Re: [at-l] Iditarod and stupid tourists

[Ken Bennett <bennettk@wfu.edu>]

>Some time ago, I came across a list of the 10 stupidest questions that
>tourists ask.  The list was compiled by somebody having to do with the
>National Park Service.  I wish I could remember them all, but here are the
>few that I do recall.
>
>(This was rated as the ultimate stupid question of the 10)  At a tourist
>booth somewhere in Alaska, an older couple stopped and asked for a map of the
>Iditarod Trail, as they wished go for a walk.


I knew a guy who was a park ranger in Williamsburg, Va. He was fixing a
traffic counter on the parkway, a couple of miles from the tourist areas
(and pretty much in the middle of nowhere), when an older couple came up to
him and asked, 'Excuse me, can you tell us where we parked?'


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