A wedding party pulled up in a limo and piled out to get photos taken with the skyline in the background. Then at least half a dozen groups of tourists started posing for photos with the limo.
That's awesome!
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Jun 02, 2008 7:30:05 am PDT #358 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 02, 2008 7:30:15 am PDT #359 of 10003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's the Mole People.
brenda m - Jun 02, 2008 7:31:07 am PDT #360 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It could be worse. I can't even get the "natives" here to move out of the way so I can get on the train. Le sigh.
God I loved Moscow so much. Everyone moves so quickly and briskly, and if you stand in the way you'll get bumped out of it right quick.
Moscow subway's pretty easy. It sets a new bar for crowds, but because of the above it doesn't get annoying the way they can here. IME, anyway.
javachik - Jun 02, 2008 7:32:21 am PDT #361 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
And now I want to visit Moscow!
Crap. Bo Diddley died.
juliana - Jun 02, 2008 7:33:01 am PDT #362 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Same thing with walking slowly in a group of 3-5. Don't do it! I don't care if you're getting a drink after work!
This wouldn't bug me so much if any of these groups ever had the awareness of their surroundings to detect when someone walking faster is behind them, and made room to be passed.
This, so very much. I grew up in an area that was almost entirely tourist-dependent. I'm very familiar with the love-hate dynamic that is present in such situations. And I know I live and work in the most tourist-heavy parts of SF, but STILL. The worst part about my entire rehearsal process has been the fact that the theater is near Union Square, and so the entire area is clotted with oblivious groups of people.
Glamcookie - Jun 02, 2008 7:33:13 am PDT #363 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I'm so sorry for your loss, askye.
Steph L. - Jun 02, 2008 7:34:16 am PDT #364 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
It's the Mole People.
Not the C.H.U.D.?
("Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the C.H.U.D.s.")
sumi - Jun 02, 2008 7:37:17 am PDT #365 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
No! That's very sad.
(Reading the restaurant list from Kathy's link - want to go to Sunshine Cafe. . . NOW.)
shrift - Jun 02, 2008 7:40:32 am PDT #366 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
This wouldn't bug me so much if any of these groups ever had the awareness of their surroundings to detect when someone walking faster is behind them, and made room to be passed.
I hate it when a gaggle of office workers go to lunch together. I always feel as if I'm being run off the sidewalk by the Douchebag Express.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 02, 2008 7:48:47 am PDT #367 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Instead, it usually seems like they think there's no one else one the sidewalk except themselves. Or, if they are aware of other people, they not only don't make room, they go out of their way to make it impossible to pass. Like "How dare you try and pass our slow-moving group taking up the entire sidewalk!!!"
This happens all the time in Boston. You even get individual pedestrians who seem to sense you getting ready to pass and they swerve into your "lane"; then swerve back when you try to juke the other way. It's gotten to the point where I assume it's just the MA driver mentality carried over to pedestrians.
And I'm afraid, having grown up in Maine (aka Vacationland which = Touristland), and now living in Salem, my love hate relationship with tourists has moved firmly to the "hate" side of the spectrum, at least for the clueless (as opposed to uninformed) types.
Remember folks, it's tourist season again - shoot to kill, not to wound. There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded tourist.