WonkaKid
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 2, 2009
We all have our pet peeves. When you're at a place such as DL where they are anywhere between 25-50,000 people, the opportunities for annoyance increase tenfold over our typical, day-to-day lives. Here are a few of mine (this is mostly tongue in cheek. Please feel free to add your own):
• Runners (of course, but it had to be mentioned).
• Sprinters. The only type of guest that’s worse than a runner. A all-out sprinter. It’s a blatant violation of park rules but they simply don’t care. This is at its worst when it’s a lone adult. It’s 01% forgivable if they sprint to get their kids in line. But a grown person doing it solely to serve their own interests is unforgivable.
• People that walk shoulder-to-shoulder anywhere in the park but especially in narrower areas.
• Sullen cast members (a rarity). There’s one guy on Buzz Lightyear that we always kind of make fun of because he’s always dour. He’s seen us all at least 100 times and will never say hello or acknowledge us in any way. I did say good morning to him about three weeks ago as I passed him in the exit corridor – we were the only two there – and he still refused to acknowledge me.
• People who reach the very end of an attraction exit and then stop as they stand side-by-side, effectively blocking all other guests.
• As you approach an attraction, a group of 18 slips into line just ahead of you. This usually happens when you’re a party of one.
• When scores don’t come through on Buzz Lightyear. Count on it happening at least once. It’s been messed up for at least the last two years and there seems to be a 0% chance that it’ll ever get fixed. Perhaps they’re putting it off till the 20234 refurb? ;-).
• Sullen park guests. Far more common than sullen CMs.
• Guests that jam the FP queue because they actually have Star Tours FPs rather than Buzz and they then engage the attending CM for ten times longer than is necessary with endless questions. I'm pretty sure some of them are there at least three hours after closing as they defend their Ph.D dissertations to CMs manning the FP return lines ;-).
• People who video their entire ride on Space Mountain or Pirates. They nearly always hold their camera up and largely ruin the experience for everyone else that has the misfortune to ride with them.
• Families/groups at rope drop that send their kids off to get the first-in-line position for PP. This means that they sprint to the ride… and then the rest of the group usually 100 people or so, join the kid while congratulating him for cheating.
• Guests that sneak a drag or two from a cigarette or vape pen (pre or post-ban). It’s terribly rude to do so in a public place where smoking is clearly not allowed. They know that it’s against the rules but since they’re unable to control their addiction, they make it everyone else’s problem.
• People who step right in front of you as you walk in an absolutely straight line towards a narrow opening in a crowd and then stop. They then turn their backs on you. I call such people SSBs: step, stop and blockers.
• AP holders that buy as much limited merch as possible when you’re 99.99999% sure they’ll simply take it home and post it on eBay. Fortunately, Disney is wise to this and often investigates and finds the sellers. If they’re AP-holders, their passes and revoked. Good work, Disney!
• Alcohol at DL (since SWL opened). We’ve gotten along without it for nearly 64 years. Do we really need to have it now? There are literally tens of thousands of bars in California outside of the parks. Find one!
• When you walk into a bathroom and it’s clear someone’s been smoking dope. This is actually worse than smoking cigs. With dope, there are options such as edibles. Or smoke before you leave home. Or after you leave. Or, hey, not at all!
• Passholes like me that give first-timers no quarter and no slack! ;-).
• When Pizza Planet stops dispensing free soda water and begins to charge $3 for an empty cup.
• Runners (of course, but it had to be mentioned).
• Sprinters. The only type of guest that’s worse than a runner. A all-out sprinter. It’s a blatant violation of park rules but they simply don’t care. This is at its worst when it’s a lone adult. It’s 01% forgivable if they sprint to get their kids in line. But a grown person doing it solely to serve their own interests is unforgivable.
• People that walk shoulder-to-shoulder anywhere in the park but especially in narrower areas.
• Sullen cast members (a rarity). There’s one guy on Buzz Lightyear that we always kind of make fun of because he’s always dour. He’s seen us all at least 100 times and will never say hello or acknowledge us in any way. I did say good morning to him about three weeks ago as I passed him in the exit corridor – we were the only two there – and he still refused to acknowledge me.
• People who reach the very end of an attraction exit and then stop as they stand side-by-side, effectively blocking all other guests.
• As you approach an attraction, a group of 18 slips into line just ahead of you. This usually happens when you’re a party of one.
• When scores don’t come through on Buzz Lightyear. Count on it happening at least once. It’s been messed up for at least the last two years and there seems to be a 0% chance that it’ll ever get fixed. Perhaps they’re putting it off till the 20234 refurb? ;-).
• Sullen park guests. Far more common than sullen CMs.
• Guests that jam the FP queue because they actually have Star Tours FPs rather than Buzz and they then engage the attending CM for ten times longer than is necessary with endless questions. I'm pretty sure some of them are there at least three hours after closing as they defend their Ph.D dissertations to CMs manning the FP return lines ;-).
• People who video their entire ride on Space Mountain or Pirates. They nearly always hold their camera up and largely ruin the experience for everyone else that has the misfortune to ride with them.
• Families/groups at rope drop that send their kids off to get the first-in-line position for PP. This means that they sprint to the ride… and then the rest of the group usually 100 people or so, join the kid while congratulating him for cheating.
• Guests that sneak a drag or two from a cigarette or vape pen (pre or post-ban). It’s terribly rude to do so in a public place where smoking is clearly not allowed. They know that it’s against the rules but since they’re unable to control their addiction, they make it everyone else’s problem.
• People who step right in front of you as you walk in an absolutely straight line towards a narrow opening in a crowd and then stop. They then turn their backs on you. I call such people SSBs: step, stop and blockers.
• AP holders that buy as much limited merch as possible when you’re 99.99999% sure they’ll simply take it home and post it on eBay. Fortunately, Disney is wise to this and often investigates and finds the sellers. If they’re AP-holders, their passes and revoked. Good work, Disney!
• Alcohol at DL (since SWL opened). We’ve gotten along without it for nearly 64 years. Do we really need to have it now? There are literally tens of thousands of bars in California outside of the parks. Find one!
• When you walk into a bathroom and it’s clear someone’s been smoking dope. This is actually worse than smoking cigs. With dope, there are options such as edibles. Or smoke before you leave home. Or after you leave. Or, hey, not at all!
• Passholes like me that give first-timers no quarter and no slack! ;-).
• When Pizza Planet stops dispensing free soda water and begins to charge $3 for an empty cup.
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