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RE: Travel Complaints
October 12, 2013 at 6:52 am
True story: My missus and I once overheard someone at the Louvre say:
'I wonder where the keep the BIG Mona Lisa....'
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RE: Travel Complaints
October 12, 2013 at 8:57 am
I used to work at a movie theater, and it was quite frequent for someone to be late to a movie and ask us if we could rewind it, even if there were other punctual people watching it.
I used to loathe the customers there, and would be a dick when I was pushed too far. One time there was a Mandy Moore movie that came out, and everyone that worked there knew it was sappy and her character died at the end. Some tweens were being super obnoxious that night, and I was fed up with them. When they handed me their ticket to get in I said, "Enjoy your movie, she dies at the end." They were pissed.
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RE: Travel Complaints
October 12, 2013 at 2:19 pm
Oh god. Dealing with tourists at work every day, I've heard so much shit.... The Eiffel Tower one was a good one, though.
One time I was on the London Eye and there was a group of American Tourists with an American Tour Guide in the same capsule as us, and the guide was talking so much bollocks (probably because she didn't have a clue about anything) and none of her tour group seemed to notice. She was telling them things like "If you look over there you can see Wembley Stadium. That's where Arsenal play." and "See that building over there? That's called the Zebra building." (It's actually called "Strata") My ex and I didn't say a word, I know I would have laughed out loud if I'd tried to speak, but we kept exchanging meaningful glances. It was so funny. I wonder how much they'd all paid her to lie to them.
We had a customer get angry with us at work one time because we couldn't do something impossible. She wanted to go from London to Glasgow, spend a few hours there, then go to Pitlochry. She wanted to spend a few hours in Pitlochry, too, before continuing on to Edinburgh. She also wanted to spend a few hours in Edinburgh then head back to London. She wanted to do this all in the same day. When the first person she went to told her that wasn't possible she huffed and told him she'd go to someone else who could help her. She was told the same thing, and got angry and demanded to know why it was impossible. None of us could get it into her stupid head that there literally aren't enough hours in a day to do what she wanted to do.
London to Glasgow takes 5 hours, Glasgow to Pitlochry takes 1.5 hours, Pitlochry to Edinburgh takes 2 hours, and Edinburgh to London takes 5 hours. The first train out is at 05:39 and the last train back is at 18:30. She just didn't understand and in the end said she would be writing to complain and would go to another station to get what she wanted.
