Worst Queue Experience

[Captain Barbossa]

I have a lot of those type of stories but this is one that sticks out the most.

It was our last day of our 2014 trip and we were at MK. We were in line for Buzz and there was a Japanese family behind us with a few kids. One of them, a little boy, began to lick (yes lick!!) the chains/handrails in the queue!! Me and my family, along with everybody else, became very annoyed and disgusted with the situation. He was also running around and cutting in front of people too. His parents seemed oblivious and acted like he wasn't doing anything wrong. I had tolerated all I could. I turned around and very politely told them that it wasn't sanitary for their son to be licking the handrails and that he along with other people could catch germs and become sick. I didn't know if they spoke English, but evidently they did. A few minutes later they were talking very loudly, so that we could hear them, about how they couldn't believe that someone would have the nerves to say what I did. Guess what? I do!! We're from South Carolina and I was wearing a Clemson shirt. Idk if the mother knew that Clemson was in S.C. or if she googled it or what, but she began to talk about how people from S.C. are uneducated and white trash. She was doing it intentionally to try to aggravate us. I didn't take that kindly one bit because my family is anything but uneducated white trash. Anyways, we finally got on Buzz and they were in the ride vehicle behind us. Some point during the ride the mother gave us the bird. I ignored it. But seriously, there's no reason to act like that when you get called out because your child is misbehaving. Should have reported her because I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, that it says in the park maps, or it used to, that guest being disrespectful to other guest would not be tolerated or something like that. It had something to do with conduct. That's my story. I apologize for the length.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

I have a lot of those type of stories but this is one that sticks out the most.

It was our last day of our 2014 trip and we were at MK. We were in line for Buzz and there was a Japanese family behind us with a few kids. One of them, a little boy, began to lick (yes lick!!) the chains/handrails in the queue!! Me and my family, along with everybody else, became very annoyed and disgusted with the situation. He was also running around and cutting in front of people too. His parents seemed oblivious and acted like he wasn't doing anything wrong. I had tolerated all I could. I turned around and very politely told them that it wasn't sanitary for their son to be licking the handrails and that he along with other people could catch germs and become sick. I didn't know if they spoke English, but evidently they did. A few minutes later they were talking very loudly, so that we could hear them, about how they couldn't believe that someone would have the nerves to say what I did. Guess what? I do!! We're from South Carolina and I was wearing a Clemson shirt. Idk if the mother knew that Clemson was in S.C. or if she googled it or what, but she began to talk about how people from S.C. are uneducated and white trash. She was doing it intentionally to try to aggravate us. I didn't take that kindly one bit because my family is anything but uneducated white trash. Anyways, we finally got on Buzz and they were in the ride vehicle behind us. Some point during the ride the mother gave us the bird. I ignored it. But seriously, there's no reason to act like that when you get called out because your child is misbehaving. Should have reported her because I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, that it says in the park maps, or it used to, that guest being disrespectful to other guest would not be tolerated or something like that. It had something to do with conduct. That's my story. I apologize for the length.

Yay! Another South Carolinian sibling! Awesome!

 

[KBLovedDisney]

In NC the damn place shuts down with any amount of frozen stuff, be it rain (good idea) or a light dusting of snow (really not necessary). I've seen the schools shut down for a week because of a 1 inch snowfall. Back in Vermont the school bus had to have slid off the road into a ditch and land on it's side before you could even be late for classes without getting an attached detention. But, we were old school.

Here in SC, when we get a sign of possible snow (talking flurries), for some reason everyone floods into a grocery store and immediately begins hoarding the bread and milk. Still to this day I don't get it.

 

[graphite1326]

The last time my family went on Winnie the Pooh, the kids in front of us would not stop playing with the different toys and interactive screens to keep the line moving. And the family they were with did barely anything to encourage them to move on. My family constantly wasn't sure if we should walk right passed them or try to not be rude. We all obviously made it on the ride eventually, I just always get bothered seeing a gap in a queue because parents can't just take their kids' hands and say "We have to move up now!"

I have had this happen and yes it is annoying. After a while we just walk by. The parents usually take the hint when they see people passing them and rein their children in.

 

[SyracuseDisneyFan]

Also on my recent trip, we were in line for the Haunted Mansion. There was a family in front of us who kept holding up the line.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

Also on my recent trip, we were in line for the Haunted Mansion. There was a family in front of us who kept holding up the line.

Like in the interactive queue part or just the regular portion of the line?

 

[KBLovedDisney]

@aw14 See how you would have reacted! It's all fun and games until someone else's kid vomits on you!

This happened to me one time in Six Flags. I was riding on the back of the Goliath rollercoaster for the second time that day and somebody got sick in the front...guess who got hit with the backlash...and it wasn't just my foot that got hit. I love screaming on coasters but once that started, I had to shut my mouth. Afterward I had to go to the bathroom just to wash the debris off of me.

