What was the biggest Disney meltdown you've witnessed?

[pampam]

Now, that's what I call an epic meltdown!

 

[heaven2dc]

This didn't happen at Disney but at Universal. So outside of the mummy ride they have lockers that you can use that are programmed to open to a fingerprint. So, the guest chooses which finger to use. A lady got off of the ride and couldn't remember which hand and finger she had used and was unable to get her locker open. So she proceeded to swear and yell at the employee there, who politely suggested she try each finger. Well this woman refused to do this, demanded to speak to a manager and after she finally got into her locker she stood outside them and told everyone how "useless and unhelpful" the employee was. I was shocked, never in my life have my husband and I seen someone act like this. I felt so bad for the employee.

 

[kellyarms20]

A friend of mine at Disneyland. How people can grump out at the Happiest Place On Earth is beyond me, but there ya go.
During dinner at Blue Bayou, they didn't give a member of my party enough butter for his potato. That was the straw thar broke the camel's back for him. He told the extremely magical and very accommodating waiter that the park was too $%&^$ crowded, Disney didn't know how to cook a #%%^%"' steak, and they had no concept of how much butter was enough #%^%$^ butter.
My kids, husband, and his wife were shocked. I apologized to the waiter, the waiter apologized to us, my kids apologized to the waiter, and my husband, ever the diplomat, announced that we were starting over. He became the line of communication to our waiter for the entire table and the complainant spent the rest of dinner silently eating (pouting). After dinner, (the park really was PACKED -in his defense-week after Christmas), he announced that he was leaving and he'd be out in the car waiting for us. My husband offered that maybe it would be best if our families split up for a bit, we wanted to get the kids away from grumpy. I mean, we'd paid for the tickets, the dinner, it was our treat, and that's fine-we loved doing it-but we weren't interested in talking him out of his bad mood, so we gave him a "time out." They met up with us a little later for fireworks and snow on Main Street and he was better. I don't know if he ever made it out to the car or not, but I was happy he didn't have the opportunity to infect our happy group longer than necessary!

 

[mi*vida*loca]

Last year on day 3 (day 3 curse???!) I lost it on my son who was 15 at the time. The theme of the trip had become him questioning our every move and complaining about everything we did. Why were we doing this ride and not THAT ride. Why were we walking this way and not that way. Why we were eating here and not there. Why we were eating QS and not TS. Why were we eating TS and not QS. Why couldn’t we go to this park and not that park. This was for 3 days straight. He’s like this at home also but at WDW it was intense.

So we get to MK for PM EMH. I was soooooooooo excited about this. It was going to be open until 1 am. It was raining but it was going to die down. He was just going on and on about his hair and how the poncho and rain is going to mess up his hair. My son doesn’t have hair! He has a very close fade. He wanted to ride 7DMT but it was down due to the lightening. He couldn’t get over this. Well I want to ride it, why can’t we ride it, can we ride it now, why can’t we just wait in line, can we go back now and ride it. I’m watching the app and it’s still down. I had a FP for it!!!! We just needed for it to open.

He starts going on and on about the rain so I offer for him to go back to the room (Poly) and we will stay in MK. Nope, he didn’t want to do that. He just kept going on and on and FINALLY I snapped. I said LETS GO!!! My boyfriend and DD are like oh crap. We get in line for the monorail with 1000 other people fleeing the rain. We are packed like sardines. I made a few comments (not loudly) about how he can’t just relax and have fun. My son is still talking back under his breath because he has to get the last word. I kept telling him to be quiet but he had to keep making little snide remarks. Then I really snapped. I got really close to his face and I told him that he had one more comment to make and he would be on the next plane home as an unassisted minor and his dad would pick him up at the airport. I was so serious that I texted his father right there and looked up flights on Southwest. It had been THREE days of this and I had enough. He completely stopped talking after this and his eyes got huge. I didn’t hear a peep from him until the following day.

We dropped them off at the room, told them not to contact me unless someone was bleeding, dying or on fire and my boyfriend and I hit up Trader Sam’s. The next day it was like Jesus himself came down and gave me a new kid. He must’ve known I was serious, especially when his father texted him.

 

[Kindermouse]

Last year on day 3 (day 3 curse???!) I lost it on my son who was 15 at the time. The theme of the trip had become him questioning our every move and complaining about everything we did. Why were we doing this ride and not THAT ride. Why were we walking this way and not that way. Why we were eating here and not there. Why we were eating QS and not TS. Why were we eating TS and not QS. Why couldn’t we go to this park and not that park. This was for 3 days straight. He’s like this at home also but at WDW it was intense.

