Cringe-worthy

[AirGoofy]

I almost had a cringe moment - perpetrated by me. It was in HS several years ago when the Little Einstein's came out of their trailers. My DD wanted to see Annie. We waited in line and two others came out, not Annie. Then the CM told us that Annie would come out this afternoon, on the hour. When we returned at that time, the same CM told us that Annie came out at the 1/2 hour, and said that she never told us that. I think I yelled at her, but quickly walked away, realizing my stress with the situation. ---Stress---

The cringe moment I did witness was a man and his family. The man had one of the electric motorized scooters from Disney. He was also able-bodied and able to get up and walk around. At one point, we were waiting to watch the Princess show at the main stage in front of Cinderella's castle. We were close to the back and I had my DD on my shoulders. He was 20 feet away, and he kept ramming his scooter into the back of people, until they moved out of his way. He rammed his way up to the front row. ---Idiot---

Let's hope there is justice for the idiots out there.

 

[Anglefan]

We were staying late in Epcot for Extra Magic Hours, so it was probably close to Midnight. We were boarding the boat ride in Mexico, and there were 2 teenagers behind us. They had obviously been taking something and started to talk about tripping on the ride and wanting to see the fireworks in the ride. They were really out of it, tripping over themselves.

We asked to be in a different boat, and then on the way out, made mention to the cast memeber what we had observed. She seemed young and timid, so I don't really think she did anything. We didn't see them again.

Good story, but you should have made up a better ending. "Nothing happened and we never heard from them again" kinda sucks. I need more closure in my stories.

 

[blondeqtip]

It just goes to show which cultural or racial stereotypes are acceptable on these boards. You can say "this French guy did this" or "this Brazilian kid did that" and everybody agrees how rude it was and shakes their heads with their little blue smileys. But if somebody said "this black guy did this" or "this latino kid did that," you'd have people chiming right in, criticizing the reference to race.

 

[chrysdrew]

Good story, but you should have made up a better ending. "Nothing happened and we never heard from them again" kinda sucks. I need more closure in my stories.

I could make something up for you if you want. Would you prefer humor or tragedy???

 

[duffy]

Good story, but you should have made up a better ending. "Nothing happened and we never heard from them again" kinda sucks. I need more closure in my stories.

Let's make up an ending!!

"We saw them again later waiting in line to get Mickey's autograph, and Mickey ripped up their autograph books and ordered them out of his home!!"

 

[Anglefan]

I could make something up for you if you want. Would you prefer humor or tragedy???

I find tragedy hilarious, so please lay it on thick.

 

[SnowandMittens]

I agree, tragedy please.

 

[BostonRob]

Did I detect a hint of sarcasm in the title of your post?
Don't blame me if you don't understand why my post was on-topic.

 

[eeyoregon]

We were hanging around the Marketplace on our last day and there was a guy walking around wearing a T-shirt with a rather freaky looking Mickey on the front and a big bold "F--- YOU! -From Florida" on the back. Guess he doesn't care much for tourists...

The good news is that he would not be allowed into the parks wearing that shirt. The castmembers would have asked him to turn it inside out or change shirts. What a loser.

My most memorable cringe moment was at park closing at MK at the resort bus loading area. The line was HUGE for our All Stars bus....several hundred poeple and growing.

The bus arrives and they start loading the wheelchair guests. There is a woman near the front of the line that starts screaming, "Seriously!! Enough with the wheelchair crap!!!" and "Why do THEY get to go first?" and so on. How sad considering that one of the wheel chair guest was a make a wish child who was very ill and the parents of this child could hear the woman. If I had been that parent, I would have choked the life out of that satan like woman!!

It boiled my blood something terrible...couldn't fall asleep for hours as I could hear her shrieking devil voice in my head!!! Karma. Hopefully she will get what is coming to her!

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

I also saw a kid peeing into the shrubbery at POFQ while his dad watched. Apparently the 20 foot walk to the bathroom would have been too much for the lad.

This happened to me when I was babysitting. I took the kids to a wildlife preserve. The little boy was around 5 and said, "I have to pee." Before I could even respond, there he was in the middle of the park. People probably thought I was just horrible.

It just goes to show which cultural or racial stereotypes are acceptable on these boards. You can say "this French guy did this" or "this Brazilian kid did that" and everybody agrees how rude it was and shakes their heads with their little blue smileys. But if somebody said "this black guy did this" or "this latino kid did that," you'd have people chiming right in, criticizing the reference to race.

And it seems perfectly acceptable to mock heavier people. Like the story about the woman with her keys on her thong. Why did we need to know that she was pooh-sized? Or talking about how you want to barf when you look at a large relative. Is this really okay to say out loud??

Take a breath and chill out. The poster stating the family was French was pertinant to the whole saying "green bean" in French thing. Found it funny quite myself and not offended at all.

Ummm....she ended her post by saying, "I guess shoving kids is ok in France." Honestly, you can't see how it's offensive to call an entire nation full of people rude and abusive to children?

 

[Julie<3Disney]

The thing that makes me cringe more than anything is anyone who leaves a CS table messy and all of their stuff still there when they should have cleared the table themselves....

... rule of thumb, if you didn't tip- clean up your own mess!!!

 

[VLee]

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I will say, and I don't mean to target any one person's posting that I have seen. I have seen many, many posts where people mention french people or a french person when talking about bad experiences they have had. I just want to point out, that people who mention this while saying the person was french should go ahead and remove the word french from their posting. The main reason being that people stereotype certain nationalities unfortunately, and it really does tag those nationalities negatively.

