Un-Disney-like Behavior

[Sylvester McBean]

sit back by the "Partners" statue in front of Cinderella castle. I can't count how many near-fistfights I've seen break out between people looking for that 'perfect' vacation photo. it's become an atrraction for us with no standby lines.

 

[MyDreamIsAWish]

sit back by the "Partners" statue in front of Cinderella castle. I can't count how many near-fistfights I've seen break out between people looking for that 'perfect' vacation photo. it's become an atrraction for us with no standby lines.

OOOOHHHH!!! Yeah! Reminded me!!
DH and I sat there and by the Cinderella Fountain and watched sooooo many people get PEEVED because someone WALKED in front of their camera!
Uh...if you are taking pictures and you stand a MILLION feet away from your 'subject'...people are GOING TO WALK BY!!! It's Disney!!! Duh!!
We cracked up so many times watching this happen!
These people need to carry those orange cones around and perimeter their picture spot I guess???

 

[MyDreamIsAWish]

I'm glad someone said it!

It had to be done!!! And, Im glad I did. If it opens a table for ONE person, then my job is done...he he he!!

 

[junkman]

The whole table saving thing really gets me too. We saw so many people just sitting and waiting for their party at pizza planet. When asked if ill could sit down and EAT (this is a restaurant, after all) we got rude replies from almost everyone. One nice couple did let us share their table, though.

 

[gizmond90]

I have also noticed groups from other countries are rude. We sat down and watched a group from Brazil get there food sit down and eat and leave to go get more food and sit at another table. Each time they left they left all there garbage on the tables,

 

[Judge Smails]

Standing on line with 3 of my friends (I'm the smallest one at 6'1" 210, the biggest is 6'4" 290, the other two are in-between) waiting for a bus back to our resort at MGM. We're standing there talking when this father next to us reaches down and grabs his 2-3 year old son by the arm swings him in a 180º arc over the top of his head and drops him into a stroller from about 3 feet in the air. We never said a word but I guess the stare from the 4 of us was enough. He apologized to us, to his wife and the others who were standing near him. Too bad the child was screaming bloody murder. He had to endure the looks of about 20 people all the way back on the bus trip.

I will always give up my seat on the bus. That being said, please have the common courtesy to say thank you.

And folks please remember it's a vacation...chill out.

 

[goofy4dis]

Well said, Judge Smails, well said.

 

[delilah]

We had a small incident last year at Epcot. WE stopped to buy some Crepes in 'France' and there are about 4 or 5 little tables for the customers there. One of these tables had no chairs with it as people had moved them to the other tables. Anyway I noticed that on one table there was a couple in their 50's sitting with FOUR other chairs so I asked politely if the chairs were being used. The woman looked at me as if I was something she'd trod in and said YES! (in a very rude tone). I shrugged and DH and I ate our crepes stadning up leaning on the chairless table. (I couldn't walk and eat as I was pushing DD in her stroller!). After we'd finished eating we went to get DD's passport stamped and her mask done in the French pavillion and wehn we came out this same couple were STILL sitting there alone and there was another couple doing the 'stand up crepe eating' thing!

It was just SO un-disney IMHO!!!!! Even if they were waiting for family, it wouldn't have hurt them to let people sit for a few minutes would it?!!!!

At the other extreme of rudeness, my family and I were have ice cream at Ghiradelli's in DTD. We were a large group, and actually separated at two different tables. I was sitting at one table with my son and my niece, nephew and SIL, and my husband at the other. About halfway through, my son needed to potty, so, my husband took him. Before his chair could have cooled off, a woman tried to snatch it. I said, "I'm sorry, we're still using that chair", and she gave me a look that could have curdled milk. My son was back within two minutes.

 

[Teresa Pitman]

My daughter and I were waiting to see Illuminations one night at Epcot. It was raining a bit - drizzling - and the railings around the lake were wet, so we stood back a little bit, not touching them. We'd been waiting about 40 minutes, and just as the fireworks started, this man and his wife pushed right in front of us! They had to literally push us back to get between us and the railing. We are both short (5'2" and 5'3") so we couldn't see at all.

I was stunned for a second and then I was SO mad. I moved over and pushed my way right back in front of them. I was just not going to let them block my view after we had waited so long in the rain. I think my daughter was shocked. After a minute or two, they left and she joined me.

Maybe my behaviour was un-Disneylike too, but come on.

Teresa

 

[cstraub]

One time at MK, we were waiting for the train at the Toontown station and there was this older guy alone with a young child and a stroller. He was trying to get off the train, but was really struggling with the stroller. He was so frustrated and just totally LOST his mind and threw the stroller off the train and started yelling and cursing in front of all these shocked people. I could understand his frustration, but dang! That would have been embarrassing.QUOTE]


This made me laugh out loud!!

