Why do some people run past you while in the Soarin line?

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

Today my family & I was at Epcot & was able to get there 35 minutes before it opended, so we got to go right onto Soarin. Anyway after we had entered the Land pavilion I noticed some people were running toward the boarding area & I was wondering, what's the point of doing that? I mean if people decide to run it will only get them so far, because they will have to stop & wait until they load the next set of people.

Anyway what are your thoughts?

 

[rkmassa]

I figure it's kind of like those people that drive by you on the road like you are standing still...you see them again at the next stop light, only difference is that they have been sitting there longer. Cracks me up. Life is just to short to be rushing through it like that. Enjoy it while you can.

 

[horseshowmom]

Hi! We were there today too. I hope you had as good of a day as we had! Don't you love the weather? Have a great trip!

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

It did not bother me that they were running past my family & I, since we were taking our time & etc. Oh well some people maybe a bit weird when doing stuff like that, but in the end it will not matter what they do as it does not get them any farther then other guests who decide to walk.

 

[jann1033]

i've seen people run through the entire fast pass line when there wasn't anyone ahead of them for the whole area ...maybe they are afraid the ride is going to breakdown before they get there? maybe they are alpha males/females and have an uncontrollable need to be ahead of the pack? maybe they are a little "off " in the "brains" area?

 

[Eeyore2003]

Maybe they've been reviewing "commando" threads on the DIS and reading the guidebooks on moving along as fast as you can to get everything in before the crowd!!!

 

[jann1033]

Maybe they've been reviewing "commando" threads on the DIS and reading the guidebooks on moving along as fast as you can to get everything in before the crowd!!!

maybe by constantly running they will collapse in a heap by 10:35 am

 

[flying_babyb]

thats good for eveyone else- less people to ride

 

[mickaholic4077]

I've never understood the mentality of getting there 30 seconds before everyone else.

 

[MaryKatesMom]

These are the same people who know you over to get off the plane and then end up standing next to you waiting for their luggage.

What sets me off is the person who runs to the front of soarin' and then the rest of the family "catches up" by dragging 10 family member's past you.

 

[seashoreCM]

I figure it's kind of like those people that drive by you on the road like you are standing still...you see them again at the next stop light, only difference is that they have been sitting there longer. Cracks me up. .

Sooner or later they, going faster than you, will make it through the next stop light and you don't. If they did not overtake you, they will absolutely positively never ever make it through a stop light while you don't.

A rough figure for road capacity (number of cars that can pass a given point) is two seconds per car per lane. So if there was a traffic jam ahead, for every car you pass before you get to that point, you save two seconds.

Now back to the topic. If there was the end of a queue just around the bend, that family running past will in the long run save some quantity of time, for example make it onto the next loading while you end up waiting another ride cycle.

What sets me off is the person who runs to the front of soarin' and then the rest of the family "catches up" by dragging 10 family member's past you.

1. Walk up past the person who ran saying [all declarative clauses, not interrogative clauses] that you were before the rest of his family and that since he and his family want to be together, you should be ahead of him too.

2. Next time, you, too, run.


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OT:

maybe by constantly running they will collapse in a heap by 10:35 am

(Howie Carr, a radio talk host) "I wish they would move the Boston Marathon to, say, come in from the north or from the south so I, who have to drive in along the route don't have to put up with the traffic mess."

 

[rkmassa]

Sooner or later they, going faster than you, will make it through the next stop light and you don't. If they did not overtake you, they will absolutely positively never ever make it through a stop light while you don't.

A rough figure for road capacity (number of cars that can pass a given point) is two seconds per car per lane. So if there was a traffic jam ahead, for every car you pass before you get to that point, you save two seconds.

Well, that makes it worth it....a whole 2 seconds!! We don't live where there are traffic jams. Small town with only stop lights, and yes you can pass people and still end up right next to them at the next light, and the next one, and so on. Happens all the time here. Yes, I suppose if there were enough stop lights, they would eventually get through one and leave me behind......2 seconds saved! Whoo hoo! The point was not about saving seconds, it was about enjoying life and everything around you.

