Tourists

Today I would like to talk about the people that show up in our hometowns wearing Hawaiian shirts and straw hats which get in the way of them trying to take pictures of everything they can see... yes I am talking about tourists.  Even though tourists help stimulate the economy I usually can't stand them.  Although there are many polite and fun tourists and to them I apologize if I have offended anyone.

                    

Whether they are from the next state over or the next country over it doesn't really matter.  What bugs me are the many attitudes tourists have.  Living in Southern California brings about many tourists with many attitudes. 

Firstly and most annoying is the tourist that believes that since he or she does not live here he or she can do whatever he or she feels like doing.  This often frustrates the locals (or me) because they live there and they do not like someone coming from who knows where acting like they are the king. 

Secondly and less annoying (less blamable actually) are the tourists that have no idea what is going on.  These people are frustrating to locals (or me again) because they are always getting in the way and they don’t realize that their presence in this place is disturbing the balance… Maybe I’m being dramatic, but when a tourist is walking around in circles, or looking around at the tall buildings in the middle of a crosswalk I have to try really hard not to run them over…

Actually other than those two types of tourists (those two are the majority) the rest are ok.  Okay I’m going to miss my plane (gotta find my straw hat…).