A guide at Speke Hall (National Trust owned building that was built in 1530) was asked by an American tourist, after hearing an aeroplane taking off from the nearby Speke airport...........
"It's a lovely house but why did they build it so close to an airport?"
Anyone know of similar stupidity. (It may have been jet lag bless 'em)
2007-03-25 10:19:36 · 18 answers · asked by cristianos 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
At the Soo Locks in Michigan, there's a building with maps and explanations of the area in a building for the tourists.
One of the things there is a little model of a laker boat that goes through this little model lock. The miniature boom goes up, the gate opens. The model boat goes into the lock. The gate closes. Water fills the lock, the gate on the other end opens and the little boat goes out. Then, the whole process reverses, and the boat goes back through the little lock.
Great illustration in miniature of what the real locks are. A water elevator so that the boats can go up and down river.
Problem is, from the tourist's viewpoint, the little chain that is actually controlling the model boat is visible. Model has no real working motor.
One day a tourist wanted to know who actually goes underwater in the real lock, to attach the real boat to the real chain. DUH!
2007-03-25 10:35:24 · answer #1 · answered by kiwi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I work in Yosemite as a tram driver/ narrator in the Mariposa grove of giant Sequoias. I get some real good ones like: What time do they turn the waterfalls off and on? What time does the park open and close? When do the deer turn to Elk? And in the no questions asked division: We have to tell the parents that they can't put junior on the deers back for a picture. One of the other drivers came across a big cat laying on the side of the road resting. He had to yell at some passengers that they could NOT pet the kitty. Also, how often do they trim the trees? (Any and all trees.) These are just a few. The part that really scares me is these same people probably drove a car to get there.
2007-03-25 17:33:44 · answer #2 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I worked in a lodge in Canada that was marketed to rich American tourists...some of the questions:
Do you have schools?
Is that a whale? (while driving by a lake and not a 'great lake')
Do you have dryers? (because we hang our clothes on a clothes line in the summer)
One of the things i noticed the most was tourists' complete inability to fiqure out how long it would take to travel from point A to point B. I had an agruement from someone who said they were just going to drive to point B and be back for supper. Well, point B was 8 hours away so really a 16 hour drive at best and they fiqured they would cover it in 4 hours. They weren't the only ones that thought that and they werent the only ones to argue.
There are many more but it really hurts my head with some of the ignorant comments and questions.
2007-03-25 17:30:49 · answer #3 · answered by peaceandlove™ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There were some good ones in the Evening Standard last year including
What time does Greenwich open
What tube line goes to Brighton
Whats on at the circus in Piccadilly.
Another one I read was a women when booking a holiday to Orlando insisted she had a sea view. Even after the sales girl told her its land locked she said its only a couple of inches from the sea on the map! What a dumbass
2007-03-25 17:36:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Traveling the Middle East Ioften heard people ask the guide , "Which hand do I use when shaking hands with an Arab.?"...
I heard this one many times.....It was answered only a few times and never out loud...
2007-03-25 17:35:37 · answer #5 · answered by cesare214 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Years ago I visited a stately home that was being renovated (can't remember which one) but they had renewed all the gold leaf on the chairs, picture frames, etc, My Mum thought it looked tacky and told the Guide that they could at least have made it all look old....
2007-03-25 17:29:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hahaha! That's funny! I went on a U.S.A Tour once... around New York City, Washington D.C., Phildadelphia, New Jersey, and Penn's Cove.
Unfortunately, no one asked such a stupid question on my trip. =(
It would have made the trip a bit more "interesting"...
2007-03-25 17:24:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
overhead (earwiggin) an american tourist asking "do you people have toilets" like no mate we just piss in the street. FS. like what are we cavemen we even have signs in french at the airport.
2007-03-25 17:41:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
can a sting ray really sting you? Asked by a Florida Beach tourist
2007-03-25 17:22:57 · answer #9 · answered by BEACHRESCUE 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you seen a torist guide around here?
2007-03-25 17:22:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