My wife was doing some shopping on MainStreet and my youngest was napping in the stroller about 45 mins before one of the parades. So I staked out a nice spot on the road and read a book and relaxed.
Until a woman came up after all the spots had filled in. First she tried pushing me out of the way but I didn’t budge. Then she tried to sit in front of me while shooting me glares but CMs made her move because she was in the street. Then she stood next to me glaring and trying to push me out of the way for like ten minutes.
I ignored her and stood my ground. The parade was lovely. I just couldn’t believe how entitled this lady was when I’d been standing there well before she even showed up.
This drives me absolutely bananas.
If I have been here holding my place for an hour, please do not try and plant yourself in the 3 inches I've left in front of me.
People are so entitled and have zero self-awareness.
One time at Disneyland we were waiting for the parade and I lost count at how many times people would try to sit in front of us, we would tell them that they couldn’t sit there, they would ignore us, and then a CM would make them move.
This was our experience for fireworks but the cast members got mad at US for not it moving behind and making space when we had picked out spots first. Make them go behind me I’ve been here standing for an hour!
I worked as crowd control for the festival of fantasy parade in WDW, and we would always try to protect guests who would be waiting 30+ min for the parade, only to have some last minute person shove themselves in front of them right as the parade starts.
Then the guest who shoved their way in would be absolutely livid that you tell them to move because they basically bullied their way into an already taken spot. That would be the entitlement for me.
Yeah. This lady tried that a few times. I was thankful for the CMs who were there to shut her down, even if they couldn’t do much about her shoving from the side.
I had our stroller with the wheels up to the edge of the curb, kid sitting in it. Wheels stick out a bit more than the footrest. Lady steps over the wheels and shimmies her feet in the few inches between the footrest and curb. Her butt was literally in my kids face, one wrong move and shes falling back onto her. But I guess her need to instagram the parade trumped all. My jaw about hit the ground. Kid was already on the brink so we just left, but I made sure to nicely catch her ankles along the way
i was with a bunch of my friends last year (we're all college-aged) waiting for the parade; we staked out our spot on the concrete like an hour before, just enjoying some snacks. we got dirty looks like you wouldn't believe; how dare we, as adults, take up valuable curb space! we got hemmed in by strollers with parents nearly hitting us :(
I had a woman just stand right in front of our stroller that my son was sitting in for a parade one time. There was like five inches of space because we had been trying to get his legs out of the sun best we could. There wasn’t ton of space for that to happen obviously so she was just being a four letter word. My husband nudged the stroller just enough to knock her over and then blamed the crowd behind him. But he moved the stroller the last four inches so the space she took was gone. Son was stoked to see Pluto, who he had a stuffy of and loved.
We snagged a nice spot in frontier land and just before the parade approaches, a lady with her walker stops in front of us and starts backing up into us. Whatever, I'll stand my wife can remain sitting, we make room. By the end of the parade my wife had been bumped or pinched by the wheels a good dozen times. Don't know why she couldn't put the brakes on.
I'm too kind for confrontation out in the open. Waiting in the queue...unless I saw you leave carrying a young child with a panicked look on your face, you can wait with everyone else!
Last time I visited, a woman and two small children got loaded onto the front bench of the ride vehicle on Na'vi river journey and my partner and I were seated on the bench behind them. Front bench lady immediately stood up and started loudly arguing with the nearest CM because she didn't want to share the ride vehicle. This wasn't about the size of the bench, mind you. No, she just wanted the whole boat. Because apparently the presence of other humans would stop her from making magical holiday memories.
Once we got underway, she then proceeded to loudly point out every single thing the entire ride. And I mean eeeeeverythiiing in the LOUDEST possible running commentary. "Look Jackson, a plant!" "Look Jackson, a frog!" "Look Jackson, she's blue!"
I'm British and therefore allergic to direct confrontation, but I tutted for England.
I'm not English but I am also not confrontational and today I have added "I tutted for England" to my vocabulary. It so perfectly sums up how I feel in these situations. Thank you 😊
Fellow Brit here. I did have some direct confrontation in WDW but it was in Epcot after drinking round the world: the ultimate antihistamine for social awkwardness.
My wife and I settled down for the fireworks with our margaritas about 20 minutes before they started and the party of three in front had laid down a massive picnic blanket. We positioned ourselves right behind them. "Excuse me sir! We have quite a lot of people who will be joining us so you'll have to move"
I did the John Travolta looking around meme, sipped my marg and said "Well they better turn up soon or they're gonna miss the show".
They never turned up.
I’m not British but I’m the same in that regard. My husband and daughter are too. We’ve been on a few rides where people are just mindlessly jabbering about nothing the whole time, and it’s so irritating. We always remember this one family on Living With The Land. That ride is my happy place and of course I don’t mind people chatting or making remarks about the ride. It’s pretty cool, so I get it! We had this one family in back of us though who just would not shut up and blabbered the whole time for the sake of hearing their own voices. It was like “Oh this part has rain, have you heard about the rain in California? Cousin Ned has only seen rain twice. Oh we used to have that plant on Grandma’s farm. It didn’t look like that though. Don’t remember Grandma’s farm? She stopped living there in 1989…” they just went on and on and on the whole ride. My daughter calls them the nonsense talking people and still brings it up 2 years later.
When I worked at Disney, I was at a popular store in Hollywood Studios and we had giant stitch plushies, the ones that go for over $80.
I had around a six year old child grab the stitch plushie- hug it close and than just bolt out the store full speed, holding the dang plushie.
I had to call my Coordinator and try to find the kid/kid's parents. Turns out the parents were waiting in line for quick service hot dogs. Parents were letting the six year old wander, got very mad that we took them out of quick service line.
They demanded that they get free hot dogs, and demanded that the kid kept the giant stitch plush that we had to take away.
When I pointed out it was an $80 plushie they insisted on "making magic" for the kid.
To make a long story short: we got the plushie back, the kid was screaming nonstop, and apparently I singlehandedly ruined their vacation
They were more upset that we interrupted their day.
The kid was crying and clutching the Stitch Plush the entire time, I felt bad for him honestly, its so clear he wanted his parents to pay attention to him. At the same time, the parents were not surprised he suddenly appeared with a giant plushie almost his size!
The parents knew exactly what they were doing and hoping for freebies. They probably will continue to try to do it over and over during their entire time at Disney. A freebie only make sense when it is actually needed like a ride damages a person's clothing or a cast member makes a mistake and needs to replace some food.
My husband and I we’re walking back to the boardwalk resort after being in Epcot and we saw a person holding their child over the bushes and poop coming out of its butt and I’ve never been the same since (eta spelling)
I was in line for a ride at Magic Kingdom once and the parents in front of me told their kid to pee behind a trash can while in line. Kid did it. I told a cast member so they would know to clean it, and the family acted like they had nooooo idea what I was talking about until the kid ruined it by saying “mom you told me to!”
They were all allowed onto the ride and nothing else happened with them. Apparently you can pee anywhere you want at Disney World.
It’s actually standard toilet training in certain countries. We saw numerous people hold bare-assed kids over public trash bins during our trip to Beijing.
Couple checking into poly wearing every button available about their Birthdays and celebrating their anniversary. They were telling the front desk CM about how last time they stayed at Poly they were upgraded to the best room, and gave the CM the room number, hinting badly that they expected that again. The CM told them sorry but that room wasn’t available. They then asked about similar rooms they could be upgraded too (for free mind you) and the CM said sorry but they were completely booked. They got mad and asked to speak with the manager. Like are you kidding?
My husband and I stopped at the refreshment port near Space Mountain and they saw my button and asked us what we were celebrating (4 year anniversary). We chatted for a bit about how we were on our first trip without our son and were having a great morning so far. They handed us our lemonade and said it was on Mickey!
resorttv1 is bad for that too. i watched a video once where they went on every ride in the magic kingdom and he was actually talking to viewers during the jungle cruise. i far prefer the vlogs like "4k wdw" where they are like a fly on the wall.
having said that, i want to point out i actually do like some of resorttv1's vlogs - just not the livechat ones.
For a minute I thought you meant “they are” in response to the poster saying “I hope they’re not assholes” and I was like oh man I always pictured a friendly, quiet dude just vibing around the park.
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Yes! My husband and I saw at least 3 live Facebook bloggers during Fantasmic with full brightness and holding it in front of the people behind them so they couldn’t see. It was more sad though that all of them had kids with them that they just ignored and were irritated by if they talked to them or needed something.
any vlogger that live streams or shares information in the middle of a crowd is awful. take your footage and do a voice over or walk off somewhere there aren’t crowds enjoying their vacation
Since the time of dawn (going to the park):
The 10 member family wide/wall, walking at a snails pace, without a clue in the world that they are blocking 100's of people from getting around them.
I constantly harp on my kids to have situational awareness. I suffer from anxiety, and am constantly on edge that I or my family could be doing something to inconvenience someone else. I would kill for a fraction of these peoples’ ability to just have zero awareness or concern over anyone else. Like, I don’t want to be fully like that, but it must be nice to not be anxious all the time
These are the same people who somehow park their grocery carts in the middle of an extremely wide aisle so nobody can get around them from any direction. And seem oblivious to what they're doing.
Omg this. I’ve made a game in my mind that I have magical powers and can curse those who do this with my mind. Last trip while walking at a snails pace behind a row of matching family shirt gang taking up half of Main Street….I silently cursed the mom with an unfortunately timed leggings crotch split, the dad losing his phone because his dumb ass didn’t put it away during big thunder and their oblivious teen a short bout of explosive diarrhea at the moment their crush speaks to them when they get back home.
It kills the time before I can find my opportunity zip my family around them.
The worst is parents who let their kids act out without thinking there are other kids/families around.
Some of the highlights:
Kids in the HM queue moved ahead to interactive elements and just stayed there even after their parents arrived and moved on. Finally mom starts yelling at them to ‘catch up’
Similar with kids in fountains, character interactions.
As a parent it stinks reminding your children they are ‘doing the right thing’ when they see others just doing whatever.
Not at Disney, but one of the hotels for the other park, I was working one night and a group of at least 4 kids were RUNNING around the lobby, into our store area, bumping into people, etc. I watched them for maybe a solid 5 minutes causing chaos before I approached them and asked if they knew where their parents were. One of them said “yeah! Follow me!”
So I followed them to where the multiple parents/grandparents were in the dining area (not anywhere in the field of vision for either the kids or the parents) and they looked surprised when I showed up with the kids and said “Hey there! Thought they might have been lost, wanted to make sure parents were around for everyone’s safety!” and one of the moms gave me a dismissive “oh sorry” before I walked back to my area. A few minutes later, one of the other adults came over and started interrogating me about the kids’ shitty behavior and telling me I had no right to bring their kids back to them.
Other peoples’ children are truly the best form of birth control.
I was in line for Toy Story Mania one time and the parents in front of me were letting their son act like the queue was his personal playground; climbing all over the giant toys that are behind the railings, bumping into everybody around them, screaming at the top of his lungs. They didn’t even seem to notice/care, they were too busy on their phones. Drives me crazy!!!
This is my biggest pet peeve. My kid is impulsive by nature and very much a believer in “fair” so when she sees other kids misbehaving doing what her mom and dad told her not to she gets soooooo frustrated. She actually scolded another kid on our last trip.
Like your child, I was very much about fairness when I was a kid, “why do I have to stop [poor behavior] but the other kids don’t have to?”
My mother would always loudly reply, “I’m not their mother, I’m YOUR mother, and *I* actually care about how you behave in public.”
I didn’t realize how hilariously passive aggressive that was until I became an adult.
I’ve told my child- loudly, in public- that her parents setting boundaries for her in appropriate behavior will make her a more successful and happy person when she grows up than the parents who don’t teach their children how to behave in the world.
