I agree with the general sentiment that everyone should wait in line together. However, I'll also add that my daughter and I both suffer from early morning IBS (TMI, I know) and have to visit the rest room multiple times if up during early hours. I hope leaving and re-entering the line is excused.
I can’t imagine that anyone would have a reason to be upset with that. It’s completely different to start all as a group and have to make a trip (or several if needed) to the restroom. I imagine you would not be the only person who would need to do so in case of a long wait. All the people behind you who chose your line would be aware of how many people were in that line to begin with and would see you leaving, so they shouldn’t be upset when they see you returning. (I mean, there are always unreasonable people, but no one can do anything about them so nothing to concern yourself with.)
In terms of cutting and fairness, you obviously would have done everything that everyone else in your position in line would have done to get there. You can’t help it if you need to use the restroom because there is a wait. It’s not like you want to stay at the hotel to be near a more comfortable bathroom while your family holds a place for you in line.
Now, it may be right getting in and out of line, but since literally every single person knows what it is to need to use the restroom, it does seem reasonable to expect some kindness and understanding as you try to get through.
This is of course, all just my opinion. Reasonable minds may differ and that’s fine. But for me, I think the various reasons presented by most people for why it should be okay for one person to hold places for others to show up later just don’t add up well. There are literally thousands of small children at DW every single day. If all of their parents had one parent hold a place for the whole family in line, the chaos when the gates opened would be insane. Same goes for anyone else with an issue with being in line. It is unpleasant, but the truth is that there is no way to make it truly equally easy for everyone. So, in my case, if I want to ride this ride with my family, I will be dragging my young children out of bed at a horrible hour, and wrangling their moods and that of my DH for the rest of the day. That’s the price for me to do this ride. The price may differ for others. But it isn’t fair for me to decide that I shouldn’t have to pay that price and make the people around me pay instead by cutting in front of them. They’re not responsible for my family;I am.
But in a case like yours, I think that the least we could all do is smile and make room for you to go by as many times as you need to while we’re all stuck there waiting together.
I could be wrong on any of this, of course. And if any of this sounded rude or rambling, I apologize. I’m very sleep deprived and delirious and trying to stay awake to cheer my husband on while he drives us from Georgia to DW.
The mom at Legoland was clearly dealing with none of these issue (I watched her for some time before her kids actually cut in front of us and I told them to go to the back, at which point she rushed over to rescue her kids, yelled at me for “not allowing” the siblings to ride together, and loudly told her son that he could not ride because “THAT LADY [pointing at me] said so” and then glared at me when he started crying). The previous poster’s question also was about cutting the line due to timing and weather, which are going to be a factor for everyone wanting to ride RoTR that day.
