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If you're skating on thin ice, you may as well tap dance.
Puddingboy said:
One day I was waiting in line for my favorite raft ride and I casually grabbed a hand rail only to find my hand covered in a whole bunch of sticky wet gum.
When I was reading about the DC queue line, I thought your complaint would be about the gum rocks near the entrance to the queue house. It's a sad day when the guest turns to the handrail.
My biggest pet peeve as an employee is people that don't know how to use a trash can, we spend too much time at night roaming the queues cleaning up after those people and I must have picked up more cigarette butts than most people smoke their entire lives. And one more little rant, the people that wait 2 hours for a ride when their kid is too short. They're not getting on no matter how loud and obnoxious the parent is or how long they waited.
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We should have bought a squirrel.
Den, not to be the devil's advocate here, but if you're holding someone's hand and walk through a group, why should they be the ones to cut around you instead of the other way around? If they don't have a problem splitting up as they go past you, the territorial rights should be mutual.
As for the wheelchair line-skippers, that's a brutal low on many levels. The Disneys and Universals of the world got smart to that -- the wheelchair person stays by the exit while the rest of the party makes the queue.
For a new peeve, how about folks taking a picture? I think both groups rub me the wrong way, from the folks taking the picture and either pick a high traffic spot and take forever, holding up traffic, or the folks walking by with little regard for the fact that a picture is being taken.
Another new one: careless stroller drivers. Is there anyone here who has never had their ankles dinged by a stroller being pushed by someone who wasn't looking ahead?
Paris, the problem is, people just walk whereever they want. If people follow the basic rules of sidewalk walking (i.e., walk on the right), there wouldn't be a problem.
Something else that annoys me is when a line has stretched out into the midway, and someone walks in front of you to get to the other side of the line. Then a big group sees the hole and about 50 people walk in front of you. I always stand close to the person in front of me so people don't do that.
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He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking; can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
And you bring up another pet peeve of mine, people that stand too damn close in the queue line. Look, you aren't getting on the freaking ride any faster if you stand three inches away from me rather than giving me some elbow room. All you are doing is making me hotter with all that body heat. I had to snatch up a little kid in a 'wife-beater' @ SFGAdv because of that.
But what I want to know is, why do groups feel the need to to walk 6 and 7 abreast? Would walking slightly behind really make them feel left out?
jeremy
--methinks too many people have inferiority complexes
Jeremy---- so YOU are the one always separating me from my wife!!
There is no such manual, but it is common sense. Foot traffic flows better if you walk on the right.
I just thought of ANOTHER pet peeve: People who are saying goodbye to someone, and they start walking forwards while still looking over their shoulder at their friend, and they crash right into you. This happens all the time.
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He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking; can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
2Hostyl said:
the only thing thta really bugs me is irritating 'millitant non-smokes' who *fake* cough and gag when someone is smoking in line.
LOL!
Tell them, shoot, you're lucky you dont smoke, I smoke a pack and a half a day and dont cough that bad.
Non-smokers = whiney, obnoxious, self-righteous slugs.
I'd quit smoking if I didnt think I'd become one of them.
Al
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Rob
I HATE SNOW!!! I am boycotting snow, I refuse to have fun in it.
Personally, I get a kick out of those smokers in line that obviously are trying to look cool by 'breaking the rules' while smoking in line when they look like idiots, plain and simple. At least, that's my view.
While standing in line for Drop Zone at PKI last year, there was a couple standing in front of me that smoked no less than 10 smokes, one after the other. They were asked to stop twice from other guests but this didn't stop them. For the life of me, I can't understand why people like them are so weak when it comes to non smoking in lines, but then again, I believe it's more of a 'rebel' image than anything.
-Sean
Den said:
"Jeremy---- so YOU are the one always separating me from my wife!!There is no such manual, but it is common sense. Foot traffic flows better if you walk on the right."
1) I would most likely *NOT* be walking between you all. I tend to space myself away from other people (see the post above)
2) That is a completly ameri-centered thing to say. You only think that because people drive on the right side of their road of travel. In Great Britain they drive on the left. Should they too walk on the right? Does it make any more sense than walking on the left?