 

[cstraub]

People in wheelchairs are loaded first because of logistics. It isn't easy to strap down a wheelchair with people stepping over you. It is easier and faster to not load others before loading the wheelchair. Also those in wheelchairs have to wait until everyone else has exited before they can get off the bus. I have even on occasion had to ride to the next stop have someone else off loaded and then the driver go back to my stop because a wheelchair guest insisted she wanted to be loaded last and I was blocked from exiting. I always ask the driver who he wants on first when there are 2 because if the route has multiple stops it does make a difference which wheelchair is loaded first.
The wheelchair person's family is allowed get on with the person in the chair. You want them to spearate and the rest of the family wait to get on. My kids did that once and were left at the stop without me. TG they were teens and we had cell phones. Not separating from the group. Sorry
If a person is on an ECV or using a wheelhcair it is their choice whether to transfer or not. There are safety factors and it is often safer to transfer.

We visited in Nov/Dec 2005 with an adult in our party who was wheelchair bound. We were a group of 13. I would never have dreamed of all of us getting on the bus with that person. We would just have one responsible person that was capable of pushing the wheelchair and the rest of us would wait in the normal bus line. If we didn't get on than we would meet at our destination. That only makes sense. I wouldn't go to WDW with anyone who would be upset by getting split up for less than a 1/2 hour. It may be what you can do but it doesn't make it the right thing to do.

 

[Judge Smails]

Bumped

 

[Danaans]

This year in December we were a large group of 13 people , we had 2 in stollers and one in a wheel chair, and I got to tell you the people really amazed me. I watched people leap over the wheelchair and deliberately butt in front of it, which made me pull it abruptly to a stop to avoid hitting the rude person with my 92 year old grandmother...I just don't get it...sometimes people act like they are the only people left in the world. Whats the deal with being in front? Whats wrong with please, thank you, and excuse me? I think the world in general needs its dose of manners back....

 

[Mom to a Princess]

Last year dd (4) and I rushed to get on the carosel (sp?). As you all know the line ends in a holding pen type of area. Well we missed the ride with one other mom/dd (10 or 11) in front of us. SO there we are waitng nicely as groups of people fill in behind us. Well dd and I are talking about which horse she wants (inside or outside). Well it comes time for our ride and off we go. DD grabs on to a horses leg to pull herself up. Well the girl who was in front of us in line pushes her off in an effort to get that particular horse. DD was not trying to get that horse just get on the ride. Well dd got upset and was crying ofcourse. Luckily she was not hurt just scared. I ofcourse spoke to the gilrs mom who tried to justify her dd's behavior by saying that they were in line in front of us. The mom was comletely rude and would not acknowledge that her dd should not have pushed my dd off the ride. Never before have I been so upset at WDW. Well the CM came over to find out what was going on. Since the CM had not seen what had happened she could not take any action against the mom/dd. But, she did give my dd a front of the line pass to several other rides. It was so sad that people needed to behave this way.

 

[Caylin]

This past August my best friends and I were in line to get into the MK. There were about five people in front of us and our line seemed to have stopped moving. The lady behind me bumped into me, so of course I turned around and looked at her. "I think the ticket thing is broken," she said. I turned back around to my friends. The lady poked me in the back. "I think they want us to move to another line." Now, the lines around us were all about fifteen people long, and there was no way I was cutting in front of all those people. There was also no way I was going to stand in the back of one of those lines.
The lady kept poking me and talking about how we really should get into another line. Then I said a very un-Disneylike thing. I looked her dead in the eye and told her that she could go get in another line if she wanted to and "It's not like the MK is going to vanish if we don't get in this second." I had just really had it with the woman.
A cast member then told us that, indeed, our ticket machine was broken and we needed to be in another line. My friends and I glanced to the right, and there was a ticket taker with no line. We went right in and the lady who had so irritated me was fifteen people back in a line to the left!

 

[Enchanted]

There was this one time that we were in line for Splash Mountain. It was me, my younger brother, my aunt, my mom, and my uncle. We had been in line for about a half an hour to forty-five minutes and when we got to the front of the line, the CM that tells you what line to get into was hustling people along. Now usually, due to everyone's size (my uncle is easily 250 pounds, my younger brother was eleven at the time but he was pretty big, and me, my aunt, and my mom are all either a size ten or a size twelve), we are told to sit two to a seat. We always plan this out beforehand. You know, like, I'll sit with my aunt, my mom and brother will sit together, and my uncle sits in the back alone. That way we're not holding up the line trying to decide who sits with who. So we've got it all planned out, and we're all excited to ride because it's our last day in the World and it will the last time we get to ride SM. So anyway, we get to the CM, and she tells us to take rows 3 and 4. We all glance at each other like, "Is she kidding?" But we did what she told us to and went to the rows. When the boat got there, we put the three thinnest of us in the third row, but we were all practically sitting on top of each other. A man that was waiting rolled his eyes at the CM and went, "Do you really expect them to ride like that?" She ignored him, and we climbed back out. My aunt and uncle were like, "We can't fit five people into two rows." The CM hustled us to the side and proceeded to act like we weren't there, and when my mom spoke up, she put her hand in my mom's face, just inches from her nose. She kept telling people row numbers, and we started to get mad because she was letting all kinds of people go ahead of us. We had waited in line like everyone else! And we had tried to obey her, but it simply wouldn't work for a comfortable ride. It was even possibly unsafe considering we weren't all in the boat properly. So then my uncle starts yelling that if the woman doesn't give us a boat, he will make sure she's fired. The CM's all, "I'd like to see you try that."

