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[Danielle Harmon]

I too get frustrated with the "sudden stoppers" but I also really ge annoyed with the folks that walk like 7 abreast and weave in a slalom (sp) pattern so there is no way to get around them...oh...did I mention they are moving at the pace of molasses in January?

Now, we don't run through the parks (those people annoy me too because they don't look and knock over kids and run into old people) but we don't mosey either.

Where are those patience pills when you need them?

[janicelovesmickey]

oh that drives me nuts too!!
its like please MOVE OVER!!!

[Mares75]

DBF tends to stop in the middle to look at a map, I'm always pulling him out of the way.

[Mares75]

Ignore this....double post, darn computers

[Nimros]

Who remembers the article someone wrote for one of the Disney sites that gives names/classifies annoying people in the parks???? We even had a thread about it on one of the forums! OMG - it was hysterical!!

Sometimes having fun with those 'little annoyances' (a.k.a. as 'really thoughtless people') really help to make it better.

[HeatherD]

I've seen it happen both ways - people stopping instead of "pulling over" and people legitimately stopping and still getting run into. Sometimes, our party of 6 would slow or stop to be able to work our way over to something (ie: walking down middle of Main Street and trying to get over to a store). If people follow too closely, it's hard to avoid a collision. It's hard, but we also have to take each incident with a grain of salt....you may have been cut off 8 times already, but that may be the first time that family has ever (EVER!) done something like that. I don't always remember that, but I try really hard! (OK, not really hard...I live to snipe about people once I've passed them - but it's still good advice!)

What has bugged me more than the "stoppers" are the "no personal space" people who are hugging you in line (or their kids are playing on the bars/ropes/etc and keep touching your bum!). In these cases, I get a bit passive-aggressive and do something that causes me to bump (oops!) them back a little - kinda pointing out how close they are when all I'm doing is turning to talk to DH...Worst line for this is Haunted Mansion (mostly at DLR) where everyone is jockeying for position after leaving the first room to get on the Doom Buggies.

[Danielle Harmon]

I think the best course of action is what my folks taught me as a child, try to always e aware of others around you and be courteous. It has generally worked very well for me in 34 years. You are right though...there is a big difference in someone who is legitimatly trying to get out of the way and get where they need to go and those who just stop out of the blue and pull out a map to have a discussion...We usually have a stroller and I try very hard to keep it out of people's way and have NEVER run into anyone with it...although I have had a stroller run up my ankles several times...and I was still moving...

[Mom2Stitchy&theDQ]

Originally Posted by alisonhinsley

It's annoying and it doesn't just happen at WDW - for example supermarkets with the added bonus of the trolleys to block aisles

In the supermarket is the worst! Or the mall - people, you are not the only ones there - think of how what you are doing affects everyone else around you!

[Danielle Harmon]

Originally Posted by Mom2Stitchy&theDQ

people, you are not the only ones there - think of how what you are doing affects everyone else around you!

Amen!

[RobDVC]

Way too many people are oblivious to their surroundings... sensory overload, I think.

[sierras76]

We tend to walk slower because of my dad so we are always trying to stay to the sides. I hate then when people pass you and than cut you off. Its obvious when you see my dad that he is disabled and it makes me mad that people can be so mean. I think though that what has been bothering me the most latley is the lack of respect for the kids. Like we were waiting to watch the Not So Scary parade and were right at the beginning. The kids were in the umbrella strollers almost at the line and this older couple walked right in front of them and blocked their view. I am talking that there was just enough space for 1.5 people to stand. I didn't say anything I just picked them up but the lady next to me make sure she let them know how rude they were. Usually I take them out but there really much room for anyone behind us and there was no one there so we thought that it was ok to leave them in.

[Danielle Harmon]

I kow what you mean. No one seems to be aware of others around them...anywhere...

My kids have been blocked, knocked over, pushed out of the way, etc. I went after a young man last time we were there and made him come back and apologize to a little old lady that he practically knocked over. To his credit he seemed sincere (sp) and was upset that he had hurt someone...he was in a hurry and not watching.

I get awful worried for the older folks and little ones when it is crowded. I can't believe people will cut your dad off like that...well okay I can believe it intellectually, but in my heart I just can't believe it...

[cmhand30]

My DS17 is a big offender of stopping, crowding, cutting off, following too closely and whatever else you can think of. But as much as we try to teach him to no avail, he still does it.... you see he has Aspergers Syndrome. He doesn't have much awareness of people around him until he runs them over. So, I apologize for him.

But it does bother me.

[HeatherD]

This reminds me of the most horrible memory I have of DLR - we go every year in December, when crowds are low. The year of the 50th (2005), there was no "value" season, in terms of crowds - they actually closed the park at noon that Saturday we were there (no new tickets could get in).

We decided to enter the park (after dinner at Goofy's Kitchen) to see the fireworks back at Small World (all done up with lights and 1 of 2 places where it snows). It was right after a parade and we were going against the crowds trying to get to Main Street for the fireworks. Yeah, good plan I know. We had DD in a stroller.

Those who know Disneyland know that there is an extreme bottleneck between Materhorn and Alice, trying to get into Fantasyland. We were trying to fight our way through (of course, no one was attempting the "stay to the right" courtesies) and a guy was next to us carrying his son. His son's shoe just happened to be at DD's head level, so you can guess what happened. Several times! My MIL was livid and kept telling the guy his son was kicking her granddaughter's head. She finally grabbed DD out of the stroller (to avoid the concussion, of course ). The guy barely even acknowledged her and never switched his kid to the other side or anything.

Seriously, we were sardines, unable to move forward at times. It is why we now go NOWHERE NEAR the park on Saturday evenings; instead having our traditional Goofy's Kitchen dinner and sending the kids back with the in-laws for bed. Then DH and I will time it better on going into the park (and going left into Adventureland) or into DCA. But I digress, I think....

[Disney 4ever]

I'm sorry to say my mother is one of those "oh look, there's a duck!"-stop-in-the-middle-of-the-walkway,-I'm-the-only-one-in-the-park-so-I'm-not-in-the-way-of-anyone-else kind of people. DRIVES ME UP THE FREAKIN' WALL!!! AND she rides an EVC! Ugg! Last time she went with us I thought I was going to stuff her in one of the graves on the HM! I love you mom, but please!