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Wait a second. What did he do wrong? He just went for a little swim. He was just trying to sober up after being over served. It's not his fault.
Ok. I tried to type that with a straight face.
Idiot!

Wow - congratulations to all of you who work so hard to maintain this site and to keep providing accurate and current information about the place we all love / hate / love / hate / love - makes us all slightly crazy          :bravo:

I completely agree. It all boils down to common courtesy. Unfortunately most people now a days people don't know what that is.
I can't tell you how many times I've let a little girl/boy stand in front of me at a parade or show so they can see better. And unfortunately I can tell you about several rude people that stand there with their arms crossed and purposely not let a kid stand in front of them when there's clearly room and the kid wouldn't block their view.
Rude people SMB.

Nobody knows what common courtesy is anymore.  Which is sad.
 
TCD

People suck.  
 
I think TCD's last post just made a light bulb go off in my head.  
 
It's not so much the Mouse that sucks....it's the DAMN GUESTS!  
 
Sure, Disney's greed is a contributing factor, but the guests are the ones primarily responsible for ruining everyone else's experience, and for making a simple evening at the Magic Kingdom a stressful suckfest.  
 
I'm moving to a private island and establishing the Kingdom of Fiendlandia.  Who's coming with me?  

Oh dear - I haven't been on here in awhile but have to chip in here and offer my personal rant!
 
I couldn't agree more with this:
 
"Heads out of their butts and their phones……..."
 
And the other comments about common courtesy and civility which I find seems to be completely missing from some people's psychological makeup.   WE LOVE THE FORT   -  BUT -- whenever we are there the complete stupidity of some individuals is incredible.  Like others here we have been forced off sidewalks, the road in the loop, even walking paths by twits on golf carts.  And again -  it IS NOT ALL THE GOLF CART USERS, it's just the morons who think because they've rented this thing, and they're on holidays, they can ignore all common sense.  
 
Our favourite spot is down at the back of the 1500 loop along the canal - it's peaceful and quiet but our last trip we watched three families on two sites, with three golf carts between them, chew the bejeebers out of the backs of the sites.  The area (between the 1500 and 1600 loops) is very sandy, the grass barely able to take hold and whenever it so much as sprinkles rains it turns into a mud hole.  But the children who ranged in age from 4 or 5 to maybe 11 or 12 were the ones driving the golf carts in circles, running up and down the slope, and doing figure eights and wheelies with their assorted siblings/friends all hanging off the backs and sides and running after them trying to hop on!   And where you might ask were the parents - sitting there talking and ignoring the action behind them.  Go figure!
 
Being the worry wart I am (hubby says more like a fuss f**t) by day 3 I had had enough and called the security to complain that there were very underage kids riding DISNEY CARTS!!!!  Yep, all three were Disney golf carts.  
 
Three things I learned out of this:
 
1.   Disney security came down and said kids weren't supposed to be riding the carts and went away.  Cart riding resumed when Disney security left.
2.   When families left Disney sent one of their engineer types and a crew down to "repair" the damage done.
3.   Disney will NOT simply seize a cart that is being inappropriately used and take it away for the idiots using it.
 
 
I do not know if there is any solution to this problems.  There are many people with really good solid reasons to use a golf cart at the Fort and who are responsible about that usage.    But there are other people who essentially shouldn't be allowed to use so much as electric roller skates!!!   I haven't a clue how to balance that issue as long as Disney can't sort their own act out and be consistent about ALWAYS applying the rules they make.
 
Ok - big breath now - thank you all for allowing me to rant. 
Feel free to ignore.  
I feel much better now.   :-)
 
 
 
 
 
 

Holy smoke - that's $800.00 for a couple - wow - much as I love the Food and Wine Festival, that would buy a LOT of FOOD AND WINE!!!!!!!!

Having done more then our fair share of Wine and Food Festivals ( don't ask, it's been expensive) avoid Friday night and Saturday like the plague.  Friday days, not bad but be out of there by about 6 PM.  Sundays aren't bad, it gets steadily quieter after about 2-3 PM.

Not sure - 
 
- we've gone every year since 1998, have driven 33 hours non-stop from Winnipeg (that's in Canada) to get there - arrived anywhere from October to December - stayed anywhere from 1 to 4 months, some years with a trip to Disneyland thrown in -  AP holders for 10 years, DVC (3 different purchases), - hubby even crazier (he's the one who decorates the bikes) - and our neighbours here at home think we're really strange because we have three "Mickey Head" lamps running up our driveway!!!!
 
- so who does that make us?

Last night I got great pictures of The Castle Guy's display.  Anybody got a quick and easy way to post this for everyone to see?  Not the most technologically gifted so all advice welcome! Please!!