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“It Was Excruciatingly Embarrassing”: 54 People Recall Their Weird And Funny Encounters With American Tourists
People often say that traveling and exploring new cultures is a sure-shot way to enrich our mundane lives. After all, every corner of the world is vastly different. And I believe that it is this very difference that makes traveling such an adventurous and eye-opening experience.
But that is subjective for every traveler. Unfortunately, some folks blatantly disregard the tourism etiquette and end up aggravating the locals. Sometimes, though, their shenanigans are so bizarre that all anyone can do is laugh.
Not to generalize or anything, but tourists from the US are notoriously famous for pulling off something totally wild and unexpected. And non-Americans have a lot to say about them. We have compiled a list of locals sharing hilarious, weird, and even shocking stories of American tourists just being themselves. Scroll down and see for yourself!
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#1
When i visited mount Vesuvius, first of all there was an American on the tour with me that was pretty pissed she had to walk uphill! You know, to get to the top of a mountain.
When we got to the top there were a bunch of Americans who had BOUGHT A 10ft FLAPOLE AND FLAG with them. They pitched it in the rim and all chest bumped and shouted and whooped and high fived each other. It was excruciatingly embarrassing.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 46 minutes ago
Bless them, they have only just discovered the mountain. Under the laws of Flag, it is now a US territory.
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#2
A guy from Atlanta had never heard of England, when I told him where I was from he thought I meant New England.
The US ranks 3rd as the most visited country in the world by tourists, but its outbound flights are also plentiful. According to Pew Research, roughly three-quarters of Americans (76%) have visited at least one other country, including 26% who have been to five or more. About a quarter (23%) have not traveled internationally, though most in this group say they would if they had the opportunity.
But there’s no denying the fact that stereotypes follow them everywhere they go. Locals believe that they can easily spot an American tourist abroad, and you can understand why from an old list we had made.
#4
A Scottish friend of mine who worked up in the Highlands managed to persuade a group of American tourists that the Haggis was an actual animal and took them on a hunt to find one. He just kept pointing in random directions when they weren't looking and told them he'd just seen one, and they'd all go rushing over to look. It lasted most of the day and they all went away convinced it was true.
#5
Pointing to the Sydney Opera House, during the 2000 Olympics: "That's a fancy building! Did they build it specially for the Olympics?"
#6
Climbing into the beds in Auschwitz to “try them out.”
I wish I were joking.
In all honesty, these generalizations are actually pretty unfair, as not every American tourist is the same. Personally, even I have met many of them during my travels, and not all of them were “too noisy” or “filled with wonder,” as many locals believe.
Sadly, though, the prejudice against them runs so deep that there’s even a term for them called the “Ugly Tourist.” It comes from a book intended to expose America’s failing foreign policies towards Southeast Asian countries.
Since then, however, the term has come to refer to Americans who travel or live abroad and are insensitive to the culture of the country they are in. They view everything through the lens of American values and standards. But it doesn’t really do justice to every US citizen who travels abroad.
#7
Oh I've met plenty stupids but here's a heart-warming one.
I met an American guy in Laos and he had just learned that 'knickers' meant underwear but didn't realise it meant female underwear so he announced to a room full of people that before we all went out he was just going to go and put some knickers on.
#8
When I was a student in a small university town, I was walking along the High Street. An American tourist stopped me and said "excuse me, miss, do you know how I can get to [a certain hotel]?" I explained it as best I could and the man said "thank you so much, and this is for you" and before I knew what was happening, he had pressed something into my hand and gone away. I looked and it was a £2 coin. He'd tipped me. For reference, I was an adult, and I was just a passer-by, not an employee of any kind... I still don't know if he thought I was a child, if he thought we were all starving third-world street urchins, or if he thought the whole UK was a theme park staffed by people in ordinary clothes.
#9
Saw a bunch of Americans get on the Eurostar - the train that goes from London to Paris under the Channel. They didn't realise that they had assigned seating and got kicked off the table they'd co-opted. OK, not the biggest faux pas in the world.
