The "tourist stop" move.
Quote: mcallister3200but three times today I've had someone who was walking directly in front of me just suddenly come to a dead stop for no apparent reason, c.
That's funny, it happens to me all the time
in casinos. People have their heads shoved
completely up their butts in casinos, I don't
know why. I see it all the time. They wander
around in a dream world, mostly it's women.
Sometimes I plow right into them, I always
know where I'm going and have a very steady
gait to get there. lol
I want to kill these people very badly.
In all fairness, it is probably expected to walk on the left in Australia and New Zealand, which I probably forgot to do lots of times on my last trip.
Quote: WizardI'd like to add to the list people who don't walk on the right side of a hallway. .
The worst is entering or leaving a casino
rest room. There is always a blind corner
going in or out. I always hug the right wall
& assume the person coming the other way
is smart enough to do the same. Do they?
Hell no, almost never. Fricking morons.
Quote: rudeboyoiEscalators moving the direction you want to go should always be on the right too. I learned that wasn't always the case the hard way.
Or the moving walkways at airports. Some people
stand there with their luggage next to them and
nobody can get by.
STAND to the Right,,, WALK to the LEFT. I've had people who think that means you can block the moving walkway because those who wan to walk should be out on the floor to the left of the moving stairs.Quote: EvenBobOr the moving walkways at airports.
I've heard that some establishments like to alternate elevator direction for "even wear and tear" and so will switch between UP and DOWN. I think its foolish.
Y'all have complaints about WALKERS in Vegas... now perhaps you see why its best not to rent a car there. The tourists DRIVE that way too.
Quote: WizardI'd like to add to the list people who don't walk on the right side of a hallway. The only allowable exception should be to pass slow moving traffic. In other words, the rules should be the same as driving on a two-lane road.
In all fairness, it is probably expected to walk on the left in Australia and New Zealand, which I probably forgot to do lots of times on my last trip.
When I worked in a huge office in AZ some girl gave me a remark because I did not step aside for her when she was walking on the wrong side. I remarked that she was the one on the left but by then we had passed each other. Some people expect the world to move for them.
Quote: AZDuffmanSome people expect the world to move for them.
Most people have their heads up their
butts because it's easy, and it's a habit.
That's one major thing they teach
special squads in the military, how to
have your head out of your ass at all
times and pay real attention to what's
happening around you. It's so unusual
it needs to be taught.
For instance, my wife is very smart. Yet
I can do things right in front of her and
she never see's it. We can go someplace
10 times and she has no idea how to get
there because she wasn't driving. Take
me someplace once and I will know the
route because I'm always paying attention.
Quote: HunterhillIt's just going to get worse Bob, with GPS people don't pay attention to where they are going.
I admit to being guilty of this. Pre-GPS I always said the best way to learn a new town was to "get lost" and force yourself to learn how to find your way. Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, Phoenix, in each I learned my way around. Well, Phoenix is Jeffersonian Grids so anyone should be able to figure it out. Some women I worked with couldn't but how anyone couldn't was beyond me. But today I set the GPS and go to the courthouse or gig and that is that.
I'm guilty of this too.I also don't remember anyones phone number anymore.Quote: AZDuffmanI admit to being guilty of this. Pre-GPS I always said the best way to learn a new town was to "get lost" and force yourself to learn how to find your way. Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, Phoenix, in each I learned my way around. Well, Phoenix is Jeffersonian Grids so anyone should be able to figure it out. Some women I worked with couldn't but how anyone couldn't was beyond me. But today I set the GPS and go to the courthouse or gig and that is that.
I try to be polite and defer when it comes to this but there are times when I really can't move aside because of space available (not counting the times I/they were distracted). Generally, it's just an annoyance followed by the appropriate nice-ities. But every now and then, someone will stop and almost-shout "Excuse me!" I always ignore it, but, almost without exception, the demographics of the almost-shouters are the same.
Quote: HowManyNothing worse than watching someone stop at the bottom of the escalator at The D, and just stand there.
I want to kill these people very badly.
I think this is particularly bad at Caesars shopping center. I've sometimes had to almost push people who stopped on the landings because more people were right behind me. I understand needing to get your bearings, but take a few steps off the landing and get them there.
One time, a couple who did this started almost-shouting at me (same demographics) and then stopped when people behind me bumped them from behind. By then, they figured out to get off the landing.
Quote: MrWarmthBy then, they figured out to get off the landing.
Just bump sloths with your body.
It's fun.
Quote: Baccaratfrom79Worst to me is walking in the main doors at The Bellagio, the entire area most just loose their minds, sense of direction and in some weird state of awe.
