Dumb guests doing dumb things.....

[Hayley In Wonderland]

Several times while riding Kilimanjaro Safaris the driver always tells you several times no leaning out of truck or standing up. After he pulls away and the first Animal is seen, someone stands up. Usually an Adult. They always look bewildered when the Driver yells at them.

This happened SO MANY TIMES last time I went. Our first safari it got to the point where the CM said to the adult if you stand up one more time then I am going to have to stop the safari as you're endangering not only yourself but everyone else on this truck. They looked like they hadn't been told several times already to stay seated, and grimaced as they sat down

 

[Hayley In Wonderland]

Just gonna leave these here courtesy of Disneyland Paris..

DLP is the worst for terrible guest behaviour, people climb on the grass and things during the fireworks. Issue is that no one tells them off for doing it. They are also notorious for queue jumping. We were queuing for the Meet Mickey in the theatre, there was a large American family in front of us. An eldery couple came in and slowly started making their way through the guests queuing until they reached behind me. I blocked the queue so they couldn't try to squeeze past and they were looking at me like I had just committed murder. I could hear the family in front saying something about it and the mum was about ready to let rip.

 

[Hayley In Wonderland]

So, in 2016, I was in the Frontierland restrooms and heard this little chat:
Son: "Daddy, since we're not at home, I don't have to wash my hands, right?"
Father: "Correct. Hand washing is for at home"
Me: View attachment 262255

I witnessed a fully grown man take his SON into the female toilets at DLP once. Safe to say all the women were annoyed. Privacy, people.

 

[Hayley In Wonderland]

Wow. I just read Fahrenheit 451. (It's a book my daughter has to read for English. I promised myself that I would read every book my children have to read so we can talk about them.) It's so powerful and, sadly, so true for today's society that I finished it in one night.

Like we've all said, it's disheartening when I see this at WDW since I feel that people are missing out on being there. It's also so frustrating as an educator to only see the tops of my students' heads when I try to teach. I ended up purchasing a plastic shoe holder for them to put their phones in until the end of class just so I can have their full attention. Unfortunately, my administration is openly pushing Google products and, like many districts, is giving each child their own chrome book. I guess kids will have more time to enjoy their social media and games since Google translate, copy & paste will be acceptable work.

Sorry for the rant. It just seems like nobody wants to look around and enjoy/appreciate where they are anymore (like at WDW) and nobody wants to learn anymore. At least they'll get good Instagram pics at WDW and they'll get good grades - there just won't be any magical memories or learning to back it all up.

I use my phone camera a lot when I am on holiday, not because I don't want to enjoy it but because I can continue to enjoy it when I am home. Technology isn't a bad thing - I have a lot of photos on my phone that mean an awful lot to me that hold memories. If it's what people want to do and how they want to spend their holiday then leave them too it I guess, it has no impact on your holiday (unless said idiot is taking a video/photo on the ride with the flash on and their arms above their heads).

 

[Mousey21]

DLP is the worst for terrible guest behaviour, people climb on the grass and things during the fireworks. Issue is that no one tells them off for doing it. They are also notorious for queue jumping. We were queuing for the Meet Mickey in the theatre, there was a large American family in front of us. An eldery couple came in and slowly started making their way through the guests queuing until they reached behind me. I blocked the queue so they couldn't try to squeeze past and they were looking at me like I had just committed murder. I could hear the family in front saying something about it and the mum was about ready to let rip.

Paris is really bad for people being rude, it’s actually one of the things I remembered most from when I went 15 years ago which made me worry about going again in 2016, (anxiety etc. I know it’s irrational) it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting it to be, but it was bad, the queuing system has improved a lot, I remember seeing people get to the centre of ropes and then just walk directly towards the front going under ropes, if that makes sense?

