"You're to old to be here...."

[Dive Bar Casanova]

I've sat at the Disney Ships bar watching a Raiders game or to play trivia while the wife sleeps one of her 20 hour sleep-a-thons and we are at sea. Wife's hobbies are sleep and Botox.

So often people in their early 20's accompanying their senior Grand Parents on the cruise join me as do older ladies in their late 80's with thick makeup, red hot red lipstick and dressed beautifully and the conversations are the best ever with the best people ever.

 

[goopysolelady]

Wasn't there a very famous Disney speech about age and youth? Oh, yeah...

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If the show hadn't started yet, I might loudly have played a clip of it on my phone.

The mom was very wrong to say you didn't belong there. I hope she was just tired from a long day at the parks and doesn't usually talk to people like that.

In general, I do offer to let little kids in from of me, since I can see over them, but the pushing would definitely have dulled that instinct.

And you can't even get a cast member, because leaving to find one would give them just what they wanted.

I'm glad you still got your picture, but sorry they tainted the experience for you.

Maybe, as Disney Seniors, we need to copy that to business cards! Not say a word...just hand it out!

Yes...I will always let a little kid stand in front of me IF I'm asked nicely; the pushing and "entitlement statement" quickly put me in the defensive mode and I will not respond to rude behavior under any circumstances. And what can a cast member do? Bless their hearts, they have to deal with that type of behavior day in and day out which I why I always try to be EXTRA nice to them. Thank you for pointing that quote out to me again.

 

[goopysolelady]

In South Hampton England we shared a Taxi with a SUPER couple and headed to our DCL cruise. The cab driver hated Americans and made it clear immediately.

As we pulled into the ships unloading zone the cab driver said "These cruises are for kids!"
The lady riding with us responded pointing out the several hundred passengers lined up to board "Look at the cue, not one child amongst them boarding the ship."

Driver was dumbfounded.

Narrowminded people that talk through their stinky orifice.

But,, returning to the Southampton Airport after the DCL cruise our Taxi Driver was a fabulous, fantastic Brit with native British humor and keen on History.

He asked if I was "familiar with the WWII Spitfire." (That's World War 2 to you Zoomers, not world War Eleven). I responded "You mean the Mitchell designed Super Marine Built airplane?"

Cab driver lit up and drove us past the spot where the factory was bombed out by the Nazis, then we headed up to Mitchells grave.

I love that story! That was really a SUPER response directing the driver to check out the passengers lined up! We had similar experiences in England too. In fact, I was told by a fellow Disney visitor that I'd met on our Disney trip a few months before we journeyed to Liverpool to visit our granddaughter, to tell no one we were from the USA. She suggested we just say we were from Texas. We followed her advice and were greeted warmly everywhere! Our UBER driver was a "jewel" too. He used to live on the same street John Lennon lived on...his grandmother used to have him over for cookies and milk when he was a young man. He did the same thing; detoured us so we could see the Lennon home, actually stopping and making us get out so he could take a picture of us in front! We talked WWII history our entire trip to the airport in Manchester!

 

[FastPasser.]

Bless their hearts, they have to deal with that type of behavior day in and day out which I why I always try to be EXTRA nice to them.

Thanks for being extra nice, fortunately for us there are a lot more Guests like you than the less than magical type.

The Guest like the one mentioned on this thread are not that common. And experienced crowd control CMs learn how to deal with sticky situations very quickly so it’s not as bad as people imagine it to be. It’s all part of the job.