Strange Disney logic... How is it that?

[cardaway]

Having the family go get a table while you wait in line is bad, but getting to the waterpark at opening and holding lounge chairs all day with towels is OK?

Cutting in line to meet your party is bad, but having the grandparents take up ten feet of curb until right before the parade is OK?

Feel free to add more if you can think of other cases of the same kind of strange logic.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Neither one bothers me, so I guess I don't see the strange logic?

ETA: Sorry, I didn't see your addition of the grandparents one until after I posted -- yeah, that one would bug me too.

 

[cardaway]

Neither one bothers me, so I guess I don't see the strange logic?

They don't bother me either, but boy do you get strange looks if you're wating for your food at Pecos Bills or move the towels of somebody who has left them there ALL DAY and never used the chair.

Same goes for lines. People don't like folks who get in long lines and have the rest of the family join them but support people holding spots for parades for hours while the others enjoy the attractions.

Personally I do these things, but in some cases, only because everybody else does and there really is no choice but to go with the crowd.

 

[pumba]

I can understand holding places in line while the others are in the shade or with the carriages.......that does not bother me......but at the resorts....people have towels and stuff down at 7 am for the pool chairs and not see them until mid day

 

[BillSears]

Actually I think all of them are wrong. I hate the idea of towels holding a spot at the pool or water parks. If your body isn't within sight of the chair then you're not using it. Holding a couple of spots at the parade route is one thing but 10 feet of curb is too much.

 

[pearlieq]

Seriously? Getting a table is considered offensive? DH and I always do that--there's no sense in having us both clogging up the line. I guess I'll just have to be offending people while I'm there, because I sure as heck am not going to stop!

What always struck me as silly are the people who insist you're supposed to queue up in a single file line in super wide queues like at Soarin. It's wide enough for 8 people! If they had wanted you to go up single file they would have made it narrow. If I can outpace you on the way up to where the line ends, you bet I'm going to! I don't push people out of the way, but if there's a family ambling up slowly on the right, I'm going to pass them on the left.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Same goes for lines. People don't like folks who get in long lines and have the rest of the family join them but support people holding spots for parades for hours while the others enjoy the attractions.

The line thing bothers me, I will admit. A line for an attraction should be waited in by everyone in the party, with a few exceptions (like taking a little one to the bathroom and then coming back right afterwards). It bugs me when everyone but one person is off riding other rides and then comes back right as the line is entering the attraction to "meet up" with the designated line waiter.

The restaurant thing always made sense to me, IMO. There's no reason for more than one person to be in line waiting to order. It just creates a bigger crowd to have the whole family standing in that line.

The waterpark thing I understand too, just because the majority of time is spent in the water away from the chairs. You need to put your stuff somewhere and generally there's not a lot of other places to put your bag and towels but on a chair. Personally, we try to limit ourselves to one chair since we know we're not going to be sitting on the chair for long.

 

[cardaway]

I can understand holding places in line while the others are in the shade or with the carriages.......

Actually that does bother me, everybody should do their time in line or not go, but there are far to many doing it to make anything of it. And as usual if you can't beat 'em, I join 'em when my feet are hurting and it's a queue I can join at the last minute.

 

[tiggersmom2]

The kids and I ALWAYS secure a table while my hubby is ordering food, seems like common sense to do so. Oh well, I guess I don't really care if that is offensive.

 

[Missy1961]

I do the table thing at all fast food restaurants. I know what the kids want, I put them at a table where I can see them, and I stand in line to get the food. So why shouldn't I do that at Disney?

The one person waiting in line for a ride thing isn't fair. It used to bug the heck out of me, but I am slowly learning to let that stuff go. I'm trying to learn to say "I'm on vacation. What do I care that that family of 16 is cutting in line?" (notice I said trying! it doesn't always work! )

 

[tomandrobin]

Actually that does bother me, everybody should do their time in line or not go, but there are far to many doing it to make anything of it. And as usual if you can't beat 'em, I join 'em when my feet are hurting and it's a queue I can join at the last minute.