As for WDW we were there 3 weeks ago and I shook my head confused at peoples behaviour more times than I can remember, one memorable moment was when we were waiting for the parade and a big family with a pushchair we’re behind us, the smallest child in the pushchair, looked about 5, he’d taken the tray off it and was swinging it around, hitting myself and my husband and the parents did nothing, shoved the pram into us, then tried shoving their children in the tiniest gap to get in front of us. Manners cost nothing.
The amount of children and adults i saw swinging on ropes and bars, made me feel ill waiting for them to go too far and fall on their heads.

 

[atjimfromdisney]

DLP is the worst for terrible guest behaviour, people climb on the grass and things during the fireworks. Issue is that no one tells them off for doing it. They are also notorious for queue jumping. We were queuing for the Meet Mickey in the theatre, there was a large American family in front of us. An eldery couple came in and slowly started making their way through the guests queuing until they reached behind me. I blocked the queue so they couldn't try to squeeze past and they were looking at me like I had just committed murder. I could hear the family in front saying something about it and the mum was about ready to let rip.

I think the worst thing I've been experiencing since going to DLP lately is the queue situation. Many people like to slide past you in line, it's very common to see the old "the other part of our family is just right up there".

For parades a lot of people will try and just move right in front of you into your spot, even had someone ask me to move out of the way so they could see..

But for the most part I think DLP just has it's "quirks", I'm guessing most of it is cultural differences? (I'd like to hope so)

 

[THE Monorail Lime]

Two days ago at MK I saw a girl who appeared to be about seven walking on the railings in line for Splash Mountain while her father held the tips of her fingers. Not her whole hand; just her finger tips. That girl was lucky if she didn't fall of and crack her head open, and the father was a moron.

People stand on trash cans....

 

[margybear]

When I was training on the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, about 10 minutes before we were supposed to close, I witnessed a woman drop her phone on the track, and climb over the honey pot vehicle to get onto the live track to get it. All of the CMs shouted at her to tell her to stop and she just looked so bewildered and offended that everyone was shouting! (iPhones are people too, apparently...)

 

[danyoung56]

This is why I'm usually super nice to CMs. They deal with such carp on a regular basis.

It's a shame that they have to work with fish like that . . .

 

[DisAl]

Totally agree. The number of times pedestrians just walk out into the road at a crossing and nearly get run over. It usually seems to be the younger generation who feel it is a drivers responsibility not to hit somebody not the pedestrian.

Older people mostly stop and look before crossing, probably due to warnings that used to be on television years ago.

One other factor.... Us older people are less likely to be totally oblivious to our surroundings because we are enslaved to our electronic device doing some sort of social media.

 

[AndyS2992]

DLP is the worst for terrible guest behaviour, people climb on the grass and things during the fireworks. Issue is that no one tells them off for doing it. They are also notorious for queue jumping. We were queuing for the Meet Mickey in the theatre, there was a large American family in front of us. An eldery couple came in and slowly started making their way through the guests queuing until they reached behind me. I blocked the queue so they couldn't try to squeeze past and they were looking at me like I had just committed murder. I could hear the family in front saying something about it and the mum was about ready to let rip.

Exact same thing happened to us at meet Mickey and when we blocked the queue jumpers path they always get aggressive so not worth it really, to top it off the Mcikey we got was awful so we’ve vowed never to do that again lol

I think the worst thing I've been experiencing since going to DLP lately is the queue situation. Many people like to slide past you in line, it's very common to see the old "the other part of our family is just right up there".

For parades a lot of people will try and just move right in front of you into your spot, even had someone ask me to move out of the way so they could see..

But for the most part I think DLP just has it's "quirks", I'm guessing most of it is cultural differences? (I'd like to hope so)

Again, this happens often, we’d been in place right up against the railings in the hub to watch the fireworks for almost an hour and right before the show started, a family decided they were going to try and push in front of us, when they realised this wasn’t going to happen they stood right up against our backs trying to make us uncomfortable enough that we’d move, but no, I don’t give in easily to such people.

