Have You Ever Had To Confront Another Guest's Poor Behavior?

[perpetualplanner]

5'0" here. I always say we need a section for 5'2" and under. It never fails that I will position myself where I can see and right after the show starts, a tall person moves in front of me. This includes shows where all other seats in the row they chose are empty and there are multiple empty rows/ sections. I usually just grumble and move myself.

5'3" on a good day but DH and sons are all over 6'. They form a "wall" around me and most people won't stand behind them. When the fireworks do actually start if there are any small children around we'll step back and let them stand in front of me since we camp out and usually have decent views in EPCOT.

 

[Morieris]

Now I believe in being a good sport, but I did not at that moment. As we left the lounge, I set my empty glass on his table in front of him and said I think you're going to need this for your tears idiot and left. It was the wrong thing to do, but it felt so good. LOL

 

[disneyseniors]

I was worried enough about this that I instituted a 'Single File" rule with DD in the middle. She is a little-bitty thing and she could be seriously hurt by a battering ram person. Not that there is anything you could have done. DH and I are more of the immovable-object variety. In fact, when he was a soccer player, that was one of his things. Other players would run into him and fall down.

I let people in front of me once, because I was so shocked. After that, if I thought someone would be doing that, I'd grab both rails and say "No" when they tried to get by. When they'd fuss I'd say "No, you can't cut", and when they said they were just meeting with their people. I'd say, their people could go backward in the line. No one would mind that.

It was really scary and we were totally surprised that anyone would purposely run into a person in a wheelchair just to get to the front of a line! We saw him just pushing through the crowds and parting the way, He never slowed down to see what he did to the people he shoved or hit. Maybe with your big soccer playing husband you won't have a problem. We are both senior citizens so maybe he thought he could push us out of the way. grrr! Honestly we've never seen this happen before in all of our years at disney,. we started visiting WDW in l977. Have a great time on your visit

 

[MrsPete]

I teach middle school and there are often conversations about hygiene and how deodorant can be our friend. I have a candle on my desk that I light when someone is particularly ripe. The kids have caught on and when I light it some usually blurts out "Who is stinky today Mrs. P?"

I had a group of girls in class once who claimed (without good reason) that everyone else in class was stinky, and they simply COULD NOT do any classwork under these circumstances ... so I picked up a couple of those room deodorizers with bubbles, and when they complained, I'd sit one on each of their desks. Sometimes they'd go over to my desk and take the deodorizers for themselves. It made them happy, and they'd pick them up and hold them under their noses. Weird, but it fixed the problem.

I promise you, 9th grade girls can smell too. It's not a male-only issue. Thanks.

I can certainly with 900% confidence tell you 6th grade girls do too!

Agree that the problem CAN be girls, but usually by high school girls have picked up on the importance of cleanliness.

cast members were frazzled. They did see her shove her kid in front of me, and they told the cast member they did not see me. Yea I am short…but not invisible!

Didn't see you? Yeah, that's a lie.
Thought they were more important than you, thought you could be bullied, thought no one would call them on their crap, or just didn't think -- that's more like the truth.
Incidentally, I'm also short, and I have the same problem sometimes: ordering a drink at the bar, etc. Workers overlook me. I'm clearly not a child.

(Same with parades. Most kids I know go to parades for free stuff being thrown at them. If there's no candy & goodies being launched their way, they lose interest after a relatively short amount of time, even parades as well done as Disney parades.)

I'm an adult, and I don't care a hoot about parades. I see them as good opportunities to jump on rides while so many people are otherwise occupied.

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

Why is it at the deluxe resorts the bus lines are a free-for-all? We were staying at the CR and waiting for the AK bus. We were there a good 15-20 minutes. Of course, just as the bus pulled up a loud, large family literally pushed ahead of everyone!. One brave soul announced "hey we were here first!" Of course, the family didn't listen. I knew there were plenty of seats for the people waiting, but it's just so rude! How do people live like that on a daily basis? Our society is doomed to fall by the hand of the self-centered-me-firsters. What happened to manners and human kindness?

When we were there in the spring we only ran into something like this once at WL. This mom and her son tried to get into line ahead of us but I pushed my daughter and myself in front of them. Other than that people were really good about waiting their turn.

 

[happybaker]

Another time in FEA we watched a dad and his new wife/gf berate a 6 year old boy for for ruining their trip. He was just silently weeping. No sound. Staring at his shoes while they told him how awful he was, and how they wished he had been left home with his mother and on and on. It broke my heart.

This is so heart-breaking to read, and I can't imagine how awful it was witness

 

[Disney loving Iowan]

This is so heart-breaking to read, and I can't imagine how awful it was witness

Just horrible. I'm sure at that point he wished he had stayed home with his mother. I hope somehow the mom can do something to prevent him from having to undergo that abuse in the future.

