Jackie who made the dumbest travel remark the old woman or you? We will all be old one day I guess we can see how the idiots will remember us best.

"Really? You went to the Indianapolis 500? Where was it?"

We recently returned from a trip to Europe. A teenage friend of my son asked, "How long did it take you to drive there?" After I recovered, I felt obligated to give this girl a brief geography lesson.

In a restaurant in Nova Scotia in the middle of the winter:
Customer: "I notice on the menu that you serve "Fresh Lobster". I was wondering, where do you get fresh lobster at this time of year?"

Server: "In those little cans!"

After visiting Busch Gardens in Tampa my husband and I had dinner at the Olive Garden Restaurant. I opened the silverware wrapped in a napkin and it was dirty. I showed the silverware to our waiter and asked for a replacement. He said, "That's about as good as you're going to get"!

We left but still think of it everytime we DRIVE BY an Olive Garden Restaurant!

From my untraveled brother-in-law, when he heard we were going to Vienna and Prague for our vacation, "Do you need a passport for each country?"

From the same brother-in-law regarding his first visit to see us in DC, "are there any good museums?"

Anonymous what is the harm if he confused passport with visa, he never travels. I guess he made your day making you think you are well traveled

Not traveling, but perhaps moving:

While looking at some new homes some miles from where we live, our teenage son remarked "I wouldn't want to live here, it's too far from home."

In 1989 we took a bus through Poland. It was the time of shortage of goods including gas, so we saw long lines at the gas stations - 2 blocks of horse-drawn carriages with lots of canisters on them. My then 7-year-old son asked: "Mom, what do horses need gas for?"

Dear FYI,
For Your FYI:
I am not an insensitive elder basher. In fact I was the only one in line that day to take the time to make sure that the woman got the assistance she needed, and yes God willing I know that one day I will be old, and judging from the fact that half the time I can't go in the next room without forgetting what it is I'm looking for, I will not doubt be very confused.
The post was for dumb travel remarks, not for dumbest remarks made by anyone other than an older person. I just discovered this site a couple months ago and love it. The info I obtained here, made a recent first trip memorable. I love reading all the advice and giving advice to posts when I can. the only downside, is that a FEW people seem to patrol the postings not for fun or advice to look for opportunities to try to humiliate people in an obvious attempt to prove that they are ethically, morally or intellectually superior. Lighten up and use the site for what it is intended to be, a great place to learn from the travel experiences of others and to share your own.

I loved this thread...here are my favorites:

At Bryce Canyon Lodge on June 16th,the hotel clerk insisted to the person on the phone that there were no room openings for July 4th. He said yes, you can check in the town of Springdale, Utah for rooms and then proceeded to spell Springdale for them. Then he answerered yes, Utah, U T A H, yes Utah, it's a state.

At the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas - a women remarks that "Paris" food is pretty good.

In Zion Park, a father is trying to convince his family to hike up the Zion Narrows - "we'll keep walking up the canyon until the water covers Emily's head, then we'll turn around".

At Epcot, we heard ...."I always wanted to go to Paris...they have France food there!"

At the Cairo musuem - we overheard a Britsh couple exclaim "this place is so shabby, the good stuff (Egyptian) belongs in England".


At the Hawaiian Airline terminal - a couple is asked their weight by the attendant after having their baggage weighed to determine where to seat the passengers to distribute the weight properly on a small interisland prop plane - the husband says to the wife "you lie, we die".

Where is a good place to stay in Hawaii?

Overheard at a restaurant in Indiana where a young man and his date are ordering dessert:

Man: I'll have the apple pie
Waitress: Would you like that a la mode?
Man: No, but could I get it with ice cream?
(waitress and date nearly collapse in fits of hysterical laughter)

This past Sunday, Chambers Street, NYC. A woman is taking her friends on a tour. She points to the huge, 30-something story Municipal Building and says, "That's City Hall. Where Giuliani lives."

I was on the train to Pompei recently and it was raining very hard. I heard the woman behind me ask her companion "is the stuff at Pompei inside or outside?". I laughed out loud accidentally and her companion answered that Pompei is a city so yes, the attractions will be outside.

We were whitewater rafting on the New River in WV, and at the put out, a woman said, "this doesn't look like where we started from" Someone said, what do you mean? She said, didn't we go in a circle? Oh my goodness!!

We had just landed at Heathrow from New York and I overheard one of my fellow passengers wondering aloud where she should go to meet Paul McCartney in London.

This guy owns an SUV that gets about 10 mpg downhill. He decides to put a U.S. flag sticker on the back of this thing to show his support, even though he's singlehandedly funding the islamic terrorists in Saudi Arabia by buying 50 gallons of their product every month.

I agree about the SUV/terrorism thing. And have you seen those ads: "I buy dope, therefore I fund terrorism,"?? I about roll my eyes right out of my head every time one plays. They could substitute the word "SUV" for drugs and have a more accurate ad.

A friend of mine just got back from Paris and he saw an American at one of the crepe stands. The man asked in a really loud voice (presumably because shouting translates better) "DO YA'LL GOT HOT DOGS HERE??"