Groups skipping through lines...

[LtRazor]

Had it happen to me three times in the past two weeks but said nothing two of the times as it only cost me less than minute and I was not letting my normal self come out during this vacation.

1) Older gentleman in line to Epcot in morning walked around the entire line and just went in. CM stopped him and told him he would have to go to back of line so he turned around as if to go back and then scanned his card and finger and went in. CMs were just standing there like "oh no he didn't". To be honest, if they would have tried to do anything at that point, it would have made the situation worse for everyone. Sad.
2) Went to rope drop on EMH to HS one morning. Looked at the lines and picked the shortest one (3 people). Sat down and begin to read maps. In the matter of 20 minutes, I found that a family had two people in both line I was in and line to side of me.. Eventually part of their other part arrived and they let them into line beside of me and then the rest of family came into my line (now goes from 3 to 8). Did it gripe me, yes because I picked the line on number of people in it and didn't calculate this. Did I say anything, no because it impacted me less than minute.
3) Going in to Mickey's Philharmagic, me daughter was in front of me and I was behind her with my wife and other daughter being behind us. We were going into a row where we could all easily sit. 8 year old kid was going into the row next to us and then last minute decided to cut me off and come into our row behind my daughter (now separating me and my daughter). Mother and dad of kid now upset because they want to sit with their kid and start raising cain. I stopped and let them through only to find myself without seat with my family now so I had to sit on end of row while rest of may family had to move the lower row due to this family. Now this one got to me and I did say to mom I would like to sit with my family and her response was she would too. She did get to because I moved out of line now to let them but my doing that cost me ability to sit with mine..

I do hold me ground if its crazy (like the cheer team comment from earlier, I'd of done the same and that is definitely not cool) but if its only going to cost you 1-2 minutes total, I'm not going to say anything as it will just get me more upset than worth. The 3rd example above really brought me down for about 30 mins after that.

 

[SpencerOrg]

We had an interesting experience in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. There was a school / youth party of about 30 teens who were singing and chanting at the top of their voices all the way through Hogwarts castle - we didn't hear anything at all. This had to be the worst line behaviour I had ever seen. Without being over dramatic it ruined the ride line experience for us. Although they were quite far behind us they were all allowed onto the ride in front of us so they could go together. Is this normal?

 

[grnflash]

Such an interesting topic! Personally I just don't care about the cutters. Which doesn't mean I think it's right. I'm in the camp that can't be bothered by them.

But I do differ on the kid pottie break excuse (this doesn't include folks of any age with a medical necessity, just your standard kids.) Granted we go to DL so we rarely experience hour+ lines. But we always enter a line together and never leave the line for any reason. If we ever needed to, then we would all leave and start over. That's just us.

Our son is 8 now, but it wasn't that long ago that he was in that unpredictable gotta-go-now! stage. Yet we never had to leave a line. I did need to stand my ground more than once - that you will use the restroom before we get in line, it doesn't matter that you don't think you have to go now, I don't care that our Splash FP window expires in 10 minutes, you go or we don't get in line. I'd rather miss my Splash window than push my way through people later.

But all said, we move aside and let all cutters through. Definitely not worth any bother.

 

[Love Tink]

Kind of off topic, but this thread reminded me of one of the funniest moments my husband and I had. About 10-15 years ago, we were walking on to Space Mountain. Probably FP, and it was a loooonnnnng walk going through the empty queue up to the fairly short line. This one single guy comes running up behind us, heaving and sighing and finally asking to move past us - we figured maybe he had someone he was meeting up with in front of us so we let him ahead of us. We do not walk
slowly. Eventually we catch up to him and no, it was very apparent that he was alone and just couldn't wait to just walk behind us. So we started to talk really loudly to each other, commenting on how SOME people just couldn't wait their turn, and how we hoped it was SO WORTH the effort to push by other people because they would be SO FAR ahead of the people they pushed by, and so on and so forth. He finally turned around and with a flourish gave a "go ahead" motion with his hand - so we did and moved in front of him! Too funny.

