Is this acceptable or considered cutting in line?

[bytheblood]

I personally would not care as long as the person is polite about it.

 

[bytheblood]

Kind of off topic but my family and I went to Six Flags today. Something that bothered me is when my family and I were going through the line, the children from a family behind us cut under the rail and skipped ahead of us. I figured, no big deal their Mom is still behind us so I am sure when we catch up to the rest of the line she will tell them to come back to her. Nope, she said to me "excuse me, I need to catch up to my kids that are in front of you". I said it the nicest voice possible, "Oh you mean your kids that just cut us and now you are going to to?" She said "yes". I let her go past because that is the most confrontation I usually have. Usually leave it with a wise remark but it really bothered me. Everywhere today I saw signs that said leaving the line for any reason was considered cutting and the person would be ejected from the park. I think this is kind of harsh because I don't mind if people leave and come back. It is the obvious cutting that bothers me.

That is totally inconsiderate.

I don't think it is harsh at all. I wish WDW would enforce the rules they have in place.

 

[amjt660]

To the OP I say it is technically cutting but not a big issue to me

As one person wrote if the person "catching up" does not increase the number of ride vehicles required then it does not have any impact on the other people in line. (No harm no foul thinking way)

Now I have seen a large (5-6) group of teenagers "catch up" to their friends at Space in DL and told them it was not cool. They of course proceeded to brag about how they had just finished Buzz while their friends held the place in line.

 

[Tara922c]

I'll tell you this right now Tara. You physically touch me or my family while pushing your way through line, not only will I get a Cast Member to eject you from the park and hopefully ban you for life, I will also have you arrested for assaulting me or my family. You want to ask nicely if you can go by or jump a chain, that's one thing. The moment you physically touch me or my family, the consequences will be most dire. So next time you want to be an incredibly rude person at a park, remember what can happen. And yes, it HAS actually happened as well.

Never did I say I would physically touch you, and I appologize if you took it that way. I said try, and stop me. I too can call a CM, and explain the situation, and I bet, if it was something like my 2 year old pooped her pants, they would allow me to move up to my family. I would never lay a hand on a person, I am not stupid, I am not going to go to jail on my family vacation. I have never, ever, ever, thought about leaving a line, or meeting up with my family in the middle of the line. I also wouldn't weave my way to the front of an hour long line, but if I had to step out of the line for a second, and could see my family from the back of the line, I would join them. All I meant is I am not going to turn around just because someone tells me no, I can't pass them, and that doesn't mean I am going to resort to hitting someone.

 

[Dobie]

Never did I say I would physically touch you, and I appologize if you took it that way. I said try, and stop me. I too can call a CM, and explain the situation, and I bet, if it was something like my 2 year old pooped her pants, they would allow me to move up to my family. I would never lay a hand on a person, I am not stupid, I am not going to go to jail on my family vacation. I have never, ever, ever, thought about leaving a line, or meeting up with my family in the middle of the line. I also wouldn't weave my way to the front of an hour long line, but if I had to step out of the line for a second, and could see my family from the back of the line, I would join them. All I meant is I am not going to turn around just because someone tells me no, I can't pass them, and that doesn't mean I am going to resort to hitting someone.

I don't understand how you can "push your way up a line" without touching someone. What, pray tell, would you be "pushing" against, if not people? And if you want to call a CM and explain why you think people should let you cut the line, why don't you just find a CM before you cut the line, explain why you don't think you need to wait and ask them to escort you? That way, you get to be an institutionally improved line jumper without inciting a riot.

 

[Tara922c]

I don't understand how you can "push your way up a line" without touching someone. What, pray tell, would you be "pushing" against, if not people? And if you want to call a CM and explain why you think people should let you cut the line, why don't you just find a CM before you cut the line, explain why you don't think you need to wait and ask them to escort you? That way, you get to be an institutionally improved line jumper without inciting a riot.

