Cutting in Line

[Dawgdad]

Can we please stop calling me Mr. Rogers? I was joking and yes, I realize that my rant was not like Mr. Rogers. Back when I was watching Mr. Rogers, there was no fastpass - we waited 2 hours to ride 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. This only proves my point further about the kindergarten-like attitudes of some. And no, I am not relaxed because I am an admitted "cutter", I am relaxed because it's my personality.

 

[sara74]

Guilty of this myself I guess...

yesterday at Epcot, DS3 and I got in line to see the characters at the Character Connection spot while DD7 and DS5 rode Mission Space with DH. We waited for 40 minutes to get our photos. At the 30 minute mark DH called me - they were all done on the ride! I asked the party behind me if they would be offended if my DD and DS joined us for the photos. They told me it was no problem. Now I didn't poll everyone in line, but I saw it as the same # of photos would be taken and we wouldn't be taking any more time than if we had just one child there. I didn't allow the kids to get their autograph books out (not a big fan of the books anyway) and they didn't do individual photos so we really didn't take any more time than if I just had DS with me.

No one seemed to mind - but several people got quite the chuckle from DS crawling the WHOLE length of the line to catch up to me! He refused to duck under the chains at all and with his crawling he accidentally got his head under a little girls princess dress! (Not to worry - he had no idea what was going on and was only fighting to free himself of the layers of tulle!)

 

[Dawgdad]

And what would that rude awakening be?

At BTMRR we did exactly that did not let 2 people up to their group, and everyone in front of us chimed in when we said no. We all offered to let the group back but not them forward. The group ended up doing what they should have in the first place wait till the stragglers caught up to them in line. All it usually takes is 1 person to speak up and then others will join in.
If you want to ride and the ride has a line then do what everyone else is doing wait in it you aren't special.

I have a different story. Two weeks ago at Epcot, our group of 13 got in line for The Land (yes, there was a line...go figure). I stayed back aqnd took off for TT fastpasses. As i was coming back, my wife IM'd me and said they were getting on the boats - I said, no prob - have fun (whew, avoided The Land this year - hehe). But as I came down the escalator at The Land exit, I saw them in the boat and the ride was delayed for some reason. My family saw me and were waving and calling my name. The ride attendant asked me if I wanted on the boat. I was like, "it's fine - you go ahead". He was really funny and over the microphone he said, "who thinks Russ should be able to avoid riding?" People were yelling for me to get on the boat, and the ride attendant was waving me through the exit. When I came throught the exit and hopped on the boat, everyone was cheering. It really was silly, but a funny memory nonetheless. In the case of The Land, I suppose people thought my punishment for coming late was that I HAD to endure, I mean ride it. hehe

 

[Dawgdad]

you are all so ridiculous, i can understand a whole group cutting would be a pain, but one or two people. next time i will be sure to pee on your foot instead of leaving my family to run to the bathroom

hehe. And since we get 13 fastpasses and most of the time we only use 9-10 of them (little kids sometimes don't ride), would a fastpass bribe suffice to get me through the line?

 

[Dawgdad]

Just to clarify, as the FP runner you do or do not cut the line when meeting up with your huge family?

First of all, like I said, I don't run for FP's all the time. I actually like spending time with my family. But when I do, I never enter the line - I go for a FP and if I can I will meet up with them. I'm not gonna weave through the entire Big Thunder queue line or anything, but if they're at Dumbo, I'll wait for them to come to the end of the row and step over. if you can say something to me when my little girl jumps to me and says, "daddy!", then go right ahead - unless it's profanity I'll just ignore.

Does this look like the face of an evil line-cutter...hehe

 

[Dawgdad]

Don't feed the trolls... I'm not certain, but the 'pee on your foot' poster may be a troll. Responding to these kind of posts only makes the troll more ... reactive.

A TROLL?! Are you serious? Sarcasm does not make one a troll. My goodness, no one is peeing on anyone - am I the only one who sees this as just a tongue-in-cheek response?

 

[Kurby]

ohhhh YES - i'm gonna keep my eye out for you

you TOTALLY look like line cutters to me

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

Those 3D shades sure make you look suspicious!

 

[Kurby]

A TROLL?! Are you serious? Sarcasm does not make one a troll. My goodness, no one is peeing on anyone - am I the only one who sees this as just a tongue-in-cheek response?

i don't think they were talking about you but the 18 year old saying we'd be in for a rude awakening if we didn't let her in.

 

[Dawgdad]

i don't think they were talking about you but the 18 year old saying we'd be in for a rude awakening if we didn't let her in.

