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- Apr 16, 2006
Of course my children are special. It's OUR vacation. If you don't like me taking my kids out of a potential melt down at your feet....sorry, lol. You people are funny...truly.
I'll vote for kids in line having a melt-down.
Of course my children are special. It's OUR vacation. If you don't like me taking my kids out of a potential melt down at your feet....sorry, lol. You people are funny...truly.
It was my and my 2 kids, 1 kid rode with hubby and the other with me. Did it really cost anyone to miss their dining reservations?
My child is special too. Special enough to know that if you want to ride a ride or see a show etc you wait your turn in line. If you tried to get past my husband his response would be your husband can come to the back and wait with you but you are not going past our daughter who has been waiting her turn in line.
Standing shoulder to shoulder in line across the path does not constitute assault, particularly if the person who is cutting the line has no reasonable expectation of being allowed ahead of the person blocking their path.
A line jumper barging into someone who is blocking their way as they cut the line could be construed as battery under Florida law. If they threaten physical violence before doing so, it could include a charge of assault. Here's some light reading on the subject...
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes...ng=&URL=0700-0799/0784/Sections/0784.011.html
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes...ing=&URL=0700-0799/0784/Sections/0784.03.html
Besides being illegal, it's just plain rude, spoiled and childish. Choosing to commit a physical assault in response to someone non-belligerently holding their own place in line is an inappropriate response, which an intelligent person would have learned in elementary school.
You might be at Disney World with your family, but when you didn't get in line WITH your family, as far as I'm concerned, you just declared your intent to ride the ride alone.
Yes, there are always exceptions, such as illness, sudden calls of nature and the like, but getting FastPasses, buying refreshments, or riding other rides for your own convenience at the expense of others who are patiently waiting in line ARE NOT acceptable exceptions.
If your family/group isn't together when they get in line, they should have no expectation of riding together.
Let me say it again... The family that gets in line together, should not have to whine together.
Seriously, I don't understand why some people here are so quick to defend the churlish bullies or wanna-be scam artists who never learned that getting in line and waiting your turn is the civilized, accepted norm.
Of course, this is just my own not-so-humble opinion.
for those who think it's totally acceptable to have part of the family "hold their place" in line while they take junior shopping and for snacks because "they get bored" waiting in line, I say that's what fp were created for - not the standby lines.
It saved time with him waiting then us joining him in line.
...My Dad (who has the least patience of any of us) went to the CM at the beginning of the ride line when we got off and suggested they have someone monitor the lines. She stated that they basically don't mind and that they're more tolerant on this ride "because of all the people with little kids who need to go to the bathroom" .
Absolutely this. I'm our family's fp runner - simply because I'm a fast walker anyway and my kids are meanderers. So, I run ahead for the fp and then MEET my dh and kiddos at the ENTRANCE to the line for whichever ride we've decided upon. They do not get in line and wait for me to catch up. And for those who think it's totally acceptable to have part of the family "hold their place" in line while they take junior shopping and for snacks because "they get bored" waiting in line, I say that's what fp were created for - not the standby lines.
You know what I mean; those people who have a member of their group stand in line. Then several members of the group or family come through the line saying 'excuse me' like they have a special place in line ahead of you saved.
This happened to me at several rides including the safari at AK, TT at Epcot, Star tours at DHS. I can't think of more off the top of my head but it did happen at every park(also @ universal but the lines there were in general shorter).
Would I be right in NOT letting these line cutters through? What do you guys do? Just let them barge through? I don't want to start a whole thing with someone in line, but I do feel it is really unfair to those who are waiting. Especially when you get several adults cutting in front of dozens and dozens of children who are waiting along with the rest of us.
This sense of entitlement some people have truly irks me. It's this I'm-hollier-than-thou attitude that causes the most problems during queuing. NO, your kids are not that special to everyone else, they are not better than the Smith's kids, who spent every single minute on the line with their parents or the Johnson's family, who had to take one of their daughters to a potty break and returned to the line as soon as possible and did not go to meet Cinderella just over there where mommy kept their place in line. Rules are there to be followed. If the policy at Disney states that your family should be together BEFORE they enter the queue, and you decide to ignore that policy, be damn sure you are not joining the rest of your family if you have to go past me.
Besides, if it's a FAMILY vacation, shouldn't every member of your family experience the whole meeting the characters, riding POTC, getting an ice cream, TOGETHER? Or did you bring along dearest husband just to be a place holder?
Ah, so rules only apply to others and not you. (It is against the rules to not allow somebody to pass, Disney's rules say to tell a CM).
Sounds like entitlement to me.