Simple little thing that drives you crazy and probably shouldn't.

[Disneydreamer23]

Definitely the crowds...it SHOULDN'T. I mean...it's Disneyworld...what do you expect? But they really do. I feel very anxious around large crowds and get very....irritable very quickly.

And especially when people "place save" in a line. So 1 person waits while other people do something else and then their 10-15 family members come and get in front of you.

So....it's the other people who really annoy me, but shouldn't.

i hate when people do that too

 

[rob0519]

Yes, look the other way and say nothing.......

I agree. I see this policy enforced to the max on each trip. I'm sure those cast members get excellent performance reviews for their diligence. Seriously,considering the age of the average college program cast member, I'm not sure if we can expect them to stand up to a groups of already obnoxious line jumpers.

 

[MrsWhiffo]

Children in general.

 

[rob0519]

Believe it or not, that is a cultural thing. Some asian countries you DO NOT clear the table yourself, they have people to do that. It doesn't matter if its McDonalds or any other fast food type of place, you're supposed to let the person hired to clean the table, clean the table.

Yes, I got some dirty or strange looks sometimes when I'd forget this.

Of course, when they're in the U.S., do as we do, but just thought I'd mention it.

Thanks for pointing this out. Never having traveled to any Asian countries, I was not aware of that. Sort of like many countries that do not tip waitstaff. With a global destination like WDW it is important to keep cultural sensitivities in mind. I will amend my statement to "when obviously American guests do not clear their table".

 

[Dad 2 M & M]

Agree - I am in a family of 4 - have I sent 2 ahead to bring one to the bathroom - not always but sometimes but it has to be emergency. I hate when huge groups do that - it should not be allowed. Being 2 people away from Peter Pan is doable - having it change to 15 is horrible.

Mine is more about me ( I guess that is the point of this thread!), but it drives me crazy at park closing to wait on the bus! And getting in that bus line that appears to be short, only to see it grow and grow and grow when the rest of the party (not already in line) shows up!!

It's me, can't seem to condition myself for the wait for the bus at closing!!

 

[Bob]

1. Butt-draggers who walk slowly in the middle of the walkways (just like the highways, stick to the right side of the "road" if you're gonna Sunday drive).
2. Parents who stick older children into strollers (come on TDO, let's figure out a way how to cut down on how many strollers clog up the parks).
3. People who are clearly able-bodied riding around the park on a scooter (OK, I'll admit it, all of the scooters drive me up the wall).
4. People with hygiene problems (have some consideration for the thousands of other people that you're gonna be crammed next to all day long).
5. The horrendous inefficiency of the bus system (TDO can supposedly spend millions trying to cut down 1 second from ride load times but they can't figure out how to get a bus to show up every 5 minutes at the end of the evening when the mass of humanity is trying to get back to the resorts?).

 

[englanddg]

Stroller Parades.

What's a Stroller Parade? It my term for a group with 2 or more strollers (not to mention the two kid strollers) who insist on walking side by side choking up the walkway and most of the time the stroller operators are chatting away with each other oblivious to their surroundings.

 

[MissMorrow]

I don't notice this so much anymore, but I can't stand people who bring overstuffed backpacks to the parks. I've been slammed into by these things too many times, both as a kind and an adult. You stand next to them, they turn, and bam. I realize they don't mean to do this, but it's still annoying.

People who text/tweet/update facebook on rides. Depending on the ride, the glow from the phone can be rather distracting. Plus can't you wait until you get off the ride? Really, is it that important?

And people who continue their phone conversations in the bathroom. I've seen this elsewhere, but most frequently at Disney. I just don't understand this at all. Unless you're in some kind of extreme hurry, can't you finish talking outside and then go to the bathroom? Or call them back after?

And my biggest Disney pet peeve, people who exit the CoP early forcing you to watch the entire scene again!! Not that it's a terrible thing to have to watch it again, I love the ride, but it almost always starts a chain reaction. One group leaves, then another, until the cast members have to practically scream at you not the leave the theater.

 

[FettFan]

I get claustrophobic in Adventureland around parade time. I don't like the idea of being stuck there while the parade moves through.

I actually had a panic attack once over it. Which is silly because the parades aren't THAT long....but I swear I went through pirates one night and came out to SpectroMagic rolling....and just the fact that I couldnt go anywhere until the parade passed....I was hyperventilating. Had to sit down.

 

[captainkidd]

This drives me crazy. From Facebook:
Walt Disney World Updates
The "happiest place on earth" just so happens to be one of the most popular, too...

 

[jmorri26]

After reading through these, the big ones I agree with:

-Smoking in lines. There's kids everywhere and you KNOW you can't do it, so don't give me funny looks when I stare disapprovingly of you tapping cigarette ash all over 5 year olds in line for Peter Pan!

