Annoying Guests

[SirGoofy]

I have many, many ignorat guest stories. I'll just tell you my pet peeves.

1) People with strollers. Yes, I know strollers are a necessity, but they are NOT weapons. People with strollers act like they own the paths. They will not hesitate to ram into the back of your legs or to cut you off.

2)People who dont bathe! :fork:

3)People who curse and use foul language in the parks.

I'll tell you my favorite story:
Guest:"Hey, I wonder where that Spiderman ride is..."

Seeing that he and his group are very confused, I try to help:"Sir, the Spiderman ride is at Universal's IOA."

Guest:"No, it is definately somewhere at Disney."

Me:"Sir, believe me. I rode it yesterday at IOA."

Guest:"Well I guess they have Spiderman there too."

Me: :brick:

 

[phlydude]

Not Disney related but on my Honeymoon, I pulled a drowned kid from the pool. Along with a cop from Toronto, we performed CPR on the kid and brought him back. Now I saw this family 3 or 4 times a day for the remainder of my trip and not once did the kid or his parents thank me or the cop for saving their little darling. The only thing I remember is the mother yelling at me when I pulled the kid out of the pool thinking I did something to him.
The water was 5 feet deep and he was 4 feet tall at most. She wasn't paying attention to him and there was no life guard. That is annoying. I have to live with that image in my head for the rest of my life but all that mattered to them was that there little darling was safe...

 

[GSpiff]

Last time we were down there, we were doing one of the jungle treks at Animal Kingdom when three people in their 20's came flying past us on ECVs. One managed to run over my friend's foot, and without bothering to turn around and apologize and see if he was okay, kept chasing each other through the path. A little while later, we saw the same people stop to look at the tigers, stand up off the carts, and proceed to run and chase after each other, squirting each other with waterbottles. I know it's been discussed ad nauseum, but man, they need a better system with those electric carts.

Not to totally vent, but on the same trip, a woman was put on one of the busses in one of those carts. Normally, most people I see will sit on the carts and choose to be seatbelted in. Well, not this woman. She made sure she took up the three seats for the wheelchair zone, and then take up another seat on the bus to sit in. Like someone posted earlier about strollers, it's understandable that people need the carts, but they aren't weapons. People abuse that system so much.

 

[ballewclan]

Once in line for PP (i think), the line was extremely long and we were at one of the turn arounds when an asian family went right under the rail in front of us cutting half the line. They had a mom, dad, son, 2 daughters, and what looked like a uncle and aunt. Well my dad tapped the man on the shoulder and said "excuse me sir but the line starts over at the other end." Then the man went "I cant speak english.". Then they scooted up the line as it moved. My dad tapped him again and motioned a person walking with his hand and pointed to the beginning of the line. The man stuck his hands up like i dont understand in an annoyed way and scooted up more. So my dad went and got a CM so justice could get served and the guy started to freek out. But oh well everyone behind us was happy when he was directed toward the front of the line.

 

[wedway71]

Not Disney related but on my Honeymoon, I pulled a drowned kid from the pool. Along with a cop from Toronto, we performed CPR on the kid and brought him back. Now I saw this family 3 or 4 times a day for the remainder of my trip and not once did the kid or his parents thank me or the cop for saving their little darling. The only thing I remember is the mother yelling at me when I pulled the kid out of the pool thinking I did something to him.
The water was 5 feet deep and he was 4 feet tall at most. She wasn't paying attention to him and there was no life guard. That is annoying. I have to live with that image in my head for the rest of my life but all that mattered to them was that there little darling was safe...

Too funny,that happened to me too but alittle different.I was laying back and reading a book at my old apartment pool whe i hear a lady screaming"HELP MY BABY GIRL IS DROWNING!!!!!!"-so I jump and rush to the pool and look and shes laying face down in the deep part so I jump in,swim down and get her and mind you she wasnt a baby she was about 5 foot 9 and 240
so i struggle to get her to the top and drag her across to the latter.Than i proceed to lift her up the latter to another guy than we gave her cpr and revived her before the paramedics came. They take her to hospital and i start walking home as I see the news van drive up.I kept walking home and didnt worry about it and at 11 oclock news they interviewed some guy who claimes he saved the girls life-(he was watching the whole thing and never left his lounge chair).

