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April 10, 2007 |
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Go Home
FOUND by Richard Dutton
in Seattle, Washington
Found in the Space Needle, stuck in the window, which rotates relative to the dining tables.
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this makes me laugh cause it's something that i could totally see myself doing, next time i eat at the space needle, which is pretty much never, cause no one i know ever goes there except for when out of town guests are visiting, but i'll start a note and see if i get any replies!
Heh. Represent!
absolutely lovely
I love this! Like passing notes in high school, using the revolving windows to do it.
I especially love the last comment... someone from Seattle is sick of all the tourists there, and just wants them to leave. "Go home, you fools! It rains here, a lot. You won't like it! Go home!"
What people don't realise is that the rain is such a cover - a disguise, if you will. A way to convince tourists that Seattle is a nice little town, but there's waaaay too much rain - you wouldn't want to stay here, oh no! It's too wet. Once all the tourists leave for good, Bill Gates will turn off the rain, and Seattlites can enjoy a beautiful city without being disturbed by pesky folks from San Diego, LA, and New York.
Plus, who cares if you're the Sullivan's from New York. Are we supposed to know you? Do we care?
...that's hilarious...I'm imagining these diners using the window for mail service...
"Why don't you folks go home"
How friendly is that?
I'm afraid of needles.
haha.. go home..
I can totally relate to this person. I mean, the one person was SO excited about being from LA. If you love LA so much... get out of my city! Am I right?
haha.. go home..
haha. when i was 10 my family went to nyc. i thought the native new yorkers were so mean for yelling "GO HOME!" when my dad held up traffic by sticking a video camera out the window of our minivan. then i became an adult, and it all made sense.
Reminds me of my summers at the beach as a kid. I'd meet new kids and tell them each I was from a different place. (cause I was unimpressed with where I was really from ) I even gave them different names.
This is the funniest letter I have seen in a while. It's so comical and nuanced! I'm sure that the tourists were appalled, but I would have laughed hysterically. I think that I would have tried to find that person, they seem like they'd actually show me a good time in the city I was visiting.
This hit home, in a different way. I'm engaged and my new last name will be Sullivan. It just made me think, and the Sullivan's would totaly do something like this, ha-ha.
I live in the city that is surrounded by and saturated with Yale University and its students, the majority of whom firmly believe that the sun rises and sets on their asses. I can totally relate to this sentiment.
This letter echoes the sentiments of many Pacific-Northwesterners. Washington and Oregon share a common bond, but they hate Californians! Booo California! So funny. Now that I'm in Ohio, I find the same thing, only Ohioans hate Michigan!
YAY! I agree! there's only 5 days left in our tourist season here in snowmass/apsen, i can't wait for all the tourists to leave! this note must be from a worker who's tired of kissing tourist ass... hahahaha, go home!! :)
Sounds like a judgemental bitch to me......
There's no doubt in my mind that the initially warm and friendly Sullivans (you know, the Sullivans from New York!) put the big hurt on that nasty Seattlite after sending their "NO" response.
Sullivans: Yeah, we really like your city, but we don't like your attitude much.
Seattlite: Why don't you go back to New Yawk already and let me keep working at building the walls up around my city so that I can lead a completely closed off life?
Sullivans: Hmmm. Sure thing. But before we leave, I'd like to introduce you to a New York delicacy. Consider it a cultural exchange of the culinary kind. Take a taste of my knuckle sandwich!
Seattlite: Oooooomph.
My favorite part is the fact that someone HAD to address the "go home" remark with a big fat NO.
I bet the Sullivan family has a cute answering machine message that rhymes and makes you want to eat your own ears off.
The fellow who wrote "Go home" is just annoyed because he hasn't ever left Seattle so he does his tourist things right at home. It's true.
Grunge rocks. Seattle 4 life. Nirvana 4 ever.
Eggs baby! Yo back. So goooood 2 seeeeee u.
We'd luv to eat your knuckle sandwich.
Remind me of those @#$% New Yorkers who invaded FL every year. We had bumper stickers that said "Do you love (heart) NY? Then go home!" Sounds like they could be marketed in Seattle, Aspen, and several other places...
What kind of gimp goes to a tourist attraction then complains about all the out of towners who are there?
Hi, i'm the Winsomes, and i'm from MILWAUKEE!!
the first thing i thought when i saw this is "i bet whoever wrote 'i'm from seattle' really isn't from seattle, they just wrote that to be a jerk."
because that's something i would do!
in az, the "winter visitors" aka snowbirds come around once the temps drop all around the country and clog up the roads with their slower than molasses driving and cautionless lane changes.
so i understand peoples hatred toward tourists
Bud's got it right. When I was from Milwaukee we used to hate FIBs (the middle I means Illinois and the other two initials are bad words) because they made Chicago into an unliveable hellhole, then they realized it was unliveable and started moving to Milwaukee to make our nice town a hellhole too! Rex, do "we" still hate FIBs? Just curious.
Those of you who live in "tourist" areas should be glad that these folks come to visit you....most of your economies depend on those visitors. Be careful what you wish for...you may get it, and not be to pleased with the results.
Listen to Milton brethren. Here in the "fly-overs" what we lack in tact, grace, art, culture and geography, we make up for with fire-arms. So keep your soft, pink, underbellies moving along. Take those damn "leaf-peepers" with you.
