Tour guides, what are your tourists horror stories?
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Ted and Bill are icons also glad that the child who was actually behaving wasn't kicked out along with the misbehaving brother.
It was an excellent adventure
I love how Bill was like "When he's at the top, that's when I get my turn."
Yea
Yes 😂😂😂
The penguins ones make me sad
Kid tried to throw a rock from the top of the lighthhouse I worked at. We were not surrounded by water. We had a walkway and what remained of the gardens. He was trying to aim this very large rock that he apparently took from home at the other tourists below. I body blocked him and sent him back to his father as he screamed that he paid admission. His father picked him up sideways. Last I saw was the father dragging him back down the lighthouse. That was the worst. I felt bad for his father, I really did.
The most common were the "morons". They always wore American flags and when I talked about the history of the area, like the importance of the nearby river during WW2, they'd immediately go, and this was more than one occasion... "YOU MEAN THE [slur] WERE ATTACKING US HERE, TOO?!" No. No sir. German U-Boats. In fact, if you were looking at some of our fun local history, we have a picture of one. And you can "continue" our historical tour to further this history. They would get very angry that I would remind them that there were two separate theaters of war and this is the East Coast.
My job was just to sit up there and answer your questions about everything. How many stairs, how tall it was, what was a lightkeeper's duty, who runs the lighthouse now, etc. I also had to make sure nobody tried to do anything... For the most part, the job was amazing. I had mostly amazing days that were either quiet or were filled with great questions and people who wanted to learn.
But those are more horror than the potential ghost sighting we had. The ghost was annoying.
UҺ ok that is a storү
Don’t be surprised at the lack of knowledge about history most Americans have. Their education system isn’t the best when it comes to world history.
You can’t just say that last part and not tell us about the ghost😭
I have seizures. Taking a video to give to a neurologist can be very helpful for diagnosis and treatment since there are over 40 types of seizures. I totally understand how it seems extremely heartless to stand back and take a video but it really can be very helpful.
I had similar thoughts. I had issues with epilepsy and narcolepsy when I was younger. Videos of the events would have been nice.
Video evidence is nice for a lot of things.
this is really good to know, I was aware there are a lot of different ways seizures can happen but never thought of recording them being a good idea and helpful. If you don't mind how does yours happen? Just curious to hear more of the different types, recently found out on Reddit that to some it happens in a way that looks like just freezing in place and spacing out, for example.
@@Dragoninja26 I have cluster absence seizures, where I stop responding and rapidly blink and it happens for short burts of time. I look rather stunned really and then I'm confused afterwards. I don't know they happen and I have no warning. I also have tonic clonic seizures, also known as grand mal seizures. It's kind of what people think of when they hear seizure. My entire body tenses up and convulses.
For anyone reading and doesn't know what to do: if someone starts to have a seizure you should, if possible, lay them on their side so they do not asperate on spit or vomit, try to keep them from hitting anything that will hurt them, time it, film it if you can, and never hesitate to call emergency services.
Oh, also- never Ever put something in their mouth- you'll just get bit and whatever you put in there will shatter their teeth. Waking up from a seizure hurts enough- don't add shattered teeth to that.
and to time them! My best friend has seizures too :)
Wow, thank you for the explanation. People don’t know what they don’t know, especially about medical conditions you don’t have. But that’s good info to have, just in case.
Not teaching kids how to swim is literally the stupidest thing. Like. It’s an important skill.
I’m a competitive swimmer and completely agree.
At this point, it’s a choice.
The first lady however, let the Darwin awards happen.
I was never able to learn how to swim. When I was little I was sitting in an inflatable pool doughnut when my sister swam under me when I floated to the deep end and flipped me out of it. I nearly drowned when my head hit the bottom, and if not for my mom who was a trained rescue diver and acted immediately I might have died. Since then my instinctual reaction to water going over my head and high up my neck has basically been semi controlled panic. Swimming is important, but some people have reasons why they can't. Then again I'd never personally be stupid enough to do what the rafting lady did, but I do still enjoy some outdoor water activities within safe reasons. If I was wearing the right type of life jacket honestly I probably would also hop in the river, but I WOULD NOT just let myself face plant and do nothing like some brain dead doughnut. Anyway sorry for the rant, I just wanted to add a non swimmers point of view. Particularly since, despite my inability, I also enjoy many water based outdoor activities like the white water rafting lady.