We will get our spot curbside for a parade. We don't hold it for 10 other people that are busy doing other things. But I can tell you that every parade I always let late comers (other families kids) get in front of me. I am over 6 foot tall and even though I enjoy the parades, I know that the 5 and 6 year olds will enjoy it more.

 

[mickeyfan2]

Actually I think all of them are wrong. I hate the idea of towels holding a spot at the pool or water parks. If your body isn't within sight of the chair then you're not using it. Holding a couple of spots at the parade route is one thing but 10 feet of curb is too much.

I agree with Bill.

 

[mickeyfan2]

Seriously? Getting a table is considered offensive? DH and I always do that--there's no sense in having us both clogging up the line. I guess I'll just have to be offending people while I'm there, because I sure as heck am not going to stop!

Yes it is offensive if you are sitting at a table and people who have their food are looking around to find a table to eat and none are available.. If you waited to get the table, then those with their food would eat and leave so you could sit down. If the restauant is not full, then no big deal. It is the taking of a table when others cannot find one that is offensive. Think of it this way, they have their food because they were ahead of you in line, so they deserve the table first.

 

[agnes!]

What always struck me as silly are the people who insist you're supposed to queue up in a single file line in super wide queues like at Soarin. It's wide enough for 8 people! If they had wanted you to go up single file they would have made it narrow. If I can outpace you on the way up to where the line ends, you bet I'm going to! I don't push people out of the way, but if there's a family ambling up slowly on the right, I'm going to pass them on the left.

Really? You enter the line after someone else and pass those in front of you because they are walking too slowly?

agnes!

 

[noodleknitter]

Parades would be so much better if people weren't holding their mile of curb 2 hours before. All you need to keep the prime real estate is one person willing to sit while all others have fun. It makes it difficult for the hour before to walk thru those areas, also.

I think it would be much more interesting to have little spikes along the curb, and lower them at 2:58. Mass chaos, but it would be interesting...

We only have one person stand in lines for food, because all 9 of us would be silly. Since we go in the winter, though, it doesn't matter if everyone else takes a seat. There are always plenty.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Yes it is offensive if you are sitting at a table and people who have their food are looking around to find a table to eat and none are available.. If you waited to get the table, then those with their food would eat and leave so you could sit down. If the restauant is not full, then no big deal. It is the taking of a table when others cannot find one that is offensive. Think of it this way, they have their food because they were ahead of you in line, so they deserve the table first.

So the family of 5, stroller and all, should all pile through the food line which is already overcrowded? That really makes no sense to me.

 

[Maleficent13]

So the family of 5, stroller and all, should all pile through the food line which is already overcrowded? That really makes no sense to me.

This annoys me more than them going ahead and finding a table. Especially at the queues where it's a narrow "order here, move forward, pick up at counter" place where the available space to wait is barely big enough for one person, let alone an entire family.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

It makes NO sense for the whole party to stand in line at a CS. It only jams up the whole process. Disney makes no allowance for families to do anything other than go ahead and sit down. There is no "holding pen" for hoverers.

 

[mickeyfan2]

So the family of 5, stroller and all, should all pile through the food line which is already overcrowded? That really makes no sense to me.

Nope. There are alternative to either the line or the table. We just find a nout of the way place to stand, but not a table if the restaurant is at capacity. Now if the place has way more tables than people in line then we take a seat.

 

[cardaway]

I honestly have felt bad while I'm sitting there holding a seat with no food, but I don't really see choice when so many others are doing the same thing.

The only time we had to stand and do the tray in hand routine we waited at least five minutes, and as we sat down some guy from across the room ran to sit at the same table. He was surpised when we didn't get up to make room for his large family. Cold food and an argument on my vacation. Not worth the trouble. I'm getting a table my wife gets the food.