 

[ONUpolarbears]

Too funny,that happened to me too but alittle different.I was laying back and reading a book at my old apartment pool whe i hear a lady screaming"HELP MY BABY GIRL IS DROWNING!!!!!!"-so I jump and rush to the pool and look and shes laying face down in the deep part so I jump in,swim down and get her and mind you she wasnt a baby she was about 5 foot 9 and 240
so i struggle to get her to the top and drag her across to the latter.Than i proceed to lift her up the latter to another guy than we gave her cpr and revived her before the paramedics came. They take her to hospital and i start walking home as I see the news van drive up.I kept walking home and didnt worry about it and at 11 oclock news they interviewed some guy who claimes he saved the girls life-(he was watching the whole thing and never left his lounge chair).

Now that just makes me sick. Whether it's someone taking credit for some schoolwork you did or saving someone's life......I hate when people take credit for things they didn't do. Let alone, like you, you should be humble about it

 

[dmmgp2000]

Working front desk at the Swan, I have plenty of stories. This one, however, is probably my favorite.

About a week ago, we closed the Swan lap pool due to tile damage. This woman comes up to me in a towel (I'm thinking she left her key at the pool and wanted a new one)...right away she's all "I have a complaint" and starts yelling at me about how they closed down the pool while she and her husband were swimming. I told her I would look into it and explained to her that we had the main grotto pool, and another lap pool at the Dolphin. Well, the grotto pool has "too many kids" (what disney pool doesn't?) and the Dolphin lap pool was "a mile away" (actually, 200 yards).
By this time, the husband was behind her and saying that I just ruined their romantic weekend getaway and asked me what I was going to do about it. I told him the options of going to the other pools and he said that wasn't going to work. Finally, I said "Sir, I'm sorry but I don't have the authority to reopen the pool, but I'll find out why they closed it"........to this he replied...." I want your name! Write down your name! I'm calling corporate! You won't have a job by the time I get through with you!" I was in shock, but wanted to laugh out loud. I gave him my name and said he was welcome to call corporate because they closed down the pool for repairs and I didn't reopen it. Unbelieveable! Oh yeah, I still have a job..hehe.

 

[Tom]

Working front desk at the Swan, I have plenty of stories. This one, however, is probably my favorite.

About a week ago, we closed the Swan lap pool due to tile damage. This woman comes up to me in a towel (I'm thinking she left her key at the pool and wanted a new one)...right away she's all "I have a complaint" and starts yelling at me about how they closed down the pool while she and her husband were swimming. I told her I would look into it and explained to her that we had the main grotto pool, and another lap pool at the Dolphin. Well, the grotto pool has "too many kids" (what disney pool doesn't?) and the Dolphin lap pool was "a mile away" (actually, 200 yards).
By this time, the husband was behind her and saying that I just ruined their romantic weekend getaway and asked me what I was going to do about it. I told him the options of going to the other pools and he said that wasn't going to work. Finally, I said "Sir, I'm sorry but I don't have the authority to reopen the pool, but I'll find out why they closed it"........to this he replied...." I want your name! Write down your name! I'm calling corporate! You won't have a job by the time I get through with you!" I was in shock, but wanted to laugh out loud. I gave him my name and said he was welcome to call corporate because they closed down the pool for repairs and I didn't reopen it. Unbelieveable! Oh yeah, I still have a job..hehe.

Oh......my.......GOD!!!!! Disney should BAN ignorant pieces of [excrement] like this from the entire "WORLD"! I'm glad you had more tact than I do. If he had said that to me, I would have been fired for sure because of what I would have responded with!

The CPR stories make me sick. The one where the family didn't appreciate their kid being saved, more than the loser who took credit for someone else's heroism.

Line jumpers exist everywhere, and yes, they're scum too - but the rest of these stories top those cliche ones by far.

I'm not a violent person, unless something REALLY flips my trigger. If someone hit me with a stroller, ON PURPOSE, like the "Princesses at the Castle" guy - I would have laid him out. My first reaction would be to kick the stroller and then throw it at him, but only if it were empty :lol:

I never liked the fact that WDW sold alcohol in any park. Now, don't get me wrong, I imbibe my fair share of adult beverages - but I just don't think they belong in any Disney Theme Park, mainly because of the story about the drunk idiot running into someone and then blaming them. I would hope that Disney makes efforts towards NOT selling more alcohol to someone who appears intoxicated, but they apparently failed with that case, and I'm sure many others. Drunk people do not belong in the Disney Parks. That's what DTD is for. EPCOT may not be a "kid's park" but it's still a family park. I don't want to worry about being puked on, or being confronted by a beligerant [donkey] like that.

