Originally Posted By alexbook You're in a shop. There are low tables with products for sale neatly displayed. There are no chairs. Do you sit on the merchandise on the tables?
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Noooooo! And I don't like it when someone comes into my work cubie and sits on my modular surface/desk. Bends everything and makes the drawers open by themselves. So... Noooooo. I never sit on the merchandise or merchandise tables.
Originally Posted By TwoStepp Here's my *very* recent obnoxious guest story: 10/20 We were waiting to see Jedi...apparently the first couple of shows were cancelled that day, so the crowd was even bigger than usual. "Parents" were the absolute *worst* I have ever seen! ("Pick MY child! PICK MY CHILD!"...ugh!) One particularly obnoxious "Parent" arrived 2 min before the show was supposed to start, and shoved his ~10ish year old son to the front. Son looks at him (with the knowing look of a child in elementary school) "I'm not supposed to cut!" So-called "parent" pushes him in again, and says, "You have MY permission to get right in front of EVERYBODY!" I had to pick my jaw up off the floor! What kind of "parent" does that? And what is his kid gonna end up like?! :O
Originally Posted By thmar I'm not sure if you'd call this obnoxious guest...more like "thinks he knows everything but hasn't a clue guest". I overheard a dad telling his family which included wife, small kids, and teenagers (they had obviously been to WDW many times, and this was their 1st visit to DL) that Walt Disney built Disneyland because people on the West Coast wanted to have a park like WDW so he built DL, but the cost of land was so expensive here that he could only make it this big....WHAT??????????
Originally Posted By nk28 thanks wonderingalice...here's to hoping I don't turn into one of those alien beings! hehe
Originally Posted By Pixiedust345 Oh my goodness thmar!!! I think I would have corrected him, that would have killed me. I'm kind of sensitive to those "think they know everything" guests in general. Once, while waiting in the New Orleans Square Train Station, someone pointed out the sound of the telegraph. My dad asked in a rhetorical sense(and I can't remember who this question was posed to) if someone knew what that clicking was. Obviously, the guest near us was either a know-it-all or didn't pick up on my dad's tone and responded, "It's Morse Code." My dad just motioned at me, and I said as though I were a tour guide, "It's a telegraph of the opening to Walt Disney's dedication speech, which he originally delivered on the opening day of Disneyland in 1955...in Morse Code." It was a satisfying way to educate a guest, who was interested in the fact, not insulted. Going back a bid to Tinkerbell819, I attend Disneyland primarily with my brother, who has autism. We always share stories of our visits with family members, but the few who have been able to come along are moved by the experience of being with my brother when he is in his element in the park. Hearing your experience made me so sad, and I am glad your family continued to enjoy Disneyland. I know that if this had happened to my family, especially when I was younger, I would not have recovered.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal ^^^In truth, it's not actually morse code but land line telegraphy. But the only time I'd really "correct" anyone on that one is if they asked me directly. If I just overheard someone say that it was morse code I'd definitely let it go...
Originally Posted By carguy_16 My mom and I took my 11 year old cousin for her first time in March of this year, and it has been a while since i have done anything involved with the characters just because when we go we usally are all over or right at 18 so we wont to do the rides and other things. Anyways I couldnt believe how pushy parents can be to make sure there own kids get to see the characters. It dosent matter to some that there is a line or not they just walk right up and then look at you like they have done nothing wrong when you say something. I just can believe it. What is that showing to your kids?
Originally Posted By DisneyJen057 <<Noooooo! And I don't like it when someone comes into my work cubie and sits on my modular surface/desk. Bends everything and makes the drawers open by themselves.>> I just did this to someone today at work, but it didn't bend anything or open drawers. I don't sit on merchandise though!
Originally Posted By dltraveler I was on POTC in the first row and a large group of teenagers were in the rows behind us. Throughout the ride, they kept making fun of the ride and calling things lame...Generally ruining the mood of the ride. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and turned around. I look at a couple of them and said "You might be jaded, but please don't ruin it for the rest of us." To my shock, they actually looked mortified and nodded silently. There wasn't a peep out of any of them for the rest of the ride! I'm sure they made fun of us later, but hopefully they'll consider the people around them the next time they go on a ride.
Originally Posted By ImNotAllThereMyself Did it occur to you DLtraveler, that those teens might not have known the meaning of 'jaded'. I encounter this all the time in my work with teens as a tutor. You probably confused them into submission.. Kids now and days, are far less loquacious than we all seem to be. I just love that word...Loquacious. it's just fun to say, right up there with Mary Poppins favorite word... Love Cheshire Cat..
