“HEY…that flying elephant is cutting!”
We spend a lot of time here at Doctor Disney talking about how to make your visits as magical and memory-filled as possible.
But what if you would rather be miserable and unhappy – and make everyone else around you miserable and unhappy as well? Well, that’s super easy to do! If you need some help, we’ve put together a handy list of things you can do to ruin other people’s Disney experiences.
1. Cut in line. Really, no one will mind. They’ve only been waiting about an hour, anyway. What’s a few more minutes?
2. Push others to get a better parade spot. Why bother getting a good spot 45 minutes before the parade starts? You can just push your way to the front. The kids in the strollers are too little to care, anyway.
3. Walk through other people’s pictures. Everyone loves a good photo bomb. An engagement isn’t just a once in a lifetime thing or anything….wait.
4. Don’t read the counter service restaurant menus while in line. You can do it when you get to the register. After all, you need that valuable waiting time to try to beat your “Angry Birds” high score.
5. Berate your spouse/child in public. Because everyone in Fantasyland wants to know what a disappointment your husband is and how your mother was right.
6. Lay on the guilt. You drove all the way here, darn it, so everyone is going to have a good time, regardless of whether the animatronic dinosaurs give them nightmares for the next three years.
7. Don’t control your children. Your Facebook status is not going to update itself, you know. So what if your kid is running into people and screaming in people’s faces? It’s Disney! He’s having fun!
8. Have an adult temper tantrum. You wanted THAT horse on Prince Charming’s Regal Carrousel, and now you are going to pout because the 4 year old got there first. And it’s absolutely the cast members’ fault that Splash Mountain broke down, so it’s imperative to yell at them.
9. Use your stroller as a battering ram. If people don’t want to be run over, they should move faster!
10. Forget your manners. “Excuse me” is for wimps.
So the next time you are in the park, try one of these easy activities to ruin the fun for everyone. Or, you could just avoid them all, have a great time AND help other families make magical memories too. It’s entirely up to you.
Please know that reading these in a serious manner may not be the best way to take them. Think about it and what these 10 methods would do to you if someone pulled them on you.
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Great article, definitely found myself shaking my head in agreement of all ten. Can I add “Have your party of five stop suddenly on the sidewalk to read the park map, and spread yourselves out so you are blocking everyone behind or in front of you from moving”.
LMAO! I JUST posted that exact idea on FB after reading the article. I’ve nearly toppled over at least five times due to that situation.
#9 should include “use your stroller as a shopping cart” because I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen families clogging up the parks with strollers full of all their “stuff” while their toddlers walk alongside.
While I do not try to viciously hit people with my son’s stroller, I am totally guilty of putting my bag in his seat when my he wants to walk or be carried…
Why is that a problem? I should make it easier for you by carrying all of my children’s gear? Or is it because my toddler isn’t human enough to walk, and he should be locked in a seat so you aren’t inconvenienced?
Have seen all of these! Could add if you are using a scooter having everyone just walk across you without looking, especially with strollers.
Oh my gosh! Is it sad I’ve encountered all of these? That engagement photo debacle is every PhotoPass Photographer’s nightmare!
I always wanted to stop at a spot and start a queue where one would never bee and see if anyone joined it.
This is one of the best ideas imaginable.
You forgot taking flash photos on dark rides.
Good article however I would like to stress that while you may think your child is super cute and just expressing their feelings by throwing a screaming tantrum for an hour during dinner or on a packed bus the rest of us don’t appreciate it. Yes you paid for a Disney vacation as we did but that doesn’t give you the right to ruin our dinner with your screaming child, deal with them instead of ignoring them.
How about the ride guy and his kid who boarded the tram from the WRONG side forcing my husband and daughter to get off while the cast member did nothing even though they saw it happen. I was furious! I told him he had to board from the other side and he looked at me all smug and shrugged it off. Then he had to switch seats with his kid because kid was on the outside. I was sooooooo mad. It was raining and my husband and other daughter had to get off and wait for the next tram. Oh….and he was American too so no excuse that he was a foreigner and didn’t understand English.