Tourist Season

Why is it that when other animals are in season, you can shoot them, but even when tourists are in season you can't? I always wondered that, and, have often been scolded for trying to hunt them. For some reason, when people leave to go on vacation away from their homes, they tend to leave their brains behind to make room for more souveniers. This causes a single mindedness that no one can like, and often causes many accidents at my place of work. Anyone care to explain this phenomenon? Share any stories about tourists with us or whatnot?

[LeefRyder]

I lived on Martha's Vineyard for over a year, and during that time survived two summers. You'd think the whole island would sink into the ocean from the sheer amount of people trying to huddle on to it at the same time. There's only two traffic lights on the island. One by the highschool, and one by the bridge that raises. SO imagine a bunch of tourists who don't know their way around, driving around where there's only four way stops, curvy roads and lots of things to look at. Also forgot to mention having worked in the hospital the way the hospital stays in business. Mopeds are a popular tourist activity on Martha's Vineyard. You don't need a motorcycle license to rent one either. So toss them into the traffic nightmare equation and you get alot of stupid car accidents that just hold things up even worse. >.<

[Mashirosen]

Three words: Orlando International Airport.

Five more: flying home for the holidays.

[Meister]

The main street of Heidelberg is widely known as "tourist racetrack". In summer, it seems as if every single citizen of every English-speaking or Asian country goes there and has a look at the university buildings. I sure don't know why, but I can say with some certainty that (since I go to university there) I end up on 20+ holiday films or photos every summer.

[TheZeroMan]

But if we don't close the beaches more people will die. I don't care if Amity will lose business. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE'S LIVES.

[Muffin Mage]

Where I live, the city pays musicians to play on the street corners. They also provide little signs that say "Please Do Not Pay the Musicians."

A friend and I are going to go up and play on the boardwalk during the Christmas break and put up a sign that says "Please Do Not Feed the Musicians." I'm going to keep a tally of the number of half-eaten hot dogs we get mixed in with our money. XD

[theraptor]

You know, I looked at the title, and said to myself, "He's going to make the 'why can't you hunt them joke.' Then I thought, no, that's just too corny." Obviously I was proven wrong.

Anyway, onto something relevent. I spent a year in Coronado, California. I still have nightmares about the tourists. And you see, the season never ends, because it's always the same temperature (mid 60's) and never rains. Seriously, we had exactly four days of rain. It's not a desert area, either. It's that penninsula right by San Diego.

[Osterbaum]

If you hate tourists...Never, ever go to Venice and certainly don't move there. The place is full of tourists any time of year. The streets are crowded of tourists not to mention all the sights. The lines are long...

[Deathosaurus Wrecks]

I used to live in Ann Arbor Michigan, which is probably the second worse place to live in Michigan if you hate tourists.

firstly, because the University of Michigan is there, and you get parents driving around aimlessly trying to find thier kid's apartment. it doesnt help that downtown is a series of one way streets designed to trap people for all eternity. oh, and theres "move in day", where all the idiot students move in on the same day, effectively closing off a part of the town because they're all wandering through the streets.

then theres the football games. I used to live about a mile from the UoM stadium, so it was pretty rough on game day. you can't leave your house before or after a game, because the whole town i packed with drunken football idiots who are ravanous for parking spots (parking is a commodity more valuble than gold because the AA road commision is convinced that 5 (five) parking spots is enough for an enite city).

and lastly, theres Art Fair, the bane of my existance. for a week during the summer the entire down town area shuts down and is filled with (literaly) millions of people a day looking at shitty overpriced art set up in booths on the streets. every bar, resturant and diner is a ten mile radious has a half hour wait, and it takes about two hours to get anywhere because you have to drive all the way around downtown to get where you're going. i worked for a delivery company one year during Art Fair, it was fucking awfull since half our buisness was down town, and none of our clients understood why we would be so late for pickups.

[hawkboy204]

If you dont like tourist dont go to Washington DC, there are so many its almost impossible to get into any of the fun places, well you can always get in if u want to wait for 3 hours. And it is getting worse because of all the security they have around places now.