In the netherlands pretty much everybody learns to swim from the age of five or so. I'm always kind of surprised when people don't know how to do it. It's like not being able to read here.
@@gloriascientiae7435 Well it's Netherlands, country that literally beat ocean
I believe the reason some tourist are very entitled is mostly money. Like "I paid this and this much for my vacation at this place, so your rules and guidelines don't apply to me". They are probably like that back home too, but then it's the excuse "I live around here so that gives me the right to break any local customs or laws as I see fit".
Didn't know you were Chinese! I understand your hesitation on the accent, some people are easily offended and make assumptions by how a person looks or sounds like. Heck, people were complaining about a white guy playing Pharaoh Ahkmenrah in night at the museum. He was Rami Said Malek, an Egyptian. Long story short, people can be stupid.
Pretty much, if you don't look like the "stereotype" of your race people assume you're just "not" of that race.
Like I know plenty of White Mexicans, but they don't get called Hispanic by some people for being "white passing" it's so stupid.
@@BrightWulph you sound delusional asf- that has nothing to do with this at all, his face is never shown in these videos 😂😂
People are getting so sensitive, soon I won't be able to make fun of *myself.*
I think I unconsciously assumed he was just the thing in the profile pic and a voice. I didn’t think about it because he just sounds “normal” to me, at least American.
@@valenciageode25 he's Canadian.
I felt weird about the accent as well but never knew you were Chinese. But i also understand how/why doing an "impression" of your own people can still be offensive to some depending on the audience.
14:50 (the story abt a dude having a seizure)… I KIND of understand the motive for taking a video. For people having seizures, we never know if it’s their first one ever nor if it’s outside of the norm, and it can be really hard to verify to healthcare providers that it even happened, especially since the only surefire way to detect them once they are done is MRI’s (and even then, that’s not foolproof). Being able to have literal evidence of experiencing a seizure can considerably streamline the process of checking in on that to make sure you’re doing alright, and give a neurologist a better scope of what the specific individual is dealing with. I understand the “whoa” of it though 😅
The brewery story, he could of just ruined an entire batch of beer.
I don't think he had a brain to get damaged to begin with! 😂
if i were the pregnant ranger in the penguin story i think i would have gone absolutely apeshit
Ted and Bill are the bestest big chonk bois.
Not a tour guide, but on a tour.
So, in 6th grade my school had a field trip to Space Camp. We were a local group so, me and a few others had been to the Spcae Center already. The other group that was staying with us was from Puerto Rico, if I'm remembering correctly.
While most of the girls were nice and had good English and were easy to talk to, the boys were something else.
They kept trying to flirt with me, all of the girls from my school, and a couple of the nice girls. They kept whispering compliments into the girls' ears while we were being given instructions and during the informative walk/ actual tour.
That made me want to go home early.
Not a tour guide, but a tourist. My step-mom, a family friend, and I were having a tour of the city of Pompeii, something I've wanted to do for years. We had been given these walkie-talkie things where the tour guide talked into a microphone and it was heard by the tourist group through these things via a single earbud. The tour guide was a nice woman and she made sure we had a good time, even asking before the tour if anyone needed the restroom. Anyway, we just finished going through a "frisky" building and were walking on a pathway that one wall had an ancient refresco (old wall painting basically) on it. It had one of those black queue dividers in front of it so people wouldn't get too close to it. We were walking towards the wall when the tour guide shouted, "DON'T TOUCH THE REFRESCO!" I was so startled by her voice blaring into my ear, I ripped the earbud from my ear. Turns out an older couple in front of us TOUCHED the refresco with their WHOLE, BARE HAND. The tour guide continued to "calmly" chew out the couple for touching it and they were defensive about it, but relented nonetheless. The tour went great afterwards and it was very fun.
man. imagine being so self-centered that your response to a tour guide gently nudging you to take your loud phone call out to the hallway is "oh, no, I'm fine, you're not bothering me"
I'm glad the old lady eventually spoke up but OP really dropped the ball. "please, sir, you're disturbing the other guests" is a perfectly polite way to insist on it
I’m a zipline guide. I have so many.
