Tourist Etiquette

[Peach]

Originally Posted by TickledPink

Nashville is small and we get lots of tourists wanting to experience the "Country Music Scene."

So, all I gotta' say is I invented my own bumper sticker:

"Welcome to Nashville! Now go home!"

I grew up on a small island in Canada, a very popular tourist destination. i worked in the local hotel bar, and we had tshirts made that on the front said WELCOME TO SALTSPRING ISLAND!

on the back, it said, NOW GO HOME.


I hated tourist season there, and I have to say, ignorant tourists are not limited to one country, its global! We dont have chain restaurants there, no golden arches etc......I was enjoying a quiet solitary walk one day, minivan loaded with kids, parents, barking dogs, and what was probably the entire contents of their house pulled up, music blaring, dogs barking like mad, and kids screaming, "hey, look, there is a local, you can tell, look at her shoes....hey you, come'ere, yeah, you...hippy girl............where is the closest McD's, well, if you turn around and take that ferry, drive 5 miles you will find one......yeah sure, liar, where is the one here on this rock. Well, fine, just joking, drive up this road, turn right at the next one, and follow it til you come to the Golden Arches, cant miss em

said road went up the mountain to the fire station lookout, 10 miles of potholes, washboard, unpaved road, so narrow even a VW bug might not clear the brush on either side of it. Dont know if they ever came out!!