What do people do that irks you related to WDW

[CrzyforPiglet]

1. People who stand too close in line. Pushing against the back of me is not going to make the line move any faster, trust me.

Love it - i was just going to put that but you beat me to it! A couple of things that irk me would be large groups of people who kind of wander into the line of a ride without making sure they're all together and then expect others to let them ahead. This happened to us at Pirates of the Carribean with a group of moms and daughters. The girls had no problem jumping ahead but the moms kept their place in line (even though the other adults were encouraging them to join them) and as we neared the front of the line they politely asked us if they could join the rest of their party. I was more than happy to step aside and say absolutely - because they asked. Try that without asking and you'll get a dirty look and a comment!

Also and I may get flamed for this - kids who are old enough to know to say excuse me and don't. DH & I were constantly being knocked around in the parks by kids who wanted to get in front of us or around us and didn't say excuse me. I know that really small kids don't know any better or are just caught up in the magical excitement of Disney and I don't mean them but older kids who know better.

Okay my two cents are in! I'm off to think of the many more things I love about Disney!

 

[milmore104]

RUDE PEOPLE... We were staying at the ASSp it was about 5pm we were swimming in the pool there were 3 men sitting at the bar watching a game. When they started to scream and fight shouting profanities loudly and then started going at it. I mean come on there were kids around and not to mention it was 5pm a little early to be drunk.
Another one is smokers I realize people smoke okay but we were again swimming at the pool and a lady comes walking around the pool area with her kids and just drops her lite cig. butt on the ground I mean HELLO kids walking around bare foot she didn't even step on it. When I confronted her about it she told me "well if your so consernd about it maybe you should pick it up" !!! I HATE RUDE PEOPLE!!!

 

[Dementia]

Few I agree with...

1)People who book a deluxe resort and then force their kids to peanut butter and jelly everyday. Book a moderate and, if necessary, a value resort to meet the budget needs so the kids won't have to see other kids enjoying Disney food while they eat P&B&J and goldfish crackers from moms backpack.

I could NOT agree with you more... Stay at an all-stars and get that kid a hamburger!

This one bugged me. Selfish me..I waited in that line and missed going on the rides, and now I'm supposed to look around and see if there is a child that seems to want an autograph more than me. I guess I could come back tomorrow, and wait in line again..and hope there aren't people behind me that also want the autograph more than me when they say no more
That darn old entittlement thing again..that I waited in line and think I deserve an autograph/picture when someone else might want it more..I guess I should just move aside if there are kids behind me that didn't wait as long, but must want it more. After all, I didn't have to pay to get into Disney, and part of that wasn't getting to get a picture with the characters..oh, wait, I did pay to get in! This reminds me of that lady screaming behind me last year at the Starwars autograph signing..after many of us waited and waited, and they ran out of autographed pictures, so she started at the CM telling them they should make one of the adults give up theirs, after all, we were adults, and her child was just a young un. Selfish selfish me, I gripped mine with an iron fist! After all, I'd been in that line for over an hour..and she just now walked up.

*standing ovation*

I have to agree with you on this. I would never expect someone who has been standing in line longer than my family to get out of line just so my DD can have a picture or autograph.

I think a lot of people need to understand that we all pay to go to WDW.
I am for being polite and considerate, but flame me if you want I am not going to go my whole trip wondering if me or my family is offending anyone. I am not going to NOT eat in certain places b/c I have a kid althoug if she misbehaves I will make her behave or leave, but for my own sanity. I am not going to worry about what others think b/c my kid is out past 9:00 or 10:00 at night. You can not always control how quite your kids are and they do sometimes get a little excited and loud. I will however not skip, stop dead center, push, get in front of someone, remove anyones belonging from a chair. I also don't expect someone to go out of there way to be nice to me.
Everyone deserves to have fun a DIsney and everyone pays to go and ave equal rights to everything.

*thunderous applause*

I know this next irk will probably irk a few people, but people who use the term "ressies" to refer to reservations drive me crazy. How hard is it to say "I made a reservation" or "I booked a room" and not mangle the English language?

I have a friend who does this, she says "cossies" for costumes, and "pressies" for presents. I mean how old are we here?


I'll toss in a few more

1. People who think WDW is all about them and expect everyone around them to anticipate what they are about to do or what they are thinking. People DO pay attention to other thang than YOU you know... (wow, what a concept, they're there for THEM and not you!)

2. People who claim to be Disney fans but either A. rave about everything Disney does (Disney can do no wrong) or B. go in the opposite direction and have to criticize everything and always be negative...

3. Those "self proclaimed Disney experts" who have to impart their knowledge upon you every chance they get. They are right, they know everything, and their opinion is simply fact.

