Worst behavior ever...

[Sassagoula Billy]

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!

Point taken, but I don't like to make a scene when there are children around. I'm always afraid that the other side is gonna start peppering everything with expletives. And frankly, I'm a big ol' coward!

 

[jldixon62]

I am in no way defending the child/parent's behavior but after working in the food industry for some years, I've come to realize that some parents don't apologize because they are so humiliated by what their child said/did.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, they were hoping at that point that if they were silent no one could see them.

I am now very afraid as I'm taking six of my grandchildren ages 2 - 7, and for the most part I think we'll be Ok. But, the 2 year old has taken a liking to spicy words! I can only hope if she sounds off she is with her mother.

 

[guitarob]

::facepalm::

Some people just don't get it. Sometimes it's better to not even attempt to correct the situation. Sadly, they'd probably never understand that they were even causing a problem.

 

[Uncleromulus]

That's about the size of it.
If they had any sense at all they would see there WAS a problem....so even suggesting to them it was a problem would probably not sink in

 

[honeydiane1953]

We ate dinner at the Brown Derby on Saturday, August 7.

There was a group of 14 to 16 people at a large table on the main floor of the restaurant. At least 6 were kids (although it was hard to count since they were all running around, fighting and occassionally screaming in the restaurant). This went on for at least 30 minutes.

Finally, one little girl was rolling around on the floor and proceeded to stand up and fling one of her shoes (in a perfect 60 degree arc) about twenty feet onto another patrons table (with (it appeared) glasses, etc. getting knocked over). It was a truly amazing throw for someone so small....

This finally got the attention of the adults and the obnoxious behavior finally stopped. I hope they paid for the dinner they likely ruined (but I do not have much faith that occurred - it did not appear they even apologized).

Thankfully, we were pretty far away from all of this.

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

OMG this reminds me of the BRAZILIAN TOUR GROUPS and the Italian family on the housewives of NEW JERSEY teresa guidice ( sp)

 

[Withacy]

I have no children - but I've taken 4 children to WDW (2 nieces, 2 godchildren). They were between 7 and 11 during their trips, and I never took more than 1 at a time. For the most part, they were all well behaved - but they were alone, the center of attention, and not with their parents.

But don't think that means I was willing to put up with bad bahavior. There were very, very few potential meltdowns. But I was able to stop each of them, thank goodness. In each case I just said "If you're too upset to enjoy (whereever we were), then we'll just go back to the hotel until you feel better" - and most important - I meant it. I was willing to leave right that moment and go back to the hotel. No empty threats. (These kids certainly know me well enough by now to know I keep my word - good or bad.)

It's not so easy when you have other members to your party who might have to miss out on a meal, or leave a theme park - especially if you don't want to go either. If the adults aren't willing to follow through (and how many empty threats have I heard???), why bother?

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

All I can say about the stories in this thread is !!! Holy cow!! I would expect management to intervene in these cases. I can understand not wanting to be too heavy handed with guests, but this type of behavior ruins meals for the guests who are behaving! Yikes. I've seen some rude and/or loud behavior, but nothing like what is described here!

 

[TxRabbit]

Its called the *entitlement age

This is what DH has encountered at work. The new generation of workers feel an entitlement to priveleges and things that others have worked for years to achieve.

In small ways, this happens all over WDW. I can't count the number of times that people were acting like they were the only people on the planet and their vacation at Disney was somehow more important than everyone else's and that they should be able to do whatever they wanted, ADULTS especially.

I've never seen so many people treat so many other people (mostly CMs) like they weren't humans, people with feelings as I did on our vacation last week. It's beyond strange to me.

I'm glad I never encountered anything as unruly as the OP. I don't think I would be able to restrain myself. Not that I would be mean, but I agree with a PP, you have to confront this kind of behavior head on if you hope that it will change.