Best ones are:
- we have a small obstacle course for kid to play on while waiting. There is a large net roughly 7ft tall you can climb up. One day, I look over and see a woman BREASTFEEDING HER INFANT ON TOP OF THE NET????????
- adult man pissed off a platform on a tour standing directly next to a DIFFERENT FAMILY. He didn’t understand why I was upset.
- zipline has handles. If you don’t lean back, you’ll smack your forehead VERY hard on metal when we stop you. Despite being warned multiple times and hearing me yell LEAN BACK, multiple people have gotten injured this way. They all go “oh I didn’t know!” Bro what.
- we have a kiddy course. Basically it’s a ropes course with a zipline. The cables have a few metal brackets that stop you at specific intervals so you don’t smack into a pole if you fall while climbing. After they finish the course, the kids have to walk about 50ft to the end of the cables. If you run, your trolley will get stuck on a bracket. Cannot tell you how many children will SPRINT FULL SPEED to the end (despite me saying “don’t run!”) and the get caught. This will turn your trolley into a slingshot which will LAUNCH you full speed into a giant wooden pole. True instant karma.
Filming a seizure can actually be very helpful to identify a few things when analyzed by a doctor, like the length of it, the type of movement etc. not necessarily saying that his intentions were to help, cause that would have been very easy to state in the situation to clear any confusion, but it can be helpful if enough other people are around to do first aid and the recording is strictly only used for medical purposes,
9:23 That accent was actually quite accurate. It seems like you've heard that accent quite a bit.
16:02 I'm guessing possibly autism or extreme social anxiety, but kudos to the guide for handling it to the couple's liking apparently (as they tipped them) :)
The lady in Story 7 clearly doesn’t get how dumb the Kubrick conspiracy is. Kubrick was a perfectionist, if they hired him, he would only have been satisfied with filming on location. After more than 3 dozen takes.
And the fact that cloning technology wasn't a thing until the 90's and that clones need to spend years growing like any other baby.
😂😂😂😂
A woman came into the restaurant. She hears that one of the employees is pregnant. She asks, "How much pregnant are you?" I snickered at the spotless grammar. The employee returned with, "Fully." The woman says, "Oh, how wonderful." She ordered and left. People are fundamentally insane.
Brewery...we just say it like brew-ry cause it's easier than getting that other 'e' in there.
MoPop in Seattle. Some school group was touring while I was there. Some of the boys, maybe 12 years old tops, decided the way to behave in the horror exhibit was to run around yelling. All while the chaperones just stared at them. Until one of the boys started punching some hanging "body bags." Then a whopping one chaperone moved to stop the kid. I'm still annoyed about it.
ah man, i’m not a guide & i actually wasn’t present for most of the shenanigans but a prof on a class abroad was That Guy. some film & animation students at my old college got a chance to go to the baltic countries to learn about our fields, the film kids stayed in lithuania to help with a short film while us animation kids went up thru latvia & estonia visiting different studios. life changing, tbh. anyhow, the film prof was being… unbearable. got drunk while we were on layover at the warsaw airport, was quite inconsiderate to me during a dinner the next night, and luckily the groups split the next day, but i heard some stories from the film kids of him drinking a little too much, being obnoxious, controlling, and just overall a jerk, so badly that a gorgeous catholic church actually banned our group of people from the grounds because of him alone. he disrespected something i think, idk. i learned a while after the trip that he was apparently going thru a rough divorce but man that does not excuse behaving like a child when you’re in charge of a group of college students halfway across the world
To story 2 I can just say, props to Ted and Bill for being relatively kind to the kid even though he annoyed them on purpose. They could have killed him if they wanted, but they were probably used to having strangers around.
