Originally Posted By bboisvert <<...and perhaps your family might never want to go on that ride again...>> Nah, that'd never happen. I've been going to DL long before those rude teens were even born. Rude/obnoxious behavior would never be able to keep me from having fun at DL.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>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.<< Maybe you should carry around a bucket of cold water for just such occasions. ;-)
Originally Posted By pecos bill I try to ignore rude guests at the park, but at times, I cant help but speak up. There was the gang of young adults who, at the last minute, tried to muscle in front of us at Fantasmic, when I saw what they were trying, I flat out turned them around. Which resulted in a little Alpha Male staredown with the biggest guy in their group, but he knew they were in the wrong, and backed off. I will ask people to be quiet if they are talking on Pirates, and have had other people thank me for doing so. I know being at Disneyland presents a delicate social dilemma, and most of us would rather let things go than speak up, but I just wont let truly obnoxious people go without letting them know how I feel.
Originally Posted By Lightning Bry I try to ignore rude guests, but i do have an obnoxious guest story. i was in 4th or 5th grade and i was scraping the paint off of a trash can when i was in line for Big thunder and some guy tugged my hand off and then my dad told the guy not to touch me, and the guy actually had the nerve to tell my dad that what i was doing was wrong(which it was) while his kids were fighting in front of all of the other guests. and when my dad pointed it out the guy got mad and to my dad shut the @%&%&$%%**(^^%&%%$##@@ up!!!. so that is the story i have.
Originally Posted By pacomama I can't remember any horrible incidents, but more than once, I've had to say, "you know, standing on my heels will not get you on the ride any sooner. Can I please have some personal space?" Most people apologize and back up, but some just continue like you were talking to air. With regards to "educating" people in the parks, I try to keep my geeky-ness to myself unless the people are so wrong it will impact their experience. I usually say, "I couldn't help but overhear your conversation about...."
Originally Posted By skywilliams While waiting in line to get on the carousel I noticed three teenagers hanging by the exit gate of the ride and when the gates were opened up for us to get on they quickly came through the exit to jump on the ride. What I couldn't figure is why they would do this. This happened earlier this month and the line was not long at all. They would have gotten on with no problem had they waited in line. Another thing that happened on that trip that just infuriated me was when we were in the stretching room in the HM we happened to be next to the doors that open. When they opened I grabbed my four year olds hand to walk towards the Doom Buggies. From behind this couple (in their twenties) ran over my son knocking him to the ground and almost me with him so they could get to the front on the group to get on the Doom Buggies. Luckily I was able to hold on to my sons hand or he would have been trampled by everyone coming out of the elevator. I yelled at the two as they disappeared around the corner but they never even looked back. I just hate when people just throw all civility out the window so they can save themselves 30 seconds.
Originally Posted By berol I get a kick out of people that have a fit cuz a space is opening up in front of you. It's not like it matters if you move forward or not when you're still 40 minutes from the ride. The closest I can think to rude is a woman and son were in city hall complaining that they had just come from a ride which broke down right before it was their turn. She was sniping at him like he was supposed to magically bring the ride back up to working order and get them on first. He kept offering her a front-of-the-line pass in case it worked again. I kept whispering, but not loud enough for her to hear "take the pass, take the pass". She was too mad to think clearly, repeated the conversation with him 3 times and left. You could see relief come to his face when I asked for a birthday sticker.
Originally Posted By magicbeinghad We love going to Disneyland and I am a little in denial, this will be the first Christmas in 7 years that we won't have spent a couple of days there during the holiday season. My oldest son (12)is high functioning autistic. He only has a couple of mannerisms that would clue you in, if you knew what you were seeing, mild hand flapping, pacing back in forth and a slight sort of stutter. He makes eye-contact and has pretty good social skills. He has barely any concept of age differance. 2 years old, 7, 16, 38, 42- you get treated the same. Conceptually he gets it-he can tell a baby from a toddler, from a teenager, from a grandma-however socially, he treats them all the same. For people caught up in respect issues, this can be startling- for example- if a 40 year old burly man cuts in front of us in line for the Peter Pan ride- he is not expecting a 10 year old boy to say "hey, you can't cut in line, that is against the rules, what are you doing?" He is 12 now and he was chasing a light that was swirling around the ground at Christmas display in San Jose. There were a pack of kids doing this from 2 years and up. My son is also tall so he really stood out, I was a nervous wreck, pulling him aside, watch for the little ones, watch for the little ones. My husband was watching from the other side of the area, we stood to watch our son- he was so happy- his face was glowing and he was having a good time. We let him and his brother play a little longer and then pulled him away so that the littler kids could play without this much taller boy with long skinny legs getting in their way. There were a couple of parents glaring at us. I imagine they were worried about their babies being trampled. I understand this. It looks like maybe we have a wild child, but we were there, watching and being responsable for him, he was so involved with the lights, they all were- it was a gift to see the children gigling and running around. I guess I share this, because, often we don't know the whole story, and if there isn't violence being done, perhaps we could be more willing to look for the good happening or ways to help instead of glaring and judging. Also the more we share, the more we are educated, if you met my son you would have no idea that he has huge anxiety issues and social stuff that other typical people have to a smaller degree, but not to his extent. Those lights were probably the happiest he had been in days. To see that joy on your childs face, is the biggest gift.
