Stop Those Line Cutters!!!

[Destination Disney]

SkylarkD has inspired me to start this thread. A thread was posted about cuttingin line. We have all been victims of this...Those large groups that meet up with that one person holding the spot in line... Well I say NO MORE!!!

When we come to WDW we all want a plesant experience. I know that somethings can cause your plesant experience to shift a little, such as standing in a long hot line and to have your wait increase 20 more minutes because...Someone was "holding" the line for about 5-10 people or more. This is just wrong and I know I have said something to these people, but how many others just allow it! It's not mainly for me, but for the little ones that are waiting as well. My son is only 2 and too young to understand, but I had my 5 year old neice in a line once and we had a group of LINE CUTTERS! About 3 kids came up and jumped into line... I observed then let it pass giving them the benefit of the doubt that they were the only ones, but then all of the sudden the entire entourage showed up! My niece looked at me and asked why are they were allowed to do that... My response was they were not. So I spoke up and needless to say they ended up hiking to the back of the line. (So what if they were mad that they could not ride with thier friends, I paid good money to be there too, and no one is going to ruin my experience or my little nieces because thier friends were too impatient and joined the line before them!)

I think this is something that we all need to focus on.
As long as we are tactful, mature and respectful of the situation there is no reason why we should not speak up and correct thier wrong doings!
I certainly did not want my niece thinking it was ok to do that!

I really do not think the cast memebers will do or say all that much when it comes to line cutters so we must take matters into our own hands...
LET'S STOP THOSE LINE CUTTERS!!!!!
Are you with me??!!??!!

Me
Hubby
Jr.

 

[Rodrigo]

I really don't mind if part of a family cut the line to join their party. Maybe they went to the restrooms, for a drink, you never know.
Now, if they push you, or no "excuse me's", they will hear my english learned in the Eddie Murphy movies.

 

[Destination Disney]

I agree 100% with you!

I have no problem if part of a family gets left behind, lord knows I'll been stuck parking the stroller many of times, but to deliberatly cut in line is just wrong.

Me Who is always left behind parking the stroller!
Hubby Who takes the little one and gets in line! (He'll never get it!_
Jr. The inpatient 2 year old that wants to ride right away! (One time he tried to scale the railing around the magic carpets! He thinks when the line moves he gets right on!)

 

[helenk]

It is not just the rides, it is at the bus stops too. We were in DTD waiting for the the PO resort bus. There was a couple in front of us, the gentleman was disabled, but waiting with his wife. We got behind them. Right before the bus came, 2 woman with about 3 or 4 children came up and 2 of the children got in front of the couple in front of us. Now the couple did not say anything they just looked at each other, but I could not keep my mouth shut (much to my teenage daughter's dismay) I very nicely said to the 2 girls, why don't you get behind the people that have been waiting for the bus and wait your turn? They both looked at me, but stepped away from the bus and let the first couple on and then us and then they got on.
The thing that really got me is that the parents knew what they had done, they had seen all of us standing there and when one woman asked where so and so was, the other woman said she was right there at the bus.
I am sure that the girls said something to their parents because I got the evil eye, but it did not bother me.

 

[SkylarKD]

Originally posted by helenk
I am sure that the girls said something to their parents because I got the evil eye, but it did not bother me.

I'm glad it didn't bother you. They should have raised their children better, rather than relying on everyone else to overlook their mistakes, and giving the 'evil eye' to those who speak up. It's not like you were mean about it.

Sometimes people honestly don't realize they have stepped in front of someone else (at a park, a restaurant or at the ATM Machine) and usually a little explanation clears up the mistake.

Then there are those other people...

 

[Horizons16]

My family form whats called the chain. We all stand shoulder to shoulder and at all costs keep cutters behind!! HOLD THE LINE!

 

[Schmeck]

My kids and I are thinking about creating stickers to put on the people that shove past us in line...

"I'm an obnoxious, line-cutting person"

Anyone else got a phrase that would fit on a sticker?

Schmeck

 

[lisajl]

Those stickers would be great.

As for us...can't stand the line cutters.