 

[DisneyPride]

Everyday theres always some crazy story you have to tell your family when you get home. The guests never seem to amaze me! Tell some of your past Disney Guests "Magical Moments" here...

On our last trip (12/04) I was almost 7 months pregnant. Can you believe that those times that we had to stand on the bus no one offered me a seat? My husband was holding my 3 year old son standing up. I would offered my seat to a pregnant lady so she can sit and hold her 3 year old son on her lap. Not many nice people.

Also, parents can be worst than kids. In Mickey's backyard BBQ, parents would not let any kids near the characters because they wanted to take lots of pictures of their kids w/ characters. As a parent, I understand the whole Picture thing for memories, but at one point you have to step back and let kids have fun.

 

[Merlin]

I was at Epcot one time, enjoying a beer and walking from Germany to Italy when all of a sudden this guy stepped out right in front of me and knocked my beer out of my hand. He wasn't even willing to buy me a new beer. Later, I saw him again walking around in a different shirt. If he can afford to buy a new shirt, he can afford to buy me a new beer, dadgummit!

 

[Merlin]

Just in case there's anyone who didn't figure it out, my last post was just a joke. Thought I'd write a silly post based on someone else's and post #16 seemed as good a one as any to use (Hope you didn't mind, Disneylands). :lol:

Seriously, though, a few years back I was with a friend and we were in line for Big Thunder. We were in our boarding row waiting, when all the sudden I felt a really hard finger poke on my shoulder. I assumed it was maybe someone I knew who was trying to get my attention or something. Anyway, I turned around and there was this guy who looked very irritated. He said to me, "The end of the line is back there." I kind of looked puzzled at him for a moment and then asked, "Excuse me? Why are you telling me where the end of the line is?". He said, "Because you just cut in line in front of me." I said, "I did?" and he said, "Yes. You asked me if you could get past me and I assumed it was so you could get the this other row. Then when I wasn't looking, you snuck in line in front of me." I said, "Sir, this is the first time in my life I've ever spoken to you. I've never met you before in my life. I think you have me mistaken for someone else. But I promise you that I'm not someone who ever cuts in line in front of people." He stood his ground and continued to insist that we had had this exchange of words and that I had snuck in line in front of him. In retrospect, I probably should have just let him in front of me. But for some reason, I didn't feel right penalizing myself for something that this guy was obviously mistaken about. So I stood MY ground and refused to move. I turned my back on him and he grabbed my arm and tried to pull me out of the line. About this time, our train rolled up and as my friend and I were climbing in, this guy got a CM's attention and told him that my friend and I had cut in line. I suddenly started having all these thoughts of being ejected from the park or something, all for an act I hadn't even committed. It was at that moment that a guest standing nearby spoke up and said, "Excuse me, I've never met either of these people before, but I can tell you that this guy (referring to me) did NOT cut in line. This other guy is full of it and just doesn't want to wait his turn." After that, another guest spoke up and backed me up too. I thanked both of them as our train began rolling away.

 

[CHAPPS]

Not Disney related but on my Honeymoon, I pulled a drowned kid from the pool. Along with a cop from Toronto, we performed CPR on the kid and brought him back. Now I saw this family 3 or 4 times a day for the remainder of my trip and not once did the kid or his parents thank me or the cop for saving their little darling. The only thing I remember is the mother yelling at me when I pulled the kid out of the pool thinking I did something to him.
The water was 5 feet deep and he was 4 feet tall at most. She wasn't paying attention to him and there was no life guard. That is annoying. I have to live with that image in my head for the rest of my life but all that mattered to them was that there little darling was safe...

Forgive me, but I find it somewhat sickening that you care more about GETTING CREDIT than you did about how those parents must have felt about having their kid safe and sound. Also, how do you know they never thanked the cop?? Did you spend the rest of your vacation in the presence of him the entire time? Is it possible we're maybe embellishing our story just a bit? Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great thing that you did. But it also sounds like your motivation was more about just being a "hero", and when you didn't get the recognition for it, those parents were somehow being "rude" or something. Maybe if YOU had a child who almost died, you would understand what goes through a parent's mind and not be so hung up on getting CREDIT. Whatever happened to doing something because it's the right thing to do, as opposed to doing it so that you'll get thanked?