But then, one of them started whining about how they *really* wanted a window seat "so they could see all the fishes."
American travel writer Rick Steves states, “Europe sees two kinds of American travelers: Those who view Europe through air-conditioned bus windows, socializing with their noisy American friends, and those who are taking a vacation from the US, immersing themselves in different cultures, experiencing different people and lifestyles, and broadening their perspectives.”
However, if you really think about it, this theory can apply to tourists from all over the world, yet US citizens bear the brunt. But in all honesty, there have been some pretty wild instances in history that have actually sparked these rumors about Americans.
#10
I was sat on a beach pretty much by myself.
This American guy steps into the middle of the beach, looks around for 30 seconds then says really loud but to himself,
"There's too much sand on this beach!"
He then walked back to the car.
#11
I met two marines on holiday and they asked if Scotland was near London, and if I'd met the queen. They also were shocked that the word biscuits meant something different in England and announced that I was wrong because they were speaking English.
#12
I was waiting for the train to Novi sad from Budapest. I saw an older American couple looking confused, trying to ask random workers where the train to Bratislava was. Now, they were right under a huge board that said "Bratislava - platform 3" but you know how it is, sometimes you just miss stuff like that (I know I do that sort of thing). I walked up to them and showed them the sign and pointed them in the direction of platform 3. The lady said "Your English is so good! Where are you from?"
"England."
They both laughed and she said "well, that explains it!"
Not a case of American tourists being daft, but they were nice people and its good to share a positive story.
When I was young, we were on a family holiday in Scotland and we were queuing up at a wee cafe to get an ice cream. The lady in front introduced herself to us and told us she was from New York and how much she was enjoying England!
Bloke behind the counter looked really unimpressed.
One thing that holds true for these travelers is that they stand out for their views and knowledge of foreign affairs compared to the rest of Americans. Experts believe that apart from their views, people can also start to act and sound like someone else after a trip.
Dr Charlotte Russell, a clinical psychologist and the founder of The Travel Psychologist, offers a very interesting perspective on why this happens.
She believes that the most obvious motivation for why some people incorporate foreign customs or speech is that someone has really connected with a part of their experience in a particular place and wants to hold onto their experiences and their sense of connection.
#13
I went to the Edinburgh Fringe the year after graduating from uni, where I'd been fairly well-known by other students for silly student politics reasons, and did something which ended up briefly becoming a bit of an inside joke among students. My former uni's comedy society were doing a revue, so I figured I'd go along and see it - it had an audience of maybe 25 people.
One of the performers did quite a lot of audience participation, and he picked on
a pair of women a few seats along from me - they were a mother and daughter from Louisiana. It was their first day in Scotland (although they thought they were in England), and they had never heard of the Fringe before, and were completely baffled by what was going on and had ended up wandering into this random uni revue, where most of the audience were in some way connected to the uni.
Another performer went up, and picked me as his mark, and we were chatting away when one of the other performers blurted out something like "Wait, aren't you /u/Irmuhlay? The girl who did X?", so I told her that I was and the guy on stage said something sarcastic along the lines of "We've got royalty in the audience tonight!"
The American women kept whispering to each other and looking at me for the rest of the show, and at the end of the show, they came up to me, bubbling with excitement about how they "couldn't believe they met a real-life princess on their first day in England". I tried to correct them and it didn't seem to go through, so eventually agreed to give them an autograph.
#14
American: “So where are you from?”
Me: “York”
American: “You don’t sound like you’re from New York, have you lived in the UK a long time?”
Me: “Just York, not New York. It’s the place in England that New York was named after.”
American: “That’s interesting! I’ve never heard of there! * pulls out London Underground map * Can you show me which station it’s nearest to?”
He did seem genuinely interested and was friendly, he was just a bit clueless about the UK in general.
