Yes, I Can See It Too

[Buggy]

Another pet peeve of mine that I forgot to mention in my last message: people who feel it is their job to narrate the ride. Yes, I understand when parents are excited and want to point out to their kids, "look, there's Tigger, and now we're bouncing with him," but...

We were on the rethemed ride in Mexico, and the woman behind me was just listing everything she saw to the woman sitting next to her. There's a planter. That's Donald. We're on a river. Not in an "ooooh look" sort of way, but in an "I must immediately mention everything I see to the person sitting next to me" sort of way.

I couldn't concentrate or enjoy the ride, because I kept hearing what the woman behind me was saying. Sigh. I hope I never sit behind her in a movie theater.

I just wanted to follow her up the exit ramp saying, "we're on an exit ramp now, there are posters to our right. Ah, there's a glass blowers to our left..." But she probably wouldn't have gotten it.

At least she wasn't taking flash pictures. No, that was the lady at the front of the boat. I swear, I don't think I went on one slow moving ride or show where there wasn't flash photography, including the living seas with Nemo. Folks, you're taking a flash photograph of glass. You're just going to get a reflection.... Sigh.

[mechurchlady]

Maybe her friend of she was mentally disabled. Maybe her friend had vision problems. I am active at one board X and only in the disabled section. I talk to myself a lot as it is how i cope with lonelyness and overload.

Maybe it was rude and maybe it was disabilities.

[Big Wallaby]

Yeah, I was thinking that too, that perhaps the person she was talking to was blind. Still, it would be nice for the person doing the talking to do it in the ear of the person they're talking to and not disturb you.

Now the people with the flash photography... well, you're next in a long line of people complaining about that.

[Buggy]

Fair enough. Makes me glad I didn't do anything obnoxious. (Her companion looked elderly, but didn't seem to be disabled, but I didn't watch her for long).

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I must admit, it does sound like that person was describing something to a blind person, Or possibly one that her vision has deterioated to the point of just being able to see vague shapes/colors.

[Kwahati]

I saw a blind person on my recent trip to WDW. He had the white cane, but wasn't using it as he was instead gripping the arm of a woman (his mother possibly?) It just struck me as I noticed him that this particular condition must really suck at WDW. I hope it doesn't come off as offensive for me to say this, I certainly don't mean any disrespect by it and I am of the belief that Disney is for everybody! But it's all so beautiful that I feel like you'd miss so much not seeing it for yourself. I love the music too, but I feel like you could catch most of the the major plot points of rides and shows without hearing them (especially where there are closed captioning devices available). I know you're not supposed to feel bad for differently abled people, but I did feel really bad for this guy... I really can't fathom what it would be like to be in a place that's so beautiful, and not be able to see it. I think, if something ever happened to my eyes (they're bad, but I mean if my vision really failed) I might not ever go back. Knowing what I'm missing would probably be the most miserable feeling I can imagine. :(

Out of curiosity, though, how do people feel about co-narration...like saying the lines with the guy in the Haunted Mansion ("...to find a way out!!! Of course, there's always MY way!!! <insert scream here>") or singing with the Pirates?

[DisneyMom]

Yeah, I was thinking that too, that perhaps the person she was talking to was blind. Still, it would be nice for the person doing the talking to do it in the ear of the person they're talking to and not disturb you.

Now the people with the flash photography... well, you're next in a long line of people complaining about that.

Maybe she was blind because of the Flash Photography?

[Big Wallaby]

I never mind people singing along with Pirates (unless they sound like me), but co-narrating sucks.

[ktulu]

Yeah, singing is one thing, narrating is annoying. Singing is sharing in the joy and fun, narrating is just showing that you've been on that ride one too many times :D:

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I did notice the last time at HM that a lot of people were "mouthing" the words, but they had a look of excitement and seemed to be happy and having fun (non-SG?) doing it!