21.
Another NYC one: Walking to work one day and I hear shouts of “OH MY GOD IS THAT JAY-Z?!?! GET A PICTURE QUICK”
No, midwestern tourists, that is not Jay-Z. That man looks nothing like Jay-Z. He’s at least 150 pounds heavier than Jay-Z. Being a black dude in a Lambo doesn’t automatically make him Jay-Z.
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I used to be a street artist in the New Orleans French quarter. One day I’m sitting by my paintings, reading a book and some lady came up and put a dollar in my coffee. I guess she thought I was begging. Her heart was in the right place, but she ruined my coffee.
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Lived in DC and now in downtown Miami so I’ve gotten used to tourists and don’t really mind them. One incident does still stick in my craw. 8:30 am. Dupont Circle station. I need to put 20 cents on my fare card. An entire troupe of boyscouts are at all of the machines trying to figure them out like it’s some sort of complicated puzzle. They were spread out throughout the entire room so that there wasn’t a single open machine. I almost killed children that day.
If you go to DC and are going to ride the metro and don’t want to piss off locals:
If you have a big group, don’t go during rush hour.
If you can’t figure out the machines, just use one.
Stand on the goddamn right on the escalator.
Let people off before you get on.
Don’t talk to me.
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I lived in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland for a while, and on my bus-commute home, I overheard an American woman trying to figure out if it was the correct bus to get her to the village where I lived, but she didn’t know Italian and was holding up the line. So, just to be nice, I offered to translate for her and solved her problem. She didn’t say thank you and sat down for the ride.
When we arrived, we started walking up the hill from the bus station next to each other, and I asked “so, where are you from, and why are you visiting my tiny village?”. She responded “I don’t talk to strangers” and sped up.
I just laughed at her and replied, “What, are you a 7-year-old little girl? I just helped you on the bus back there, and now you’re being rude to me?” No response.
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Amsterdam: any tourist with a bike is a “damn tourist”
26.
PHILADELPHIA IS NOT SMALL all those landmarks you want to see? The art museum, The liberty bell, The love statue, Market Street, South Street, The Macy store where Wanamaker was, independence hall, pat’s and Geno’s s**tties cheesesteaks? They have miles in between each other. You will not be able to walk that in a day. Also rocky wasn’t real and that was a 20-mile MONTAGE that Sylvester Stallone ran. Good luck.
27.
Coastal Maine checking in – people lose their s**t over lobsters and shell out tons of money for anything with a lobster on it.
Cheap shot glass? Eh. Cheap shot glass with a lobster stuck on it? I’ll give you $7.75 for it!
Lollipop? Whatever. Lollipop shaped like a lobster?! Definitely worth $5, better get one for each kid back home.
Normal pullover hoodie? Boring. Hoodie with a motherf**king LOBSTER embroidered on it at $50 a piece?!? Oh my GOD just take my money!!
28.
I work near Times Square (tourist capital). My biggest gripe is escalators. When exiting, FFS don’t just stop and stand right at the bottom or top, then look surprised/annoyed when your getting shoved out of the way. If you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of people here, some of which also need to exit the escalator.
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Anyone who comes to Los Angeles, assumes Hollywood and the actual Hollywood neighborhoods are the same. actors rarely hang out in Hollywood. that’s where you find the heroin addicts.
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I live near Niagara Falls, and it seems like every time I go there are a couple of people attempting to sit on, hang on, or even get past the guard rails for a better photo opportunity. Idk if they just don’t realize how fast the water is actually moving or what, but I’ve had a panic attack for them every time I’ve seen this
