Have you ever seen people going bezerk??

[jloucks]

Sometimes i feel people are plain and simple rude, they are on vacation and feel they can do what they want.

I think I have it figured out... It isn't so much that they are rude, but that they feel they are entitled. Society is somehow fostering this mentality and the issue goes far beyond WDW (look how people treat waitstaff anywhere for example). The problem arises when that entitlement expands beyond them and their host and is then imposed on others not in their appeasement chain. The vast majority of people on earth are not there to serve them and are in fact no less important than they are. They forget this, and try out behaviors that involve independent people appeasing them. Some people will, other simply will not. I am one that will absolutely not. Am I rude? Well, yes, if somebody expects me to appease them and they are not in my appeasement chain I'm going to, in no uncertain terms, educate them on what I will not tolerate. ...usually to the nodding approval of those around me.

 

[jloucks]

.... in the end I won because I didn't give into him and I was still ahead of him and made sure I satyed ahead of him.

I'm impressed. You're super stable. I'd have snapped and there would have been an incident.

 

[SyracuseDisneyFan]

Thankfully, no.

 

[Texas84]

I've only seen angry whining kids and I go to F&W a few times every year. I did have a Florida State friend who had too much to drink and wanted to start fights with Florida fans. I put a stop to that real fast.

 

[NicTom1211]

Search for the thread about altercations at Food and Wine. You'll get all your answers.

I do remember when I was there with my family back in 2001, we were walking behind a couple who was driving and driving one of those scooters (drinks in hand). They were swerving ridiculously and almost ran over quite a few people. We were lucky because we were behind them. By the time they got to Germany from Mexico cast members started intervening, thankfully. Was an experience my family and I still joke about to this day.

 

[ninjaprincesst]

I'm ashamed to say I yelled at a woman on a scooter once. We had eaten breakfast at Tusker House, and were at the rope drop waiting to go to the KS ride the rope dropped everyone was walking toward the ride when the women on the scooter got so upset that we arrived at the line before she did that she accelerated and ran over my foot. I was so mad as she had broken my foot and ruined a brand new pair of shoes that I yelled at her. She never even apologized, her daughter was so embarrassed she kept apologizing, and kept offering to pay medical bills as it was obvious the foot was broken.(of course I did not let her) . If it had been an accident that is one thing but it was so obvious that it was on purpose.

 

[Otterhead]

Since we're talking about scooters, I'll mention the closest I've seen to "mutiny" in the parks. I was waiting for a bus to one of the resorts after MK had closed, and it was taking forever... twenty minutes went by with no bus, and the line stretched through the stop and down the street. People were tired and cranky and getting really upset about the wait. Finally a bus pulled up to cheers, and right away, three scooters zoomed up past the crowd to get on first. People were shouting, yelling at them, and when the people got off their scooters inside the bus and walked to their seats, clearly able to do so with no problem, there was a lot of shouting and anger. Man, I hate those scooters.

 

[LaughingGravy]

I think that for some families, vacations are super-stressful, and the level of pre-planning and basic knowledge required (or at least, encouraged) for a Disney vacation is higher than most, and others try to do too much in a day and are constantly hot, tired and frazzled. Those conditions bring out the very worst in anybody.

That being said, the only out-of-control screaming match I've ever seen was between some groups of visitors from New Jersey during Easter break 2005, but they weren't fighting with each other. They were simply yelling, pep rally style, over the heads of the several hundred persons assembled in the BTMRR queue, that they were "from F***NG NEW JERSEY!" in a chant that went back and forth between two different groups (it was tough to tell whether they actually knew each other, or whether this was some kind of weird thing that some "New Jersey people" do when they see each other outside of their natural habitat) for several rounds, with each one trying to outdo the other in volume, notwithstanding the fact that there were dozens of small children present. Frankly, I was surprised that their language didn't incite a fight, as the other patrons were none too pleased, and the CMs in the area appeared to be feigning sudden deafness.

