Conversations disrupting attractions

[JohnD]

We were streaming the Packer game Saturday night on my phone while waiting for the Napoleon Dynamite reunion show to start ~ obviously, with the sound off...we weren't the only ones.

During MVMCP, a father was streaming a football game when we entered the HM Portrait Chamber. Look, I get it. He would rather be watching football than escorting his children around the park. He probably didn't schedule the party but duty calls. I kindly leaned over and said to the effect, "I understand but would you mind turning off your phone?"

 

[MagicRat]

Unfortunately this has been going on since I remember as an adult, back to the early 90’s. The thing that has changed is it isn’t the shoulder camcorder, it is the phone with a screen on it and almost everyone has it. However, it has gotten much worse with the screens on rides.

I also don’t get the loudmouth people at restaurants, nobody at another table wants to hear you or the random person who plays there mini speaker music at the resort pool. The JW Marriott in Palm Springs is the first place I have seen to post by the pools, “individual music must be played through earphones.” We have seen families play their own speaker music at the lake restaurant at Wilderness Lodge and some older guy blasting Ozzie Osborne at the Saratoga Springs Pool. Stay classy!

 

[Smiley/OCD]

I’m an AP, as are my family, we always wait till we’re off-ride to chit chat & would never quote along. That said, I could see some APers being overly enthused, to put it politely. That’s crappy.

Like I said in the OP, it seems like a mixture of multiple groups.

On my most recent visit, the main culprit was parents (but not their kids) who inexplicably felt the need to shout out the obvious over and over “oh wow look guys it’s donald!” Or loudly ask constant questions like “is that a banana tree? It is! Did you know bananas grow on trees?” Meanwhile the kids (and everybody outside their party) are just trying to enjoy the ride.

I don’t think it’s a matter of stopping people from talking, but lowering your volume to be considerate of those around you.

If it’s a thrill ride or an interactive show, people are going to yell and get excited. Nobody’s demanding whispers on Big Thunder, Turtle Talk, or Playhouse Disney. That’d be weird LOL.

If it’s Pirates, PhilharMagic, Living With The Land, etc, no you do not need to incessantly & loudly talk through the whole ride. You can quietly make a comment to your friend/family member. Or experience it and then discuss it after off-ride.

Or jump out of the boat and help yourself to a cucumber or two…
In all honesty, the worst example of that was waiting in the standby line many years ago at BTMRR. There were a group of teen girls that kept repeating “It’s the wildest ride in the wilderness” over & over again…yup it got out of control but it is what it is..I’m NOT a “get off my lawn” type…
I WILL add though, that I get VERY perturbed when guests talk over Patrick on Soarin’!! Lol

 

[Weather_Lady]

My church once did a training module for ushers and other public-facing volunteers called, "Every Sunday Is Somebody's First Sunday." (The point was that we need to treat all guests and visitors like it's their first time in church, being sensitive to the fact that unfamiliar religious verbiage and customs can be off-putting, and that first impressions are vital to whether a guest feels welcome and will ever consider returning.)

It would be cool, in theory, if Disney could adopt subtle signage or preshow instructions for the "quiet" attractions (e.g., films, boat rides, ominmovers, etc.) to remind guests that for these rides, every time is someone's first time, and to give them the fullest and best experience, we should be courteous to other guests. (While, naturally, everyone deserves that courtesy, whether it's their first ride or their hundredth, there's a certain emotional appeal to the idea that you're preserving the specialness of a "first.")

Sadly, the people who would take that message to heart are the very people who are already behaving appropriately...

 

[Magicart87]

The best fix I've found is to eavesdrop on their conversation and then add to it. Usually shuts them up.

 

[Goofyernmost]

The best fix I've found is to eavesdrop on their conversation and then add to it. Usually shuts them up.

I did that all the time unless they are bigger than me or at the very least can run faster. At 75 there aren't to many things that can't run faster then me. So I stay pretty quiet.

 

[John park hopper]

Disney promotes the use of cell phones. Adults have cell phones and kids of all age have them -- it ain't gonna get any better---only worse.

 

[graphite1326]

I remember some teenage girls (no adults around) in the preshow room of the previous Test Track (where they put in the test). A group of about 5 girls behind us were loudly talking to each other. My DW turned around and shushed them. So it has been longer than 5 years.

 

[graphite1326]

That is a little offensive and generalizing.

I am a local who has been a passholder for over 20 straight years. My family and I do not talk on attractions and are also annoyed by people talking or blocking views with cell phones/cameras.

I actually agree with the weather lady. I go quite a bit but hear these know-it-alls and it is annoying.

 

[Magicart87]

I did that all the time unless they are bigger than me or at the very least can run faster. At 75 there aren't to many things that can't run faster then me. So I stay pretty quiet.

The trick is to only attempt it on dark rides. Cup your mouth with you hands so your voice travels and disguises where it's coming from.

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

Here’s a fun anecdote for the class.

I got a crazy one for you....long time ago when DLP was not as popular....the park was so uncrowded the day we visited that re-rides on BTMRR were possible. I was re-riding it myself. Sometimes we were able to stay on, sometimes we had to get off and go back through the queue with minimal wait.

