Things are getting more and more horrible when it comes to recording during fireworks had a two teenagers in front of me start recording HEA (vertically, so not even passibly) and slowly but surely their phones got higher and higher until they had fully extended their arms completely blocking my view. A quick loud polite demand from myself ended that nonsense. Why is it that no one thinks about their actions? The only view you should block with your phone is your own!
That was not however the worst faux pas tonight, there was a 40ish (I think, hard to tell due to cosmetic surgery) standing on the concrete ring surrounding parters the entire show with her back to the show phone out with the front screen on white illuminating her face so the entire hub could see her making pathetic attempts to imitate Derek Zoolander’s Blue Steel the entire show. What is wrong with some people? I know everyone is supposed to be a kid at the MK but do you really need to relive being a teenager?
Personally, I have some sympathy for small children. I distinctly recall how frustrating it was to go to WDW as a small child. I recall how hard it was to stand through the 360 theater show and the fireworks. Many adults do not see small children at all. I mean even after they crash right into a small child, they are still oblivious.
Adults would often block my view, and I had no voice.
As an adult, I've seen grown adults, walk RIGHT into a parked stroller, hit/fall on the child, and not even bother to apologize. They don't even have the decency to check on the child's welfare.
I was at the Hub on NYE, and the situation got very scary for a few minutes. First off the music that night was just horrible. It was not Disney music. It was a full hour of a very repetitive house beat. (I think longer, but I was only there for an hour.) The DJ's kept trying to order the crowd to dance, but there was no room for anyone to dance. The people all around us became increasingly annoyed and irritated. I kid you not, three times the DJ's told the crowd to do the Macarena, and it fell very flat all 3 times.
As midnight drew closer though, more people arrived. When we arrived, we were on the periphery, but at 11:30pm so many more people had arrived, that we were stuck in place. There were no CM's in sight, and no safety corridors. WDW normally has CM's maintain safety corridors in the hub area (red flashlights).
A group of about 10 people arrived around 11:30 and attempted to charge/ram their way into the middle of the crowd. They held hands and just charged into other people. Naturally, that angered everyone else. All around us, people were shouting. For a few very scary moments the crowd surged, and people shoved each other in all directions. Luckily, the battering-ram family stopped what they were doing, and people gave them a little space to stay where they were.
Still, people around us were cursing. the Dj's were oblivious, and the thumping beat continued nonstop until just before midnight.
At least 10% of the families in our immediate area had relatively young children.
