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.
Writing/carving their names into shit.
Not going back home. Driving up home costs for working families.
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.
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
I watched a tourist drink a few beer at the local inn and then just throw the cans onto the lawn and keep drinking. So basically littering. That stuck in my craw. This is my town buddy, take the 5 seconds it takes to dispose of your shitty cans of your shitty mass produced beer that you usually have back home that you made sure to let everyone is far better than the local microbrew we have here in town.
Also one time we had some tourists loudly complaining about immigrants while visiting. Those aren’t immigrants you dope, they’re citizens of our country. They were born here.
On one occasion I was driving somewhere and it was along a scenic drive and I had to stop for something. A group of aging old men on motorcycles who were doing the scenic drive told me I couldn’t park in that area because it was theirs. I said get fucked, you’re in my backyard, I’ll park wherever the fuck I want. I think they thought they were intimidating because they fancied themselves a biker gang, but biker gangs usually don’t have New Balance and rental bikes as part of their aesthetic.
It might be just a story, but I’ve read several times about someone telling someone speaking Welsh in Wales “we speak English here”.
Trying to get photos of their kids next to bull elk in rut.
That not rude, that’s just Darwinism happening in real time. Let it run it’s course
Speaking German
LOL, can’t blame them. It’s the only language they know
Witnessing German tourists snicker and proclaim “German engineering” with an air of arrogance, over a leftover WWII water reservoir on an island that was Nazi occupied and used as an airfield… really had me thinking things carefully…
Treck un Moroco desert, with local guide and camel drivers.
Causual conversation during dinner about alcohool, that non Muslim can legally drink alcohol, as long as they do it discreetly and not directly in front of locals because it might make people uncomfortable.
French tourist proceed to take red wine bottle out of its bag, drink it and even propose to local staff.
Never been so ashamed of my compatriots.
Treck un Moroco desert, with local guide and camel drivers.
I mean, a man’s gotta dream
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.
Where I’m from, the tourists are usually nicer and more respectful than the locals.
Whoa unexpected
In Prague late at night, it’s not fun to come across a group of drunk tourists (usually Brits) seeking drugs. Locals also get drunk but they’re not nearly as obnoxious.
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.
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.
Not tourist per se, but I live next to a large state university, and it’s either the college kids themselves or their families doing the stupid shit. It’s very wooded in my area while still being “suburbany”, so we get those people admiring the foliage in the fall.
In the winter when it snows, for a lot of the students and their families it’s their first time driving in it and it shows. I suppose I can cut them some slack for that though if they’ve never had to drive in it.
Anyway, it’s just mainly oblivious drivers, that are either attempting to find their way around so they drive extra slow or stop suddenly in the middle of the road, or the go ripping through the neighborhood because of the traffic on the main roads. Like, come on, there are kids playing and such, you can go 50mph through the neighborhoods around here with the number of kids playing. I’ve proposed multiple times for speed bumps in the neighborhoods around the university, but the council says “it will impede the flow of traffic” ?!? That’s the fucking point, morons! Ugh.
