Disney observation

[rootbeer1]

Okay, just got back from a Disneyland vacation with Jack and my brother, sister and sister-in-law. Keep in mind, my sister-in-law has MS and uses a wheelchair.

Now, we've long seen modern-day parents so concerned about their children's happiness at Disneyland that they push them around in strollers, up to the kid's age of 10 or 11, judging from their size. (Back in my day, any kid sentient enough to realize he or she was in a stroller was too old to be pushed around in one.)

Now these parents have taken their entitlement to a new level. Park-goers in wheelchairs can often use the exit lines, because the entry lines are often too narrow for wheelchairs to pass through. The folks in wheelchairs get wheeled up the exit line, often bypassing the long lines of people waiting to ride, and get transferred to the ride conveyance that way. That's the only way they could reach the front of the line to get aboard the ride.

I'd never noticed it before, because I wasn't with a party that had a wheelchair in it, but now parents with strollers, holding kids that are too big for strollers, are trying to do the same thing. Go up the exit line, bypassing the lines of waiting crowds, because their perfectly able-bodied kids shouldn't have to wait. And if these other folks being pushed in wheeled chairs can do it, why shouldn't they. It's just not fair, they tell ya.

To Disneyland's credit, I didn't see anyone get away with it. The Disney employees would patiently explain to these idiot parents that they had to use the regular line, because a child sitting in a stroller is not the same as a person confined to a wheelchair.

Comments

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

Maybe having idiots for parents should be considered a disability?


(Just kidding!)

[cajuncountry.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[beeftenderloin.livejournal.com]

That is just The Limit! What has this world come to? Sad.

[clintswan.livejournal.com]

(Back in my day, any kid sentient enough to realize he or she was in a stroller was too old to be pushed around in one.)

i COMPLETELY agree!

[maluket.livejournal.com]

+1

[cajuncountry.livejournal.com]

+2

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

And the distorted sense of entitlement goes on and on...

I usually get annoyed because those with strollers bang them into my legs to get by without a single 'sorry' or 'can you please give me some space' and then scowl at me as if I was purposefully stand there to get in front of them and their precious' way. Also weird how so many parents don't understand you go backwards leaving a bus/train - no wonder the child is upset.

P.S. good to meet you and your good partner, btw.

[cajuncountry.livejournal.com]

Unreal... :(

[hotelbearsf.livejournal.com]

Good for Disney, I say. Just remember, most people are idiots and this level of entitlement just because they were able to procreate has gotten way out of hand.

[inbhirnis.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased to hear that the Disney employees held the line. Sometimes it's just too easy to give in to these entitled twits...

[putzmeisterbear.livejournal.com]

When I was a little kid strollers were for babies and the idea was to grow up and be like an adult. It freaks me out to see preteens in strollers. A couple of years ago while walking to the park gate a little girl around 8 or 9 years old actually told her father "Cary me I don't like walking" her dad told her she had to wait till they could get her a stroller. she was too big to carry. When she comes down with diabetes I'm sure the parents will be shocked.