 

[Connor002]

Forgive me, but I find it somewhat sickening that you care more about GETTING CREDIT than you did about how those parents must have felt about having their kid safe and sound. Also, how do you know they never thanked the cop?? Did you spend the rest of your vacation in the presence of him the entire time? Is it possible we're maybe embellishing our story just a bit? Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great thing that you did. But it also sounds like your motivation was more about just being a "hero", and when you didn't get the recognition for it, those parents were somehow being "rude" or something. Maybe if YOU had a child who almost died, you would understand what goes through a parent's mind and not be so hung up on getting CREDIT. Whatever happened to doing something because it's the right thing to do, as opposed to doing it so that you'll get thanked?

i don't really think thats how he ment it

i think he ment he was surprised that they didn't even reconize the fact that he had helped in any way, common curtisy would sugest thanking somone

but i could be wrong

 

[imamouse]

I took my mom to WDW this past May for a Mothers Day blow-out week. She is 69 years old, and petite. She had broken her big toe in March and it still was not healed. I had to beg people to let her sit on the bus, and I mean strong, younger, able bodied men! We are from the South, and no man sits while making a lady stand.

We also witnessed countless folks drive their motorized wheelchairs onto the bus, taking up 3 seats for their vehicle, then get out and sit in a bus seat. I wouldn't mind if there were plenty of seats open, but it was always standing room only. We did meet a nice family from Canada when the gentlemen offered his seat to my mom. He must have been about her age or older, but insisted that she sit while he stood. Of course, I didn't sit the entire week, but I am young(ish) and strong and my mom was my priority.

On an more positive note, while on our honeymoon (1982), my new hubby and I were waiting for the monorail at the MK and a young Spanish boy's balloon got away from him and was trapped under the ceiling. My husband is 6'5" tall, so he jumped and was able to grab the string and return the balloon to the little boy, who shyly told my husband, "Gracis". He was so cute!

 

[Tom]

Forgive me, but I find it somewhat sickening that you care more about GETTING CREDIT than you did about how those parents must have felt about having their kid safe and sound. Also, how do you know they never thanked the cop?? Did you spend the rest of your vacation in the presence of him the entire time? Is it possible we're maybe embellishing our story just a bit? Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great thing that you did. But it also sounds like your motivation was more about just being a "hero", and when you didn't get the recognition for it, those parents were somehow being "rude" or something. Maybe if YOU had a child who almost died, you would understand what goes through a parent's mind and not be so hung up on getting CREDIT. Whatever happened to doing something because it's the right thing to do, as opposed to doing it so that you'll get thanked?

WOW, in my opinion, your post was WAY out of line. Not once in his post did he claim to be a hero or express his want to be recognized for his great feat! He saved a kid's life, and the parents didn't even realize it. They YELLED at him for pulling the kid out of the pool to begin with, and then never thanked him for SAVING THEIR CHILD'S LIFE! You obviously have no concept of being a grateful parent either. I'm NOT a parent yet, but I guarantee you that if someone saved my child's life from drowning in a pool, I would be forever in their debt - and would do anything for them, as I'm sure anyone else on these boards would.

Good grief - why would you actually post, let alone THINK of posting something like this?

 

[Connor002]

I took my mom to WDW this past May for a Mothers Day blow-out week. She is 69 years old, and petite. She had broken her big toe in March and it still was not healed. I had to beg people to let her sit on the bus, and I mean strong, younger, able bodied men! We are from the South, and no man sits while making a lady stand.

We also witnessed countless folks drive their motorized wheelchairs onto the bus, taking up 3 seats for their vehicle, then get out and sit in a bus seat. I wouldn't mind if there were plenty of seats open, but it was always standing room only. We did meet a nice family from Canada when the gentlemen offered his seat to my mom. He must have been about her age or older, but insisted that she sit while he stood. Of course, I didn't sit the entire week, but I am young(ish) and strong and my mom was my priority.

On an more positive note, while on our honeymoon (1982), my new hubby and I were waiting for the monorail at the MK and a young Spanish boy's balloon got away from him and was trapped under the ceiling. My husband is 6'5" tall, so he jumped and was able to grab the string and return the balloon to the little boy, who shyly told my husband, "Gracis". He was so cute!

thats just not right, i would never allow an older person stand if i could give up my seat for them... or make somone else give up their seat for them... *muwhaha*

why don't most parent's teach that type of thing anymore?