 

[joyjoy]

This is no big deal and not even a confrontation really. Just an incident last week that shows how clueless people are. There are lines for EVERYTHING, people. Lines to ride, lines to eat, lines to shop, lines to get in line, lines, lines, lines. So we were checking in at Raglan Road for our 8:30 ADR (standing in LINE, of course) and this guy starts trying to push to the front. I said "The line starts back there" and he says "No, we have reservations." I'm like . "We all do, sir.". Chances are, if there's NOT a line, you're doing it wrong.

 

[emily nicole]

This is no big deal and not even a confrontation really. Just an incident last week that shows how clueless people are. There are lines for EVERYTHING, people. Lines to ride, lines to eat, lines to shop, lines to get in line, lines, lines, lines. So we were checking in at Raglan Road for our 8:30 ADR (standing in LINE, of course) and this guy starts trying to push to the front. I said "The line starts back there" and he says "No, we have reservations." I'm like . "We all do, sir.". Chances are, if there's NOT a line, you're doing it wrong.

Lol!
I remember our first Disney trip. We got to the Poly and the line to check in at Ohana was SO LONG. I wondered if the line could really be that long for people with reservations. I'm from a small town and had never seen a line like that to check in at a restaurant lol. I was very glad I got in the line anyway and didn't make a fool of myself!

 

[mickeyluv'r]

I witnessed a woman brazenly shoplifting. I wouldn't have noticed, but she was completely brazen and rude. She shoved hard into me to grab something that was behind me, so I saw she slipped said item into her shoulder bag. She and her companion continued grabbing stuff all over the store. I was surprised CM's didn't notice them, because they were SO brazen. Alas, security arrived in a flash!

Another distinct experience was a family that dripped melting ice ream on us during a parade. I mean not just a few drips, but multiple drips and a good sized glob. When we kindly asked them to be more careful, they got very rude and denied it was their ice cream, which was crazy. It was bright pink ice cream, and we didn't have any, so it was VERY clearly their pink mess! It was almost funny it was so weird.

Mostly I just try to ignore rude and let it go.

 

[Halloweenqueen]

Funny story: it was a hot day at AK and we decided to stop for snacks. Of course, my three grown daughters and I could not decide on one place. so we decided to split up. I offered to find us a table behind the Yak and Yeti CS so I could check us in for our flight the next day. One daughter went to get fried rice and the others for ice cream. I sat at a table with five chairs, didn't even count, just knew there were enough to seat us all. The entire area was pretty much empty as it was past dinner time. A large group came to the back and were sitting about two tables away from me. I pushed one of my chairs into the table to make room for a mom with a double stroller. As I was refreshing my phone, waiting to check in, I hear the Mom say to her group, "that lady thought I was going to steal her chair". I didn't even look up as I didn't want to lose out on picking our seats.

The lady continues to try to egg me on with "there are plenty of chairs for everyone", etc. I ignore her as she is obviously losing her mind in the heat. My daughters arrive finally and we start to eat our snacks. A CM walks up to us and asks if she can take one of the chairs as our table is designated to be a table for four. I tell her no worries, that the extra chair was already here and she is free to take it. As the CM is pulling the chair away the woman starts to yell, "she thinks I told on her with the CM! Hey, lady, I didn't tell on you!" My daughters are quite puzzled as this lady continues to shout at us. The weird thing was she was with an extended family of about a dozen that just sat there witnessing her meltdown. I guess this must not be their first rodeo.

I should have resisted, but I finally yelled back that I wanted to enjoy my time with my daughters and could she please leave us alone. Her family left with her shortly afterward.

Alcohol and FL AK heat do not mix!

 

[Marthasor]

Now I believe in being a good sport, but I did not at that moment. As we left the lounge, I set my empty glass on his table in front of him and said I think you're going to need this for your tears idiot and left. It was the wrong thing to do, but it felt so good. LOL

I will have to disagree. It wasn't wrong. It was chef's kiss. I think I would have given you a standing ovation.

 

[joyjoy]

Funny story: it was a hot day at AK and we decided to stop for snacks. Of course, my three grown daughters and I could not decide on one place. so we decided to split up. I offered to find us a table behind the Yak and Yeti CS so I could check us in for our flight the next day. One daughter went to get fried rice and the others for ice cream. I sat at a table with five chairs, didn't even count, just knew there were enough to seat us all. The entire area was pretty much empty as it was past dinner time. A large group came to the back and were sitting about two tables away from me. I pushed one of my chairs into the table to make room for a mom with a double stroller. As I was refreshing my phone, waiting to check in, I hear the Mom say to her group, "that lady thought I was going to steal her chair". I didn't even look up as I didn't want to lose out on picking our seats.

The lady continues to try to egg me on with "there are plenty of chairs for everyone", etc. I ignore her as she is obviously losing her mind in the heat. My daughters arrive finally and we start to eat our snacks. A CM walks up to us and asks if she can take one of the chairs as our table is designated to be a table for four. I tell her no worries, that the extra chair was already here and she is free to take it. As the CM is pulling the chair away the woman starts to yell, "she thinks I told on her with the CM! Hey, lady, I didn't tell on you!" My daughters are quite puzzled as this lady continues to shout at us. The weird thing was she was with an extended family of about a dozen that just sat there witnessing her meltdown. I guess this must not be their first rodeo.