Yeah. The other guy in this story sounds really obnoxious.

The biggest annoyance I recently experience was in the waiting line for Kilimanjaro Safari. The standby line weave around outside and is only separated by ropes. People were actually ducking under the ropes and cutting across big sections of the line. It's amazing how rude people are now. No one in my family would ever cheat in such a way. It is almost as bad as when you stake out a place to watch a parade and some uncivilized trash try to push their way in front of you to flop their big butts down.

Yeah. The other people in this story sound really obnoxious.

 

[CS Torkelson]

I'm totally fine with it.

people save spots for friends/family all the time, what's the big deal?

Movie theater seats, barstools, golf outings (you can register a foursome with one person), heck even ordering a bunch of sandwiches for your group can be considered "saving a spot" right? Do you get bent out of shape when the person ahead of you an Pinocchio's Village House orders food for more than just themselves? Or do you demand the other lunch patron should have to stand in the line like you if they want food?

It's really no big deal.

That's an interesting perspective you have. I might agree with you, had I not waited in line with my family for quite a long break time to see a character only to have a large group of teenagers cut in line ahead of us, joining their friends. I looked around and there was no cast member in sight. Because of the line cutters, the character left just as it our turn and we had to wait the entire break (again) with my 6-1/2 month pregnant daughter, her anxious just-turned-4 year old, and my sore grandmother feet.

 

[Mambo Junkie]

Reminds me if he last trip. My group went ahead to get in line for the bus (at the resort) while I was a few steps behind but they were in line (there were ropes). I walked out and started talking to my husband, not paying attention, but the guy behind him jerks his thumb over his shoulder and said "back of the line starts there" whereupon I said "I'm so sorry, I want paying attention" and dutifully got in the back of the line. DH joined me. Then when we got to the front row the guy was joined by 4 other peope who just walked up.

 

[hookedonears]

Pushing requires physical contact.

I think some posters here use certain words to get others riled up.

Semantics.

 

[maxiesmom]

Pushing requires physical contact.

I think some posters here use certain words to get others riled up.

Given that the vast majority of queues are built in such a manner that they require physical contact to go by others, you would be pushing your way past them.

 

[hookedonears]

Pushing requires physical contact.

I think some posters here use certain words to get others riled up.

Give me a break, when you use the phrase, "he was flying down the street", most people would understand that he was driving at a high rate of speed. Not flying literally. It's just a figure of speech. Or do you want to go look up the word figure and say it's not specifically used correctly.

 

[MouseTeens]

I love your blog and bookmarked it; very lighthearted and funny! (As wall as informative).

Thanks for the kind words. I hope you visit us regularly! Most of our readers are teens but I hope to offer something that appeals to all Disney fans. ALL of our writers are teenage Disney lovers with a ton of park experience. We are very proud of that!!!

 

[GBBTomorrow]

I've also had groups from other cultures purposely stand at my heels - literally up against me in the kilimanjaro line - as if they are daring me to stand my ground (my feeling, probably not theirs). In that instance an elder woman with them even started moving around me since that queue is so wide so I HAD to start body checking ugh... I held my tongue in that instance but it was really hard. I was getting run over!

To be fair, Kilimanjaro Safaris is not a single file line. It's a "fill all available space" line. People are free to move past you if there is room.That's the policy. People in the line do often freak out about it, but a person is not doing anything wrong to move up as far as possible.

 

[brooke789]

After reading here for a year prior to our trip I was surprised by how little line cutting we witnessed. The main thing I saw was someone lifting a kid (always just a single kid) into the very front of the line with a group already standing there. Usually someone saying 'excuse me' coming up behind was a cast member trying to get to the end.

Full disclosure: the longest we ever waited was 30 minutes. So, maybe it's more common in longer lines?

 

[AquaDame]

To be fair, Kilimanjaro Safaris is not a single file line. It's a "fill all available space" line. People are free to move past you if there is room.That's the policy. People in the line do often freak out about it, but a person is not doing anything wrong to move up as far as possible.