Now that I think of it the same problem exists with metal detectors, I have ranted before on it. People take one step through and STOP, as if they slid to another dimension. When I am working a courthouse I see it over and over and the people look like the same type who will wear a fanny-pack and tie up the sidewalks in Vegas.
Yes WALLK ON THE RIGHT. I'm always bitching about this. When an accidental bump happens and someone gives me the look or gets upset. I will say, "what side of the road do you drive on?Quote: WizardI'd like to add to the list people who don't walk on the right side of a hallway. The only allowable exception should be to pass slow moving traffic. In other words, the rules should be the same as driving on a two-lane road.
In all fairness, it is probably expected to walk on the left in Australia and New Zealand, which I probably forgot to do lots of times on my last trip.
They usually realize that's logical and move to the right.
The worst are people who run in the elevator while you are trying to exit.
On a somewhat related note. I have a theory that women navigate different then men. Most if not all the men I know, know the name of the road they are on/are going to be turning on. The route # and the road name is it has one. Most women I know seem to navigate by landmarks. Turn right at the gas station they will say, or it's the first left after the big blue house. Ask the name of the road...they don't know. Drives me nuts too.
Thus ends my sexist rant.
Quote: vendman1
On a somewhat related note. I have a theory that women navigate different then men. Most if not all the men I know, know the name of the road they are on/are going to be turning on. The route # and the road name is it has one. Most women I know seem to navigate by landmarks. Turn right at the gas station they will say, or it's the first left after the big blue house. Ask the name of the road...they don't know. Drives me nuts too.
Thus ends my sexist rant.
Not sexist at all, it is the case. Studies have been done about it. I try to avoid asking women for directions as they are terrible at it. Once I asked how to find a place I needed to make a delivery to. The girl had no idea where it was. Now, let me state that in the smaller town she was in this place would have been well-known. She had no idea. As I pulled the car out I saw it was confusing the GPS because it was in an industrial park RIGHT BEHIND WHERE SHE WORKED!
Call me sexist if you like, but women and directions do not mix.
Quote: Doc"Go down to where that huge oak tree used to be before it burned down and take a left. Then take another left a quarter mile before you get to the old Johnson house. After that, you take a right just before where the railroad tracks used to run through there."
.... "you can't miss it."
Quote: wudgedNSFW (language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNdLPdlOovE
Thank you for the clip...funniest thing I've heard in a while, and ohhh so true.
I just got off the elevator on my hotel floor. When the door opened, a lady says "oops I'm so sorry" BEFORE she proceeds to barge into the elevator with her luggage before I can get out. Why would you apologize for something you haven't done yet and then proceed to do it anyway?Quote: AxelWolf
The worst are people who run in the elevator while you are trying to exit.
Quote: vendman1Also she had NO idea how to get anywhere if I'm driving. Doesn't matter if we've been there 100 times. She doesn't know how to get there unless she drives there herself.
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I said earlier, that's my wife exactly. A GPS is
her salvation now. She doesn't pay attention
to her surroundings is the problem and gets
lost easily. What takes me 5 min in Walmart,
takes her 45. She wanders around in a daze,
like she's never been in a store before.
I made the mistake of going to the mall with
her and her sister 10 years ago and still haven't
gotten over it. We went for a specific thing, and
3 hours later we had bought nothing. I really
believe they forgot what we were there for.
Quote: FleaStiff
Y'all have complaints about WALKERS in Vegas... now perhaps you see why its best not to rent a car there. The tourists DRIVE that way too.
I was in a car with a buddy in vegas, and we rear ended some idiot tourist who stopped for no reason in a street. It ended up being a funny story though. My friend just backed up, and told me to roll down my window and throw my drink in the guy's face while we passed him (and I also yelled some obscenities at him), which in hindsight was a great move since he was probably too busy getting soda out of his face that he didn't get a chance to get our plate #.
Quote: sc15he didn't get a chance to get our plate #.
Friend of mine was waiting to walk across a street when a driver stopped his car and waved at him to pass.
As he proceeded, he saw the driver and his passenger laughing as the driver gunned the car's engine for all it was worth.
My friend dived to avoid being hit, but he turned in time to get the plate number.
The next morning, that driver found his brand new Volvo burned to the ground.
Quote: TankoFriend of mine was waiting to walk across a street when a driver stopped his car and waved at him to pass.
As he proceeded, he saw the driver and his passenger laughing as the driver gunned the car's engine for all it was worth.
My friend dived to avoid being hit, but he turned in time to get the plate number.
The next morning, that driver found his brand new Volvo burned to the ground.
