Any Tacky Tourist sitings?

I was sitting on the beach this past weekend a saw this tourist walking down the beach in a big floppy hat, long shorts, Royal Caribbean Fanny Pack, dark socks and sandals.

I started laughing until I realized IT WAS MY COUSIN who lives a couple of blocks from me!!!

Lawsy.

Any other tacky tourist sitings?

Go Travel, we just came in from a day in St Augustine.
It is impossible to relate the tackiness of the sightings we made

Let's just say this-
After a certain age and weight, women should not wear sleeveless tee shirts tucked into elastic waisted shorts.

And contrary to popular belief, that tatoo on your back/shoulder/small of your back, should be seen only by your lover or your mom..the rest of us are not that thrilled with the sight.

On the Good side, though,
there were a few German tourists, browsing the shops and everyone that I noticed, was well dressed, quiet spoken and had great haircuts

of course, near the Casa Monica, there were quite a few well dressed well coifed matrons too..I didn't notice any tattoos LOL

You know Scarlett, there is something about the beach and vacation that gives people the chutzpah to wear things they should never leave the confines of their own bedroom in.

I just love St. Augustine!

Get John Smith on the horn!

my best/worst tacky tourist was man with an American family in Paris. I first saw him at the Eifel Tower then later again, at the Louvre.
He had on a wrinkled gray/white pair of shorts, baggy white socks, dirty sneakers and worst of all a tight, wrinkled t-shirt with some writting on the front. Maybe his suitcas got lost and got some clothes out of used clothing storage.

I had a good one yesterday.

Riding down the road my husband and I noticed a bright orange 1975 cadillac limosine painted orange with a number painted on the side (husband said it was the number on the 'General Lee' car). He also had an American Flag and a Confederate Flag painted on the back hood.

His horn played the William Tell Overature.

My wife and I spent this past weekend in Vegas. If you've been, please feel free to insert your own memory as we likely saw the same things.

The tackiest tourists in Florida are usually the loud ones that have migrated south. Its not what they wear, what they drive, what they look like, but rather their arrogance, loudness, rudeness, and seeming disbelief that no one is up to their par. Oddly, no one else wants to be, but they dont know it.

Too many to list.

Bottom line: Money does NOT equal class.

Oh, empathy, empathy, Tandoori! It must be painful for locals to see those foreign interlopers getting off at TIA. With their loudness and flabby arms, it just ruins things for you native born. Have a wonderful Memorial Day!

Wait a minute, I'm going to Europe Friday. Do you think I need to unpack my dock siders, white tube socks w/ blue stripes, sleeveless ribbed Nascar shirt, crush hat w/pins and mirrored sunglasses!?

Smokyboy, yikes, you're talking about leaving your unique pizzazz at home! Consider most of this tacky stuff is from the land of sunshine, whose notion of dressed to the nines is a pastel windbreaker.

I refuse to unpack my red polyester coaches shorts.

Tandoori, here they complain because we don't have basements.

They also complain about our food and make fun of the way we talk.

This post reminds me of a couple I saw in the Plaza in Santa Fe two years ago. My guess is that when they graduated from high school in about 1980 they stuffed their white phys-ed shorts and T-shirts into a gymbag -- and pulled them out again for vacation in 2002. Yuk!

Tandoori and GoTravel, I understand about all the yankee-come-lately (a/k/a carpetbaggers) sayings about how wonderful it was 'back home'. If they really iritate me I respond with "then go back," I think there is even a bumper sticker with those sentiments.

The late Lewis Grizzard of the Atlanta Constitution reponded with "I-85 does go north."


Tacky and tourist: usually me.

Ain't it grand to be perfect "ya'll"...

We have a lot of transplants in California who love to complain about our state too. Unless there is some sort of forced relocation program to California and Florida that I don't know about, these folks need to either button it up, or go back home.

These remarks are reminiscent of Junior High. Gotta conform to the majority or we'll point and laugh and call you names.

LOL, every FL poster complaining about tacky was a tourist/newcomer. When I arrive TIA tonight, I plan to be extra tacky in concourse F. LOL!