That is great on paper until you are a group of one as I was in that instance - there is still a limit to how much you should be pushing into and around the people ahead of you, especially when there is a long wait.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Pushing requires physical contact.

I think some posters here use certain words to get others riled up.

I don't think that is the honest intention of people when they say pushing through the line. I know for sure people can be very polite and say "excuse me, pardon me, I apologize but..." or they can be very rude about it and use their bodies like a battering ram (like some people do with strollers) but the end result and I think what some people are trying to say here is that it puts that other person in front of you and with what maxiesmom said, which is generally true for all theme parks/amusement parks, most queues do not leave room for people to go past each other without some form of physical contact and depending on the type of person they may actually put a little more force into it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I'm not saying this as a reflection of anyone but my parents instilled in me several things this among them:

1) Wait your turn: this is probably why I'm so strict on not wanting someone to get in front of me. Of course it happens and yes I do have to "pick my battles" and yes I'm a bit more forgiving (though I do not always allow it depending on the actual situation) when it comes to parents and young children in the bathroom situation (though you can see from my earlier posts I want to believe it's because they went to the bathroom not that they went and did another ride).

So many people have said "I wouldn't want it to ruin my vacation by getting into it" or "it's minor I don't let it get to me"...well for me (and this is just for me) If I didn't say something or if people did get in front of other people because others didn't care (and my husband is one of those who generally doesn't care--he's non-confrontational) it actually DOES get to me. I just repeat in my head "if I have to wait how come they can't either". And as I mentioned above this is in large part to how to I was raised.

 

[CS Torkelson]

Reminds me if he last trip. My group went ahead to get in line for the bus (at the resort) while I was a few steps behind but they were in line (there were ropes). I walked out and started talking to my husband, not paying attention, but the guy behind him jerks his thumb over his shoulder and said "back of the line starts there" whereupon I said "I'm so sorry, I want paying attention" and dutifully got in the back of the line. DH joined me. Then when we got to the front row the guy was joined by 4 other peope who just walked up.

Oh man, what a blockhead! You showed him up with your class.

 

[carpenta]

We had large groups of 16 year old girls overrun a ride in front of us when they "cut" to join a small group which was already in line. A cast member just stood and watched. These birthday party groups we find quite rude and Disney seems to look the other way on rule violations I think because they bring in a lot of money as a group. Enough already.

 

[HM]

I wonder whether cellphones adds to the incidence of this. It used to be that you had to wait outside an attraction for your group or they'd have no idea if you were in line. Now, you just call, message, or text people where you are.

 

[CS Torkelson]

There have been times when I would have loved a CM to enforce the "no cutting in line" rule, but one time we had a militant older lady CM who took her job way too seriously.

We waited for Gaston through 2 breaks. (He was totally worth the wait and was hysterical.) The CM patrolled the area and watched everyone like a hawk. She told people where to stand (and where not to stand which, frankly, we never figured out why someone couldn't stand there). I felt like I was back in elementary school.

While waiting in line, she seemed to mark anyone who walked by the line as a potential line cutter. She would say, "Don't even try it" as people walked by. Folks just kept walking and were looking back at her and at each other like they had no clue. I looked at her puzzled one time and she barked at me, "People do it all the time! Caught 3 people today!" We didn't know who was more entertaining, the CM or Gaston.

 

[Nanajo1]

You're talking about the tour groups, typically from Central America (lots from Brazil). They are everywhere during the summer months. In my experience, they rarely do the line jumping thing. However, if we see them heading toward an attraction we're about to go to without a FP+, we will hustle to get in front of them. I have zero problems with them being there, it must a trip of a lifetime for them, but they sure do clog up the standby queue. And I can do without the chanting. On the rare occasion I have had them try to cut through my family, I am definitely not one to say nothing. While they may or may not understand English, they sure can read body language, a shake of the head and finger point. Not a rude finger mind you, but simply pointing to where they belong (at the back of the line).[/QUOTE
FYI Not dissing your post But Brazil is in South America. They speak Portuguese not Spanish.