Annoying Guests

[tigger_rox00]

So, you were IN the main drop shaft...and this lady thought she was going to get OUT of the elevator? :lol: I can understand the shock and panic setting in, as I am also very claustrophobic, but hopefully logic would play a part...I guess not. I also thought that the seatbelt latches locked once you were dispatched - am I wrong?

So, I'm curious - how did they evacuate you? That seems like a pretty major feat once the elevator is in the final drop shaft, unless they raised it and backed it into the "5th Dimension" scene. I'm not doubting you at all, please understand - I'm honestly interested in how they evac in the final shaft.

Actually, we were half-way in the shaft. She didn't undo the seat belt, rather she actually worked herself out from the seat belt. Also the bell hop came and opened the front gate of the elevator and we just walked off and walked down some flights of stairs. It was fairly simple, and no hassle with the evac. it was definitely shocking.

 

[CHAPPS]

CHAPPS, move on and let it go, I have...

Obviously you haven't, otherwise you wouldn't have written this post. :lol:

 

[CHAPPS]

My family and I just got back from Disney 2 things I ran into,,,there was a young couple in front of us (at Splash Mountion with their parents) doing a public display of effection ..yeh ok you really really like each other get a room or something.
Then in the line to Tower of Terror I had a person in line with one of those walking talkies..Yeh I'm still in line to the Tower of Terror. Yeh the Tower of Terror.. YEH THE TOWER OF TERROR I'M STILL IN LINE WHERE ARE YOU AT? HUH?!! WHAT?? (dead air ) FPPTT GEEA WHEZZZZ UUU ATTTTT??


Aug 1997 Wilderness Lodge
Aug 2003 Caribbean Beach
Aug 2005 Port Orleans-Riverside

This one just about killed me! It's gotten to the point where I almost consider walkie talkie sounds part of the whole ambience. :lol:

 

[Merlin]

I intentionally avoided reading any posts or reviews of SGE so that the attraction would be a complete surprise to me when I went this past June. While I was standing in line for the attraction, however, there was this guy standing behind who had been on it already and was telling his friend everything that happens on the attraction. I turned around and asked him if he could maybe hold off on giving away all the surprises because I hadn't been on it yet. I told him it was kind of like having someone tell you what happens in a movie before you see it. His response: "Quite eavesdropping on our conversation and mind your own business." Unfortunately, it was kinda difficult to avoid "eavesdropping" since he was talking loud enough for everyone to hear. A guest in front of us in line heard him and just kind of rolled her eyes, then looked at me and smiled.

I also had a very similar thing happen when I first saw Mickey's PhilharMagic shortly after it opened. During the whole show, there was a lady sitting behind me who kept saying to her husband, "Ooh, watch this part!" "Watch what happens next!"... As though he was going to ignore the film unless she told him to keep watching. :brick:

 

[piratelass]

Some of these stories are really eye opening. I, personally, always try and be polite when in WDW or any public place in general like saying Excuse Me if I bump into someone by accident, saying Thank You to the employees if they do something for me or give me something ,or if someone needs to get ahead in line to be with their family. I always figured that if I'm polite to others, I'll get the same in return, sadly this is not always the case.

My older brother is in a wheelchair and actually needs it (He has Muscular Dystrophy) so when we board the buses, the driver often times asks us to board first so it is more convientent for everyone on the bus, but man, some of the nasty comments and dirty looks we get sometimes! Almost always my mother and I would stand so that those three seats my brother takes up will be made up for, but still people are just mean. One time, a guy actually had the nerve to argue with the bus driver because my brother got on the bus first. Now mind you, this wasn't like a jammed bus, there were plenty of seats. I'm sure if my brother didn't need a wheelchair, he wouldn't of been in one since he's been four.

But seriously, some people have some nerve :brick:

 

[Tigger1988]

Some of these stories are really eye opening. I, personally, always try and be polite when in WDW or any public place in general like saying Excuse Me if I bump into someone by accident, saying Thank You to the employees if they do something for me or give me something ,or if someone needs to get ahead in line to be with their family. I always figured that if I'm polite to others, I'll get the same in return, sadly this is not always the case.

My older brother is in a wheelchair and actually needs it (He has Muscular Dystrophy) so when we board the buses, the driver often times asks us to board first so it is more convientent for everyone on the bus, but man, some of the nasty comments and dirty looks we get sometimes! Almost always my mother and I would stand so that those three seats my brother takes up will be made up for, but still people are just mean. One time, a guy actually had the nerve to argue with the bus driver because my brother got on the bus first. Now mind you, this wasn't like a jammed bus, there were plenty of seats. I'm sure if my brother didn't need a wheelchair, he wouldn't of been in one since he's been four.

But seriously, some people have some nerve :brick:

hey, welcome to the boards, could you please use a bigger font, the one you're using now is very hard on the eyes. Im not trying to pick on you or anything.

 

[piratelass]

hey, welcome to the boards, could you please use a bigger font, the one you're using now is very hard on the eyes. Im not trying to pick on you or anything.

Hey, thank you ^^; and I have no problem changing the size. I think I'm so accustomed to reading small font its become habit.

