekend we went to the movie theatre in our town to see Madagascar.... cute movie... now in my town we have a lot of second homeowners and our town is in a very touristy area, when the movie was over there were 2 rows across from us where the people (visitors to my town) left all of their garbage, cups, popcorn bags, candy wrappers, you name it. I was completely disgusted. I am planning on going down to the theatre later to have a talk with the manager to see if maybe they can atleast put up a sign or something to help stop it from happening anymore. I'm sure it may be alot to ask, but come on!

 

[ricktib]

It's all over the place these days. And it's not mostly foreigners that aren't used to the system. It's mostly Americans who should know better.
Makes you wonder what their houses look like if they show such sloth in public.

It's just another example of the me first eff everyone else myopia that's sweeping the country these days.

I agree. And you can add to this my new pet peave: snot rags left in shopping carts.

 

[KilleriMac17]

I understand your frustration Feralpeg, but in a lot of countries, you really don't clean up after yourself in a fast food restaurant, because they actually employ people to do that. Cheap and plentiful labor, they're employing people who otherwise won't have a job.

Could it be that these people are foreigners and they don't know that in America you clean up after yourself? Just a thought.

this happens everywhere, just not disneyworld. so I wouldnt say she was probably seeing foreigners.. in general people are just lazy/inconsiderate and are getting worse.

 

[MiRi]

I am planning on going down to the theatre later to have a talk with the manager to see if maybe they can atleast put up a sign or something to help stop it from happening anymore. I'm sure it may be alot to ask, but come on!

Unfortunately, people will continue to leave their trash behind. It wouldn't hurt to ask though.

 

[Lynn4Mel]

Oh I am sure of it, but if it helps just a tiny bit. Hoyts used to have the little cartoons before the "show" started that would remind you to turn off your phones and take out your trash. Regal Cinemas don't have that.

Another pet peeve.... when was it ever ok to talk throughout an entire movie??? I understand small children, but adults?????

Ok... need to go back to my happy place!

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

It's funny that this thread came up. I make sure I leave the table cleaner then when I sit down at it out of respect and common decency for the next person.

This weekend we went to the movie theatre in our town to see Madagascar.... cute movie... now in my town we have a lot of second homeowners and our town is in a very touristy area, when the movie was over there were 2 rows across from us where the people (visitors to my town) left all of their garbage, cups, popcorn bags, candy wrappers, you name it. I was completely disgusted. I am planning on going down to the theatre later to have a talk with the manager to see if maybe they can atleast put up a sign or something to help stop it from happening anymore. I'm sure it may be alot to ask, but come on!

I agree with you. They really shouldn't have to put up a sign. Ever go to a sports stadium after a big game? Oh my!! It takes 2 days after a game to clean the place.
It's so bad here I stopped going to the theater. When you walk across the aisle of any theater that's been open more than a month, you hear this squish squish squish sound like ripping velcrow apart. It's because the floor is so sticky from all the kicked over sodapop and other junk everyone leaves on the floor. That's not to mention people sneak booze in. Then they inevitably kick one over. Roll roll rolll bam. Roll roll roll bam. Roll roll roll bamm. all the way down to the front row. Oh and don't get me started on. Riiiiiinnnnng... Rinnnnnnngggg. Oh hi susie, we're at the theater. It's a great movie. Say want to join us for.... afterwards....blah blah blah blah blah. he did what!!! oh that's too funny blah blah blah blah. Oh I'll be just a minute, I'm not really bothering anyone honey!!! Then by this time the whole theater shouts in unison. YES YOU ARE!!!!.

 

[TN Traveler]

Ok, maybe it's me but I thought people just "knew" to clean up after themselves. At our local Taco Bell, Wendy's and McDonald's, I can honeslty say I don't remember having to throw people's left over trash away. However, I have had to wipe off tables w/napkins--not that big of a deal. In most of the fast food places around here, the person working the front countner is SUPPOSE to come out to the lobby and wipe down tables and put away trash if any left. Of course they can't do this all the time but I've seen it happen even on the busiest Saturdays.
At the local theaters here they still run the cartoon before the show about putting your trash in the appropriate containers when you leave.

TN Traveler

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I agree. And you can add to this my new pet peave: snot rags left in shopping carts.

OMG!!! Ever seen a poopy diaper in one?

Mental note. MORE CLOROX WIPES!!!!

 

[DisneyGirl]

It's funny you bring this up, because I've had this conversation so many times in "touristy" destinations-- people here (Ohio) tend to (with some exceptions) pick up after themselves at restaurants (although, I don't go to fast food too often)-- BUT, it seems like, when people are on vacation, they just don't (and it is most definitely NOT only foreign tourists)! My only theory is that people think because they are on vacation, they don't have to pick up after themselves at all. These are probably the same people who leave towels covering pool chairs (even though there are containers to put them in), and leave trash around hotel rooms for housekeeping to pick up even if they wouldn't do that at home!!

 

[AJKMOM]

Hate to say it, but some people think that since they paid $50 to get in, they aren't cleaning up after themselves. Makes me sick, as I am one to leave a table cleaner than when I sat down.

 

[kareneast]

Unfortunately, it isn't just the tables in WDW's CS. The last week of April while waiting for my DH who was putting something into a locker in Epcot, I watched a lady as she was walking to the restrooms open a pack of cigarettes and drop the wrappers on the ground. There was a trash can less then 10 feet in front of her.

 

[Lynn4Mel]

Eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww

 

[DMRick]

Just look at the seating areas as you walk down the aisle at the end of a Southwest flight! OM gosh!
I didn't know until recently that tables are left a mess in foreign countries. We had company, and they got up (he grew up in the states..it was my son ) and was leaving their mess. I said..hey, you grow up in a barn, and he said, oh..he forgot, and then told me they don't clean the tables in their country (and they seldom tip either..it's built in the price, unless service is way beyond exceptional..well we tipped for the rehearsal dinner, so we made someone happy). Well, sure enough, we went over to his country for his wedding, and started cleaning up after ourselves at a take away place, and the worker near had a heart attack. That said, I don't think all those messy tables are foreigners LOL