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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Stupid tourists ...I had a summer job guiding tours through a pioneer brewery (replica) in my home town (southwestern Ontario, Canada). In mid-August it was absolutely sweltering, and actually cooler outside than in.
Up drives a fully kitted-out SUV with Tex-ass license plates, four pairs of downhill skis strapped to the roof rack. Lady with red head-scarf and harlequin-style sunglasses in the passenger's seat, looking perturbed.
Large geezer eases his sweating frame from behind the steering wheel and declares, "Christ, we come all the way from Houston, where's the fucking mountains?"
One brief geography lesson later, he drives away no happier, and likely no wiser. Another vacation, ruined ...
(, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 20:12, Reply)
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