A group of young teen boys was also re-riding. They had apparently just discovered their own b.o., and thought it was hilarious to raise their arms so as to try to stink passengers sitting behind them. At the end of every ride they all sniffed their own armpits, made faces at the smell, then laughed, and tried to coerce their companions to stick their face in each others' armpits. If anyone sitting near them gave any sign of noticing their odor, they congratulated themselves.

It was both a bit unique and oh-so-typical at the same time.

 

[TalkToEthan]

I noticed Pirates mentioned quite a few times, my guess is some people just can’t focus for 20 minutes anymore, they get bored so they start to talk

Pirates is the perfect venue to showcase one’s rude behavior. It allows for easy dissemination to 19 others over a lengthy slow moving journey

It’s in a darkened space perhaps emboldening even more would be silent riders and the Pirates familiar dialogue doesn’t help either since the rude riders get bored and try to impress(bother) others by spouting the phrases out loud or just yapping to a seat mate about something completely unrelated to the ride

 

[JohnD]

Pirates is the perfect venue to showcase one’s rude behavior. It allows for easy dissemination to 19 others over a lengthy slow moving journey

It’s in a darkened space perhaps emboldening even more would be silent riders and the Pirates familiar dialogue doesn’t help either since the rude riders get bored and try to impress(bother) others by spouting the phrases out loud or just yapping to a seat mate about something completely unrelated to the ride

It's not just the yapping. I had a family in front of me in the same boat snap flash photos throughout the ride. Of course, this blinded my eyes. I tried to tell them to please stop but it didn't do any good. And for what? It ruined my ride and they got washed out photos. I told the CM at the ride entrance that I wanted to ride again without the distraction. She let me in the-then-FP queue.

 

[TalkToEthan]

Lots of countries have rules on this sort of boorish behavior. I wish we did.

...not that people would obey.

Squirt bottles loaded with water might do the trick.

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

Posted this before IMO we have become a less civil society and it has become even worse with social media and phones. Pre cell phones I don't remember the constant talking.

No, back then it was smoking.

 

[TalkToEthan]

some older guy blasting Ozzie Osborne at the Saratoga Springs Pool. Stay classy!

“Ay Ay Ay”

 

[Weather_Lady]

Pirates is the perfect venue to showcase one’s rude behavior. It allows for easy dissemination to 19 others over a lengthy slow moving journey

It’s in a darkened space perhaps emboldening even more would be silent riders and the Pirates familiar dialogue doesn’t help either since the rude riders get bored and try to impress(bother) others by spouting the phrases out loud or just yapping to a seat mate about something completely unrelated to the ride

We once had the whole shebang at once: seated in the middle of the boat with our fifteen-year-old daughter, with a man in front of us who held up his camera up in front of our faces to take non-stop videos and flash photos for the entire ride, and two adult men behind us, loudly discussing explicit details of their [alleged] sex lives, beside a lady who we'd initially assumed was the partner of the older man, but seemed strangely unperturbed by their expletive-drenched descriptions of exploits with various other women.

I think the photo says it all! If you've ever wondered what it looks like, the instant that all hope in humanity fades from someone's eyes and they can no longer see anything ahead of them but an endless vortex of disappointment and despair, just look at my face.

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

I admit it. I mouth the words in the HM portrait chamber. I don't say them out loud, though. People want to hear the Ghost Host, not me. My general comment about people talking on boat rides notwithstanding, I'm not so bothered by parents pointing out things to their children on IASW. "It's the same song after all." I could use the distraction and it makes sense really for parents to do that with their kids on that ride. Otherwise, any other boat ride, please keep quiet.

There is also, IMO, an allowance during the greenhouse portion of Living with the Land.

CM's used to do the job of pointing out all the different plants and what was unique or unusual about them. Now it is just the same canned recording, so, IMO, it is easy to see why people enjoy pointing out the lettuce Mickeyhead to each other. (currently a lettuce "100" - in the section with hydroponic red/green baby lettuce). Over the holidays, the ride has holiday details added in the greenhouse.

 

[JohnD]

We once had the whole shebang at once: seated in the middle of the boat with our fifteen-year-old daughter, with a man in front of us who held up his camera up in front of our faces to take non-stop videos and flash photos for the entire ride, and two adult men behind us, loudly discussing explicit details of their [alleged] sex lives, beside a lady who we'd initially assumed was the partner of the older man, but seemed strangely unperturbed by their expletive-drenched descriptions of exploits with various other women.

I think the photo says it all! If you've ever wondered what it looks like, the instant that all hope in humanity fades from someone's eyes and they can no longer see anything ahead of them but an endless vortex of disappointment and despair, just look at my face.

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Front row: Snapping away. Back row: Yacking away. Your family: Completely miserable.

 

[Weather_Lady]

Front row: Snapping away. Back row: Yacking away. Your family: Completely miserable.

We laugh about it now, but at the time, it had been a couple years since we'd been on POTC: we'd really been looking forward to it, and then it turned into "photography class up front, sex ed in the back!"

We did manage to ride it again, later that day, with better company!