I agree to a certain point; however, sometimes facts are stated, such as the time I encountered the rude French manager at Le Chefs Restaurant who told me that perhaps I should carry my 80 year old mother "piggy-back" to the Candlelight Processional after the service at his restaurant had been so slow (to the tune of almost 3 1/2 hours) and incompetent, rude waiters had been the reason. The guy was definitely French!! Being from Louisiana, believe I know the difference between one of our French cajuns and the rude Frenchmen I have encountered twice now at Le Chefs!

 

[BostonRob]

I agree to a certain point; however, sometimes facts are stated, such as the time I encountered the rude French manager at Le Chefs Restaurant who told me that perhaps I should carry my 80 year old mother "piggy-back" to the Candlelight Processional after the service at his restaurant had been so slow (to the tune of almost 3 1/2 hours) and incompetent, rude waiters had been the reason. The guy was definitely French!! Being from Louisiana, believe I know the difference between one of our French cajuns and the rude Frenchmen I have encountered twice now at Le Chefs!

So what are you trying to say? That the French are rude?

 

[VLee]

Not at all. Just stating facts...the rude persons at this restaurant were French...does not mean that all Frenchmen are rude.

 

[N&B'smom]

When my DD5 was 13 months old we took her to WDW. I brought along some disposable stick-on placemats for her. Due to all the diaper changing stories I think I will bring them again for all of us when we eat at a CS restaurant! Here's a link to some...

http://www.tabletopper.com/tabletopper/Products/?Name=table_topper

I know I bought them at Babies R Us at the time. Just a thought!!

 

[Buzz Litebeer]

I think she could be that ignorant. My future DIL is a little on the larger size with a very well endowed chest, DDDD. She wears tight fitting jeans that show her rear and her thong when she bends over. She also wears very low cut shirts that show almost everything. She thinks she looks good and has no idea how she appears to other people.

<ahem> One man's meat is another man's poison.

Personally, I have an appreciation for larger (and generously proportioned) women. When I hug someone I don't like feeling like I might break them.

 

[cazcan]

<ahem> One man's meat is another man's poison.

Personally, I have an appreciation for larger (and generously proportioned) women. When I hug someone I don't like feeling like I might break them.

That was such a nice thing to read!!! My cringe thing is when people say how gross larger people are...words hurt people!

 

[dolphindan1]

Take a breath and chill out. The poster stating the family was French was pertinant to the whole saying "green bean" in French thing. Found it funny quite myself and not offended at all.

Thats what I was thinking...if we are gonna get so technical...dont say a mom did this, a dad did that, daughter, son, teenager..etc etc etc....thats still stereotyping isnt it....

just saying...if its relative to the story then it needs to be mentioned I think

 

[luvthemouse71]

Yes, we are so critical. And why is that considered a bad thing? I don't care how "open-minded" and "understanding" I'm supposed to be. Sorry, but if you are at WDW with your family and manage to get yourself so drunk you can't stay awake and your spouse get's into a shouting match over another margarita then you are in the wrong, not me for objecting to your appalling and boorish behaviour. A little more discernment in life and we'd all be better off.

I am getting so tired of all the PC nonsense..Sometimes people act like pigs, plain and simple. I like a drink or two now and then..but it seems like so many people never got away from the binge drinking they did in college. They are incapable of having a good time without alcohol involved. Sad.

 

[Disneyliscious]

<ahem> One man's meat is another man's poison.

Personally, I have an appreciation for larger (and generously proportioned) women. When I hug someone I don't like feeling like I might break them.

Thank GOD someone actually spoke up. What is with people?? They act like if you are thick/fat/pooh/BBW that you are gross. I don't understand it. Now, I agree that everyone, regardless of size, should be tactful in appearance....but why is the word "fat" (or the likes therof) used to degrade the situation or make it seem worse?

Are people really THAT clueless to the billions of dollars a year that are made on the likeness of BBW and BHM? There is a huge market for this.....and the market eixists for a reason - contrary to popular belief.....there ARE people who like it. Imagine that.

What sense of entitlement do some of you have to tell me that Im gross just because Im fat???? I'm 5ft 6in and 275 lbs of blonde hair, big breasts, and a curvy rear. I am HAPPY. Im not a bombshell to everyone....but to many I am.......and comments about large people just appall me.....as would a comment about someone who looks "too skinny and needs a burger".

Does it ever occur to any of you that maybe some of us large people are quite fine with the way we are? It doesn't give us the right to sport around in bikini's tugged up in our cracks any more than it givs you the right to comment on how gross we are bcause we are bigger than you. Again.....TACT.

Its cultural. God forbid you ever see us at a buffet.....I guess you'd vomit.

What if I were laughing at you or calling you gross because you were bony, had no breasts, a flat butt or any other reason related to appearance? How would you feel?

There are folks who find something attractive about the physical apearance of ALL body types. Those of you who don't undrstand that concept display a severe sign of ignorance to reality.

Not being hygenic makes one gross. Being large does not. No one says that you must like large people....and you can certainely think they are gross if you want to.....but it sure must be a sad, sad way to live your life being that we are in a country where 60% of its population is overweight. I can't imagine being grossed out evey day of my life.

I would never donn a white mini-skirt and a in thong in Disney, and the girl should have known better.....however.....how does that make her gross? Are average sized people gross when they do that? Then whats the need to point out that she was fat? You won't sit in a ride after her.....but you'd share a pool and facilties with her if she were in a bathing suit? Is there really that much difference??

I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread and its entertaining stories and I hope there are more to come....but lets not be disrespectful ourselves when pointing out the disrespect of others.

If you're going to tell me Im gross.....at least give me a legitimate reason why.

I'll have a triple layered twinkie covered brownie now.