Originally Posted By dltraveler You could be right. Very funny if true. Whether it was by confusion or not, they stayed quiet, so I'll take it.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle That reminds me of something that happened about a month ago, not at Disneyland, but in the kids' section at Sea World (Australia) this group of teenagers got on the carousel which my sister and I had taken her little boys on. Every time they got out of the attendants' views they began shaking their horses and jumping from theirs to the next one, loudly making derisive comments about how "boring" the ride was. Finally my sister leaned forward and yelled to them "if you think you're so cool, stay out of the kids' section and don't ruin it for the little ones". She got the expected eye-rolling and "oh, I'm SO scared" but the second the ride stopped they absolutely bolted.
Originally Posted By Roger Rabbit I don't like when Guests say, "I paid a lot of money to come here" when they are complaining about something. It's uncalled for, as we know how much it costs to visit Disney Parks. Well, if you pay a lot of money to go anywhere, make the best of it, especially at Disney Parks. Get to the Parks early, pick up a map and show guide, and just go.
Originally Posted By tink2680 >>DH and I got a late start so, we only have two, but I feel a little sad for them at Holidays since we had so much fun as kids.<< Don't feel sad for them, I come from a family of two and we never had reason to be unhappy because we didn't have a lot of siblings. We had friends and we always had each other. I would say that we are actually very close because there was only two of us. I wouldn't have minded having more, but I was never unhappy that we didn't, that was just the way our family was. My mom wanted to have 7 kids but couldn't, but I don't feel cheated in any way, I think it worked out the way it was supposed to. >>Behavior continued and I waited till we got to the Ball exit and called the hotel and explained that my children were not feeling well, and changed ressies for 2 weeks later, we turned around at the offramp and went home.<< Rock on!! I wish that more parents followed through on threats of this nature. I teach preschool and threats without backing mean nothing. I see parents do it all the time, they keep telling their child that this will happen if they don't stop. Of course the child doesn't stop because nothing ever happens, or if something does happen it is not what the parent said, usually the parent snaps and screams and the child and makes them cry. That is totally unfair to the child. Children need to know what to expect and when they do they will act correctly. In the long run following through always makes life more enjoyable for you and the children. Also to those who have loads of kids I love that you take the time to teach them correct behaivior, we need more parents like you out there. And coming from a mormon I think that if you can't handly that many kids you shouldn't have them. There are a lot of people where I live who have kids just because they are expected to. I think that everyone should have kids because they want them, and that they should have only as many as they want, who cares what everybody else thinks. I plan on having 3 or 4, despite the fact that my mom wants me to have 7. I wish that I could remember a specific instance at DL but I really only remember the good times when I am there, I know I have been run over or witnessed bratty kids and their oblivious parents but I can't seem to remember any of it.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>I wish that I could remember a specific instance at DL but I really only remember the good times when I am there, I know I have been run over or witnessed bratty kids and their oblivious parents but I can't seem to remember any of it. << Me, too! That's the pixie dust at work.
Originally Posted By JazzSlick I went to Disneyland a little over a year ago, during Septmeber with my mom, my dad, and my two brothers, and two sisters. As it was all ours first time going, we decided to watch the Fantasmic show the first night. However, after we found our spot, there were a couple of... interesting families that happened by, one that was fairly rude, the other caught me by suprise. The first family was mostly made up of older members, except for a younger girl, probably about eleven or twelve. We had picked out our spot a good hour or so before Fantasmic, up on one of the bridges, and it was fairly decent. The family with the young girl came up behind us, and the older members could see the show fine, but the girl was too small to watch. So her mom shoved her into the middle of my family, and tried to get her right up to the front of our group. When my mom spoke to the girl's mother, the mother drew back her girl, and they all began to say all sorts of things about how we didn't care about this little girl and all that. However, if they would've cared to ask, I'm sure we could've helped them out. The other family was another older one, with the youngest being probably eighteen or so. They also stood right behind us, before the other family, but they soon gave up, saying that this was a waste of time for something so stupid, and that they'd 'Just get it on tape'.
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Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 I'm so glad you got to take that second trip around after that awful experience! Instead of having the feeling of disappointment, and perhaps your family might never want to go on that ride again feeling, it ended on a positive note. We were just talking about this very subject last night, about how when we are in public now, (anywhere) we have to listen to language that we don't use and don't like to hear. (I've never had in happen in Disneyland, yet, thank goodness!) There is one thing that happened last summer in DL, though, over and over again, we always seemed to get behind the couple that liked to make out while they were in line. I think it happened every time we were in line at Space Mtn. I even said to my son, rather loudly on occasion, "Why do we always get behind the couple that wants to make out in line?" (Hoping it would deter them! lol) I guess the Space Mtn. line is the most romantic place in the park.
