25 Things Annoying Tourists NEED To Stop Doing
We all hate tourists at home. So let's not be them away from home either.
Published 2 years ago in Facepalm
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Caribbean island ... people who complain that they can't get a Heineken or a Bud Light here. People who complain that they can't get fast food or chain food here. People who basically are angry that a tiny island in the Caribbean isn't just like the Houston suburbs. If you want everything you have in the US, stay the f*ck in the US. Also infuriating during the pandemic: "Your island requires masks and negative tests!? Well if you keep that up we will NOT be visiting and will take our money elsewhere!" Fine. Go elsewhere. We don't want you on our island, where the entirety of our healthcare is a small clinic with five beds. Don't threaten people with money, f*cking entitled jerks.
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In New York, if you visit, please walk on the right side of the sidewalk, not the left. Also, if you need to stop and look at your phone or have a conversation with your fellow travelers, step aside. People are walking and if you abruptly stop it usually results in someone bumping into you. Also, do not walk like 5 people side by side and walking slowly. People can't get around you. It is infuriating. But, please keep visiting NYC!
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Specifically regarding "Movie/TV Houses." Unless the house is a museum or has tours, it's almost certainly someone's home. Stay off their porch, don't walk through the yard, and STOP THROWING PIZZAS ON THE ROOF! The poor people who owned Walter White's house had to put up a giant fence because the dozens of signs about it were being ignored.
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Getting sh*tfaced / coked up and getting up in people's business or picking fights with the doorman or bar staff. Or talk about weed and getting stoned the entire time. Or ask me where the Red Light District is while standing in the Red Light district. Or renting a bike when the last time you rode one was in preschool.
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Leave. The. Wildlife. Alone. And this doesn't just extend to tourists but to people that live here too. 45+ coyote attacks last year in no small part because of people giving them food leading to a cull, bears getting habituated to people because they're being given food leading to them getting killed, otters and sea lions getting fed. They're not cute cuddly things. They're wild animals and will kill you.
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Allowing their kids to do whatever they want. Once a year my town has a weekend where the Boy Scouts take over the town camping down by the river, taking tours of the historic buildings etc. Every year most of the downtown shops will close for this weekend because of how much the Boy Scouts will steal or vandalize while there. Everyone that lives there dreads that weekend because the troop leaders just let the scouts do whatever they want.
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In my hometown, it somehow became a thing that tourists would rent mopeds. So when you are trying to get to work, you often get stuck behind a flock of tourists on mopeds, riding at 20MPH in formation so you cannot pass them. We are infested with gawking tourists moped gangs. If they want to rent mopeds, at least go the speed limit, and ride in a manner that allows others to pass you.
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Saying, “I paid a lot to be here,” or "I’ll leave a horrible review.” Driving like a jerk, leaving garbage anywhere but a rubbish bin, stopping in the middle of the road to let out your family of 12 instead of pulling into the parking lot. I live in Hawaii and work only with tourists. Best yet, My company was asked to contact the cruise ship company to have them move the ship because it disrupted the sunset.
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