Pennyaline wrote:
>
> "Frogleg" wrote:
> > >Pennyaline wrote:
> > >> They crowd restaurants and museums. They crowd trendy department and
> food
> > >> stores. They crowd the sidewalks. They crowd into the Theater District,
> into
> > >> venues on- and off-. They go to movies. Their tour buses prowl the
> streets.
> > >> They are perfect strangers who ask us for directions and, not
> uncommonly,
> > >> ask to have their pictures taken. They crowd the Park and mass around
> > >> fountain and statuary like human pigeons. They take the subway. They
> > >> communicate with language and gestures and customs the natives don't
> > >> understand and may not cotton to. They're underfoot. They spend
> millions.
> >
> > Geez! Why don't all tourists just drop dead, huh? Or stay at home
> > where they can sneer at *their* tourists. Tourism is a major, if not
> > the main, source of income for a good many cities, towns, and....
>
> <snip>
> > Lighten up!
>
> What are you talking about?? My post was a response to someone else's post
> about the inconvenience of having American tourists around, and that tourism
> is a fact of life and that cosmopolitan types need to accept that.

But no one posted anything about the incovenience of having American
tourists around; only the documented spending habits thereof in a single
retail establishment. You come off as sounding very provincial.


>
> Lighten up yourself, and don't let your kneejerkisms impair your
> comprehension.