Line Jumping!

[forest4585]

Your right twixmix0303. For the most part, people do pay attention to the signs. It's the 3-5 percent of people that ruin it for the rest of us.

[InsaneNewman]

I dunno... the few people who line jump do not annoy my nearly as much as the DISRESPECTFUL IDIOTS WHO SMOKE IN LINE!!!! (Pardon my CapsLock, but this is really an annoying subject for me).

Last year I stood in line with my asthmatic friend hacking away while a group of four in front of us chain smoked their way to the station. Three employees were close enough to say something a various points, but they said nothing! I'm sorry, but you have NO BUISNESS smoking in a large group of congested people. Six Flags really should enforce their own rules.

Oh, and just so you know, I do not just hate smokers. If they want to puff their lives away in te midways, fine. I just feel that I be able to breath clean air while standing the the sweltering heat with 500 other people. Is that too much to ask???

[DejaVuGurl1203]

I've had plenty of people line jump in front of me. Last year on opening day I just got in line for Batman and I was waiting by the entrance and about 10 people line jumped. I just got out of line, and went to ride something else.

InsaneNewman, I agree with you on that. It drives me crazy!

I also remember one time in line for Viper, a few people were line jumping and some of the people in front of me and in back of me were shouting "line jumping!" to the employees but they did NOTHING about it.

[rctfan1556]

I dunno... the few people who line jump do not annoy my nearly as much as the DISRESPECTFUL IDIOTS WHO SMOKE IN LINE!!!! (Pardon my CapsLock, but this is really an annoying subject for me).

Last year I stood in line with my asthmatic friend hacking away while a group of four in front of us chain smoked their way to the station. Three employees were close enough to say something a various points, but they said nothing! I'm sorry, but you have NO BUISNESS smoking in a large group of congested people. Six Flags really should enforce their own rules.

Oh, and just so you know, I do not just hate smokers. If they want to puff their lives away in te midways, fine. I just feel that I be able to breath clean air while standing the the sweltering heat with 500 other people. Is that too much to ask???

I totataly agree with that.
I got asthma(not that bad, it was only bad when I lived in Washington(the state) where theres lots of mold and stuff cause of all the rain they get. When I moved to Cali then to here some odd years later I haven't had but one very mild attack.) and I would hate to have smokers around me and me having to breath it in cause who knows what could happen. Also it is just sick, if they wanna die then fine but I wish they would stop trying to kill the others around them who have to stand in the same heat for as long as they do.
SF really should enforce that rule somehow.

[SonOfBeast06]

I agree with all of you! I have usually encountered a ton of nasty line jumping in the Deja Vu line. Out of the countless times that it has happened to me, I have seen no employees or security around to watch it.

It was great last year, though, in the Superman line. Three idiots cut about 20 people and a security guard caught them. They were escorted out of line !

[BigBoyEvilBill]

I rarely see people line jumping at Great America, but when I was at Cedar Point last year it was a really big problem. One particular time was in the line for Disaster Transport, a group of about 8 really really loud guys just walked past my friend and I. We just pushed past them and they flipped out and tried to pass us and sort of caused a scene. People ended up telling an employee at the start of the queue (the one selling the 3-D glasses) and they ended up getting kicked out of the line. We got an applause! hehe

Another thing that kind of bugs me but not as much is when there are groups of friends (like 4) and they want to be in the same train one row away. When my friends and I want to do this and the line is a little too short for one row, we ask other people if they want to skip to even the lines out. But it really bugs me when people ask to skip me when they're in the longer line. I find it kind of rude, and I just tell them to do what I do. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

[SFGA Bob]

I only ask to cut people as a last resort. and if anyone asks me, I let them cut just to be nice since when I'm forced to do it I want people to be nice to me.

I actually sorta line jumped once, but it was on accident. I think it was my first time at the park where I could actually ride everything. we got in line for Batman and it was empty up until the stairs. so I was running through the queue and then kept running up one side of the stairs past the whole line since everyone was just on one side. my family stayed behind so I got the picture and walked back down. I was pretty embarassed, but I was just a little kid and so full of excitement.

[SFGA 11]

Another thing that kind of bugs me but not as much is when there are groups of friends (like 4) and they want to be in the same train one row away. When my friends and I want to do this and the line is a little too short for one row, we ask other people if they want to skip to even the lines out. But it really bugs me when people ask to skip me when they're in the longer line. I find it kind of rude, and I just tell them to do what I do. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Yeah, I know what your talking about. Why can't they just wait one more train and let another person pass them? It wont hurt them.

[SFGAM_and_the_BEARS!]

I may sometime ask someone to if I could come ahead to be with my friends but this is only if the people behind my other friends dont want to skip because they are trying to do the same as us. Usually the people will let us pass and we will say "thankyou." Not like we just barge past them when they say yes.

