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Oct 1st, 2011, 03:25 PM
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I had to look it up:
http://www.cartoonbank.com/2011/new-...1/invt/137379/
http://www.cartoonbank.com/2011/new-...1/invt/137379/
Oct 1st, 2011, 04:07 PM
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I love it - that's exactly what they should do.
On Thursday after work - left at 6 pm for once and the sidewalk was blockedby a family of tourists hauling their luggage behind them. People were coming from all directions rushing to get into the subway entrance and these seven (7) people were spreadout all over the sidewalk, bumbling, fumbling barely managing their enormous luggge and tripping everyone else up. Could they walk two abreast? No - that would have been too sensible.
The first five were staggered across the whole pavement - followed by two tween kids who couldn;t keep up because the bags were so big. Then the adults would stop and wait for them - making a giant crowd right in front of the subway entrance. Totally unconscious of the rest of the world. Then it started to drizzle and they just stood there looking up. Ever seen rain before???
Just clueless!
On Thursday after work - left at 6 pm for once and the sidewalk was blockedby a family of tourists hauling their luggage behind them. People were coming from all directions rushing to get into the subway entrance and these seven (7) people were spreadout all over the sidewalk, bumbling, fumbling barely managing their enormous luggge and tripping everyone else up. Could they walk two abreast? No - that would have been too sensible.
The first five were staggered across the whole pavement - followed by two tween kids who couldn;t keep up because the bags were so big. Then the adults would stop and wait for them - making a giant crowd right in front of the subway entrance. Totally unconscious of the rest of the world. Then it started to drizzle and they just stood there looking up. Ever seen rain before???
Just clueless!
Oct 1st, 2011, 06:42 PM
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I don't object to the tourists being here. they are more than welcome. but they need to make at least a tiny concession to the fact that they are in a metro area with 25 million people - not a small town or suburban mall.
Oct 1st, 2011, 06:46 PM
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Oct 2nd, 2011, 06:27 AM
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Dukey1, I'm happy to report that not all of us New Yorkers are as outraged. Some of us have more important issues to confront!
On a personal note, I hope I haven't upset, blocked or otherwise inconvenienced any people out west when I just stood still and stared in awe at those big mountains out there.
On a personal note, I hope I haven't upset, blocked or otherwise inconvenienced any people out west when I just stood still and stared in awe at those big mountains out there.
Oct 2nd, 2011, 08:01 AM
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I'm with nytraveler 
- the same people who as described take up the width of an entire sidewalk and block subway entrances, are the same ones who stop dead in their tracks at the top or bottom of an escalator which is really, really dangerous.
... looking up at a mountain in the midst of the wilderness is not quite the same!
- the same people who as described take up the width of an entire sidewalk and block subway entrances, are the same ones who stop dead in their tracks at the top or bottom of an escalator which is really, really dangerous.
... looking up at a mountain in the midst of the wilderness is not quite the same!
Oct 2nd, 2011, 09:39 AM
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sandi, I've got news for you.....New Yorkers also stop dead in their tracks at the top and bottom of escalators.
I'm so tired of all these stereotypical generalizations about tourists. Not all tourists block sidewalks and not all New Yorkers never block sidewalks.
I'm so tired of all these stereotypical generalizations about tourists. Not all tourists block sidewalks and not all New Yorkers never block sidewalks.
Oct 2nd, 2011, 10:46 AM
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The cartoons in the New Yorker still have people dressed from the Eisenhower Administration carrying ACME Co. brief cases that you can no longer find at junk shops.
At least compromise and make to the 1970's.
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On the other hand it is effing joke no matter how stale and innocuous. It is like being offended or amused by a Myron Cohen joke.
At least compromise and make to the 1970's.
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On the other hand it is effing joke no matter how stale and innocuous. It is like being offended or amused by a Myron Cohen joke.
Oct 2nd, 2011, 11:04 AM
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As someone who works and lives in another highly visited town, I can assure you that impatience with some tourist behavior is not limited to NYC. Please note I wrote behavior, not tourists. Most visitors to San Francisco, where I live, will report that the locals are very kind and helpful. We don't take our frustrations out on tourists, and neither do New Yorkers. But it is frustrating to encounter behavior by people who seem to think they are in a theme park, when you are trying to get to or from work or to an appointment.
nytraveler, be grateful NYC does not allow Segways on the streets--driving behind a group of 10-15 people on a guided Segway tour is so much fun!!!!
nytraveler, be grateful NYC does not allow Segways on the streets--driving behind a group of 10-15 people on a guided Segway tour is so much fun!!!!
Oct 2nd, 2011, 11:04 AM
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Well -
When I travel I never assume that everything is the same as at home. I do my best to find out the local customs and follow them - and not get in people's way. This seems to me to be part of an aware and polite visitor - rather than an ugly american - or an ugly whatever.
And you should have heard the nasty remarks when the (visiting) customer found out the deli served regular iced tea only - and one had to add whatever sugar one wanted.
When I travel I never assume that everything is the same as at home. I do my best to find out the local customs and follow them - and not get in people's way. This seems to me to be part of an aware and polite visitor - rather than an ugly american - or an ugly whatever.
And you should have heard the nasty remarks when the (visiting) customer found out the deli served regular iced tea only - and one had to add whatever sugar one wanted.
Oct 2nd, 2011, 06:39 PM
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That's the point. There are differences and one can't assume that everything is the same.
This would be like me going to the south and complainiang that the iced tea is nauseatingly sweet and that it shuld be served without sugar. I learned before I went to ask for it with no sugar - or to order water instead. But I didn't complain and get nasty to the servers.
This would be like me going to the south and complainiang that the iced tea is nauseatingly sweet and that it shuld be served without sugar. I learned before I went to ask for it with no sugar - or to order water instead. But I didn't complain and get nasty to the servers.
