Queue blockades

Ashmgorm

Ashmgorm

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So when I was on a trip to WDW with my family in March, I got fed up with the line cutters. I let them by with only shooting daggers into the back of their heads for most of the trip, but eventually I had had enough. We were waiting on line for Soarin' and some lady was yelling to her husband who was way farther back in line to come and join her. The guy pushed his way up all the way until my family. I was facing front and didn't look at him. I made sure that I was blocking most of the aisle (positioned quite strangely :p ) and while he kept saying "excuse me" I just ignored him. Eventually his wife got fed up and angrily came back to meet up with him. Mission accomplished! :D haha

Anyone else have any similar stories?
 
The Empress Lilly

The Empress Lilly

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Florida_is_hot said:
I am not a fan of "saving my place".
It is way to cheat.
Have one person wait for 30 minutes, the rest cut the line to join them.
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Yes. It is a private fastpass system. With two persons it somewhat bearable. But not for entire families, never mind groups.

If you want to join your company, have the ones furthest ahead wait for the latecomers.
 
ellie-badge

ellie-badge

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A lady in line with us at one of the resort bus stops yelled at my family and I once (we were at the front of the line and had been for about fifteen minutes when she began to berate us). She was yelling at us to go to the back of the line because my brother-in-law had forgotten some important heart medication at the room we were staying at, and he left to go retrieve them. I'd understand if like, five of the six people in our party had left, but it was just him, so...

I don't like line cutters, either, but I also hate people who complain about every little thing such as the lady I mentioned above... especially while it's about waiting in line at a freaking resort. She had the audacity to call us liars, shout obscenities, threats, and shoot us the finger while we were boarding the bus, too. Needless to say the parents with young children in line with her were not very thrilled.
 
shmmrname

shmmrname

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Eh, it's usually one or two people at most, so I don't really worry about it. I don't know their situation, so I don't know what happened to create the gap. For the 10 times it happens and it's just rudeness, there's bound to be that one time where it's innocent - and, I'd rather not take that chance. Plus, I try to keep the annoyances I notice to a minimum - the less unimportant stress, the better.
 
tsaintc

tsaintc

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Line cutting is probably my number one hot button in WDW. I have confronted many cutters; I refuse to let someone behind me 'catch up' to their group. While in the world last year, we had our only negative experience with the famous tour groups. I watched 3 kids jump the entire line in the outside queue. Once we were in the alley, I notice these kids made it all of the way up to the front of the queue. Afterwards, I went to the CMs at the front of the line to complain. Well, the main CM took us four backstage and put us in the first and second rows of the next car. After the ride was over, she also met us and proceeded to give us 4 sets of general fast passes and 2 sets specific to ST2.0 and TSMM. All of this happened before 930am.

Now, I would rather see WDW stop the line jumping based on principle, but in this instance, I felt as though they went above and beyond to fix my personal bad experience.
 
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maxairmike

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They won't try to stop it, because that would "ruin" the experience of the people jumping the line. Of course, never mind the experiences of everyone in line they just jumped. Disney tries too hard to be nice to everybody at times, and this is probably the most obvious instance. It doesn't work, but they won't do anything about it.

One of my favorite phrases, coined/adopted by a company I worked at is "Line jumping is not a sporting event."
 
ScoutN

ScoutN

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The stories we have on this at several parks, water parks, raceday activities. My family and friends have zero tolerance and we ensure no one gets past us. My favorite one is when a guy shoved my older brother when he wouldn't move.
 
wilkeliza

wilkeliza

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I have seen issues with line cutting during the summer months but didn't experience it at all in January. However I have also seen cast members tell people to go to the end of the line for line jumping. It was to a Brazilian group during EMH. They 30 of them were separated into groups of 5 and somehow all ended up at Splash Mountain at different times. When switch backing happened the groups started going under. A CM was wandering through the queue (I say wondering because they were somewhere they usually aren't just hanging out) and he caught them and said if their group wanted to go together they should go back to where the last group was and not skip other patrons who had been standing in line.

I have called out larger groups myself as well. If it is one or two people I will let it slide. I'll never forget in TSM someone made a big deal about a little boy and his grandma rejoining the family. Little did half the people know the little boy almost ed himself right before and the grandma just got back from rushing him to the bathroom. I forgive situations like this and think they are ok but when you want all 5 of you to rejoin the 1 person who is now at the front of the line that is wrong. I draw the line at 2 people tops. Honestly 2 people will delay me like another 3 seconds but when whole groups jump it really starts to mess with the line wait times.
 
