We don’t have anything against tourists per se. We love their accents, fanny packs and influx of money. But when you’re late for a meeting and five of them create a water brigade in the middle of the sidewalk, international diplomacy breaks down.
“Hey Gunter, was ist das abkommen?” We’ve heard of safety in numbers, but it’s the middle of the day and you guys look like a chubby centipede carrying a camera. Honestly do you need to take pictures of every pigeon? They’re rats with wings, and after about three photos, there’s a good chance you’ll come down with the plague.
So do us a favor, disband the symbiotic shuffle, raise the drawbridge and clear a path. Otherwise the Rossetta Stone goes away, and your little game of Red Rover experiences some unilateral aggression to the face.
hate these people. usually happens while running on the boardwalk in san diego. i feel like just breaking thru them, a la red rover red rover. why they have to walk in a freaking berlin wall is retarded.
These jerks lurk all over the globe. When I lived in Australia, normal considerate people would walk on the left since they drive on the left defaulted movement would be to the left. It takes maybe 2 hours to notice it and makes sense when your brain isn’t overflowed with ridiculous notions of sightseeing. I hated going anywhere near Sydney’s sidewalks on the weekends because it was like the wintry breeding grounds of gazey-eyed tourists from the northern hemisphere where they would walk to the right causing a mass of confusing and inability for anyone to walk. All the while as you punch your way thru their never ending numbers, they’d look at you like you were committing crime against humanity. Hey punks, your in another country/city/alien nation, assimilate yourselves!!!
Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Tourists or otherwise, it happens far too often – even in sparsely populated places. WHY!?!
I’m from NYC as the name implies and by God I absolutely despise tourists. Trying to walk anywhere in Time Square makes me want to murder someone; mainly that tourist who is walking around with a camera pointing ahead of him while he’s too busy looking up and stopping abruptly in front of me to look at a god damned pigeon take a shit! -deepbreath- GO BACK HOME! or learn how to walk for the love of all that is good in this world.
/rant
Is this not just an aggravated case of Slow Walker Sidewalk Blocker? I think this post is a repeat.
Anyway it is not just the tourists. This seems like a worldwide plague. Everywhere in my hometown, I often bump into 4- or 5-people walls walking the same way as trench soldiers advanced during WWI: in slow line-abreast, deliberate and oblivious to the world. You cannot overtake, you cannot beg for passage, you can only bulldoze them. It is very important for them to walk side by side, lest one of them sees another’s butt and (like me) feels a desperate urge to kick it.
Hehe I especially love the ones that stop where they are, just to crane their neck upwards to see the skyscrapers…at least this is a big problem in NYC. When a group does it in tandem while blocking a sidewalk, it’s just annoying.
Don’t forget to mention the bizarre eyeglasses and jackets they wear. They might as well wave a flag declaring “TOURIST”.
ermm… actually “Hey Gunter was das abkommen ist?” doesn’t make any sense, i’d recommend to change it to something more meaningful or leave it out entirely as is doesn’t seem to be meaningful at all in context of the post?
See also: Wal-Mart Tandem Aisle Walkers.
not punched in the face…. BULLDOZED!
Add to this yokel suburbanites on a big day in the city, and horde of teen girls and their low life boyfriends, all walking in a human wall with nary a hint of daylight between their asses.
In DC, I can’t stand tourists on the Metro escalators who do not understand the “Stand Right, Walk Left” rule.
UGH, these people really do deserve it. I often dreamt of setting up a stand on Michigan Ave offering tourist a free punch in the face just to see how many would take one because it was free., bitches!
Ha! it is exactly the same where I live, so damn annoying! Great post.