So. Much. Fucking. Litter.
This 1000 times… This. People are so careless it’s disgusting.
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.
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 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”.
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.
Walking into tulip fields and (accidentally) trampling them, even when there are signs, ropes and people telling you to stay out
Not going back home. Driving up home costs for working families.
Where I’m from, the tourists are usually nicer and more respectful than the locals.
Whoa unexpected
I think it depends on the type of tourist attraction. In places like beach towns, “locals” are usually people who happened to have enough money to buy a vacation house, and decided to make it permanent. Or think of ski towns where the cost of living is so expensive that everyone who actually works there commutes in from another hour away or lives in their car or a jam packed seasonal rental. Basically anywhere that tourism is the only industry, a lot of decent people will be priced out.
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!!
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
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.
Speaking German
LOL, can’t blame them. It’s the only language they know
Trying to get photos of their kids next to bull elk in rut.
Taking up sidewalks and roadways and just generally being fucking oblivious people are around them. Parking in front of people’s driveways??? Littering, feeding seagulls, being oblivious fucking dipshits. Shore community here.
