Worst Queue Experience?

Um, sadly mine's currently a deactivated prepaid... Hopefully that'll change soon though :)

Worst experience was when i was pretty much at the station of Top Thrill, then it goes down. So we wait, but my group got impatient and decided to leave the line, and i reluctantly followed. 5 minutes later, it opened.

To be honest, I've never had a bad moment at CP. Never dealt w/ line jumpers or anything. A few smokers, but I politely ask them to put the cigarette out and they do. I think CP does a good job when it comes to things like that, but there are somethings you can't help, like ignorant parents or troublesome kids.

I've personally never seen much either, to tell the truth. I've even had people that allowed me and whoever I was with to go in front of them in the station so they could sit with whom they wanted or what not.

I love this park! :)

Mean Steak in the 90's......4 hours in the queue line. It was beyond the railroad station outside the coaster. This was before the trim breaks on the hill.

The worst que experience is any time waiting for Raptor in July or August. It is miserably hot and with that stupid wall surrounding you, you get no breeze at all. Unless it is a walk on, I only ride in the cooler, less crowded months.

I ruined a kids day at ValleyFair back in June (at least I hope I ruined it). I was waiting for Steel Venom and this kid was moving up through the line. I blocked off the line, and he said excuse me. I asked where he was going and he pointed past me. I said - "No you're not. You're not cutting in front of me". He then claimed that it wasn't cutting. My response - "Yes it is, and no you're not". He stayed behind me. Some people around me thanked me and said the line jumping had been horrible that day.

Does anyone have the number for Security, or is it available from the CP site? (If its available I'll get it myself, I'm not THAT lazy.)

Allow me to suggest a strategy about the line cutters, which seems to work fairly well. We will often just strike up a quick convo with the people in front and behind us about people that try to "meet up with their group", etc...and all agree that we will be a united front against such would-be line jumpers. 6-10 people all refusing to let someone pass is a much quicker learning experience for these egocentric people that just one voice. :)

The smoking though....egh....so disappointed sometimes.
*** Edited 8/18/2006 2:30:49 PM UTC by Kevinj***

I'd bet that if you asked politely, most would put their cigarettes out. I know that all of them won't but some will, and those that still refuse should be reported to someone, if at all possible.

I'd bet that if you asked politely, most would put their cigarettes out

You're exactly right, and most have. Many times, though, it's a "rogue" smoker that seems very adept at hiding his/her identity. It does kill time, though, trying to find the culprit!

My worst experience?....I pissed myself in line for Millenium. I had about four bottles of water in the last hour. :(

Kevin - if you can't find him, is the smoke really that much of a nuisance? I find it difficult to believe that if someone is smoking and yet is too far away to find, its not going to make you drop dead on the spot.

And, no, I don't condone smoking in line.

DRose said:
Yeah, you know it's too bad that so many people on here have really become @#!holes.

Oh noes! Somebody poked fun at somebody on the Internet!

I am a smoker. But, I DO NOT smoke in line. If anyone near me anywhere says it bothering them, I put it out. I've been in smoking areas where someone has "complained" and put the butt out.

They don't need (or want) to be a part of my personal vice.

MrScott

^ That's a respectable opinion. I'm very sensitive to smoke and it's really hard for my lungs to tolerate someone smoking close to me. I wish more of the smokers in the world were Mayors of lighthouses ;)

I think most are. But, we're not gonna put a smoke out just because you're there. A polite request is most often enough.

Disclaimer: I'm not a smoker, save for cigars and the like, and this is in no way directed at you MrInkSpot.

I, personally, cannot STAND the smell of cheap cigarettes. I HATE it. A nice, good blend, however, can be nice to catch a whiff of every now and again.
That's not to say that just because I can smell it, I'm going to start coughing and hacking and screaming that it's killing baby Jesus and that I now have lung cancer because of your habit. Hell, most of the time I don't say anything, because I know what it must feel like to absolutely "need" to smoke.

What I really can't stand is when people are impolite and light up their Viceroys while they're waiting to get french fries. The area's already jammin with sweaty people, and the smell of fries and grease, makes for a pretty unpleasant smell.

I don't know if you understand what I'm saying or not. I'm all for smokers, and I think that smoking is fine, and I don't believe any of the secondhand bull that's been thrown around lately. What I can't stand is the people who are so classless about it. They just make it so dirty and trashy. Does that make any sense at all?

Amazingly for you....yes, its does make sense.

I don't buy the AHA's arguements that second-hand smoke kills any more than I buy the tobacco industries claims that they aren't that bad for you. They're both groups with agenda's. That said, the kid who sits in his carseat in a closed car in winter while mom smokes 3 on the way to daycare has got a far larger chance of having problems than the guy who catches a whiff on a CP midway or in a bar. The concentrations in those 2 environments are not nearly high enough to cause near as much damage as the AHA would like people to believe.

Ok, I'm off my soap box.

That said - smoking in line is against the rules. Same as line jumping. I don't smoke in line (hell I don't smoke at work) and I wish others would have the same respect for the rules that I do.

I totally understand, and I think most level-headed smokers would agree. In close quarters, around food and other times where its not ideal to smoke, most of us know better. Hell, I'm probably too considerate. I cup my smoke in the palm of my hand while on the midway, just in case somebody (mostly I'm worried about children) bumps me - I don't wanna burn anybody. I don't smoke around people that are eating, including my friends who are smokers. If there are a lot of people on the midway, I'll go find a nice secluded corner where I can smoke and not have to worry about where I'm exhaling.

I know that I'm not alone in this, as I see many others do similar things when in public. But, I think when non-smokers are childish and rude (pretending to cough, waving their hand in their face, covering their nose and mouth, etc) rather than polite and frank, its counterproductive. It makes some smokers less considerate.

^Absolutely. I HATE it when people do that. It's so immature and it basically shows their selfishness and lack of common sense.

I would certainly be less considerate if I was doing my own thing and people kept nagging about it. Come to think of it, it's kind of like making posts on pointbuzz. If I say something with a sarcastic tone, and tommy 12 year old doesn't like it and keeps following me around and YELLING and trying to tell me off, I think it's funny and I'll do it more to keep egging him on. I think that's just part of human nature.

If people want to smoke on the midways, go ahead, just please, please don't start exhaling in people's faces (I'm sure you two aren't the ones I've encountered). I've had that happen to me a few times at CP, and my allergies are usually pretty bothersome for the next half hour or so. Smoking in line though...really, you would think people would get that smoking in line isn't allowed after seeing and hearing that phrase all day. I really don't have much of a problem if it's outside the line, as long as I'm not walking through a fresh exhale.