Writing their names on/carving their names into shit.
I’ve lived in a very touristic city for basically my whole life, so I tend to avoid tourists whenever possible.
Stuff that I see frequently that annoys the shit out of me:
- littering
- pictures, videos, tiktoks and similar shit EVERYWHERE
- tourists getting way too drunk and causing trouble in various settings
- driving like morons (please google traffic laws before traveling somewhere)
- large groups walking slowly side by side, blocking entire sidewalks
- complaining about everything, especially stuff caused by tourism, like long lines or long waiting times
- acting entitled towards people trying to do their jobs
There’s a fairly big tourist attraction in my town, (I don’t understand why its basically just a shopping centre of big luxury brands e.g. gucci, lindt etc.) On the lead up to it there’s a somewhat confusing set of crossroads, people will realise they’re in the wrong lane and proceed to speed crossing over sometimes multiple lanes almost causing many accidents. Its a busy main road too, its the towns access from a nearby city and motorway, and the other lanes they drive out of/over are ones that go into the centre of town.
Luxury brands
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Lindt
lol.
*Is Lindt actually considered a luxury? What they manufacture is more akin to overrated mass-produced mid-tier chocholate.
There’s a lot of “chocolate” in the US that doesn’t qualify as chocolate in sane countries because it has too much wax or other additives in it. US “chocolate” bar in Canada has to be called a “candy” bar.
Same way their “milk” has too much other garbage in it to qualify as “milk” in Canada.Lindt, otoh, is /actual/ chocolate. So it’s seen as luxurious.
At least in the US they are some of the best chocolate you can regularly find. We don’t have a lot of good options easily accessible.
My sincere condolences.
Can’t imagine being stuck with such awful chocholates.Honestly a lot of people in this thread clearly don’t get out much. There’s plenty of high enr boutique chocolatiers in the US, they just aren’t on the shelves at Walmart.
Seriously, it’s been a while since I’ve been to a Walmart, but I bet there’s plenty of decent options even there. Everywhere has Ghirardelli, at least
Idk, I prefer hotel chocolat but it was just one of the first shops that came to mind, ive only been there a couple times and mostly it was because I was walking through it as a cut through to get to the tesco on the other side
I was in DC for Trump’s first Reich and it was all just MAGA hats going around acting like they were triggering the libs by buying overpriced shit on the mall. But in general, they are shit people so they make for shit tourists as well.
Not going back home. Driving up home costs for working families.
Not tipping waiters and baristas
So. Much. Fucking. Litter.
Only had one day at the Grand Canyon so I was by the congested main tourist area. Looking over the canyon, I turn around and there is a picnic table and nothing but McDonald’s trash left there. I don’t even know where the closest McDonald’s is, but they got it, drove in with it, carried it to a stone table overlooking the canyon, then just left the trash and walked away. WTF.
This 1000 times… This. People are so careless it’s disgusting.
It’s not always tourists but stopping in unexpected places is a common irritation in NYC. Like, they’re walking on the sidewalk and just stop, and mess up the flow of foot traffic. Maybe to look at their map or to gawk at something. It’s extra annoying and a little dangerous when it’s on the stairs
That was my mother, in train stations etc where literally everyone is trying to get to somewhere else. Get to the bottom of the stairs, STOP and look around for the next direction sign. STOP in the entrance to bathrooms to decide her next steps.
I never went to a crowded city, so the notion of “foot traffic” really sounds dystopic to me 😅, but I see what you mean.
Funny, because when I go to the suburbs or other sparsely populated areas, walking around without anybody else feels dystopian. Feels like a post-apocalyptic setting, where everyone else got taken by aliens or plague or something.
I like how having opposite vision of the world may comes from things like this. Not linked to any religious or education background, but only on where we use to live.
For reference, Brooklyn alone has over 2 million residents. NYC as a whole is 8 and change million. So yeah, we’ve got huge population density, and it shows in busy areas.
I visited New York for the first time with a friend of mine who has family there and knows the city well. We went to Grand Central and I was admiring the beautiful artwork on the ceiling and a guy passing by called me a “fucking idiot”.
I was surprised and turned to my friend to ask if he was talking to me, which they confirmed. I was actually really happy, I got the infamous NY harsh street talk! I’ve traveled all over the world and never was spoken to like that anywhere else. NY is truly very special.
This has gotten so bad in my city since covid times. I’m constantly having to go around people stopped in the middle of the walking path. Just yesterday I was walking and these two people exactly stopped where the sidewalk narrowed for a bus stop and were blocking 3/4 of the area to walk because of it. They literally could have stepped 2 steps over and been completely out of the way beside the bus stop shelter.
i learned to stay away from midtown or battery-park/statue-of-liberty or any other tourist traps between friday afternoon and monday morning as a result of this.
So much this here in Bangkok as well, and in addition nobody has any clue which side to walk on.
You are constantly approaching head-on with a pedestrian who doesn’t know where to walk and weaving around wandering groups that wall 3-4 people wide.
Found the grumpy old lady ;)
Visitors who believe that because they paid a cruise company to bring them here that they are somehow special and deserve to be treated as such by all the locals.
I live in Vancouver and we’ve had massive issues with people (both tourists and locals) feeding coyotes in our downtown park. It got bad enough that they had to euthanize a bunch of coyotes because they were habituated to humans and have even attacked some people. They’re not puppers, they’re wild animals that play an important role in the ecosystem. You do them literally no favours by feeding them. Also, even worse, feeding bears.
I used to live across the street from a relatively popular tourist attraction and would occasionally get tourists standing in front of my windows and commenting on things in my apartment. Once my girlfriend and I were eating breakfast in front of an open window and someone tried talking to us about how expensive something was in our apartment. Besides that the only regular rudeness was groups acting like they own the sidewalk. Usually its large families but I do remember one time what looked like a Russian oligarch trophy wife surrounded by an entourage of stereotypical body guards that had people swearing at them because they were not letting anyone else use the sidewalk as they headed for the tourist attraction.
I live in Rome so you’d think I’d see more asshole tourists but surprisingly I’ve never seen anyone being outright awful! Maybe all the crazies just go to Venice lol. The ones that irk me the most though, as someone who takes public transit, is people with 0 train/bus manners, stop trying to get on while other people are getting off!! Step the fuck out of the way oh my god some of us are trying to get to work!!
Tourist catcalling local women on Rio.
On Vancouver Island they will shit literally anywhere. After summer ends, go camping literally anywhere and there is human shit
I have even seen it cooking on pavement outside of an outhouse at a roadside pullout
Until I got to the specific shit I thought this was going to end with a punchline about Canada geese.
Walking into tulip fields and (accidentally) trampling them, even when there are signs, ropes and people telling you to stay out
