If you are, in fact, a tourist, isn’t it a little hypocritical to complain that there are too many tourists?
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Our favorite spot in Florida (if it’s not gone now via Ivan’s wrath) is a very sedate and secluded area, chosen especially because when we go on vacation, we’d rather not be around a bunch of annoying tourists. Some tourists have an atrocious habit of behaving while on vacation in a manner they’d never consider at home.
But wouldn’t it be a little hypocritical to complain that there are too many assholes if you are, in fact, an asshole?
I didn’t see any assholes in Ogunquit either — one lady on the patio of the Oarweed who drank perhaps a bit more wine than was good for her and loudly explained to her husband, “Seagulls don’t blink! SEAGULLS DON’T BLINK, I tell you!” but that’s not being an asshole. You’re allowed to embarrass your husband; it’s in the marriage vows. “And why do they stand on one foot? Why IN THE WORLD would a bird want to stand on one foot??? They do it all the time — WHY???”
It would probably also be hypocritical, but I don’t think Michelle’s likely to be the obnoxious tourist asshole. Complain about assholes! I like to do it a lot. Just don’t complain about tourists if you are one. (And get over that “authentic experience” crap, too: unless you’re living like people there do, surrounded mostly by locals, you’re not having an authentic experience, you’re being a tourist in a tent.)
What’s odd is that I’ve never found tourists here to be particularly obnoxious. I’ve seen it elsewhere.
Camp in a tent if you like to. I contend that anyone who thinks sleeping in a tent is a vacation is crazy, but there’s nothing wrong with being crazy. However, don’t pretend your experience is any more authentic than staying in a hotel, it’s just *cheaper*. Augh. This one drives me crazy.
Ever since I began graduate school (and quit my job and have little money), I’ve tried to persuade Brit to tent-camp in Florida, solely as a means to do it since the swanky condo price is out, but he can’t seem to embrace the notion of sand-ridden tents.
Yeah, the “I can’t afford it any other way” is certainly a problem. But I still hold out that people who like camping in tents are crazy. It’s my blog: I get to be right.
September 18th, 2004 at 1:21 pm
Depends. Are you just going to complain and leave it at that, or are you going to complain there are too many tourists here and go somewhere else?
BTW I was in Ogunquit earlier this week. There were not too many tourists there. :)
September 18th, 2004 at 5:20 pm
Our favorite spot in Florida (if it’s not gone now via Ivan’s wrath) is a very sedate and secluded area, chosen especially because when we go on vacation, we’d rather not be around a bunch of annoying tourists. Some tourists have an atrocious habit of behaving while on vacation in a manner they’d never consider at home.
September 18th, 2004 at 8:01 pm
Ah, yes, I am perfectly ok with hating the tourists who are assholes.
September 18th, 2004 at 11:45 pm
But wouldn’t it be a little hypocritical to complain that there are too many assholes if you are, in fact, an asshole?
I didn’t see any assholes in Ogunquit either — one lady on the patio of the Oarweed who drank perhaps a bit more wine than was good for her and loudly explained to her husband, “Seagulls don’t blink! SEAGULLS DON’T BLINK, I tell you!” but that’s not being an asshole. You’re allowed to embarrass your husband; it’s in the marriage vows. “And why do they stand on one foot? Why IN THE WORLD would a bird want to stand on one foot??? They do it all the time — WHY???”
September 19th, 2004 at 1:33 am
I think my point, Cougar, was that I’m not an asshole on vacation.
Well, at least not any more of an asshole than I am at home.
September 19th, 2004 at 9:08 pm
It would probably also be hypocritical, but I don’t think Michelle’s likely to be the obnoxious tourist asshole. Complain about assholes! I like to do it a lot. Just don’t complain about tourists if you are one. (And get over that “authentic experience” crap, too: unless you’re living like people there do, surrounded mostly by locals, you’re not having an authentic experience, you’re being a tourist in a tent.)
September 19th, 2004 at 10:06 pm
I certainly didn’t mean to suggest anyone here is an asshole — and don’t get me started on being a tourist in a tent…. :>
September 19th, 2004 at 10:57 pm
My thoughts about tourists in FL originated while living there.
Love the “authentic experience” line. Really, some people are so simple, you just must laugh.
September 19th, 2004 at 11:23 pm
What’s odd is that I’ve never found tourists here to be particularly obnoxious. I’ve seen it elsewhere.
Camp in a tent if you like to. I contend that anyone who thinks sleeping in a tent is a vacation is crazy, but there’s nothing wrong with being crazy. However, don’t pretend your experience is any more authentic than staying in a hotel, it’s just *cheaper*. Augh. This one drives me crazy.
September 21st, 2004 at 8:52 am
Ever since I began graduate school (and quit my job and have little money), I’ve tried to persuade Brit to tent-camp in Florida, solely as a means to do it since the swanky condo price is out, but he can’t seem to embrace the notion of sand-ridden tents.
September 21st, 2004 at 10:45 am
Yeah, the “I can’t afford it any other way” is certainly a problem. But I still hold out that people who like camping in tents are crazy. It’s my blog: I get to be right.