Oh my gosh, I can't believe I am still responding to this thread. I have said that I don't think it is right for a dad to go get fast passes while his family is in line, and he comes back and rides with them. I would have never thought of even doing that. I also said that if I waited in a hour long line, and all of a sudden my child had an emergency, I would ask a CM if their was anything they can do to help me out. If they couldn't, we would go pee, and ride the stupid ride later. I also said I would never weave my way through the front of the line to meet my family. If I had to step out of line for a minute, and I could still SEE MY FAMILY at the END of the line, I would ask to rejoin them. And if you want to get real technical, how exactly is a person going to stop me from walking by them, say on a ride like Soarin', without putting their hands on me? What I was more offended by is someone saying what other people's children SHOULD do. I will teach my child not to cut in line. To me, cutting is jumping the rope when no one is looking. Meeting up with other members of your party that had been waiting, not stepping out of line for a second, and getting right back in. I will also teach my child to let the small things go, and not make a scene because someone is doing something I don't agree with, or is against the "rules". I have been to disney several times, I have waited in several lines, and I don't remember people passing me up as being a huge problem. If I saw someone cutting to the point it was going to affect my day, I would pull a CM to the side, and tell them without making a scene. I took the other posters responce as, "I don't care why you stepped out of line, even if you just got a emergency phone call, even if you child had to pee really quick, even if you stopped to tie your shoe, and got seperated from your party for 30 seconds, you are not getting pass me". The sad part is, I don't really care! I think I need a break from these boards because I am going to drive my self nuts.

 

[kaytieeldr]

If your DH joining you in line doesn't change the amount of ride "vehicles" your party will require, it really isn't cutting the line.

However, if DH joining you requires an additional vehicle for your party, thus putting every person behind you one "vehicle" behind their original position--it's very rude.

Now many in line behind you will not know either way if this changes their original position--so they may be upset no matter what...but an "excuse me, I've been separated from by party" might help.

Sort of disingenuous, don't you think? "I've been separated from my group" certainly implies something beyond the control of the group or the separated person. Stopping to get FastPasses while your family goes ahead to save you a place in line is intentional, planned 'separation'

 

[kaytieeldr]

If you have been waiting on a 30 minute line and your kid has to use the bathroom half way thru the wait, would you pull out your whole family of the line so that your kid can use the bathroom or would you take him and catch up to them assuming it will only take 5 minutes to use the bathroom.

While, once again, this thread is not about leaving the line for an emergency bathroom run but rather about someone entering a line for the first time and moving ahead of others already there... it rarely takes only five minutes to use the bathroom, from any point in a ride queue. While bathrooms are plentiful, they're simply not THAT close to attraction queues to make this feasible.

Off the top of my head... at Soarin', and Toy Story Midway Mania, it would take a Guest more than five minutes just to exit the line. Then they'd still have to get to the restroom, then make their way back through the now much fuller queue.
There's a restroom close to the Animation Tour, sure - but since the actual tours depart in groups (ultimately becoming self-guided), someone who got out of line to use the restroom might well miss their party's start. What then? Burst through the door ahead of the next waiting group?

 

[mslclark]

I personally don't mind it if one person is trying to catch up with their group. It's embarrassing to me to try and wade through other people in line to catch up, so I don't do it myself.

We had an experience similar to this at another park - Cedar Point. My DD had a foot injury and was wearing a removable boot cast. She got in line with our group and was told by a park employee that she would have to remove the boot. She got out of line and brought me the boot. When she returned to her group in line, another employee stopped her and told her that line cutting was not permitted and she could be thrown out of the park. She told them that she had left the line because she was told she couldn't wear her boot on the ride, but the employee was insistent. The other people in line behind her started in on the employee, telling her that it wasn't fair and they didn't mind. So the employee caved and let her stay in the line. This wasn't a long line by any means, the queue was about 3 rows.

 

[KennySC]

I just pray i'm not around most of you during my vacations to Disney. I've always been about the give and take. Sometimes I have to give "allowing someone back in line" and sometimes I take "someone allows me back in line." It's sort of like driving in bad traffic. i can see most of you on here would speed up and cut me off saying i shouldn't be allowed to merge into traffic without having to wait.

Have a nice day and just remember the Golden Rule sometimes...

 

[Praying Colonel]

I just pray i'm not around most of you during my vacations to Disney. I've always been about the give and take. Sometimes I have to give "allowing someone back in line" and sometimes I take "someone allows me back in line." It's sort of like driving in bad traffic. i can see most of you on here would speed up and cut me off saying i shouldn't be allowed to merge into traffic without having to wait.

