Craziest table mates you have had.

[Club Disney Chandler]

None of this would have happened if they'd only brought their reborn babies instead of they're real one. dde1c

Good point. LOL

 

[fnrsgrl]

None of this would have happened if they'd only brought their reborn babies instead of their real one. dde1c

 

[twindaddy]

With the culture in our society, as soon as you start cursing- you always look like the lesser of the adversaries because you're taking the mentality down a notch.

Very true.

None of this would have happened if they'd only brought their reborn babies instead of their real one. dde1c

Also true! I know someone who has one of those life like dolls, she takes it to restaurants and stores with her all the time. She is pretty immature, throws fits very easily. Likes to cry and fight with her siblings. She reads at a second grade level, math about the same. She has a ton of dolls, TONS, and she plays with them all day. Right now she is out back fairy hunting in a creek behind our house. She is unemployed, doesn't even have a drivers license.

She is my daughter who is 8.

I think those women need counseling, just like the men you see screaming at little league games. Arrested development or something.

 

[Angeejoe]

Easy fix for that. Require guests of CMs to sign in somewhere so that they can be tracked. If they D&D, make the CM pay. Not exactly fair to the CM but it will teach them to be more careful about who they allow to use their privileges.

But it's also entirely possible they were paying guests who just chose to D&D.

Oh it's totally possible that anyone can dine & dash, but it's just what the waitress said. Just a weird experience.

 

[stitchlovestink]

Oh it's totally possible that anyone can dine & dash, but it's just what the waitress said. Just a weird experience.

Going to be difficult to dine and dash now that Disney is requiring a Credit Card hold for all table service restaurants. Not sure how many walk ups they really take....but honestly, I think their risk of this is much smaller now.

 

[Jusacuz]

I feel very fortunate after reading these stories. I think I've mostly had decent tablemates on all of my cruises. I've had to switch tables twice. Once because my daughter and I were sparing the others at the table. We like to have fun and talk, etc and the others at the table either didn't talk at all or complained to each other how they didn't like to try new foods.

The most recent switch was because the other family spoke only Spanish and we speak only English. It was really awkward and it was our servers that suggested we switch.

The worst was my first cruise where a woman had her kid so upset because it was her (the mom's) birthday and DCL forgot the cake. Ruined their cruise, I tell ya! The woman's father had a fit about their wine not being good enough. Thank goodness they only showed up one night.

Not a crazy table mate story but:
The sweetest family was one I shared a table with when I went solo. They were super nice even though technically I was seated in their late father's seat. He had passed away very recently. They were very accepting of me sitting with them and made it way less weird than it could have been.

 

[cgolf]

Ours has to be me I am the type of person that only likes to talk to people I know and I am comfortable with. I will talk with other people, if they talk to me, but I won't engage others in conversation. I actually feel bad for people when they get seated with us lol. It is just not my thing but I usually suffer through and converse some, but I do like when we have a table with just our family, and not strangers, it is less stressful for me. I am not rude or crude, just quiet and not a great conversationalist. cgolf

 

[LyndaC]

and then there was the 3 night cruise, again solo, seated at an 8 top, when I tried talking with my 3 table mates, they actually turned their backs to me. And yes, we all spoke the same language. Sweet...

 

[Volunteer]

I just read all 17 pages straight through. Thanks for the great stories, everyone!

 

[momof2n2]

None of this would have happened if they'd only brought their reborn babies instead of their real one. dde1c

Best laugh I've had yet today!

 

[Angeejoe]

Going to be difficult to dine and dash now that Disney is requiring a Credit Card hold for all table service restaurants. Not sure how many walk ups they really take....but honestly, I think their risk of this is much smaller now.

Very true! It could only be walk ups now. This was my only weird table ate story though, so I thought I'd share since this thread made my Friday night so enjoyable!

 

[AliceIn]

Then there are table neighbor issues. This video has a few salty words, but it is interesting. Almost a fight in the dining room!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ns5VWxcdCo


I have seem to have the bad table neighbor gene, I have always had wonderful people at my table over several different cruise lines, but on Carnival and Princess, I had bad neighbors, and on Disney, like I said earlier in the thread, a boy next to our table barfed all over his family, and it was a LOT of barf.

Wow! That was pretty awful. I don't blame the people for being upset when a family does not take care of children when they are disrupting the restaurant. When our children were infants and young toddlers, when we went out to dinner, we typically would go at 5 pm or so when the restaurant wasn't as busy or would have a lot of other families. If one of the babies began to become loud or disruptive at the table, one of us would take the baby out of the dining room to see if we could calm them. If we could not, we'd take our dinners to go and call it a night.

We had some good dinners, but definitely had our fair share when we had to leave in order to avoid becoming a nuisance. I don't think it's right or fair to allow your baby to make a lot of noise, because it's really not a sound that you can ignore. There's something primal about a baby's screaming that doesn't let you pretend it's not happening.

