Have you ever had someone ask you...

[MisterP]

...if they could move IN FRONT of you in line for a coaster? I ride a lot of coasters by myself (when the wife's preggo). This past summer while waiting almost 40 minutes for the front car of The Voyage, a family of four asked me if two of them could move up in front of me so they could ride together with the other two. I'm not normally confrontational, but I told them, "No. You other two need to move back. That's how it works. " I felt kind of bad, but I knew I did the right thing. They needed to learn about coaster etiquette. Anyone else agree?

[allisonLOVEsTPR]

I agree, this usually happens to me when I'm queued in front of a huge group of girls. However at least they are asking you and not just cutting , but some people are inconsiderate of other guests and don't understand that you have been waiting just like they have. Waiting in line is just a part of going to parks so if you don't want to wait in line then you go during off season .

 

good luck with your future park trips,

 

 

Always Allison

[Guest]

I've had it happen, but it doesn't usually bother me. Also sometimes I'll ask to go ahead, but for other reasons. I usually ride single and if there is a group in front of me but only one empty seat on the train, I'll ask if I can get it. But yeah, if we're at the gate and people ask if they can go ahead to ride with family/friends, I usually let them. However it's a completely different story if we're far back in line, and some random person asks to cut to go find a friend. For that I say no.

[larrygator]

happens to me all the time and what I say varies on the situation. If it is a family that doesn't appear to go to parks all the time and they ask nice I usually say yes.

 

If the group is already trying to push their way ahead of me and/or if they are nasty about it I say no and tell them to have the other people wait for them.

 

If it is a single rider trying to fill an individual spot on a ride and I am with others I always let them pass.

[Zonga]

That's happened to me a few times. I normally just tell them they should let the other people pass, not cut.

 

Another thing that happens which I really like is when people do let you ahead. On B&M's a group of 3 or 4 always let myself and someone else pass to fill the train. Man, I love it when people think about traffic flow!

[MisterP]

I agree with the single rider thing. And this family wasn't being pushy. But I waited for almost 45 minutes (right after park opening/one-train operation/testing second train/slow load process) and my wife and one-year old were waiting for me. So I felt this family should be more considerate than to ask someone to move ahead, knowing that most people wouldn't have the nerve to say no. I would never put someone in that situation, so I feel others should not take advantage of people's good nature and essentially "politely line-jump".

 

Just my opinion...

[larrygator]

^I should have fully addressed the specifics of your situation. When front or back car are involved and you have been waiting for a while then no you should not feel bad at all about what you did.

 

I completely agree with you there.

[ginzo]

I don't think I've ever had anyone ask to cut in front of me, but it would depend on the situation. Rude hillbillies would not get to cut just because they are pushy.

 

Honestly, I've had tons of people let me cut them so that they can ride on the same train as their group. That happens to me so much that I would have no problem with letting others cut me from time to time.

 

One time I gave up the back seat of Thunderhead to an older man and his son just because they looked really excited to ride it. It was a slow day, and I had already ridden it several times. They enthusiastically asked me about the ride, and I wound up just giving them the back seat.

[Homer]

I only got ask to cut in front once on Space Mountain because I was a single rider (well, I was with a group of 7, but you can't fit 7 on a SM train). Yeah, Disney was trying to ease that 75 minute line and did a good job of it.

 

I asked people to cut in front of me multiple times at BGT when I was in a queue line waiting for a train to pass by on the coasters for a good shot.

[Louise]

happens to me all the time and what I say varies on the situation. If it is a family that doesn't appear to go to parks all the time and they ask nice I usually say yes.

 

If the group is already trying to push their way ahead of me and/or if they are nasty about it I say no and tell them to have the other people wait for them.

 

If it is a single rider trying to fill an individual spot on a ride and I am with others I always let them pass.

 

I have somewhat vague memories of people asking to pass my family and I a few times in Florida when I was younger and I honestly don't remember what my parents said, although I'd assume they let said people pass as long as they were polite, but my views on this pretty much coincide exactly with Larry's, although it hasn't happened to me in recent adult memory. I've never been to a park alone, but on the odd occasion that a friend and I have not been bothered about riding together, we've gone ahead alone when there have been free seats.

 

I'm big on manners, if people are polite and (IMO) justified in their request, I don't see a problem with it. If they're just asking because they can't be arsed queuing any longer... Then tough luck.

[ParkTrips]

weird, that happens to me a lot.

 

If there are empty seats and the math works out, I'll let them go. Heck I do my best so send out full trains. If its just some kids trying to sit on the same train as their friends, I say "if its worth that much to them to ride with you, they'll wait". I'm usually pretty nice to these sort of people, unlike line jumpers.... hi Larry.

[jarmor]

Never had anyone ask but I have stoped some from going under the switch back to meet up w/ other guest. I tell them they have to come to them like dude said. I also agree that if im w/ a group and its a single person in front of us I would look for a single rider to share w/ barry...err I mean the single rider .

[methos]

i get the other one, where one person or two will run up into the line then a group of five or six more will try to join them after. many times i will stop them from going by if given the opportunity. i love the ones that say can i go by you to rejoin my group, after watching them do it to about 35 other people, i block the row and tell them to wait like everyone else in line. i have actually got people thrown out of the park for line jumping in that way. what happened was i made a bit of a stink and some of the people be hind them kinda cheered them a bit to get to the back of the line, when they started at me the ride ops saw it, i let them by and the security was waiting in the station. i noticed them going up the exit ramp so i decided i had made enough of an issue now let them be seen line cutting.