-The ECVs, wheelchairs and strollers. I say this, but when we go soon our group will have both (for an infant and my mom with a broken hip, so my thoughts may change after this or get worse!)

-The pushy parents who want everything for *their* kid, nevermind if they run over yours in the process. Definitely had many stories similar to others on here. My favorite is the moms during the parades who do the "Excuse me, excuse me were trying to get to someone" thing to everyone all sugary sweet like they're trying to get to the rest of their family and happily plop down front and center for a parade after squeezing past everyone.


My worst moment was in Disneyland a few years ago. The tram ride from parking to the gates, it had been raining and the end seats were wet. Tram was almost full and a CM told us to get in next to a large (size of group AND girth of group) family. They filled the row in front of us and their mom was in the row we were told to get in. I smiled and asked her if she could scoot down. (sucked to get wet, but everyone else in other rows had to do the same) She flat out said no, it's wet. I told her the CM said to get in and she needed to scoot. She said "not my problem" her family all laughed. My mom called over the CM who apologized about the water and asked her to move down. She wouldn't budge. I gave up and forced my way OVER her to the end of the row, sat right in the puddle, my mom did the same leaving my husband and dad on her other side. We spent the 5-10 minute ride with her whole family turned around facing us, cursing at us and yelling at us to "go to hell" for trying to make their sweet mother (sweet mothers don't say what this lady started spitting out at us when the tram was moving!) get soaked. I'm on the end, in a puddle, wet, getting yelled at by this psycho because SHE wouldn't move. When we unloaded, her family threatened us, collectively gave us the finger and thumped off. What a magical start to our day

 

[6laurac]

Strollers that stop in the pathway and smokers!!!

Maybe there should be a stroller line through the main section of the park? If I take mine next time, it will only be used under extreme cranky conditions...

 

[Spikerdink]

At one point one of the men with the woman on the motorized scooter put his hand in front of my camera lens.

I spent a lot of money on my camera and I pride myself on taking quality photos. If someone reached up and deliberately touched my camera or tried to interfere with my photography I would have warned them that was about the last thing they were ever going to do with that arm.

As for the scooters, they are a menace. The problem is they need a clear path to travel and people do not always walk in a straight line. That causes the scooter to start and stop or veer into other people. A few years ago I was run into by a mid 60's ish woman. She ran that thing right into the back of my foot and I was wearing flip flops. Being from NY, the first thing out of my mouth went something like, "F%$&ing Son of a B&*%$ what the F*(^ is your problem?" Her son - who was about my age and a good foot shorter - wanted to start something with me. I looked at him and said that if he wanted to touch me in any way, I would make sure he spent the night in jail after he was removed from the park.

So, yea, I would say scooters are my main gripe.....

 

[Goofyernmost]

As for the scooters, they are a menace. The problem is they need a clear path to travel and people do not always walk in a straight line. That causes the scooter to start and stop or veer into other people. A few years ago I was run into by a mid 60's ish woman. She ran that thing right into the back of my foot and I was wearing flip flops. Being from NY, the first thing out of my mouth went something like, "F%$&ing Son of a B&*%$ what the F*(^ is your problem?" Her son - who was about my age and a good foot shorter - wanted to start something with me. I looked at him and said that if he wanted to touch me in any way, I would make sure he spent the night in jail after he was removed from the park.

So, yea, I would say scooters are my main gripe.....

You basically just explained away (bold) about 99.9 % of the people vs scooter problem. Scooters are, for the most part, not the problem. It is the oblivious people that aren't paying any attention to anything around them. The very thing that most people complain about when it comes to people stopping in the middle of the walkway. I have been going to Disney Parks regularly since 1983 and I have never been run into by a scooter or a stroller. I think that is because I am aware of my surroundings.

At the same time I know that is why people stop in walkways. Everything that is in the parks is there to see. Why wouldn't you see something, be surprised and stop to look at it. It's a natural thing to do and I will bet that if we are honest with ourselves we would have to admit that we all have done it as some time or the other. Either to see something new or to get our bearings before proceeding on. The solution to that problem is relatively simple. Don't follow so close that one doesn't have time to step to the side and walk easily around them. Hardly a crime worthy of capital punishment.

Same with walking in front of rolling objects. Unless we are completely aware of our position and are concentrating on it...any of us can accidentally walk in front of a moving scooter. Most of the people that need to use them have some degree of lessened range of movement or other infirmity that may or may not increase their reaction time. The solution is that these people should stay home or have a family member drag them behind themselves in the parks, I guess.

 

[rob0519]

You basically just explained away (bold) about 99.9 % of the people vs scooter problem. Scooters are, for the most part, not the problem. It is the oblivious people that aren't paying any attention to anything around them. The very thing that most people complain about when it comes to people stopping in the middle of the walkway. I have been going to Disney Parks regularly since 1983 and I have never been run into by a scooter or a stroller. I think that is because I am aware of my surroundings.

