Impatient Line Peeps

MarkTwain

Well-Known Member
Count me as one of the people who will happily wait to let someone tie their shoe or whatever. Your place in line isn't determined by physical proximity to the loading area, it's determined by how many people are left to get on the ride in front of you. So it doesn't matter if you let 100 feet open up between two people in line, as long as the number of people is the same... I don't see the big deal, honestly. :shrug:
 

Bonemachine

New Member
Again, most lines aren't single file. Say you're in the middle of a typical wide queue and the guy directly in front of you stops to take a picture, you now have people passing you on the left and right.
 

the-reason14

Well-Known Member
I don't mind folk taking pics and tieing their shoes if the line is a posted wait time of 20 minutes and up causing no need to rush past. It es me off and bugs me when the ride/park just opened and people are stopping to take pics or do something else. I can't say I've ever walked in front of anybody though..............actually I take that back. I think there was this one guy and his family who was in front of us, and he kept talking to the people who were behind us I think and I would cut in front of him every now and then not expecting to stay in front just to say that when the line moves it shouldn't take you 20 minutes to move with it.

But whatever, everybody's different and gets annoyed by different things.
 

Phonedave

Well-Known Member
When did I say anything remotely similiar to shoving? If you want to take their time and stop to look at something in a moving queue then it's common sense politeness to step aside and kindly let people with more time constraints than you pass you by.



Sorry but you are patently wrong here. Read about crowd control and traffic patterns sometime. You'll be very enlightened.



Have you even been to WDW?

Next time you are there, take a look at how load works. The CM working load will line up the next 2 or three dispatches in the gates. When the next ride vehicle comes in, the people are already in place to get on it. That is what is happening when you get to the end of the queue and they say "how many" you say "3" and they say "2 on line 3 and 1 on line 4"

You could stop the queue for an entire ride cycle and there would be enough people in the loading gates to still make up for it.

Now a continuously loading ride, such as SSE, is a little different. There is no staging on this ride, it just loads at a constant pace of X vehicles per minute. However, as long as the line moves at that pace ON AVERAGE, there will be no delays. If I stop to take a picture at the start of the line, and I let 20 feet open up in front of me, as long as I then walk faster and close that gap by the time I get to load, there is no delay.

And MOST lines in WDW are single file. They are wider than a single person to allow for ADA compliance and because that way parties can stand together and socialize. It is not wider so that people can skip ahead of other people.

There is no issue of time constraints here. If you want to be ahead of me in a line, then you get to the end of the line ahead of me. If not, you wait behind me. If I am going to stop for any reason, the only way you are going to get past me is by shoving, and thats not going to happen.

And yes, I do frequent "big cities" - that has nothing to do with it.

And as for crowd control and traffic patterns, the Urban Planning classes I took for my Masters in Civil Engineering, well those and the Project Management Classes (work cycle flow, loading rates, operational efficiency modeling, optimal crew sizing, downtime cycling, etc) , they are telling me differently.

-dave
 

daliseurat

Member
If someone is stopping briefly to tie their shoes, I wait.

If someone is talking and not paying attention, I politely remind them that the line is moving.

If someone is stopping to take pictures, I'm going right by them if they seem to be taking their time. When I stop to take pictures (and I do often) I politely move as much out of the line as I can and motion for people to go past. I figure it is rude to slow up the line when I am purposely stopping.

When standing in a long line, it is irritating when people keep holding things up. I don't want to be one of them.
 

Disneydreamer23

Well-Known Member
I HATE when people tell there whole families to cut the whole line and keep going up and up and then when you say hey what are you doing they pretend they dont understand you?! drives me nuts
 

Bonemachine

New Member
. If I am going to stop for any reason, the only way you are going to get past me is by shoving, and thats not going to happen.
This is probably the worst possible attitude to have about it.

And yes, I do frequent "big cities" - that has nothing to do with it.
Are you seriously suggesting that people who grow up in rural, open environments don't have a different perspective of personal space than people who grow up in a crowded city? Sorry, but you are entirely wrong.

When standing in a long line, it is irritating when people keep holding things up. I don't want to be one of them.
Exactly. Neither do I. Otherwise it's pretty frickin rude.
 

unkadug

Follower of "Saget"The Cult
This is probably the worst possible attitude to have about it.


Are you seriously suggesting that people who grow up in rural, open environments don't have a different perspective of personal space than people who grow up in a crowded city? Sorry, but you are entirely wrong.


Exactly. Neither do I. Otherwise it's pretty frickin rude.

How did you get THAT out of what he said? :confused:
 

CLandrum

Active Member
Last year in line for Kiliminjaro Safari there was a lady standing so close to my daughter she said she could feel her breathing on her neck. My daughter had one of those over priced mister fans. Boy, did I all of a sudden become hot but I just couldn't get the aim right and it just kept hitting that lady. Pretty soon she got the hint and backed off. I felt like it was worth the money after that.
 

Disneydreamer23

Well-Known Member
Last year in line for Kiliminjaro Safari there was a lady standing so close to my daughter she said she could feel her breathing on her neck. My daughter had one of those over priced mister fans. Boy, did I all of a sudden become hot but I just couldn't get the aim right and it just kept hitting that lady. Pretty soon she got the hint and backed off. I felt like it was worth the money after that.


ahahahahaahhahah!
 

CamiLyn227

Well-Known Member
Last year in line for Kiliminjaro Safari there was a lady standing so close to my daughter she said she could feel her breathing on her neck. My daughter had one of those over priced mister fans. Boy, did I all of a sudden become hot but I just couldn't get the aim right and it just kept hitting that lady. Pretty soon she got the hint and backed off. I felt like it was worth the money after that.

Love it!:sohappy:
 

Lucky

Well-Known Member
Are you seriously suggesting that people who grow up in rural, open environments don't have a different perspective of personal space than people who grow up in a crowded city?
Yes, but some of the pushy obnoxious high-strung people are from small towns or rural areas.
 

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