 

[Tigger1988]

Hey, thank you ^^; and I have no problem changing the size. I think I'm so accustomed to reading small font its become habit.

Thanks! and have a great time here on the boards!

 

[car4911]

stupid guests

Stupid guests are the ones who do absolutely no planning...they show up at dinner expect to get seated right away, then you walk in after them because you have a reservation and they give you dirty looks!!!!......Going to disney world requires A LOT of homework and if all the members on this site can do it why cant everyone else!!!

 

[Victoria]

My older brother is in a wheelchair and actually needs it (He has Muscular Dystrophy) so when we board the buses, the driver often times asks us to board first so it is more convientent for everyone on the bus, but man, some of the nasty comments and dirty looks we get sometimes! Almost always my mother and I would stand so that those three seats my brother takes up will be made up for, but still people are just mean. One time, a guy actually had the nerve to argue with the bus driver because my brother got on the bus first. Now mind you, this wasn't like a jammed bus, there were plenty of seats. I'm sure if my brother didn't need a wheelchair, he wouldn't of been in one since he's been four.

But seriously, some people have some nerve :brick:

It is scary how many truly stupid and rude people there are out there. I just got back ysetrday from the World. This past trip was the first trip I have taken to WDW where I rented an ECV in advance and therefore had to travel with it on the buses (due to rapidly progressing MS). I have been using a ECV in Disney for several years and have gotten used to the usual rudeness of ppl walking right in front of me and dirty looks from ppl when I get on a ride faster than they do. I was in for a rude awakening with the buses though. Not only were most of the guests rude about it taking so long for me to load onto a bus (especially the older ones) but even some of the CM's acted like it was the world's biggest inconvenience for them to have to help me. One even gave me a hard time about wanting to transfer to a regular seat. (I know this is a controversial issue but if you have ever ridden a Disney bus while on an ECV you would trasnfer too. It is a very scary feeling like you are constantly going to tip over every time the bus turns a corner) Nothing like a bunch of ignorant idiots crawling around Disney to really get my blood boiling. I try to not let it bother me too much and not let them ruin my good time...but sometimes its really hard to ignore them. I wish there were a way Disney could find a way to keep these idiots from making reservations...we'd all enjoy ourselves more without such extreme levels of ignorance as evidenced by this thread.

 

[disneyhabit]

No Means No

From the majority of the people we talk to that have this same issue, I think the foreigners should learn the English language or have someone with them that does understand it, because mine and my husband's great annoyance is that they push their kids in front of us to see a parade or fireworks, you try to tell them politely excuse me but they look at us as if we were taking their spot or in the theaters are the worse, when they say no flash photography that means NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY I WISH PEOPLE WOULD GET THAT

 

[MooseImagineer]

While I was at DisneyLand I was rideing with a couple on Big T, They kept asking the ride operators "Isnt this the ride the kid died on??!?" The operators had to tell them to shut up. Later I was behind them on Space Mountain and almost had to escorted out :hammer:

 

[mayrag]

Annoying

This happened to us just after New Year's Eve in MK. We had our sleeping daughter in her stroller and were walking through Main Street, when these 2 old ladies came from nowhere and started pushing the stroller. I couldn't stop, because of all the people behind me, so I just told them to stop pushing, but I was still very afraid they were gonna fall just over my daughter. They kept on it. I must be sincere that since I speak spanish, I insulted them, but they continued. Until we walked through the boat (the ladies continued beside us), and the CM walked us through the wheelchair/stroller line, they tried to enter the line, but the CM just told them you have to go to the regular line, which was pretty crowded at the time, we made faces on them and continued to the boat.JAJAJA
Also I would like to mention that in the entrance ther should be a caution sign, that says " For the comfort of others, please wear deodorant".

 

[SheenaXena]

AMEN!!!!!!:lol:

 

[Merlin]

While I was at DisneyLand I was rideing with a couple on Big T, They kept asking the ride operators "Isnt this the ride the kid died on??!?" The operators had to tell them to shut up. Later I was behind them on Space Mountain and almost had to escorted out :hammer:

I'm confused. They kept asking the ride operators a question and the ride operators told them to "shut up"? That seems a little unprofessional. Unless maybe there's more to the story, or I'm missing something. What was it they were doing on Space Mountain that caused them to almost be escorted out?

 

[mousebymarriage]

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.

People not giving up their seats for those in need is a HUGE problem at disney.
Part of the problem is that adults can be rude and therefore their children do not know any better. We have been going to Disney every year since my children were born(DD 9 in Sept. ,DS 4) and we have encountered this problem before.
My children know(especially my daughter) that if an elderly person, pregnant woman, handicapped or someone with a sleeping child has no seat, she is to offer her own. I have taught my children this by example and now most of the time I do not even need to remind her. Believe it or not, many grown men have seen her do this and none of them offer their seat to others also in need!

