Asklemmy

Writing/carving their names into shit.

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.

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

Trying to get photos of their kids next to bull elk in rut.

Speaking German

I watched a tourist drink a few beer at the local inn and then just throw the cans onto the lawn and keep drinking. So basically littering. That stuck in my craw. This is my town buddy, take the 5 seconds it takes to dispose of your shitty cans of your shitty mass produced beer that you usually have back home that you made sure to let everyone is far better than the local microbrew we have here in town.

Also one time we had some tourists loudly complaining about immigrants while visiting. Those aren’t immigrants you dope, they’re citizens of our country. They were born here.

On one occasion I was driving somewhere and it was along a scenic drive and I had to stop for something. A group of aging old men on motorcycles who were doing the scenic drive told me I couldn’t park in that area because it was theirs. I said get fucked, you’re in my backyard, I’ll park wherever the fuck I want. I think they thought they were intimidating because they fancied themselves a biker gang, but biker gangs usually don’t have New Balance and rental bikes as part of their aesthetic.

Treck un Moroco desert, with local guide and camel drivers.

Causual conversation during dinner about alcohool, that non Muslim can legally drink alcohol, as long as they do it discreetly and not directly in front of locals because it might make people uncomfortable.

French tourist proceed to take red wine bottle out of its bag, drink it and even propose to local staff.

Never been so ashamed of my compatriots.

Not tourist per se, but I live next to a large state university, and it's either the college kids themselves or their families do the stupid shit. It's very wooded in my area while still being "suburbany", so we get those people admiring the foliage in the fall.

In the winter when it snows, for a lot of the students and their families it's their first time driving in it and it shows. I suppose I can cut them some slack for that though if they've never had to drive in it.

Anyway, it's just mainly oblivious drivers, that are either attempting to find their way around so they drive extra slow or stop suddenly in the middle of the road, or the go ripping through the neighborhood because of the traffic on the main roads. Like, come on, there are kids playing and such, you can go 50mph through the neighborhoods around here with the number of kids playing. I've proposed multiple times for speed bumps in the neighborhoods around the university, but the council says "it will impede the flow of traffic" ?!? That's the fucking point, morons! Ugh.

So. Much. Fucking. Litter.

Where I’m from, the tourists are usually nicer and more respectful than the locals.

In Prague late at night, it's not fun to come across a group of drunk tourists (usually Brits) seeking drugs. Locals also get drunk but they're not nearly as obnoxious.

It's not always tourists but stopping in unexpected places is a common irritation in NYC. Like, they're walking on the sidewalk and just stop, and mess up the flow of foot traffic. Maybe to look at their map or to gawk at something. It's extra annoying and a little dangerous when it's on the stairs

I live in Vancouver and we've had massive issues with people (both tourists and locals) feeding coyotes in our downtown park. It got bad enough that they had to euthanize a bunch of coyotes because they were habituated to humans and have even attacked some people. They're not puppers, they're wild animals that play an important role in the ecosystem. You do them literally no favours by feeding them. Also, even worse, feeding bears.

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.

Tourist catcalling local women on Rio.

Walking into tulip fields and (accidentally) trampling them, even when there are signs, ropes and people telling you to stay 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.

On Vancouver Island they will shit literally anywhere. After summer ends, go camping literally anywhere and there is human shit

I have even seen it cooking on pavement outside of an outhouse at a roadside pullout

Not tipping waiters and baristas

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!!

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)!

I would have to think things like shitting in public. There's signs like this in locations around the world.

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.