SO agree with the post about children who are allowed to disrupt in public places.

The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San José. The Hollywood Wax Museum in Hollywood. Anyone on one of those walkie-talkie phones reporting their every move to someone on the other end ("Yeah, I'm in the Wax Museum." *static* "So who are you looking at?" *static* "I think it's J-Lo. But it's hot and melting, so it kinda looks like William Shatner in a tube top." *static*).

Dear God, why are people so judgmental? Is it just our nature?

Of course. If people didn't judge other places to be worthy of visiting, this website would be pretty damn pointless, wouldn't it?!?

OMG, i LOVE you people! Reading this board has made my day. Kinda tells you what kind of day i've had :(

RJ, the vision of ole billy shatner in a tube top is hilarious! Altho not really before dinner...

Great point, rjw!

It's healthy to let off a little steam, right? A few weeks ago I posted a partial list of places I wasn't fond of, and some people really got bent of out of shape. Others replied that they had no places they didn't like - which I found incredible...and enviable! I wish I would like everywhere I went. Personally, I think it's better to read a negative post here and there. How boring and helpful would this place be if someone asked a question about Place X and everyone replied, "Oh, I liked it", "Oh, yeah, it was fine", etc. I like to read everyone's opinions, good and bad.

Grasshopper, Now <i>WHO</i> would do such a thing!? Ar ar (sorry, couldn't hold it back :D)

i am glad that i am not the only one
with an odd sense of humor
I have to admit i enjoyed this post and agree with all of you.
enjoy your vacations

Oh ellen...

&quot;Stardate 103-25677. The transporter malfunction has sent me off to a strange, musty prison or cage of some sort. I'm paralyzed and on display in a wig and Versace dress. The Matter Reassembly parameters were especially distorted in this mishap, since I've never <b>seen</b> my ass this big. Not even in the third season.&quot;

The ultimate &quot;travel tacky&quot; is boardwalk beaches: with tattoo parlors, pin-ball arcades, and pizza joints.

oh-h-h, i love those places!

Massachusetts churches still passing the plate after offering $55 million to sex-abuse victims of priests.

Las Vegas hotels leaving their huge front doorways wide open all day in 120 degree heat, then having the nerve to add on a $3.50 per day &quot;energy surcharge' to each room.

Car rental companies adding 40 percent in surcharges and fees to the &quot;rental rate&quot;.

Airline security personnel opening up Grandma Moses' suitcase and pulling out the Depends for everyone in line to see.

Anyone who answers the phone with &quot;How may I help you????&quot;

SUV's with one occupant.

Referring to people as &quot;trash&quot;. We have really become a throw-away society, haven't we?

I know this is probably pretty picky, but I really hate the word &quot;eats&quot; when people use it to mean dining, food or restaurants, as in &quot;good eats.&quot; It just conjures up an image of pigs at a trough to me. I know there's a whole series of guidebooks with that in the title and people use it here all the time, but it always bothers me. You get &quot;good eats&quot; at a diner, maybe, or a good local down-home cafe, but a 4-star restaurant shouldn't be where you get &quot;good eats.&quot;

Men who are too cheap to buy pair of shorts and where their short swimming trunks instead...especially the European tourists here in NYC.

omg RJ, thats hilarious!!!! ROTFLOL

For some reason, the vision of Liberace comes to mind! LOL Altho there was something so endearing about him .... Hey, maybe he and billy-boy were separated at birth??!! LOL

Ellen, you have to picture it with that faux-Shakespearean soliloquy voice that he used for the voiceovers to get the full effect.

Oh, we're having fun over on the California tour thread now!! I think the poster(s) from San Jos&eacute; is (are) about to lose it. And that's always entertaining. Thanks for the kind words, as always. And when you are next in southern CA, yeah, we could maybe go for drinks at the Polo Lounge or something!

Stores in the lakes area where we visit that say LIVE BAIT and RESTAURANT on the same sign.

How about someone driving a Lincoln Navigator with a Sierra Club bumper sticker? Or a Cadillac sedan with a thick padded vinyl roof?

Fashion Police: How about a woman wearing fishnet stockings and satin hot pants in broad daylight? I see someone walking around the Santa Monica Farmers Market dressed like that every week-- could she be that confused about where Hollywood and Vine is...?!

jor- you are cracking me up today. LOL.

People who refer to those who love to dine well as Foodies.
Those who talk loudly on their cell phones.
Women smoking on the street.
people walkin four abreast so it's hard to pass.

This may fall in the category of tacky and stupid. The dot-comers who would brag about this great company because they were &quot;pre-IPO&quot;. That was tacky. I heard thiss guy doing the same thing today,words I had not heard in 3 years. He is just stupid.

Middle aged men who make it to obvious they are in a mid-life crisis. Tackiest of all.

I love what clarkgriswold said....
...SUV's with one occupant. TACKY!

To cfc, sorry I used the word 'eats' in my thread, BUT, you will notice I said I'm not interested in expensive or fine dining, so that's okay, right?

I know someone who likes to take souvenirs from restaurants- be it salt/pepper shakers, utensils, you name it, she's got it!

Another vote for &quot;foodie&quot; or &quot;foodies.&quot; Just so annoying.

People who give advice about places they've never visited, or just visited once.

Trolls.

Worthless non-travel threads like this one.

People who respond to worthless threads. Uh-oh!

New yorkers!

I can't stand it when people take souveniers from restaurants either. One time my grandma tried to put a wine glass in her purse to take home - while it still had wine in it.

I'll second that!

Oh aahhnold, how unkind.

Are you kidding? After all the insults,&quot;New Yorkers&quot; is unkind? Am I the first person to think so?

Read some of the responses,mine is benign compared to others, Which I stand by.

People who think they know it all, who have all the answers.

Live and let live, people.

Why is an SUV with one occupant tacky? Most SUVs aren't any bigger than a sedan. Just didn't get that one.

...and you wonder why they hate us?

People that attack you personally with schoolyard taunts simply because you disagree with their opinions (and your arguments are better thought-out). Tacky, stupid, immature.

Oh yeah, and those mirrored &quot;purty pinup girl&quot; appliqu&eacute;s on an 18-wheeler's mudflaps. Hallmark of a box-wine drunk...!

Only unkind aahhnold when you know that I am a New Yorker..lived here, moved away and now I am back. And never thought of myself as tacky :(

Scarlet..Exceptions can be made. Your leaving the area helps. Tell me you didn't vote for hill and all is forgotten.

Then all is forgotten :D

ahhnold, may I suggest a smarter screen name for you ... perhaps it'll pull you up. Why not &quot;Hillary&quot; for you ... you could do with a bit of class and style.

Hillary?...class and style? I don't think so. Just look at the spouses we choose. No one has more class and style than Maria.

BTW,I think I have Scarlett's vote and she is full of class and style.