That one with the kid pulling out the computer tape killed me. I would've lost it...
OP@Story 8.. It was you who dropped the ball.. And the chinese tourist-lady saved you by doing your job; When you mentioned your workplace emphasizes politeness, It does not mean you bite your lip at any confrontation and stay hush-hush; Instead, you can just rely upon said rule to enforce said politeness/considerate behavior toward others, in order for you to do your job and for the people to get what they paid for.
*After thoughts:*
Had that Mr. Buttocks Phonehole happened to have been a Karen and cried for a manager, everyone else would've backed you up. But still, in any controversial point, where you had to have made a choise; If you've been doing your job well in the first place, no one would be rushing to use any of it against you.
Plus, in a firm where the end goal to get money; You could easily just argue which is more important, whether 24 peeps get what they paid for(and can also feel you have their backs), or if any "Mr.Hole To Sticc Ur Phone" does not think you're being mean.
Story 13: Well actually it can be helpful for the paramedics to see the seizure itself but ONLY if there is no known seizure prior and when the video gets deleted immediately after shown to the paramedics. Depending on what kind of seizure you have there are different diagnoses that can be taken into consideration. But still its best be filmed by someone who is close or related to the person.
Not defending that guy... but if communicated properly it can be helpful
The penguin story reminds me of when we went on a cruise to the Galapagos and some a-hole stepped into the VERY CLEARLY MARKED off sections of the beach where sea turtles laid their eggs. These sections had signs in several languages and images, so it was not hard to figure out what these marked off areas were. When the tour guide yelled at him, he walked down the slope THROUGH MORE OF THE MARKED OFF SECTION instead of just stepping back out. I don't think I saw him on any other island landings that didn't have docks.
Not really a horror story of tourists, but a time I remember fondly and also embarrassingly was back when I worked at a gallery for egyptian artefacts as a junior assistant. Our job was pretty much, greet visitors, hand them torches (flashlights for said Americans), and let them know they can ask any questions.
Well my manager asked me specifically as I studied more about the artefacts than any of the other's my age to personally show the American family around.
Now I will preface, this place is in Wales. Specifically South Wales which I still very much hope means that they understood me. But welsh accents can be strong compared to English ones. They were lovely and seemed interested as I portrayed the little activity board for showing how mummification worked, and how ancient games were played. Even a collection of actual artefacts you could touch as long as you used gloves so the oils from your hands didn't damage them.
And bless them, I hope they DID understand what I said, but I had this horrible suspicion since they left they listened to a whole tour guide they couldn't understand a word of because of my accent 😂
The guy filming the seizure may actually have been helpful. My mom filmed my dad while waiting for the ambulance when he had a stroke, and the doctors were able to glean a lot of information from things my mom hadn't even noticed.
Sometimes we just gotta let the Darwin awards happen.
History museum guide for a couple years, most of my stories are pretty mild.
- One guy who insisted on quizzing me about every exhibit. I like interested guests but he was clearly doing it for his superiority complex and it was extremely obnoxious
- Joyfully drunk man who had completely lost his filter. His sense of humour was very scatological. He wasn’t mean or anything, I just had no way of responding to his many, many jokes about bodily fluids. I don’t think he realized how awkward it was but I’m glad he had a nice time at least
- Showed a mother and child our church exhibit, the child- a young girl, maybe 4 or 5 years old- said “mommy what’s a church” and her mother looked so mad at me. She must have thought I was trying to convert her daughter, and I didn’t know how to correct her without starting more questions from her daughter, so I just nervously apologized and skipped that exhibit. I’m a pagan for the record, I just thought some of the religious artifacts we had were cool
- A couple who thought the museum was free to enter, and upon being corrected, started complaining about how boring the exhibits (that they could see from the front counter) looked and how it wasn’t worth it, this is such a ripoff, you’ll never get any business acting like this, etc. before leaving. They were visibly upper-middle class and could have paid for it, they were just entitled.
- Everyone who tried to touch the taxidermy lobster. Please don’t. He’s fragile.