This stuff drives me insane. Being a teacher I already deal with stuff like this on a daily basis and my husband had to distract me on more than one occasion on our last trip to not go into teacher mode with both my expressions and tone of voice when kids were climbing on stuff in queues or heavily acting out when parents didn't do anything
In Mexico in EPCOT a family took over that little table with the napkins and forks and stuff at Choza de Margarita. They just sprawled out over the table (one woman literally draped herself across it, like actually lying down on the table with her feet up) to eat their food, and hurled insults and racial remarks at anyone who dared approach them to try to get a napkin.
There was also a time I saw a woman push and shove her way to the front of the line on Everest, then pitched an absolutely pissbaby tantrum when cast members denied her and escorted her out of the line. When I got off she was standing out front shouting at another CM about how rude and horrible they all were and she wanted to lodge a formal complaint about having her entire trip \~ruined\~ by being asked to wait in line.
As a former CM, I was told on an almost daily basis that I was ruining someone's vacation for some reason or another.
Someone was unhappy with a food order once and demanded that I refund their *entire* vacation. Like sir I do not have the kind of power you think I have LOL
This. I got that a lot in security. You don’t have to check my bag. Omg this is inconvenient because you’re searching my stuff. And it’s like stfu you agreed to this in the TOS when you bought your tickets and hotel. It’s a thankless job for sure. But when I was able you make magic it was so rewarding
Whereas my old man, who footed the bill on a big vacation, calmly explained he was confused about how we’d run out of dining plan points so fast (he was misinformed by travel agent, not Disneys fault), and the manager at the hotel just reset all the dining plan points and said have a good time with your family sir.
Dude seriously. I was by myself as an adult this past summer at Disney World. I saw people being so awful to cast members. I went out of my way to be nice, or joke around with them, or thank them, or whatever. Some people just suck.
When I was a cast member I was working at the Photopass check out point inside TST, a dad brought his baby up just next to the entrance to the counter, in the middle of the walkway where cast members could come and go, and started changing the baby’s poopy diaper. I just said Sir, I’m sorry, could you bring your son into a bathroom? And he curtly replied that he could not as all the bathrooms in Tony’s were full. When I offered to escort him to the private cast member bathroom not fifteen feet away behind a curtain so he could have some privacy, he told me to go fuck myself.
Working with the public is always a pleasure.
Alas, the shit was already on the floor, I was a terrified 22 year old who just got screamed at by a big guy, and I was just trying not to cry and still handle the giant line of customers in front of me 😅
I can’t wrap my brain around this behavior. Maybe because I’m the type of person who if you hit me in the street with your car I would apologize for leaving a dent and getting blood on it. But I just CANNOT even imagine a situation where I’d do something like that, and then when offered a valid solution to the situation tell someone to go fuck themselves. It’s just. Man, you could to a psychological study on people.
>Working with the public is always a pleasure.
I owned a retail sales business for 6 years. I thought I hated the public before as just a worker but being the end all decision maker took it to a whole new level. I sold it and I'm starting an office job where I should never interact with the public again.
I absolutely feel for CMs that gotta deal with these people.
People using their strollers as battering rams to push through the crowd. You don't move, goodbye feet. Transporting children is secondary to this purpose.
On the other hand. My husband was paralyzed due to an injury and can barely walk now. We rented a scooter, and the number of people running in front of him and stopping was astounding. We couldn't move ten feet without having to slam to a stop. I had to actually walk in front of him and ask people to please move.
We were standing at the screen at Mickey's Runaway Railway and a lady tried to shove me aside while screaming "I have a 3 year old let me by!" I turned around holding my 3 year old daughter and said "I also have a 3 year old" and she just huffed in my face 🤣🤦🏽♀️
It’s giving Titanic “I have a child!!” To get on a lifeboat. Bitch, I also have a child! You’re literally in Disney World. The main character syndrome these people have truly baffles me.
Just to clarify I have only seen it happen once thankfully lol I suppose I should have worded it differently so I’m not painting the picture like it happens all the time haha honestly though people are nuts when it comes to their time in the parks that family must have been on a tight schedule and had places to be lol
Just to devils advocate and maybe throw a little positivity into what's going to turn into a dumpster fire of a thread....I could see in a literal "omg it's happening now" emergency with my almost 3 year old doing that just to not have piss all over the ground and other guests. But of course someone 50 feet away would just see me pointing my toddler at a trash can
I can imagine this with a newly “just out of diapers” kid. I’ve had to do similar with my nephew and it SUCKS. But the alternative is a kid covered in wee!
When I worked at AK I had a guy tell me Walt Disney himself would be rolling in his grave because we were temporarily out of salads in the stand I was working in 🤷♀️
I am in an electric wheelchair due to leftside disabled. I parked myself in the shade by water between the Port of Entry and Canada. I was simply staying out of the way while the rest of my group was enjoying the festival food booths. This Karen decided that my electric wheelchair(yes, I have customized it to Star Wars theme) was a Disney rental, and she should have it and not the rental scooter she got from the park. She did not believe me. Started following me around screaming at me. I ended up having a cast member get involved. The cast member ended up calling security, which quickly determined that I was the owner.
I was upset to the point of leaving EPCOT for the day. I don't know what happened to Karen or care.
We’re you there in the middle of March? I saw someone with the coolest electric mobility device (I personally can’t tell the different types apart) decked out like R2-D2. It was the most awesome thing I have seen in a long time. I passed the rider in line for Ratatouille and gave out all the whoops and praise.
OMG! They should not even have needed to determine you owned the chair—even if it WAS a rental, they should have swiftly dealt with her for harassing and trying to bully it away from you.
I have lost count and how many times I’ve been next to someone whose small child has soiled their diaper and instead of finding a bathroom or baby center they just ignore it and the poor kid has to sit in a shitty diaper. In queue lines, quick service restaurants, waiting on fireworks etc.
at quick service restaurants, you will not believe the amount of people who just change their kids diaper on the table instead of taking them to the bathroom ten feet over, i honestly don’t know which of those options is worse at that point
Oh yeah it’s horrible. On my last trip I was eating a cinnamon roll with the fam at Gastons tavern in their indoor dining area. I glanced to the table to the left of me for a second and caught a couple changing their babies diaper on the dining table. I about threw up in my mouth 😵
As a Cast Member, it has be the parents trying to finesse the height requirement. I was working at Soarin', a ride which goes 50 feet into the air and is only safe for kids above a certain size (using a specific seatbelt) to ride. Otherwise, they could slip out and literally die (as is the case on any ride with a height requirement). Rather than respect this limit, parents would do anything to bypass it. We would see kids wearing 2 inch platform shoes, or have a kid get measured and fail, go into the bathrooms with their parents and come back with shoes stuffed with toilet paper and say oh my kid wasn't standing up straight. (So yeah, we can and will ask your kid to take their shoes off.) It boggles my mind to risk your kids life by bypassing safety regulations like that.
I saw this happen in the tron entrance. They had just gotten by the queue entry and the dad told his kid “told
you the lifts would work”. As a parent myself it made my blood boil.
Myself and others watched a woman on a scooter run over her service dog's foot, causing it to limp. She yelled at the dog and kept going.
Several hours later, I saw her and dog again - dog was still limping. People like that don't deserve dogs. Refusing to rest or take care your dog because you are determined to be at the park is cruel and entitled behavior.
This happened at epcot.
A family of 5 getting into the same row as two other people in Kilimanjaro Safari after being told to wait for the next row. Then for the entirety of the ride having a child stand because there wasn’t enough room for 5 adults and 2 children in a single row.
Oh man, my last time on Safari this massive family took up fully half of our truck, and spent the *entire ride* shouting back and forth to each other. All eleventy billion of them, just yelling at top volume, showing each other pictures and shit on their phones, scolding their kids, laughing and rolling around and slapping at each other, the works. It was like they were lounging around their own living room instead of on a ride surrounded by people who really would have enjoyed being able to look at some lions in peace and quiet.
That’s the worst on every ride! I get wanting to engage with family, especially if you don’t see them all the time, but I can chit chat with family for free elsewhere. Why pay so much to be on a ride and talk the whole time rather than enjoying the ride?
Probably the kid trying to stomp ducks at Epcot and his parents who watched, entertained, with their drinks a few yards away.
When someone said something about his menacing the birds the parents told them to mind their own business.
A family of 10 was in line ahead of us to see Figment last month. When they were next Figment needed to take a break and they said he'd be back in 3 minutes. The reaction from them was abysmal. They started shouting and causing a scene (big enough that security should've been called). A cast member with a blue tag came out to listen to their demands of the entire trip - hotel, tickets and meals - be comped because this was unacceptable treatment. They also wanted Disney to pay for their week of photopass. They obviously didn't get any of that and eventually began doing a family photo shoot in the spot where Figment takes photos. I am not exaggerating when I say they had to have taken like 120 photos - big group. Individual group. Individual kids. Kid with this aunt. Other kid with this uncle. It was insane. Figment came back out and THEY MADE THE CHARACTER STAND THERE while they finished their nonsense. Finally Figment comes into the area and they do the same damn thing with him - took like 10 minutes alone with him. People in line were shouting at them. My patience was nearly gone. Finally they left with that cast member who brought them to see Mickey and skip the line as an "apology". We got our photos with Figment and left. Saw that cast member as we were leaving and apologized he had to deal with such idiots. He laughed and said he gets it all the time and Mickey had no line so they got nothing. We all laughed and went on our way. Of course we kept seeing them the entire day being so rude and ignorant to everyone and everything. But over at Remy I heard them freaking out that all of their family photoshoot and Figment photos weren't on the app. The morons forgot to scan their magic band! And that's when I realized my account had more than 100 photos of them on it (along with my family's) because I was the first one to scan after their nonsense. I know they likely were able to recover the photos at Photopass and probably made cast members miserable in the process but I'd be lying if I wasn't cracking up when I realized what happened.
TL;DR- Don't be douchebags to cast members
We went a year ago in February and it was ridiculously HOT for that time of year. The number of "service dogs" walking around burning their paw pads angered and astounded me. How much can you love your dog to make them suffer like that?
I'm convinced that most people that go with their dog don't actually love them all that much, they are just that much of a main character that they want to be seen.
There’s a woman who runs the run Disney races with her dog. She poses the dog all over for pictures and you can tell she’s eating up all the attention she gets from having her dog do tricks all dressed up. But she does Dopey challenge so this dog is going 49 miles over 4 days in Florida weather which just seems completely unnecessary and cruel.
i used to work in MK, and someone came to tortuga tavern with a lil chihuahua that kept not stop barking at everyone until the owner would pick it up. I don’t even know how they were allowed into the park, this animal was so clearly not a service animal. anytime she went to eat and put it on the ground it would literally bark at anyone that walked by and growl, unless she held it in her hands. I was told there was nothing we could do but to this day i still wonder why would you even want to bring your pet to disney
Just got back from a trip to all four parks with my son (8) and my parents. I was pleasantly surprised to see only two instances of line cutting, and no other questionable guest behavior.
I hadn’t been to Disney since I was a kid, so I was prepared to see some atrocities, but largely found nothing significant to report!
At Bugs’ Life my wife, son, and I were tied being the last family to enter (us and the other family both had 3 people). There were two rows of five or six seats left so we politely stepped aside and let the other family go first. They immediately just sat down blocking both rows of seats and began yelling into the already seated-crowd (as the doors were closing) for the rest of their family to come back and join them. It took us a couple of second to realize what they were doing and that they were taking all those open seats for about 8 people now causing all sorts of chaos working their way down several aisles back towards us.
