Idiot Tourists

some dumb actions by tourists when i was giving tours in New York city:

we passed right in front of the NY Stock Exchange. i said maybe more than once that it's the largest stock exchange in the world. think i said it's where trading has been done since dutch colonial times. as we turned the corner, a tourist, white adult, american, asked me twice, "so where does all the trading go on?"

we used to take the bus along Central park south, so the park was to the left. to the right were different buildings, hotels, offices etc. a dentist had an office on the second floor of one of them. an apparently everyday dentist: he wasn't getting high on gas, he wasn't dressed as a clown for kids. you know how many tourists would see the office and say, "'o look a dentist"

so to the left was maybe one of the most beautiful parks on earth, and to the right, a dentist, and they chose him. and these weren't third world folks, these again were middle americans, whites. finally i was so surprised by it i would on the microphone say, "do you folks not have dentists at home? is there a shortage where you're from?" and guess what, i would always get laughs for saying it.