Yeah, it's so sad when you have a homey yet hip l'il neighborhood joint like the Space Needle, and the tourists have to come and suck all the soul out of it.
I live in a touristy AND college town, and I think you guys should give 'em a break!! None of YOU ever travel to other places??? Think about how much work people have to do to pay for a trip, and how they desperately need it, and usually deserve it.
I recently moved to the Midwest from Seattle, and this makes me wish I could go back home too. The tourist-hatin' makes me homesick. ;^)
Incidentally, in Nebraska the only people we have to look down to are Oklahomans.
Come on Flargy, Jo, Rex, Eggs1234... I can't believe you all had the audacity to post today with all your ridiculous debauchery and sarcasm! You’re making people jealous with your clever exchanges. Show some respect and lay low for a few days.
C'mon Quartz. What did we ever do to you? Beat your favorite football team? Pick on a state that touches yours. I thought everyone just had a shared hatred for Texas ;)
This is about the abortion, isn't it?
Oh I love it - Jr High School 'conversation' via notes on vacation. Takes me back.
I hope those pesky Sullivans decide against visiting Maui next year, I hate picking up their notes on the beach
Tee hee... reminds me of when I worked at Glyndebourne Opera (south of England, very posh, don't y'know) and the conductor borrowed our music for Cosi fan tutte to use elsewhere -- came back with a note in the second oboe part saying 'Howdy from San Francisco', under which subsequently appeared another note saying 'Bollocks from Glyndebourne'. Orchestral players, eh -- don't ya love 'em?
i live in a very touristy town (in the fall, anyway) and we have a stupid bumper sticker that reads "if it's called tourist season, then why can't we shoot them??"
Oh, this makes me laugh! I was in line at a coffee shop on State Street, and this binta was complaining about the Midwest. She started every sentence with "well, in New York, we...etc." After about 5 min, I tapped her shoulder, smiling at her, and extended my hand. She looked confused, but shook my hand.
"Hello, ma'am," I said most politely. "You seem to be terribly lost and confused. This isn't New York, this is Madison WI. We do things differently here. Can I help you find your way back?"
She turned beet red and shut up, as the other patrons applauded.
BTW, I agree with Rex about the FIBs. They brought the f'king gangs with them and now they're all pissy about Madison's crime level! Sheesh.
Best time of year is after the students leave for home and before the skeeters get large enough to carry off midsize children.
Whoah, I didn't know that there are other states with their own sort of rivalry? I thought it was unique in WA vs. CA. Welcome back Eggs! where have you been?
i've been seeing signs that say i should be in seattle for months. they've ranged from billboards to people to clothing to actual comments about the city. i think this is one of them.
ha.i want to be on the needle right now.anywhere but here. damn "spring break"...
going home is not an option!!
I totally totally totally feel you, Flargy. Yalies suck.
"why don't you folks go home?" is something I would have written in response. Living on a tourist island, I know what it's like. Damn tourists.
i hate when people visit the northwest. they drive really slow around the gorge...they stand by the edge of the space needle for hours so no one else can have their few minutes of view...they stand in the least convenient place ever in portland's already cramped saturday market...GO TO BC! it's beautiful and spacious there.
Yes, Wendy, we still hate the FIBs. Mostly in the summer up here.
>^-^<
Naughty Aelf: Bravo for actually coming up with a comeback while the person was actually still there! I usually only think of stuff about 3 hours after the event. :)
What a hateful sentiment. Why don't we all just stay in our houses all day so we don't annoy each other? That way we'll never meet anyone new or have to learn anything about unfamiliar places. I know! All 50 states should just become individual nations. That way Washington can just prevent those horrible Californians from coming to Seattle in the first place.
Hey wendy, when did Austin used to be called Milwaukee?
Haha. Well done, xenophobic Seattle-ite.
Yes, Wendy we still hate those fucking bastards.
Bud - you are so right. I've stayed with friends in Seattle many times, and when introduced to their friends have been greeted with (in angry voice) "Are you moving here?!?" When I say no then they turn all pleasant and say "Oh, well then it's nice to meet you!"
And I lived in Oregon for a good part of my childhood!
Texans hate Oklahomians.
Hi,
I'm Jolene from Omaha.
The only time Omaha gets tourists is when the College World Series comes to town. I sell programs every year and to tell you the truth, I love getting to know people from out of town!
I've been the tourist. I apologize for wanting to see places other than the west part of Omaha. Although, I do refrain from the frequent snapping of pictures and purple fanny pack.
I loved this find.
A few years ago there were a lot of bumper stickers at around the beach areas here that read "Tourists go home-but leave your daughters!"
I have never understood people being rude for no good reason. If you don't like tourists don't live in a tourist town. Duh! Be glad that you're lucky enough to live in a town that is so special that people flock to visit. Not everyone has the fortune of living in a great area and therefore must spend copious amounts of time and money traveling to visit places that are fun and interesting. That being said, my advice to the visitors is be a traveller not a tourist.
i love this one. a LOT.
Where I'm from, we don't have annoying tourists. We do, however, have awesome colleges so we get students from exotic places. They're soooo amazed when they arrive in fall at the "Steel City" and how clean and wonderful it is (because the steel mills have only been closed for, I dunno, DECADES) and they fall in love with it. Then winter hits and they wear every parka they've ever owned, meanwhile we're in hoodies and T-shirts. It's funny to walk through Oakland in January.
I laughed at the "go home!" "NO!"