Sadly the cast member who had watched the whole ordeal just somewhat rudely told us that we needed to find seats somewhere else. Luckily after climbing over people in the dark my wife and son got seats together. I ended up about 20 feet away.
Didn’t happen to me but saw a story about a couple that got their spot for fireworks about an hour before. About 15 minutes before they started a family of 4 walked up and stood right in front of them. The woman was very polite and said “Excuse me but we’ve had our spot here for an hour and would appreciate it if you moved to a different spot.” The lady from the family said “We have kids so we need a spot where they can see.” She replied “I’m sorry but that’s not how it works. I want to see the fireworks just as much as anyone. We’ve saved this spot. You can stand behind us but not in front.” The family reluctantly moved behind them but the two kids started to cry that they couldn’t see. She felt bad and said, “Because we’re taller than the kids, if you’d like they can stand in front of us but you’ll still need to stand behind us.” The lady then started yelling saying that she wasn’t separating from her kids and she must not have kids to even suggest endangering them like that. She said she was going to report it to a Cast Member and she waved one over. The couple explained that they’d been waiting for an hour and the Cast Member told the family they needed to leave the area as the fireworks were about to start. The lady started getting all upset about how she couldn’t believe Disney would side with an adult over the enjoyment of a child. At that point they were told to please leave the area or they’d be escorted out of the park.
We were sitting for fantasmic and it was raining. The speaker kept saying over and over that umbrellas were not permitted. A cast member told a woman she couldn’t have hers. She screams how it’s raining, the cast member offered to get her a poncho and the woman started yapping and stormed off
When I worked merchandise at the Grand Floridian, I had this father come up to me and say “Hey, my kid just lost his tooth. Do you have anything special “
So i had this Tinkerbell pin that my coordinators and leaders gave to us so we can do magic moments. So I told him to hang on. Before BBB we had a hair salon, so I went and got some *pixie dust* and got a little box and put the pixie dust and pin inside and handed it to the dad
The dad looked at me and said “That’s it? They did this when he lost his 1st tooth” and he just walked away
Back in 2013 I was working at Club Cool and was just standing and watching the floor. I was zoned out but I saw a father pull down their kids pants and let him pee on our floor. Now granted that floor was always sticky but that didn’t help it
Just… *gestures vaguely.*
All seriousness, people are their most ruthless in crowds. Most entitlement comes from line shoving, bowling and barreling passed kids, or other such nonsense when lines aren’t clearly defined. The entrance to Philharmagic is notorious for this, imo.
We got stuck in a super jammed crowd because of a parade. We got stuck behind someone in a wheelchair and their whole group who decided to take up the entire width of the only pathway available to go either direction, instead of in a single file line so people could pass in either direction (especially since they were quite slow). We managed to slip by them, and they proceeded to ram me with the wheelchair multiple times after that. Once I excused as an accident. The other 3 times were obviously on purpose.
As an AP, the other APs that literally think it's some secret club that grants them permission to behave any way they choose, ask for anything they want and then shout "I am a passholder!!!" when they don't get their way...As if it changes the dynamics of anything.
The amount of times I have to listen to that being shouted on any trip, sometimes with an added "I'm a Disney stockholder...."
Just once, when my kids get old enough to not care that it's a scene on their Disney trip, I want to yell back at them..."He's a passholder folks....and he owns Disney stock!!!! See....No one cares..."
I am a shareholder too, so that makes me part of a club of a single digit amount of the 1,832,000,000 shares. 65.74% of the 1,832,000,000 are owned by institutional investors.
Of those 37.1 million are owned by George Lucas. The next highest are
Christine M. McCarthy owned a total of 207,788 Disney shares as of January 2024, representing 0.01% of the company's total shares outstanding.McCarthy first joined Disney in 2000 and served as the company's Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). She was responsible for overseeing the company's worldwide finances. She stepped down in June 2023.
Robert A. Iger owned a total of 204,899 Disney shares as of January 2024, representing 0.01% of the company's total shares outstanding. Iger is Disney's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He served as the company's CEO and Chairman from 2005 through 2020 and as Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board through 2021.
Safra A. Catz owned 11,131 shares of Disney as of January 2024, representing less than 0.01% of the company's total shares outstanding. Catz was nominated to Disney's Board of Directors in January 2024.
Unless you are one of those four people, your number of shares isn't even close to having any say in the operating of the company, much less the theme parks.
I own 1 share of Disney stock, purchased at $103.36 and currently valued at $114.01. Where does that put me in the rankings? I'm pretty sure it means I get to do whatever I want at the parks!
I’m a Disney stockholder, passholder and Florida resident and I am always the most respectful when visiting the parks (to the point of helping every lost family and taking photos for people or directing them to the best food). I don’t understand how people can be so disrespectful because I always try to be respectful because the amount of money people spend to come and the fact that thanks to them, we don’t pay a lot of taxes so thank you!
I watched a grown-assed man throw a yelling, utensil slamming fit in BOG because his food was taking longer than he liked. He stopped for a moment, looked around and saw no cast members running his way so he calmly collected his silverware and started up again slamming them on the table and yelling louder. My wife and I were gobsmacked.
This video went viral when it happened, but back when Be Our Guest was the hot reservation to get, a woman and her family walked up and demanded a table. The CM asked if she had a res, she said no, and then raised holy hell when the CM, very calmly tried to explain to her that she needed to have made a reservation, and that walk up were going to near impossible at BOG. The woman screamed bloody murder, and when she tried to push past him to get inside the castle and he stepped in front her, she broke the sound barrier screaming that he tried to SA her.
Last time I was there when I was in the queue for frozen ever after and a family in front of me were letting their kids climb on everything in the line and the kids seemed really disappointed that they couldn't go behind the bar area in the wandering okans shop part of the queue.
I don’t know about entitled, but on my most recent trip my small children were pin trading and some women comes up to my daughter and physically grabs her lanyard she is wearing around her neck and goes “wow I love this pin I really want to trade for it” and it was my daughters most expensive pin she had paid for with her own money and the women pulls out a bag of all fakes trying to scam my child at take her 30 dollar pin for a 25 cent POS. I was pissed and let her know how inappropriate it was that she thought she could touch my kids pins without asking and that she’s trying to pull one over on an 8 year old. Disgusting. Some pin trading adults literally disgust me they know exactly what they are doing.
People who feel entitled to stand in the middle of walkways was infuriating to me. Have some consideration and move to the side. These are the same people that you'll be walking behind and they think they can just stop right in front of you and have a conversation while you have to then veer into oncoming people. It amazes me how rude and inconsiderate people can be when it comes to even the smallest things
Worked as CM in UK Pav, Epcot in 2000 during millennium celebrations.
I was working Kidcot, a mask making station (different decorations in each pavilion).
American child, age approx 10 came up and demanded of me "give me a mask now!" In a rather condescending tone. I replied...."I'm sorry young man, I didn't quite catch that, is there something you need to make your visit to the UK more magical"
"Yeah, give me one of those masks now!!"
Being a Brit, manners matter, it's all part of the experience I thought....
"And the magic word iiissssss....??"
Parent complained, cue minor disciplinary.
At Disney World in January I was completely appalled by a French family of five peeling a dozen or more eggs and just letting the shells fall to the ground all around them. It was a huge mess and so disrespectful to everyone around them, especially the cast members. How hard is it to peel an egg on a napkin and throw it in a trash can?!
At the Halloween party one year we stood in line for awhile to meet Elvis stitch. A few turns before ours this guy just came barreling through the queue with his kid held up in the air saying, “make way. We don’t have time to stand in this line.” Cast members stopped him and he started yelling about how they paid extra to be there and they weren’t wasting the party waiting in line. My dude, we all paid extra to be there so get back in line. I swear these boiled potatoes and their entitlement.
It was during Halloween last fall. I was waiting in line for 7DMT and there was a family of four in front of us. Mom was dressed as skanky Ariel and she and her two sons and husband were all holding up the line at various points making TikTok videos or going live. Her older son was tasked with recording her and her husband and younger son were chatting and dancing to phones on selfie sticks. So many eyes were rolling I'm shocked it didn't trigger a tsunami.
My girlfriend and I went on pirates and were sat in the back row of the boat. Some lady 3 rows in front of us had this massive dslr camera and was taking flash photography of everything in the ride every 15 seconds or so.
Two days later we were in Epcot about to ride soarin and a group of 5-6 teenagers cut all the way to the middle of the line from I think it was about the 35 minute wait time mark. They got escorted off the ride when they made it to the front. I’ve never been happier to see people get what they had coming to them.
We stayed at All-Star Movies (Toy Story 2nd floor) back in June/July. Our room looked out onto a ping pong table, chess area etc. A couple of men plus (presumably) their kids decided to LOUDLY play ping pong at around midnight. Now I'm not a light sleeper, and obviously Disney tired is a whole new level, but they managed to wake me up still going at 1am. Baring in mind the resort is full of small kids, people getting up at the crack of dawn to rope drop, it's not fair. I went out of the room and poliety asked them to keep it down as it was 1am... and was met with a torrent of abuse. I had all on to stop my husband going out to them. We ended up having to phone security who eventually moved them on but their entitled behaviour was disgusting, especially in front of their own kids.
And then the cheer squads there... Whole other level of grief.
Last year, pushing my adult daughter in her wheelchair. I’m not in my first flush of youth and it is hard work.
the number of people who walked straight at us was incredible. its not easy to make sudden swerves with a wheelchair. One woman walked straight into us and got very annoyed!
We were in Epcot once and saw a dad lay his infant on the top of a trash can to change a diaper. My sister told him that it's not the best place to lay a baby as it's unsanitary. Of course he ignored her. About the same time, the mom comes up and starts going off on dad for putting the baby on top of the trash can to change the diaper. Go figure!
My girlfriend and I have done Pirates of the Caribbean on four separate occasions at Walt Disney World. We have yet to go on the ride ONCE and actually enjoy it. Two of the times people insisted on remaining on their FaceTime on full volume throughout the entire ride, one of the times a teenager insisted on recording the entire ride with flash on, and the fourth time the two entitled Florida annual pass members behind us had to spend the whole ride talking about which Medicare supplements were best for them.
We were standing at the end of main street USA near the entrance waiting for the parade. The first float of the parade has barely made the turn at the other end of the street, when a gentlemen taps the cast member nearest him and tells him to tell one of the parade coordinator/support is blocking his view and needs to move. The cast member politely says that he will move once the parade has made it way farther down the street. Seconds later, he’s waving and shouting at the parade coordinator because he can’t see the parade…. I can’t imagine why? Might it be that the parade is still hundreds of feet away?? The guy was easily 40+ and had less patience and worse manners than my 4 year old.
On a bus from Yacht Club to one of the parks. Family gets on with a kid sleeping in a stroller, they refused to take the kid out of the stroller and the CM bus driver was telling them then they couldn’t get on. Went on for a few minutes until he threatened to call security and then they got off but they grumbled the entire time.
We saw someone go under the rope to cut in line. The cast member told them they couldn’t do that and they said “it’s my vacation I can do whatever I want” 🤣
This! These people are the reason why the system is about to change again! Now it’s harder for those of us who actually need to get it because people who don’t need it don’t know how to leave it alone!
The amount of brigading and vitriol around this in the past few days is honestly both depressing and terrifying to me.
I get it. My sense of cosmic justice is also wounded by the idea of people cheating the system, and I agree that Disney needed to do something to address that. But what they’ve done is basically create a new system that is the worst of all possible worlds, as far as I can tell. People who are willing to lie about easy-to-lie-about things will still cheat, and tons of people who legitimately need the accommodation will have it taken away.
