Worst behavior ever...

[RMulieri]

Why do these threads always turn out to bash parents? Sorry but I have seen equally abysmal behavior from adults too.You can't paint all kids with the same brush.Not saying what happened was right, but there are lots of well behaved children and poorly behaved adults that should know better as well..Not all parents let their kids run things, and not all parents are oblivious.

 

[canoe86]

our how much they disturb other guests because they are so absorbed in making sure they have a good time nothing else matters...

This describes a whole lot of folks at Disney. Just go check out the dash to see the fairies.

 

[Kteacher]

The absolute worst I've ever seen was a couple with two small children seated next to us at the California Grill. About half way through our meal one of the kids threw up in between their table and ours, but that wasn't even the worst partBoth parents completely ignored what had just happened, and continued eating their mealsThey even went on to order dessert and coffee while the little boy just kind of sat all drooped over on his chair

 

[Tonka's Skipper]

Its called the *entitlement age*......so many think *I am on vacation so I get everything and anything I what.....That seems to include letting my kids run around like little hellians and being rude brats!*......Its a shame but true!

There is a big difference between a child getting a little out of hand and being settled down by their parents and plain rude, undisplined kids!

They are the same parents who, as some one else pointed out, are the first ones to get on a blog and whine about how bad the service was! or gee hwy do I have to tip someone!

Just my opinion

AKK

 

[TDC Nala]

Last time I went to Bluezoo there was a large group that allowed a bunch of kids between 5 and 10 to run at full tilt around the restaurant while pushing a baby in a stroller. The parents laughed and did the "aren't they cute" while the servers dodged them.

 

[clutter]

Note to Self: Learn "No Cutting In Line" AND "Shut your Kid Up" in Portuguese.

"Matta Baratta!" Oh, no, wait that's "kill the cockroach." Oh, well, that should still do the trick!

And we were there in January when there was a tour group, I believe they were Argentinian. They were the BEST behaved kids, and they were teenagers even! At the food court, they all stood in line to use only one drink station, leaving the others for the rest of the guests. I wish I'd found out more about where they were from so I could have sent a note to the tour company to complement them.

 

[mhsjax]

That is just insane!! I'm sure everyone was thinking management would put a stop to it. Did they even try?? If I had spent that much money/ two dining credits and that happened I would be hot!!

Note to Self: Learn "No Cutting In Line" AND "Shut your Kid Up" in Portuguese.

No need to learn it, we have a good friend that is from Brazil, he said they know enough English to understand, they just pretend that they don't.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Why do these threads always turn out to bash parents? Sorry but I have seen equally abysmal behavior from adults too.You can't paint all kids with the same brush.Not saying what happened was right, but there are lots of well behaved children and poorly behaved adults that should know better as well..Not all parents let their kids run things, and not all parents are oblivious.

You are totally right, there are pleanty of bad behaving adults, in fact the instance I spoke of was mostly the father, the kids followed his lead. The problem is, the parents are who need to set the boundaries, and if the kids are acting like this, they have not. Also, if my kids (and I am sure yours) were to do anything like this (which they wouldn't, but let's just say they did,) I would march them out of the restaurant and get control of the situation, if I couldn't we'd not return. (We might not return anyway, I'd be too embarassed, then again I never would have let it get to that point.)

But the problem isn't parents like you and me who may have a cranky child from time to time, it's about the parents who let their kids misbehave, ruin other people's dining experience and do nothing to stop it.

So, those parents deserve a little bashing IMO. Because as I said earlier, you can only blame the kids a little if they haven't been taught better. But yeah, there are pleanty of rude adults around, sad, but true.

 

[pjpoppins]

I hope I don't have too many of these experiences. I keep forgetting that it won't be like the DVD, where people are sparse, and the ones you do encounter are smiling and skipping arm in arm! My DW has zero tolerance for rudeness. We were in Jamaica once and were 1 of 2 American couples at a resort. The other guest were from a European country (I won't say which one) and were very rude. I would say "hi" in passing with no reponse, just mean stare. They would run in between or loungers at the beach, kicking up sand (and they were about 12" apart, with plenty of room around us). The worst was they expected us to move out of there way anytime we walked down the paths. My wife had it one day and decided not to move and actually layed a shoulder into a lady...she was pissed but they yielded a little next time (and we did too, as we always had...I don't expect people to move outta our way, just some reciprocating courtesy). Anyway, after that tangent: I hope we have good experiences and my DW is taken away by the Disney undercover cops...just in case, were would I go find her?

