Waiting In Line

I love to "people-watch" and coaster lines are geat places to do it. If there are a group of us we try to rank the line: Best T-Shirt, Worst Haircut, Person Most Likely to Chicken Out at the Last Moment, etc.

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Jeff-Jeff

Smoke and litter.

Sometimes I amaze everyone around me with my incredibly useful coaster knowledge.

1) Zone out and just follow the person in front of me like a sheep in a herd

2) Watch the ride.

3) Watch other rides

4) Often stand with one hand on one rail and one on the other so that people don't get the urge to "cut" around me.

5) watch with amusement as ride-op's warn line jumpers not to jump

6) watch with even more amusement as security tells line jumpers not to jump

7) watch with great amusement as security escorts line jumpers out of line

8) watch with absolute delight as hot shots try to jump the line by leaping over the railing of the queue, catching their foot on that same railing, and falling face first into the pavement resulting in a bloody nose / lips (with possible loose teeth) (Saw this happen once)

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Kind of hard to take a post as objective if a park or coaster name is part of the "user name"

My friend and I would either watch the ride, listen to other people try to explain their knowledge of the ride or other coasters, people watch, but we mostly play "Name a Movie." One starts off with a movie title and the next thinks of other movie title that begins with the first letter of the last word in the title (i.e., Major League, Lethal Weapon)

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Top 3 Wooden Coasters: The Villain, Thunderbolt, Blue Streak
Top 3 Steel Coasters: Magnum XL-200, Millennium Force, Top Thrill Dragster
*** This post was edited by Jeff Rowe 6/16/2003 4:15:25 PM ***

Sometimes I become a RCT peep.................

"I've been standing in line for Millennium Force for ages!"

"I want to go home."

"This path is disgusting!"

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YOUNGSTOWN 2010

A family in line in front of us for Top Gun (PGA) had a small hi-bounce ball. They had all sorts of little games they would play with it. It was then easily put in a pocket when they were ready to ride.

Since I usually wear a coaster shirt to parks, many times complete strangers will simply ask me questions like where is that, is it good? I'll then admit that I'm a coaster nerd who will travel thousands of miles for a roller coaster. When they get bored with my ramblings, I polietely shut up, or change the subject to baseball.

Then there are the scum of the earth, the LINE JUMPERS. I do my best to thwart their progress, and point them out to the operators and have them kicked the hell out of line. I will often wait until they are almost to thr front, THEN let someone know. That way right when they think they have gotten away with it, BAM... outta here!

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SCREAM with me... in 2003!

What Jeff Rowe said.

The Movie Game is the best. Also, "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon."

If it wasn't so darn huge, I'd bring a Bop-it Extreme. Talk about an addictive game... and it can be played by lots of people at the same time. Usually my little portable Yahtzee has to suffice.

I will admit to line-jumping a few times when I was in high school. I'd never do it now that I've ***matured.*** <------key word for Derrick Whitsett to learn.

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A day is a drop of water in the ocean of eternity. A week is seven drops.

My friends and I often love to hear the GP talk about the ride they are getting on without knowing anything about it "Yeah man, like this MF is 500 feet hi and has 10 G's!"

The GP can be very scary sometimes. I will still never forget the two teenagers who were discussing *why* King's Island would not add another train to Face-Off to speed up the lines.

Unfortunatley they were serious!!!

-Tina

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