Here is a question though. On X-flight, there is a section where the cue line splits to the second station. when they are running both sides most people tend to gravitate toward the nearest station and wait in that line. Quite often there is a much shorter line or a walk on in the second station area. Is is "LIne jumping" to go to the second station while there are many others waiting for the first? People seem afraid to try that other path. Just curious what you guys think.
I dont think this is line cutting, infact, what you are doing is perfectly legal as you are just being smart and moving to the station which has a lower queue which is perfectly fine. Infact this happened to me when I went on X-Flight last year, I orginally went into Station 1 at first, but it was very packed, so I dashed out, and went into Station 2 instead where I got the second train out of that station when I would have waited about 4-5 train loads out of the other station.
Also, another similar story happened to me on Oblivion a few years ago, the ride has a double loading station which means there are techniclly 2 seperate queue lines(One for each station) well anyway me and my friend went up the queue and noticed one side had about a 10-15 min queue, but were stunned to notice the other side was a walk on, so me and my friend just walked on the ride a total of 5 times without any queueing time whatsoever, you should have seen the amount of evil looks we got from people, it was quite funny actually, One man confronted us and told us why we were line jumping, but I calmly explained that the ride has 2 stations, and we were doing nothing wrong,he then just shut up, and continued to queue while we continued to walk on the ride, Quite Possibly the best moment of Legal Queuejumping I have ever done.
I still feel I done absolutly nothing wrong in both of these cases, if a ride is running 2 stations, and people are dumb enough to only enter 1 station, then its perfectly OK to enter the other one, because you are still doing nothing wrong.
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83 coasters in Track Record!! Hypersonic XLC # 100 in July. Waiting for the 305 foot drop tower in 2003. Thank you PKD.
I myself am probably guilty of line jumping - I often hold places for people if they've left the line for the restroom, for a soda, or whatever. People don't seem to care (unless they missed members of my party leaving the line in the first place, in which case they may).
Also, I routinely rip the tags off of pillows and have been known to eat more than one serving of raw vegetables before attending social engagements. If that isn't an infraction of the rules then I don't know what is.
I have a TON of line jumper stories that I could share, but I know there isn't enough bandwith to do so. =:^)
Some of the stories are humorous, a couple were nasty (just as Dave Althoff about the Sea Dragon at Wyandot) and even a few became violent in the past.
However, I will share one of the best lines I have heard from friend Jeff Johnson while standing in line for Medusa at SFMW.
Line skank- "Excuse me sir. I need to get up to my friend"
-Jeff just stands in her way saying nothing-
Line skank-" Um, excuse me.."
Jeff- " What did you do? Fart?"
Line skank -" What? EXCUSE ME? What did you just say?"
Jeff- " Fart again did ya'"
.........and the girl then left the line.
---priceless---
-Sean
People will complain about waiting all day long, then, they get to board Volcano & they just sit there, fixing their hair & stuff, not pulling their restraints down, nothing to hurry the lines up. Once it's their turn, screw everybody else.
To fast line jumpers, I like to yell "say high to my friends that are up there, too, buddy", otherwise, I'll try to stop them, I can't let people by, it's so selfish & unfair of them. It's also stupid.
I know, when I enter a quee, that I need to have already used the bathroom, if I want water, soda, get it before entering the line, if I'm with a group, enter the line with them. It's not too hard. It's one of many things that move lines along. If I were to exit the line to get something & then return, I'm making MY time more valuable only to myslef, while making the other guests uncomfortable & annoyed, so I don't do it. Plus, like I said, I know I'm getting in line for a ride, so I'm ready.
ophthodoc said:
I myself am probably guilty of line jumping - I often hold places for people if they've left the line for the restroom, for a soda, or whatever. People don't seem to care (unless they missed members of my party leaving the line in the first place, in which case they may).
Yep, you're guilty as charged! :)
And I for one care. You know you're going to be in line for a while so go to the restroom and get that drink before getting in line. Just makes sense to me.
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ophthodoc said:
I myself am probably guilty of line jumping - I often hold places for people if they've left the line for the restroom, for a soda, or whatever.
I agree... that IS line jumping.
As stated, get your drink, go to the bath room, do what ever you need to do BEFORE you get in line.
The only exception to this I believe is people with little kids (and I don't mean pre-teens either!). They have a tendancy to say "I gotta go potty" at the most inoportune times. If I see a parent get out of a line with a child for this reason and then come back in, I don't have a problem with this. (Of course... on some of big coasters and scream machines, would kids who are young enough to this category be riding?)
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Well, SLFAKE and DEK, your bladders must be in exceptional repair. When I am at a park drinking a lot of liquids, sometimes I need to go to the bathroom even though I didn't when I got into line. It happens....but only to those of us with bladders made out of smooth muscle rather than forged steel, of course.
I'm not saying it's right. If a park security officer pulled me out of line because I re-entered after going to the bathroom, so be it (at least I personally know I wasn't truly cutting in a line I had not genuinely waited in, which is a despicable thing to do). But when you've gotta go, I say go ahead and go. Nobody tells me I can't take a piss.
Hey, Opthodoc, no one said you can't go to the bath room... and no one wants you leaving puddles in the line.
My point was that either a) go before you enter the line or b) if you absolutely positively with out question have to go while in line, by all means, drop out of the line and find the nearest rest room. However... if a person drops out of line for this (or any other reason, with the possible exception of a small child who "needs to go"), then that person should expect to take their place at the end of the line.
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ophthodoc said:
Well, SLFAKE and DEK, your bladders must be in exceptional repair. When I am at a park drinking a lot of liquids, sometimes I need to go to the bathroom even though I didn't when I got into line. It happens....but only to those of us with bladders made out of smooth muscle rather than forged steel, of course.
Do what I saw a guy do at HP...He asked the security officer in line if he could go potty and then get back in line...the officer said yes and then when the guy got back, the officer escorted him to his place in line (although there were a few grumbles from some folks, but I was fine with it).
I once found something really disgusting in line from someone who obviously didn't want to get out of line for Millenium Force. I won't say what it was since there are a some kids reading this, but I will give you a hint...it was a female.
Happy Coastering!
Sean
--who did not mean to insult females..and apologizes is any felt insulted by that--
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Well in the queue for Oblivion I get punched for blocking some queue jumpers so tripped one up as they went past. However they made it past anyway round the other side over some rock and made a long way along.
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This happened on Sunday at PKI..these 2 kids decided to jump the wall into the line of The Beast before it bends to the drink machines..my daughter just saw the "line jumper" sign and goes real loud.."Mommy..what is Line Jumping?" I said.."Exactly what those 2 just did"..and one of the kids turned around and said "what'cha say?"
A park attendant who sits where the machines are saw them and told them to leave the line. After throwing a hissy fit, they finally did and I just laughed..
Also happened at CP in the Power Tower queue..if you ever saw the way the line is..they jumped over the rails next to the Himalaya..a security guard and a park attandant chased them down and ejected them..no questions asked.
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