 

[si-am]

The absolute worst I've ever seen was a couple with two small children seated next to us at the California Grill. About half way through our meal one of the kids threw up in between their table and ours, but that wasn't even the worst partBoth parents completely ignored what had just happened, and continued eating their mealsThey even went on to order dessert and coffee while the little boy just kind of sat all drooped over on his chair

This happened to us once a few years ago at Artist Point! Young couple, four young kids. Everyone looked tired. One of the kids puked all over the floor and the parents just ignored it until they were ready to leave. Then they pointed it out to the waitress.

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

I hope I don't have too many of these experiences. I keep forgetting that it won't be like the DVD, where people are sparse, and the ones you do encounter are smiling and skipping arm in arm! My DW has zero tolerance for rudeness. We were in Jamaica once and were 1 of 2 American couples at a resort. The other guest were from a European country (I won't say which one) and were very rude. I would say "hi" in passing with no reponse, just mean stare. They would run in between or loungers at the beach, kicking up sand (and they were about 12" apart, with plenty of room around us). The worst was they expected us to move out of there way anytime we walked down the paths. My wife had it one day and decided not to move and actually layed a shoulder into a lady...she was pissed but they yielded a little next time (and we did too, as we always had...I don't expect people to move outta our way, just some reciprocating courtesy). Anyway, after that tangent: I hope we have good experiences and my DW is taken away by the Disney undercover cops...just in case, were would I go find her?

I think yo uwil be for the most part, if not completely fine. In all our trips we have only encountered it once. Most people are happy to be there (though you will see lots of parent/child meltdowns, those alsmot go hand in hand with Disney. Everyone is tired, overstimulated and some, not all, but some tent to get to the end of their fuses publically.)

 

[DisneyFansInLINY]

Disney is a family oriented place. That is why families go there. Unfortunately, some of them think that since it is all about family, their kids can do whatever they want and they don't have to discipline then. And then there are some adults who feel that they can act however they want too. A few years ago my sister and I were at Epcot during the Food and Wine Festival. We wanted to eat in Japan and there was a long wait. There was a few seats available at the sushi bar but we had never eaten there so we decided to wait for the lounge. Anyway, this lady walks in and tells the hostess that her and her fiance would like to sit at the sushi bar and my sister and I as well. We just looked at each other confused because we didn't know this lady at all. But we figured let's try the sushi bar. So we sat down with next to this couple and they seemed normal for about 30 seconds. They were extremely drunk and started doing saki bombs. As soon as the manager realized how drunk they were, he cut them off. They then started to tell us that she was 36 with 2 kids and he was 22 and that they were enagaged. That they met because she was his parent's maid and had fallen in love and were going to be married because she told him so. We thought that they were enagaged but not officially since he never asked, she just tells him that they are going to get married and he yeses her. Anyway, they started talking very dirty to the waitress saying, "You make me so horny. Me love you long time." And telling my sister and I how pretty we were. We had ordered our food and when it arrived, they started shoving food in our mouth from their plate and grabbing food from our plates. It was so disgusting. My sister and I had lost our appetites. Then my brother called my cell phone and the woman grabbed my phone and nestled herself in the corner of the room telling him that "she touched her nipple for him." My brother is younger than my sister and I and was still in high school. He was completely disgusted and upset by this and thought that we knew this women. We had to explain that she was just some crazy drunk at Disney World who took my cell phone from me. He couldn't believe it because it sounds like something that wouldn't happen at the happiest place on earth but it did! Anyway, once I got my phone back, my sister and I just wanted the check and to leave. However, the woman and her fiance wanted us to go to pleasure island with them. And we definately did not want to go. They kept mentioning how pretty we were and that her "fiance" liked us. We realized they were swingers and that is how she was able to keep a 22 year old happy. They even wanted to pay our bill and we were not going to let that happen as we didn't want what they were buying. So once the waitress came, we paid her before they could. They could tell we weren't interested but at that point it didn't matter as they had found a very young teenaged looking couple to harass. This couple had walked in shortly before and were sitting on the other side of my sister and I. The woman started to tell them that, "she touches herself for them." And that is when we said we were going to the bathroom but never came back. So you see, it's not only children that do not know how to behave. And it's not only foreigners. These people were from Florida!

 

[mom2rtk]

I think we can all agree that most companies are weenies when it comes to dealing with mis-behaving patrons. It is rare to encounter a company that rewards its well behaving customers by asking the others to behave better or leave. They cower in the background hoping no one will complain and that the offenders will just hurry up and leave.

It is CLEARLY up to the quiet, polite, well-behaved masses to change this situation! Too many people, including MANY I see post here on the DIS take the approach that they will just be polite and quiet and "will" themselves to not let it ruin their time. Our society needs some good old-fashioned peer pressure! This "laissez-faire" approach to life only begets MORE bad behavior!

