I've just been doing a little reflecting, per say, about this past summer. The best part of all, FINALLY, the majority of the tourists have left the building and gone back to where they came from. As they should. More importantly, the summer people have left. Until next Memorial Day when it all goes downhill again.
When you live in a town with 17 miles of shoreline, its only natural that the god awful summer people flock here for 3 months out of the year. Why can't they just stay home? The problems they create are just endless. Endless people, endless.
Let's see, they make the towns population triple for those 3 months.
They cause traffic to be backed up for miles. It takes twice as long to get anywhere.
They crowd all of the beaches.
And worst of all, they drive like there's a friggen 3rd lane on Main Street. Listen up! If you're going to come here for the summer, you need to get it through your touristy head that there is NO THIRD LANE ON MAIN STREET. Nothing makes the real residents of Old Saybrook more angry. Got it?!
I don't know what made summer people so annoying. They just are. I think the whole 3rd lane thing is what really gets me every time. Really, you have no idea how obnoxious it is. Ever had a seagull drive you nuts at the beach? Well, thats how I feel when someone almost hits my car because of their 3rd lane creation. Can't be escaped.
Well, I commend you for reading this little rant that I just went on. I'm sure some of you can relate. I don't think I could ever live in a place that is a huge tourist destination, like New York City or Miami, LA or even Hawaii. Well maybe Hawaii, I mean lets be honest, its amazing there. But still, you can always pick the tourists out. And something about them just immediately makes me cringe. Hence why I try my hardest not to ever act like one when I go somewhere different.
I'll leave you with this little story, I believe told to me by my dad :)
A summer person asked him for directions to the post office one day when he was a kid. He directed them to the highway. HAHAAAA
"I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists." - Billy Bob Thornton
...smart man.
See? your just proving my blog of the world is made up of 90 percent idiots. lol. Oh and traffic here sucks because of local people AND the tourists. I actually thought about signing up for driving lessons one year because I wanted to know what they were being taught out here. It definitely is NOT how to use your blinker, merge, go the speed limit, or that the left lane of the freeway is the FAST people lane.
ReplyDeleteLol. Yet living in Mickey Mouse world.... at least your tourist drove on the correct side of the road lol rofl. Thus why I live in jock stick town USA.
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