4. People who seem THEY know what's best for your kids.

5. People who see a situation and jump to conclusions w/o any knowledge.

 

[shady]

Add another to the "hide behind the language" list.

Especially true with large tour groups who always seem to wear the same colored shirts.

 

[wendy1974]

1.)When you are standing at an attraction like the HM that takes large groups of people at one time and the CM says, "Please move up and fill in all available space", for like the 10th time, so you walk past the 10 people who have stood in a single file line despite what the CM is saying and then they make comments out loud that you are rude and cutting in front of them. "No, I am not cutting in front of you, you are just to stupid to follow directions"

2.)Counter Service restaurants that have the cash register where you form lines on both sides of it. Most of us know (or have easily figured out) that the CM at the register takes people on both sides and rotates back and forth, left to right. Hence, you should and can line up on both sides of the cash register. I was in AK a couple of years ago and there were 5 people in line on the right side of the cash register and no one on the left side. As I was walking toward the register a CM told me I could go on the left side. As I walk up the woman, with her husband and two children that is the second person in line on the right says to me, "I hope you don't think that you are going to just cut and get in front of me when I have been waiting 20 minutes in line (we know she was probably exaggerating, who would wait that long for fast food!). I politely told her that just like everywhere else you can use both sides of the register, at which time the CM on the register agreed with me. I even told her that they instructed me to get on the left side. She began to get very upset and raise her voice and say that she had waited and she WAS going to get served before me. I felt so sorry for her poor husband who looked slightly embarrased so I said, "by all means you go first, I won't starve waiting the extra 2 minutes for my food "

 

[Sherrilatte]

The Disney Mug police..

 

[Andrew Bichard]

How about people who use flash photography where it spoils the attraction for others? Hall of the Presidents is the worst. The curtain opens and there's a barrage of flashes. The sad thing is that the figures are too far away for the flashes to make any difference.

Also, sitting in San Angel Inn with my eyes nicely adjusted to the gloom. Someone rides by in a boat and takes a flash photo, and I have a blue white spot in front of my eyes for the next twenty minutes.

Another one.

When riding an ECV, I like to hold back a bit from the person in front because those things have momentum and take a couple of feet to stop. I don't want to 'tailgate' and run into the heels of the person in front. So there am I, riding up the ramp to the Monorail in a slow moving line at park closing and people behind me think its OK to to push past and fill in the gap ahead of me.

Another one.

People who sit at the back of the stadium and then stand up in front of me during the finale to Fantasmic! so they can get a head start on everyone else on the rush to get out of the park. I am sat in the wheelchair row at the back of the stadium & can't see past them. I have seen Fantasmic! maybe four times and have yet enjoy an uninterupted view of the end of the show.

Andrew

 

[Aidensmom]

1. People who smoke in non-designated areas. When you hear someone suddenly gasping for air as you walk by, that is me having an asthma attack which can be triggered by just one breath of smoke.

2. People who assume that if my child is crying, it is because he is overtired as I am a bad parent and did not let him take a nap. Children cry for LOTS of reasons, especially in an overstimulating place like WDW. He may have wanted the 10th souvenier of the day and been told "No," he may be frustrated because we are not going on a certain ride right then because the line is over an hour long, he may be hungry and we have been waiting in the line to get food for 20 minutes, or (another of my BIG peeves) someone may have walked backwards right into us and fallen into his stroller with him in it.

3. People who get annoyed when my child accidentally walks into you in line, or grabs your leg thinking it is me. Preschoolers have a tendency to focus on one thing at a time, so if he is looking at something of interest to him, he may not see you in front of him.

 

[jnrrt]

I'm still trying to figure out from all the parade posts why people think that a child not being able to see includes the whole family? I've never encountered this. When we stake out a spot, we've often made room for a child who might not be able to see, but the parents have always understood that they should stay behind him (and us) to watch. We've done this too - last year at Illuminations we got a spot too late, and come nice people let our girls stand in front of them (they could obviously see over them), but we stood behind them. And thanked them for their kindness to our kids. I can't figure out why someone saying "It's all about the children, right?" thinks then that they can have it be all about only their children. Oh, and 8 of their relatives.

 

[declansdad]

Sorry to point this out: but the word here should be English, we live in America and speak English, not American

(Just one on my pet peeves, thank you I feel much better now)

You actually live in the United States of America. Just a pet peeve of the rest who live in the Americas.

 

[welovedis]

People who sit at the back of the stadium and then stand up in front of me during the finale to Fantasmic! so they can get a head start on everyone else on the rush to get out of the park. I am sat in the wheelchair row at the back of the stadium & can't see past them. I have seen Fantasmic! maybe four times and have yet enjoy an uninterupted view of the end of the show.

