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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?
benld74
(9,904 posts)Warpy
(111,243 posts)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)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)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)otherwise known as the Lunar New Year.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,258 posts)Yes, those guys are just doing their job by pushing people into an already packed subway car.
Skittles
(153,147 posts)LEMME AT THEM!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Tomorrow, Epcot...
True Dough
(17,301 posts)Glad to hear you didn't transform Magic Kingdom into Tragic Kingdom.