Yep, feel your pain.

 

[King Panda 77]

The worst queue I have ever been in was at "Back to the Future" in Universal. Hidden queues that go on forever and just when you thought you were there you took another turn and almost started over. The problem is that you are so deep in the line by then that it was next to impossible to leave it physically and emotionally because you had already invested time, that you will never get back, so you stay and melt. You melt because a lot of the queue was in the open, no shade, nothing.

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I will put in the disclaimer. This was very early in BttF's life. Later the lines were not as bad, however, back then it was the way Universal dealt with queue lines. They would hide huge areas, some tented that actually went backstage, but, was set up to be invisible until you were almost to the backstage entrance. King Kong was another of the awful ones. And when you actually got into the building, it was filled with massive amounts of humanity that moved at the speed of snail.

The new Gringotts ride queue in Uni is aright doozy for suckering you into htinking you have reached the front. It's worse than Kong ever was.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Here in SC, when we get a sign of possible snow (talking flurries), for some reason everyone floods into a grocery store and immediately begins hoarding the bread and milk. Still to this day I don't get it.

Here too, however, it is a good source of a chuckle for me anyway. Born, raised and lived in New England for 63 years, where it really snows, we never did anything like that. There are many meme's directed toward that practically universal southern tradition.

 

[G00fyDad]

We stood in the queue for Soarin' before while some inconsiderate &%#$*#@ decided to pass gas over and over. He actually had the audacity to pretend like it was coming from somewhere else. Finally he was caught red-handed (or maybe another body part) when he let one go that wasn't exactly "silent but deadly". This lady that was behind my daughter and I thought it was us until he did that and she laid into him for gassing everyone out.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

The new Gringotts ride queue in Uni is aright doozy for suckering you into htinking you have reached the front. It's worse than Kong ever was.

I remember when It's Tough to Be A Bug just opened and that line...oh man. Not sure it compares to any lines in Universal though. Side note, the last time I went to Universal, I rode the Back to The Future ride and unfortunately that was about the time it was dying out. The lines were very short.

 

[Goofyernmost]

The new Gringotts ride queue in Uni is aright doozy for suckering you into htinking you have reached the front. It's worse than Kong ever was.

I'm not sure it was worse, but, it certainly is a huge queue. I was stuck in it for 40 minutes before I decided that there was nothing that I wanted to see that bad and left. and that queue wasn't even half full. Universal has always been famous for that setup. However, except that it is more of a straight line... it really isn't a lot different then the Soarin queue. I hate that one because it is about 12 feet wide and people continuously just creep on by you and there is nothing you can do about it to stop them. If they are going to do that the stanchion approach is much preferred in my mind.

 

[G00fyDad]

One other time we were waiting for the rope to drop at DHS the year TSMM opened. I guess they hadn't started walking people through the parks to the attractions at rope drop yet and this moron was standing to the right of the crowd bobbing on his toes as if he were prepping for a quick start to a run. Once the drop was moved he (seriously) grabbed a small child by the head and shoved him down/back to "get ahead" of the small child. As Ricky Bobby says "If you ain't first, you're last!". The guy was flat out sprinting for the TSMM entrance. Usain Bolt would have had a hard time catching him. The father checked on his son and took off after the guy. Several CM's went running for him too. I'd like to think that he was ejected from the park for this stunt but I just don't know for sure.

 

[awheartsdw]

So my DW (@awheartsdw ) has an enormous aversion to vomit. Even our DW.

So during our March 2016 trip, our first ride of the trip was Pirates. It had roughly a 45 minute wait. As we meander through the snaked lined que, a father is bouncing a very snooty faced little kid who is coughing like a banshee. Within a few minutes I hear my DW say, "oh my god, my foot is wet". Evidently the little boy threw up all over dad and then all down my DW's foot. The DD and I laughed hysterically, but she was having none of it

So my DW (@awheartsdw ) has an enormous aversion to vomit. Even our DW.

So during our March 2016 trip, our first ride of the trip was Pirates. It had roughly a 45 minute wait. As we meander through the snaked lined que, a father is bouncing a very snooty faced little kid who is coughing like a banshee. Within a few minutes I hear my DW say, "oh my god, my foot is wet". Evidently the little boy threw up all over dad and then all down my DW's foot. The DD and I laughed hysterically, but she was having none of it

This happened to me one time in Six Flags. I was riding on the back of the Goliath rollercoaster for the second time that day and somebody got sick in the front...guess who got hit with the backlash...and it wasn't just my foot that got hit. I love screaming on coasters but once that started, I had to shut my mouth. Afterward I had to go to the bathroom just to wash the debris off of me.

Yep, feel your pain.

This story made me vomit a little in my mouth! JK-Lol! That's awful, I am so sorry. You're right, a little bit of foot splash is far better then getting all of that in your face!