There are five of us, so we form a human shield, also.
Shoulder to shoulder or hand in hand. No one gets by this family unless you are meeting the DH with the kids.

Lisajl

 

[The Sweetness]

The stickers dd12 would be slipping on to people would be a little more nasty than that. (Its hard for her to be a perfect little lady ALL the time). Ill have to tell her what is appropriate to say when someone cuts in front of us) MAybe *the line starts back there ~~~~~>>

 

[PatriciaH]

Originally posted by Schmeck
My kids and I are thinking about creating stickers to put on the people that shove past us in line...

"I'm an obnoxious, line-cutting person"

Anyone else got a phrase that would fit on a sticker?

Schmeck

I LIKE it!

 

[Feelin' Goofy]

NO MORE LINE CUTTING!!!!!

 

[crazy4wdw]

I dislike the line cutters but one of my biggest pet peeves at WDW is when people attempt to take your spot at one the parades. It never fails to happen on Main Street. You stake out your spot 45 to 60 minutes before the parade and just before it starts, someone tries to squeeze in a child or themselves. It also happens prior to the start of Illuminations.

 

[tinkerbella22]

I sometimes think that the parents put their kids up to it. Last year we were in a fairly long line. There was a foreign family behind us. They had about 8 kids. They were speaking in perfect english. The youngest child crept in front of us. I let this go. Soon the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th child were in front of us. When I politely asked the mom to get her children, she pretended not to understand me. So I just moved right in front of them! They seemed to understand this. LINE CUTTERS STINK!!

 

[LIFERBABE]

We (DH and 2 DS's, myself) were in line for Space Mountain, so I let DS stay in his stroller until we got up right before the Fast Pass Machines. I took DS out of his stroller and went to park the stroller 8 steps to the right. When I turned around DS had followed me instead of staying with DH.

When we went to rejoin DH and DS back in line, the lady behind me told her daughter to move up because people were cutting and kind of nodded at DS and I.

Im sorry, but my parking the stroller and rejoining my family took less than 15 seconds and the line did not move 2 steps forward. Sometimes I think people get a little too riled up about what they are not gonna take anymore, and then take it out on the wrong people.

Im on vacation and try to avoid confrontation, because I dont care what anyone says, confrontations can put a cloud over your day, especially if someone gets ugly and calls names or is threatening. It's like the jerk that cuts you off on the highway, you flip em the bird and they come back shooting.

I have no problem saying something, as I did in the line to BTMRR when this teenager right behind me was spewing obscenities. I politely asked him to watch his language please and he did.

I have also pointed out the end of the line to people who are obvioulsy confused as to where it is.

 

[swanmom]

I have an alternative to the 'stickers' solution. This actually worked! (and is a pretty funny story besides!)

We had been waiting quite a long time for Splash Mountain. At the point where there's a bend in the line, closest to the walking path, a group of about 15 teens (doesn't matter where they were from) ducked under the rope and pushed in front of us. My DD said loudly "Hey, Mom, those guys are cheaters!" A couple of pre-teens in line behind us heard her and started chanting "Cheaters, Cheaters".....over and over again. A number of very frustrated people behind us (most could see what had happened) started joining the chant and pointing at the group of line-busters. Finally, an entire section of the line was chanting and pointing at them. A CM came over and asked what the problem was. Everyone identified the offending kids. The CM called for additional security personnel for help and the entire group of kids was escorted away.....(not just out of line, but taken away as a group.) So, I guess they don't count on much resistance from a single individual or family but when the many people who had waited legimately in line worked together, the cheaters were put in their place !!!

 

[Disneyfanatic01]

I would also like to add the wonderful, clueless ederly people to this list as line-cutting offenders. There have been numerous times in our WDW history when there has been one nice, seemingly harmless "older person" who meanders their way in front of a huge crowd of people to get in front and we usually don't say anything, because their are "elders"(I am not trying to offend anyone out there that might be in this category, but it has happened to us so many times it is very frustrating).

The other type of line cutters that totally annoy the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks out of me and DH are the people who just get to the crowded area, stand in the middle of the formed lines, and then gradually merge in to the lines as if they were standing there the whole time! Yikes!!