I should have resisted, but I finally yelled back that I wanted to enjoy my time with my daughters and could she please leave us alone. Her family left with her shortly afterward.

Alcohol and FL AK heat do not mix!

God, people are SO weird.

 

[VandVsmama]

My MIL.

The first and last time we took Grandma with us to DL was 3-4 years ago. We stayed right across the street at Park Vue Inn and DH arranged for Grandma to have a scooter delivered to the hotel for her.

She ran over my kid’s foot more than once and laughed about it. Even accidentally took somebody else’s scooter (yes, the key worked!) and had the other scooter renter person/guest in tears over it and what did my MIL do about it? Just laughed. Laughed at the other guest who was beside herself with worry. DH was mortified. The kids and I were elsewhere when that went down…Grandma wanted to have lunch at the Blue Bayou and it wasn’t in the budget for my whole immediate family to eat there, too. Did Grandma offer to treat us? No. Of course not.

not once that entire trip did she even buy my kids a stinking ice cream or a popcorn. Nothing.

Grandma STOLE SOMEBODY’S SCOOTER AND LAUGHED AT THE PERSON!

Never again. Hell will freeze over before I go on ANY vacation with that woman ever again.

 

[Boopuff]

Way back-in-the-day I think it was an early May trip (no crowds) DH and I were having a beer at Flame tree in AK. We like to go around back and downstairs to sit by the pool. We were totally alone....until a crazy family comes down and guess where they sit? Right next to us! Seriously? There are a hundred empty tables and you sit right next to us! We got up and moved away. Just thought it was so odd. They were so loud, scaring the birds... ug .

 

[White Rose]

Incidentally, I'm also short, and I have the same problem sometimes: ordering a drink at the bar, etc. Workers overlook me. I'm clearly not a child.
I'm an adult, and I don't care a hoot about parades. I see them as good opportunities to jump on rides while so many people are otherwise occupied.

i only cared about the Halloween parade, the electric parade and Halloween parade. We usually find a spot early in a less desirable space…and we would do the second parade. Usually we are riding rides.

 

[gshanny]

I had a lady turn around and used her flash right in my face on Pirates at WDW. I told her it was no flash photography. She didn't stop.
We were walking through the queue for Pirates in DL. There wasn't much of a line. A group of teens came running up and shoved all of us to get past us. I let it go and kept walking. Then their friends started to come up and pushed through. I let it go and let them through. After the 5th or 6th group tried to shove us I used my school voice and said 'No, not one more is going to shove through here'. They stopped and acted like they were doing us a favor and said we could go ahead of them....... A boatful of them were ahead of us and they were awful. They were standing up, trading seats, splashing water, etc. My kids couldn't believe they were doing this. I told them to just wait. Sure enough, less than a minute later a voice from the sky said something. We were far enough back we couldn't hear what was said, but they all promptly sat down and got quiet. I told my kids they are always watching. I feel like Roz might have ripped me off.lol
I will say I saw several school groups on that trip, many elementary aged. I made it a point to let them know when there group was acting great. I told them I know that it means a lot to a teacher to know they have a good group.
Pirates at DL on my last trip the boats started getting bunched up. The boat behind us had teen girls in the front screaming super loud, at everything, just to be obnoxious. We were second to last in our boat and it was awful, especially when we got stuck under a bridge and their boat as pushed up against ours. The lady behind us told them to stop. All but one did. We discussed that we were going to say something when we got off the ride. We pulled up and there were about 5 security guys waiting for them....

 

[GoingSince1990]

One time on Haunted Mansion someone in the next Doom Buggy was obnoxiously texting on a bright phone screen, ruining the ride for everyone nearby. I called out “Sir, please stop texting”, trying to sound as authoritative as I could, and he put his phone away immediately, possibly thinking my voice was a CM over a loudspeaker.

 

[Quicklabs]

Disney cruises are the worst at rude behaviors and poorly parented children!

You are so right about this! We were seated near a family in one of the Dining Rooms with a child of about three years old. This child was downright feral. She ran amok throughout the entire dining space The poor servers were desperately trying to dodge her whilst carrying their trays heavily laden with plates. I was so worried that she would trip them and cause serious injury. The parents were almost completely oblivious, only following her if she actually left the restaurant. I suspect that the tirelessly hard working servers are admonished to never confront any guest, even when their own safely is imperiled.

 

[emily nicole]

One time on Haunted Mansion someone in the next Doom Buggy was obnoxiously texting on a bright phone screen, ruining the ride for everyone nearby. I called out “Sir, please stop texting”, trying to sound as authoritative as I could, and he put his phone away immediately, possibly thinking my voice was a CM over a loudspeaker.

I used my best CM voice on the slooow moving walkway after Space Mountain. A group of people were standing and clogging it so I said loudly but in a friendly way: “Guests standing, please stay to the right! Guests walking, please keep to the left!” Everyone moved right obediently. LOL it was funny and effective!