So we get to MK for PM EMH. I was soooooooooo excited about this. It was going to be open until 1 am. It was raining but it was going to die down. He was just going on and on about his hair and how the poncho and rain is going to mess up his hair. My son doesn’t have hair! He has a very close fade. He wanted to ride 7DMT but it was down due to the lightening. He couldn’t get over this. Well I want to ride it, why can’t we ride it, can we ride it now, why can’t we just wait in line, can we go back now and ride it. I’m watching the app and it’s still down. I had a FP for it!!!! We just needed for it to open.

He starts going on and on about the rain so I offer for him to go back to the room (Poly) and we will stay in MK. Nope, he didn’t want to do that. He just kept going on and on and FINALLY I snapped. I said LETS GO!!! My boyfriend and DD are like oh crap. We get in line for the monorail with 1000 other people fleeing the rain. We are packed like sardines. I made a few comments (not loudly) about how he can’t just relax and have fun. My son is still talking back under his breath because he has to get the last word. I kept telling him to be quiet but he had to keep making little snide remarks. Then I really snapped. I got really close to his face and I told him that he had one more comment to make and he would be on the next plane home as an unassisted minor and his dad would pick him up at the airport. I was so serious that I texted his father right there and looked up flights on Southwest. It had been THREE days of this and I had enough. He completely stopped talking after this and his eyes got huge. I didn’t hear a peep from him until the following day.

We dropped them off at the room, told them not to contact me unless someone was bleeding, dying or on fire and my boyfriend and I hit up Trader Sam’s. The next day it was like Jesus himself came down and gave me a new kid. He must’ve known I was serious, especially when his father texted him.

This is fabulous. I see my own DS13 heading this way with the complaining and questioning when we aren't doing things in what he considers the right way (could I please just skip puberty. I'll take him back when he realizes how very little he really does know about everything) and so help me If we have to have a come to Jesus moment waiting for the monorail at MK It wont be pretty for us either.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

This is fabulous. I see my own DS13 heading this way with the complaining and questioning when we aren't doing things in what he considers the right way (could I please just skip puberty. I'll take him back when he realizes how very little he really does know about everything) and so help me If we have to have a come to Jesus moment waiting for the monorail at MK It wont be pretty for us either.

Yes please!!!!

 

[KCMiller]

My DD was a maid at the Haunted Mansion during her CP. We were visiting over the holidays, and she was scheduled to work two shifts (with a break between) on NYE, so we picked her up after the first shift and got a bite to eat, then dropped her off at Costuming. She called us in tears not an hour later to come pick her up - evidently, she got into costume and went back to the Mansion, and opened the door to the unloading walkway where she was to take her first duty, and immediately, two families jumped off the Doombuggies and began fist fighting. It turned into a huge brawl, and she was actually knocked down at one point - security came and took everyone into custody, and her manager told her that she could go home. Nuts! But we got to ring in the New Year with our girl, so it worked out for us!

 

[klo1335]

I am sure the largest meltdown was mine in August of 2015. Luckily is happened in our room in the middle of the day so hopefully no one heard me through the walls. My girls don't tend to "temper tantrum" but what they do is get grumpy and miserable. It was probably day 3 or 4 and I had enough of their miserableness. We were at WDW for heavens sake and they were acting like I was torturing them to go and do things. I lost it and started yelling and yelling. It wasn't pretty. In hindsight I should've just left them in the room and gone off by myself. I have learned that my kids don't like the uncertain and WDW was brand new to them. Even though I tried to get everyone involved in planning and get them to watch park videos on YouTube before we left, noone wanted to.

We learned that in order for Mommy to enjoy herself, we need to stay offsite in a condo where Mommy can go and breathe and meditate w/o the kiddos on top of me 24/7.

 

[kaileighbug]

I was probably the biggest meltdown of our first trip. We were leaving after wishes and the guy behind me with a double disney stroller kept hitting me. The crowd isn't moving and he just kept ramming me with the stroller. After the 3rd time I turned around and said "Do you mind? Please stop hitting me with the stroller." He hit me again and I turned around ready to go off when my dh stopped me.

 

[WonkaKid]

I didn't witness either of these things personally. But a CM (African American, as it happens) told me that people say nasty, racist things to her on a weekly basis. She also told me that, when a guy couldn't get a photo of his kid(s) with either Chip or Dale, he grabbed the character by the neck and slammed him against a wall. I believe he was ejected from the park. Hopefully he was banned permanently. What is wrong with people?