 

[Michaelson]

Back in 2016 my wife and I were sitting outside the Great Movie Rides line waiting for our adult 'kids' to get off the ride, and watched a couple with a son (who I would guess was around 6 or 7) go through a complete melt down because he didn't get his way at the time. I'm not sure what the issue was, as none of them spoke English. The Dad was on his cell phone, and the mother was completely detached from the whole thing. They were actually pushing this kid around in a rental stroller, and he laid back in the stroller with his feet on the ground, screaming at the top of his lungs, and started pushing himself around in a huge circle in the waiting area and sidewalk. He did this for a good 10 minutes, just getting louder and louder, and pushing his stroller around in circles in wider and wider loops, barely missing folks walking pass trying to avoid the run away stroller, until he FINALLY tuned himself over. The people sitting around the area all laughed and applauded! He wasn't hurt, but ran screaming to his Mom, who all of a sudden became 'concerned', but the Dad was still completely ignoring the situation....until Disney security walked over, told him to get the stroller out of the walkway and to control his son. The kid started screaming again, which at THAT point finally got the Dad to tell him to shut up, and with Mother and whimpering kid in tow STILL riding in that stroller (kid was so big, it looked like an adult a clown car!) walked away red faced. I still don't know why it took security so long to put a stop to that kid from rolling around in the stroller, as he was standing off to the side the whole time, but I'm glad he did. Just amazing, and entertaining at the same time! ;-)

 

[becca_]

Here in SC, when we get a sign of possible snow (talking flurries), for some reason everyone floods into a grocery store and immediately begins hoarding the bread and milk. Still to this day I don't get it.

This makes me laugh because living in Buffalo, NY, even in the worst of storms no one gets like that. 2-3 feet of snow is nothing to us.

Anyway on topic - a few years ago, I was in AK and Everest was the ride to rope drop. So, the large hoard of people and myself begin walking (some running) over to the line. Right as we were about to go into the line, this lady ran over a woman holding a small child with her stroller, didn't apologize, and looked annoyed as if they inconvenienced her. I've seen very similar situations at DHS with TSMM. Also, I've witnessed mannnny times the usual children who run around while Mommy & Daddy argue/act oblivious to the situation.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

This makes me laugh because living in Buffalo, NY, even in the worst of storms no one gets like that. 2-3 feet of snow is nothing to us.

Anyway on topic - a few years ago, I was in AK and Everest was the ride to rope drop. So, the large hoard of people and myself begin walking (some running) over to the line. Right as we were about to go into the line, this lady ran over a woman holding a small child with her stroller, didn't apologize, and looked annoyed as if they inconvenienced her. I've seen very similar situations at DHS with TSMM. Also, I've witnessed mannnny times the usual children who run around while Mommy & Daddy argue/act oblivious to the situation.

A few trips back, a lady riding an EVC decided to drive through the crowd like it wasn't in existence...and ran over my foot. Fortunately, it was just my toes and not the whole foot (and I have somewhat of a high pain tolerance). But that was highly uncalled for.

 

[Rowlet]

My worst queue experience I think is usually the monorail or ferry leaving MK at park closing, even though it's not considered a "ride," when we're not staying on property. Aside from the sometimes emotional part of having to say farewell, we're tired and the wait to leave with the masses of people just pushes us over the edge sometimes. I remember when I was a senior in high school, we went to Grad Nite and the wait to leave the park around 2am was terrible. A friend of mine at the time got into a heated argument with some fellow seniors ahead of us in the line and it just made for an awkward and uncomfortable experience.

 

[rael ramone]

I would say the worst queue is the one to Stitch.... because of what's at the end of that queue

Seriously, as far as waiting for something that I want to see/do, my least favorite waiting area has to be for Philharmagic. Just unpleasant & crowded (speaking of the waiting area, not the neat 'ads' in the switchback area)...

 

[mf1972]

The Indiana Jones ride at DLR. It was so popular the day my friend and I go, that they used part of the jungle cruse que for the ride que. The IJR has a great interactive que area full of time wasters to do. You have to be in the temple portion to do them. I swaer we had it all in that line. The collage age group ahead of us had one guy who was farting something fierce that it was lingering, to the point you could d a switch back and sill smell the effects coming back around. They were loud obnoxious, rude, f-bombing, and probably a nice bit intoxicated. once we got into the temple area, all the fun stuff like pushing the bambo pole to get the spikes they did, and it wouldn't reset in time for us to do it. they accidentally pull to hard on the rope and broke it in the projection room. Basically did all the secret and hidden less known que interactive and wouldn't let us have a turn. We get near the loading area, and one of the guys cuts one that must have left something on his shorts, made my friend so sick, she puked on me. It started a mini puke reaction, between me and and few other families. They had to divert the que to clean up the mess, and we waited nearly 3 hours to ride so even puked on we both rode the ride and cleaned up after.

as horrible as your experience was, i can't help but think of that pie eating scene from stand by me