Apparently that's one way to say goodbye in Dutch. So today was my last day in Amsterdam as I leave early tomorrow morning for Berlin. I also need to make a correction to something I said in an earlier post. The girls in the windows are sectioned into specialties (like the supermarket). So when I said they were all unattractive and couldn't give it away for free in America, apparently I was in the "heavy set black/hispanic" girl section. I needed to go over to aisle 6 for the pretty white girls. My bad and I apologize whole heartedly to the working girls of Amsterdam - some of you are very pretty hookers.
Today was sort of gray and dreary, so I finished doing the museums I didn't have time for yesterday. After that I just sort of hung out at a cafe and had a coffee or two with these little biscuit cookies they give you.
Overall, at this point in the trip this is waht I've learned. I freakin' hate tourists. Doesn't matter if they're American or British or Pakistani - black, brown, red, green or white - I hate them all. Now that's not really a surprise since I generally loathe other people but when you become a tourist you immedately think that the whole universe revolves solely around you. Now that can't be true since it's scientific fact that the whole universe revolves around me - it's been proven again and again. So I know these people are wrong.
So don't listen to any of those stories about beastly Americans in Europe. Every tourist in Europe is beastly. They stop right in front of you while walking, the congregate on the sidewalk like they own it, they bump and push and have a complete disregard for the poeple or things around them. To combat this (and because it's fun), I've started "accidentally" walking into people when they stop in front of me. Now, I try to reserve this only for the worst offenders (and especially for repeat offenders). It's pretty effective.
The Dutch poeple, however, are very nice. In cafe's and bars they've been very friendly and everyone speaks English - so that hasn't been a problem.
I've also learned that my parent's brought me up right. I watch these kids in the hostels and all I want to do is give them a smack in the head. They're rather rude and uninterested in anything that doesn't involve liquor and/or drugs. I asked some of them how they liked the museums or the architecture and all I got were blank stares (since they get up at 3 PM everyday they haven't seen much). Seriously, I'm beginning to worry about the future of humankind. I want'everyone with kids to go give your kid a smack in the ass when you're done reading this - it's good for them.
Well that's it for me. I'll be travelling most of tomorrow so probably no blogging or emailing for me. I'm still working on getting the pictures uploaded.
2 comments:
I thought of you today.
First a cab driver took me for a scenic tour of DC on the way to the natural history museum. Then I had to deal with the tourists and hate to admit it but now agree with you 100%.
I really do hate all tourists.
There were three attendants in the metro station (because I decided not to take another chance on a taxi) yelling over and over again "Stand to the Right; Left side for walking; Stand to the Right."
And sure enough, I get to the escalators and these morons are all just standing in a big fat clump on the escalators.... impossible to shove them all aside to climb up the left without causing bodily harm to myself.
Aaaarrrgh!
I hope you encounter less tourists in Germany! And have a safe bus trip there. Can't wait to hear about this bus service.
On another note -- isn't the coffee in Amsterdam THE BEST????? And those little cookie biscuit things are DELISH!
(sigh)
Of course you're the center of the universe, objects tend to revolve around the object with the greatest mass!!!
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