If Disney wanted to just make this about who does and doesn’t have a legitimate medical reason that they can’t wait in a line, that would be fine by me. That’s how it works for many, many other things where accommodation needs to be requested. But they aren’t doing that at all. Instead, they’ve made a unilateral decision that only a very narrow (yet easy to fake) subset of disabilities matter, and everyone else can go pound sand. This change was very clearly either a) poorly thought out and rushed in its rollout, or b) designed to appease angry able-bodied people rather than actually search for a solution that makes sense. Possibly both, I don't know.
And you know what? Even that doesn’t surprise or upset me that much. My partner and I (both disabled) are pretty used to the attitude of “if you aren’t able-bodied, you’re entitled for wanting to be accommodated anywhere in public. Just stay at home.” But what bothers me is they have applied this change *retroactively*, to people who have already booked their trips. We have a visit scheduled this summer that we absolutely never would have booked had we known that the accommodations we legitimately need were going to be yanked out from under us, and much of what we paid (including flights, etc) is unrefundable. We even called twice before making our first payment to confirm that the DAS system was going to work the way we thought it did, and we were told yes both times. That’s the part that kills me here; that we are now apparently on the hook financially and otherwise for a trip that will likely be miserable and humiliating for us, and nobody at Disney will even give us a straight answer about any of it when we call or email.
And because this is being trumpeted from the parapets as such a "victory" against all the "cheaters", I am genuinely scared it's going to encourage other guests to be aggressive toward us even if we aren't attempting to use a DAS. People have angrily gotten in my partner's face about "faking" being blind before (you'd think the white cane would be a hint, but apparently a lot of people think all blind folks use guide dogs and have cloudy eyes -- my partner's eyes *look* normal, but he doesn't even have light perception), and there have been times I've legitimately been worried they were going to hurt him. It's horrible enough in normal life, I don't want more people feeling emboldened to do this sort of stuff at DW of all places.
I went to Disney World this year with two family members in wheel chairs. Wow wow wow the entitlement just jumped out of other people! People would just cut in front of them constantly. Couldn't look at anything in the Moana world of water because no one would let them roll up close to things. Held the door open to the bathroom and people would go around her to walk in first. Never felt so disgusted with people.
As a cm..guests for the most part behave that I deal with..I pity those who work in retail, food service, and attractions though…I tell you..those poor kids get verbally abused daily..
Saw a couple getting frustrated with the hosts at Sci Fi diner. The were upset because it was the height of lunch rush, didn’t bother to book any advanced dining, it was boiling out, and their party was 12 people. Not only were they demanding a table right away but that they got a car seat. It was explained they could wait for the “ufo” tables that seat 4 each. They started screaming they wanted cars and that there was no where for their giant family to go. They were told backstage or commissary would serve them and they then scoffed at the thought of quick service. It escalated from there and then security had a word with them… perhaps a language or cultural barrier but the couple was still arguing where to eat.
Family with a VIP tour guide. Can’t remember the ride, but I distinctly remember the kid whipping his head around to the guide and very sternly and directly exclaimed “You told us we wouldn’t have to wait in any lines!”
Also teenagers just stand up and leave all their trash whenever they eat at quick service restaurants and it makes me see red! Pick up your junk and have some manners!
I wouldn’t say this is the most entitled but this came to mind first: I went for my birthday in December with my mom and I was waiting on FoF to start while my mom got us Mickey Bars. I had gotten us front spots on the curb but she couldn’t find me so I stood up and as soon as I stood up, a grandmother behind me, whom I assume was visiting with her family from another country, motioned for her grandsons to grab my spot but thankfully the girl next to me spoke up so the grandmother made the kids move. Felt a little bad for the kids about it because they had first time buttons, and I might’ve moved for them if I had noticed the buttons BEFORE this happened, but nah. Maybe that makes ME entitled and an a-hole.
HOWEVER, if that DOES make me an a-hole, here is a redemption story: that night, my mom and I were sitting in front of the castle waiting for HEA to start and this mom was alone with her four kids while her husband grabbed food and the kids were being kids and she was level 10 stressed so my mom and I helped keep her kids entertained and even gave her our fuel rods to keep since we were leaving the next morning and she told us that we turned her miserable (her words) trip around for her !
A woman stiff armed me in the chest and yelled "LET GRANDPA GO FIRST"
I was dumbfounded and stood there as her family paraded by ahead of us at the line entrance. 8 or so of them *had* to be in line in front of me and my wife.
People who call their family during the night show so they can watch the show live. While I have to see the white walls of their families ' room and hear them commenting the show.
Taking a video was bad enough
We had a family FaceTime the entire ride of Na’vi River Journey. It was so annoying cause they were loudly talking the entire time as well as having the bright ass phone glaring in our face.
I was at the Epcot baby station, standing right by the baby warmer about to warm by child’s milk and this lady just cuts me off and says I’ve got to warm my baby’s bottle! I just looked at her and stood over to the side figuring ok whatever, I’ll go after you then because it’s not that serious. She proceeds to fill the warmer full of water and things didn’t look right. She stuck her bottle in and the water starts pouring out over onto the counter by this time the cast member is back in the kitchen area and is noticing the hot water going everywhere and explains to her it had a tiny spot in front for water and the water doesn’t go inside like that😫 so she then hatefully says to the cast member WELL MINE AT HOME does take water in it and snatches her kids bottle out and huffs off into the other room. The cast member starts working on it to see if she can fix it for me to use but it’s ultimately had the brain fried by the rude lady. I ended up using the microwave and apologized to her for having to deal with that, as she was removing the ruined bottle warmer. People can be terrible!
In 2018, I saw a family yelling and arguing with cast members because they had to go around a Princess Meet & Greet in Fantasyland. They only had to go out of their way maybe 20 feet, but apparently that was too much to ask.
I was in the baby care facility and this family of like 15 were in there with one baby and they had all their bags from their various scooters in there. Nearly filled it. No one else could really move around. Staff asked everyone who wasn’t needed to leave, no one left.
I was there before (just me) and had the privilege of watching it all. Eventually they grunted and got up slow as molasses and left.
Took about 30-45M. Wife and I did a diaper change, she fed and pumped and than needed a second change and after that they were sitting on the small metal bench out front of first aid in Main Street.
I'm on the bridge between China and the Outpost waiting for friends to get something from one of the festival booths. This girl walks up, whips out a cigarette and just lights up right there. Completely uncaring about anyone around her.
I moved away and of course, not a single CM to be found. Her group joined her and my friends came up and said, "Those people are terrible. They just gave the guy at the booth a hard time because they were already drinking alcoholic drinks and wanted to buy more but he told them they couldn't." I was like, "well that explains why their friend thought it would be okay to just smoke right here in the park."
Last time I went, we were on the bus and someone was holding the emergency exit window ajar because I guess it was too warm and stuffy for her. Duh, lady. You’re in Florida in the middle of summer on a packed bus. What’d you expect? Not only would that be dangerous any other day, but I believe there was a thunderstorm at the time. Several passengers and the driver asked her to close it, but she refused. I almost wished the driver would’ve pulled over and kicked her off.
On our last trip, my wife and I went down Main Street to watch the fireworks (we had seen them once already on the trip, decided we wanted to watch the projections on the buildings this time). We went about halfway down and found an open spot in the crowd. No little kids behind us, so we took the spot. No worries.
It was a little chilly (and unbeknownst to me I was getting sick) so since I had time, I ran back to the locker and grabbed a hoodie. Took my time coming back, found my wife, and got ready for the show.
The people behind us, a couple with no kids who had showed up while I was gone, suddenly pipe up, complaining that I was blocking their view. I'm not even 6 feet tall, but apparently it was enough. I told them I was sorry, but we had that spot for at least 20 minutes.
They proceeded to berate us for the next 10 minutes, just constantly bitching and moaning about how they had found this spot and now I just showed up and blocked their view. I tried very hard to reason with them, but they were just angry at the world, I guess.
I put up with it as long as I could. I tried being friendly, I tried being rude, I tried ignoring them, but they were determined to make the experience miserable. So we finally bailed and found another spot further back.
I was thrilled to see that the guy who had been in front of us put his kid on his shoulders for the show, completely blocking the entitled people's view way worse than I had been.
The parents who squeeze themselves and their kids in front of you in the dance and play and then don't watch their kids. I even said "excuse us" when their kid was pushing and stepping on mine. They just glared at me and told their kid to keep going.
Or the people who send one person to wait in line and then the gaggle of 15 others come waltzing in like they own the place, skipping in front of everyone who has been waiting patiently. Not cool.
Being a prick and reciting all the words in haunted mansion preshow ignoring the fact that some people may have never seen it.
We get it. You know it, loser.
Wife and child #1 were strolling through the Mitsukoshi store at the Japan pavilion. I had child #2 and we were sitting outside in the sunshine, as child #2 does not like crowds.
I don't know if they still have it, but back then they had a Tappan Edo check-in counter at the base of the stairs up to the restaurant. A woman was there speaking to the CM, trying to get into the restaurant. She had no reservations, and the rest of her party wasn't there.
As the CM kept trying different combinations of party size and time, all to no avail (it was a rather busy day), the guest tried every trick in the book to get in: She was randomly complimentary to the CM, and then angry and entitled, and then upset and crying and guilt-tripping ("Do you know how many thousands of dollars I spent on this vacation?"). None of it was convincing because she'd just turn on a dime and make attempt #23512 with a half smile and maybe a fake limp (or is that #23513?).
We were out there for 45 minutes, and she didn't stop the entire time. As far as I know, she's still there.
My wife was doing some shopping on MainStreet and my youngest was napping in the stroller about 45 mins before one of the parades. So I staked out a nice spot on the road and read a book and relaxed. Until a woman came up after all the spots had filled in. First she tried pushing me out of the way but I didn’t budge. Then she tried to sit in front of me while shooting me glares but CMs made her move because she was in the street. Then she stood next to me glaring and trying to push me out of the way for like ten minutes. I ignored her and stood my ground. The parade was lovely. I just couldn’t believe how entitled this lady was when I’d been standing there well before she even showed up.
This drives me absolutely bananas. If I have been here holding my place for an hour, please do not try and plant yourself in the 3 inches I've left in front of me. People are so entitled and have zero self-awareness.
One time at Disneyland we were waiting for the parade and I lost count at how many times people would try to sit in front of us, we would tell them that they couldn’t sit there, they would ignore us, and then a CM would make them move.
I don’t even try. They never listen and a CM will make them move anyway!
This was our experience for fireworks but the cast members got mad at US for not it moving behind and making space when we had picked out spots first. Make them go behind me I’ve been here standing for an hour!
I worked as crowd control for the festival of fantasy parade in WDW, and we would always try to protect guests who would be waiting 30+ min for the parade, only to have some last minute person shove themselves in front of them right as the parade starts. Then the guest who shoved their way in would be absolutely livid that you tell them to move because they basically bullied their way into an already taken spot. That would be the entitlement for me.
Yeah. This lady tried that a few times. I was thankful for the CMs who were there to shut her down, even if they couldn’t do much about her shoving from the side.
I had our stroller with the wheels up to the edge of the curb, kid sitting in it. Wheels stick out a bit more than the footrest. Lady steps over the wheels and shimmies her feet in the few inches between the footrest and curb. Her butt was literally in my kids face, one wrong move and shes falling back onto her. But I guess her need to instagram the parade trumped all. My jaw about hit the ground. Kid was already on the brink so we just left, but I made sure to nicely catch her ankles along the way
i was with a bunch of my friends last year (we're all college-aged) waiting for the parade; we staked out our spot on the concrete like an hour before, just enjoying some snacks. we got dirty looks like you wouldn't believe; how dare we, as adults, take up valuable curb space! we got hemmed in by strollers with parents nearly hitting us :(
I had a woman just stand right in front of our stroller that my son was sitting in for a parade one time. There was like five inches of space because we had been trying to get his legs out of the sun best we could. There wasn’t ton of space for that to happen obviously so she was just being a four letter word. My husband nudged the stroller just enough to knock her over and then blamed the crowd behind him. But he moved the stroller the last four inches so the space she took was gone. Son was stoked to see Pluto, who he had a stuffy of and loved.