[coasterswimgurl12]

When I want to be on the same train as my friends, whether my line is behind or ahead or if its my friends line, we always let people behind us go ahead instead of asking to cut..... usually I dont mind one or two people line jumping if they want to be with their friends, but I hate it when Im waiting for a certain row and some people in front of me want a group of friends behind me to be on the same train as them and they cut me and dont ask if its ok....thats when I start to say something.

[w00dland]

The only time I ask to go infront of people is when I am either alone, or with one friend and there is room for us on the next train, and not enough room for them. Usually they understand and have no problem with it.

[twixmix0303]

Another thing that kind of bugs me but not as much is when there are groups of friends (like 4) and they want to be in the same train one row away. When my friends and I want to do this and the line is a little too short for one row, we ask other people if they want to skip to even the lines out. But it really bugs me when people ask to skip me when they're in the longer line. I find it kind of rude, and I just tell them to do what I do. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Yeah, I know what your talking about. Why can't they just wait one more train and let another person pass them? It wont hurt them.

Because they're the self-centered immature that think they're better than everyone else for no reason...I can't understand why they don't have a little bit of courtesy and let others pass them.

[Chitown]

I agree with the smoking in line situation. I despise it and have actually said words to people who light up in line.

However, I don't appreciate some of the comments made here about smokers in general. Yes, I smoke, and I know it's a bad habit, but we don't need comments made about "I hate smokers", and comments about "wanting to die".

In case you haven't heard, bad eating habits are just behind tobacco use in pre-mature deaths. So go ahead and keep eating that funnel cake, or that foot long corndog while at the park. You are also reducing your life span.

[Mr. SFGAm]

I dunno... the few people who line jump do not annoy my nearly as much as the DISRESPECTFUL IDIOTS WHO SMOKE IN LINE!!!!

Smoking in line is the one thing I dislike more than line jumpers.
I was once in line for Batman, and behind some teenage punk who decided to light up while we were in the stairway to the station. He practically suffocated everyone in line, until some big guy turned around an plucked the cigarette right from the kid's mouth and stepped on it! The look on that kid's face was priceless!

[SFGA Bob]

Chitown, I don't hate smokers. in fact, many of my friends are smokers and it doesn't really bother me. but as far as the health thing goes, there aren't any studies that suggest that second hand eating causes any disease. seacond hand smoke, on the other hand, does have such studies.

usually if someone's smoking in line and its bothering me, I politely ask them to stop and usually they do. there were some punks, though, that wanted to start a fight. and then there was that drunk woman who challenged her son to a fight with me because my friends and I were talking about the ride op who was standing next to her and not saying anything about her smoking.

[Chitown]

I wasn't trying to justify second hand smoke and its health concerns.

My point that I made was based on a few people here saying that I am going to die early from smoking. That's why I made the comparison to bad eating habits.

I smoke as far away from people as possible. Ask Dave how I actually walk to a deserted area in the park before I light up.

[BigBoyEvilBill]

Smoking is actually the second most annoying thing about standing in lines for me. Number one is when people talk about rides like they know all of the stats to people and are actually wrong. I don't care if people don't know specifics about rides, cause come on it's not that important, but when they pretend like they do it kind of bugs me, but oh well, it makes them sound stupid if anyone knows better

[twixmix0303]

Okay, not about line jumping, but anyways:

I am REALLY annoyed when guys take off their shirts and walk around. I obviously don't mind this if it was a waterpark (I obviously do this myself), but its GA! They usually walk around without their shirts on because they're sweating, and they smell so bad! I think it's the people who think they're more important than other people and don't need to follow the rules. I believe Six Flags has stated that if you don't have a shirt (you arrive to the park without one), they'd be glad to sell you one of their souviener shirts or they have solid color t-shirts for $5 at guest relations.

Otherwise, what bugs me (in order):

1. People who smoke within a close distance of guests
2. People who line jump
3. Guys who take off their shirts

[SFGA Bob]

I've never seen anyone walk around GAm with their shirt off. maybe I've just been really fortunate.

[Papas]

I have, this aint Cali, put your shirt on!

[SFGA 11]

I wouldnt mind seeing a girl take her shirt off , but guys come on keep your shirts on!

[ShortChilli]

I don't really mind if a guy takes his shirt off at the park... It's just the "bigger" guys that take their shirts off that makes me mad, because who wants to see that!

[BigBoyEvilBill]

I've seen people take their shirts off, but only really overweight guys. It is kind of gross to see, but I imagine they'd get warm with all of that extra weight

[w00dland]

Thats because they are the ones the sweat the most, and the hotter you are the more likely you are to take off your shirt!

[mschulz5]

Yes I guess line jumping is bad BUT unless if it's like more than about 20-30 who cut in most lines, chances are very great that you will still be in the exact same train as you would've been in the first place. Secondly, yes smoking is a bad nuisance. I can't stand people who smoke in lines. Also, breathing in second-hand smoke is almost as bad as actually smoking the cigarette. No offense Chitown but, eating a funnel cake or corn dog may be unhealthy for the person eating it, but only cigarettes can hurt the people around the person smoking.