Phroobar
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Sure. Why not? He is his dad. Unless you like riding with stranger's children.
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lazyboy97o
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Why should someone move further away from their own family and children because someone else chose the option that splits up groups? The whole point of Single Rider is to increase throughout which isn’t happening by stopping to move other people around to keep their group together.Sure. Why not? He is his dad. Unless you like riding with stranger's children.
Phroobar
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First, Creepy Factor.
Second, It's only a swap between two people out of common courtesy to make the kid feel less scared. It's not like the entire train is playing musical chairs.
PiratesMansion
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You don't get in a single rider line if you're not going to ride single or if you care where you're going to sit.
The kid probably shouldn't have been put in that situation, true, but that's not how single rider lines work. If you want to ride with your party, you get in the regular line. That's all there is to it. If Dad has an issue with his kid riding with a stranger, he shouldn't put the kid in the single rider line.
lazyboy97o
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For the first, then people should be allowed to refuse a single rider being paired with them.
If you want the courtesy of sitting together you wait in line with all of the other groups. Single Rider means you’re giving that up for the benefit of a potentially shorter wait.
Rich T
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Just from a real world perspective, the loading at EE is very fast-paced and really does not allow any time for thinking about any of this.
And I’ve personally witnessed CMs there being very (understandably) I-don’t wanna-hear-it and strict about not letting people change seating assignments. All day they’re getting couples and families who use the Single Rider line to get to the front, and then attempt to rearrange things to sit together, pretending that they didn’t know about the must-accept assigned-seats rule. You can tell some CMs have had quite enough of that. I wouldn’t try to change seats on EE.
And I’ve personally witnessed CMs there being very (understandably) I-don’t wanna-hear-it and strict about not letting people change seating assignments. All day they’re getting couples and families who use the Single Rider line to get to the front, and then attempt to rearrange things to sit together, pretending that they didn’t know about the must-accept assigned-seats rule. You can tell some CMs have had quite enough of that. I wouldn’t try to change seats on EE.
Phroobar
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That doesn't mean you can't be a nice person and swap places with the dad so they can ride together.
lazyboy97o
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What is nice about expecting someone to ditch their own family?
Phroobar
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I'm saying unite that family especially if you are by yourself. Your the one talking about making a stranger ditch their own family.
lazyboy97o
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Go back and reread. @truecoat was sitting in the row behind his two sons. You keep insisting that he should have departed from his sons, whom he waited in line with, so another father, who chose Single Rider, could ride with his son.
Someone getting into the Single rider line is the one choosing to ditch their own family. It is entirely their choice and any discomfort with that choice rest solely with the ones who made it. There wasn’t even a guarantee that they’d be on the same train.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Its mentioned I believe in every single rider line that there is no expectation of uniting with your party and all riding together. This is known by all guests, or at least should be, when they enter single rider. And CMs are not required to accommodate such requests, nor is any other guest required to split up their own party just so someone who tried to get to the front of the line faster can sit next to their party.
The dad made the conscious choice to have their child ride with a stranger because they obviously wanted to get on quicker instead of waiting in standby like everyone else so they could ride with their child. No guest is required or even has to be nice to let them ride together, in fact I'd say its more of a disruption to operation to do so and CMs will likely not even allow it in most cases once seated and locked in. And its sounds like the CMs at EE don't even accept those type of requests anyways, so not even an option here.
I get you want to be Mr Nice Guy here, but this just isn't one of those cases where its going to work. Its a "you played the hand your dealt" situation and just accept that single riders aren't going to be seated together no matter if its a child or not. Don't want your child sitting with a stranger than don't use single rider, its as simple as that.
DarkMetroid567
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Anyways how about those Universal Studios
mickEblu
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Isn’t this all a moot point as another father would have to sit away from his own kids to make this happen? The only way this would be interesting is if Trucoat in this scenario was also riding solo but didn’t know about single rider so he waited in the regular line.
Edit: I may have forgot the details. I believe Trucoats kids are older? Still, in now way should he have felt obliged to move seats. Putting myself in that situation it would probably be a game time decision. Might offer might not. Depends on how quick my mind is working and how scared the kid looked. You’d have to really be quick/ present/ aware to make it happen anyway. Even then it may be too late. Unless you re at Knotts, then you’d have all the time in the world to switch seats.
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Disney Irish
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Yep, in this case it is, but I think the problem here is that Phroobar expects that another guest should disrupt their seating after waiting in standby in order accommodate a father who clearly has no issue with letting their child ride with a stranger in the first place just to get to the front of the line faster. I have absolutely no empathy for those type of guests, you decided this for yourself, you knew the risks and accepted them, its not up to other guests (or CMs for that matter) to make your party "whole" just because you wants to circumvent the standby line.
SRL means you are riding alone, period. I’ve done it with a 8 year old in the family because we thought he could handle it. However we also made sure he was in an “adult sandwich” where one adult from our party was in front of him and one behind him, that way if we got put in separate cars (Test Track) he would know that one of us would be with him in the line until the end and the other would be waiting right at the exit to greet him after the ride.
It went great.
It went great.
Phroobar
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Then it is fine. If he was there by himself that would have been different.
Still it's better to offer if you think fast enough and your kids can take care of themselves.
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Rich T
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From my point of view, Single Rider lines are fantastic, but should mainly be used on rides with more than two seats per row, or other situations where vehicles would otherwise often be dispatched with empty single seats. I include Hagrid’s in this category, as the bike and side car are separate seats.
I would exclude any ride where side by side seating with a stranger could result in awkward contact (due to no dividers or very tight spacing). Or a lateral force meet-your-seatmate slidefest like Big Thunder.
I would exclude any ride where side by side seating with a stranger could result in awkward contact (due to no dividers or very tight spacing). Or a lateral force meet-your-seatmate slidefest like Big Thunder.
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PiratesMansion
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1. Make the most they can out of limited capacity, and
2. Single riders have been Forbidden on most all Ferris Wheels for the last decade plus because of a few suicides.
It's quite frustrating because I really enjoy Ferris Wheels but am seldom able to ride them, because I often travel solo and will apparently be overcome with an extreme urge to kill myself if I ride alone.