 

[Goofyernmost]

One other factor.... Us older people are less likely to be totally oblivious to our surroundings because we are enslaved to our electronic device doing some sort of social media.

We also are far more conscience of our mortality and don't want to rush it.

 

[AndyS2992]

Paris again, never see this in the US ever.

Or this

 

[Raineman]

A couple of years ago, I witnessed some line jumping that almost turned into a fistfight. We were waiting to board the Pop bus at MK, and the line was pretty much completely full, through the switchbacks. Somebody that was behind us starting unhooking the chains that form the end of each switchback, and basically walked right through to the front part of the line. A bunch of people started doing the same thing, and then a couple of people, obviously tired and fed up, spoke up about it, and a shouting match ensued, with a couple of the line jumpers moving towards the people that spoke up, with much spicy language being exchanged. Eventually cooler heads prevailed, but you have to wonder how the line jumpers didn't think that some of us at the end might be a little upset with their little stunt.

 

[ppet]

It’s like when people drag their scared children on Haunted Masion, you’re just setting your self up for failure and it ruins the experience for everyone.

I've raised two very different children, one was trying to stuff extra socks in his shoes to be tall enough to ride roller coasters by age 5. My DD on the other hand was afraid of every ride until I could get her on them. Once she rode a coaster or other ride she found that she loved them. Today amusement parks are one of her top choices for things to do and at 25 we still have a daddy daughter roller coaster day every year. This wouldn't be the case if I hadn't bribed, cajoled, or tricked her into riding when she was young.
AS for stupid, I was on SSE with my family when the ride stopped. We were in the area with the Greek statues. It wasn't very long before this guy in his 20's jumped out of the ride vehicle and runs over to get his selfie with the statue. We then continue to set there until a cast member walks in and asks if anyone has been out of there seats. the next three cars all point at the guy and he is mat at the end of the ride by security and escorted out. Hope that selfie was wroth the price of his ticket.

 

[LMSB]

After Festival of the Lion King, Grandma (in a visor, no less) tells Little Billy that they don’t need to wait to exit like everyone else. So, Grandma decides to climb up and jump from bench to bench before wiping out on the third leap. Thankfully, Little Billy stayed in line and let Grandma do her thing.

THIS I would have loved to see

 

[StarWarsGirl]

It's a shame that they have to work with fish like that . . .

Haha, those of us in chit chat started using that word because the sensors block it if you flip two letters around.

 

[Jedi Stitch]

Just got back from Disneyland. Not to sure if its dumb or ingenuous. Ourselves and another family got totally drenched on Splash Mountain. The other families dad sat in the men's room under the hungry bear and used the Dyson Blade hand dryers to dry off every ones clothing. Even the kids underroos. As for ourselves we bought an expensive replacement wardrobe, as we had ADRs to the Blue Bayou. So, our dumb thing was ride splash mountain just before our ADR.

 

[Disney4family]

A couple of years ago, I witnessed some line jumping that almost turned into a fistfight. We were waiting to board the Pop bus at MK, and the line was pretty much completely full, through the switchbacks. Somebody that was behind us starting unhooking the chains that form the end of each switchback, and basically walked right through to the front part of the line. A bunch of people started doing the same thing, and then a couple of people, obviously tired and fed up, spoke up about it, and a shouting match ensued, with a couple of the line jumpers moving towards the people that spoke up, with much spicy language being exchanged. Eventually cooler heads prevailed, but you have to wonder how the line jumpers didn't think that some of us at the end might be a little upset with their little stunt.

I saw this a few weeks ago for the PeopleMover. A woman joined the line behind us. Every so often I saw her unhook a chain and someone joined her. This happened a couple of times until she had 20 people with her. As soon as she was going to go through the turnstile, the CM had her (and her entourage) move aside. They weren't allowed on.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Haha, those of us in chit chat started using that word because the sensors block it if you flip two letters around.

That is why it started, but, the actual word, crap, is now allowed. Hello 21st Century.