ITA! We sit in the the row right in front of the wheelchair area in the Mickey section (for the reflective captioning) and I find it incredible that everyone does this. What the heck are they running out for?

 

[cindyfan]

We must have been there at the same time in February. Mostly, I dealt with the groups of giggly girls very well. It was just EMH night at MGM when they really, really started getting to me. My DS15 said, "Mom, that's the way girls act!"

I also don't like when people say, "after all, it's all about the children". NO, it isn't. It's all about me!!! I just take my kids because I can't leave them home alone. But the entire trip is about me....


Kim

Tell your DS15 that not ALL girls act like that.
My DD14 gets just as annoyed by (as she puts it) the "populars" that act "all stupid and giggly like they have no brains".....
She can act pretty silly at times.....but nothing like I have seen at WDW during Cheerleader weeks.

And I have to laugh about "It's all about me!!!"
That's how I feel. And my DD14 says the same.....that's why we enjoy it so much......we both really want to be there as opposed to "doing it for the kids"

The other thing that kills me.....(not sure if this has been mentioned, didn't finish reading all the posts.....) But the CURSING out loud!!!
I understand people having their own way of expressing things and at times will swear or curse.....but keep it quiet and to yourself. Especially the "F" word.
We were on BTMRR once and a small group of young men (maybe 19 - 25 yo) were there and every other word was a swear word. The CM spoke up and politely, yet forcefully, told them....."this is Walt Disney World. It is a family park and that kind of language is inappropriate anywhere in the park. Please refrain from using such foul language or I will ask you to leave!" I was so proud of the CM for speaking up like that!!!!

 

[cindyfan]

I'm still trying to figure out from all the parade posts why people think that a child not being able to see includes the whole family? I've never encountered this. When we stake out a spot, we've often made room for a child who might not be able to see, but the parents have always understood that they should stay behind him (and us) to watch. We've done this too - last year at Illuminations we got a spot too late, and come nice people let our girls stand in front of them (they could obviously see over them), but we stood behind them. And thanked them for their kindness to our kids. I can't figure out why someone saying "It's all about the children, right?" thinks then that they can have it be all about only their children. Oh, and 8 of their relatives.

Even though I just posted that "It's all about me!" too......
I still either sit or stand behind my DD...and/or any other small children that want to see. I am 5'8" and can see most of the parade from 3 or 4 rows back if neccesary. But I would expect that if I allow another child to sit next to mine and I stand in the back....that the child's parents stand in the back also. Once when I got up to allow 2 small children to sit with DD...the very large parents shoved me out of the way and sat there too. Practically smashed my DD.

 

[SeaShelley]

3) People who stop in their tracks right in the middle of a busy walkway

I've been reading a lot of this thread and this pet peeve seems pop up over and over again (read: not picking on karen ) Let's be honest...for those who complain about it: You've never stopped in the middle of Main Street completely in awe of the castle?? I know I have and in the other lands as well. I may not have locked up the brakes and caused the folks in back of me to run me over, but come on....we are not vehicles. I don't have a turn signal in my backside to let you know when I am vearing left or right, nor do I have breaklights to signal when I'm slowing down or stopping. I know the the parks can get very busy and there are crowds everywhere, but if we all used the "keep back 2 to 3 people lengths" for the folks in front of us maybe we wouldn't run into those people who decide to "stop short".

Remember in rear end accidents, it's rarely the person in the front vehicle's fault!

 

[angey77]

I've been reading a lot of this thread and this pet peeve seems pop up over and over again (read: not picking on karen ) Let's be honest...for those who complain about it: You've never stopped in the middle of Main Street completely in awe of the castle?? I know I have and in the other lands as well. I may not have locked up the brakes and caused the folks in back of me to run me over, but come on....we are not vehicles. I don't have a turn signal in my backside to let you know when I am vearing left or right, nor do I have breaklights to signal when I'm slowing down or stopping. I know the the parks can get very busy and there are crowds everywhere, but if we all used the "keep back 2 to 3 people lengths" for the folks in front of us maybe we wouldn't run into those people who decide to "stop short".

Remember in rear end accidents, it's rarely the person in the front vehicle's fault!

I always said someone should invent pants with turn signals and brake lights on them.
But I do have to say, when I stop in a walkway, I am sure to turn my head around really quick to see if anyone is behind me. If so, I try to step out of the way, like to the nearest curb or next to a light post or something.

 

[mickeyluv'r]

People who judge other people by thier looks and body composition, that irks me. I don't understand people who go to parks and are rather scantily clad, whether they're big, small, short, tan, pale, pimply, or whatever. To say that if you're thin and beautiful it's OK, but if you're overwieght and average, it's not OK - I don't agree.

