So, I had a little situation at the Magic Kingdom tonight.....but more on that in a bit.
It really bugs me that guests feel since they paid for their park ticket, they have the freedom to do as they choose. I am in the parks a lot, and I am seeing it more and more.
Even at the basketbrawl game in Detroit, the guest the through the cup at the player (or the rude fans that sit behind the visitors bench and scream at them the whole game)....what gives them that right?
In 1995, I would at Cedar Point on a river rapids ride similar to Kali. The ride had seatbelts for a restraint, and guest would take them off all of the time and run around in the raft to avoid the water.....why do they think this is ok?
So, on to my situation.
Anyone who knows me personally, knows that I am not a "warm and fuzzy" person, but at the same time I am very polite, respectfull, and sincere.......although I may not always emit the feeling, I am a fairly nice person.
Tonight I was at the Magic Kingdom, and went onto Mickey Philharmagic. Now, just like any other attraction of the same style, the CMs or a recording always states "Move all the way down to the end of the row, do not stop in the middle, fill in all available seats."
So, I pick my row, and I move all the way down, when what do I see, a very large woman and her husband seated right in the middle, with about 12 seats to their right.
I was going to stop next to them, but as many people were still coming into the theater, I did not want to be part of the problem, so I attempted to go around them.....and I stepped on the ladies foot.
Well, you would have thought that I had killed her first born the way she reacted.
Now, typically, I am first to apologize whenever I accidentally bump into someone......but not this time.....I did not even feel bad......I was not the problem, she was.
To take the situation back to its root, if she had moved all of the way down, this could have never occured, but it did occur, and it was her fault.
As I am sitting their, her husbands gets out of his seat and walks the 10 or so seats down towards me to say "I want you to know, you really hurt my wife, she has an ingrown toenail".
Now, if this was really my fault, I would have been somewhat empathetic and apologized.....but it wasn't....the only thing I could say was "You should have moved all of the way down, this would have never happened if you did".
The gentleman then went on to say "you need to be more careful"
Now....I was a bit ticked off, so I sarcastically responded with "Why.....it did it on purpose"
After the show, the gentleman caight up with me to confront me about "stepping on the foot on purpose", to which I responded "I guess sarcasm is lost on you"
After a few more verbal exchanges, the guest actually had the gall to say to me "Well, I am going to call security and report you"
FOR WHAT, FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS?
My only response "Be my guest....go ahead" :drevil:
It really bugs me that guests feel since they paid for their park ticket, they have the freedom to do as they choose. I am in the parks a lot, and I am seeing it more and more.
Even at the basketbrawl game in Detroit, the guest the through the cup at the player (or the rude fans that sit behind the visitors bench and scream at them the whole game)....what gives them that right?
In 1995, I would at Cedar Point on a river rapids ride similar to Kali. The ride had seatbelts for a restraint, and guest would take them off all of the time and run around in the raft to avoid the water.....why do they think this is ok?
So, on to my situation.
Anyone who knows me personally, knows that I am not a "warm and fuzzy" person, but at the same time I am very polite, respectfull, and sincere.......although I may not always emit the feeling, I am a fairly nice person.
Tonight I was at the Magic Kingdom, and went onto Mickey Philharmagic. Now, just like any other attraction of the same style, the CMs or a recording always states "Move all the way down to the end of the row, do not stop in the middle, fill in all available seats."
So, I pick my row, and I move all the way down, when what do I see, a very large woman and her husband seated right in the middle, with about 12 seats to their right.
I was going to stop next to them, but as many people were still coming into the theater, I did not want to be part of the problem, so I attempted to go around them.....and I stepped on the ladies foot.
Well, you would have thought that I had killed her first born the way she reacted.
Now, typically, I am first to apologize whenever I accidentally bump into someone......but not this time.....I did not even feel bad......I was not the problem, she was.
To take the situation back to its root, if she had moved all of the way down, this could have never occured, but it did occur, and it was her fault.
As I am sitting their, her husbands gets out of his seat and walks the 10 or so seats down towards me to say "I want you to know, you really hurt my wife, she has an ingrown toenail".
Now, if this was really my fault, I would have been somewhat empathetic and apologized.....but it wasn't....the only thing I could say was "You should have moved all of the way down, this would have never happened if you did".
The gentleman then went on to say "you need to be more careful"
Now....I was a bit ticked off, so I sarcastically responded with "Why.....it did it on purpose"
After the show, the gentleman caight up with me to confront me about "stepping on the foot on purpose", to which I responded "I guess sarcasm is lost on you"
After a few more verbal exchanges, the guest actually had the gall to say to me "Well, I am going to call security and report you"
FOR WHAT, FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS?
My only response "Be my guest....go ahead" :drevil:
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