Walking into tulip fields and (accidentally) trampling them, even when there are signs, ropes and people telling you to stay out
Writing their names on/carving their names into shit.
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.
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 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.
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
Sticking their cameras (phones) where they don’t belong. Pointing fingers or openly gawking at you: look at the locals, they’re so picturesqe (Me thinking: hey, I wasn’t even born in this country)!
Americans.
Low effort comment is low effort
I’ve seen so many rude americans, thats its easier to just say “americans” one wouldn’t know where to begin otherwise.
Then you just didn’t comment on a thread titled “rudest behaviour you’ve seen”. American isn’t a behaviour, thus the low effort comment.
So, describe the ‘american behavior’ you’ve observed so we can all bask in the glory of the depravity you’ve seen and endured. This post seems intended as a place to vent for everyone’s entertainment. I found little to no entertainment value in reading ‘Americans’ as a comment and I have a hard time empathizing with your grievance beyond an assumption you resent how generically fat, ignorant, pushy, entitled, and rude some of them stereotypically may be. Provide some juicy details, Johannes!
Chinese tho
I live in Arnhem, the Netherlands. My city got its fame during WW2. We also have several WW2 commemoration events. So far i’ve always seen Chinese people with camera’s, taking pictures etc. While most americans ive met always seem to ignore or twist facts. One time i even met an american couple whom insisted we lied about everything, because america saved us. It’s not justifnorant, its downright frustrating and hurtful.
I would have to think things like shitting in public. There’s signs like this in locations around the world.
Speaking German
LOL, can’t blame them. It’s the only language they know
How dare tourists speak their mother tongue! >:(
They should pay reparations! /s
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.
Luxury brands
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Lindt
lol.
*Is Lindt actually considered a luxury? What they manufacture is more akin to overrated mass-produced mid-tier chocholate.
There’s a lot of “chocolate” in the US that doesn’t qualify as chocolate in sane countries because it has too much wax or other additives in it. US “chocolate” bar in Canada has to be called a “candy” bar.
Same way their “milk” has too much other garbage in it to qualify as “milk” in Canada.Lindt, otoh, is /actual/ chocolate. So it’s seen as luxurious.
Idk, I prefer hotel chocolat but it was just one of the first shops that came to mind, ive only been there a couple times and mostly it was because I was walking through it as a cut through to get to the tesco on the other side
At least in the US they are some of the best chocolate you can regularly find. We don’t have a lot of good options easily accessible.
My sincere condolences.
Can’t imagine being stuck with such awful chocholates.Honestly a lot of people in this thread clearly don’t get out much. There’s plenty of high enr boutique chocolatiers in the US, they just aren’t on the shelves at Walmart.
Seriously, it’s been a while since I’ve been to a Walmart, but I bet there’s plenty of decent options even there. Everywhere has Ghirardelli, at least
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!!
Tourist catcalling local women on Rio.
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.
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.
