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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 07:40 PM Feb 2017

I might be on the news tonight!

I'm in line at the Magic Kingdom right now, been here since 9am, and if another person bumps into my backpack, I'm going to be...

"Crazed Father loses mind and thrashes guests"

I know I'm asking for it, but I've been good most of the day. Do these people not understand Personal Space?

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Warpy

(111,243 posts)
2. Actually, many don't, especially if they're from outside the US
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 07:44 PM
Feb 2017

which is likely at the Magic Kingdom.

USians, especially men, demand about 3 feet of personal space. Other people are used to being quite a bit closer. It's a lot of fun to watch someone from, say, South America try to talk to a US man in a hallway, they do a little dance, the SA guy moving closer, the US guy backing up, all the way down the hall.

You're still more patient than I am. Theme parks always got me to the ankle kicking stage within the first 2 hours and you've been there nearly seven.

Else You Are Mad

(3,040 posts)
3. To be fair...
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 07:45 PM
Feb 2017

The backpack takes up 90% of the alloted personal space while in line -- personal space starts where your shirt ends, not where the backpack ends.

underpants

(182,763 posts)
4. Oh the fireworks show is going to be very interesting for you
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:03 PM
Feb 2017

People are going to be all up on you, squeezing into any gap they can find, and will get in front of you regardless of how CLOSED off you think your group is.

That's why they don't serve beer in the Magic Kingdom. Too many fights.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
5. I can see you have never been in the Guangzhou main Railway Station just before Spring Festival.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:04 PM
Feb 2017

otherwise known as the Lunar New Year.

eppur_se_muova

(36,258 posts)
7. Try the Tokyo subway.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 09:46 PM
Feb 2017


Yes, those guys are just doing their job by pushing people into an already packed subway car.
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