The horror stories from my coworker who was there in 2008 are a bit more exciting:
- One of the tour guides ended up guiding a vaguely unsettling man and his very intoxicated friend. He could barely stand up and was leaning on non-drunk guy for balance. As they got to the second floor, she asked what the two guests were doing here. Non-drunk guy responds: “It’s his last day before he goes to prison, so we’re trying to have some fun.” He was entirely genuine. Their guide, who was younger and very out of her depth in this situation, ran to get the help of an older guide in the building, who carried on the rest of tour. No incidents, thankfully, but still stressful from what I heard.
- Children who, upon seeing a bed that was 150 years old in the replica bedroom, crossed the guardrail to fling themselves upon the mattress (no damage but!! still don’t do let your kids do this please!!!)
- The Arsenic Seagull. So, to keep it brief, the supervisor at the time was kind of the worst. Very hostile and pushy, thought the world of herself. She’s also suspected to have stolen a few artifacts but there isn’t enough evidence to get the police to raid her basement so they’re just sitting there, in her basement. That’s unrelated I’m just angry about it. Anyway she insisted that a certain artifact remained displayed and in reaching distance of the guests. That artifact was the Arsenic Seagull, which, as the name suggests, was a taxidermy seagull who contained a worrying amount of toxic chemicals, including arsenic. So, whenever a guest touched the Seagull, they were immediately told to run upstairs to the bathroom and wash their hands. This happened often. Supervisor refused to move the Seagull. Thankfully the Arsenic Seagull was in the storage facility by the time I started working there
Boa Noite galerinha do Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷❤🎉
"Deranged perpetual motion machine" 😂
It's recommended to time seizures. Since if it's longer than 5 minutes, you need to call an ambulance. Maybe they were filming it since there wasn't a timer?
What phone has a video camera and not a stopwatch?
@@user-vw2vq3eg6pit's quicker to open the camera. you can do so without even unlocking the phone
@@user-vw2vq3eg6p maybe he uses camera way more often than he does stopwatch so his finger just automatically move to the camera app,, and with stopwatch, there'd be no proof he actually got the duration using stopwatch, he could just be making up a number,, a video will give you the duration and the type of seizure
Great video u did good on ur voice hope everyone has a great day or night
The ending of story 15 is so funny!!!!
You are Chinese? That is cool! Did not expect that
The adult just waiting to drown on her back lol
I was actually that woman in the first story.
no really. this happened in west Virginia and i actually was having a TIA (mini stroke) I'm currently undergoing my second heart surgery for it.
this was 4 years ago. not my proudest moment at all. I thought I was going to die. also my head never went into the water nor did I lean forward. I just frozen still. my husband was the one who got me out of the water not the guide.
When ever I’m the tourist I try to be respectful but one time my dad wanted to see a church but they were in the middle of a service so he just went in with my brother and I anyway (we were kids and didn’t know any better)my mom waited outside bc she thought that was disrespectful and rude (which I agree with now looking back)
Ooooh, lore drop about UnderSparked Guy 😮
From a very young age I learned to respect bovines, 1000pbs animal as friendly as they may be can and will hurt you accidentally
Yesterday I started watching you (calm people lose it video) and this is the first video you have uploaded, almost exactly 2 hours plusminus 1 after I yesterday decided to go update windows (11 22H2 to another tiny update of 11 22H2 like you see every single week or so)
Also it is pronou ced "brəüůwrî"
4:39 Minecraft Secret Life 6 MumboJumbo moment in the nether
I kind of have to admit I'm one of those people. We went on a tour of some caves and the guide told us not to touch the formations because they're fragile. Three seconds later we pass this formation and I wasn't sure if it was just wet or shiny so my dumb ass reaches out and touches it. She didn't get mad though, just said again not to touch anything. My bad lol.
Lol I haven’t even started the video yet (ads) and I already thought, “This is probably gonna be a bunch of American tourist stories.” 😂 I’m American btw. We have a reputation in tourism for a reason.
You sound brown.
