You've lucked out and are enjoying a day in a nearly-empty theme park. The crowd's so much lighter than expected that the parks' employees haven't had the chance (or bothered) to take down the serpentine queue chains blocking your path to an attraction's entrance.
What do you do?
Do you go around the chains, like an obedient theme park visitor, wasting time walking back and forth on your way into the ride? Or do you take a shortcut?
If you opt for a more direct route, do you swing your leg up over the chain to climb over it, or do you hunch down and scooch under to make your way toward the entrance?
Or, do you take the "former theme park employee" option and just start unclasping chain lengths to open a direct route by yourself? It's Vote of the Week time.
I have a feeling that one's answer to this question probably reveals something about our approach to much more than just visiting theme parks. Debate away in the comments, and, as always, thank you for reading and spreading the word about Theme Park Insider.
1 - I am short
2 - I am clumsy
I want to ride the ride, not fall and break my face then take an ambulance ride.
Terry Caldwell
Lakewood, California
To out of shape to step over.
I'll un-hook and re-attach chains if it's an option.
Usually I'll walk.
I won't jump over or do the pro wrestling walk over anymore! I've biffed it too many times under estimating the height! If I go under, it's to do a "limbo limbo rock" type of thing!
From there occasionally you find some gaps with chains you can remove. Somewhere along the line they added a new part of the queue under the loading platform which they created because people would avoid the queue at all costs when they saw the line in the park. Not knowing how long the line really is behind the wall that hides the junk yard area.
There was a shortcut put in for folks in wheelchairs to go through the line like everyone else then hit the cut thru and go up the ramps that make the exit. people abused the cut through to bypass the main queue and re-ride so much that they got rid of it.
I am guilty of using that shortcut but only on slow days. Not when the line was beyond that point even if only by a few people. I would exit and then return.
Can I share another pet peeve that has cropped up a lot in my local park. There are countless rides that have now closed/boarded up booth from when the rides had on-board cameras for pictures. So, now you still have to walk through these areas as you exit which in my opinion is just lame. At the very least, turn it into a souvenir stand for that ride.
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