 

if i am part of a group and i am ahead i stop and let line pass me to rejoin and i also can see if i got in the middle of your group when we came in and its just me or me and my group splits yours then i will let you go by. I dislike the ones who think that their better then the rest of the people in line and think they can cut them.

[Fallen Heretic]

I cant say Ive ever had a problem with people cutting in front of me. Then again I am often in the single rider line (if there is one). As a bonus sitting next to strangers can spark up conversations that result in new friends.

 

I do let people cut in front of me if they obviously want to ride together and I somehow end up in the middle splitting them. I will often ask quite a few people to step in front of me on Steeple Chase at PBP when friends and I are trying to "race" each other and get on horses wich leave together. I would never try to get in front of someone else to acheive the same. We always work it so that the person who gets to the head of the line first will let others through until the rest of us catch up.

 

I wont let someone cut in if they are clearly just wanting to shorten their wait time. lol. Nor will I let someone cut in if they have one person 'keeping their place' in the line while they go off to play a game or something. Sorry but thats just not on. If you wanna ride, you wait like the rest of us.

[easytoremember]

yes this has happened to me, and I told them their friends should move back. That kind of thing just gets to me, so I never let them through, but I encourage filling up the train, so I always let people through for that.

[Nemesis Inferno]

At least you lot get asked if they can go through...

 

Over here we just get them pushing past, we have to ask them where they're off to...Then they don't get caught and so on...

 

I rarely ask myself, since I'm rarely in such a situation. Mainly since I'm either in the single rider Q or with a group of mates...

[SharkTums]

I don't see the reason to ever let people cut in front of you...or these idiots to even ask.

 

When people ask me to do that, I say...'No, have your friends move back'. Then they look at me confused for a moment, then figure it out.

 

Wow, this thread reminds me how much I hate people.

[thomas2]

When I was in Europa Park waiting for the Schweizer Bobbahn there were 2 really dumb german girls behind me who kept asking me in German if I could let them pass. So I just ignored them. But then they started pushing and kept asking so then I turned around and said "NEIN". Afterwards I said some 'lovely' words in Dutch to them. My friends couldn't stop laughing and that was the last time these German Bitches said anything to me

 

Some people are really dumb! I don't get it

[Primogen18]

/\ Agreed, also with methos. I don't understand the "can I rejoin my group/family" scenerio. If it's that big of a deal to ride together, which I can understand can be, why did you seperate to begin with? I never let those poeple go passed. You can't be sure if they are telling the truth or not, I've seen some use that then turned out they were just cutting. As stated many times, have your friends or whatever wait for you, don't go in front of other people who have been waiting and increase their waiting time un-neccesarily. Make sure little Billy and Sue don't have to go to the bathroom or suddenly crave funnel cake before lining up, especially if there is a decent/noticable line already there, then they should see what they are in for and realize they should be "prepared" before getting in line. Filling in a spot on the train or single riders is a different story.

[CoasterFanatic]

It is really simple.

 

You don't jump forward. You jump back.

 

// I don't care where your friends are.

[MisterP]

I'm glad several of you see it like I do. I think it takes a certain degree of nerve to ask someone to wait longer so that they can have a shorter wait. Its just human courtesy that you dont put a person in that situation.

 

Those kind of people are the same ones who think everyone within a 30 foot radius of them want to hear their frickin cell phone conversation!

 

They might as well shout, "I AM THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!!"

[Ryan King]

Althought I havent read through all these pages....Ill give my thoughts on this.

 

I dont think people ASKING to move in front of you is THAT big a deal! At least theyre asking...others wouldnt give a crap. But this isnt really uncommon when you get to a crowded station. For Example - I was standing in Goliath's Station at SFMM, and I was waiting for the middle car, and someone asked if they could cut me in line so they could wait for the back. No big deal! I appreciate the fact that people actually take the time to ask if they can.

 

-Ryan

[Primogen18]

Thats not really cutting in front of you though, he was going to a different line. Its more the principal of the thing especially if they are rude about it. Whats wrong with being prepared before you line up for a ride. People get upset with those who don't check saftey check seats, or read the signs about how fast it goes, or don't look at the ride and get to the station and are like "OMG theres loopy loops?!1!?1", whats so hard about making sure, "hey, we have everyone who wants to ride, check"

[CoasterCrazy]

If people ask you if they can go ahead of you it doesn't bother me unless it is a big group of people. I can understand 1 or 2 people wanted to go ahead if there are some available seats but I will NEVER let a whole group of people go ahead of me.

[robbalvey]

I really don't understand why you'd even let ANYONE go ahead of you! Why can't they wait in line just like the rest of the world?

 

Even if it's a group of people who are trying to ride together, why can't the other group move BACK to line up? Why is it "ok" to inconvenience you because they couldn't bother or were smart enough to count how many trains worth of people were in front of both groups and figure it out?

 

IMO, it is a big deal. The more people you let in front of you is one more person who will think it's "ok" to cut in line whenever and wherever they want to.

 

Regardless if someone is asking or not. A polite line cutter is still a line cutter in my eyes.

 

The *ONLY* exception in my mind is when a single rider wants to fill an empty seat on a train or if two groups of two want to pair up on a 4-seat B&M. If it increases capacity on a ride, then that's ok, but it's people wanting to group up and they were too stupid to realize they were mismatched when they got in line...SCREW THEM...they can wait.

 

--Robb