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Holy tourists, batman; Yikes
Topic Started: May 18 2008, 12:20 PM (67 Views)
sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
I'd not thought about it too much, but this being the first long weekend of the summer season, the tourists have started flocking. I just went to the ol' general store to get a bottle of wine and ran into (not literally, don't worry) thousands* of visor-wearing, map-reading types crossing the roads all willy-nilly and buying up all our cold beer at the store, going in the out door and other such crimes. :P

Why do tourists always wear visors here, I wonder. You can spot them a mile away. ^_^

*ok, slight exaggeration, but you get the picture.
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Frank_W
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Flocking tourists....

If it's tourist season, why is it illegal to shoot them? :sombrero:
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Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
sue
May 18 2008, 12:20 PM
I'd not thought about it too much, but this being the first long weekend of the summer season,  the tourists have started flocking. I just went to the ol' general store to get a bottle of wine and ran into (not literally, don't worry) thousands* of visor-wearing, map-reading types crossing the roads all willy-nilly and buying up all our cold beer at the store, going in the out door and other such crimes.  :P

Why do tourists always wear visors here, I wonder. You can spot them a mile away.  ^_^

*ok, slight exaggeration, but you get the picture.

Yep, this is the official kickoff of touron season back home, too.

I don't remember seeing visors, but polo shirts, shorts, and a walletful of 20s, poached from the nearest ATM were a pretty big clue.
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QuirtEvans
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I loved August in San Francisco.

Tourists, wearing shorts and tee shirts, freezing their asses off, because they just knew that August in California would be HOT. Someone forgot to tell them about San Francisco fog.

Especially the German tourists.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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John D'Oh
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QuirtEvans
May 19 2008, 09:07 AM
I loved August in San Francisco.

Tourists, wearing shorts and tee shirts, freezing their asses off, because they just knew that August in California would be HOT.  Someone forgot to tell them about San Francisco fog. 

Especially the German tourists.

The first year my parents visited us in late June in Ontario they dressed as they believed was appropriate for Canadian weather, despite being informed from first hand experience that it was actually rather warm and extremely sunny. 35 degrees and humid is not a happy place with a big heavy coat.
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