#15
So, I was in a cafe in Dublin when an American woman was telling another lady (extremely loudly!) about her further plans to see Europe.
She was in Dublin for the MORNING only. Then she was flying to Paris, and then London, and then back home. I know it’s not major or especially funny but it really confused me as to how she thought this constituted as seeing all of the massively diverse entire continent of Europe. How the heck you can say you’ve seen Ireland when you popped to the capital for half a day?
From what i have read this is quite common because obviously The US is huge so Americans assume Europe is one place too. Like i’ve seen three parts of ‘one place’ so like...i guess that’s done?
The difference in culture, food, history is vast just between cities in one country in Europe (eg Madrid vs Seville, or Biarritz vs Paris, or Leeds vs brimingham) let alone all the way from iceland to Greece. I once had an Italian mad at me because I ate fruitti de mari in Como rather than Naples because como is not for fruitti di mari, Naples is. You gotta treat them as entirely different countries because...they are.
Also Paris is filthy and pretty [bad] if you don’t know where you’re going so she probably had a terrible view of ‘Europe’. So yeah that’s something that i think Americans are known for, viewing Europe as one place. Europe is not even remotely one place.
Moreover, there are numerous benefits to tourists who travel with an open mind to truly explore a place’s culture. Psychiatrist Karen Ann Cooper explains, “Our brains are like muscles, and we can give them a workout by breaking out of our comfort zones.” And isn’t that exactly what travel does?
One study even found that people who see more changes in scenery day-to-day tend to be happier than those who don’t. It could be beneficial for Americans to really immerse themselves in other cultures while traveling. After all, in the 2025 World Happiness Report, the US slipped to #24, its lowest ranking ever in the report’s 13-year history.
#16
The first thing to say is that nearly everyone exemplifies the worst of their countries when on holiday. It’s a mix of anonymity and diffusion of responsibility.
Secondly... oh my god, I have so many!!! I’m British but live and work in a very popular German tourist town. There is the usual. Highschool/college jocks come rampaging into the bar screaming, “SMELLS LIKE FREEDOM IN HERE!!” And very sweet but well meaning Americans telling me, a British bartender, that IPAs are “coming to Europe soon” because they hadn’t conceived of the idea of something originating *outside* of the US.
But my favourite had to be this exchange:
——————————-
*I am sat outside of a cafe with a friend, it’s a market square lined with bars and cafes. We have coffees in our hands. An older gentleman approaches us. We are loudly speaking English.*
Gentleman: Do you people speak English?
*my friend and I look at each other*
Us: Yes.
Gentleman: *over enunciated* Do you know anywhere in this city where I can get a coffee?
*my friend and I look at our coffees and then the surrounding cafes*
Me: Anywhere here is good, you’ll find a lot of options.
*pause*
Gentleman: Right and do I have to pay with them euros or can I use real money?
*long pause and a lot of tongue-biting*
My friend: Euros, I’m afraid.
Gentleman: Do you know what credit cards are?
Me: Yes, but most prefer cash payments.
Gentleman: Never mind then.
Friend: We can help you, if you’d like.
Gentleman: Oh no, I’ve seen this! You’re not getting your hands on my money. I know a scam when I see it.
*begins backing off* I know how much a dollar is worth here, I’m not letting you use my money to buy a house.
Friend: A dollar is worth less than a Euro but okay.
*gentleman scuttles away probably excited to tell some over embellished story about how he narrowly avoided getting scammed by European thugs*
I’ve had worse but this was the most brain numbing one I can think of.
#17
An American couple were walking through my hometown with their 2 or 3 year old toddler. The toddler got too close to my dog and the dog growled at him, and he said to the dog in a really OTT southern American accent, "No! This is not your territory. This is everybody's territory."
Honestly can't imagine a British toddler saying something like that.
#18
I was once stuck behind an American tourist in a clothes shop. He was trying to pay with travellers cheques and the shop assistant was patiently explaining for the tenth time that yes, the shop accepted travellers cheques, but not ones in dollars, only ones in pounds because in the UK it is necesary to use UK currency.