I was talking about the PP who said they would pee on someone. That's not a troll - that's someone who is probably trying to shine some brevity on this subject.

 

[larryz]

One or two people for me is not a big deal- but a bunch of people- yes, I might get P.O.'d. But what do you do?? Freak out??? While you're on vacation??? Make things uncomfortable for people in your party and be in a bad mood?? In the grand scheme of things there are more important things to get upset about. Relax, and go with the flow.

Yeah, that's what the foot-pee-er suggested...

 

[Suellen]

Yeah, that's what the foot-pee-er suggested...

foot pee-er!

 

[cm8]

foot pee-er!

,, Now that is *FUNNY*

 

[TinkerBelle_325]

you are all so ridiculous, i can understand a whole group cutting would be a pain, but one or two people. next time i will be sure to pee on your foot instead of leaving my family to run to the bathroom

Let me just point out - I have no problem with you leaving to use the washroom. It's the feeling that you are entitled to reclaim your spot in line that is the issue.

 

[capkincaid]

We were waiting in line for the Fairies and there was a person infrot of us holding a spot for her husband and daughter while they were in line for the Princesses. It royally pissed me off that my wife and I waited the long wait times in both lines with our daughter but this family couldn't do the same.

 

[Rosetta89]

I was talking about the PP who said they would pee on someone. That's not a troll - that's someone who is probably trying to shine some brevity on this subject.

It was humor, thank you, because obviously I would never pee on anybody's foot in reality! apparently not many people got this and im not quite sure where these people got the idea that i am 18. I am not :/ and i never once said my age lol. People can get so riled up. I think it is time to go through and edit my posts so they can all stop having a field day. Magical wishes

 

[Planogirl]

I can't believe that this is such a big deal that it has created 16 pages...so far. I understand that we don't all get annoyed by the same things but one person leaving and returning really bugs some of you that much?

I had no idea. (And no, I've never done it!)

 

[irunnoft]

I also consider it rude and would call it cutting. What we do is if one person is getting FPs the rest of us wait near the mouth of the line and we all get into line together once the FP runner catches up with us. Really, how much time is saved by having people get in line early and having the FP runner cut to catch up?

It does not bother me if a little one needs to get out of line to go potty, I let them pass to return to their spot in line; however, we don't do this, we just get in at the end of the line after our pitt stop.

This is EXACTLY what my family does. I usually run to get the FPs, say at Soarin', and my family either waits for me just outside Test Track or Mission Space. Once I get there, we all enter the queue together.

I certainly don't mind letting people out and back in line to go to the restroom.

I also don't get bent out of shape about one or two people trying to catch up with their family. That's not that big a deal. Like somebody else already said. . . what's one or two more people in front of me?

The old tour group tactic of one person get in line and 25 other people try to push past to catch up does not fly with me.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I can't believe that this is such a big deal that it has created 16 pages...so far. I understand that we don't all get annoyed by the same things but one person leaving and returning really bugs some of you that much?

I had no idea. (And no, I've never done it!)

No. One person leaving and returning doesn't bug us - at least it doesn't bug those of us who were in line when they left; can't speak for all the people who got in line between when that person left and when they returned.

Two people - a parent and small child, given small children have small bladders - leaving and returning don't bug us, with the same caveat above.

Any number of individual people who were never in line in the first place, snaking their respective ways through lines of varying lengths consisting of Guests who've been waiting in line for varying, probably long times to catch up with real or imagined other Guests who got in line before the entire party was present? Yeah, that bugs us. What difference does one person make? Little. What difference do ten individual FastPass runners, catching up with ten different parties make? Some. Twenty five individual FastPass runners, bathroom breakers, drink getters? Can easily force people ALREADY WAITING IN LINE for Little Mermaid (for example) to wait through the current show, then through the show they EXPECTED to enter - i.e. twice as long.

How is that reasonable? My vacation cost as much as theirs, capkincaid's time is as valuable as theirs - why do those 25 people get to take my place in the theater, or her daughter's turn to meet the fairies, even though we waited in line longer than they did?

 

[kaytieeldr]

It was humor, thank you, because obviously I would never pee on anybody's foot in reality! apparently not many people got this and im not quite sure where these people got the idea that i am 18. I am not :/ and i never once said my age lol. People can get so riled up. I think it is time to go through and edit my posts so they can all stop having a field day. Magical wishes

Right. We just know you're older than sixteen. And, um, humor is, by definition, funny. Threatening to urinate on somebody's foot because you couldn't wait until AFTER a theme park ride to get a snack or use the restroom? Not funny, and not befitting an older teen or an adult.