Stupid or a tourist?

Now I have been a tourist in loads of countries where I have had to get my head around how to navigate public transport - Milan's Metro, New York's Subway and Marrakech's donkeys - but sometimes you have to question if tourists in London are culturally confused or indeed stupido.

Today I watched a European tourist continuosly try to insert their ticket in a Piccadilly Circus gate barrier that had in big red lights "NO ENTRY", complete with a giant red cross - the universal symbol for NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Not convinced by the red sign, she repeatedly tried to push her ticket into the reader until the ticket was so bent that it was of no further use.

After this display of stupidity, she then pushed in front of the heaving crowds of busy London commuters - especially me - to try and force her bent ticket into the right machine.

The underground staff member just stared and said nothing. no surprise.


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