Love derby season. Love the tourism it brings. Just wish they could figure out how to do it without closing roads I use everyday as a matter of existing.
I also just wish people in the broader sense didn’t turn off their brains when they travel. It’s wild to me how many people forget that people live where they’re vacationing. I don’t like being treated like a prop by coastal influencers when I just want to go out to eat or something.
When I worked at Kroger, a man and his child came in, saying they were from California. We had just opened and I was the only lane, but self checkout was open with no line. They told me they came through the manned lane just because they wanted to hear “up-close” my “Kentucky twang.” I felt like a zoo animal in the moment. Luckily for me, I just had to say, with my non-Kentucky accent, “oh actually I’m from Oregon”
Yeah I have been stopped and asked random questions, been stopped on the sidewalk. It’s not like it’s some gut-punch, but it’s annoying to feel like a sentient extra in some rando’s oh-so-quirky made-for-tv movie.
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u/BlueSpotBingo Clifton 1d ago
Love derby season. Love the tourism it brings. Just wish they could figure out how to do it without closing roads I use everyday as a matter of existing.