Surprisingly, though, Americans have a much harsher view of themselves as tourists, as opposed to the local residents of other countries. “Europeans in general, and all the European businesses that I’ve made contact with during my years in the industry, say they’re always welcoming to Americans,” Justin Albertynas, a travel industry expert based in Lithuania, told CNN.
“Especially when they are from New York or LA, everybody is kind of putting them on a pedestal. So, actually, on the contrary to the ugly American fad, everybody loves Americans,” he adds.
#19
Sort of fun story. American here. The first day we landed and made it to London we stopped at a random pub for drinks.
Hadn’t had the currency long enough to know easily what to pay with, so when we ordered (from the bartender who looked very much like a football hooligan) I just sort of held my palm open with all the coins on it and looked at him like, “Please help me?” He laughed and grabbed the coins he needed out of my hand and that was it.
We learned after that but it was a funny/sweet exchange.
#20
Generally I find Asking if they can drive to like Glasgow then Cardiff then London then York and see everything all in one day funny.
Some personal run ins
One girl kept asking how long the train is to “Glass cow” from Carlisle and literally the woman behind the counter was like I have no idea what you mean.
One gave me money in a shop once like I was the perfume counter girl and he asked where something was and i told him. He gave me a fiver and I thought maybe he was “paying” and was like “Can I scan the item?” but he’d already walked off. We didn’t accept tips so I was every confused. I had to get my manager to go after him and give him his many back. I know the like tipping in the US but I wasn’t expecting it as a perfume counter girl at the time.
One did keep asking people in Liverpool were they were from and when they said “Im from here” they would get really confused.
One I met when i was a barmaid bought me a shot. He asked how old I was (like 19-20 at the time) and he asked was I not underage and had he just bought my first ever shot and was genuinely worried he’d get in trouble and i was like “no mate, it’s 18 legally, although hardly anyone waits to then, you’re fine, thanks for he drink”
When i was in America, one of them told my Irish dad that he was Irish too and that his great great great great grandfather left in 1654 or something really specific and asked if my dad could tell he was Irish.
#21
Oh the list is so long that I would be here till the end of the year.
Here are a few
Do you speak English over here?
London is a great country
Why did they build Windsor Castle near the airport.
They have electricity over here (yes I really heard this)
The amount of ignorance I've heard over the years has been astonishing.
Despite what locals might believe, reports show that Americans are nervous about traveling abroad. They are afraid of being judged overseas, and 80% blame recent politics, such as the tariffs, for skewing what Europeans think of the U.S. However, only 27% of people hold a negative opinion of Americans, viewing them as loud and arrogant.
#22
On honeymoon in Iceland, we mostly did our own thing but one day we went on a guided tour, there were 4 Americans in our group and when we got the the gentle caving in the lava tubes 3 of them started to exclaim that they couldn't breath... Right at the cave entrance and that somehow there was much less oxygen. The tour guides looked a little confused but told them they could wait in the minivan until we had finished. Turns out 2 of them were an old couple who had booked loads of active type stuff and couldn't do any of it, the woman had only had a hip operation a few months before and they had booked glacial hiking amongst other things. Later In the mini bus the husband of the woman wouldn't shut up about America and how expensive Iceland was. Really started to Irk me, just do some research next time jeez.
#23
I witnessed one American lady who wouldn’t buy an Irish Aran sweater because her husband was convinced that they came from Iran.
#24
I once worked behind the bar of a comedy club in Manchester, and convinced some American tourists that a line on the floor was the border between Manchester and Liverpool. They spent about half a minute jumping from one side of the line to the other, shouting "Manchester!" "Liverpool!" "Manchester!".
To get a kind of extraordinary travel experience, Rick Steves says there’s a cure for battling the ugly tourist stereotype. He advises Americans to change their attitudes, become a temporary local, and turn into a cultural chameleon.