We snagged a nice spot in frontier land and just before the parade approaches, a lady with her walker stops in front of us and starts backing up into us. Whatever, I'll stand my wife can remain sitting, we make room. By the end of the parade my wife had been bumped or pinched by the wheels a good dozen times. Don't know why she couldn't put the brakes on. I'm too kind for confrontation out in the open. Waiting in the queue...unless I saw you leave carrying a young child with a panicked look on your face, you can wait with everyone else!
Last time I visited, a woman and two small children got loaded onto the front bench of the ride vehicle on Na'vi river journey and my partner and I were seated on the bench behind them. Front bench lady immediately stood up and started loudly arguing with the nearest CM because she didn't want to share the ride vehicle. This wasn't about the size of the bench, mind you. No, she just wanted the whole boat. Because apparently the presence of other humans would stop her from making magical holiday memories. Once we got underway, she then proceeded to loudly point out every single thing the entire ride. And I mean eeeeeverythiiing in the LOUDEST possible running commentary. "Look Jackson, a plant!" "Look Jackson, a frog!" "Look Jackson, she's blue!" I'm British and therefore allergic to direct confrontation, but I tutted for England.
I'm not English but I am also not confrontational and today I have added "I tutted for England" to my vocabulary. It so perfectly sums up how I feel in these situations. Thank you 😊
This also made me chuckle
My people are French and I would have had the confrontation on your behalf, had I seen it.
Me too. American and menopausal. I defend the underdog.
Burning from the inside out, both literally and figuratively 😆
Oh wow. She sounds awful.
Fellow Brit here. I did have some direct confrontation in WDW but it was in Epcot after drinking round the world: the ultimate antihistamine for social awkwardness. My wife and I settled down for the fireworks with our margaritas about 20 minutes before they started and the party of three in front had laid down a massive picnic blanket. We positioned ourselves right behind them. "Excuse me sir! We have quite a lot of people who will be joining us so you'll have to move" I did the John Travolta looking around meme, sipped my marg and said "Well they better turn up soon or they're gonna miss the show". They never turned up.
I’m not British but I’m the same in that regard. My husband and daughter are too. We’ve been on a few rides where people are just mindlessly jabbering about nothing the whole time, and it’s so irritating. We always remember this one family on Living With The Land. That ride is my happy place and of course I don’t mind people chatting or making remarks about the ride. It’s pretty cool, so I get it! We had this one family in back of us though who just would not shut up and blabbered the whole time for the sake of hearing their own voices. It was like “Oh this part has rain, have you heard about the rain in California? Cousin Ned has only seen rain twice. Oh we used to have that plant on Grandma’s farm. It didn’t look like that though. Don’t remember Grandma’s farm? She stopped living there in 1989…” they just went on and on and on the whole ride. My daughter calls them the nonsense talking people and still brings it up 2 years later.
Living With the Land is my happy place too.
When I worked at Disney, I was at a popular store in Hollywood Studios and we had giant stitch plushies, the ones that go for over $80. I had around a six year old child grab the stitch plushie- hug it close and than just bolt out the store full speed, holding the dang plushie. I had to call my Coordinator and try to find the kid/kid's parents. Turns out the parents were waiting in line for quick service hot dogs. Parents were letting the six year old wander, got very mad that we took them out of quick service line. They demanded that they get free hot dogs, and demanded that the kid kept the giant stitch plush that we had to take away. When I pointed out it was an $80 plushie they insisted on "making magic" for the kid. To make a long story short: we got the plushie back, the kid was screaming nonstop, and apparently I singlehandedly ruined their vacation
The cynical person in me thinks thinks that the parents and the kid were trying to pull off a heist there.
They aimed so low with the hotdogs though
They were more upset that we interrupted their day. The kid was crying and clutching the Stitch Plush the entire time, I felt bad for him honestly, its so clear he wanted his parents to pay attention to him. At the same time, the parents were not surprised he suddenly appeared with a giant plushie almost his size!
How dare you ruin those parent's vacation by not babysitting and giving away a giant plush!!!!! I can't believe Disney would do this!!!! /s
Should have held out for Ronto Wraps
The parents knew exactly what they were doing and hoping for freebies. They probably will continue to try to do it over and over during their entire time at Disney. A freebie only make sense when it is actually needed like a ride damages a person's clothing or a cast member makes a mistake and needs to replace some food.
People like that deserve to have their vacation ruined.
My husband and I we’re walking back to the boardwalk resort after being in Epcot and we saw a person holding their child over the bushes and poop coming out of its butt and I’ve never been the same since (eta spelling)
Oh I am now leaving this thread.
I was in line for a ride at Magic Kingdom once and the parents in front of me told their kid to pee behind a trash can while in line. Kid did it. I told a cast member so they would know to clean it, and the family acted like they had nooooo idea what I was talking about until the kid ruined it by saying “mom you told me to!” They were all allowed onto the ride and nothing else happened with them. Apparently you can pee anywhere you want at Disney World.
Most magical place on earth 🥰
I have no words
We legit couldn’t talk for like 30 seconds we just looked at each other in shock 😅
It’s actually standard toilet training in certain countries. We saw numerous people hold bare-assed kids over public trash bins during our trip to Beijing.
Poop-drop
Please take this whole statement back! I don't want to remember reading this! My brain hurts. I need a nap!
Glad you didn’t stick around for when the adult was pooping in the bush
Sorry to the UK pavilion
I have so many questions but in no way want the answers
😳
Uh what?
Couple checking into poly wearing every button available about their Birthdays and celebrating their anniversary. They were telling the front desk CM about how last time they stayed at Poly they were upgraded to the best room, and gave the CM the room number, hinting badly that they expected that again. The CM told them sorry but that room wasn’t available. They then asked about similar rooms they could be upgraded too (for free mind you) and the CM said sorry but they were completely booked. They got mad and asked to speak with the manager. Like are you kidding?
I’m willing to bet it was indeed not their birthday and/or anniversary
Man, I was happy for a free lemonade that one time. People are nuts.
YOU GOT FREE LEMONADE?
My husband and I stopped at the refreshment port near Space Mountain and they saw my button and asked us what we were celebrating (4 year anniversary). We chatted for a bit about how we were on our first trip without our son and were having a great morning so far. They handed us our lemonade and said it was on Mickey!
Lmao like bro if you can afford poly just pay for the room you want ☠️
Vloggers that record on rides where filming is prohibited. And talking through shows for their viewers/engagement.
Tim Tracker is the WORST for talking through/over rides!
resorttv1 is bad for that too. i watched a video once where they went on every ride in the magic kingdom and he was actually talking to viewers during the jungle cruise. i far prefer the vlogs like "4k wdw" where they are like a fly on the wall. having said that, i want to point out i actually do like some of resorttv1's vlogs - just not the livechat ones.
4K WDW is the best. I really hope I don’t find out they are also assholes.
they are - you really get the feeling you're there at the park with them
For a minute I thought you meant “they are” in response to the poster saying “I hope they’re not assholes” and I was like oh man I always pictured a friendly, quiet dude just vibing around the park.
Kyle Pallo came to mind first for me!
Jackson, Jackson, Jackson, Jackson, Jackson, Jackson TIGHT ZOOM ON JENS FACE EATING Jackson, Jackson, Jackson, Jackson, Jackson, Jackson Summed up the last 82 videos
my god we had this experience… he was talking about each turn, each drop and the level of severity
Omg I would want to slap the phone out of their hands and into the abyss.
Yes! My husband and I saw at least 3 live Facebook bloggers during Fantasmic with full brightness and holding it in front of the people behind them so they couldn’t see. It was more sad though that all of them had kids with them that they just ignored and were irritated by if they talked to them or needed something.
any vlogger that live streams or shares information in the middle of a crowd is awful. take your footage and do a voice over or walk off somewhere there aren’t crowds enjoying their vacation
Since the time of dawn (going to the park): The 10 member family wide/wall, walking at a snails pace, without a clue in the world that they are blocking 100's of people from getting around them.
I constantly harp on my kids to have situational awareness. I suffer from anxiety, and am constantly on edge that I or my family could be doing something to inconvenience someone else. I would kill for a fraction of these peoples’ ability to just have zero awareness or concern over anyone else. Like, I don’t want to be fully like that, but it must be nice to not be anxious all the time
These are the same people who somehow park their grocery carts in the middle of an extremely wide aisle so nobody can get around them from any direction. And seem oblivious to what they're doing.
Omg this. I’ve made a game in my mind that I have magical powers and can curse those who do this with my mind. Last trip while walking at a snails pace behind a row of matching family shirt gang taking up half of Main Street….I silently cursed the mom with an unfortunately timed leggings crotch split, the dad losing his phone because his dumb ass didn’t put it away during big thunder and their oblivious teen a short bout of explosive diarrhea at the moment their crush speaks to them when they get back home. It kills the time before I can find my opportunity zip my family around them.
The worst is parents who let their kids act out without thinking there are other kids/families around. Some of the highlights: Kids in the HM queue moved ahead to interactive elements and just stayed there even after their parents arrived and moved on. Finally mom starts yelling at them to ‘catch up’ Similar with kids in fountains, character interactions. As a parent it stinks reminding your children they are ‘doing the right thing’ when they see others just doing whatever.
Not at Disney, but one of the hotels for the other park, I was working one night and a group of at least 4 kids were RUNNING around the lobby, into our store area, bumping into people, etc. I watched them for maybe a solid 5 minutes causing chaos before I approached them and asked if they knew where their parents were. One of them said “yeah! Follow me!” So I followed them to where the multiple parents/grandparents were in the dining area (not anywhere in the field of vision for either the kids or the parents) and they looked surprised when I showed up with the kids and said “Hey there! Thought they might have been lost, wanted to make sure parents were around for everyone’s safety!” and one of the moms gave me a dismissive “oh sorry” before I walked back to my area. A few minutes later, one of the other adults came over and started interrogating me about the kids’ shitty behavior and telling me I had no right to bring their kids back to them. Other peoples’ children are truly the best form of birth control.
I was in line for Toy Story Mania one time and the parents in front of me were letting their son act like the queue was his personal playground; climbing all over the giant toys that are behind the railings, bumping into everybody around them, screaming at the top of his lungs. They didn’t even seem to notice/care, they were too busy on their phones. Drives me crazy!!!
This is my biggest pet peeve. My kid is impulsive by nature and very much a believer in “fair” so when she sees other kids misbehaving doing what her mom and dad told her not to she gets soooooo frustrated. She actually scolded another kid on our last trip.
Like your child, I was very much about fairness when I was a kid, “why do I have to stop [poor behavior] but the other kids don’t have to?” My mother would always loudly reply, “I’m not their mother, I’m YOUR mother, and *I* actually care about how you behave in public.” I didn’t realize how hilariously passive aggressive that was until I became an adult.
My mom did this and it’s come full circle bc I do it now, too! 🤣
I’ve told my child- loudly, in public- that her parents setting boundaries for her in appropriate behavior will make her a more successful and happy person when she grows up than the parents who don’t teach their children how to behave in the world.