People....... SPEAK UP! Say something to your server. Ask for the manager. SAY something to the offenders. You don't have to be annoying or impolite about it. But just do SOMETHING! Will it solve the problem every time? No. But sometimes it will. It is up to every one of us to not let these things just go on unchecked.

 

[Uncleromulus]

Just one of several reasons why now we ALWAYS request a seat at the bar in any restaurant that has one (and where you can get a full meal)---

 

[MickeyNicki]

We had a similar family at Flying Fish last Oct....it really did ruin our meal

 

[MrsLS]

We haven't really encountered this in Disney (have elsewhere though) and we do TS for lunch or breakfast and dinner, and we are 2 adults. So to the pp, it does happen but its not the norm.

 

[Sassagoula Billy]

Okay, I’ll bite (ha!). Flame Tree Barbecue. Crowded day. Halfway through our meal, we’re approached – no, bombarded – by a mother/daughter duo asking if we were “almost done”. All I could muster was a “Come again?”

“Are you almost done?”, she repeated.

We both shook our heads, gobsmacked.

“Okay, but this was our table.” And she sashayed away with a sigh, her child giving us a complimentary eye-roll.

Now, we had been eating for 10 minutes at that point, and there had been no identifying articles, children, senior citizens, etc. marking the table as their territory. Baffled, we returned to our meal.

But then, 5 minutes later, a man walks up to us and just kinda.... stares! We were in the little covered canopy area overlooking the water, and every table was occupied. It was getting oppressive.

“I understand there’s a problem.”, he says.

At this point, I caved and muttered most indiscernibly out of the side of my mouth, “whydon’twejustgo..”.

But my friend wouldn’t have it. In fact, he began eating SLOWER; asked me if I wanted dessert, which I always do…but usually opt for cookies after CS meals. He went and got me a Key Lime Pie or whatever it was they had there. And I don’t even LIKE Key Lime Pie. My friend is the kind of person who seems to bask in this sort of confrontation. But I was left holding down the fort.. and since this was pre-smartphone, I had to kind of look at my AK map and seem very interested.

He returned with dessert. Sipped his coffee. I ate my pie. More people appeared, sighing and making frustrated clicking tongue noises that I can't really describe but hopefully you know what I mean, and stared at our table. Finally, the folks beside us cleared out and a table was free.

“WHY did you make me do that?!”

“Because I can!”

Only at Walt Disney World, kids.

 

[DISNEY1975]

By the way, they were speaking Portuguese. Made me chuckle given all the comments about Brazilian tour groups...

How do you know they were speaking Portuguese? Do you speak Portuguese? Do you know if they were from Brazil, Portugal (completely different accent), Cape Verde? Are you sure it wasnt Spanish or French?

Cuidado.

 

[si-am]

How do you know they were speaking Portuguese? Do you speak Portuguese? Do you know if they were from Brazil, Portugal (completely different accent), Cape Verde? Are you sure it wasnt Spanish or French?

Cuidado.

I'm not who you were talking to, but Portuguese is fairly easy to distinguish from French or Spanish.

 

[mom2rtk]

Okay, I’ll bite (ha!). We were at the Flame Tree Barbecue on a rather crowded day, when half-way through our meal, we’re approached – no, bombarded – by a mother/daughter duo asking if we were “almost done”. All I could muster in response was, “Come again?”

“Are you almost done?”, she repeated.

We both shook our heads and apologized.

“Okay, but this was our table.”

We had been eating for 10 minutes by that point, and there were no identifying articles, children, senior citizens, etc. marking the table as their territory. Baffled, we returned to our meal.

But then, 5 minutes later, a man walks up to us and just kinda stares! We were in the little covered canopy area overlooking the water, and every table was occupied.

“I understand there’s a problem.”, he says.

At this point, I caved and told my friend out of the side of my mouth, “whydon’twejustgo..”.

But he wouldn’t have it. And in fact, he began eating SLOWER. Asked me if I wanted dessert, which I always do…but usually opt for cookies after CS meals. He went and got me a Key Lime Pie or whatever it was they had there. And I don’t even LIKE Key Lime Pie. My friend is the kind of person who seems to bask in this sort of confrontation. But I was left holding down the fort.. and this was pre-my purchasing a smartphone…so I had to kind of look at my AK map and seem very interested.

He returned, sipped his coffee, and I ate my pie. More people appeared, sighing making clicking frustrated tongue noises , and stared at our table. Finally, the folks beside us cleared out and a table was free.

“WHY did you make me do that?!”

“Because I can!”

What I don't understand is why your first impulse was to just leave. The more people are able to bully the unsuspecting public successfully, the more it will happen!