 

[Karnak]

And have you ever wondered about the folks who rush around you while you are enjoying looking at the Tree of Life in the Animal Kingdom? True, you are in "line" to see the 3-D Bug Show, but why pass people along the way? In the end, everyone ends up in that somewhat cramped waiting area waiting for the doors to the theater to open, and you end up waiting along with the people who rushed past you along the path down there.What did the people in a hurry gain?

In fact, even if they get into the theater ahead of you, they very well may end up with a "worse" seat than you. When entering most of the shows at WDW I tend to hang back and delay entering a row until the row is about half way full anyhow. (And I avoid following anyone into a row that I would rather not sit next to.)

I just don't get the logic of being in a hurry all the time.

Enjoy.

 

[marciemi]

Maybe they're just excited?!

I know a lot of the time at theme parks, especially new ones, my kids are excited and running because they honestly can't wait to get there. I'm the one left staggering behind muttering "I'm with them" under my breath as people look at this 40-year-old running by them! However, once we're in the actual line, they would come back to where I was - I wouldn't cut in front of people there. So maybe the people you see running are just trying to keep up with their pre-teens!

 

[WillCAD]

I've never understood the mentality of getting there 30 seconds before everyone else.

It's not a "mentality" per se, it's a simple emotional state of excitement that makes folks hurry to the next little bit of fun.

I've been able to curb that excitement, since I have been going to WDW for 16 years and have moved into the more comfortable Lazy-Butt Touring method, but I certainly remember the urge to run from attraction to attraction; I had that urge for years every time I was in the parks. It's the same urge that makes people accellerate to light speed as soon as the WDW entrance arches come into view, turning World Drive and West Buena Vista Drive into drag strips.

In the interest of public safety, I have always refused to act on that urge, but I certainly understand it, and I still feel it every year, though not as strongly as in years past.

 

[Lucky82061]

Well duh!

I do it so I can stand in the line in FRONT of you and smile back with a smug look on my face knowing that I am there BEFORE you and that you will forever (or atleast until we enter the ride) have to stand BEHIND me!



Just kidding... well I would probably say the real reason is that alot of people are excited and want to run up there to get on the ride as fast as possible. I have seen it plenty of times, especially first timer's.

What sets me off is the person who runs to the front of soarin' and then the rest of the family "catches up" by dragging 10 family member's past you.

That I can't stand either

 

[marciemi]

It's not a "mentality" per se, it's a simple emotional state of excitement that makes folks hurry to the next little bit of fun.

What he said!

That's what I was trying to say!

 

[jann1033]

oot....but....i could be wrong but i seem to recall reading that at least in some places traffic lights being timed so by going over the speed limit( which some one flying past everyone else would have to do) in actuality you might be slowing yourself down by hitting more red lights which of course serves them right if they end up causing an accident due to their reckless driving( picturing in my head those idiots who constantly change lanes back and forth in heavy traffic, cutting people off right and left)

and the ones running to get in line first probably are the same ones who plunk down in the middle of the row and refuse to budge since "they got there first" , even if they had to knock some little 80 yr old of her feet to do so!

 

[bytheblood]

When we went in 2002, we had this lady and two kids run past us and almost knock my then 5-year-old daughter down to get on IASW.

Anyway, she got on her little boat and they were only on the row ahead of us.

 

[MickeyMaz]

We were in Epcot last week and I was very impressed with the CM's and how they keep control over the crowds going to Soarin. Not that any of the first crowd go anywhere else. From rope drop the CM's walked in a line across the walkway in order to keep everyone from running to the Land Pavillion. What else was cool was they only let people into the Land Pavillion and had them walk down the left side to get to the first floor and Soarin. We had a civil crowd the day we went, very leisure like walk over to soarin and the wait in line was the same.

Maz