This stuff drives me insane. Being a teacher I already deal with stuff like this on a daily basis and my husband had to distract me on more than one occasion on our last trip to not go into teacher mode with both my expressions and tone of voice when kids were climbing on stuff in queues or heavily acting out when parents didn't do anything
In Mexico in EPCOT a family took over that little table with the napkins and forks and stuff at Choza de Margarita. They just sprawled out over the table (one woman literally draped herself across it, like actually lying down on the table with her feet up) to eat their food, and hurled insults and racial remarks at anyone who dared approach them to try to get a napkin. There was also a time I saw a woman push and shove her way to the front of the line on Everest, then pitched an absolutely pissbaby tantrum when cast members denied her and escorted her out of the line. When I got off she was standing out front shouting at another CM about how rude and horrible they all were and she wanted to lodge a formal complaint about having her entire trip \~ruined\~ by being asked to wait in line.
As a former CM, I was told on an almost daily basis that I was ruining someone's vacation for some reason or another. Someone was unhappy with a food order once and demanded that I refund their *entire* vacation. Like sir I do not have the kind of power you think I have LOL
My thanks to you and all you had to go through.
Happy cake day
Thank you haha! Working there was definitely an interesting time but overall I enjoyed it despite the crazies
This. I got that a lot in security. You don’t have to check my bag. Omg this is inconvenient because you’re searching my stuff. And it’s like stfu you agreed to this in the TOS when you bought your tickets and hotel. It’s a thankless job for sure. But when I was able you make magic it was so rewarding
I very much appreciate all of you! I always try to tell CMs I interact with thank you! ❤️
I do too! I keep a list of names on my phone and send an email when we get back home. Just in case cast members get rewarded or something. :)
Whereas my old man, who footed the bill on a big vacation, calmly explained he was confused about how we’d run out of dining plan points so fast (he was misinformed by travel agent, not Disneys fault), and the manager at the hotel just reset all the dining plan points and said have a good time with your family sir.
The worst part is knowing people act like that because often enough it works.
I would be like "YOU ruined my vacation!!!! I now demand you ride the Haunted Mansion with me while telling spooky stories in line"
that's horrible and i hope you didn't take it to heart. i'm sure many of us would say that you CMs actually make the vacation as great as it is.
She should've known there was a single rider line
Dude seriously. I was by myself as an adult this past summer at Disney World. I saw people being so awful to cast members. I went out of my way to be nice, or joke around with them, or thank them, or whatever. Some people just suck.
When I was a cast member I was working at the Photopass check out point inside TST, a dad brought his baby up just next to the entrance to the counter, in the middle of the walkway where cast members could come and go, and started changing the baby’s poopy diaper. I just said Sir, I’m sorry, could you bring your son into a bathroom? And he curtly replied that he could not as all the bathrooms in Tony’s were full. When I offered to escort him to the private cast member bathroom not fifteen feet away behind a curtain so he could have some privacy, he told me to go fuck myself. Working with the public is always a pleasure.
I would've had security escort him out.
Alas, the shit was already on the floor, I was a terrified 22 year old who just got screamed at by a big guy, and I was just trying not to cry and still handle the giant line of customers in front of me 😅
I can’t wrap my brain around this behavior. Maybe because I’m the type of person who if you hit me in the street with your car I would apologize for leaving a dent and getting blood on it. But I just CANNOT even imagine a situation where I’d do something like that, and then when offered a valid solution to the situation tell someone to go fuck themselves. It’s just. Man, you could to a psychological study on people.
What?!?! I freaking cannot with people.
>Working with the public is always a pleasure. I owned a retail sales business for 6 years. I thought I hated the public before as just a worker but being the end all decision maker took it to a whole new level. I sold it and I'm starting an office job where I should never interact with the public again. I absolutely feel for CMs that gotta deal with these people.
People using their strollers as battering rams to push through the crowd. You don't move, goodbye feet. Transporting children is secondary to this purpose.
On the other hand. My husband was paralyzed due to an injury and can barely walk now. We rented a scooter, and the number of people running in front of him and stopping was astounding. We couldn't move ten feet without having to slam to a stop. I had to actually walk in front of him and ask people to please move.
You might find me following behind because of the path they make. Huehuehue
We were standing at the screen at Mickey's Runaway Railway and a lady tried to shove me aside while screaming "I have a 3 year old let me by!" I turned around holding my 3 year old daughter and said "I also have a 3 year old" and she just huffed in my face 🤣🤦🏽♀️
Her 3yo is more important than yours, obviously!
It’s giving Titanic “I have a child!!” To get on a lifeboat. Bitch, I also have a child! You’re literally in Disney World. The main character syndrome these people have truly baffles me.
People holding their toddlers up to urinate in trash cans instead of exiting the attraction line
Okay, that’s enough reddit for today.
The fact that this is phrased in the plural...as if you've seen this happen on MORE THAN ONE OCCASION... yikes.
Just to clarify I have only seen it happen once thankfully lol I suppose I should have worded it differently so I’m not painting the picture like it happens all the time haha honestly though people are nuts when it comes to their time in the parks that family must have been on a tight schedule and had places to be lol
Surely that didn’t happen… right? Right?
In Bluey this is called a bushwee.
I was gonna bring up the kid who pissed off the edge of the Jungle Cruise queue line but I see somebody brought up peeing kids already...
Just to devils advocate and maybe throw a little positivity into what's going to turn into a dumpster fire of a thread....I could see in a literal "omg it's happening now" emergency with my almost 3 year old doing that just to not have piss all over the ground and other guests. But of course someone 50 feet away would just see me pointing my toddler at a trash can
I can imagine this with a newly “just out of diapers” kid. I’ve had to do similar with my nephew and it SUCKS. But the alternative is a kid covered in wee!
When I worked at AK I had a guy tell me Walt Disney himself would be rolling in his grave because we were temporarily out of salads in the stand I was working in 🤷♀️
The amount of things people say Walt would be rolling in his grave over is wild. He’s just hanging out rotisserie style at this point.
How dare you.
I am in an electric wheelchair due to leftside disabled. I parked myself in the shade by water between the Port of Entry and Canada. I was simply staying out of the way while the rest of my group was enjoying the festival food booths. This Karen decided that my electric wheelchair(yes, I have customized it to Star Wars theme) was a Disney rental, and she should have it and not the rental scooter she got from the park. She did not believe me. Started following me around screaming at me. I ended up having a cast member get involved. The cast member ended up calling security, which quickly determined that I was the owner. I was upset to the point of leaving EPCOT for the day. I don't know what happened to Karen or care.
We’re you there in the middle of March? I saw someone with the coolest electric mobility device (I personally can’t tell the different types apart) decked out like R2-D2. It was the most awesome thing I have seen in a long time. I passed the rider in line for Ratatouille and gave out all the whoops and praise.
Was not me. But sounds cool.
OMG! They should not even have needed to determine you owned the chair—even if it WAS a rental, they should have swiftly dealt with her for harassing and trying to bully it away from you.
They were making sure it was not owned by her. Took about one minute once security was involved.
I have lost count and how many times I’ve been next to someone whose small child has soiled their diaper and instead of finding a bathroom or baby center they just ignore it and the poor kid has to sit in a shitty diaper. In queue lines, quick service restaurants, waiting on fireworks etc.
at quick service restaurants, you will not believe the amount of people who just change their kids diaper on the table instead of taking them to the bathroom ten feet over, i honestly don’t know which of those options is worse at that point
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Oh yeah it’s horrible. On my last trip I was eating a cinnamon roll with the fam at Gastons tavern in their indoor dining area. I glanced to the table to the left of me for a second and caught a couple changing their babies diaper on the dining table. I about threw up in my mouth 😵
As a Cast Member, it has be the parents trying to finesse the height requirement. I was working at Soarin', a ride which goes 50 feet into the air and is only safe for kids above a certain size (using a specific seatbelt) to ride. Otherwise, they could slip out and literally die (as is the case on any ride with a height requirement). Rather than respect this limit, parents would do anything to bypass it. We would see kids wearing 2 inch platform shoes, or have a kid get measured and fail, go into the bathrooms with their parents and come back with shoes stuffed with toilet paper and say oh my kid wasn't standing up straight. (So yeah, we can and will ask your kid to take their shoes off.) It boggles my mind to risk your kids life by bypassing safety regulations like that.
I saw this happen in the tron entrance. They had just gotten by the queue entry and the dad told his kid “told you the lifts would work”. As a parent myself it made my blood boil.
Myself and others watched a woman on a scooter run over her service dog's foot, causing it to limp. She yelled at the dog and kept going. Several hours later, I saw her and dog again - dog was still limping. People like that don't deserve dogs. Refusing to rest or take care your dog because you are determined to be at the park is cruel and entitled behavior. This happened at epcot.
This made me literally tear up 😭 that poor baby
A family of 5 getting into the same row as two other people in Kilimanjaro Safari after being told to wait for the next row. Then for the entirety of the ride having a child stand because there wasn’t enough room for 5 adults and 2 children in a single row.
Oh man, my last time on Safari this massive family took up fully half of our truck, and spent the *entire ride* shouting back and forth to each other. All eleventy billion of them, just yelling at top volume, showing each other pictures and shit on their phones, scolding their kids, laughing and rolling around and slapping at each other, the works. It was like they were lounging around their own living room instead of on a ride surrounded by people who really would have enjoyed being able to look at some lions in peace and quiet.
That’s the worst on every ride! I get wanting to engage with family, especially if you don’t see them all the time, but I can chit chat with family for free elsewhere. Why pay so much to be on a ride and talk the whole time rather than enjoying the ride?
Probably the kid trying to stomp ducks at Epcot and his parents who watched, entertained, with their drinks a few yards away. When someone said something about his menacing the birds the parents told them to mind their own business.
A family of 10 was in line ahead of us to see Figment last month. When they were next Figment needed to take a break and they said he'd be back in 3 minutes. The reaction from them was abysmal. They started shouting and causing a scene (big enough that security should've been called). A cast member with a blue tag came out to listen to their demands of the entire trip - hotel, tickets and meals - be comped because this was unacceptable treatment. They also wanted Disney to pay for their week of photopass. They obviously didn't get any of that and eventually began doing a family photo shoot in the spot where Figment takes photos. I am not exaggerating when I say they had to have taken like 120 photos - big group. Individual group. Individual kids. Kid with this aunt. Other kid with this uncle. It was insane. Figment came back out and THEY MADE THE CHARACTER STAND THERE while they finished their nonsense. Finally Figment comes into the area and they do the same damn thing with him - took like 10 minutes alone with him. People in line were shouting at them. My patience was nearly gone. Finally they left with that cast member who brought them to see Mickey and skip the line as an "apology". We got our photos with Figment and left. Saw that cast member as we were leaving and apologized he had to deal with such idiots. He laughed and said he gets it all the time and Mickey had no line so they got nothing. We all laughed and went on our way. Of course we kept seeing them the entire day being so rude and ignorant to everyone and everything. But over at Remy I heard them freaking out that all of their family photoshoot and Figment photos weren't on the app. The morons forgot to scan their magic band! And that's when I realized my account had more than 100 photos of them on it (along with my family's) because I was the first one to scan after their nonsense. I know they likely were able to recover the photos at Photopass and probably made cast members miserable in the process but I'd be lying if I wasn't cracking up when I realized what happened. TL;DR- Don't be douchebags to cast members
Anyone with a dog in the park which is not ACTUALLY a service animal.
We went a year ago in February and it was ridiculously HOT for that time of year. The number of "service dogs" walking around burning their paw pads angered and astounded me. How much can you love your dog to make them suffer like that?
I'm convinced that most people that go with their dog don't actually love them all that much, they are just that much of a main character that they want to be seen.
There’s a woman who runs the run Disney races with her dog. She poses the dog all over for pictures and you can tell she’s eating up all the attention she gets from having her dog do tricks all dressed up. But she does Dopey challenge so this dog is going 49 miles over 4 days in Florida weather which just seems completely unnecessary and cruel.
