Stupid TouristsWhat's the stupidest thing you've ever heard a tourist say? Ever heard an American talking about visiting "Scotchland, England", or (and this one is actually real) a Japanese couple talking about the correct way to say Clapham is actually Clatham, as "ph" sounds are pronounced "th". Which has a certain logic really. UPDATE: Please, no more Loogabarooga stories. It's getting like, "and I opened my eyes and my mum had left me a cup of tea!"
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chthonic, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 16:31)
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in my own country...in the summer of 1995, several months after the oklahoma city bombing, my parents and i drove from where we lived in oklahoma city to eureka springs, arkansas for a family vacation. being tourists, we were often asked where we were from.
three times by three different female shopkeepers, we were asked if any relatives had died in the recent "world trade center" bombing (the original, not-as-successful attack in 1993). my father and i tried desperately to explain that the wtc is in new york city, not okc, and our bombing was at the federal building. they had none of it.
(if you want to be pedantic, it's the alfred p. murrah federal building that was bombed, but we thought the poor girls were confused enough without adding a building name into the mix.)
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mayonessa, Sat 9 Jul 2005, 19:34,
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