I used to be a rollercoaster fiend (hope I can be sometime again) and we are used to waiting in VERY LONG lines for a ride.

Every park has an access ramp for wheelchair (some have an elevator to the loading platform) . When someone in a wheelchair comes up (obviously it is someone who can get out of the wheelchair to ride the coaster) the staff asks whoever is next in the queue to ride in that seat to please wait for the next train. They load the person in the wheelchair, and the people waiting board the next train.

A few summers ago I waited in a huge long line for a coaster (I was by myself that day). There was a bunch of girls in front of me. When they reached the front of the queue, the attendant asked them to wait so soemone in a wheelchair could ride. I noticed that the girl in the wheelchair seemed about the same age as these girls.

As they boarded this girl, the girls in front of me started mumbling amongst each other. They were complaining that they had to wait when it was really "their turn" to ride. One of them actually said it "wasn't fair". Bear in mind that these girls were "put out" as to having to wait two minutes and fourteen seconds for the next train to board.

I'll tell you I wanted to smack these girls. I don't know about the guy in your case, but this was a bunch of spoiled rotten brats. I really felt like leaning in and saying "Well I'm sure she would be willing to trade you her seat on this train if you agree to be wheelchair bound for the rest of your life." But I didn't have the nerve. The "its not fair" comment is what really got to me the most. Looking at someone for whom the simple gift of being able to walk whereever they want (including a long rollercoaster queue) and thinking that life is supposed to be fair... to them.

Sometimes... many times in fact... I think people take out their brains and leave them in a jar on the kitchen counter before they leave their house. I was standing behind those girls, thinking "to bad life isn't like a 'Twilight Zone' episode". These girls deserved a little irony in their lives right about then.

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