Originally Posted By BrnardM I had one today. I was on Tom Sawyer's island and this kid was blocking the entrance to one of the caves. "Sorry" he says, "the caves are closed." "Good news" I replied, "they just reopened!" as I pushed past him into the cave. Actually the whole thing was pretty funny (in a had to be there sense)!
Originally Posted By Stacers76 I just thought of one from our trip a couple weeks ago.... We were on Pirates in the last row of the boat, a couple rows forward was a teenage boy (probably 16-17) that had a blue flashlight type thing that he kept shining all around.....it was incredibly annoying and rude....I always try to have consideration for those around me and it's a pet peeve when people are obnoxious like that.
Originally Posted By tinkerbelle I have quite a few stories involving Fantasmic. One visit taking friends who had never seen Fanstamic, we staked out a small spot by using a baby blanket marking our spot. Barely enough for two adults and two kids to sit on but we managed. We put it down after the ropes had gone up and placed it as far back against the back rope as we could. What we didn't want was people scooting in last minute right behind us (getting kicked and knee'd in the back). SURE enough, as soon as the show started, a woman, man and their child saw maybe an inch of blanket and decided MY blanket was for them. I kid you not, they squeezed in behind us. I sent them away three times and then finally gave up. Another time, Fantasmic. Again, brought a small blanket for "Granny" and the kids to sit on. A fairly young woman decided she'd join us and sat on MY blanket. HUH? I ended up not saying anything thinking no harm in one person, right? As soon as the show started some of her family decided to join her. I ended up sitting on the concrete so her kid could sit on MY blanket. It wasn't THAT bad and I wanted to be nice especially since her son was young but I just can't get over how bold people are. I've witnessed grown women and men almost get in fist fights over spots for Fanstamic. I NEVER wanted to be like that, so both times I just let it go.
Originally Posted By LPFan22 ^^You're the better person for letting it go but there comes a time where you deserve to put your foot down. If someone wants a spot they need to get there early like you did. =)
Originally Posted By dlkozy You are a much nicer person than I am Tink. I would have told her to move her tooshie!
Originally Posted By tinkerbelle Awww, thanks guys...but the truth is I think it would have been worse (especially for my kids) if I had made any bigger deal about it then I did.
Originally Posted By dsnyredhead My husband and I went to see the Candlelight Processional at Epcot. We were seated in the reserved seating section for the dining package. I'm pretty much verbatim stating what my husband wrote on another board.... Shortly before the performance started, a man and his son (looked to be around 10) took the seats directly behind us. Almost immediately, we knew that we were likely in trouble as the man said to his son "I know you have never managed to sit through this whole show before, but let's try again". The kid was clearly already in major sulk mode as he wanted to be pretty much anywhere else. Once the show started, the father started verbally narrating absolutely everything. As the orchestra started playing, he was pointing out and describing what the conductor was doing and which section was playing. Of course, everything he was saying should have been obvious to the average 5-year-old, much less a 10-year-old. To make matters worse, he was giving continuous "translation" of the Bible verses being read by Rita Moreno (the celebrity narrator). Again, he was being Captain Obvious with explanations like "she's talking about the baby Jesus here..." Of course, when someone is pretty much continuously babbling behind you like this, it is basically instinctive to turn around and glare at him periodically. Clearly, he did see that my husband was doing that, but it either didn't sink in or, more likely, he was too stupid and too much of a Neanderthal lunkhead to actually believe that it mattered. After a while, he finally leaned forward and said to my husband "If you turn around and look at me one more time, I'm going to hit you in the face." My husband's response to his threat was pretty much just to tell the guy that if he didn't stay quiet we would call security and have him escorted out. Of course, his response to that was to give my husband the finger. Fortunately, his little brat got sufficiently irritated at being stuck at the show about 5 minutes after this encounter that the guy finally decided to go ahead and leave and we were able to enjoy the remainder of the performance in peace. As anyone who studied the Bible knows, there is nothing that Jesus taught more adamantly than the idea that you should resort to physical violence if someone looks at you funny...
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I don't suppose that anyone might consider that he was doing that for a good reason. There might have been a situation there that required the explainations. I don't know but it seems pretty odd otherwise. May be more than meets the eye.