“Find ways to really be in the place you came to see. If you can think positively, travel smartly, adapt well, and connect with the culture, you'll banish the ugly and have a truly beautiful trip,” he suggests.
#25
My funniest experience is actually an experience of me as a tourist. I was in New York with some friends on a college trip and we'd stopped off at Foot Locker outside the Empire State Building and this guy in there was so funny. We asked him where something was and afterwards said "ah cheers mate" and he was like "Cheers? What y'all mean cheers? You want me to start cheerleading or something?" and then proceeded to prance around the top floor of this shop. Then he said "God why'd they keep the black guy upstairs, it's freaking hot up here and they got the black guy here! I'm sweating like... Well a black guy in America I guess!" top quality from him and had us laughing for the rest of the day.
#26
I live in a picturesque town on an old street with lots of cute houses. One of my favourite exchanges with an American tourist happened on the road outside our house - they asked where they could find the 'gift shop' to buy postcards of our houses/the houses on our road.
#27
I remember being told by a friend about her trip to Disney Land (or is it world?) in Florida. They were in a queue and the tanoy announced something in Spanish. A teenage American girl in front of them said "they should speak American!" at which point my friend's dad corrects her and tells her there's no such language as American and she speaks a version of English. She looked very confused apparently..
There were so many problems with what she said: 1) There's a large Spanish speaking population in Florida so of course a private company that wants their money as much as everyone else's is going to have things in Spanish 2) Tourist destinations almost always have things in a range of languages to cater for foreign tourists 3) America doesn't actually have an official language so English is no more valid than Spanish.
Well, dear Pandas, that’s it from our end, as we leave you to go through the rest of the list. To our American readers, what do you think about these stereotypes that follow you globally? And for our non-American readers, what instances involving US tourists have stood out to you? We would like to hear from you, so feel free to drop us a line in the comments!
#28
My absolute favourite is when an american group was in london for the nfl games they host here, and stopped me at kings cross to ask the following question: "hey can we walk to wembley stadium from here?".
#29
Two of my favourites:
First one,
I was walking up at Loch Lomond when I heard an American exclaim "Boy, this orange juice is strong!" To my horror and amusement the poor guy was drink orange squash without diluting it. Got to explain that one and probably saved the guy a sore stomach.
Second one,
I was showing a American friend around Munich and she sneezed so someone said "gesundheit" and she turns to me excitedly and says "they say that here too?" Nearly spat my beer out.
#30
A friend from Glasgow told me about a taxi driver friend of his who'd picked a up a fairly drunk American oil executive in Glasgow town centre one night who'd demanded.. *'Take me to see Loch Lomond'*.
...Since it was dark and cold -the taxi driver thought '*No way am I driving 35 miles (or whatever) to sit in the dark by Loch Lomond, the guy won't see anything'*.
...So instead he drove the American out to the edge of Glasgow for a while, then doubled back and parked overlooking a large pond in a park, which was lit up by nearby sodium streetlights. *'There ye go!"* said the Glaswegian taxi driver, '...*There's bonnie Loch Lomond'.*
*"Darn most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life!"* said the inebriated American!
#31
One that sticks out is a guy we met at an airport once. He was from New York, and was very interested in the fact that we were British. When I mentioned I was welsh, he asked me whereabouts in London Wales is. He also asked us if we knew the queen, and told us he’d love to visit ‘Stone Hedge’. He also expressed surprise that we had nice teeth, which was apparently meant to be a compliment.
#32
The amount of Ignorance i've seen from American tourists is breathtaking.
I've seen.
Americans think London is full of Australians due to lots of cockney accents lol.
Surprised to find out we do have electrictity over here. (yes hahaha)
that we don't all live in castles.
they only recognise people with posh accents as English/British lol
and we have cars.
yes I have really heard stuff like this.
#33
I was in Amsterdam a few years back for the run up to New Year and it was packed solid full of all people from all over the world. Including a lot of Americans.