In regards to the pronuncation of BREWERY: I believe the second E is silent so it sounds like you are saying brewry
One thing that's universal is tourists do not care about the places they visit. They do not care what they damage, they do not care who they hurt, be they American, British, Chinese, whatever. They do not care.
Story 1: This sounds a lot like a fairly typical drowning response. People who are drowning will appear fairly calm because they don't have the resources to act panic/call for help and are instead more focused on their inability to catch their breath. They'll also tend to love their arms laterally and press down on the water rather than waving/calling for help.
Still incredibly stupid to get herself in that situation, though.
While the internet has been a blessing in many ways, its been a curse is so many others. It really shows you just how mind-bogglingly stupid people can be
Some tourists have ignorant behavior problems when they're on vacation outside of their own country 😮.
6:49 oh helllllll no. Id be fighting people!! Then id call cops and fine them and if there was any way.. get them thrown in jail
Underspark lore, holy shit
nice 😎
Ok, but the Chinese voice😭😭 8:44
Going off the first story, I wasn’t the guide but the tourist, I had gotten out on the place to swim. There was an intersection with a rock, you had to go down the right one and then you could just relax. I tried to paddle to the right one but the current dragged me to the left and I dropped down like I should have. But then the current pulled me down and I couldn’t breathe and my foot was stuck on something. Eventually after trying to swim for a little the current shot me out into the calm water. Let’s just say if I hadn’t been wearing a life jacket that day I wouldn’t be here
Yes you said the word correctly. It’s where beer is made
My brother works at a natural history museum with a large collection of animals, and he's been bitten by a coati before. Their bites are _nasty._ I kinda feel for that girl, but also she was dumb as rocks right there.
You are Chinese? Wut? So cool
I’m can’t say brewery properly either lol
3:10 Bru-ree
In the first story, was the lady Chinese?
I mean she had to be from a big city, to never have swam ever and she isn't very "adaptable".
9:27 SECRETS!
Oh boy. Some people just aren't made to be parents.
Hii, hope you have a good, NO!!. A GREAT and FABULOUS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Thank you. I hope you do as well
I say "brew er ree"
It’s odd to learn UnderSparked is chinese. I just unconsciously assumed he was only the yellow square in profile pic and a voice.
I've always pronounced it brew-ry, but then again, maybe I've been pronouncing it wrong my whole life, so who knows...
tldw, “or too long didn’t watch:”
some people reeeeally don’t listen.
Hi everyone edit at 3:04 yes you are
Also, you were a natural as an asian lady.
Oh dang, 1 minute ago.
wait you're chinese?? me too :D
3:10 I thought you were British from your accent? Idk. Brew-Errr-ree. As in "Brew a coffee" then "Err, I don't know" then "re" the first 2 letters of "repeat" or the first 3 letters of "read". That's a pretty perfect pronounciation guide actually. Say each syllabuly clearly and everyone (even non native) will understand exactly what you're saying.
E: Your'e Chinese. Well, I'm British, you sound like us.
Story 14: the people could have been deaf or mute.
Your asian?? yay go us
Dont do it
Don’t do what?? be more specific please about that it’s to generic
@@gracio1231 don't be a tour guide I think
@@animetalk8132 perfect sense thanks dear I got it
Story 3- the commenter who said she needs to control her kid doesn't have kids of their own. The mom screamed, indicating that this was not expected or desired. We don't know what happened leading up to him climbing over the fence, we don't know if he has oppositional defiance disorder or some sort of disability. I have literally turned my eyesight away to get a drink of water and then turn back to see my kid doing something I never thought possible.
If the mom was an enabler she would have told him he could do whatever he wanted and then got angry at the OP for not keeping the oxen from hurting her baby. The police would have come to escort them off the premises.
Of course, there's still the possibility that the boy gets away with too much at home because the parents are exhausted and can't seem to say no. Raising kids is hard work. Don't assume you know the parents are failing their kid. We are usually already much harder on ourselves than anyone else.
You seriously don’t know how to say the word brewery? How have you never heard that word…🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
People's stupidity is endless.