 

[Raven66]

People not giving up their seats for those in need is a HUGE problem at disney.
Part of the problem is that adults can be rude and therefore their children do not know any better. We have been going to Disney every year since my children were born(DD 9 in Sept. ,DS 4) and we have encountered this problem before.
My children know(especially my daughter) that if an elderly person, pregnant woman, handicapped or someone with a sleeping child has no seat, she is to offer her own. I have taught my children this by example and now most of the time I do not even need to remind her. Believe it or not, many grown men have seen her do this and none of them offer their seat to others also in need!

I agree. My daughter who will be 9 in Jan. has given her seat up as well. My DH and I have also done this. Yeah, I'm tired after a long day and I paid as much as some people, but it's harder to stand there holding a small child and hang onto the bar so you don't fall. Or for an elderly person whose balance MAY NOT be that great. I can stand, it's not a big deal. :wave:

 

[thedogbots]

I have to disagree with the standing thing. Yeah we should all stand if someone else needs it and we don't, that being said it is a whole different thing to look at a guest and deem he doesn't need his seat because he is a male. that is just ignorant. for example You do not know if that person has a foot condition that keeps them from standing long period, or any other disability they may have. lastly even if they don't have some reason to be sitting, they could just be tired... and they did beat you to the bus. How much attention are you paying to the world around you when you just sat down on a bus after a full day in the parks. I know I'm not paying much, though if someone that really needed a seat came up to me and asked for mine, most likely (though i do have certain conditions that prohibit long periods of standing) i would give it to them. that being ranted....

Yes i think holding doors for anyone is a good practice... not only because it is polite, but because it is safer then someone catching a door in the face...


and a huge peeve is that no one says please thankyou and your welcome any more. I went through a couple years of military school, so it is drilled in my head to always be super polite, (sir, ma'am, firm affirmatives and negatives, etc....) i just dont understand why it is so hard for people to say excuse me when they bump into you... or thankyou to the cast member that just served you.... oh well guess it is the way of the world.

 

[Tom]

I have to disagree with the standing thing. Yeah we should all stand if someone else needs it and we don't, that being said it is a whole different thing to look at a guest and deem he doesn't need his seat because he is a male. that is just ignorant. for example You do not know if that person has a foot condition that keeps them from standing long period, or any other disability they may have. lastly even if they don't have some reason to be sitting, they could just be tired... and they did beat you to the bus. How much attention are you paying to the world around you when you just sat down on a bus after a full day in the parks. I know I'm not paying much, though if someone that really needed a seat came up to me and asked for mine, most likely (though i do have certain conditions that prohibit long periods of standing) i would give it to them. that being ranted....

Yes i think holding doors for anyone is a good practice... not only because it is polite, but because it is safer then someone catching a door in the face...


and a huge peeve is that no one says please thankyou and your welcome any more. I went through a couple years of military school, so it is drilled in my head to always be super polite, (sir, ma'am, firm affirmatives and negatives, etc....) i just dont understand why it is so hard for people to say excuse me when they bump into you... or thankyou to the cast member that just served you.... oh well guess it is the way of the world.

I have the same problem, myself, with overly using my PDQs - and I'm not even military, just raised properly. I will say thank you in every email I send, and every time I receive anything from anyone - whether they heard me or not...or cared.

I'm with you on the bus seat thing, as you may have read a few pages ago. I'm a gentleman, but we're all equal at WDW - and if you show up 7mos pregnant, then, well, perhaps you should have rented a car instead of waltzing on any bus and EXPECT someone to get up, just so you can sit down. I've known pregnant gals who were like the energizer bunny, while I would be pooped. I'm fat and out of shape - I think someone who's not fat and out of shape should get up and give their seat to me too.

If someone who clearly needs a seat asks for mine, or I detect that they REALLY need it, and I REALLY don't - sure, I'll give in. But nobody, and I mean NOBODY, deserves a seat over me, or anyone else. Those types of things should be taken into consideration when planning the trip.

P.S. If I'm sitting in a row of fold-up wheelchair seats, and a wheelchair enters the bus, YES, I'll move.

 

[Tigger1988]

I have the same problem, myself, with overly using my PDQs - and I'm not even military, just raised properly. I will say thank you in every email I send, and every time I receive anything from anyone - whether they heard me or not...or cared.

I'm with you on the bus seat thing, as you may have read a few pages ago. I'm a gentleman, but we're all equal at WDW - and if you show up 7mos pregnant, then, well, perhaps you should have rented a car instead of waltzing on any bus and EXPECT someone to get up, just so you can sit down. I've known pregnant gals who were like the energizer bunny, while I would be pooped. I'm fat and out of shape - I think someone who's not fat and out of shape should get up and give their seat to me too.

If someone who clearly needs a seat asks for mine, or I detect that they REALLY need it, and I REALLY don't - sure, I'll give in. But nobody, and I mean NOBODY, deserves a seat over me, or anyone else. Those types of things should be taken into consideration when planning the trip.

P.S. If I'm sitting in a row of fold-up wheelchair seats, and a wheelchair enters the bus, YES, I'll move.

Yea, I agree with the fact that if they are 7 months pregnant and such, they more than likely should have rented a car...rather than expecting everyone to cater to them...thats sort of rude when you think about it