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I have yet to see many tourists show courtesy towards others. If they cause congestion standing in the middle of a tight spot they look completely oblivious to those trying to squeeze around them.
I have yet to see many tourists show courtesy towards others. If they cause congestion standing in the middle of a tight spot they look completely oblivious to those trying to squeeze around them.
Agreed 100%. I have actually gotten dirty looks by some as I try to walk around them...smh! excuse me for trying to get home from work
I was crossing the street and this lady standing in the corner looking up near Times Square. Since it's about 9:30am in the morning and near the entrance to the N/R train it's a high traffic area.
People are criss-crossing and bumping into her and she suddenly pulled her husband over and said look at all these rude NYers here.
I understand a lot of tourists are trying to enjoy their expensive vacation here but do look where you're standing. People have places to go and you're in the way.
It should be mandatory that tourists watch this video before visiting NYC.
What is often true of tourists to *any* area is they forget that places have a native population that actually *LIVE* in these areas. Persons that get up go to work, take their children to and from school and otherwise get on with their daily lives.
If one is attempting to get to an appointment, school, work or whatever it is difficult enough navigating the streets of Manhattan without hordes of tourists stop standing in the middle of sidewalks gawking at tall buildings. Don't they have buildings where these persons come from? That and their tendency to walk several abreast in groups totally ignoring sidewalk traffic must move in two directions.
NYC especially Manhattan has always been a congested and fast paced place. We move with the dallah here baby! If you want to stand around on the sidewalk as a group of young black men trick you out of your money and or pick your pockets that is your business, just step aside to those of us with actual places can go (and who know better) can stick and move.
Yes, will tell persons to *move* if they are blocking my way so one can get one. OTOH if they want to stand around on 34th Street and get fleeced by whatever version of "Three Card Monty" or other scam those AA boys/young men are running on the tourist yokels, that is their own affair. I don't care where you are from anyone that does not have enough common sense to smell the whiff around those sort of things deserves all that they get. More so because almost every decent tourist guide, magazine, website, book, app or whatever warns persons off such things expressly and explicitly.
Its a culture clash. These tourist don't understand that in "walking cities" like NYC, and DC one needs to exercise the same courtesies as one does when driving. Massive numbers of people are trying to get some where. In NY on the side walk, in their hometowns on the highway.
The only time many of them walk is in the malls, so and it doesn't enter into their heads that a sidewalk in NYC is like a highway back home. Its is a place that people use to get to work, school, home, business appointments, job interviews, etc.
Personally NYers are NOT rude. We navigate around these humongous groups of gawkers. I guess we know tourism is one of our largest industries, and the largest for the less educated (much of retail and entertainment is linked to it), so we have to tolerate them.
Maybe Americans think that Parisians are rude because they become snippy when a whole group arrives from Peoria and takes over half the city.
Having said that the NYers with their cell phones playing games at the entrance of the subway are just as bad, or taking up half the side walk as they gossip on their phones, with their arms poled way out, and they should know better.
We now read that many of them are getting hurt because they are so absorbed in their phones that they trip on the ciurb, or down the subway stairs.
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