 

[Donalyn]

My DD who will be 10 next week was terrible for our trip last weekend to DLR. And older DD (13 this week) not much better. They can't even stand next to each other without touching, hitting, kicking, scratching each other, so DH and i spent the entire trip keeping them apart. But likely the worst meltdown was mine. Pretty much lost it when DD9 threw a fit and decided not to get the pin that she picked out because I was a terrible mother and wouldn't buy her three pins. After all of the fighting and complaining about the lines (crazy busy in my opinion) and the criss crossing the parks to avoid lines and spending boat loads of money to take them to the Happiest Place on Earth, the ungratefullness and entitledness of this fit sent me over the edge.

 

[phinz]

Well, since I am now an adult, I think asking Tigger to come home and watch cartoons on the couch with me might give off the wrong impression lol

They have entire conventions for that sort of thing...

 

[JessL]

I saw one on Monday and immediately thought of this thread. To be fair, the park was packed with huge lines for everything, including the bathrooms. A mother was screaming at the top of her voice at her two little girls (around 5 or 6) - "I hate this place! It's a zoo! The people are animals! We are never coming back here! You make sure you go on everything you want to go on today because we are NEVER coming back! EVER!!!" The poor little girls were looking at her like she'd turned into a monster.

 

[DisneyWorldGeek]

On my last trip, my SIL and I almost got in to a fist fight with a loon at the BBB photo area because, according to this nutbar, we had the audacity to not applaud when this crazy woman's baby was announced by the Fairy Godmother in Training/hair dresser after their makeover. How dare we be focusing on our own children lol. This woman was ranting and raving and threatening our kids that she was going to jump in front of their pictures to ruin their time like we all did to her child. I ignored her up until she made my daughter and niece cry, and then it was ON.

Sheesh! "Nutbar" is right! Talk about conceited.

 

[DiannaVM]

Sheesh! "Nutbar" is right! Talk about conceited.

I am sorry but that is absolutely ridiculous. What kind of heartless wench asks for her child's day to be magical, but thinks nothing of traumatising and ruining other children's day? I am glad you said something to her honestly.

 

[Auntie_Maim]

This is third-hand, so I don't have many details, but here goes.

Two women get into an argument about something (I recall it being a spot on the tram or bus). One woman then snaps at the other (who is of Asian descent), "Why don't you go back where you came from!"

The other woman says, "Wisconsin?"

I'm one of those people who can almost never think of a good reply at the time, so I much admire "Wisconsin?" lady.

 

[roxysmum123]

On the walkway that's set back towards the waterway in Frontierland, I saw what I can only assume to be a woman and her husband having what I was pretty sure was a marriage-ending fight. I can't remember the exact words, but I do remember he was called an a$$h....., belittled with one of those "poor you! you have it sooooo tough" speeches, and she was pointing at him jabbing her finger in the air the whole time. He looked like he just wanted to crawl into the river and take his chances with the gators.

 

[AMusicLifeForMe]

I can't remember the exact thing that happened. I only remember the main points. On one of my trips this summer, my Dad and I were in EPCOT in the time frame that only Frozen was open in World Showcase. After we rode the ride, we were making our way back to Future World. There was this wife, husband, and a child walking back further down the path. The lady was yelling at anyone that she possibly could yell at. All I remember her saying was, "We can't get to the restaurant we have reservations for!" As we got closer to the family, I noticed her starting yelling at a CM that looked like worked at the Canada Pavilion, and was on her way to work. The CM tried her best to calm the lady down, but the lady just cursed several words at the CM. This is while the CM tried to explain that World Showcase wasn't open yet. As we passed the family, the CM just started continue walking to work, and it looked like the CM started crying. This was over the lady thinking she had a reservation at a restaurant that didn't open for at least an hour. I will say that the husband and the child acted calm the entire time. I also saw them trying to calm the wife/mom. I felt really bad for the CM. No CM should be treated the way that CM was treated in that situation

 

[Polybound]

Several years ago at EPCOT, a mother absolutely, completely lost it, screaming shrilly at the top of her lungs at her children: "I'M SICK OF IT" "I'M SICK OF IT" "I'M SICK OF IT". I've never seen anything like it in my entire life, anywhere. It was shocking, mother needed a straight jacket. All I could think of was that this was the happiest place on earth. I just wish I had my cellphone recording it for Youtube.

 

[Polybound]

Also a few years ago, we were at Crystal Palace for breakfast, Eeyore had just left our table and walked up to the next table which had 3 or 4 children. All of a sudden one of the children, probably a 2yr old girl, starting screaming. It was the loudest shrillest scream I'd ever heard for a 2 year old, and it never stopped. Her father finally had to take her out of the restaurant. Everyone was laughing. By this time the next character, Piglet had just arrived, in which I immediately told her that I knew someone that wanted to meet her. She put her hand over her mouth and started shaking her head and hand to say no.