Tourist Etiquette

Melissa · 05-31-2011, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Camo Eagle

OMG some of your posts had me LMAO.

I live in a suburb of San Antonio. SA gets prolly 1/2 of its income from tourism as well. Oh my dont get me started. LOL My fav is when Im asked where are all the horses & cowboys.

Just today I was walking behind a grp of tourists. As we walked along 4 or 5 of the grp of 12 were constantly throwing trash on ground. They were all eating and drinking, and the empty wrappers/cans just got tossed by some of them.

One of the older adult men was commenting on how dirty out city was, trash on street, etc. He went on to make a nasty crack about the slogan "Dont mess with Tx", at the same time that he threw his taco wrapper & can on the ground.
This was on a Military Post no less. The only reason there was trash laying around was bc an event was just finishing up, and jackasses like him left the trash.

Later all the poor little trainees & Privates will have to come out there and pick it all up.

We live in Corpus Christi and I get really frustrated with the amount of trash that beachgoers leave on the beaches and in the parking lots. I don't know if they are tourists or locals and don't care. The city does just about everything but put their trash in the trash can for them: they give out recyclable bags, put out extra trash cans during busy weekends like Memorial weekend, all along the beach every few feet, even put out large dumpsters on the busiest beaches. Yet still, despite all this, people leave fast food bags and wrappers and balled up dirty diapers on the beach and in the parking lots. They make zero attempt to walk over to a trash can and throw it away. Me and Rufus walked over to the beach last week and I spotted multiple wrappers, bags and two dirty diapers. There are constant letters in the paper begging people to pick there trash up. I don't get it! Every Monday morning I watch the city come to the beach across form us and two city trucks spend half the day cleaning the beach and the parking lot after the weekend.

M