Park Pet Peeves

[Eyorefan]

I don't have a problem with people taking thier babies and other young children to Disney. I took my DD when she was 3 months old. I do have a problem with people who just let their kids cry and scream and don't do anything about it.

Its annoying enough when you stand by them in a long line or on a ride, but on our last trip in Feburary I noticeed this going on a lot in nice sit down restruants. I'm sorry, I'm paying a lot of money to enjoy a meal and, I don't want to listen to your child cry for an hour. I have no doubt they are "just tired", but take them out of the restruant so the rest of us can eat in peace.

 

[WhatJaneSays]

When I starred thinking about my Disney pet peeves I realized I had a lot! Who knew I was such an easily annoyed person?

Really though, my big one is Tour Groups. Any professional tour group over 15 people should be banded. It's not really against the groups but in all the years I've been going to WDW I've never had a pleasant experience with one. We've had multiple cases of little ones thrown out of strollers that were run into, chanting that distracts from shows, general disruption, overall rudeness and most recently I ended up with what turned out to be a whole foot of fractured and broken toes because I was not about to let a 200+ string of people cut my family out of a ride again (thank God it was our last day because I couldn't walk after that). :brick:

Seriously, there have been times we were all geared up for one park, saw a big tour group in the entrance queues and we promptly headed to another park.

 

[tonya]

On the flipside of this peeve (even though that bothers me too) is people that don't acknowledge when you do something nice. (ie: hold a door, give up a bus seat etc...) Just walk past or look at you like they deserve nothing less than the treatment you've given them. Or the non-acknowledgement of saying excuse me if I am the offender. Maybe it's just me.

Amen brother.

 

[alilance]

I may get some slack for this one, but let me explain. Cheerleaders!!! (Well, some of their parents too!!) Last Dec. I went with my sick mom, dad, and sister to Disneyworld and there were many young cheerleading groups staying at our hotel! One night coming home on the bus, this is about 11pm, the cheerleaders and even some of their parents started cheeering and screaming very LOUDLY the entire 20min. bus ride! I'm sorry, but after a long day at the park the last thing my mom or I need to hear is loud yelling, cheering, chanting, etc.!!! They pulled the same thing the next morning in the food court at breakfast!! If I wanted to hear them cheer, I would go to their competition! I would of thought their parents would explain to them that there is the right time and place for them to do their "cheering," I guess the parents didn't understand that!!!! :brick::brick::brick::brick::brick:

 

[alilance]

Loud,obnoxious central and south american tour groups,and their a$$^@!# tour guides who stand in lines for them so everyone can try to cut the line after running over from the previous ride! Here is a chant for you .....GO AWAAAY AWAY AWAY AWAY.....AND DON"T COME BACK ANOTHER DAY!!!!

And to the some of the cheerleader groups. What is it gonna take to get you to realize we don't want to hear your cheers? Your here for the competition, do it at the competition. Here is my cheer to you, ...Give me a S....Give me a H.....Give me a U..... Give me a T.......Give me a U......Give me a P....what does that spell???...........SHUT UP!!!!!!!!! OHH yeah and to the cheerleader parents and chaperones of those groups ,when you come with them to these events your suppose to watch them 24/7,not sit at the hotels at the quiet pools and get drunk,while they run around unsupervised! Your the reasons for the bad rep for the ones who have manners and respect for themselves and others.

Oh my God! I just wrote the same thing before I read yours!! I have had to deal with both of which you explained above, but the cheerleaders my last trip really p*ssed me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got into a verbal fight with one mother of like 10 cheerleaders who drunkenly ran my mother over to get onto the bus, even though my mother was the first one waiting in line! Send the cheerleaders back to Universal Studios!!!!

 

[Honor]

Strollers and ECVs

I cannot tell you how many times I have been hit by people pushing strollers (walking foward while looking sideways). My shins frequently bear the scars. The double strollers are the worst. Parents: don't be using your stroller as a battering ram especially in the huge crowds after a parade or fireworks.

And ECV drivers should be required to pass a test first! Maybe because many ECV drivers have never used the vehicle before and have trouble controlling it. Just because you are in an ECV does not mean you get to run over everybody!

Stroller-pushers and ECV drivers = look where you are going. On the flip side, I have never had even a close call with a wheelchair. Much easier to control, I guess. There. I feel better.

P.S. Ditto about people stopping at the top or bottom of the escalator and not moving out of the way.