The best thing to do is just watch where you're going and not walk into people. Whether that means veering to the left or veering to the right makes no difference to me.
lata,
jeremy
--common sense isnt.....
Yeah, but I'm talking about American parks. It *does* make sense to go to the left in England.
The problem lies in the fact that people *don't* watch where they are going. I guess that's my real pet peeve. But it's hard to watch where you're going when people are swarming every which way. If more people walked on the right, it'd be easier to avoid getting smashed head-on.
It'd also be common sense to move to the right when you're about to hit someone head-on. But no, most people play that little dance where they go back and forth 2 or 3 times.
I need to ride a coaster.
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He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking; can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
Ok...then how about this...perhaps Den should have phrased it as, "You walk on the same side of the walkway as the side of the street you drive on in the particular country you happen to be visiting at the time"
Sheesh! Do we need to have lawyers going around creating simple posts so as to not offend any common minded person? Den is an American. Den lives in the US. Den visits parks in the US - perhaps that is his basis for making that statement.
That being said, I work in downtown Chicago and have visited many other "big cities"and believe me most people do walk towards the right. And those who do not usually get bumped into - sometimes forcefully.
--EDIT - looks like I got beat to replying - I was not trying to be redundant.
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Yes, line-jumping can be annoying. But what are you going to do about it? In some queues you *can* block the way but at others (the horrendously designed SROS @ SFNE comes to mind) it's absolutely impossible.
The other issues like people smoking in lines, making out, what have you really don't bother me in the least. FYI I don't smoke, don't make out in line or do any of these other things but worrying about them all day will just make *you* miserable and bring *your* day down. Calm down people, it's *not* the end of the world! If things get too hectic just do what I do, slip on your headphones and listen to some relaxing music (whatever relaxes you, for me it's trance and ambient) and let your stress level off. Life's too short to ***** and moan through 3/4 of it!
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* The Legend @ HW
* Superman: Ride of Steel @ SFNE
* Mondial Top Scan
Colin, I think that is the point of the thread. Obviously there isn't much any of us can do about pet peeves, that's why they are pet peeves. I certainly don't spend my day in a corner crying about the small things that irritate me. But they DO irritate me, and I'm not one to hold things inside for the sake of "just getting over it". If something annoys me, someone's going to hear about it, whether there's actually something that will be done about it or not. I need the theapy of releasing it, then it's not such a big deal. That's the idea behind this thread.
It's also interesting that no matter where in the world you are, the very same things piss us off. We've really not as different as we try to make people believe.
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Have you ever considered that maybe it's not the park that's the problem, but YOU?
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Sean F. said:Another thing I can't stand is basketballs. Personally, I think they should be deflated so they can't be bounced around a park. I have seen to stray basketballs knock onto a table and spill drinks on folks.
Hey Sean,
Brought that up at SFGAm in a rehire meeting, unfortunately I think they need more than one employee to tell them those basketballs need to be deflated. I didnt like having to stop Viper from coming into a station because some person couldnt hold on to his balls...basketballs that is! =)
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Andrew,
Nice to hear someone bringing that one up. To add to the reason why I think it should be done, I will give another example.
Now, keep in mind that I wasn't there to witness this but my friends that were did in fact get this incident on tape. While waiting in the loading station for SFMM's Colossus, someone was bouncing their basketball on the ground in front of the air gates. The ball ended up bouncing onto the track and staying there.
So what does the guy who lost the ball do?
He climbs over the air gates, jumps into the middle of the track to get the ball, then climbs back over to where he stands. To me, that just sounds plain dumb. He could have easily gotten run over by an approaching train, and for a basketball? If that ball wasn't inflated, then perhaps he wouldn't have lost it in the first place.
-Sean
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Will Johansson, Webmaster of Xtreme Paramount Parks
http://xpp.coasterbuzz.com/
Will,
Sorry to say but I don't have the video, but I do know someone that does. I am not sure if he can send me a copy or not because the way I look at it, there could be a very serious situation that comes out of that if he decides to show it to the park.
However, knowing some of the other stuff he has on tape, I know it would add some humor to his already humorous collection of vids. If he ends up posting it somewhere, I will post about it.
-Sean
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