M. Mantis reports somebody is driving around the Cape with this sign posted on their pickup.
Meanwhile, Drew Starr reports:
Just saw a sweet old lady give tourists completely wrong directions to Fenway Park. I caught her eye. "Yankees fans," she said.
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Next year
Cape empty of tourists. Car has new sign: "Please help me. I need a job."
Also, dick move on the old lady's part.
bullshit that lady is a hero.
bullshit that lady is a hero.
tourists and ny kiddies coming here for a four year vacation get out.
Mean people suck.
What the hell could be wrong with someone, that they would want to inconvenience someone else because of the sports team they like?
Tribalism is bullshit. Especially fake tribalism organized around some commercial sports entity.
Uh...
It's a free country. People can go anywhere they want. Also, it's a sad state of affairs in this country when people like you spread hatred for their fellow Americans simply because of where they are from.
World class, baby!
World class, baby!
I don't go to the cape
I don't go to the cape precisely due to stuff like this- have never had any good experiences with the locals- Was told by store clerk in Hyannis to buy something or f-off when I inquired about a nearby spot- I can understand a certain disgust with the tourists- but it seems to be outright hostility compared to other spots I've been
You are also generalizing an
You are also generalizing an entire group of people.
As though the locals on the
As though the locals on the Cape don't generalize their visitors as a group?
Not really, tourists come
Not really, tourists come from all over.
Some people are just resentful that they are transplants and tourists that are late moving to a great area and state.
2 different things
The old lady? Kinda funny. The worst case scenario is the NYers get to the game a little late.
The Cape driver, though, is a twit. The Cape depends n tourism bucks and has since the 1910s-- and I don't mean that the other industries are "supplemented" by tourism. No way that driver is old enough to have ever lived on the cape when tourism wasn't a, or the, major industry. Hate cars? Bid adieu to Detroit. Don't like the gummint? Don't live in Northern Virginia. If you can't get along with tourists, southeastern New England from Salem to Providence is not your Erewhon.
This is from a 1953 study by Lewis M. Alexander:
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Suck it up, idiot. You have paved roads and indoor plumbing because of those tourists.
*The Impact of Tourism on the Economy of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Lewis M. Alexander
Economic Geography
Vol. 29, No. 4 (Oct., 1953) , pp. 320-326
Published by: Clark University
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/142533
Fenway Pahk?
Shewah, go downna street to Ahlington, and catch and inbound cah towahds Pahk, change theyah to the Red Line towahds Ashmont or Braintree. Take that two stops to South Station. Go upstayas and buy a ticket on the Petah Pan Bus or the Acelar or whatevah and GO THE HELL BACK TO NEW YAWK!
Calendar check Please
She's a month early. It's a full 30 days until NY Plates Roof Mattress Follies here in Central.
Yankee fans BS directions
I, and others I knew, used to do this on a regular basis, pre 2004 of course (when the hatred was real). id usually try to get the poor bastards lost over towards the Somerville area and I would always think of them at game time. big papi changed everything.
"When the hatred was real?"
The hatred was never real. It was always bullshit. And you are pathetic.
LePongeBob Squarepants
chill out homie, I was a teenager busting yankees fans balls. have you ever been to the bronx bobby? last time I was some homeless guy kept calling me BALLSTAIN because of my red sox hat! you wanna know the real truth bobby? I absolutley hated thurman munson and did not feel bad at all. not one bit.
I guess they don't call us Massholes for nothing
That's just mean. I may think tourists are annoying but I'd never mislead them.
People are just rotten.
People are just rotten.
ftfy
Some people
Are rotten.
A younger me might have done this. Now?
Too grateful to have lived in Title Town for 11 years to be that bitter. Also, the Yanks look pretty good this year, the Sox, hopeless. Seems a bit pre-'04 to me. Act like a gracious champion, why don't you?
It is not your Cape, Sir....
And that is not a sweet little old lady.
Come to NY. We won't give you wrong directions
You know why? Because we aren't that obsessed with sports. Too many other interesting things for us to do.
We have always been treated graciously....
... when visiting NYC. People have always been kind about giving directions.
You lot are plenty obsessed
You lot are plenty obsessed with sports. There's plenty of interesting things for you to do, except when you want to ski, go to the beach, or go to college. Then you all seem to come to New England.
From Penn Station, a 46
From Penn Station, a 46 minute train ride plus a 10 minute walk gets you here: https://newyorkguest.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/longbeach.jpg . And the water is warm enough to swim in all day.
Beaches that nice don't exist in this area, and the beaches that do exist are much farther and less transit-accessible.
That lady sucks at life...
And she should be ashamed of herself.
Yankees Fans Go Home
You know, that's just a mean sign. Keep your low life opinions to yourself. I am a die hard Sox fan and I always want them to win. But, I also respect the Yankees. Let's display a little sportsmanship and common decency people. This is Boston and we have good manners.
As for the lady who gave the wrong directions, well... I might have smiled at that.
I've done that to a bunch of
I've done that to a bunch of New Yorkers before. In Allston while I was waiting for the bus I overheard a guy telling his group of friends how people in Boston talk, like Kevin Costner of course, but much worse. So they came up to me trying to speak with a Boston accent (making sure to use Harvard, park, and car in their speech) and asked how to get to Fenway. I told them to get on the 66 and ride it to the end, the Dudley end.
Wrong directions?
I wouldn't give them wrong directions...but I might give them *long* directions.