 

[sublimesting]

People who stop at the end of a moving escalator or other automated surface. The people behind them have no where to go other than to run into them.

Yep that happened to me yesterday in The Land pavilion. Lady in front of me stopped when we got to the top of the escalator and I ran into her butt. She didn't even seem to notice.

:lol:

I have zero problem YELLING "Move NOW!" at those times since it is so obvious you're being very dense and stoopid at that moment.

The other thing people do is if you're walking behind them they abruptly stop, pivot and walk right into you in like 1/2 a second. That really burns me up...it's like do you think you're the only person walking here.

 

[Austin1]

Pet peeves...

1. Rude guests
2. Dirty rude guests who don't throw their trash away
3. Guests who demand preferential treatment
4. Guests who won't stop smoking in a non smoking area even when they have been informed multiple times that they aren't allow to smoke there
5. Guests who yell and scream and cuss at you because you are doing your job
6. Guests who physically threaten you
7. Guests who try to sneak backstage
8. Guests who don't take their strollers back to where they rented them
9. Guests who ask you how many "Mickies" there are...there's only ONE MICKEY MOUSE!
10. Unmagical cast members who don't play their role well

Other than that I love WDW:ROFLOL:

 

[Yanks07]

I cannot tell you how many times I have been hit by people pushing strollers (walking foward while looking sideways). My shins frequently bear the scars. The double strollers are the worst. Parents: don't be using your stroller as a battering ram especially in the huge crowds after a parade or fireworks.

And ECV drivers should be required to pass a test first! Maybe because many ECV drivers have never used the vehicle before and have trouble controlling it. Just because you are in an ECV does not mean you get to run over everybody!

Stroller-pushers and ECV drivers = look where you are going. On the flip side, I have never had even a close call with a wheelchair. Much easier to control, I guess. There. I feel better.

P.S. Ditto about people stopping at the top or bottom of the escalator and not moving out of the way.

I saw a guy this past weekend pushing a wheelchair and raming into the rear of a young lady who crumpled to the ground in obvious pain while the pusher of the wheelchair just kept walking along never asking if she was OK or saying "I'm sorry" People need wheelchairs. Some manners would be nice too.

 

[MIDisneyFamily]

We push a stroller, and people who pass you, and jump right in front of you thinking you should just stop and let them by. Or people who come right at you three people across, think you should move out of thier way. or people who cross in front of you with a group, forgetting the rest of your party has to cross too.... Im not stopping my stroller for you, Im running you down. Stollers have rights too.....We expect pedestrians to be as watchfull as we are. You dont cut off a truck in traffic, why would you cut in front of a stroller? i can see the whole shin thing at the park close though..

 

[Yanks07]

8. Guests who don't take their strollers back to where they rented them


Other than that I love WDW:ROFLOL:

I'll put wheelchairs in the same category as strollers. Walking back to Boardwalk from the Studios Sunday, along the walkway, someone got tired of pushing or wheeling themselves and just left a wheelchair on the walkway at the 1/2 way point.

 

[hrcollectibles]

Oh please...there's always a pay phone. What do think people did 10 years ago?!

But how many people now carry cash let alone coins?

 

[hrcollectibles]

I know its not park related.. but guests using non resort refillable mugs at the resort filling station. I returned from My weekend at the Pop Century and saw several people using cups to get drinks.. I also witnessed people using older resort mugs. Aren't the refillable only usable during your stay in which you purchased it?

 

[Monty]

I know its not park related.. but guests using non resort refillable mugs at the resort filling station. I returned from My weekend at the Pop Century and saw several people using cups to get drinks.. I also witnessed people using older resort mugs. Aren't the refillable only usable during your stay in which you purchased it?

Yes, but CMs don't police it and lots of people seem to know that. :shrug:

I don't because A) bringing a mug from a previous trip takes up scarce room in luggage and B) it's too cheap to just get another to consider being dishonest... But the whole resort mug re-use argument could fill a thread or a dozen itself [and has].

 

[Disney4Eva]

What bugs me is when first-timers let their ignorance ruin their trip. A good example would be when I was waiting in line for the Great Movie Ride. I heard many people who apparently thought the room with the movie screen during the queue WAS the attraction, and left :brick:
I've also heard stories of first-timers visiting MK who didn't know where anything was, did one or two small things that they could find, and left, claiming the park was too boring. People are totally missing out on awesome stuff and wrongfully getting a bad impression of what Disney is! Do a little research and pay attention to the maps, people!

