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There are many definitions for the word “tourist.” The known definition of a tourist is a person that travels for pleasure and isn’t born in the place they travel to. To some people, the tourists that come to Nantucket may be very annoying, rude, dirty, and smelly and they are not native to the island. While others may think they are nice, friendly, and very generous people that just weren’t born here, I tend to disgree. Just think of the many day-trippers who flock, like seagulls, to the Tavern and don’t leave a tip after treating the hardworking waitress in a rude manner, with their screaming kids whining and belching, and the horny husband who pinches her derriere as she walks away. To back up the definition of the word that I agree with, I have provided some other examples based on occurences I have been involved with or seen.
A tourist, in my opinion, is a person who is very rude, hostile, pushy, urgent, always rushing, and ignorant when it comes to directions and locations. Since tourists aren’t born and live in the place they are visiting, they can’t see all the landmarks and interesting sites there is to see. They are always rushing to fit as much as they can into one day’s events before they go back to where they live. They stop you every few minutes while standing in front of The Hub to ask where Main Street is. This also ties into “being rude” because they don’t ask in a polite way usually, and they rarely say “Thank You.” They can’t be bothered with slow people. I worked at D&B Car Wash last summer and I got a lot of rude customers everyday. I would ask them what wash they would like, since we have three kinds, and they would throw the money at me telling me to just give them a wash. They were obviously in a hurry to do something. Most of the time they didn’t even know how to drive their car in properly, and they would get it stuck, then get upset and start screaming and saying they were going to sue the Car Wash if any damage happened to their car. Then the manager would come out and a whole fiasco would begin.
There are many distinctive features a tourist has or uses that allows others to be able to identify them.

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