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From: Lilith on 23 Jul 2010 19:30
Spinning off from tthe queue wait thread, I'm wondering if anyone
takes portable entertainment along with them for the longer waits. A
Gameboy for example or an iPod?

Last time I went I had a mini-disk loaded up with Disney tunes that I
listened to with headphones. Somehow it didn't relieve the boredom. I
had also just gotten an iPhone but no apps. I've tried playing some
games while in line at Six Flags but somehow paying attention to the
line moving and concentrating on the moves you need to make in your
hands don't seem to mix well.

How do y'all deal with the non-entertainment aspects of standing in
line?

--
Lilith
From: Alpha on 23 Jul 2010 21:45
Lilith says:

> How do y'all deal with the non-entertainment aspects of standing in
> line?

We try to plan never to be in a line for very long, for starters. :-)
Mostly we just chit chat, talk about favorite parts of the ride or
whatever, maybe chat up the people ahead of or behind us if they seem
amenable to it.

I won't let my kids bring their mp3 players to the parks. First, because
that's just not how I want our vacation to be, where everyone's plugged
into their own thing, not together as a family; and second, because I don't
want to have to keep tabs on their stuff. Last year we lost a lanyard
(recovered) and Stitch-style Mickey ears (not recovered), so there's
already too much stuff I have to keep track of without adding electronics
to the list. :-)

-- Alpha
From: jenny on 23 Jul 2010 21:59
Friend Lisa and I are such geeks that we take paperbacks.

From: Paul Lalli on 23 Jul 2010 23:22
Lilith wrote:
> Spinning off from tthe queue wait thread, I'm wondering if anyone
> takes portable entertainment along with them for the longer waits. A
> Gameboy for example or an iPod?
>
> Last time I went I had a mini-disk loaded up with Disney tunes that I
> listened to with headphones. Somehow it didn't relieve the boredom. I
> had also just gotten an iPhone but no apps. I've tried playing some
> games while in line at Six Flags but somehow paying attention to the
> line moving and concentrating on the moves you need to make in your
> hands don't seem to mix well.
>
> How do y'all deal with the non-entertainment aspects of standing in
> line?

I have my iPhone with me. A couple times this trip, I was "talking"
with fellow Lines users. But mostly I just talk with whomever I'm at
WDW with.

Paul Lalli
From: Keane on 24 Jul 2010 04:56
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:30:26 -0500, Lilith <lilithpap(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Spinning off from tthe queue wait thread, I'm wondering if anyone
>takes portable entertainment along with them for the longer waits. A
>Gameboy for example or an iPod?
>
>Last time I went I had a mini-disk loaded up with Disney tunes that I
>listened to with headphones. Somehow it didn't relieve the boredom. I
>had also just gotten an iPhone but no apps. I've tried playing some
>games while in line at Six Flags but somehow paying attention to the
>line moving and concentrating on the moves you need to make in your
>hands don't seem to mix well.
>
>How do y'all deal with the non-entertainment aspects of standing in
>line?

The mother in the party in front of us at TSMM breast fed her kid. Is
that entertainment? Good thing we were near 'tater head, it gave us
something to look at...

Oh, she was discrete about it, about as discrete as you can when
you're surrounded by 100 people...

Keane
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