 

[JCMHutch]

unfortunately, Disney has decided that guests who behave poorly from another country are more important than guests who behave correctly, from ANY country.

when staying at a value resort in a section with a huge group from same country in July, we encountered line jumping, chanting on attractions to the point you could not hear the attraction, loud yelling and chanting on the bus (to headache levels) with bus driver doing nothing. but, more importantly, at the resort:
huge groups blocking the walkways as we tried to get by with our luggage , not moving aside, giving us dirty looks and swearing at us in Portuguese(sounds enough like spanish that I knew what they were saying), moving our belongings from loungers at the pool and taking the loungers while we went to the DSA (and refusing to give them back), hubby being SHOVED by one of the dads because we were smoking in the DSA (on the hot, metal benches with no shade by the touchdown section) and they were playing soccer there and didn't want us smoking there. and loud carousing till 1am, by our room, including a soccer ball kicked into our window.
we finally had a manger come to our room and apologize, but not before we talked to an "important" Cm on a segway who informed us that "July is Latin month and THEY are OUR guests" quite condescendingly (as if WE were part of OUR, as in, the brazilian group were guests of OURS, as US citizens). no, WE are DISNEY's guests, too!!
I heard a securtiy guard APOLOGIZE to a mom, upset that the kids had to be "quiet" after midnight (the sign clearly states "quiet time after 10pm) that he could "See both sides" ?????? this was after we finally got the resort to make the kids be quiet, and the manager came to see us.

it is not fair for ANY group to misbehave to the point of ruining other guests' enjoyment of the resort, restaurant, attraction, they ALSo paid for!

as far as restaurants, yes, some diners can be overly "cranky". some kids can have "meltdowns". it happens. we all try to ignore the fussy toddler at the next table who is just plain tired, and there's nothing the poor parents can do, try as they might. but a whole group of unruly kids, with parents doing nothing?

this is where management needs to step in and tell the group to adhere by the rules... or leave. if I had a shoe fly onto my table, I would expect that by that point, their behavior was such that the management should have stopped the behavior before that point.

Wow - DH & I were there in July and saw all the kids from Brazil too. We thought they were well behaved and well organized. The guides kept them in line very well (there were 6 different groups at DHS the day we were there). The only bad bahavior we saw was from an American couple in their mid 60's - the wife started yelling at a couple of the tour kids because she was mad that the tour groups were there and making the lines long. She even used some not so kid friendly language. Those of us that heard her just stood there in shock until her husband pulled her away. The poor kids were speechless.

 

[j9000]

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.

was this the same family or 2 people being rude?

im not a fan of confrontation either, but to the second guy a blunt and loud "yes......now go away" would of sorted it, no one (especially when you're that far into a meal) can argue you stole a table, and he isnt wanting a fight just for you to go away.

Annoyingly this dosent just happen in restaurants, on our last trip a bloke behind us in Muppetvision talked on his mobile THE ENTIRE SHOW

 

[Withacy]

Wow - DH & I were there in July and saw all the kids from Brazil too. We thought they were well behaved and well organized. The guides kept them in line very well (there were 6 different groups at DHS the day we were there). The only bad bahavior we saw was from an American couple in their mid 60's - the wife started yelling at a couple of the tour kids because she was mad that the tour groups were there and making the lines long. She even used some not so kid friendly language. Those of us that heard her just stood there in shock until her husband pulled her away. The poor kids were speechless.

As far as you know, she had no reason to yell at them.

I would never suggest that every Brazilian tour group is bad, but I don't think there's a conspiracy to badmouth them on here (or anywhere else) - a lot of people have just had bad experiences. I certainly didn't associate the bad experience I had during one January trip with where they were from - until I came on here and read that it was a widespread problem.

Personally, I don't like dealing with large tour groups of any sort - even the well behaved ones can be annoying. It's just that the only time I experienced extremely bad behavior (as in doing physical harm to the 8-year-old I had with me) from large groups of teenagers, they happened to have been from Brazil. Maybe that was just a coincidence.

 

[Art 1]

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.

Right, and they could have also been from Angola. I think you know that they were from Brazil.