Theme park queue jumpers

[Luckycatyellowsky]

I took the kids to a theme park today. We knew it would be busy as it’s school holidays. One ride the kids were desperate to go on had a 60 minute queue. We joined the end of queue and waited. About 20 mins in three women pushed past everyone behind us and tried to come past us. When I said no she claimed she had to come past as her kids were further up. I said her kids were welcome come back to join her where she was. She swore at me and carried on up the queue to her group of teens about 10 people in front of us. They then spent the rest of the queue time loudly complaining about how I wouldn’t let the pass! ( not that I was able to stop them- I’m not going to physically restrain someone!) Aibu that everyone has to join the back of the queue and wait? Or is sending a teen in to save a place ok? I heard no one else in the queue behind us confront them- although as was about 20 mins worth of queue I doubt would have heard people much further back.
yabu: it’s fine to save a place in theme park queue
yanbu: it’s pushing in and unfair

But they do say leave leaving the queue and rejoining is not allowed. Several people have shown photos of this... so couple being cross etc were right!

Merlin parks have loads of signs saying absolutely no queue jumping, and if you've left to go to the toilet, tough.

Also signs everywhere saying no smoking in the queues, or indeed anywhere other than designated areas, but alas people are selfish and entitled.

Yup you always get entitled idiots at theme parks unfortunately, that’s why we avoid them like the plague.

Recently back from the USA where this seemed absolutely commonplace.

It's so annoying when you get to a queue, ascertain the number of people in it, decide to join and then after spending time there, find that almost every person will be joined by a whole group, making you wait far longer than expected.

Happened on transport, in food courts, getting coffees, getting ice cream. Infuriating!

I don't think holding a space is on but I do think it's acceptable in a long queue (and by long I mean 2hr+) for people to get out to go to the loo.

I had to do it in Florida when a ride broke down while we were in the queue and I was on my period. If I hadn't got out I would've leaked and was wearing shorts.

99% of people were fine as they had seen me walking out along the huge line.

But one guy took exception and tried to physically block me and me swore at me.

In the end I just loudly told him to stop being a prick to a woman on her period who needed to use the bathroom to sort herself out. He was more embarrassed than me and fast stfu when every woman around him started giving him the stink eye.

I think the British idea of queues is that they self-police, so OP is kinda the q police. Otherwise everyone would just push in as they do in some countries, though I notice it happening here a bit at times.

If its one person by passing the q to join a group thats probably OK imo, but one group joining another, unless very small children involved, should go to the back. YANBU.

You so absolutely do need to prove your are in receipt of a disability benefit like PIP or DLA to get disability access, carer access, whatever the place offers.

YANBU OP. I did the same as you at a theme park in Spain, a bunch of teens on a school trip trying to join their friends up ahead. I put a hand on the railing at each side so they couldn't barge past and pointed out that if their friends ahead really wanted to ride with them, then they'd come back and wait a bit longer.

They backed down and stayed behind us. Many wouldn't have though I suppose.

Different when there's tiny kids needing a wee or someone has a disability but let's face it most queue-jumpers just have an abundance of audacity and an inflated sense of self-importance.

Yanbu for not letting 3 adults past, that's clearly in violation of the rules.

I would let 1 adult past, they most likely have been to the toilet & going back to family or an adult with a child the same....but not 3 adults.

We had this issue with my youngest, can guarantee 20 mins in to a queue he needs the toilet - depending where we are we have let him go alone (toilets were next to a ride at Legoland), but in bigger parks like Alton Towers where its a walk to the toilet a parent has had to go with him.
Disney were reasonably accommodating most of the time, 1 kid & 1 adult out of an obvious group, attendents let them back in - although my husband & BIL missed out on a couple of rides as attendents would only let the child back to the group & not the adult.

Having said that, if you have already been queuing for 20 mins, you probably saw them leave the queue to go to the toilet and then come back - unless there's a queue exit - but there would be no reason for 3 adults to leave together unless 1 clearly has learning difficulties.

When I worked in an SEN school we had a tickets that allowed us to queue jump. As we were passing, a woman commented that we were queue jumping. Despite telling her that we had special passes for disabilities (and the child with Down syndrome next to me), she insisted it wasn't fair because she and her children had been driving for hours and queueing for ages. I told her to take it up with staff.

People are dicks.

That explains the French couple who tried to queue jump us in Disney FL then, and then pretended they couldn't understand my father when he told them to get the fuck to the back of the queue (the literally jumped barriers to get there). They understood when he pushed his arms between them and created a gap for us to walk through and stand in front of them though 😂

Well it's only taken them 50 odd years!