So then, the CM that's moves the boats forward stops the ride completely, comes over to us, tells us to climb into the next available boat, and then glares daggers at the CM that was being rude. We climbed into the boat, and everyone witnessed the entire thing cheered for us. Once we were settled in our boat, the nice CM apologized profusely and handed us passes to skip the line on our next ride. My mom was practically in tears. After all, it was very embarrassing considering the CM was basically implying that we weren't fit to ride if we couldn't fit in her proposed rows. It was the worst behavior I had ever seen from a park CM.

We ended up using our free passes to immediately try again after we calmed down. The CM was already gone and replaced by a very friendly young girl who gave us the usual three rows. But we still complained about the rude CM at City Hall. Since then, we haven't had any trouble from CM's, but I will NEVER forget that experience.

 

[Danaans]

Enchanted...its a shame you got exposed to that....some CM's are the sweetest beings in the world, there are others who are drunk with power and try to control the world...I think unfortunely you got latter. I am glad you complained. I hope the rest of your trip was better and I hope this doesn't leave a sour taste in your mouth.....

 

[Syrreal]

Enchanted...that really did not seem right. I checked with a few CM friends of mine and they said that there is no way that you guys should have only taken up 2 rows. That ride is set for 2 ppl per row...it is much smaller than peter pan which is set for 2.5ppl per row.

 

[Stacerita]

OK, I had a bit of Un-Disney like behavior myself. Not on purpose mind you. It was quite by accident. We were in line to get on the bus to head back to the resort. We were the first group in line and the bus was just pulling up. This was our first time staying onsite and using the bus so we still weren't totally comfortable with using it. The driver let off all the passengers and after they were all off he opened up the back door and waved us down. We didn't think we could go that way, but he did wave us. So we walked down and got in right after a couple with the woman being in a scooter. She didn't transfer to a seat and the scooter was strapped in. We took our seats right by her and smiled and said hi. Right behind us another group tried to enter the back door too. The driver yelled at them to go back and only the person with the scooter and her family could board from the back entrance. The driver moved to the front door and we just stared at each other. We had no clue we just did something wrong. Remember, the driver waved us down. Or so we thought. While we were discussing if we did a "undisney" like thing or not, the couple just laughed and said something about us being their cousins. It was all just a misunderstanding, but still un-disney like. We never made that mistake again.

 

[Enchanted]

Enchanted...its a shame you got exposed to that....some CM's are the sweetest beings in the world, there are others who are drunk with power and try to control the world...I think unfortunely you got latter. I am glad you complained. I hope the rest of your trip was better and I hope this doesn't leave a sour taste in your mouth.....

Thanks for the sympathy, Danaans, I've been to the world six times over the years, and I have NEVER seen a CM like that. Most of them that we have met are the nicest people you could ever meet. We once had a misunderstanding with an over-zealous CM at our resort, but even he was wasn't flat out rude like this woman was. Luckily, we still got to enjoy our trip, and nothing (not even the meanest of CMs) could ruin the Disney Magic for us. It's the Happiest Place on Earth!

Enchanted...that really did not seem right. I checked with a few CM friends of mine and they said that there is no way that you guys should have only taken up 2 rows. That ride is set for 2 ppl per row...it is much smaller than peter pan which is set for 2.5ppl per row.

Syrreal, we were very confused too. Other than putting very small children (like six or seven years old) between adults, I had never seen more than two people per row. If I remember correctly, the seats are even kind of carved out as two to a bench? Right? Like there's two seat outlines to every row? It's not just a flat bench? Anyway, everyone else who was in line was just as outraged and confused as we were about the whole thing. The other CM, the nice one, looked ready to smack her upside the head! Hee! When we went to complain, someone who had been in line had already been to City Hall to complain FOR us. All of the CMs at City Hall were confused about why she had done it too. They just kept saying, "We are SO sorry. We don't know what that woman was thinking. Please don't let this ruin your trip." We'll never know or understand what that woman was thinking, but Splash Mountain is still my favorite ride in the MK.

And Stacerita, I wouldn't feel too badly. If it was your first experience with the bus, you were just getting used to all of the rules/courtesies and you honestly didn't know any better. At least you realized what you had done wrong! And how nice of that couple not to tattle on you for making a first-timers mistake! Try not to beat yourself up about it too much.