Theme park, threatening bloke and 'queue jumping'.

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I went with a friend and our DC's to a family theme park today. (we are season ticket holders so tend to go for 4-5 and don't worry too much about how many rides the dc's go on)

So we are in a queue for a ride which has buckets to sit in - it holds 2 adults and 4 children. A lady just in fronts DD needed the toilet (3 maybe 4yo) and as it was a slowish moving queue she nipped off. She came back 5 minutes later (the people she was with were still in the queue 1ad and 2 ch so all riding in one bucket iyswim) and said excuse me to everyone and people were letting her past - we had watched her leave. She had past us when the man in front stepped right in front of her and up very close refusing to move declaring she could not queue jump. . She explained she just nipped to the toilet with DD and was returning but he refused to move and got right in her face. Her DD started to cry and the lady looked quite worried and retreated. As she got to me and my friend we asked if she was OK and she nodded close to tears.

Her DD was hysterical so I accompanied her back to the end of the queue and she spoke to the ride operator explaining the confrontation. She asked if she could lift her DD over the exit gate to ride with their friends in the queue - which the operator said 'of course' too.

When she did you could see lots of people in the queue look towards the man so many obviously thought he was being a cunt BU too.

So Were we BU or is this bloke just mean?

Wow what a prize prick. YANBU. He obviously has issues, that makes me so angry. Making a child cry, bet that made him feel like a man.

What a bully. I wonder if he would have behaved the same towards a couple of massive blokes? Doubt it! YANBU

Another incident of unecessary aggression. It is everywhere i'm afraid.

YADNBU he was being cunty mean.

He is an arsehole. How horrible. What is it with shouty guys like this? Something happened to my mum last week - she was driving along a narrow street lined with cars and one of the car dorrs opened just as we passed and he hit her mirror right off, smashing it. I got a fright (in the passenger side, the side he hit - as it was so very sudden. He obviously hadn't looked)
My mum stops the car and gets out to talk to the guy. The guy was right up in her face immediately, shouting and swearing. It really looked like he was going to hit her. He scared my ds (2) who was crying in the back of the car to see the guy swearing at his granny like this.
We were so shocked, all we did was reattach the mirror and drive off.
Should have reported the bugger to the police. If the same thing happened again I would, without a doubt.
When stuff like this happens you always think of what you would do/say, but are so shocked when it happens you can't react properly!
Poor woman!! I bet she's sitting at home right now thinking of what she should have said!

Pathetic wanker YANBU

I'm glad I'm NBU. Its a theme park aimed at all ages and this area in particular at pre-schoolers - who can't wait 20 minutes for the toilet. if she wasn't just rejoining her friends but trying to go back to her space I could understand his annoyance - not his agression though. But as they were all sharing a bucket it made no difference to his waiting time.

notpreggers Hope you, your mum and DS are OK now.

did this happen at peppapig world?

I was in a queue at Chessington last year when a man did this an 8 year old boy who had gone to the loo. His mum was in the queue waiting for him but this man wouldn't let him pass. The lad started crying and I told him I thought he was being very unfair and picking on an 8 year old boy. He stood his ground till the mum noticed and challenged him. I was the only person in the queue who was willing to stand up for a crying 8 year old. I couldn't believe it. I wonder if it was the same man? I hope he feels big and brave.

People did tell him MDS but he just got closer and more aggressive and insisted as she'd left the line she couldn't re-enter it. He said his (younger) DD had managed to queue. . He also saw her leave as we had all moved out of her way.

Yes south it did. And can I add the ride wasn't the gentle up/down and round I thought it would be.

sorry it was!!

I had 2 middle aged men fighting in my queue when I worked as a face painter as a student. Men can be right twats.

[disclaimer....so can women]

He will reap as he sows OP....

Sheer arsedom on his part.

YANBU.

They are fine thanks heliumballons, just a bit shocked!

I hope your day wasn't completely ruined by that man - what a horror he sounds!

I'm off to a theme park this week with my ds and am very prepared to stand up against any such behaviour!
Damn sure nobody is getting away with that, it's not on!!

I bet he wouldn't gave got all up in her grill if she was a bloke. Small-pricked wanker.

I do think she was BU to try and get back in to her place with her friends tbh. If you leave the queue for any reason you shouldn't get it back. Otherwise where do you draw the line for excuses? And people do lie too.

It's annoying and frustrating but I think if a child needs the loo that badly you just have to accept you'll start back at the beginning.

However that does not change the fact that this guy is a total arsewipe who I'm sure enjoyed feeling like a big man for intimidating a woman and child. Twat. so YANBU on that issue.

Nah didn't ruined my day, just really felt for this lady and her DD.

I felt even better when I stood up for my friends DD (friend and my DS her other DD on a ride), a girl about 10/11 ish hit my friends DD, as she couldn't work a machine and my friends DD said 'you have to push this button' and showed her how. Friends DD is 5yo

Friend and I are teachers/ assisstants and usually go school holidays but weekdays, or very occasionally Saturdays in termtime, have both said we'll do that in future - people seem calmer then.