sixthlap

What's the funniest thing you've heard anyone say or ask while you were traveling?<BR><BR>Here's one:<BR>My cousin asked my bro' while in a buffet line:<BR>-&quot;Is this all you can eat?&quot;<BR>Bro's response:<BR>-&quot;No I can eat more&quot;<BR><BR>Your turn!

anotherjudy

We were staying on a farm in the lake districe in England and another guest asked us if we knew when we booked the rooms that we would not be in town!!

cd

While in The Alamo in San Antonio, the man (American) behind us asked his companion, &quot;now who was it that died here?&quot;

DixieChick

At the registration desk for the mule ride down into the Grand Canyon a person asked:<BR><BR>&quot;Is there a meal car on the Mule Train?&quot;

Betsy

Overheard in the Maui airport: A traveler who was mildly irritated about the lack of timely delivery of his luggage exclaimed, &quot;oh shooty-darn.&quot; We use this term frequently now at our house and have to hold our sides from laughing so much. Maybe you had to be there....

Mommar

Texan in front of beautiful Degas masterpiece in Paris museum, steps close to view it, steps back to view it, says to wife, &quot;I don't know, it's still fuzzy to me.&quot;

Marilyn

Small country town in Romania in 1973. A young woman on the tourist staff of our hotel befriended us and insisted on showing us around. (More interesting than desk work, and a good chance to practice her English.)<BR><BR>We became quite close over several days and talk eventually touched gingerly on political matters. Looking carefully around the cafe to see who might overhear, she confided to us in a whisper, &quot;I, too, am a revolted one!&quot;<BR><BR>We could not laugh then, because it was obviously a very serious matter, but this has been a catch phrase for us for 30 years.

Marilyn

And another, really my favorite: Tourist overheard on the street in Florence asking local earnestly, &quot;Dove the railroad station?&quot;

SeaUrchin

A shopkeeper in the Southern Italy resort town was showing me an emerald ring, she kept saying &quot;it is emerald, but hard, hard&quot;. I went back in the store everytime I passed to look at the ring, and everytime she said &quot;it is emerald, but hard, hard'.<BR>The last day I was in town, I just had to buy that ring, now whenever I wear it I think it is an emerald, but hard, hard.

RosieM

Overheard at the Washington Monument, circled by flags whipping smartly in the wind: &quot;How do they get the flags to fly all in the same direction?&quot;

obxgirl

Overheard in a street market near a vendor selling something advertised as the &quot;miracle ironing board....&quot;It's only a miracle if the clothes iron themselves...&quot;

RBO

In Seward, Alaska, USA. It was July 2002<BR>A big group of tourists from a cruise ship shoping for gifts and one man asked &quot;Do you take US money?&quot;

RAC

Setting: outside the Mezquita mosque in Cordoba, Spain.<BR>Adolescent #1 (to mother): I heard that this was built by the Mormons.<BR>Mother: That was the Moors.<BR>Adolescent #1: Who were they?<BR>Adolescent #2: Something to do with Africa, I think.

Jacqui

I was once stopped outside St Paul's station and asked where the cathedral was!<BR><BR>Admittedly the person did have the grace to look embarrassed when she did as I advised and turned around.<BR>

Jo

The site of ancient Olympia, 1986, and an old Dutch woman pointed to the broken column drums on the ground and asked, &quot;Are they wheels?&quot;

emjoy

We lived in Italy when I was a child and we spent month long vacations camping through Europe, usually getting by on what my parents refered to as &quot;Tonto-French&quot; or Tonto-German&quot; since no one spoke anything but phrasebook sentences. One of our favorite family stories was when pulling up for petrol in France my Uncle told the attendant we wanted &quot;Vin litre&quot; (instead of 'Vingt&quot; twenty litre ) and the man looked at him and said 'Monsieur, French men may run on wine, but French cars do not.&quot;

Art

In Florence many years ago we were camping. There were an American couple camping next to us. They worked at an Embassy in Spain. My wife asked the woman it they were going to go to the Straw Market. The woman responded that she didn’t really need any straw.<BR><BR>In Amsterdam while taking a canal tour, we were sitting at the rear uncovered part of the boat. There were two English middle class couples sitting next to us. When the guide announced that we were passing by the Anne Frank house, one of the ladies asked the other “I saw, who was Anne Frank?”. The other answered, “I really don’t know, but I think that she wrote a best seller or something”.<BR>

Marilyn

This is a most wonderful and amusing thread!

nocinonut

Years ago we were on a day tour of the ruins of an ancient civilization and the tour guide pointed out that they practiced necrophilia. One of the ladies in the group asked one of the men in the group what that was. He said it was having s-x with a dead person. She said oh, how awful. He said oh you get used to it after a while and looked at his wife.<BR><BR>We all laughed so hard that our tour guide wanted to know what was so funny.

Kert

Standing in line for the Uffizi in Florence, next to an American couple.<BR><BR>The wife was looking at a picture of one of Michael Angelo's cherubs in her guide book. She said to her husband 'Look, Michael Angelo!’. He replied 'Is that Michael Angelo?'. She said 'No, it's one of his paintings.'<BR><BR>He thought about it for a while before replying 'Michael Angelo? Who is that guy?'<BR>