Stupid Guest Tricks

thomaskr wrote:1) I feel sorry for anyone who has to conduct day-to-day work while on vacation. They should find a new job if they can't put the phone aside for one day. If you have to, leave a "Hi, I'm spending the day with my family at WDW, so please leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as possible." message on your answering service then shut the phone off.

The key part of the word vacation is vacate. Do so!!

We have a local restaurant where the restroom is the "phone booth" of the establishment. They must have a "no cell phones" policy for the employees because they are the worse offenders. It's sometimes hard to get into the restroom to actually use it for its intended purpose because there are so many people chatting away. OK, I'm glad they aren't sitting in the restaurant chatting (although it's a noisy restaurant so I'm not sure you'd hear them if they did) but hey, go outside. The restroom is for other uses!

I have obviously offended a lot of people here with my opinion.

Not everyone is going to agree on everything in life, and why should they have to? I'm being singled out here for an opinion that a lot of people have and now the cell phone users are making me the bad guy for saying what I feel. Isn't that the point of this place, to vent about what bugs you at WDW

I apologize if the wording in my posts was not as tactful as it could have been-but I don't apologize for thinking it is rude when people use cell phones in theme park queues.

You are free to use your phone wherever you like. I certainly can't stop you.

Please, just leave me out of the rest of the conversation from here on. I'm not going to devote any more of my limited online time to it, there is nothing more I can say, because anything I add is just going to make the people who want everyone to agree it's okay angrier, and those who agree with me don't need me to say any more anyway.

Bru

Theme Park Where wrote:We have a local restaurant where the restroom is the "phone booth" of the establishment.

I've lost track of how many times I've been in a stall and someone is yammering away next to me. Whenever that happens, I always get an urge to flush repeatedly. Someday I'll get up the guts to make loud fart noises too.

The other thing that irks me is that people think they have privacy when talking on the phone in public places. I've probably shared this story before: I was on a bus in downtown Seattle and a guy in a suit sitting across the aisle was talking on the phone. He wasn't particularly loud but he wasn't discreet either. I managed to glean from the conversation that he was a judge and the person on the other end was one of his court staff. After he hung up another passenger struck up a conversation with him and at some point she mentioned that he was a judge. His response: "How did you know I was a judge?"

People who get on their cell phones and proceed to use expletives liberally. AROUND CHILDREN!!!!! :mad:

February wrote:I have obviously offended a lot of people here with my opinion.

Not everyone is going to agree on everything in life, and why should they have to? I'm being singled out here for an opinion that a lot of people have and now the cell phone users are making me the bad guy for saying what I feel. Isn't that the point of this place, to vent about what bugs you at WDW

I apologize if the wording in my posts was not as tactful as it could have been-but I don't apologize for thinking it is rude when people use cell phones in theme park queues.

You are free to use your phone wherever you like. I certainly can't stop you.

Please, just leave me out of the rest of the conversation from here on. I'm not going to devote any more of my limited online time to it, there is nothing more I can say, because anything I add is just going to make the people who want everyone to agree it's okay angrier, and those who agree with me don't need me to say any more anyway.

Bru

We catching you on a bad day, February? I have no idea why you'd get the idea that people were dissing your points. What Would Micky Do?

Syndrome wrote:I've lost track of how many times I've been in a stall and someone is yammering away next to me. Whenever that happens, I always get an urge to flush repeatedly. Someday I'll get up the guts to make loud fart noises too.

Yeah! The girls in my dorm were the worst offenders. Most of the time they were really, really long, personal conversations too. I always made sure I flushed, but usually you'd hear "hold on, someone just flushed" (said in a way that they expected actual bathroom patrons to wait until the end of the call)

I hate cell phones, i always put my on vibrate at the parks and if I need to use it, usually because I'm by myself and need to let my family know I'm OK I find an out of the way place to make my call so I dont bother people.

On my last trip to DL I was on Jungle cruise and this akid about 18 to 20 took a phone call during the ride. He couldnt really hear the other person so he was constantly yelling at them to speak up. After a minute of this I started clapping real loud at the spiel and lauging real loud so he couldnt hear but he just kept on the phone so I started to yell at him things like "you must really be important" and "it must be a real important call" but he wasnt getting it. When he fineally got off the phone I said to him "that must have been a real emergeny since you had to take the call through half the ride" he tells me it was and emergancy and I told him he was full of shit and a real jackass for taking a cell phone call during the ride, and yes I did call him a jackass to his face. I was pretty pissed off and I think he could tell because when we got off the boat he made sure to avoid me and leave the area fast. Funny thing is he headed deaper into the park, if it was such an emergency then i would think he would head for the front of the park and leave to deal with it.

I hate people who yack the whole time in line, phones ringing during rides and shows (every movie I go to someones phone rings) texting during a show. I had a girl at WDW, COP phone rings she gets up and leaves sine the door is still open, the CM's close the door and she walks back in just as the building starts to move, building stops and when it re-starts we are a scene off. I wish they could ban them from the parks but they cant and too many people are to damn stupid to to think of others when they use them.

Sorry for the rant but this just "Grinds my gears" as Peter Griffith would say.

Steve

One of the nice things about this board, we can always disagree on certain points, as long as we can take a look at a SG and agree that they are a SG.

I personally think a cell phone and its use can help us in defining a SG, by how they use the tool. It is whether they use it to respectfully talk to those on the other end of the line so you, in the park with them do not have to listen to their conversation. I am of the belief that the parks are a sacred place when it comes to the effect you have on those around you. If you do anything that ruins others' vacation, or even deteriorates from it, then you are a SG.

If you can be on your cell phone right next to me and I don't have to feel like I am getting to know you and your business, then have at it. Otherwise, shut the thing off and enjoy the parks. All queue lines have visual and audio stimulation designed to make your experience more enjoyable.