From a couple of weeks ago: (and I'll preface this by saying I am normally extremely mild-mannered and avoid confrontation)
At DHS, scheduled to close at 8pm, my daughter and i had gone to F! at 7pm, decided afterwards to make our way to TSMM for one last ride, got there at about 7:50pm, posted wait was 25 minutes. We decided to wait. Once in line, it seemed that a steady stream of people was excusing themselves to get in front of us, presumably to meet parts of their party further up in line. Seems like the fair thing to do would be for the people further up in line to drop back in line to meet up with the laggards.
Anyhow it was like 2 people here, then another 2, then 1. I was feeling pretty annoyed. I only had my 5 year old with me so i didn't have anyone to gripe to, but i heard the people all around me griping to each other. Then this group of at least 6 people tries to make their way up in line.
"why do you think that's OK?" I asked.
"we were in the bathroom, the rest of our group is up there."
"why do you think that's OK?" I repeated.
they had already handed some of the little kids over gates to advance in line, but the adults were still behind me. I was pretty sure i wasn't going to block them from getting in front of me, but i was going to draw a whole lot of attention to them if they did.
they made some more excuses, we has some more words, but in the end, they waited behind me, and the rest of their group waited and then fell in line with them. I must admit, that was awkward having them in line behind me for the next 10 minutes!
But I'll say it again-- why do people think it's ok to jump the line, especially in this type of situation-- they had a choice to either not jump the line wait an extra few minutes, or make everyone who they jumped wait extra time due to their selfishness.
Anyone else ever call people out for jumping the line?
At DHS, scheduled to close at 8pm, my daughter and i had gone to F! at 7pm, decided afterwards to make our way to TSMM for one last ride, got there at about 7:50pm, posted wait was 25 minutes. We decided to wait. Once in line, it seemed that a steady stream of people was excusing themselves to get in front of us, presumably to meet parts of their party further up in line. Seems like the fair thing to do would be for the people further up in line to drop back in line to meet up with the laggards.
Anyhow it was like 2 people here, then another 2, then 1. I was feeling pretty annoyed. I only had my 5 year old with me so i didn't have anyone to gripe to, but i heard the people all around me griping to each other. Then this group of at least 6 people tries to make their way up in line.
"why do you think that's OK?" I asked.
"we were in the bathroom, the rest of our group is up there."
"why do you think that's OK?" I repeated.
they had already handed some of the little kids over gates to advance in line, but the adults were still behind me. I was pretty sure i wasn't going to block them from getting in front of me, but i was going to draw a whole lot of attention to them if they did.
they made some more excuses, we has some more words, but in the end, they waited behind me, and the rest of their group waited and then fell in line with them. I must admit, that was awkward having them in line behind me for the next 10 minutes!
But I'll say it again-- why do people think it's ok to jump the line, especially in this type of situation-- they had a choice to either not jump the line wait an extra few minutes, or make everyone who they jumped wait extra time due to their selfishness.
Anyone else ever call people out for jumping the line?
