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apshawnhunt

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I don't think tourists should be allowed to drive. When they enter a new country/county/city, they should be stopped at the border and offered public transportation - bus, cab, horse-drawn carriage, whatever.

We live in a "tourist" town. Folks flock here year-round, which, I suppose, is good for the local economy. But.... they don't know how to drive. Half the time you see them toodling on down the street, with a cell phone in one hand (which is another rant altogether) and a map in the other.

They drive in the fast lane on the freeway (some of that "my rental car is faster than yours" mentality), then zip across the lanes at the last minute because they don't want to miss the off ramp (for which signs have been posted for the last 4 miles, but they were too busy talking on the cell phone to read).

They're going to visit the tourist spots anyway (for the most part), so why not have tour buses standing by?

OK - another gripe about tourists, but from the other side. Why is it, when you are in an unfamiliar city, and you ask someone for directions, 3 times out of 4 you receive wrong directions? Are the locals purposely trying to send you to the tour bus drop off spot?

Hmm, maybe this is something that should be moved to the Conspiracy Theory forum. :sarcasm:
 
i love being the tourist in different places. and yes i am part of that group of people that fly across the freeway just to hit the exit ramp. Maybe if the people that lived in the cities would just give directions that are actually true that type of shit wouldn't happen though.
 
I kinda agree with caffn8d. but i don't think they should go so far as to take their cars away. maybe require tourists to have GPS navigation systems that tell them "begin merging left now, exit in 8 miles" so they don't pull stupid shit like that.

I used to live in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was a big tourist/college town. The tourists from pheonix would come up in winter and cause shit loads of accidents because they didn't know how to drive in snow. Those tourists, i think, should've been required to give up their vehicles at the edge of town.
 
I dont like the "Tourist Mentalitly" in the first place, U cant go anywhere whithout being shuffled into a giftshop for post cards or things. It drives me crazy, I want to see the fucking attraction not the big signs and candy stores, I dont want the freaking circus thats across the street I want to visit the Waterfall and if theres so much as one hot dog stand near me there im going to blow.
 
I hate tourists. They think they are better than us. Really. We get ALOT from cali up at the lake...my ex used to work there....but, hell, I used to sell bundles of campfire wood and make about 200$ a day during the summer. But tourists are idiots. They think they know how to fish and hunt, its just irksome. They bring thier big fancy boats or rent a paddle boat and cause havoc. And they drive way to fast without knowing where the hell they are going. Californians can NOT drive in the mountains. They are to dense and think they own the road.

PS I've bene to flagstaff!
 
I can agree with that. Of course Cali is home to Hollywood, so you're gonna get prissy fucktards like that. Right now, I am so fucking sick of Illinois it's not even funny. Not to be mean to Jane or anything, but whenever Illannoyians come over to our state, their driving skills are as dead as that skunk off of 270. Douchebags. If you don't know where you're going, get a fucking map, pull over, and if that somehow fails, ask a convenient store clerk.
 
Good idea! Let's make it impossible for anybody to leave a four mile radius around their home because some of them are bad drivers!
 
I used to work at the biggest tourist draw in Michigan: the city of Frankenmuth. They call it "Michigan's Little Bavaria." Most people who work there havta dress like the evil spawn of Swiss Miss or a reject from an oompa band, myself included.

People would see you in these ridiculous get-ups and assume you were Tourist Information Central. It sucked.

A lot of times, they'd ask you to take a photo of them in front of landmarks, etc. This was how I'd get my "revenge" for the unwanted recognition and all their stupid questions. When I used to snap the picture, I'd tilt the camera downwards, partially or fully cutting off their heads in the process. It was very therapeutic for me.
 
Luckily, where I live, there is nothing to see but rednecks riding four-wheelers and having keg parties. We have no tourists, just cousins.
 
Sounds exactly like fuckin ballon season in albuquerque.... it sucks .... cant find a seat in a good restauRANT .... cant get good parking anywhere .... and the fucking traffic is ridiculous .... 10 mph on a 3 lane 75 mph freeway from 5 am till 7 pm .... for the first 2 weeks of sept .... most of the rest of the year no one knows nm even exists and THATS good .....
 
Harvard Square, Cambridge Massachusetts.

Tourists will approach you on a daily basis asking "where is the subway?".

There are three well-marked entrances which are all a stone's throw away from just about any point in the square.
 
I personally find that drivers from here in Missouri are worse than drivers in Illinois - but Illinois drivers drive so slow it's ridiculous! The speed limit's 60, not 35!

I've also noticed that the farther east their origins (with the exception of New Yorkers - they drive like bats out of hell), the slower they go. Maybe I'm seeing things.
 
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