Anytime you bring an infant or toddler to a public place, you need to understand that you may not be able to stay the full time. Forcing the disruption on others is rude and selfish. The day will come that your child will be old enough to enjoy long dinners and shows.

 

[fnrsgrl]

Wow! That was pretty awful. I don't blame the people for being upset when a family does not take care of children when they are disrupting the restaurant. When our children were infants and young toddlers, when we went out to dinner, we typically would go at 5 pm or so when the restaurant wasn't as busy or would have a lot of other families. If one of the babies began to become loud or disruptive at the table, one of us would take the baby out of the dining room to see if we could calm them. If we could not, we'd take our dinners to go and call it a night.

We had some good dinners, but definitely had our fair share when we had to leave in order to avoid becoming a nuisance. I don't think it's right or fair to allow your baby to make a lot of noise, because it's really not a sound that you can ignore. There's something primal about a baby's screaming that doesn't let you pretend it's not happening.

Anytime you bring an infant or toddler to a public place, you need to understand that you may not be able to stay the full time. Forcing the disruption on others is rude and selfish. The day will come that your child will be old enough to enjoy long dinners and shows.

Thank you for being a considerate parent!

 

[Freesia123]

Children can be disruptive. They can ruin a nice dinner. Let's not talk about airplanes. I have two young ones and I try to minimize their impact on everyone else, to varying measures, depending on where we are. However, kids are kids. As much as I try to keep a lid on them, certain things are out of a parents control, even if we give it our all. That said, how do we get rid of adults who don't shower, brush their teeth or wear deodorant? Or as read on another post, suck their spouses toes at dinner, or floss and fly spittle across the table? What about those who dress half naked, talk loud, slurp their soup, belch or fart?? Or the cursers, late arrivals, impolite, belittlers? I can forgive kids. But how do I avoid the weirdos?
Kids give maybe, three, four years of grief. Adults 70 or 80. Something to think about when you hear a baby cry.

 

[phinz]

Forcing the disruption on others is rude and selfish. The day will come that your child will be old enough to enjoy long dinners and shows.

+infinity

 

[rsx3bishop]

That said, how do we get rid of adults who don't shower, brush their teeth or wear deodorant? Or as read on another post, suck their spouses toes at dinner, or floss and fly spittle across the table? What about those who dress half naked, talk loud, slurp their soup, belch or fart?? Or the cursers, late arrivals, impolite, belittlers? I can forgive kids. But how do I avoid the weirdos? Kids give maybe, three, four years of grief. Adults 70 or 80. Something to think about when you hear a baby cry.

I so agree.....I would rather be around a kid being a kid that an adult acting worse than a kid!!!! (I am also the parent that took my children out when necessary!)

 

[twindaddy]

Children can be disruptive. They can ruin a nice dinner. Let's not talk about airplanes. I have two young ones and I try to minimize their impact on everyone else, to varying measures, depending on where we are. However, kids are kids. As much as I try to keep a lid on them, certain things are out of a parents control, even if we give it our all. That said, how do we get rid of adults who don't shower, brush their teeth or wear deodorant? Or as read on another post, suck their spouses toes at dinner, or floss and fly spittle across the table? What about those who dress half naked, talk loud, slurp their soup, belch or fart?? Or the cursers, late arrivals, impolite, belittlers? I can forgive kids. But how do I avoid the weirdos?
Kids give maybe, three, four years of grief. Adults 70 or 80. Something to think about when you hear a baby cry.

Amen, We should cruise together, oh wait I think we already are in about 85 days!

 

[momof2n2]

I so agree.....I would rather be around a kid being a kid that an adult acting worse than a kid!!!! (I am also the parent that took my children out when necessary!)

Amen

Amen, We should cruise together, oh wait I think we already are in about 85 days!

And Amen.

 

[alaskanabbott]

Children can be disruptive. They can ruin a nice dinner. Let's not talk about airplanes. I have two young ones and I try to minimize their impact on everyone else, to varying measures, depending on where we are. However, kids are kids. As much as I try to keep a lid on them, certain things are out of a parents control, even if we give it our all. That said, how do we get rid of adults who don't shower, brush their teeth or wear deodorant? Or as read on another post, suck their spouses toes at dinner, or floss and fly spittle across the table? What about those who dress half naked, talk loud, slurp their soup, belch or fart?? Or the cursers, late arrivals, impolite, belittlers? I can forgive kids. But how do I avoid the weirdos?
Kids give maybe, three, four years of grief. Adults 70 or 80. Something to think about when you hear a baby cry.

Those out of control adults were probably allowed to be out of control children....at public dinners...disrupting those around them without repercussion or parenting done by their parents.

 

[AshleeH]

This thread has been both entertaining and horrifying. We just booked our first DCL today and this has me 50% curious about potential table-mates and 50% so scared I want to request a private table for my family .