Have a nice day and just remember the Golden Rule sometimes...

Again, that wasn't OP's question. She wasn't asking about letting someone back in--she was asking about the family going ahead and getting in line, Dad never getting in line but going ahead to get FPs, then moving through the crowd to join the family for the first time.

The Golden Rule is exactly why our family chooses not to do what OP was asking about. I'm the designated FP runner for our family, and I would just feel "icky" sending the family ahead to get in line and me cutting in front of other families to join them. When I go get FPs, my family waits at the attraction entrance and then we all go in together. How hard is that?

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

The Golden Rule is exactly why our family chooses not to do what OP was asking about. I'm the designated FP runner for our family, and I would just feel "icky" sending the family ahead to get in line and me cutting in front of other families to join them. When I go get FPs, my family waits at the attraction entrance and then we all go in together. How hard is that?

It can't be that difficult to wait for the other person at the entrance to the ride. Or..... the fast pass runner could just miss out on the ride in question.

 

[KennySC]

Again, that wasn't OP's question. She wasn't asking about letting someone back in--she was asking about the family going ahead and getting in line, Dad never getting in line but going ahead to get FPs, then moving through the crowd to join the family for the first time.

The Golden Rule is exactly why our family chooses not to do what OP was asking about. I'm the designated FP runner for our family, and I would just feel "icky" sending the family ahead to get in line and me cutting in front of other families to join them. When I go get FPs, my family waits at the attraction entrance and then we all go in together. How hard is that?

Wow! Amazing and a little sad. Also, this thread long morphed into a broader discussion about proper line behavior. But going back to the OP does allow people to justify their narrowed minded opinions!

 

[sherabby]

I had to take my son to the bathroom in the queue for the Great Movie Ride. The room was packed and we were at the end. We ran and got back and my group had only made it to the front....boy did we get looks and he CM even allowed us to rejoin the group!

 

[Markstudy]

Expedition Everest, Toy Story Mania, Test Track, Tower of Terror, and Rock-n-Roll roller coaster, have all made such complicated and complex lines that it is imposable to cut the line, or play the "catch up game".

Notice the trend?

So Disney knows what it is doing. And their complex lines are a sigh of which way they vote on this issue. I hope that they continue to make the line-up areas for all new attractions more-and-more complicated and complex...so that people who play by the rules don't even have to think about this issue anymore.

For you folks who think "catching up to your party is harmless".... One person catching up to their party....sours the spirits of all the other guest in line (could be 100 people)... even if its just a slight inconvenience its still a lot of people.

 

[KennySC]

....so that people who play by the rules don't have to worry about who's cutting and why?

I do feel so much better knowing they're are so many people that follow ALL the rules... or maybe just the convenient ones...

"Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

 

[clarabell]

As far as the OP's question, this isn't exactly what you asked, but I think that there are other ways to handle snagging your fast passes without feeling like you're losing line time.

For rides like Winnie the Pooh, sometimes one of us just opts out and lets the other parent ride with the kids while the opt-out-er goes and gets the fast passes and snags a cool drink and waits by the exit. Sometimes, you just need a break from all that lovely togetherness.

 

[Praying Colonel]

Wow! Amazing and a little sad. Also, this thread long morphed into a broader discussion about proper line behavior. But going back to the OP does allow people to justify their narrowed minded opinions!

Well, you have a magical day, too, Kenny.

 

[whitneyNC]

Who cares if the dad catches up with his family? It isn't going to slow you down, they are still taking up the same number of ride cars. People need to worry about themselves. When we see someone at a theme park, we rarely know the whole story. I got separated from my fast family heading to Test Track, and the cm told me to head up the closed fast pass line and meet them at the top instead of not riding, he offered to escort me. Why are people so queue militant? If you pay if forward, it all works out. Obviously just my opinion.

 

[ftballfan7]

My kids will be/have been taught that they should empathize with someone who has waited in line for an extended period of time and then suddenly had to go to the restroom. The right thing to do would be to politely allow them back to their original position without judgement. Nothing is cut and dry and usually involves a sense of fairplay. It all depends on what lesson you are trying to teach.