I would like to apologize on behalf of all of us from New Jersey who would never think to do anything like that. Unbelievable.

 

[Weather_Lady]

I would like to apologize on behalf of all of us from New Jersey who would never think to do anything like that. Unbelievable.

No apology necessary -- there are a few "bad apples" in every state!

 

[RiceCrispyMickey]

There was a lady screaming at her daughter in a foreign language when we were outside Ellens energy adventure once... I have no idea what she was saying or what the kid had done but MAN I would not have wanted to be that kid that day!!!

 

[Ben_since_1971]

Closest I ever saw was one Christmas night, after the second parade heading down Main St to the exit. Very crowded. Two moms pushing strollers, one on either side of the trolley tracks. One of the strollers' wheels slipped into the track groove and mother #1 was jogged sideways and bumped into mother #2.

Mother #1 - 'Excuse me'
Mother #2 - 'You are not going to get there any quicker'
Mother #1 - 'I SAID EXCUSE ME'

From out of nowhere husbands materialized and took respective wives to neutral corners with choruses of 'Merry Christmas'.

 

[Arthur Wellesley]

There was a lady screaming at her daughter in a foreign language when we were outside Ellens energy adventure once... I have no idea what she was saying or what the kid had done but MAN I would not have wanted to be that kid that day!!!

In English she was saying: "Did you not listen in the end? The answer is brain power! BRAIN power!!!"

 

[Matt_Black]

I don't remember seeing any churlish behavior. If I have, I didn't let it leave an impression. I'm too busy focusing on the fun I'm having.

 

[superchc80]

I had my one and only bad encounter this last trip in January. We were in line for HM and the cast member kept telling us to squeeze in and fill all the dead space. I had been behind this family the whole time until we reached a garbage can. When we went to move again this guy and his girl friend purposely crowded in front of me. When we moved again I got around the can and got in front of them. The guy that had darted in front of me came up behind me and started stepping on the backs of my shoes and kicking into them and then proceeded to rub his body up against my backside. He was waiting to get a rise out of me and I acted like I was unaware he was there. I had all I could do to keep from turning around to tell him to act his age before I kicked his butt but I took the high road and ignored him.. Like all bullies he finally gave up when he knew I wasn't playing his game. Every one I know told me I should have told a CM but it wasn't worth it. You have to pick your battles and in the end I won because I didn't give into him and I was still ahead of him and made sure I satyed ahead of him.

Rub his body against my backside? In my world, my friend, that would have earned him a sharp elbow to the gut (maybe lower...I'm only 5'4"). I promise that I'd even give him a better look of my shoes that he was stepping on while bent over. Is this the mature response? Probably not. However, no one has a right to touch you in such a manner, especially if doing it in an aggressive and threatening way. Now, I'M ticked and I wasn't even there! So happy that you were able to handle that situation with a cool head.

 

[seahawk7]

One time we had arrived at Circle of Life and we're waiting for the pre-show when a family got into a huge fight with each other. They were shouting in a language I didn't recognize but I could gather the fight was between the grown son and his father. It was a huge blowout but they escorted themselves out with the eldest female coming back in tears to apologize to us for her family's argument. It was very sad.

 

[mf1972]

my wife got ambushed by Chip & Dale a few years ago. does that count?

 

[seahawk7]

my wife got ambushed by Chip & Dale a few years ago. does that count?

Sure it does, if they went nuts.

 

[mf1972]

Sure it does, if they went nuts.

good one

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

I once saw a couple having a screaming fight in Tomorrowland. In front of their small kids. It was really sad. I also thought that if they act like that in public, what happens when they're home alone?

Don't worry, you get used to it, and you learn what not to be like

 

[Victor Kelly]

Yup. Just got through the turnstiles at MK this last trip and we heard screaming behind us. Some big hairy biker dude was dropping f-bombs left and right, walking up and down the turnstiles cussing his head off. Security was on it really quick.

Other than that, the usual parents on meltdown mode.