At the same time I know that is why people stop in walkways. Everything that is in the parks is there to see. Why wouldn't you see something, be surprised and stop to look at it. It's a natural thing to do and I will bet that if we are honest with ourselves we would have to admit that we all have done it as some time or the other. Either to see something new or to get our bearings before proceeding on. The solution to that problem is relatively simple. Don't follow so close that one doesn't have time to step to the side and walk easily around them. Hardly a crime worthy of capital punishment.

Same with walking in front of rolling objects. Unless we are completely aware of our position and are concentrating on it...any of us can accidentally walk in front of a moving scooter. Most of the people that need to use them have some degree of lessened range of movement or other infirmity that may or may not increase their reaction time. The solution is that these people should stay home or have a family member drag them behind themselves in the parks, I guess.

I'm pretty sure this isn't practical, but maybe stroller/scooter lanes could be painted on the streets and one lane on each sidewalk and both would have to stay inside the lanes leaving part of the rest of the street and sidewalk to pedestrians. That way they could only run over each other and their own families. Of course there would need to be ramps built in front of every store for them to get in and out, but all in all, I think it would be some help.

Now before everyone jumps on me for this, our son is disabled and needs to be in a wheelchair while in the parks and I try to be careful when pushing him, but these lanes would apply to us as well, so I'm not just picking on the stroller and scooter and wheelchair population without knowing what they go through.

 

[jonnyc]

I had an in-depth discussion with my sister on our last trip about how Disney should form a plain clothed queue police task-force. Their job would be to find and punish patrons exhibiting poor queuing etiquette and reward those doing the right thing.

Examples from my last visit:

BAD: The queue for POTC had backed up into the outside area. This one man storms past about 15 people, and then waves the rest of his family through.

BAD: One person getting into the Everest queue whilst the rest got Fastpasses. Please have your entire party together before you enter the line!!! To be fair to the EE staff I have seen them stop people trying to skip the queue to get to their party underneath the standby sign.

GOOD: Somehow my family had ended up in the middle of a large group of about 20 people. One of the parents in that group invited us to go ahead of them so they could reunite there party.

I would reward examples like the latter with maybe a Fastpass for another attraction, and then institute a three strikes policy for the former. Strike 1- Back of the line, Strike 2- Kicked out the park, Strike 3- Ban from all Disney affiliated parks. Maybe that is a bit harsh but would solve a lot of problems!

 

[plaz10]

-The pushy parents who want everything for *their* kid, nevermind if they run over yours in the process. Definitely had many stories similar to others on here. My favorite is the moms during the parades who do the "Excuse me, excuse me were trying to get to someone" thing to everyone all sugary sweet like they're trying to get to the rest of their family and happily plop down front and center for a parade after squeezing past everyone.

Yes what is it with the self entitlement in Disney? And the worst part is - the squeaky wheel gets the grease. If a bunch of people are standing in line for a M&G and the CM cuts off the line and the mother goes apesh*t about her kid being in Disney for the first time - the CM will say OK just a quick photo or OK let me find you a parade spot or OK i'm sorry here let me reward you for NOT waiting your turn.

I'm sure it's very difficult for CMs to deal with these outrageous people on a daily basis and I'm sure they've heard every sob story in the book. But it really es me off that they will get special treatment because the b*tch and complain about something - when because I planned and prepared for this trip and knew to get in line early or wait to let some people into my row so I don't have to sit on the end - that I get nothing (why should I for following the rules?) vs someone who doesn't and gets rewarded.

phew. I'm having a frustrating work day and I just just reminded how angry other guests make me. Lol.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Yes what is it with the self entitlement in Disney? And the worst part is - the squeaky wheel gets the grease. If a bunch of people are standing in line for a M&G and the CM cuts off the line and the mother goes apesh*t about her kid being in Disney for the first time - the CM will say OK just a quick photo or OK let me find you a parade spot or OK i'm sorry here let me reward you for NOT waiting your turn.

I'm sure it's very difficult for CMs to deal with these outrageous people on a daily basis and I'm sure they've heard every sob story in the book. But it really es me off that they will get special treatment because the b*tch and complain about something - when because I planned and prepared for this trip and knew to get in line early or wait to let some people into my row so I don't have to sit on the end - that I get nothing (why should I for following the rules?) vs someone who doesn't and gets rewarded.

phew. I'm having a frustrating work day and I just just reminded how angry other guests make me. Lol.

That last paragraph has some tremendous points and it shows clearly the difficult job that CM's have to create a balance in order to keep people happy. Such is the life of the people that must struggle between public relation and entitled people.

 

[WDW!]

They still haven't updated C of P !!

 

[woody98]

Only going once or twice a year.....i hate that