Line Cutting

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thomas998

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lisalub said:
I just came back from a week at Disney. We visited all 4 parks - some twice. I saw one recurring thing that really bothered me and I was wondering if I'm alone in this. Does it bother anybody else when you're in the stand-by line for an attraction and are perhaps as far as half way through when one or two people work their way up and past you to get to the rest of their party? It just strikes me as incredibly rude to the 30 - 50 people they had to pass to do this. Why don't they just wait and enter the line together? Or if part of the party is more towards the front of the line and it's really that important that they ride with someone who has just entered the end of the line, can't the people in front step aside and let the line progress past them until the rest of their party catches up to them?

I noticed that Soarin' in Epcot is especially bad for this type of behavior and I'm thinking that perhaps the width of the line is partly to blame. You can fit probably 6 people shoulder to shoulder all the way across that line. Since most parties are less than 6 people this leaves a decent sized "empty aisle" up one side of the stand-by line on this ride and makes it really easy for people to cut past dozens of people. While the wait can approach 60 minutes for many on this ride, some breeze by and can do the stand-by line in 15 or less.

We always entered each attraction as a group. If somebody had to make a pit stop before the ride, we all waited and got in line together. Is this a normal practice for others??? Am I too sensitive about this??

What is everybody else's take on this?
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Normally I don't let it happen. I've almost gotten into fights over it and had countless dirty looks from other people in line when I've told someone nope they aren't getting past me. My wife gets incredibly annoyed when I do it but I will not allow someone to pass me if I can stop it. I know sometimes it might be because little Billy to Beth had to go potty, but I just don't care anymore. Too many times I've seen people do it just to get past others at places. The last time it happened was when we were in line for the mine train and some hispanic lady wanted to get past, I would not budge nor let her past and at one point I swear a dozen other people just started saying you should let her past... It is times like that when you realize why people do it... when other people not only let it happen but try to force other people to allow the rude behavior it almost becomes a joke. A part of me thinks it might be fun to just start doing it myself and see how far I can make it before someone stops me, and if a CM says something just remind them of all the countless times they have allowed it to happen and do absolutely nothing.

Give the amount of surveillance they have at WDW you would think they could at least send people out to tag these cutters and escort them out of the park. I doubt they would have to throw out more than a few dozen before the word would get out and it would magically stop happening. But Disney really doesn't care that much about the polite guests when they might lose a sale of mouse ears to one of the rude line cutters.
 
"El Gran Magnifico"

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Mr Flibble is Very Cross.
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That's the FP solution. Think about it. Let's say there's a group of 5. One is selected NOT to go on Thunder Mountain, while the other 4 use their FP to ride. The one that doesn't ride, gets in the Splash Line. When the original 4 riding Thunder get off the ride - They select one to go wait in the Jungle Cruise Line, while the other 3 "cut" to the front of the Splash line to join in the original one that was waiting. They get off that ride and 1 is selected to go wait in the HM queue. While the others "cut" to meet the one in the JC line....................................

I've seen this stuff happen.

Edited to say: I just realized I responded to a 12 year old thread. Seems not much has changed.
 
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nace888

nace888

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Sad thing is...... it's not only attraction lines, but even parade seating. I was a CM last fall, but I try to treat myself as a guest when I'm not working. I remember seeing my FIRST Boo To You last fall and my friends suggested getting a spot early. Having witnessed FoF, I agreed. This lady saw me and my friends sitting there long before she came over. As the parade was starting, her and her child started SHOVING me out the way and behind them so they could get in front of me. I asked them to stop shoving me, and an off the clock CM was waiting with us, and she witnessed all of this. The guest said they didn't do nothing, and a small uproar came out of the woodworks around me. The off the clock CM as well as my CM friends and a few guests around us got upset, telling this woman that we were there ages before she was. Eventually a HM CM came over, asked what the issue was, and I was trying my best not to complain, but the guest said I pushed them, many others stated this was not true and when asked why this was going on, the guest said I was trying to take their spot. Sad truth was that the HM CM was speaking to me half an hour before this incident WHILE WE WERE SITTING THERE, and told the guest I'd been waiting.

I don't mind sharing space, but when I'm being shoved around, it gets a bit frustrating.
 

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