Redsky89

Redsky89

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I was in line for Rock'n Rollercoaster one time and these little like 15 year old high school kids who were in a big group were all cutting. These lil guys walked past me and were right in front of me and I looked at em and said "Yeah man cool go ahead and cut in line. Keep doing it." Of course it wasn't said nice. They just kinda froze and stared at me lol.
 
unkadug

unkadug

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ellie-badge said:
A lady in line with us at one of the resort bus stops yelled at my family and I once (we were at the front of the line and had been for about fifteen minutes when she began to berate us). She was yelling at us to go to the back of the line because my brother-in-law had forgotten some important heart medication at the room we were staying at, and he left to go retrieve them. I'd understand if like, five of the six people in our party had left, but it was just him, so...

I don't like line cutters, either, but I also hate people who complain about every little thing such as the lady I mentioned above... especially while it's about waiting in line at a freaking resort. She had the audacity to call us liars, shout obscenities, threats, and shoot us the finger while we were boarding the bus, too. Needless to say the parents with young children in line with her were not very thrilled.
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If you had planned ahead and gotten everything you needed before you got in line this wouldn't have happened, all that drama could have been avoided if you had simply gone to the back of the line. No sense in punishing others for your groups forgetfulness.

Where do you draw the line. Can I get up in my pajamas and hold a place in line then suddenly remember that I need to get dressed?
 
wilkeliza

wilkeliza

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unkadug said:
If you had planned ahead and gotten everything you needed before you got in line this wouldn't have happened, all that drama could have been avoided if you had simply gone to the back of the line. No sense in punishing others for your groups forgetfulness.

Where do you draw the line. Can I get up in my pajamas and hold a place in line then suddenly remember that I need to get dressed?
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Um that is a little different than someone forgetting their heart medicine and running back to the room to go get it while everyone else waits. People are forgetful and in the sense of vacation things can be forgotten. I think life saving medication is a little different than purposefully forgetting to put on your clothes. Also if it was just you, you would have to get out of line and then come back and no one will know. This was one person out of an entire group who realized and then ran back. It wasn't like everyone left to go get it and then skipped to the front.
 
unkadug

unkadug

Follower of "Saget"The Cult
wilkeliza said:
Um that is a little different than someone forgetting their heart medicine and running back to the room to go get it while everyone else waits. People are forgetful and in the sense of vacation things can be forgotten. I think life saving medication is a little different than purposefully forgetting to put on your clothes. Also if it was just you, you would have to get out of line and then come back and no one will know. This was one person out of an entire group who realized and then ran back. It wasn't like everyone left to go get it and then skipped to the front.
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Sorry, I disagree. Even though it was supposed "Life-saving" medication, they should have gotten it before they left. Say the same thing happened at PotC...would having to cut through the whole queue of people be acceptable because one person forgot something? No...the whole group should go to the end if they indeed want to ride together.
 
wilkeliza

wilkeliza

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unkadug said:
Sorry, I disagree. Even though it was supposed "Life-saving" medication, they should have gotten it before they left. Say the same thing happened at PotC...would having to cut through the whole queue of people be acceptable because one person forgot something? No...the whole group should go to the end if they indeed want to ride together.
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Even at PoTC if someone told me it was because they forgot their life saving medicine I would let them through. Like I said I think 1 or 2 is a max for me. I don't line skip but I also know sometimes people have real problems where they needed to leave the line for a second. Also I don't know how this would actually happen at PoTC because they would already have it with them or would have to leave the park jump on the monorail or bus to their resort and them come back through the main gate and then through the ride. Seems very unlikely that someone would ever use a medical excuse at a ride line. Also it was 1 person not 2 or 3 or 5 just 1 person.
 
unkadug

unkadug

Follower of "Saget"The Cult
wilkeliza said:
Even at PoTC if someone told me it was because they forgot their life saving medicine I would let them through. Like I said I think 1 or 2 is a max for me. I don't line skip but I also know sometimes people have real problems where they needed to leave the line for a second. Also I don't know how this would actually happen at PoTC because they would already have it with them or would have to leave the park jump on the monorail or bus to their resort and them come back through the main gate and then through the ride. Seems very unlikely that someone would ever use a medical excuse at a ride line. Also it was 1 person not 2 or 3 or 5 just 1 person.
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It doesn't matter where it happens or what the "excuse" is. Common decency (which is becoming more "uncommon") says that the group is responsible for the individual.
 

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