All Time Dumbest Questions Asked By Tourists to Banff Park


Yes, they're ALL TRUE as heard at the information kiosks manned by Parks
Canada staff!


1. How do the elk know they're supposed to cross at the "Elk Crossing"
signs?

2. At what elevation does an elk become a moose?

3. Tourist: "How do you pronounce 'Elk'?"
Park Information Staff: "'Elk.'"
Tourist: "Oh."

4. Are the bears with collars tame?

5. Is there anywhere I can see the bears pose?

6. Is it okay to keep an open bag of bacon on the picnic table, or should I
store it in my tent?

7. Where can I find Alpine Flamingos?

8. I saw an animal on the way to Banff today -- could you tell me what it
was?

9. Are there birds in Canada?

10. Did I miss the turnoff for Canada?

11. Where does Alberta end and Canada begin?

12. Do you have a map of the State of Jasper?

13. Is this the part of Canada that speaks French, or is that Saskatchewan?

14. If I go to B.C., do I have to go through Ontario?

15. Which is the way to the Columbia Rice fields?

16. How far is Banff from Canada?

17. What's the best way to see Canada in a day?

18. Do they search you at the B.C. border?

19. When we enter B.C., do we have to convert our money to British pounds?

20. Where can I buy a raccoon hat? ALL Canadians own one, don't they?

21. Are there phones in Banff?

22. So it's eight kilometers away... is that in miles?

23. We're on the decibel system, you know.

24. Where can I get my husband really, REALLY, lost??

25. Is that two kilometers by foot or by car?

26. Don't you Canadians know anything?

27. Where do you put the animals at night?

28. Tourist: "How do you get your lakes so blue?"
Park staff: "We take the water out in the winter and paint the bottom."
Tourist: "Oh!"

my husband said if he worked for the parks he'd have to ask those people if their "bus tour is on a day pass?" .

thats funny stuff

Very Funny I laughed and laughed / I hope those tourist werent from the United States and if they were I hope they were not from this part. Thanks for the laugh Lorry

aahh tourists. something about entering a national park makes people who I assume are normal in the outer world absolute idiots. my favorites that I was personally asked during my years in Yellowstone were variations on :
1) why do you make us wait an hour between eruptions of Old Faithful?

2) how do you feed all the animals?

3) who rounds up all the animals every night? -apparently to tuck them in bed

Funny

They should have had a sign posted that says,
"Please think of what you're asking, we can't answer you while laughing our as$es off".

wow people are really dumb!

I tell you... people's stupidity never ceases to amaze me!!!
Good one Kathryn!!!
L.

lmao......

It boggles my mind just how stupid some people can be! I get so ticked off everytime I say I'm from Canada the first thing people always say is "oh it's so cold there" as if Canada is just one big expanse of frozen tundra. In this day and age I find it hard to understand why so many Americans are still so ignorant about their neigbors to the north!

I joke to my future sister-in-law about how I have to rebuild the igloo and feed the huskies every day. She thinks it's a riot how less-intelligent Americans are absolutely ignorant about Canada.

I made a typo yesterday at work and wrote $100 as 100$...

I got an e-mail saying "here in america we put the $ before the dollar amount not after "

hee hee.. of course they were playing with me!!

This is a surprise to you? All you need to do is read some questions posted here on VJ....

I think one of the craziest things I've ever been asked (when it was generally known my husband is from Canada) is "Have you learned to speak Canadian yet?"

Well they write their addresses backwards here....... so why not 100$!

LOL!! that's great!! And also the dd/mm/yyyy... GEEPERS People!!

I worked in tourist/visitor information centres for five summers.....and the questions we would get We would get together every year for provincial/regional training and swap stories. My personal favourite was one that I read in the Cape Breton Post. One of the big tourist bureaus there is completely painted on the outside with the Cape Breton tartan. The staff was asked where they got the plaid paint!

the craziest question I have gotten since moving here was "is this the first time you've worn sandals?"

Heheheh Cassie,

As an historical re-enactor (War of 1812) I spent a lot of time doing primitive camping at re-enactments around the Greta Lakes - both sides of the border. You get to hear some pretty hilarious comments. We were regularly asked if that was a real fire, were we really going to eat what we were cooking, or if we were really going to sleep outside in those tents! (mid-summer, beautiful weather!). My favourite one isn't one I heard but was recounted to me - someone asking why all of those original battles had taken place in historic parks. . . One re-enactor had the wit to reply that it was because soldiers could hide behind all of the monuments and statues. She accepted the answer and walked on, hehehe.

My best was a friend who had ventured into town while at an event in Michigan wearing his period clothing. His wife had gone into a pharmacy to get something and he was outside holding the leash with their Jack Russell Terrier. It was hot so he had taken his hat off and was holding it in his hand. A woman came by, reached down to pet the dog, then before he realized what was happening put a dollar bill into his hat!

This actually strikes me as potentially a really smart question to ask. Glad I'm not married to her though...