Drinking beer in queue

I save the drinking for later on at Lighthouse Point or Friday's. Or both. I smoke and drink but refraining from either while in queue barely registers as a minor inconvenience.

Browntggrr said:

Well there are two questions here:

1. Why would you be pulled over if you were obeying all laws?

2. If you weren't drinking, you have nothing to fear. All State Police officers are now equipped with this little hand held mini- breathalizer. It takes about 15 seconds to read and you don't even have to leave your car.

In michigan they can pull you over for noit wearing your seatbelt. I have a 5 point harness in my GNX. It does not look like I am wearing a belt. Plus the car is loud and fast. I get pulled over at 2 in the morning more than the drunks.

Even though I am doing nothing wrong, if you smell like beer they have to check you out. It's a pain, when I could be on my way.

Do people really use the word 'queue'? I hope not. I'd rather be next to anyone smoking or drinking, rather than next to a person who just said 'queue' in regular speech.
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And what word would you rather we use?

Um...its called a queue. Its where people queue up to ride. Why would we call it something else, when the name for it is, the queue.

From Merriam-Webster:

Queue:

a waiting line especially of persons or vehicles

Line:

a straight or curved geometric element that is generated by a moving point and that has extension only along the path of the point

haha, jump on it, fanatics.

Hopefully they will soon change the signs to read,

"Queue jumping is cause for ejection from the park."

Typically, I refer to the collection of people in the queue as the "line".

cpseasoner said:
Do people really use the word 'queue'? I hope not. I'd rather be next to anyone smoking or drinking, rather than next to a person who just said 'queue' in regular speech.
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Maybe you are getting queue mixed with another word?

No, because if you jump in front of me in line at Happy Friar's, that's still LINE jumping. Dj is right, the area where we all line up is the queue, and the people that stand in the queue are the line.

If it did say queue jumping, we'd all have to walk through every section of the queue every time.... :)

since this has to do with doing stuff in line, i have a general question for anyone. In your experience, how responsive have employees been to you regarding requests/complaints about other guests line jumping ahead of you or smoking, etc...in my own experiences, it has been very lax...and honestly, i got the feeling they were SCARED to say something to the person smoking, or the teenagers line jumping

I had an op really take care of me at Coastermania this year. It was in-line for Mean Streak and even CPPD showed up.

So based on that one experience, I'd have to say I had been treated pretty well.

The ops are just like anyone else. They don't like confrontation. It takes some pretty hefty cahones to stand up to someone.

We were at KW earlier this year and a group of girls approx. 10-12 years old came through and thought they were just going to walk by everyone and meet up with their friends 3/4 of the way up the line. The attendent at the entrance actually came up and escorted those girls out of the line.

I was impressed.

I have never seen anything done about line jumping at CP. Magnum is the worst for it on a slow day. nothing drives me crazier than to walk from Gemini to the entracnce of Magnum while 6 teenagers are jumping through the pine trees and getting in front of me.

cpseasoner said:
Do people really use the word 'queue'? I hope not. I'd rather be next to anyone smoking or drinking, rather than next to a person who just said 'queue' in regular speech.

Awesome first couple of posts. Well done.

Don't dumb down the rest of the forum with your vocabularic shortcomings.

Maybe instead of "queue" or even "line" he just grunts and points.

My mom said she saw two people escorted out of a line for line jumping a few weeks ago, but I've never seen it happen.

Kevinj said:
since this has to do with doing stuff in line, i have a general question for anyone. In your experience, how responsive have employees been to you regarding requests/complaints about other guests line jumping ahead of you or smoking, etc...in my own experiences, it has been very lax...and honestly, i got the feeling they were SCARED to say something to the person smoking, or the teenagers line jumping

In my experience it's been about 50-50. If the employee is one that cares, they'll go out of their way to take care of it; if they don't care, they won't do anything.

I have seen it done before, but I have rarely seen people do it at Cedar Point. If they do, then it is young kids. In fact, we were in line for dodgems on Friday, and there were 3 young kids in front of us, and 2 right behind us. They actually asked us if they could join their friends. :)
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I got into it with a guy in the Dragster station on Friday night. He said "excuse me, I want to go to the back." and I said, "Yes, so do I. I'm just waiting until there's less people so I don't have to step on anybody". I was being cool and I figured he would understand.

Basically it went like this from then on.

Him: Well, then you can stay here and wait. I'm going to the back row right now.

Me: No, you're not.

Him: I AM GOING TO THE BACK SO YOU BETTER GET OUT OF MY WAY.

Me: Dude, all I'm saying is let's just wait it out for a second so that there's some room to get back there.

Him: You're being an asshole, now get out of my way.

It goes on for a while like that, and eventually he tried pushing me out of the way and screaming some more. Eventually the station clears out a little bit and I went to the line for the back and we kept arguing almost until I got on the ride. I was clearly right in this case, as he WAS behind me in line, and the station was packed.

I bet 10 to one he is an enthusiast.

Well I don't make a trip to the park without being atleast a half dozen times if I work there... needless to say I was walking through the Pretzel Fillers table area and two girls behind me were going, "Hey, you, you... You going to cheat?" I then realized they were speaking to me so I turned to them, and the one girl replys, "oh, he works here," so they both go and jump the fence into the Magnum line. All I could think of was, "They just line jumped in front of someone they thought was an employee?!"

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