 

[CHAPPS]

i don't really think thats how he ment it

i think he ment he was surprised that they didn't even reconize the fact that he had helped in any way, common curtisy would sugest thanking somone

but i could be wrong

Perhaps so. But it's also a strong possibility that the parents didn't even remember what he looked like after the event. I'm sure that as the incident was happening, the parents weren't thinking in terms of, "Gosh, what's the courteous thing to do here?" I would bet their only focus was on the well-being of their child. I can imagine it was a traumatizing event for these parents, and yet all he cared about was that he will "forever remember that image" and that he wasn't thanked. I also think that when you include details in your story such as, "They never thanked the cop either"....a fact he couldn't possibly be sure about unless he was with the cop the entire time, then it's likely other details of the story were embellished as well. Following that line of thinking, I would not be surprised if it turned out they DID, in fact, thank him, but that maybe he felt entitled to something more from them.

 

[jacksnightmare]

Some of the most annoying things are when kids bump into you endlessly while waiting in line for a ride. There was this one kid that kept bumping into me at Splash Mountain. I gave him the look twice, then I could feel it coming again. Oddly enough at the same time I "thought" that I saw a bug flying at me and back up smack into this kid. Ooops.

Last May while waiting for Soarin this lady runs up, I knew she was confused to the 4 of us sort of formed a barrier, she looks at her husband and asks...What are all of these people standing here for?

We were waiting for Pirates and this guy just walked past everyone with his kid. He walked in front of maybe 25 people without thinking twice about it. All of us formed a group and cut in front of him. When he gave us the look I told him...I would say sorry but I am not going to apologize for you.

I love going to WDW, but some of those people just bring out the worst in me. I can understand wanting to take a picture of something, but once you start taking more I will walk in front of you.

 

[CHAPPS]

WOW, in my opinion, your post was WAY out of line. Not once in his post did he claim to be a hero or express his want to be recognized for his great feat! He saved a kid's life, and the parents didn't even realize it. They YELLED at him for pulling the kid out of the pool to begin with, and then never thanked him for SAVING THEIR CHILD'S LIFE! You obviously have no concept of being a grateful parent either. I'm NOT a parent yet, but I guarantee you that if someone saved my child's life from drowning in a pool, I would be forever in their debt - and would do anything for them, as I'm sure anyone else on these boards would.

Good grief - why would you actually post, let alone THINK of posting something like this?

If you read his entire post, the reason the parent "yelled at him" was because she thought he had done something to her child. He didn't say what it was that she had yelled, but I doubt it was something to the effect of, "Hey you jerk, quit saving my kid's life". If I looked over and saw a stranger grabbing my child and pulling her out of a swimming pool, I'm not sure it would initially occur to me that the stranger was actually saving her life. I'm sure that what the parent was yelling at him was something along those lines. But of course, he probably thought THAT was rude of her too!

To answer your question as to why I would post this...The title of this thread is "Annoying Guests". Most of the other examples were about those little annoyances that we get from other park guests. Not so with this story. I personally felt for the parents in the story and just thought it was tacky that all he seemed to care about was that HE wasn't thanked. This is not something I would classify under the heading of "annoying guest". If I offended you with my post, I'm sorry. But I stand by what I said. As a parent, I was offended by HIS post.

 

[Connor002]

Perhaps so. But it's also a strong possibility that the parents didn't even remember what he looked like after the event. I'm sure that as the incident was happening, the parents weren't thinking in terms of, "Gosh, what's the courteous thing to do here?" I would bet their only focus was on the well-being of their child. I can imagine it was a traumatizing event for these parents, and yet all he cared about was that he will "forever remember that image" and that he wasn't thanked. I also think that when you include details in your story such as, "They never thanked the cop either"....a fact he couldn't possibly be sure about unless he was with the cop the entire time, then it's likely other details of the story were embellished as well. Following that line of thinking, I would not be surprised if it turned out they DID, in fact, thank him, but that maybe he felt entitled to something more from them.

thats possible, and as i said, i could be wrong about him, but it really isn't possible for either of us to know what really happened, so i'll drop the subject in order to avoid an argument

Case and Point- neither of us know the whole story and motives of the people, so it is not fair for any party to make judgment based on this information