You could tell they were American because they would be in big groups, all wearing one of those Paddy's Day type hats but for "I love Amsterdam" and they would chant "USA USA" over and over at 1am, drunk and with a bag of chips each from a street vendor.
It made me laugh more than anything because they reminded me of when Joey from Friends goes to London and buys the same style hat and thinks its the business.
#34
I work at a supermarket: “I have to PAY for a shopping cart?!”. Turns out Americans don’t have to put a token/pound in the trolley to unlock it.
#35
2 arguing whether it was London Bridge or Westminster bridge.
It was Tower bridge as stated on a sign next to them they hadn’t noticed.
#36
Two completely perplexed women staring through a shop window like it was a museum. “It seems to be some form of food-stuffs store!” One said to the other.
I looked up... it was a supermarket. An ordinary everyday supermarket. I still wonder where they thought we bought food from.
#37
When I first moved to Glasgow, on my first time on the underground, I heard one American ask another which stop they were getting off at. They responded, "the last one, its going to be a long ride". Glasgow has a circle line, they just had to go one stop in the other direction.....
#38
I work in retail, an American came in wanting to buy something and then attach it to his membership, I couldn't find him for a while but then realise that his name was spelt wrong. I was just like "oh the other store missed the E off the end of your name, but I've added it now, sorted" and he jokingly shouted "I'M SUING".
All my managers peered around the corner looking terrified lol. It's not really a thing joked about over here I guess.
#39
Start chatting and get the usual where are you from. As soon as I say I'm from Wales they almost always make some claim to being Irish, Scottish or Welsh (no matter how distantly).
#40
Had an American customer ask me for a large coke, which is about 44oz, and they were surprised about how small it was compared to their large.
#41
I saw a guy Shout manically at the top of his voice‘Jesus Christ is an American’ over and over. when he was losing an argument about how the world needs America in an Irish bar. He was removed. Or; in the Rembrandt museum, Amsterdam, another tourist shouting manically’ this wasn’t pained by Rembrandt & it isn’t a self portrait’ whilst pointing at a self portrait by Rembrandt. Or, yet another, vomiting down themselves mid sentence in Florence whilst thanking the Afro Americans for their contributions to the English language after drinking ‘strong’ European beer. Or, young American marines trying to impress a group of German female students in Hamburg by ‘introducing’ them to Jaegermeister. (Which, in case you don’t know, originated in Germany and is seen as a bit of an old person’s drink).
#42
The US Flag on every part of equipment.
And the entitlement that everything should serve their entertainment. "No, we can not open the 1300 year old grave for you to look".
#43
I recall sitting in a café near an American airbase. You would recognise the sneakers, the always a little to casual style, and the noise.
Most memorable quote: "Oh look honey, they have their own money." when referring to paying in EUR instead of USD.
#44
They are loud. Even when you're speaking to them privately.
They are always soooo surprised by everything and assume they are the first to figure this out. "It tastes so different than at home!". "Wow. You drive stick?!?! Icredible!" "Did you know you have building over 500 yrs old in your town". Yes. I live here. I know.
But in general they are very friendly and nice people!
#45
I took a relative from the USA around London just before the 2012 Olympics and she insisted in taking a selfie with every police officer we saw. There was a one every about 25m down one stretch, it took about five pairs of officers before they told her to move along and stop bothering them at which point she got very upset about how rude everyone is here.
#46
I live in an area of England with lots of steep, narrow, winding roads. One day as a family we were out for a drive and came across a traffic jam up a particularly steep and tightly bending road, and at the top, stuck in the road, was an American holiday-maker in a hired car with a manual gearbox completely unable to drive any further up the hill as she had come to a stop and couldn't work out how to pull away again, having had little experience with a manual gearbox before. In the end the situation became so bad several people got out to try and direct traffic while my dad got in her car and drove it up the hill and around the bend so she could get on her way. It was absurd and I felt a bit sorry for her but she was so annoying, I can still hear her whining "you gotta back up, man, you gotta back up man!" to the car behind her because she kept having wheelspin and sliding backwards.