We normally say something, talk real loud about obnoxious, rude people...stuff like that.

Great Thread...Stop the Line-Cutters!

Korey

 

[Rafikifan]

It can be frustrating. It's kind of like the other day when there was a LONG line at all the checkouts in the grocery store and I was about 5 deep in line and waited for a good 25 minutes. The lady ahead of me only had 4 or 5 items so when it was about to be her turn I was relieved to be getting somewhere. Just then another adult lady cut in front of us to the lady in front of me and had a HUGE cartload full. Ugh! It was no doubt planned. I didn't say anything because the last time was at a local discount store at Christmas. They only had 2 lanes open and the lady in front of me had gotten an item that needed a price check. It took forever for the employee to come back and when he told her the price of the toy she asked him to go get her 2 more. Now is it just me but I would have gotten out of line and gone and gotten them myself and then gotten to the end of the line if I was her. I didn't say anything but a clerk from the office saw how long I had been waiting and came out, looked directly at me and said, "Ma'am I'm sorry about the wait...I'll check you out on lane 4. A lady and her teenage daughter who had JUST walked up heard her and bolted literally in front of me knocking into the front of my buggy. I stood there and fumed and my temper got the better of me and I said, "Well, talk about rude. I guess some people don't even have manners at Christmas time. Sad indeed." They heard me and never looked my way. After I left I was in a bad mood and I thought, "It is stupid for me to let ignorant, rude people get under my skin." So I guess what I'm saying is that I half way EXPECT to run into that at Disney World too. Not that it makes it right. The worst thing like that we have ever experienced at WDW was in the MK. An older lady raced past us like she was trying to get somewhere quickly. The older gentleman with her couldn't keep up to her pace and we all got in a bottleneck of sorts when a stroller stopped in front of the crowd so he literally SHOVED my 4 year old son who almost fell to the ground and would have if I hadn't been holding his hand. It wasn't our fault people stopped ahead of us but what grown up in their right mind shoves a 4 year old out of his way? I gave my dh my son's hand and started to take off after the man and then realized, "this is WDW and I don't need to make a scene and if I find him there WILL be one." But oh, did I want to shove him like he did my son!! Sorry to vent but I feel better!

 

[mikesluss]

I'm Thinking of having a t-shirt made with the wording on the back

The Line Starts HERE or no merging

 

[LisaZoe]

I am what I've read another poster called "Pooh-sized" so if the line has reached a point in the queue area that is already restricted in width, I just make sure to use my horizontally-enhanced self to obstruct the aisle as much as I can. I find it hard to directly confront anyone but even my DD, who isn't 3 yet, knows what it means when I tell her we must "wait our turn". I'm especially irritated when I see several adults or teens try to join others in line. If it's that important for them to all ride together, they should get in line at the end and have their friends/family members move back to join them. When my family, a group of 12 at the time, went to DL, we all got in line together. If one of the group needed to visit a rest room, he/she did so while the rest of stayed in line. In this way, we hoped that people behind us would see that we weren't trying to let others "cut in" since the person who joined the group was in the line originally.

I will, though, allow parents with young children to pass so they can join their party as I know how it is to have a toddler in "potty-training" mode tell you "I need to go potty" - no delay is worth the potential consequences Unfortunately, on our upcoming WDW trip, my DD and I will be on our own so we'll have to make sure to hit the potty before we get in line since we won't have anyone to "save our spot".

 

[Connor&Cody'sMom]

We were riding Kali River Rapids. We had shown our fast passes to the attendant that just looks at them when you first enter the line. I noticed two teenage girls duck under the rope behind us from the regular line into the fast past line. I knew further up in line the CM takes your fast passes, so I figured they'd get caught there. Nope. The girls smiled sweetly at the (male) CM and said "oh, that CM back there took our fast passes". He smiled a goofy smile and said "ok, go ahead!" I was seething. To make matters worse, the girls were put in our raft! I was so mad I didn't enjoy the ride. I decided not to say anything, because I didn't need two angry girls following me through the park. The looked like a rough pair. Line cutters ruin the day for everyone.