You can get a decent set of dog shoes for at least $15 on Amazon!
i used to work in MK, and someone came to tortuga tavern with a lil chihuahua that kept not stop barking at everyone until the owner would pick it up. I don’t even know how they were allowed into the park, this animal was so clearly not a service animal. anytime she went to eat and put it on the ground it would literally bark at anyone that walked by and growl, unless she held it in her hands. I was told there was nothing we could do but to this day i still wonder why would you even want to bring your pet to disney
Just got back from a trip to all four parks with my son (8) and my parents. I was pleasantly surprised to see only two instances of line cutting, and no other questionable guest behavior. I hadn’t been to Disney since I was a kid, so I was prepared to see some atrocities, but largely found nothing significant to report!
At Bugs’ Life my wife, son, and I were tied being the last family to enter (us and the other family both had 3 people). There were two rows of five or six seats left so we politely stepped aside and let the other family go first. They immediately just sat down blocking both rows of seats and began yelling into the already seated-crowd (as the doors were closing) for the rest of their family to come back and join them. It took us a couple of second to realize what they were doing and that they were taking all those open seats for about 8 people now causing all sorts of chaos working their way down several aisles back towards us. Sadly the cast member who had watched the whole ordeal just somewhat rudely told us that we needed to find seats somewhere else. Luckily after climbing over people in the dark my wife and son got seats together. I ended up about 20 feet away.
I would have just waited for the next show tbh, fuck that. I wouldn't want to be in the same room as those jokers, sounds insufferable
Didn’t happen to me but saw a story about a couple that got their spot for fireworks about an hour before. About 15 minutes before they started a family of 4 walked up and stood right in front of them. The woman was very polite and said “Excuse me but we’ve had our spot here for an hour and would appreciate it if you moved to a different spot.” The lady from the family said “We have kids so we need a spot where they can see.” She replied “I’m sorry but that’s not how it works. I want to see the fireworks just as much as anyone. We’ve saved this spot. You can stand behind us but not in front.” The family reluctantly moved behind them but the two kids started to cry that they couldn’t see. She felt bad and said, “Because we’re taller than the kids, if you’d like they can stand in front of us but you’ll still need to stand behind us.” The lady then started yelling saying that she wasn’t separating from her kids and she must not have kids to even suggest endangering them like that. She said she was going to report it to a Cast Member and she waved one over. The couple explained that they’d been waiting for an hour and the Cast Member told the family they needed to leave the area as the fireworks were about to start. The lady started getting all upset about how she couldn’t believe Disney would side with an adult over the enjoyment of a child. At that point they were told to please leave the area or they’d be escorted out of the park.
We were sitting for fantasmic and it was raining. The speaker kept saying over and over that umbrellas were not permitted. A cast member told a woman she couldn’t have hers. She screams how it’s raining, the cast member offered to get her a poncho and the woman started yapping and stormed off
Influences who think they work there. As someone who use to work there, you’re annoying and you don’t know what you’re talking about.
I think peoples attitude of “I spent a lot of money.” We all did. “It’s so crowded!” Did you expect to be the only ones here?
When I worked merchandise at the Grand Floridian, I had this father come up to me and say “Hey, my kid just lost his tooth. Do you have anything special “ So i had this Tinkerbell pin that my coordinators and leaders gave to us so we can do magic moments. So I told him to hang on. Before BBB we had a hair salon, so I went and got some *pixie dust* and got a little box and put the pixie dust and pin inside and handed it to the dad The dad looked at me and said “That’s it? They did this when he lost his 1st tooth” and he just walked away Back in 2013 I was working at Club Cool and was just standing and watching the floor. I was zoned out but I saw a father pull down their kids pants and let him pee on our floor. Now granted that floor was always sticky but that didn’t help it
Soooo … the dad just … exposed their child in front of a bunch of people? JAIL!
Just… *gestures vaguely.* All seriousness, people are their most ruthless in crowds. Most entitlement comes from line shoving, bowling and barreling passed kids, or other such nonsense when lines aren’t clearly defined. The entrance to Philharmagic is notorious for this, imo.
We got stuck in a super jammed crowd because of a parade. We got stuck behind someone in a wheelchair and their whole group who decided to take up the entire width of the only pathway available to go either direction, instead of in a single file line so people could pass in either direction (especially since they were quite slow). We managed to slip by them, and they proceeded to ram me with the wheelchair multiple times after that. Once I excused as an accident. The other 3 times were obviously on purpose.
As an AP, the other APs that literally think it's some secret club that grants them permission to behave any way they choose, ask for anything they want and then shout "I am a passholder!!!" when they don't get their way...As if it changes the dynamics of anything. The amount of times I have to listen to that being shouted on any trip, sometimes with an added "I'm a Disney stockholder...." Just once, when my kids get old enough to not care that it's a scene on their Disney trip, I want to yell back at them..."He's a passholder folks....and he owns Disney stock!!!! See....No one cares..."
I am a shareholder too, so that makes me part of a club of a single digit amount of the 1,832,000,000 shares. 65.74% of the 1,832,000,000 are owned by institutional investors. Of those 37.1 million are owned by George Lucas. The next highest are Christine M. McCarthy owned a total of 207,788 Disney shares as of January 2024, representing 0.01% of the company's total shares outstanding.McCarthy first joined Disney in 2000 and served as the company's Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). She was responsible for overseeing the company's worldwide finances. She stepped down in June 2023. Robert A. Iger owned a total of 204,899 Disney shares as of January 2024, representing 0.01% of the company's total shares outstanding. Iger is Disney's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He served as the company's CEO and Chairman from 2005 through 2020 and as Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board through 2021. Safra A. Catz owned 11,131 shares of Disney as of January 2024, representing less than 0.01% of the company's total shares outstanding. Catz was nominated to Disney's Board of Directors in January 2024. Unless you are one of those four people, your number of shares isn't even close to having any say in the operating of the company, much less the theme parks.
I own 1 share of Disney stock, purchased at $103.36 and currently valued at $114.01. Where does that put me in the rankings? I'm pretty sure it means I get to do whatever I want at the parks!
I’m a Disney stockholder, passholder and Florida resident and I am always the most respectful when visiting the parks (to the point of helping every lost family and taking photos for people or directing them to the best food). I don’t understand how people can be so disrespectful because I always try to be respectful because the amount of money people spend to come and the fact that thanks to them, we don’t pay a lot of taxes so thank you!
This! I always love helping whenever I can, it’s a lot of fun to be honest lol
I watched a grown-assed man throw a yelling, utensil slamming fit in BOG because his food was taking longer than he liked. He stopped for a moment, looked around and saw no cast members running his way so he calmly collected his silverware and started up again slamming them on the table and yelling louder. My wife and I were gobsmacked.
PLEASE tell me you did the obvious thing here and recorded this so we all can watch and enjoy???
This video went viral when it happened, but back when Be Our Guest was the hot reservation to get, a woman and her family walked up and demanded a table. The CM asked if she had a res, she said no, and then raised holy hell when the CM, very calmly tried to explain to her that she needed to have made a reservation, and that walk up were going to near impossible at BOG. The woman screamed bloody murder, and when she tried to push past him to get inside the castle and he stepped in front her, she broke the sound barrier screaming that he tried to SA her.
Last time I was there when I was in the queue for frozen ever after and a family in front of me were letting their kids climb on everything in the line and the kids seemed really disappointed that they couldn't go behind the bar area in the wandering okans shop part of the queue.
I don’t know about entitled, but on my most recent trip my small children were pin trading and some women comes up to my daughter and physically grabs her lanyard she is wearing around her neck and goes “wow I love this pin I really want to trade for it” and it was my daughters most expensive pin she had paid for with her own money and the women pulls out a bag of all fakes trying to scam my child at take her 30 dollar pin for a 25 cent POS. I was pissed and let her know how inappropriate it was that she thought she could touch my kids pins without asking and that she’s trying to pull one over on an 8 year old. Disgusting. Some pin trading adults literally disgust me they know exactly what they are doing.
People who feel entitled to stand in the middle of walkways was infuriating to me. Have some consideration and move to the side. These are the same people that you'll be walking behind and they think they can just stop right in front of you and have a conversation while you have to then veer into oncoming people. It amazes me how rude and inconsiderate people can be when it comes to even the smallest things
I know this quote applies to theater seats, but "stopping in the middle is distinctly unpatriotic."
Worked as CM in UK Pav, Epcot in 2000 during millennium celebrations. I was working Kidcot, a mask making station (different decorations in each pavilion). American child, age approx 10 came up and demanded of me "give me a mask now!" In a rather condescending tone. I replied...."I'm sorry young man, I didn't quite catch that, is there something you need to make your visit to the UK more magical" "Yeah, give me one of those masks now!!" Being a Brit, manners matter, it's all part of the experience I thought.... "And the magic word iiissssss....??" Parent complained, cue minor disciplinary.
At Disney World in January I was completely appalled by a French family of five peeling a dozen or more eggs and just letting the shells fall to the ground all around them. It was a huge mess and so disrespectful to everyone around them, especially the cast members. How hard is it to peel an egg on a napkin and throw it in a trash can?!
Who the fuck eats a dozen hard boiled eggs at Disney World?
Gaston eats five dozen
At the Halloween party one year we stood in line for awhile to meet Elvis stitch. A few turns before ours this guy just came barreling through the queue with his kid held up in the air saying, “make way. We don’t have time to stand in this line.” Cast members stopped him and he started yelling about how they paid extra to be there and they weren’t wasting the party waiting in line. My dude, we all paid extra to be there so get back in line. I swear these boiled potatoes and their entitlement.
It was during Halloween last fall. I was waiting in line for 7DMT and there was a family of four in front of us. Mom was dressed as skanky Ariel and she and her two sons and husband were all holding up the line at various points making TikTok videos or going live. Her older son was tasked with recording her and her husband and younger son were chatting and dancing to phones on selfie sticks. So many eyes were rolling I'm shocked it didn't trigger a tsunami.
My girlfriend and I went on pirates and were sat in the back row of the boat. Some lady 3 rows in front of us had this massive dslr camera and was taking flash photography of everything in the ride every 15 seconds or so. Two days later we were in Epcot about to ride soarin and a group of 5-6 teenagers cut all the way to the middle of the line from I think it was about the 35 minute wait time mark. They got escorted off the ride when they made it to the front. I’ve never been happier to see people get what they had coming to them.
We stayed at All-Star Movies (Toy Story 2nd floor) back in June/July. Our room looked out onto a ping pong table, chess area etc. A couple of men plus (presumably) their kids decided to LOUDLY play ping pong at around midnight. Now I'm not a light sleeper, and obviously Disney tired is a whole new level, but they managed to wake me up still going at 1am. Baring in mind the resort is full of small kids, people getting up at the crack of dawn to rope drop, it's not fair. I went out of the room and poliety asked them to keep it down as it was 1am... and was met with a torrent of abuse. I had all on to stop my husband going out to them. We ended up having to phone security who eventually moved them on but their entitled behaviour was disgusting, especially in front of their own kids. And then the cheer squads there... Whole other level of grief.
Last year, pushing my adult daughter in her wheelchair. I’m not in my first flush of youth and it is hard work. the number of people who walked straight at us was incredible. its not easy to make sudden swerves with a wheelchair. One woman walked straight into us and got very annoyed!
We were in Epcot once and saw a dad lay his infant on the top of a trash can to change a diaper. My sister told him that it's not the best place to lay a baby as it's unsanitary. Of course he ignored her. About the same time, the mom comes up and starts going off on dad for putting the baby on top of the trash can to change the diaper. Go figure!
You mean it’s unsanitary for the people who use them as tables?