#47
On holiday in Iceland, and queuing up at a gift shop / food counter thing. American tourist, who dressed like it as well with the baseball cap, team shirt and massive digital camera, gets to the front of the queue.
He points at something on a shelf at the back, a stuffed toy or something, and asks “how much is that?”. The lady behind the counter replies that it's just decoration and not for sale.
“Right, but how much is it?” he asks again. And gets the same answer. This conversation is repeated another couple of times as the tourist can't comprehend that its not for sale.
Eventually one of our group pipes up. She's a New Yorker, and used her best New York loud voice.
“For gods sake. She's told you in English it's not for sale, what are you not understanding? Now get out of the way, you're giving us all a bad name”. And tourist guy did just that, he scuttled out of the shop and went on his way.
#48
A couple of perfectly pleasant American tourists asked me once how to get to Oxford. We were near Piccadilly Circus.
So I explained how to get the Bakerloo line to Paddington, then a main line train to Oxford, but they'd need to buy a separate train ticket. I walked to the station with them.
They started looking a bit overwhelmed, and eventually one said "How long will that take?"
"The train is a about an hour."
"They said in the hotel it was only a quarter hour walk!"
At which point I realised they meant Oxford Street...
In Cambridge I had some very rude Americans ask where the cathedral was, usually while standing right in front of Kings College Chapel. I only told one lot how to get a train to Ely (nearest actual cathedral).
In Florence an old guy was selling paintings, I wanted to buy one. I managed to say hello and how much in Italian, but struggled with the numbers. He said 30 Euros in English, and I couldn't afford it. Started haggling and making polite.comments about the paintings, and got down to 12 Euros. I said "why didn't you say that in the first place?"
At which point two stereotype Americans in sweatpants from a cruise ship barge in and bark "How much?"
Thirty Euros, Madame.
You waat? How much in real money?
Is eighty dollars, lady. (nearly 3x the euro price) Two for one hundred and fifty.
They take two pictures, throw $150 at him, and walk off.
Guy says to me, "That is why. For you, five Euros. Enjoy!".
#49
Was on a couch tour of the Alps. Bus stops at the point where Italy, Slovenia and Austria meet. Awesome scenery, memorial to the partisans. American gentlman says, 'I shan't bother getting off, we've got bigger mountains than that at home'.
#50
Once when I was flying home to London and in Heathrow an older American woman asked me where to find the taxi rank. I can't remember exactly how we got to this point, but she let me know she intended to use dollars. I explained that we use pounds and she could change her dollars to pounds at the bureau de change opposite.
"Green's green, honey".
#51
I was in Cornwall for a few days and we’d gone out for lunch in a cafe/bar. A group of Americans were at the table next to us, they were lovely, seemed so excited about their trip. One of their group had been to the bar and came back with their drinks. He proudly announces, ‘I got us all a pint of the best British cider. It’s called Strongbow, the brits drink nothing else.’
#52
Glasgow airport, American tourist: “How to get to Edinboro? “ Airport information desk helper, “I’m sorry, where do you wish to go?”.
#53
I work in a pub, an American once ordered an ale. His face when I explained to him that the beer was SUPPOSED to be flat and room temperature was hilarious.
#54
I was in Lisbon with my gf watching sporting Lisbon (football team) play a game. Inside the stadium it is a dry place that doesn’t sell alcohol.
However once inside I spotted a bar selling the local beer. There were a group of Americans stood around next to the bar in a group each holding two glasses of beer each.
We asked them whether the beer had alcohol in them as I thought no alcohol was sold inside the stadium. They replied enthusiastically yes. The bar was just behind them, so in front of them I asked the bar man whether the beer had alcohol in them. He said no they did not.
We had to stifle our laughter at watching the Americans groups faces as they realised they had bought quite a lot of non-alcoholic beers.
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