That would make a good background arc for a TV show!
Quote: EvenBobThe worst is entering or leaving a casino
rest room. There is always a blind corner
going in or out. I always hug the right wall
& assume the person coming the other way
is smart enough to do the same. Do they?
Hell no, almost never. Fricking morons.
If they almost never do what you exect, then you should expect something different next time!
Quote: MidwestAPOn a related note to the "tourist stop", it drives me crazy when a group of people insist on strolling side by side (like 5 or 6 across) in a crowded setting (ex. Las Vegas strip, Disney, airport concourse) instead of maybe two across and the rest behind. They back up everybody behind them without any consideration that others may want to get past.
And they give you dirty looks when you shove past them as if you're the rude one.
Ok i will concede on the following points which drive me mad - tourist or local:
Standing side by side on an escalator so you're forced to ask your way past or just wait. Who has the time or bored inclination to just remain static?
Suddenly stop walking; especially straight after an escalator or in busy pedestrian traffic.
Quote: Uranium235I can't help myself: do you know what's worse than annoying tourists? Tourists who no longer turn up.
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And you know what, I have been gambling there since before tourism was all hip and chic with rides, kiddie pools and things for the family. Perfectly fine to go back to a 100% gambling town!!!!! Nudity, adult stuff, gamble-gamble-gamble, real night clubs. Throw out all the rap, the hip bars and the family tourism. Bring that crap to Disney land. Vegas was just fine prior to Steve Wynn who changed it for the worse.
Quote: Baccaratfrom79And you know what, I have been gambling there since before tourism was all hip and chic with rides, kiddie pools and things for the family. Perfectly fine to go back to a 100% gambling town!!!!! Nudity, adult stuff, gamble-gamble-gamble, real night clubs. Throw out all the rap, the hip bars and the family tourism. Bring that crap to Disney land. Vegas was just fine prior to Steve Wynn who changed it for the worse.
I'll take a vegas that's owned by the jews over one owned by the mafia anyday.
Quote: Baccaratfrom79The way it was re-built in the late 90's and the early 2000's they made it so it can not survive on gambling alone. Now they will start to suffer. It is coming. It has to. The properties are too big and too expensive.
Just like in any other business, the poorly run ones (like caesars properties) will suffer. The good ones, (like wynn) will do well.
It's not too big and too expensive unless there's insufficient revenue.
There's a reason to have expensive properties. People aren't going to go drop tens of thousands of dollars to get a free burger and fries.
If you drop 50K at the wynn, you can dine at some of the finest restaurants around, stay in a nice suite, spend a day playing golf on a private course, go clubbing, etc etc. It's hard to attract that kind of business unless you're offering amenities to attract it.
Quote: sc15I'll take a vegas that's owned by the jews over one owned by the mafia anyday.
Weren't Flamingo and Stardust both at the same time at various points?
Quote: TankoFriend of mine was waiting to walk across a street when a driver stopped his car and waved at him to pass.
As he proceeded, he saw the driver and his passenger laughing as the driver gunned the car's engine for all it was worth.
My friend dived to avoid being hit, but he turned in time to get the plate number.
The next morning, that driver found his brand new Volvo burned to the ground.
S&@t just got real!
We get on and the first two were asking, "where is everyone?" And I replied that their faces were buried in their phones so I went around as I had somewhere to be. Guy starts to reply something and the guy behind me confirms my statement to which we all have a universal headshake/facepalm moment.
Idiot kids, might still be waiting for all I know.
Quote: sc15I'll take a vegas that's owned by the jews over one owned by the mafia anyday.
Genius, the town as we know it was started by Jews who were IN the mafia.
Quote: Doc"Go down to where that huge oak tree used to be before it burned down and take a left. Then take another left a quarter mile before you get to the old Johnson house. After that, you take a right just before where the railroad tracks used to run through there."
How did you get the directions to my house?? LMAO
Quote: AZDuffmanJust last night I was using the free parking at Rivers. Was so busy had to park on the roof and about 10 people waiting for the elevator. 2 MAWGs in front, middle a bunch of kids mostly female, and myself and another MAWG in back. So the first two get on and I patiently wait in the line. Kids have their faces buried in their phones. After a few seconds I just walk around them and a few seconds after that the other guy behind me does the same.
We get on and the first two were asking, "where is everyone?" And I replied that their faces were buried in their phones so I went around as I had somewhere to be. Guy starts to reply something and the guy behind me confirms my statement to which we all have a universal headshake/facepalm moment.
Idiot kids, might still be waiting for all I know.
Whats a MAWG.