D4D

I certainly agree that there are distasteful dressers in all shapes and sizes. And I don't really let it bother me, more often I find it a little humorous, "Could that person really think that outfit is becoming on them? Am I that out of touch?" More what I meant though was that if someone has clearly been making an effort to take care of their body, and they want to show it off a little, then I'm willing to cut them a little slack - and thus the next item in my list, which was meant as a joke. Sorry, if I didn't make that clear enough.

Going to Disney does make me worry for the health of the people in my country though. Taking care of your body is a difficult thing to do, and I know there are people who have various legitimate disabilities, and I would never say anything rude, but at the end of the day, my overall impression is that there are way too many Americans who are in the very heavy category, and it makes me a little sad for us all. I wish I could find a way to show some of them how much better they would feel if they lost a few pounds.

I also have a story that involves really rude people I encountered in Orlando. It happens to involve two heavy set women. Let me see if I can tell the story well. I was at a store buying something, my stroller was right next to me, and I was getting my money out.

Trying to shuffle mercahdise, a stroller, and navigating through the crowds and the many display cases in the store, I wasn't able to get my credit card out ahead of time. A large woman comes by, and in a rude voice says, "ExCUSE me!" I was baffled. Was she talking to me? Clearly, I was AT the register, in the middle of a transaction. Where was she trying to go? There were display cases blocking the area around me - not a great layout for the store, but certainly not my fault. What could I possibly be doing to annoy her? The stroller was right next to me. I didn't know what to say, I was getting my wallet out as quickly as I could.

Before I could say anything, or otherwise react - her very fat friend (excuse me, but she was also way too wide to fit into this area) MOVED my stoller - WITH CHILD IN IT - about ten feet away from me through the crowded store!! I was aghast, like a deer in the headlights! Then the first woman glared as she walked through the area her friend had just cleared. I just couldn't believe anyone would do this instead of going around the display cases! They both had miserable looks on their faces. I really wish I had known what to say to them.
It kind of bothers me almost anytime strangers touch my child. I certainly don't mind someone shaking her hand or trying to protect her or something, but I've had complete strangers (usually women) walk right up and pick her up, try to kiss her, tell their kids to kiss her, put their hands right on her cheeks- without consulting me first. Yuck! Why would anyone feel that this was acceptable?

 

[disneyloveralways]

I my self am heavy. I know the type you are talking about. It goes back to the"me" word. Some People just think everything is about them. They could have walked around the displays quicker than it took for their little "scene". I use a scooter at Disney and I don't have the nerve to ask people to move. I just wait until they are finished. Unless they are just standing and talking. I'm sorry that this happened to you.

 

[EvilinaDM101]

*I dont get it

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What I dont get is that some people spend so much of their vacation waiting for a 15 minute Wishes show, and yet, it's because they want a "seat" instead of standing. The thing is, I used to do that until I realized that I can walk up to the same area (roughly) as they are in and do it only 10 minutes before the show starts.

If you dont mind standing, you can get about anywhere you want for the show. Remember, Wishes isnt a long long show.
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I wonder if this is one of the people that walk up in front of the place you've been holding for an hour to get that perfect Wishes shot and here he/she comes to stand RIGHT IN FRONT of your shot!! *no harm intended just a little fun*

 

[Talking Hands]

Since I use a wheelchair I have some specific things that irk me.
1. People that leave their stroller in the aisle in restaurants

2. People that hit the back of my wheelchair when passing in restaurants.

3. People at parades that use my wheelchair back as a leaning post of to place their child to watch the parade.

4. People that cut in front of the wheelchair.

5 Parents that push their children right up to the side of my wheelchair by my controller. Or allow their chidlren to touch the controller. ( I do turn it off )
(DH now stands on the left side of my wheelchair if he is with me so this can't happen)

6 People who must walk in front of the interpreters to leave the theatre after the show has started. Go up and around please.

7 People who think because I talk well I can hear well also.

8. People who shove in from of me at shows and make it impossible for me to see the interpreters. I get there early to get a spot to see and then someone with a kid will come at the last minute and push in front of me. Of course I can't move the wheelchair to see or I wipe out someone's feet and I can't leave either for the same reason.

 

[cindyfan]

Before I could say anything, or otherwise react - her very fat friend (excuse me, but she was also way too wide to fit into this area) MOVED my stoller - WITH CHILD IN IT - about ten feet away from me through the crowded store!! I was aghast, like a deer in the headlights! Then the first woman glared as she walked through the area her friend had just cleared. I just couldn't believe anyone would do this instead of going around the display cases! They both had miserable looks on their faces. I really wish I had known what to say to them.

OMG...... I would have freaked!!!
I think I would have tackled that woman no matter how big she was!!! NO ONE touches my child or the stroller!!!
What was that woman trying to do??!!