 

[reptar77]

Park pet peeve:
1) The amount of dust on the rides, I know that the amount of people that go through the rides in astronomical but there is a thick layer of dust everywhere.
2) Lack of theming or poor theming in some areas.

3) Rude guests

 

[JDM]

For those who don't think babies should be at WDW because "they won't remember" - Think about what you are saying!! Do we leave our babies to sit all day and stare at the walls until they are old enough to remember us playing with them, taking them to the park, etc. Of course they won't remember any of this, but this is how they learn about the world...if you waited to do anything with your children until they could remember, they would become useless vegetables. As long as no one is asking you to watch their child at WDW, what business is it of yours? P.S. - My children are all teenagers now, but have been happily coming to WDW since they were infants...and we have some fantastic family memories and pictures!!

An old argument, but a weak one.

No one argues that the visual stimulation is interesting for a baby. But your baby can be just as visually stimulated by a $2 stuffed animal in your living room without the huge expense of going to WDW. If you have older kids and also have to take the baby, then by all means do so. Or if you feel the need to go yourself and need to take the baby, then do so. Just don't pretend that it's somehow beneficial for your baby' development.

Carrying an infant around Disney is--I'm sorry to say--like carrying a crying, leaking, hungry backpack. Actually, if people used those backpack carrier things instead of those horrible strollers, I think everyone would be better off.

And in answer to your question, it becomes my business when your stroller hits me in the leg or your child screams bloody murder in my ear when he or she quite obviously needs to be somewhere else for a nap. And your teenagers may have memories and pictures, but none from their infancy. Sorry, not possible.

(And yes, I have kids...I'm admittedly grumpy today)

Also, I forgot I hate heeleys, too.

 

[lilclerk]

7) Parents who waste everyones time by taking the kid on a ride they know they are too short for and then arguing with the CM hoping that will change things.

This really bugs me. Not so much the fact that it takes so much time, but the fact that people are so willing to put their kid in danger just to go on a ride.
Wait til the next trip, everyone will be happier.

 

[MouseMadness]

An old argument, but a weak one.

No one argues that the visual stimulation is interesting for a baby. But your baby can be just as visually stimulated by a $2 stuffed animal in your living room without the huge expense of going to WDW. If you have older kids and also have to take the baby, then by all means do so. Or if you feel the need to go yourself and need to take the baby, then do so. Just don't pretend that it's somehow beneficial for your baby' development.

Carrying an infant around Disney is--I'm sorry to say--like carrying a crying, leaking, hungry backpack. Actually, if people used those backpack carrier things instead of those horrible strollers, I think everyone would be better off.

And in answer to your question, it becomes my business when your stroller hits me in the leg or your child screams bloody murder in my ear when he or she quite obviously needs to be somewhere else for a nap. And your teenagers may have memories and pictures, but none from their infancy. Sorry, not possible.

(And yes, I have kids...I'm admittedly grumpy today)

Also, I forgot I hate heeleys, too.

Let's see, infant or teenager at WDW... yeah, gimme the screaming p e e machine, please :ROFLOL:

:lookaroun

I get that people don't like it, but don't expect me to care! :lol: However, I've never been one to sit around while my kid screams, and I'm not a kamikazi stroller driver :shrug: So I'll take whoever I want to WDW is I guess my point :lol: :lookaroun

 

[goofntink]

Oh my God! I just wrote the same thing before I read yours!! I have had to deal with both of which you explained above, but the cheerleaders my last trip really p*ssed me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got into a verbal fight with one mother of like 10 cheerleaders who drunkenly ran my mother over to get onto the bus, even though my mother was the first one waiting in line! Send the cheerleaders back to Universal Studios!!!!

Hoorah! A comrad in arms!! To touch on the parent thing in my post,and give you a chuckle.We had family in town and they were unfortunately stuck at the values with the cheerleaders. We went to the quiet pool with them as the main pool was full of the unsupervised pains in the a$$ trying to see who could cheer the loudest, pushing each other into the pool,or pushing and shoving in the pool.While at the quiet pool we commented to each other about how loud they were,to which one the 8 other adults next to us laugh and say,"Yeah that's why the 8 of us are here ,and our squad of girls are there!! HAHAHAHAH!!! To which we replied" Yeah and now we see why they are such a$$^*!#&,they are just like you.To which they cussed us out,grabbed there stuff and stormed off,as we laughed at them.