He Kept Quiet While They Cut Past 200 People—Then Presented CCTV Timestamps and Line-Jumping Records at the Loading Gantry
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If you hate waiting in lines but want to go to a theme park, you’re going to have to pay a premium price for the pass that allows you to take the shorter line entrance. Every theme park has a slightly different version of these passes, but they really do make the wait much, much shorter.
In this story, one family has annual passes to Six Flags, and they’re not paying extra for the shorter line. They consider 45 minutes a short wait for their favorite ride.
When another family cuts in front of them, they expect their dad to call them out on it, but he knows that timing is everything.
Keep reading for the whole story.
My dad get’s revenge on line cutters in the best way possible
So for Christmas one year my parents got us season passes for Six Flags.
We used those passes often throughout the summer as a family and had an amazing time.
It was one of these days that it happened.
Waiting in line is part of the theme park experience.
We waited in line for one of the more popular lines which was at the 45 minute wait point. This was relatively good for this ride as you can wait for up to an hour and a half at it’s busiest points.
We got into line excited to share this ride with our dad as it’s one of the few he can ride as he has a bad back injury that makes just walking around extremely painful at times.
As we were in line laughing and making joke while watching the little TVs they have at various points in the line when a group of people rudely cut us and stood in front of us.
They were confused by their dad’s reaction.
Our dad has a habit of not letting things slide so we all braced for cover waiting for our dad to go off on these people for cutting us when to our surprise he didn’t say anything.
With confused looks we turned to our dad wondering why he hadn’t told them off and to get behind us.
He just looked at us with a look in his eyes saying “Wait for it.”
We shrugged it off and continued our wait. (We didn’t make it too too far into the line at this point so it was still about a 45 minute wait.)
They continued to wait.
As we got closer to the front of the line we got more and more excited waiting to get on the ride with our dad and have a great time.
The way the line is set up is before you get into the loading station there is a two way staircase that has the regular line on one side and the fast pass line on the other and at the top of the stairs there are worker making sure the people in the fast pass line are suppose to be there.
This is where my dad strikes.
After waiting the 45 minutes in line behind the cutters we stood at the top of the stairs and my dad signaled for a workers attention.
It was finally the right moment.
Once he received it he pointed to the group that had cut us and calmly stated that they had cut us at the beginning of the line.
The work then politely told the group they would need to leave the line and go back to the beginning.
They were mad but followed the instructions and left the line.
The worker thanked my father for informing them and suddenly pieces pushed into place in our mind.
OP understood why his dad waited.
Our dad purposely waited until the very last minute to make them have to wait another 45 minutes. (plus more time as the line was longer now that it was later in the day and more people arrived.)
I couldn’t help but laugh as I watched them walk out of the line and back towards the beginning and just hope that they learned their lesson not to cut after that.
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That was a clever plan! I’m actually surprised it ended with such little drama. I expected the line cutters to put up more of a fuss.
Let’s see how Reddit responded.
Someone who used to work at a theme park weighs in.
One person thought this was going to be a completely different story.
This person has a question.
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Another person was wondering the same thing.
I’m not sure why the worker believed the dad, but the point is that he did. It could’ve had to do with the line cutters’ reaction. It doesn’t sound like they tried to defend themselves.
I wonder why they even bothered to cut in line. If it was towards the end of the line anyway, you might as well just go all the way to the end of the line.
Waiting in line is something we learn in preschool. Hopefully, they won’t do that again.
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