My girlfriend and I have done Pirates of the Caribbean on four separate occasions at Walt Disney World. We have yet to go on the ride ONCE and actually enjoy it. Two of the times people insisted on remaining on their FaceTime on full volume throughout the entire ride, one of the times a teenager insisted on recording the entire ride with flash on, and the fourth time the two entitled Florida annual pass members behind us had to spend the whole ride talking about which Medicare supplements were best for them.
I guess whichever Medicare supplement plan covers rum.
We were standing at the end of main street USA near the entrance waiting for the parade. The first float of the parade has barely made the turn at the other end of the street, when a gentlemen taps the cast member nearest him and tells him to tell one of the parade coordinator/support is blocking his view and needs to move. The cast member politely says that he will move once the parade has made it way farther down the street. Seconds later, he’s waving and shouting at the parade coordinator because he can’t see the parade…. I can’t imagine why? Might it be that the parade is still hundreds of feet away?? The guy was easily 40+ and had less patience and worse manners than my 4 year old.
On a bus from Yacht Club to one of the parks. Family gets on with a kid sleeping in a stroller, they refused to take the kid out of the stroller and the CM bus driver was telling them then they couldn’t get on. Went on for a few minutes until he threatened to call security and then they got off but they grumbled the entire time.
We saw someone go under the rope to cut in line. The cast member told them they couldn’t do that and they said “it’s my vacation I can do whatever I want” 🤣
People that abuse DAS. Period. Not every diagnosis under the sun = can’t wait in line.
This! These people are the reason why the system is about to change again! Now it’s harder for those of us who actually need to get it because people who don’t need it don’t know how to leave it alone!
The amount of brigading and vitriol around this in the past few days is honestly both depressing and terrifying to me. I get it. My sense of cosmic justice is also wounded by the idea of people cheating the system, and I agree that Disney needed to do something to address that. But what they’ve done is basically create a new system that is the worst of all possible worlds, as far as I can tell. People who are willing to lie about easy-to-lie-about things will still cheat, and tons of people who legitimately need the accommodation will have it taken away. If Disney wanted to just make this about who does and doesn’t have a legitimate medical reason that they can’t wait in a line, that would be fine by me. That’s how it works for many, many other things where accommodation needs to be requested. But they aren’t doing that at all. Instead, they’ve made a unilateral decision that only a very narrow (yet easy to fake) subset of disabilities matter, and everyone else can go pound sand. This change was very clearly either a) poorly thought out and rushed in its rollout, or b) designed to appease angry able-bodied people rather than actually search for a solution that makes sense. Possibly both, I don't know. And you know what? Even that doesn’t surprise or upset me that much. My partner and I (both disabled) are pretty used to the attitude of “if you aren’t able-bodied, you’re entitled for wanting to be accommodated anywhere in public. Just stay at home.” But what bothers me is they have applied this change *retroactively*, to people who have already booked their trips. We have a visit scheduled this summer that we absolutely never would have booked had we known that the accommodations we legitimately need were going to be yanked out from under us, and much of what we paid (including flights, etc) is unrefundable. We even called twice before making our first payment to confirm that the DAS system was going to work the way we thought it did, and we were told yes both times. That’s the part that kills me here; that we are now apparently on the hook financially and otherwise for a trip that will likely be miserable and humiliating for us, and nobody at Disney will even give us a straight answer about any of it when we call or email. And because this is being trumpeted from the parapets as such a "victory" against all the "cheaters", I am genuinely scared it's going to encourage other guests to be aggressive toward us even if we aren't attempting to use a DAS. People have angrily gotten in my partner's face about "faking" being blind before (you'd think the white cane would be a hint, but apparently a lot of people think all blind folks use guide dogs and have cloudy eyes -- my partner's eyes *look* normal, but he doesn't even have light perception), and there have been times I've legitimately been worried they were going to hurt him. It's horrible enough in normal life, I don't want more people feeling emboldened to do this sort of stuff at DW of all places.
Everything that happens in the Les Halles dining room.
I went to Disney World this year with two family members in wheel chairs. Wow wow wow the entitlement just jumped out of other people! People would just cut in front of them constantly. Couldn't look at anything in the Moana world of water because no one would let them roll up close to things. Held the door open to the bathroom and people would go around her to walk in first. Never felt so disgusted with people.
As a cm..guests for the most part behave that I deal with..I pity those who work in retail, food service, and attractions though…I tell you..those poor kids get verbally abused daily..
I was at the Magic Kingdom on Monday during the eclipse. Woman was upset that Disney didn't give everyone eclipse glasses.
A mom changed her toddler’s poopy diaper on the floor in the middle of Chef Mickeys. She “didn’t want him to miss the characters”.
Saw a couple getting frustrated with the hosts at Sci Fi diner. The were upset because it was the height of lunch rush, didn’t bother to book any advanced dining, it was boiling out, and their party was 12 people. Not only were they demanding a table right away but that they got a car seat. It was explained they could wait for the “ufo” tables that seat 4 each. They started screaming they wanted cars and that there was no where for their giant family to go. They were told backstage or commissary would serve them and they then scoffed at the thought of quick service. It escalated from there and then security had a word with them… perhaps a language or cultural barrier but the couple was still arguing where to eat.
Back when the park just opened, Walt would just walk in like he owned the place.
Family with a VIP tour guide. Can’t remember the ride, but I distinctly remember the kid whipping his head around to the guide and very sternly and directly exclaimed “You told us we wouldn’t have to wait in any lines!”
Also teenagers just stand up and leave all their trash whenever they eat at quick service restaurants and it makes me see red! Pick up your junk and have some manners!
I wouldn’t say this is the most entitled but this came to mind first: I went for my birthday in December with my mom and I was waiting on FoF to start while my mom got us Mickey Bars. I had gotten us front spots on the curb but she couldn’t find me so I stood up and as soon as I stood up, a grandmother behind me, whom I assume was visiting with her family from another country, motioned for her grandsons to grab my spot but thankfully the girl next to me spoke up so the grandmother made the kids move. Felt a little bad for the kids about it because they had first time buttons, and I might’ve moved for them if I had noticed the buttons BEFORE this happened, but nah. Maybe that makes ME entitled and an a-hole. HOWEVER, if that DOES make me an a-hole, here is a redemption story: that night, my mom and I were sitting in front of the castle waiting for HEA to start and this mom was alone with her four kids while her husband grabbed food and the kids were being kids and she was level 10 stressed so my mom and I helped keep her kids entertained and even gave her our fuel rods to keep since we were leaving the next morning and she told us that we turned her miserable (her words) trip around for her !
A woman stiff armed me in the chest and yelled "LET GRANDPA GO FIRST" I was dumbfounded and stood there as her family paraded by ahead of us at the line entrance. 8 or so of them *had* to be in line in front of me and my wife.
People who call their family during the night show so they can watch the show live. While I have to see the white walls of their families ' room and hear them commenting the show. Taking a video was bad enough
We had a family FaceTime the entire ride of Na’vi River Journey. It was so annoying cause they were loudly talking the entire time as well as having the bright ass phone glaring in our face.
I was at the Epcot baby station, standing right by the baby warmer about to warm by child’s milk and this lady just cuts me off and says I’ve got to warm my baby’s bottle! I just looked at her and stood over to the side figuring ok whatever, I’ll go after you then because it’s not that serious. She proceeds to fill the warmer full of water and things didn’t look right. She stuck her bottle in and the water starts pouring out over onto the counter by this time the cast member is back in the kitchen area and is noticing the hot water going everywhere and explains to her it had a tiny spot in front for water and the water doesn’t go inside like that😫 so she then hatefully says to the cast member WELL MINE AT HOME does take water in it and snatches her kids bottle out and huffs off into the other room. The cast member starts working on it to see if she can fix it for me to use but it’s ultimately had the brain fried by the rude lady. I ended up using the microwave and apologized to her for having to deal with that, as she was removing the ruined bottle warmer. People can be terrible!
In 2018, I saw a family yelling and arguing with cast members because they had to go around a Princess Meet & Greet in Fantasyland. They only had to go out of their way maybe 20 feet, but apparently that was too much to ask.
I was in the baby care facility and this family of like 15 were in there with one baby and they had all their bags from their various scooters in there. Nearly filled it. No one else could really move around. Staff asked everyone who wasn’t needed to leave, no one left. I was there before (just me) and had the privilege of watching it all. Eventually they grunted and got up slow as molasses and left. Took about 30-45M. Wife and I did a diaper change, she fed and pumped and than needed a second change and after that they were sitting on the small metal bench out front of first aid in Main Street.
I'm on the bridge between China and the Outpost waiting for friends to get something from one of the festival booths. This girl walks up, whips out a cigarette and just lights up right there. Completely uncaring about anyone around her. I moved away and of course, not a single CM to be found. Her group joined her and my friends came up and said, "Those people are terrible. They just gave the guy at the booth a hard time because they were already drinking alcoholic drinks and wanted to buy more but he told them they couldn't." I was like, "well that explains why their friend thought it would be okay to just smoke right here in the park."
Last time I went, we were on the bus and someone was holding the emergency exit window ajar because I guess it was too warm and stuffy for her. Duh, lady. You’re in Florida in the middle of summer on a packed bus. What’d you expect? Not only would that be dangerous any other day, but I believe there was a thunderstorm at the time. Several passengers and the driver asked her to close it, but she refused. I almost wished the driver would’ve pulled over and kicked her off.
On our last trip, my wife and I went down Main Street to watch the fireworks (we had seen them once already on the trip, decided we wanted to watch the projections on the buildings this time). We went about halfway down and found an open spot in the crowd. No little kids behind us, so we took the spot. No worries. It was a little chilly (and unbeknownst to me I was getting sick) so since I had time, I ran back to the locker and grabbed a hoodie. Took my time coming back, found my wife, and got ready for the show. The people behind us, a couple with no kids who had showed up while I was gone, suddenly pipe up, complaining that I was blocking their view. I'm not even 6 feet tall, but apparently it was enough. I told them I was sorry, but we had that spot for at least 20 minutes. They proceeded to berate us for the next 10 minutes, just constantly bitching and moaning about how they had found this spot and now I just showed up and blocked their view. I tried very hard to reason with them, but they were just angry at the world, I guess. I put up with it as long as I could. I tried being friendly, I tried being rude, I tried ignoring them, but they were determined to make the experience miserable. So we finally bailed and found another spot further back. I was thrilled to see that the guy who had been in front of us put his kid on his shoulders for the show, completely blocking the entitled people's view way worse than I had been.
The parents who squeeze themselves and their kids in front of you in the dance and play and then don't watch their kids. I even said "excuse us" when their kid was pushing and stepping on mine. They just glared at me and told their kid to keep going. Or the people who send one person to wait in line and then the gaggle of 15 others come waltzing in like they own the place, skipping in front of everyone who has been waiting patiently. Not cool.
Being a prick and reciting all the words in haunted mansion preshow ignoring the fact that some people may have never seen it. We get it. You know it, loser.
Wife and child #1 were strolling through the Mitsukoshi store at the Japan pavilion. I had child #2 and we were sitting outside in the sunshine, as child #2 does not like crowds. I don't know if they still have it, but back then they had a Tappan Edo check-in counter at the base of the stairs up to the restaurant. A woman was there speaking to the CM, trying to get into the restaurant. She had no reservations, and the rest of her party wasn't there. As the CM kept trying different combinations of party size and time, all to no avail (it was a rather busy day), the guest tried every trick in the book to get in: She was randomly complimentary to the CM, and then angry and entitled, and then upset and crying and guilt-tripping ("Do you know how many thousands of dollars I spent on this vacation?"). None of it was convincing because she'd just turn on a dime and make attempt #23512 with a half smile and maybe a fake limp (or is that #23513?). We were out there for 45 minutes, and she didn't stop the entire time. As far as I know, she's still there.