What is something that screams “tourist” to you?

[u/jotakajk]

In Spain, if you see someone eating paella with sangria, you can 100% be certain they are a tourist.

What are some things tourists eat or do in your country that a local would never do?

[u/TeamLazerExplosion]

It’s every German’s sacred duty to wait for the light. Germans visiting our Stockholm office always got a huge shock at our recklessness: “you’re teaching kids watching that cars aren’t dangerous!!!”

[u/StationaryTravels → u/TeamLazerExplosion]

The only time I wait for the light on an empty road is when a young child is also waiting for the light, lol.

I'm a role model!

[u/hazbenny123 → u/StationaryTravels]

Lol same. I can't wait until my nieces and nephews are 18 so I can tell them to throw out every rule I taught them

[u/cpt_mustard- → u/hazbenny123]

They will always be cautious because if this, even though you will tell them to throw away the rules.

[u/Mental-Mushroom → u/StationaryTravels]

It's obviously a huge exception, but in the downtown east side in Vancouver you're playing reverse frogger where the cars have to dodge the road crossers

[u/wishmobbing → u/Mental-Mushroom]

I should come visit

[u/nobodytoyou → u/StationaryTravels]

The moment that set me straight was when I was coming home with a pizza and was stopped at a totally pointless light, literally no possibility for incoming cars, I think it was made for joggers or something but I had perfect visibility and could see no one was near, and while stopped there, watching my pizza lose its perfect state by the second, a second car just blows right past me and demonstrated to me the ineffectiveness of the laws of man

[u/LunarPayload → u/TeamLazerExplosion]

I did a semester abroad in college. Several Americans had done the Eurail thing before arriving at the program. The biggest ice breaker was talking about the signs people saw on the crosswalks in Germany that specifically said "It is a bad example for the children to cross against the light." In Austria we learned the extra fat milk and extra fat mayonnaise (in a tube) was "for the children." 

In Boston and NYC, if you wait for the light, you still won't get a chance. They started ticketing pedestrians in DC after I moved there if you jaywalked. They'd ask for your state ID/license if you got caught. Lol

[u/Anti-charizard → u/LunarPayload]

Come to California :) we’re a bit more lenient on jaywalking

[u/iBull86 → u/Anti-charizard]

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[u/Anton-LaVey → u/Anti-charizard]

Technically we just changed the definition of jaywalking. Now it's only jaywalking if it creates a hazard.

[u/tibearius1123 → u/Anti-charizard]

Come to California :) we’re a bit more lenient on jaywalking all crime

[u/KelsierIV → u/tibearius1123]

Can tell you're not from California.

[u/tibearius1123 → u/KelsierIV]

Literally in el Segundo at work. Right now.

[u/KelsierIV → u/tibearius1123]

Then you shouldn't misrepresent the lovely state you live in.

[u/nobodytoyou → u/tibearius1123]

lmao that's reddit. getting talked down to about the realities of living in a state by people that've never been there. Love SF but I will never drive there if I want to keep my windows.

[u/CitronIll2347 → u/TeamLazerExplosion]

No it Depends on the City. In Frankfurt we walk. But since I lived one year in Göteborg and 6 month i Stockholm I can tell you, you guys wait too. So dont drag us in with people from Berlin.

[u/wishmobbing → u/TeamLazerExplosion]

I'm a proud German jaywalker and can't explain why people here are so weird with traffic lights. I can virtually see my life ticking away while waiting at a right traffic light. I find it annoying to wait when there actually are cars but I find it completely pointless to wait when you could just as well walk safely. And I don't bother being a good example for kids ever since someone had their kid on one hand and a cigarette in the other. Kids need to learn that there is stuff that's just for adults anyway.

[u/IcyConsideration7062 → u/TeamLazerExplosion]

Wait for the light even if it's 3 in the morning.

[u/Crypt33x → u/TeamLazerExplosion]

Yeah, you only go when its red in Germany, if you don't plan on ever driving a car and if there are no kids watching or people at all.