When I get asked for directions to the beach or disney or wherever, I like to say, "OK, take I-95 and head north for about 1000 miles. You can't miss it!" I live in the Tampa Bay area now so I substitute I-75 for I-95.
2006-11-20 05:12:03 · 4 answers · asked by cannonball 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Other - United States
To Papeversomni:
Directions to NY- Just take I-95 and head north for.... haha.
2006-11-20 05:22:53 · update #1
That it's nice here and the people are both friendly and kind...
I am a Ny'er, stuck here like a horse in the mud!
Your joy in giving fake directions... just proves my point.
Thinks to herself** 'You got that right brooklyn!'
If you absolutely must go south... keep going right past Florida and go to the Bahamas where people actually are friendly without the ever present hidden agenda... You don't get nice helpful or friendly here unless it in some way serves them. You would think considering, how people here might be a little more grateful since northerners come down once a year and feed their families!
My Top 10 list of things that are wrong with Florida...
1. I have never seen so many people go so far out of their way to avoid working. It's like a full time job looking like your working but actually doing anything but! It is an epidemic!
2. Right to work state. Watch out for the psychophants and butt eaters! They will cut your throat and steal a job right out from under a fresh dead corpse!
3. They are all really fast to insult Northerns saying things like we are; "rude, noisy, ignorant and nasty." But... for some strange reason, we are only like that around YOU!
I have met some of the most rude and incendeary, absolute ignorant, horribly mean and nasty people right here in the; "I am better than you because of widespread, geographical and morally inept oblivion." state. You people aint all your cracked up to be and nowhere near as special as you assume!
4. People here are slower than black strap molassas. Don't expect to get any kind of counter service in a timely manner... Lunch breaks should be 2 hours considering, but here... you have to go to work an hour early to get a decent lunch break! You end up working from 8 to 6 if you want an hour lunch and if you go out to eat...be prepared to wait...FOREVER!
5. Most people are Sneaky, underhanded, wacked out pot heads! (no seriously) Very shady, very sneaky, very to themselves but they are the first ones to get all up in your business. So much for "Southern charm." Especially the women! Nosey, rude and instinctually evil! Very primate like...
6. They don't know how to mind their own business and if you don't wave back at them while walking or driving up your street (GAWD FORBID) you are treated like crap and shunned from everyone in the neighborhood and called a snob just because you didn't retrun a hand gesture from a complete and total phony! YOU MUST WAVE BACK! I honestly think that it is the law here...
7. Don't even get me started on the driving and the medians and the complete and total lack of public transportation and while I'm at it, where are the damn sidewalks?
8. Obviously... don't ask 'seemingly' nice and normal people for directions. Trust me, they're neither nice or normal. I don't know of a Ny'er that would do that to a tourist unless they were a teenager being a smart ***! but that is the general adult mindset here anyway so...
9. I have never seen so many people bit*ch and whine about rich northerners coming down here and givng them an economy and a seasonal livelihood that they might otherwise not have!
10. They assume that these crap houses are valuable... They are cinder blocks and morter! Cheap crap and no one here can decorate either! They all believe that they have something, but go up north and see the lawns and decor the pride of ownership and know the differences between people that work hard and care for their homes and property because they are beautiful and usually TWO or more FLOORS! Not just L shaped, overpriced junk! The real estate people are SHARKS and the sellers are dishonest and talk up their garbage like it's a palace!
My neighbor... mows his lawn with a house arrest electronic cuff on his ankel. IN SHORTS!
Wow... I KNOW I feel better now.
2006-11-20 05:20:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I live just south of Tampa Bay, and summers without snowbirds are the best days of the year.
I never have the opportunity to give directions, but everytime one of them start with, "that's not the way we do that up north", I answer with, "I really don't care how you do that up north. As long as you're in Florida, that's how we do it here!"
Arghhhhh! They drive me crazy. And, before any snowbirds write in response to this... No, you don't pay my salary. My job doesn't depend on you coming to town for 3-6 months. And I lived in Florida BEFORE you moved here... back when it was a nice place to live. - Go home to where you think it is so great that you have to shove it down my throat.
Wow! I think I feel a bit better now. Thanks for asking the question.
2006-11-20 05:42:02 · answer #2 · answered by Momma Jo 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i hear you, momma jo. i hate how some northerner will move to florida because they want to get away from the rat race and take things easy, then they complain how slow everything is. i personally would never give out false directions, but after living in florida my whole life (30+ years) it can be a little annoying to have your state overrun with transplants who do nothing but ***** that its not like home. fine, then go back home.
but i always tell questioning tourists the correct directions and try to steer them away from the chain restaurants and into the local places. theres more to vacation than applebee's
2006-11-21 06:28:32 · answer #3 · answered by kitkat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow...you're a bit mean aren't you? Don't worry...we always take a map and plan ahead when we head south to vacation. I'll be certain to avoid asking questions of you Florida regulars though. Thanks for the future heads up!!! LOL
2006-11-20 06:24:01 · answer #4 · answered by brooklynn_31502 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