I have never worked as a tour guide, and I was wondering if anyone out there knew if tour guides have an in-joke term for the tourists they put up with. I imagine there would be. After all, in technical support we had "callers" who were "idiots," "morons," "jackasses," "New Yorkers," and "ID10T Errors." Does anyone know? Can you let me in on the secret?
Naturally, this is for a story, not because I want to go to Disneyland and act like I know their secrets.
They were. Boy were they fun with the cup holder jokes and the footpedal problems on their Macintoshes. The memory of the guy who couldn't straighten out his envelopes and headlines haunts me to this day.
I don't know if there's a generic term, but often it's regional or specific to the attraction. For instance, a long ago girlfriend who worked on Mackinac Island (sp?) told me the tourists there were called "fudgies" by the workers, as they all want to buy the fudge made there.
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